Search Results - "Americans"

The Un-Americans : Jews, the Blacklist, and Stoolpigeon Culture / by Litvak, Joseph

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American Cool : Constructing a Twentieth-Century Emotional Style / by Stearns, Peter N.

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Japanese Americans at Heart Mountain : Networks, Power, and Everyday Life / by Kekki, Saara, 1982-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Network Analysis and the Study of Japanese American History -- From Immigration to Incarceration: The Japanese in the United States, 1890-1942 -- Heart Mountain Community and Modeling the Networks -- Those Who Govern: Political Power -- Sense of Belonging -- Individuals of Power and Power Families -- Women of Heart Mountain -- Disobedience behind Barbed Wire: Passive and Active Resistance -- Onward: Routes to Freedom -- Epilogue: Networks of Power and the Power of Networks.…”
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African Americans and the Color Line in Ohio, 1915-1930 / by Giffin, William Wayne, 1938-

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Neodomestic American Fiction / by Jacobson, Kristin J., 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Recycling domesticities : contemporary American fiction's domestic geographies -- Remapping domestic fiction : neodomestic geographies -- Recycling feminine domesticity : rewriting conventional domestic fiction -- Remodeling home : redesigning conventional domestic space -- Mapping gendered genres : domestic masculinity, suburban fiction, and the antidomestic -- Performing domesticity : anxious masculinity and queer homes -- Conclusions : the territory ahead.…”
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Modern American Grotesque : Literature and Photography / by Goodwin, James, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…The grotesque -- American traditions of the grotesque -- The modern : depiction and description -- Grotesques in modern America : Sherwood Anderson -- "Elephantine close-ups" : Nathanael West -- All God's grotesques : Flannery O'Connor -- New York sights : Weegee -- Creatural realism : Diane Arbus -- Conclusion. …”
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The Jewish Role in American Life : An Annual Review /

Table of Contents: “…Myers -- Summer camp, postwar American Jewish youth and the redemption of Judaism / Riv-Ellen Prell -- Faultlines: the seven socio-ecologies of Jewish Los Angeles / Bruce A. …”
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Contemporary African American Fiction : New Critical Essays /

Table of Contents: “…Govan -- Re-imagining the academy: story and pedagogy in contemporary African American fiction / Eleanor W. Traylor.…”
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Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Modernism : From Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku / by Hakutani, Yoshinobu, 1935-

Table of Contents: “…The Chicago Renaissance, Theodore Dreiser, and Richard Wright's spatial narrative -- The cross-cultural vision of Ralph Ellison's Invisible man -- No name in the street : James Baldwin's exploration of American urban culture -- If Beale Street could talk : Baldwin's search for love and identity -- Jazz and Toni Morrison's urban imagination of desire and subjectivity -- Wright's The outsider and French existentialism -- Pagan Spain : Wright's discourse on religion and culture -- The African "primal outlook upon life" : Wright and Morrison -- The poetics of nature : Wright's haiku, Zen, and Lacan -- Private voice and Buddhist enlightenment in Alice Walker's The color purple -- Cross-cultural poetics : Sonia Sanchez's Like the singing coming off the drums -- James Emanuel's jazz haiku and African American individualism.…”
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Blacks in the Jewish Mind : A Crisis of Liberalism / by Forman, Seth

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : race relations and the invisible Jew -- The liberal Jew, the southern Jew, and desegregation in the South, 1945-1964 -- Jews and racial integration in the North, 1945-1966 -- The New York intellectuals and their "Negro problem", 1945-1966 -- The unbearable whiteness of being Jewish : the Jewish approach toward Black power, 1967-1972 -- The Jew as middleman : Jewish opposition to Black power, 1967-1972 -- Conclusion : Blacks and Jews in American popular culture.…”
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The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry / by Rambsy, Howard

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : "a group of groovy Black people" -- Getting poets on the same page : the roles of periodicals -- Platforms for Black verse : the roles of anthologies -- Understanding the production of Black arts texts -- All aboard the Malcolm-Coltrane express -- The poets, critics, and theorists are one -- The revolution will not be anthologized -- List of anthologies containing African American poetry, 1967-75.…”
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Female Adolescence in American Scientific Thought, 1830–1930 / by DeLuzio, Crista, 1966-

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Philosophy Americana : Making Philosophy at Home in American Culture / by Anderson, Douglas R.

Subjects: “…Philosophy, American 20th century.…”
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The Basic Writings of Josiah Royce, Volume I : Culture, Philosophy, and Religion / by Royce, Josiah, 1855-1916

Subjects: “…Philosophy, American 20th century.…”
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The Basic Writings of Josiah Royce, Volume II : Logic, Loyalty, and Community / by Royce, Josiah, 1855-1916

Subjects: “…Philosophy, American 20th century.…”
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Gender, Race, and Politics in the Midwest : Black Club Women in Illinois / by Hendricks, Wanda A.

Subjects: “…African Americans Illinois Politics and government 20th century. nli…”
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Dreaming America : Popular Front Ideals and Aethetics in Children's Plays of the Federal Theatre Project / by Frost, Leslie Elaine

Subjects: “…Children's plays, American. fast (OCoLC)fst00856254…”
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American Power and International Theory at the Council on Foreign Relations, 1953-54 /

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Afro-Future Females : Black Writer's Chart Science Fiction's Newest New-Wave Trajectory /

Table of Contents: “…sociobiology in images of African-American sensuality in contemporary cinema: or, why we'd better the hell claim Vin Diesel as our own / Steven Barnes -- A conversation with Samuel R. …”
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Emancipation's Daughters : Reimagining Black Femininity and the National Body / by Richardson, Riche, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…An Exemplary American Woman -- Mary McLeod Bethune's "My Last Will and Testament" and Her National Legacy -- From Rosa Parks's Quiet Strength to Memorializing a National Mother -- America's Chief Diplomat: The Politics of Condoleezza Rice from Autobiography to Art and -- Fashion -- First Lady and "Mom-in-Chief": The Voice and Vision of Michelle Obama in the Video South -- Side Girl and in American Grown -- Beyonce's South and the Birth of a "Formation" Nation…”
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