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American studies in a moment of danger /

What becomes of ""national knowledge"" in our age of globalization? If dramatic changes in technology, commerce, and social relations are undermining familiar connections between culture and place, what happens to legacies of learning that put the nation at the center of the stud...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lipsitz, George
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis, MN ; London : University of Minnesota Press, ©2001.
Colección:Critical American studies series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Pt. I. American Studies and Social Movements. 1. In the Midnight Hour: American Studies in a Moment of Danger. 2. Sent for You Yesterday, Here You Come Today: Who Needs the Thirties? 3. Dancing in the Dark: Who Needs the Sixties? 4. Listening to Learn and Learning to Listen: Who Needs the Eighties?
  • pt. II. Race, Culture, and Collective Struggle. 5. Like Crabs in a Barrel: Why Interethnic Anti-Racism Matters Now. 6. The Lion and the Spider: Mapping Sexuality, Space, and Politics in Miami Music. 7. Not Just Another Social Movement: Poster Art and the Movimiento Chicano. 8. As Unmarked as Their Place in History: Genre Anxiety and Race in Seventies Cinema
  • pt. III. Facing Up to What's Killing You.
  • In the midnight hour : American studies in a moment of danger
  • Sent for you yesterday, here you come today : who needs the Thirties?
  • Dancing in the dark : who needs the Sixties?
  • Listening to learn and learning to listen : who needs the Eighties?
  • Like crabs in a barrel : why interethnic anti-racism matters now
  • The lion and the spider : mapping sexuality, space, and politics in Miami music
  • Not just another social movement : poster art and the movimiento Chicano
  • As unmarked as their place in history : genre anxiety and race in Seventies cinema
  • "Facing up to what's killing you" : urban art and the new social movements
  • In the sweet by and by : consumer culture and American studies
  • Taking positions and the war of position : the politics of academia
  • Don't cry for me, Ike and Tina : American studies at the crossroads.