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Book Synopsis Voices from This Long Brown Land by : NA NA
Download or read book Voices from This Long Brown Land written by NA NA and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-12 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this engaging oral history, residents of California's scenic, sparsely-populated Owens Valley reflect on their varied experiences with the region's turbulent past. Contested themes of Native American removal, water transfers, and wartime internment are interwoven with remembrances of the valley's multicultural communities, its cattle ranching and agriculture, and its Western filmmaking, railroad, and mining enterprises. Together, author and narrators create an accessible and richly textured work of history, memory, and place.
Book Synopsis Voices from the Mountains by : Guy Carawan
Download or read book Voices from the Mountains written by Guy Carawan and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich mosaic of photographs, words, and songs, Voices from the Mountains tells the turbulent story of the Appalachian South in the twentieth century. Focusing on the abuses of the coal industry and the grassroots struggle against mine owners that began in the 1960s, Guy and Candie Carawan have gathered quotations from a variety of sources; words and music to more than fifty ballads and songs, laments and satires, hymns and protests; and more than one hundred and fifty photographs of longtime Appalachian residents, their homes, their countryside, the mines they work in, and the labor battles they have fought. The "voices" that speak out in these pages range from the mountain people themselves to such well-known artists as Jean Ritchie, Hazel Dickens, Harriet Simpson Arnow, and Wendell Berry. Together they tell of the damage wrought by strip mining and the empty promises of land reclamation; the search for work and a new life in the North; the welfare rights, labor, antipoverty, and black lung movements; early days in the mines; disasters and negligence in the coal industry; and protest and change in the coal fields. Dignity and despair, poverty and perseverance, tradition and change--Voices from the Mountains eloquently conveys the complex panorama of modern Appalachian life.
Download or read book I Saw it Coming written by T. K'Meyer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-12-21 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, workers displaced by plant closings in Louisville, Kentucky tell their stories, emphasizing their agency, demanding respect for their skill, casting judgment on business and government for not showing that respect, and revealing a sense of alienation resulting from violation of their values and trust.
Book Synopsis Memory, Subjectivities, and Representation by : Rina Benmayor
Download or read book Memory, Subjectivities, and Representation written by Rina Benmayor and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection presents diverse scholarly approaches to oral narratives in the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking worlds. Eleven essays, originally written in Spanish, Portuguese, and English, coalesce around major themes that have long concerned oral historians and social scientists: collective memories of conflictive national pasts, subjectivity in re/framing social identities, and visual and performative re/presentations of identity and public memory.
Download or read book The Owens Valley written by Jane Wehrey and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Owens Valley is a bold and beautiful land where rugged alpine peaks tower over the deep trough of high desert that John Muir called "a country of wonderful contrasts." Inhabiting a rich and complex past are native people, miners, cattlemen, farmers, and city builders who laid claim, often violently, to its resources. By 1913, Owens River water was flowing south through the Los Angeles Aqueduct, and from the long and bitter conflicts that followed emerged an Owens Valley future far removed from the agrarian Eden envisioned by 19th-century pioneers. Today, unparalleled recreational opportunities draw millions of visitors annually to this "long brown land" even as reminders of a quintessential Western past linger in its open vistas, epic landscape, and enduring traditions.
Book Synopsis Soviet Communal Living by : P. Messana
Download or read book Soviet Communal Living written by P. Messana and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-03-28 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together fascinating testimonies from thirty inhabitants of the 'Kommunalka,' the communal apartments that were the norm in housing in the cities of Russia during the whole history of the Soviet Union.
Book Synopsis No Room of Her Own by : D. Hellegers
Download or read book No Room of Her Own written by D. Hellegers and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This oral history collection brings together extended interviews with fifteen women, illuminating the part that gender roles play in ensnaring women in cycles of domestic abuse and homelessness and highlighting the physical stresses. It also challenges liberal myths about homeless people, and homeless women in particular.
Download or read book Displaced written by O. Bennett and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-04-09 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of oral histories that reveal the loss of cultural continuity, identity, shifts in family responsibilities, gender roles and fractured relationships between generations that are just some of the challenges people face as they attempt to rebuild lives and communities.
Book Synopsis Bringing Desegregation Home by : K. Willink
Download or read book Bringing Desegregation Home written by K. Willink and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-09-28 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study collects the oral histories of residents of a single county in North Carolina who lived through the consequences of desegregation, examining the complex social and historical constructions of racial difference in education.
Download or read book Living with Jim Crow written by L. Brown and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-07-19 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using first-person narratives collected through oral history interviews, this groundbreaking book collects black women's memories of their public and private lives during the period of legal segregation in the American South.
Download or read book Oral History written by Patricia Leavy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-24 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the Understanding Statistics/Understanding Qualitative Researcch series, Oral History serves as a guide to properly recording oral histories. This volume also addresses the challenges of evaluating this material.
Download or read book Soldiers and Citizens written by C. Mirra and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-12-08 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comprehensive oral history of the Iraq War. It presents the raw and vivid testimonies and recollections from combat veterans, family members, conscientious objectors, Bush administration officials, Iraqi leaders, and many others, forming a gripping and moving portrait of the war.
Book Synopsis Sharecropper’s Troubadour by : M. Honey
Download or read book Sharecropper’s Troubadour written by M. Honey and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Folk singer and labor organizer John Handcox was born to illiterate sharecroppers, but went on to become one of the most beloved folk singers of the prewar labor movement. This beautifully told oral history gives us Handcox in his own words, recounting a journey that began in the Deep South and went on to shape the labor music tradition.
Book Synopsis Place, Writing, and Voice in Oral History by : S. Trower
Download or read book Place, Writing, and Voice in Oral History written by S. Trower and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-11-07 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates how oral history can provide a valuable way of understanding locality, which is important in light of major issues facing the world today, including global environmental concerns.
Book Synopsis Tiananmen Exiles by : Rowena Xiaoqing He
Download or read book Tiananmen Exiles written by Rowena Xiaoqing He and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-04-09 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 1989, millions of citizens across China took to the streets in a nationwide uprising against government corruption and authoritarian rule. What began with widespread hope for political reform ended with the People's Liberation Army firing on unarmed citizens in the capital city of Beijing, and those leaders who survived the crackdown became wanted criminals overnight. Among the witnesses to this unprecedented popular movement was Rowena Xiaoqing He, who would later join former student leaders and other exiles in North America, where she has worked tirelessly for over a decade to keep the memory of the Tiananmen Movement alive. This moving oral history interweaves He's own experiences with the accounts of three student leaders exiled from China. Here, in their own words, they describe their childhoods during Mao's Cultural Revolution, their political activism, the bitter disappointments of 1989, and the profound contradictions and challenges they face as exiles. Variously labeled as heroes, victims, and traitors in the years after Tiananmen, these individuals tell difficult stories of thwarted ideals and disconnection, but that nonetheless embody the hope for a freer China and a more just world.
Download or read book The Unquiet Nisei written by D. Bahr and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-12-09 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An oral-history-based biography of a seminal Asian-American activist. The book traces Embrey's life from her youth in the Little Tokyo section of Los Angeles, to her harrowing experiences in the Japanese internment camps, to her many decades of passionate advocacy on behalf of her fellow internees.
Download or read book Iraq’s Last Jews written by T. Morad and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-10-27 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iraq's Last Jews is a collection of first-person accounts by Jews about their lives in Iraq's once-vibrant, 2500 year-old Jewish community and about the disappearance of that community in the middle of the 20th century. This book tells the story of this last generation of Iraqi Jews, who both reminisce about their birth country and describe the persecution that drove them out, the result of Nazi influences, growing Arab nationalism, and anger over the creation of the State of Israel.
