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Book Synopsis The Confession of Dorothy Danner by : Richard Alan Pride
Download or read book The Confession of Dorothy Danner written by Richard Alan Pride and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Struggling through adolescence, after her mother's early death, with what she perceived as emotional abandonment by a distant father, Danner acted out a social script involving servants and private schools in the South, an elite Northern college, and extensive travel abroad.
Book Synopsis The Political Use of Racial Narratives by : Richard A. Pride
Download or read book The Political Use of Racial Narratives written by Richard A. Pride and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2024-02-12 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing that politics is essentially a contest for meaning and that telling a story is an elemental political act, Richard A. Pride lays bare the history of school desegregation in Mobile, Alabama, to demonstrate the power of narrative in cultural and political change. This book describes the public, personal, and meta-narratives of racial inequality that have competed for dominance in Mobile. Pride begins with a white liberal's quest to desegregate the city's public schools in 1955 and traces which narratives--those of biological inferiority, white oppression, the behavior and values of blacks, and others--came to influence public policy and opinion over four decades. Drawing on contemporaneous sources, he reconstructs the stories of demonstrations, civic forums, court cases, and school board meetings as citizens of Mobile would have experienced them, inviting readers to trace the story of desegregation in Mobile through the voices of politicians, protestors, and journalists and to determine which narratives were indeed most powerful. Exploring who benefits and who pays when different narratives are accepted as true, Pride offers a step-by-step account of how Mobile's culture changed each time a new and more forceful narrative was used to justify inequality. More than a retelling of Mobile's story of desegregation, The Political Use of Racial Narratives promotes the value of rhetorical and narrative analysis in the social sciences and history.
Download or read book But Now I See written by Fred Hobson and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1999-04-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term “conversion narrative” usually refers to a particular form of expression that arose in Puritan New England in the seventeenth century. In that sense—the purely religious—the conversion narrative belongs to a rather remote history. But in this lucid, pathbreaking work, Fred Hobson uses the expression in another sense—in the realm of the secular—to describe a much more recent phenomenon, one originating in the American South and marking a new mode of southern self-expression not seen until the 1940s. Hobson applies the term “racial conversion narrative” to several autobiographies or works of highly personal social commentary by Lillian Smith, James McBride Dabbs, Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin, Sarah Patton Boyle, Will Campbell, Larry L. King, Willie Morris, Pat Watters, and other southerners, books written between the mid-1940s and the late 1970s in which the authors—all products of and willing participants in a harsh, segregated society—confess racial wrongdoings and are “converted,” in varying degrees, from racism to something approaching racial enlightenment. Indeed, the language of many of these works is, Hobson points out, the language of religious conversion—“sin,” “guilt,” “blindness,” “seeing the light,” “repentance,” “redemption,” and so forth. Hobson also looks at recent autobiographical volumes by Ellen Douglas, Elizabeth Spencer, and Rick Bragg to show how the medium persists, if in a somewhat different form, even at the very end of the twentieth century. But Now I See is a study both of this particular variety of the southern impulse to self-examination and of those who seem to have retained the habit of seeking redemption, even if of a secular variety. Departing from the old vertical southern religion—salvation-centered with heaven as its goal—these racial converts embrace a horizontal religion which holds that getting right with man is at least as important as getting right with God. A refreshingly original treatment of racial change in the South, Hobson’s provocative work introduces a new subgenre in the field of southern literature. Anyone interested in the history and literature of the American South will be fascinated by this searching volume.
Download or read book The Southern Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reading Race written by Norman K Denzin and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2002-03-29 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this insightful book, one of America's leading commentators on culture and society turns his gaze upon cinematic race relations, examining the relationship between film, race and culture. Acute, richly illustrated and timely, the book deepens our understanding of the politics of race and the symbolic complexity of segregation and discrimination.
Book Synopsis Malicious Intent by : David Barton Smith
Download or read book Malicious Intent written by David Barton Smith and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-15 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Do we want to perpetuate a Jim Crow health system?” A brilliant, idealistic physician named Jean Cowsert asked that question in Alabama in 1966. Her answer was no—and soon after, she died under suspicious circumstances. Unearthing the truth of Cowsert’s life and death is a central concern of David Barton Smith’s Malicious Intent. Unearthing the grim history of our health care system is another. Race-related disparities in American death rates, exacerbated once again by the COVID-19 pandemic, have persisted since the birth of the modern US medical system a century ago. A unique but perpetually unequal history has prevented the United States from providing the kind of health care assurances that are taken for granted in other industrialized nations. The underlying story is one of political, medical, and bureaucratic machinations, all motivated by a deliberate Jim Crow systemic design. In Malicious Intent, David Barton Smith traces the Jean Cowsert story and the cold case of her death as a through line to explain the construction and fulfillment of an unequal health care system that would rather sacrifice many than provide for Black Americans. Cowsert’s suspicious death came at a key moment in the struggle for universal health care in the wealthiest country on earth. Malicious Intent is a history of those failed efforts and a story of selective amnesia about one doctor’s death and the movement she fought for.
Book Synopsis Pluralism at Yale by : Richard M. Merelman
Download or read book Pluralism at Yale written by Richard M. Merelman and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pluralism at Yale: The Culture of Political Science in America explores the relationship between personal experience and academic theories of American politics. Through a detailed examination of the Yale University Department of Political Science between 1955 and 1970, including interviews with many of the political scientists involved, this book traces the way "pluralism," a predominately optimistic theory of American democracy which the Yale department helped to develop in those years, helped to support the American political regime. Merelman also analyzes the impact of social and political events on the decline of Yale pluralism and describes pluralism's continued political relevance today. Included are discussions of McCarthyism, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Vietnam War.
Book Synopsis The Practice of U.S. Women's History by : S. J. Kleinberg
Download or read book The Practice of U.S. Women's History written by S. J. Kleinberg and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last several decades, U.S. women's history has come of age. Not only have historians challenged the national narrative on the basis of their rich explorations of the personal, the social, the economic, and the political, but they have also entered into dialogues with each other over the meaning of women's history itself. In this collection of seventeen original essays on women's lives from the colonial period to the present, contributors take the competing forces of race, gender, class, sexuality, religion, and region into account. Among many other examples, they examine how conceptions of gender shaped government officials' attitudes towards East Asian immigrants; how race and gender inequality pervaded the welfare state; and how color and class shaped Mexican American women's mobilization for civil and labor rights.
Book Synopsis The Public Voice in a Democracy at Risk by : Michael Salvador
Download or read book The Public Voice in a Democracy at Risk written by Michael Salvador and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1998-01-13 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection assesses the condition of civic dialogue in our avowedly participatory democracy and suggests specific educational, institutional, and individual actions to enhance the contemporary public debate of social and political issues. An interdisciplinary group of distinguished scholars examines current problems and potential improvements in areas such as citizenship education, media literacy, critical viewing skills, civic journalism, the internet and democratic dialogue, media coverage of political campaigns, the recovery of excluded cultural voices, and citizen engagement in media and electoral processes. The book is divided into four parts: the first summarizes many of the predominant criticisms leveled at what passes for democratic debate in America today. Each of the next three parts focuses on specific areas for potential enhancement: public education, the mass media, and citizen awareness. The Public Voice in a Democracy at Risk offers important insights for scholars, students, and citizens interested in fostering participatory democracy.
Author :University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Library. Afro-Americana Unit Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :110 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (555 download)
Book Synopsis Afro-Americana Acquisitions by : University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Library. Afro-Americana Unit
Download or read book Afro-Americana Acquisitions written by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Library. Afro-Americana Unit and published by . This book was released on 1998-10 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book America, History and Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Includes information abstracted from over 2,000 journals published worldwide.
Book Synopsis American Government and Politics by : Fenton S. Martin
Download or read book American Government and Politics written by Fenton S. Martin and published by CQ-Roll Call Group Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique new bibliography that helps teachers and students -- particularly at the high school level -- find information about government topics. The selected books reflect a variety of scholastic levels, but avoid works that are beyond the level of most high school students, or works that rely heavily on statistical methods. The entries are organized in a classified arrangement by topics that appear in most high school government textbooks. Each entry lists the title, author, year of publication, page count, and publisher and also provides a brief description of the book.
Book Synopsis Historic Mobile by : Michael Thomason
Download or read book Historic Mobile written by Michael Thomason and published by HPN Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stanford written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis International Bibliography of Book Reviews of Scholarly Literature Chiefly in the Fields of Arts and Humanities and the Social Sciences by :
Download or read book International Bibliography of Book Reviews of Scholarly Literature Chiefly in the Fields of Arts and Humanities and the Social Sciences written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 1100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cumulative Book Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 2230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world list of books in the English language.
Book Synopsis American Book Publishing Record by :
Download or read book American Book Publishing Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 1328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
