Americanness

Download Americanness full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Americanness ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Americanness

Author : Simon J. Bronner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429841302
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Americanness by : Simon J. Bronner

Download or read book Americanness written by Simon J. Bronner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-11 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americanness: Inquiries into the Thought and Culture of the United States analyzes several core themes that connect Americans because of, and despite, their pronounced diversity. The book investigates shared ideas and ideals, such as individualism, mobility, materialism, and future-orientation, that drive an overarching American worldview. Simon J. Bronner begins with ideas of space and time as they formed and changed through the history of the United States, before moving to the emergence of modern American culture. He examines reasons America is characterized as having a "victory culture" that extends to the American legal, military, and business complexes. This victory culture is further analyzed by looking at the country’s relationship with the game of football—a sport that thrives in America but has not caught on in other countries. Finally, the volume probes American consumerism driven by a desire for individual prosperity in a supposedly egalitarian society. Using interdisciplinary approaches drawn from psychology, sociology, ethnology, and history, Bronner seeks explanations for people invoking, and evoking, ideas that they perceive as American. This book would be an invaluable addition to courses on American history, sociology, cultural studies, and American studies.

Performing Americanness

Author : Catherine Rottenberg
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584656821
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (568 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Performing Americanness by : Catherine Rottenberg

Download or read book Performing Americanness written by Catherine Rottenberg and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2008 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comparative analysis of modern African-American and Jewish-American narratives

The Internet and Formations of Iranian American-ness

Author : Donya Alinejad
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319476262
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Internet and Formations of Iranian American-ness by : Donya Alinejad

Download or read book The Internet and Formations of Iranian American-ness written by Donya Alinejad and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how the children of Iranian immigrants in the US utilize the internet and develop digital identities. Taking Los Angeles—the long-time media and cultural center of Iranian diaspora—as its ethnographic field site, it investigates how various web platforms are embedded within the everyday social, cultural, and political lives of second generation Iranian Americans. Donya Alinejad unpacks contemporary diasporic belonging through her discussion of the digital mediation of race, memory, and long-distance engagement in the historic Iranian Green Movement. The book argues that web media practices have become integral to Iranian American identity formation for this generation, and introduces the notion of second-generation “digital styles” to explain how specific web applications afford new stylings of diaspora culture.

Constituting Americanness

Author : Iulian Cananau
Publisher : Peter Lang Edition
ISBN 13 : 9783631657690
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (576 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Constituting Americanness by : Iulian Cananau

Download or read book Constituting Americanness written by Iulian Cananau and published by Peter Lang Edition. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following Koselleck's history of concepts, Americanness is approached as a semantic field at the intersection of several antebellum concepts (nation, representation, sympathy, race, and womanhood, among others), in the various stages of their respective histories. The book is also a period study of major American writers of the antebellum era.

National Abjection

Author : Karen Shimakawa
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822328230
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (282 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis National Abjection by : Karen Shimakawa

Download or read book National Abjection written by Karen Shimakawa and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2002-12-05 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVExplores the ways that playwrights and performers have dealt with the presentation of the Asian American body on stage, given the historical construction of Asian Americanness as abject and unpresentable./div

The Fiction of America

Author : Susanne Hamscha
Publisher : Campus Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3593398729
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Fiction of America by : Susanne Hamscha

Download or read book The Fiction of America written by Susanne Hamscha and published by Campus Verlag. This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fiction of America juxtaposes classic literature of the American Renaissance with twentieth-century popular culture--pairing, for instance, Ralph Waldo Emerson with Finding Nemo, Walt Whitman with Spiderman, and Hester Prynne with Madonna--to investigate how the "Americanness" of American culture constitutes itself in the interplay of the cultural imaginary and performance. Conceptualizing "America" as a transhistorical practice, Susanne Hamscha reveals disruptive, spectral moments in the narrative of "America," which confront American culture with its inherent inconsistencies.

Serving Their Country

Author : Paul C. Rosier
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674036109
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (361 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Serving Their Country by : Paul C. Rosier

Download or read book Serving Their Country written by Paul C. Rosier and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-11-30 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces how Native Americans have defined, both domestically and internationally, democracy, citizenship, and patriotism, covering the activist struggle on reservations, during wartime, and in the courtroom to preserve the diverse culture of American Indians and assert an ethnic nationalism across the country.

Citizens But Not Americans

Author : Nilda Flores-González
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479840777
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Citizens But Not Americans by : Nilda Flores-González

Download or read book Citizens But Not Americans written by Nilda Flores-González and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Race and Belonging Among Latino Millennials -- Latinos and the Racial Politics of Place and Space -- Latinos as an Ethnorace -- Latinos as a Racial Middle -- Latinos as "Real" Americans -- Rethinking Race and Belonging among Latino Millennials

Being American in Europe, 1750–1860

Author : Daniel Kilbride
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421408996
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Being American in Europe, 1750–1860 by : Daniel Kilbride

Download or read book Being American in Europe, 1750–1860 written by Daniel Kilbride and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Americans made their Grand Tour of Europe, what did they learn about themselves? While visiting Europe In 1844, Harry McCall of Philadelphia wrote to his cousin back home of his disappointment. He didn’t mind Paris, but he preferred the company of Americans to Parisians. Furthermore, he vowed to be “an American, heart and soul” wherever he traveled, but “particularly in England.” Why was he in Europe if he found it so distasteful? After all, travel in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries was expensive, time consuming, and frequently uncomfortable. Being American in Europe, 1750–1860 tracks the adventures of American travelers while exploring large questions about how these experiences affected national identity. Daniel Kilbride searched the diaries, letters, published accounts, and guidebooks written between the late colonial period and the Civil War. His sources are written by people who, while prominent in their own time, are largely obscure today, making this account fresh and unusual. Exposure to the Old World generated varied and contradictory concepts of American nationality. Travelers often had diverse perspectives because of their region of origin, race, gender, and class. Americans in Europe struggled with the tension between defining the United States as a distinct civilization and situating it within a wider world. Kilbride describes how these travelers defined themselves while they observed the politics, economy, morals, manners, and customs of Europeans. He locates an increasingly articulate and refined sense of simplicity and virtue among these visitors and a gradual disappearance of their feelings of awe and inferiority.

Allegories of America

Author : Frederick M. Dolan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501726234
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Allegories of America by : Frederick M. Dolan

Download or read book Allegories of America written by Frederick M. Dolan and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allegories of America offers a bold idea of what, in terms of political theory, it means to be American. Beginning with the question What do we want from a theory of politics? Dolan explores the metaphysics of American-ness and stops along the way to reflect on John Winthrop, the Constitution, 1950s behavioralist social science, James Merrill, and William Burroughs. The pressing problem, in Dolan's view, is how to find a vocabulary for politics in the absence of European metaphysics. American political thinkers, he suggests, might respond by approaching their own theories as allegories. The postmodern dilemma of the loss of traditional absolutes would thus assume the status of a national mythology—America's perennial identity crisis in the absence of a tradition establishing the legitimacy of its founding. After examining the mid-Atlantic sermons of John Winthrop, the spiritual founding father, Dolan reflects on the authority of the Constitution and the Federalist. He then takes on questions of representation in Cold War ideology, focusing on the language of David Easton and other liberal political "behaviorists," as well as on cold War cinema and the coverage of international affairs by American journalists. Additional discussions are inspired by Hannah Arendt's recasting of political theory in a narrative framework. here Dolan considers two starkly contrasting postwar literary figures—William S. Burroughs and James Merrill—both of whom have a troubled relationship to politics but nonetheless register an urgent need to articulate its dangers and opportunities. Alongside Merrill's unraveling of the distinction between the serious and the fictive, Dolan assesses the attempt in Arendt's On Revolution to reclaim fictional devices for political reflection.

Condensing the Cold War

Author : Joanne P. Sharp
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9781452904467
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (44 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Condensing the Cold War by : Joanne P. Sharp

Download or read book Condensing the Cold War written by Joanne P. Sharp and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

We Gon' Be Alright

Author : Jeff Chang
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312429487
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (124 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis We Gon' Be Alright by : Jeff Chang

Download or read book We Gon' Be Alright written by Jeff Chang and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In his most recent book, Who We Be, Jeff Chang looked at how art and culture effected massive social changes in American society. Since the book was published, the country has been gripped by waves of racial discord, most notably the protests in Ferguson, Missouri. In these highly relevant, powerful essays, Chang examines some of the most contentious issues in the current discussion of race and inequality. Built around a central essay looking at the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement and the events in Ferguson, Missouri, surrounding the death of Michael Brown, Chang questions the value of "the diversity discussion" in an era of increasing racial and economic segregation. He unpacks the return of student protest across the country and reveals how the debate over inclusion and free speech was presaged by similar protests in the 1980s and 1990s. The author of Can't Stop Won't Stop looks at how culture impacts our understanding of the politics of this polarized moment. Throughout these essays Chang includes the voices of many of the leading activists as he charts how popular voices on the ground and in social media have catalyzed the push for protest and change"--Publisher's description.

Latining America

Author : Claudia Milian
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820344362
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Latining America by : Claudia Milian

Download or read book Latining America written by Claudia Milian and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Latining America, Claudia Milian proposes that the economies of blackness, brownness, and dark brownness summon a new grammar for Latino/a studies that she names “Latinities.” Milian’s innovative study argues that this ensnared economy of meaning startles the typical reading practices deployed for brown Latino/a embodiment. Latining America keeps company with and challenges existent models of Latinidad, demanding a distinct paradigm that puts into question what is understood as Latino and Latina today. Milian conceptually considers how underexplored “Latin” participants––the southern, the black, the dark brown, the Central American—have ushered in a new world of “Latined” signification from the 1920s to the present. Examining not who but what constitutes the Latino and Latina, Milian’s new critical Latinities disentangle the brown logic that marks “Latino/a” subjects. She expands on and deepens insights in transamerican discourses, narratives of passing, popular culture, and contemporary art. This daring and original project uncovers previously ignored and unremarked upon cultural connections and global crossings whereby African Americans and Latinos traverse and reconfigure their racialized classifications.

Heiress Apparently (Daughters of the Dynasty)

Author : Diana Ma
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1647000874
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Heiress Apparently (Daughters of the Dynasty) by : Diana Ma

Download or read book Heiress Apparently (Daughters of the Dynasty) written by Diana Ma and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The epic first novel in a sweeping series following the romantic lives and intrigues of the fictionalized descendants of a Chinese empress—now in paperback! Behind every great family lies a great secret. There’s one rule in Gemma Huang’s family: Never, under any circumstances, set foot in Beijing. But when Gemma, an aspiring actress, lands her first break—a lead role in an update of M. Butterfly, which just so happens to be filming in the Chinese capital—Gemma heads to LAX without looking back. It’s an amazing opportunity for her burgeoning career, and she’ll get to work with her idol. Of course, there’s also the chance of discovering just exactly why she’s been forbidden from entering the city in the first place. When Gemma arrives in Beijing, she’s instantly mobbed by paparazzi at the airport. She quickly realizes she may as well be the twin of Alyssa Chua, one of the most notorious young socialites in Beijing. Thus kicks off a season of revelations and romance in which Gemma uncovers a legacy her parents have spent their lives protecting her from—one her mother would conceal at any cost.

American Magnitude

Author : Christa J. Olson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780814214831
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (148 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis American Magnitude by : Christa J. Olson

Download or read book American Magnitude written by Christa J. Olson and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes how imagery and rhetoric of pan-American grandeur from 1845 to 1950 used Latin America as a foil for creating US national identity and a particular American way of feeling.

How the Irish Became White

Author : Noel Ignatiev
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135070695
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis How the Irish Became White by : Noel Ignatiev

Download or read book How the Irish Became White written by Noel Ignatiev and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '...from time to time a study comes along that truly can be called ‘path breaking,’ ‘seminal,’ ‘essential,’ a ‘must read.’ How the Irish Became White is such a study.' John Bracey, W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachussetts, Amherst The Irish came to America in the eighteenth century, fleeing a homeland under foreign occupation and a caste system that regarded them as the lowest form of humanity. In the new country – a land of opportunity – they found a very different form of social hierarchy, one that was based on the color of a person’s skin. Noel Ignatiev’s 1995 book – the first published work of one of America’s leading and most controversial historians – tells the story of how the oppressed became the oppressors; how the new Irish immigrants achieved acceptance among an initially hostile population only by proving that they could be more brutal in their oppression of African Americans than the nativists. This is the story of How the Irish Became White.

American Crucible

Author : Gary Gerstle
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400883091
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis American Crucible by : Gary Gerstle

Download or read book American Crucible written by Gary Gerstle and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sweeping history of twentieth-century America follows the changing and often conflicting ideas about the fundamental nature of American society: Is the United States a social melting pot, as our civic creed warrants, or is full citizenship somehow reserved for those who are white and of the "right" ancestry? Gary Gerstle traces the forces of civic and racial nationalism, arguing that both profoundly shaped our society. After Theodore Roosevelt led his Rough Riders to victory during the Spanish American War, he boasted of the diversity of his men's origins- from the Kentucky backwoods to the Irish, Italian, and Jewish neighborhoods of northeastern cities. Roosevelt’s vision of a hybrid and superior “American race,” strengthened by war, would inspire the social, diplomatic, and economic policies of American liberals for decades. And yet, for all of its appeal to the civic principles of inclusion, this liberal legacy was grounded in “Anglo-Saxon” culture, making it difficult in particular for Jews and Italians and especially for Asians and African Americans to gain acceptance. Gerstle weaves a compelling story of events, institutions, and ideas that played on perceptions of ethnic/racial difference, from the world wars and the labor movement to the New Deal and Hollywood to the Cold War and the civil rights movement. We witness the remnants of racial thinking among such liberals as FDR and LBJ; we see how Italians and Jews from Frank Capra to the creators of Superman perpetuated the New Deal philosophy while suppressing their own ethnicity; we feel the frustrations of African-American servicemen denied the opportunity to fight for their country and the moral outrage of more recent black activists, including Martin Luther King, Jr., Fannie Lou Hamer, and Malcolm X. Gerstle argues that the civil rights movement and Vietnam broke the liberal nation apart, and his analysis of this upheaval leads him to assess Reagan’s and Clinton’s attempts to resurrect nationalism. Can the United States ever live up to its civic creed? For anyone who views racism as an aberration from the liberal premises of the republic, this book is must reading. Containing a new chapter that reconstructs and dissects the major struggles over race and nation in an era defined by the War on Terror and by the presidency of Barack Obama, American Crucible is a must-read for anyone who views racism as an aberration from the liberal premises of the republic.