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The Violent Underpinnings of American Life

Author : Liam Downey
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 147981492X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book The Violent Underpinnings of American Life written by Liam Downey and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A damning examination of how violence serves to maintain social order and elite power in the United States The Violent Underpinnings of American Life boldly asserts that violence—far from going against American ideals—is as American as apple pie, central to the country’s social order and the dominance of its most powerful groups. Drawing from extensive research and analysis of key social, political, and cultural events, Liam Downey investigates the myriad ways violence maintains the American way of life. Through compelling case studies, Downey identifies four main ways in which violence produces and maintains the American social hierarchy: the creation of divisions among non-elite social groups; the reinforcement of dominant discourses in multiple social arenas; the aligning of marginalized group identities with dominant institutional practices; and the selective promotion of the interests of specific, non-elite groups. This is the first book to argue that violence is both a negative, coercive power and a positive, productive one that helps produce not only social order but also consent, discipline, discourse, identity, subjectivity, and embodied knowledge, among other things. The Violent Underpinnings of American Life is an audacious work that argues violence is absolutely central to social life in America, and that Americans cannot effectively fight against the inequalities that surround them without accepting this reality.

The Violent Underpinnings of American Life

Author : Liam Downey
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479814849
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book The Violent Underpinnings of American Life written by Liam Downey and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Violent Underpinnings of American Life explains how sexual violence against women and police and political violence against Black people maintains social order and elite power in the United States"--

Reload

Author : Christopher B. Strain
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN 13 : 0826517439
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Reload written by Christopher B. Strain and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is violence an inextricable part of our American heritage?

Violence in America

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 13 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book Violence in America written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

My New American Life

Author : Francine Prose
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062079255
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book My New American Life written by Francine Prose and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-04-26 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Francine Prose is a world-classsatirist who’s also a world-class storyteller.”—Russell Banks Francine Prose captures contemporary America at itsmost hilarious and dreadful in My New American Life, a darkly humorousnovel of mismatched aspirations, Albanian gangsters, and the ever-elusiveAmerican dream. Following her New York Times bestselling novels BlueAngel and A Changed Man, Prose delivers the darkly humorous storyof Lula, a twenty-something Albanian immigrant trying to find stability andcomfort in New York City in the charged aftermath of 9/11. Set at the frontlines of a cultural war between idealism and cynicism, inalienable rights andimplacable Homeland Security measures, My New American Life is a movingand sardonic journey alongside a cast of characters exploring what it means tobe American.

Violence: an Element of American Life

Author : Karl K. Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Violence: an Element of American Life written by Karl K. Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Strain of Violence

Author : Richard Maxwell Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strain of Violence written by Richard Maxwell Brown and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1977 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brown considers the challenges posed to American society by the criminal, turbulent, and depressed elements of American life and the violent response of the established order, illuminating violence and the American Revolution, black-white conflicts from slave revolts to ghetto riots, America's unique vigilante system, and some of the country's most violent regions.

American Violence

Author : Richard Hofstadter
Publisher : Random House Trade
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book American Violence written by Richard Hofstadter and published by Random House Trade. This book was released on 1971 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The American Way of Violence

Author : Alphonso Pinkney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book The American Way of Violence written by Alphonso Pinkney and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Violence in America

Author : Leon Friedman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780877542940
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (429 download)

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Download or read book Violence in America written by Leon Friedman and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Violence in American Society [2 Volumes]

Author : Chris Richardson
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
ISBN 13 : 144085467X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Violence in American Society [2 Volumes] written by Chris Richardson and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While many books explore such specific issues as gun violence, arson, murder, and crime prevention, this encyclopedia serves as a one-stop resource for exploring the history, societal factors, and current dimensions of violence in America in all its forms. This encyclopedia explores violence in the United States, from the nation's founding to modern-day trends, laws, viewpoints, and media depictions. Providing a nuanced lens through which to think about violence in America, including its underlying causes, its iterations, and possible solutions, this work offers broad and authoritative coverage that will be immensely helpful to users ranging from high school and undergraduate students to professionals in law enforcement and school administration. In addition to detailed and evenhanded summaries of the key events and issues relating to violence in America, contributors highlight important events, political debates, legal perspectives, modern dimensions, and critical approaches. This encyclopedia also features excerpts from such important primary source documents as legal rulings, presidential speeches, and congressional testimony from scholars and activists on aspects of violence in America. Together, these documents provide important insights into past and present patterns of violent crime in the United States, as well as proposed solutions to those problems. Addresses all aspects of violence in American society, past and present, including societal factors and legal, political, and law enforcement responses Includes lists of research resources for additional study Highlights insightful primary documents of key events and patterns of violence in America Features contributions from prominent scholars in a wide range of fields related to crime, violence, and law

This Republic of Suffering

Author : Drew Gilpin Faust
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375703837
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book This Republic of Suffering written by Drew Gilpin Faust and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-01-06 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • An "extraordinary ... profoundly moving" history (The New York Times Book Review) of the American Civil War that reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation. An estiated 750,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be seven and a half million. In This Republic of Suffering, Drew Gilpin Faust describes how the survivors managed on a practical level and how a deeply religious culture struggled to reconcile the unprecedented carnage with its belief in a benevolent God. Throughout, the voices of soldiers and their families, of statesmen, generals, preachers, poets, surgeons, nurses, northerners and southerners come together to give us a vivid understanding of the Civil War's most fundamental and widely shared reality. With a new introduction by the author, and a new foreword by Mike Mullen, 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Violence; an Element of American Life. Edited by Karl K. Taylor [and] Fred W. Soady

Author : Karl K ed Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (741 download)

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Download or read book Violence; an Element of American Life. Edited by Karl K. Taylor [and] Fred W. Soady written by Karl K ed Taylor and published by . This book was released on with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Death of Things

Author : Sarah Wasserman
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452964157
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book The Death of Things written by Sarah Wasserman and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive study of ephemera in twentieth-century literature—and its relevance to the twenty-first century “Nothing ever really disappears from the internet” has become a common warning of the digital age. But the twentieth century was filled with ephemera—items that were designed to disappear forever—and these objects played crucial roles in some of that century’s greatest works of literature. In The Death of Things, author Sarah Wasserman delivers the first comprehensive study addressing the role ephemera played in twentieth-century fiction and its relevance to contemporary digital culture. Representing the experience of perpetual change and loss, ephemera was central to great works by major novelists like Don DeLillo, Ralph Ellison, and Marilynne Robinson. Following the lives and deaths of objects, Wasserman imagines new uses of urban space, new forms of visibility for marginalized groups, and new conceptions of the marginal itself. She also inquires into present-day conundrums: our fascination with the durable, our concerns with the digital, and our curiosity about what new fictional narratives have to say about deletion and preservation. The Death of Things offers readers fascinating, original angles on how objects shape our world. Creating an alternate literary history of the twentieth century, Wasserman delivers an insightful and idiosyncratic journey through objects that were once vital but are now forgotten.

The Anatomy of Violence

Author : Adrian Raine
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 0307378845
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book The Anatomy of Violence written by Adrian Raine and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2013 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provocative and timely: a pioneering neurocriminologist introduces the latest biological research into the causes of--and potential cures for--criminal behavior. With an 8-page full-color insert, and black-and-white illustrations throughout.

The Dream Book

Author : Helen Barolini
Publisher : Schocken
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Dream Book written by Helen Barolini and published by Schocken. This book was released on 1985 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

America Through European Eyes

Author : Aurelian Cr_iu_u
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271033908
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book America Through European Eyes written by Aurelian Cr_iu_u and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A collection of essays that discuss representative eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French and English views of American democracy and society, and offer a critical assessment of various narrative constructions of American life, society, and culture"--Provided by publisher.