Image Of Elsewhere In The American Tradition Of Migration

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Willa Cather and the Myth of American Migration

Author : Joseph R. Urgo
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252064814
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (648 download)

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Download or read book Willa Cather and the Myth of American Migration written by Joseph R. Urgo and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In a land where there is constant migration, can there be a "homeland"? In the United States, migration is initially experienced as immigration, but the process never achieves closure. Migration continues as transience - restless, unsettled movement across social and economic classes, states, and national borders. In this nuanced study grounded in literature, history, and popular culture, Joseph Urgo demonstrates that American culture and our sense of national identity are permeated by unrelenting, incessant, and psychic mobility across spatial, historical, and imaginative planes of existence." "There is no better example of a writer reflecting on this migratory consciousness than Willa Cather. At home in numerous locations - Nebraska, New York, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Maine, and Canada - Cather infused her novels with the cultural vitality that is a consequence of transience. By locating transience at the center of his conception of our national culture, Urgo redefines the mythos of American national identity and global empire. He concludes with an analysis of a potential "New World Order" in which migration replaces homeland as the foundation of world power."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Opting for Elsewhere

Author : Brian A. Hoey
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN 13 : 0826502946
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Opting for Elsewhere written by Brian A. Hoey and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-31 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Do you get told what the good life is, or do you figure it out for yourself?" This is the central question of Opting for Elsewhere, as the reader encounters stories of people who chose relocation as a way of redefining themselves and reordering work, family, and personal priorities. This is a book about the impulse to start over. Whether downshifting from stressful careers or being downsized from jobs lost in a surge of economic restructuring, lifestyle migrants seek refuge in places that seem to resonate with an idealized, potential self. Choosing the "option of elsewhere" and moving as a means of remaking self through sheer force of will are basic facets of American character, forged in its history as a developing nation of immigrants with a seemingly ever-expanding frontier. Building off years of interviews and research in the Midwest, including areas of Michigan, Brian Hoey provides an evocative illustration of the ways these sweeping changes impact people and the communities where they live and work as well as how both react--devising strategies for either coping with or challenging the status quo. This portrait of starting over in the heartland of America compels the reader to ask where we are going next as an emerging postindustrial society.

Lifestyle Migration

Author : Michaela Benson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317105168
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Lifestyle Migration written by Michaela Benson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relatively affluent individuals from various corners of the globe are increasingly choosing to migrate, spurred on by the promise of a better and more fulfilling way of life within their destination. Despite its increasing scale, migration academics have yet to consolidate and establish lifestyle migration as a subfield of theoretical enquiry, until now. This volume offers a dynamic and holistic analysis of contemporary lifestyle migrations, exploring the expectations and aspirations which inform and drive migration alongside the realities of life within the destination. It also recognizes the structural conditions (and constraints) which frame lifestyle migration, laying the groundwork for further intellectual enquiry. Through rich empirical case studies this volume addresses this important and increasingly common form of migration in a manner that will interest scholars of mobility, migration, lifestyle and culture across the social sciences.

Country of Exiles

Author : William R. Leach
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307760510
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Country of Exiles written by William R. Leach and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-08-10 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Country of Exiles, William Leach, whose Land of Desire was a finalist for the National Book Award, explores the troubling effects of our national love affair with mobility. He shows us how the impulse to pull up stakes and find a new frontier has always battled with the need to put down roots, and how a new cosmopolitanism has seized our national identity. Leach takes us across a featureless America, where strip malls homogenize a once varied and majestic landscape, and where casinos displace the Native American spiritual connection to the land. He shows us a culture where everyone, from CEOs to office temps, abandons the notion of company loyalty, and where rootless academics posit a world without borders. With compelling vision and insight, Leach reveals the profound but often hidden impact of America's disintegrating sense of place on our national and individual psyche.

And Here the World Ends

Author : Kristin Ruggiero
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804713795
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book And Here the World Ends written by Kristin Ruggiero and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Great River of the West

Author : Professor of History William L Lang
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 9780295802763
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Great River of the West written by Professor of History William L Lang and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Pacific Northwest, the river of dominance is the Columbia, and in ways both profound and mundane its history is the history of the region. In Great River of the West historians and anthropologists consider a range of topics about the river, from Indian rock art, Chinook Jargon, and ethnobotany on the Columbia to literary and family history, the creation of an engineered river, and the inherent mythic power of place. Since first contact between Euro-Americans and Native peoples during the late 18th century, the river's history has been characterized by dramatic demographic, social, and economic changes. The remarkable set of essays in Great River of the West investigate these changes by highlighting important episodes in the history of the river. Readers meet mariners who challenge the Columbia River bar, a family torn by insanity, Native people who preserve fishing traditions, and dam-builders who radically change the Columbia.

Deportable and Disposable

Author : Lisa A. Flores
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271088656
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Deportable and Disposable written by Lisa A. Flores and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1920s, the US government passed legislation against undocumented entry into the country, and as a result the figure of the “illegal alien” took form in the national discourse. In this book, Lisa A. Flores explores the history of our language about Mexican immigrants and exposes how our words made these migrants “illegal.” Deportable and Disposable brings a rhetorical lens to a question that has predominantly concerned historians: how do differently situated immigrant populations come to belong within the national space of whiteness, and thus of American-ness? Flores presents a genealogy of our immigration discourse through four stereotypes: the “illegal alien,” a foreigner and criminal who quickly became associated with Mexican migrants; the “bracero,” a docile Mexican contract laborer; the “zoot suiter,” a delinquent Mexican American youth engaged in gang culture; and the “wetback,” an unwanted migrant who entered the country by swimming across the Rio Grande. By showing how these figures were constructed, Flores provides insight into the ways in which we racialize language and how we can transform our political rhetoric to ensure immigrant populations come to belong as part of the country, as Americans. Timely, thoughtful, and eye-opening, Deportable and Disposable initiates a necessary conversation about the relationship between racial rhetoric and the literal and figurative borders of the nation. This powerful book will inform policy makers, scholars, activists, and anyone else interested in race, rhetoric, and immigration in the United States.

Municipal Liability: Law and Practice, 4th Edition

Author : Fontana
Publisher : Wolters Kluwer
ISBN 13 : 1543802060
Total Pages : 3716 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Municipal Liability: Law and Practice, 4th Edition written by Fontana and published by Wolters Kluwer. This book was released on 2018-11-14 with total page 3716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Municipal Liability: Law and Practice, Fourth Edition

The Economic Consequences of Immigration

Author : Julian Lincoln Simon
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472086160
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book The Economic Consequences of Immigration written by Julian Lincoln Simon and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues convincingly that immigration continues to benefit U.S. natives as well as most developed countries

Agricultural Transition in New York State

Author : Donald H. Parkerson
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781557532824
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (328 download)

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Download or read book Agricultural Transition in New York State written by Donald H. Parkerson and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of Agricultural Transition in New York State focuses on the transformation of the U.S. agricultural economy in the middle of the nineteenth century and the its impact on farm families.

Housing and Planning References

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 760 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Housing and Planning References written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

This is a Strange Country

Author : Byrd Gibbens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book This is a Strange Country written by Byrd Gibbens and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Municipal Liability

Author : Fontana
Publisher : Aspen Publishers Online
ISBN 13 : 0735565201
Total Pages : 3248 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book Municipal Liability written by Fontana and published by Aspen Publishers Online. This book was released on 2006-11-13 with total page 3248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in a new two-volume Third Edition, Municipal Liability: Law and Practice provides insightful analysis of the civil rights statutesand—such as Sections 1981, 1982, and 1983and—and the essential Supreme Court cases, plus fully up-to-date explanations on how the courts are expanding or limiting plaintiffsand’ rights against municipalities and their public officials. It gives you clear and thorough discussions on how to establish causes of action and assert defenses, who carries the burden of proof, procedural concerns, the particular factors that different courts look for to determine liability, attorneysand’ fees, damages and much more. Potential civil rights violations by municipalities covered in this two volume resource include: E-Mail in the Workplace Fully grasp the balance between employee privacy rights and employer surveillance rights. The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), The Wiretap Act, and The Stored Communications Act are all examined. Sample access and disclosure forms are included. Employment Discrimination Youand’ll find out how to bring an actionand—and defend against oneand— for claims under Title VII (including a detailed discussion of sexual harassment claims); The Civil Rights Act of 1991; the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA); and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Plus, several state anti-discrimination laws are discussed to illustrate new developments you need to know. First Amendment Issues Topics include about the impact on First Amendment issues involving freedom of speech, limitations on use of public property, freedom of religion, restrictions on the advertising of alcohol and cigarettes on public ways; and more. Municipal Zoning Topics include establishments that provide adult education; video arcades; the use of building moratoria to slow down development; and liability arising out of the failure to issue a building permit or properly inspect a facility before issuing a certificate of occupancy. Police Misconduct Topics include liability for police officers, supervisors and municipalities; how to show illegal searches, excessive use of force and other violations;malicious prosecution, prisonersand’ rights and freedoms; exhausting state remedies; and more.

Research Paper

Author : University of Chicago. Dept. of Geography
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Research Paper written by University of Chicago. Dept. of Geography and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Warmth of Other Suns

Author : Isabel Wilkerson
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679763880
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book The Warmth of Other Suns written by Isabel Wilkerson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this beautifully written masterwork, the Pulitzer Prize–winnner and bestselling author of Caste chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history. She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to new data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves. With stunning historical detail, Wilkerson tells this story through the lives of three unique individuals: Ida Mae Gladney, who in 1937 left sharecropping and prejudice in Mississippi for Chicago, where she achieved quiet blue-collar success and, in old age, voted for Barack Obama when he ran for an Illinois Senate seat; sharp and quick-tempered George Starling, who in 1945 fled Florida for Harlem, where he endangered his job fighting for civil rights, saw his family fall, and finally found peace in God; and Robert Foster, who left Louisiana in 1953 to pursue a medical career, the personal physician to Ray Charles as part of a glitteringly successful medical career, which allowed him to purchase a grand home where he often threw exuberant parties. Wilkerson brilliantly captures their first treacherous and exhausting cross-country trips by car and train and their new lives in colonies that grew into ghettos, as well as how they changed these cities with southern food, faith, and culture and improved them with discipline, drive, and hard work. Both a riveting microcosm and a major assessment, The Warmth of Other Suns is a bold, remarkable, and riveting work, a superb account of an “unrecognized immigration” within our own land. Through the breadth of its narrative, the beauty of the writing, the depth of its research, and the fullness of the people and lives portrayed herein, this book is destined to become a classic.

Social and Social-psychological Consequences of Migration

Author : Jessica Kohout Edgerton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social and Social-psychological Consequences of Migration written by Jessica Kohout Edgerton and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Rediscovering America

Author : Carla Blank
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Rediscovering America written by Carla Blank and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this vibrant, fact-packed romp through the last 100 years,Rediscovering Americaexplores the lost history of America, highlighting and reintegrating the complex contributions of women, African, Asian, Hispanic, and Native Americans, immigrants, artists, renegades, rebels, rogues, and others normally cast to the margins of history books, but without whom there is no honest accounting of American history. In an accessible timeline format, it paints an inclusive picture of our recent past, without sentiment or favor, respecting the true richness and complexity of 100 years in the life of a nation.