Search Results - "African Americans"

A Force for Change : The Class of 1950 / by Norberg, John

Table of Contents: “…"Look at all those free people" : the African-American experience -- Chapter 9. "It was a fantastic time" : from radar through space -- Chapter 10. …”
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Jews and Humor /

Table of Contents: “…Del Negro -- One clove away from a pomander ball : the subversive tradition of Jewish female comedians / Joyce Antler -- Heckling the divine : Woody Allen, the Book of Job, and Jewish theology after the Holocaust / Jason Kalman -- Tragicomedy and zikkaron in Mel Brooks's "To be or not to be" / Joan Latchaw and David Peterson -- "They ain't makin' Jews like Jesus anymore" : the musical humor of Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys in historical and geographical perspective / Theodore Albrecht -- The new Jewish blackface : African American tropes in contemporary Jewish humor / David Gillota.…”
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From Curlers to Chainsaws : Women and Their Machines /

Table of Contents: “…Preface; Acknowledgments; Hearth and Home; Norma Tilden -- Maytag Washer, 1939; Joyce Dyer -- My Mother's Singer; Psyche Williams-Forson -- If You Can't Stand the Heat: Ruminations on the Stove from an African American Woman; Rebecca McClanahan -- Sad-Iron, Glad-Iron; Joy Castro -- Grip; Bedroom and Birthing Room; E.J. …”
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Celebrating 100 years of the Texas Folklore Society, 1909-2009

Table of Contents: “…Patrick Hughes -- African Americans and Texas folklore / Bruce A. Glasrud -- Geococcyx / Charles Chupp -- Pecos Bill and his pedigree / Charles Clay Doyle -- Funerals and folklore: a snapshot from 1909 / Jerry B. …”
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Celebrating 100 years of the Texas Folklore Society, 1909-2009

Table of Contents: “…Patrick Hughes -- African Americans and Texas folklore / Bruce A. Glasrud -- Geococcyx / Charles Chupp -- Pecos Bill and his pedigree / Charles Clay Doyle -- Funerals and folklore: a snapshot from 1909 / Jerry B. …”
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Women, violence, and the media readings in feminist criminology /

Table of Contents: “…Miller -- Constructing murderers : female killers of Law and order / Drew Humphries -- Screening stereotypes : African American women in Hollywood films / Frankie Y. …”
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The films of Edgar G. Ulmer

Table of Contents: “…Ulmer / Noah Isenberg -- The search for community / John Belton -- On the graveyards of Europe: the horror of modernism in The black cat / Herbert Schwaab -- From nine to nine / DJ Turner -- Exile on 125th Street: Germans, Jews, and Africans: Americans in Moon over Harlem / Jonathan Skolnik -- Forging the new Jew: Ulmer's Yiddish films / Vincent Brook -- When you get to the fork, take it: from Ulmer's Yiddish cinema to Woody Allen / Miriam Strube -- A world destroyed by gold: shared allegories of capital in Wagner's Ring and Ulmer's Isle of forgotten sins / Andrew Repasky McElhinney -- Ulmer and the noir femme fatale / Alena Smieskova -- Detour's detour / David Kalat -- Fantasy and failure in Strange illusion / Hugh S. …”
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Children and youth during the Civil War era

Table of Contents: “…Ott -- Caught in the crossfire : African American children and the idiological battle for education in Reconstruction / Troy L. …”
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Women, violence, and the media readings in feminist criminology /

Table of Contents: “…Miller -- Constructing murderers : female killers of Law and order / Drew Humphries -- Screening stereotypes : African American women in Hollywood films / Frankie Y. …”
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The films of Edgar G. Ulmer

Table of Contents: “…Ulmer / Noah Isenberg -- The search for community / John Belton -- On the graveyards of Europe: the horror of modernism in The black cat / Herbert Schwaab -- From nine to nine / DJ Turner -- Exile on 125th Street: Germans, Jews, and Africans: Americans in Moon over Harlem / Jonathan Skolnik -- Forging the new Jew: Ulmer's Yiddish films / Vincent Brook -- When you get to the fork, take it: from Ulmer's Yiddish cinema to Woody Allen / Miriam Strube -- A world destroyed by gold: shared allegories of capital in Wagner's Ring and Ulmer's Isle of forgotten sins / Andrew Repasky McElhinney -- Ulmer and the noir femme fatale / Alena Smieskova -- Detour's detour / David Kalat -- Fantasy and failure in Strange illusion / Hugh S. …”
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Children and youth during the Civil War era

Table of Contents: “…Ott -- Caught in the crossfire : African American children and the idiological battle for education in Reconstruction / Troy L. …”
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Faith and Law how religious traditions from Calvinism to Islam view American law /

Table of Contents: “…: law through the eyes of the African-American religious tradition / Anthony V. Baker -- Reason, freedom, and apocalyptic vision : Churches of Christ and the practice and teaching of law / Thomas G. …”
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Complicating constructions race, ethnicity, and hybridity in American texts /

Table of Contents: “…I love Lucy: taking on the postwar consumer fantasy / Tracy Floreani -- Some do, some don't: whiteness theory and the treatment of race in African American drama / William Over -- Traumatic legacy in Darryl Pinckney's High cotton / Alexandra W. …”
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Multiculturalism on campus theory, models, and practices for understanding diversity and creating inclusion /

Table of Contents: “…Cuyjet, Diane L. Cooper -- African American college students / Lamont A. Flowers, Bettina C. …”
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Psychology of trust

Table of Contents: “…Elder and others -- Trust in the medical interaction : implications for African American patients / Georgia Michalopoulou, Pamela Falzarano, Cynthia Arfken, David Rosenberg -- Trust in multicultural global virtual teams : an application of social capital theory / Denise Fortier, Ambrose Leung, Elliott Verreault -- Teacher trust in students in technical/vocational schools versus academic schools and the role of teacher perception of students' teachability / Dimitri Van Maele, Mieke Van Houtte -- Revisiting social trust with regard to gendered perception of new food technologies : the case of nanofood / Andrea Bieberstein, Frederic Vandermoere, Jutta Roosen, Sandrine Blanchemanche, Stéphan, Marette, and others -- How general trust translates into relational trust : a note on partner influence / Maria Yakovleva -- Moral attitudes of primary and secondary students in Hong Kong / Magdalena Mo Ching Mok, Michael Ying Wah Wong -- Control systems effects on controlled trust : empirical evidence in interorganizational relationships / Maria L. …”
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Saturday night live & American TV /

Table of Contents: “…Bringing the black: Eddie Murphy and African American humor on Saturday night live / Racquel Gates -- "Is this the era of the woman?"…”
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The Civil War as global conflict : transnational meanings of the American Civil War /

Table of Contents: “…Marrs -- "They had heard of emancipation and the enfranchisement of their race" : the African American colonists of Samaná, reconstruction, and the state of Santo Domingo / Christopher Wilkins -- Nurse as icon : Florence Nightingale's impact on women in the American Civil War / Jane E. …”
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Mapping region in early American writing /

Table of Contents: “…Countermappings : new spaces in old places -- Tribal Christianity : the second Great Awakening and William Apess's backwoods Methodism / Harry Brown -- "We, too, the people" : rewriting resistance in the Cherokee Nation / Keri Holt -- African American literature of the Gold Rush / Janet Neary and Hollis Robbins -- Postscript: Creole adjudication : governing New Orleans and regional provisionality in the long nineteenth century / John Funchion.…”
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Complicating constructions race, ethnicity, and hybridity in American texts /

Table of Contents: “…I love Lucy: taking on the postwar consumer fantasy / Tracy Floreani -- Some do, some don't: whiteness theory and the treatment of race in African American drama / William Over -- Traumatic legacy in Darryl Pinckney's High cotton / Alexandra W. …”
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Multiculturalism on campus theory, models, and practices for understanding diversity and creating inclusion /

Table of Contents: “…Cuyjet, Diane L. Cooper -- African American college students / Lamont A. Flowers, Bettina C. …”
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