Life in and against the odds : debts of freedom and the speculative roots of U.S. culture /

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Somehow people continue to imagine a world of justice against the odds of a deck that has been stacked against them. In her urgent and perceptive book, Life in and against the Odds, Hoechst focuses on the particular circumstances and conditions of different phases of speculative expansion in the Uni...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hoechst, Heidi, 1977- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2015.
Temas:
Equality > United States > History.
Nationalism > United States > History.
Speculation > United States > History.
Capitalism > Moral and ethical aspects > United States.
Democracy > United States.
Nationalisme > États-Unis > Histoire.
Spéculation > États-Unis > Histoire.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
HISTORY > Social History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
Capitalism > Moral and ethical aspects
Democracy
Economic history
Equality
Nationalism
Social conditions
Speculation
United States > Economic conditions.
United States > Social conditions.
États-Unis > Conditions économiques.
États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Recognitions and Gratitude
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Land
  • 1. Panicked Landscapes: Dispossession, Liberal Nationalism, Allegorical Disposals
  • 2. Racial Returns: Slave Speculation, Managerial Capitalism, the Spectacular Sites of Yosemite
  • Part II. Persons
  • 3. Masks and Manipulations of Personhood: The National Popular, Corporate Minstrelsy, Improvisation in the Offbeat
  • 4. Sacred Spaces of Structural Adjustment: Erotic Fraternity, Institutional Dispensation, America and Education
  • Part III. Collectivities.
  • 5. Home Ownership Hope and the Sellout of the State: Predatory Nationalism, Racialized Risk, Life under Terms of Last Resort
  • 6. Revelry in the Multicultural Finance State: Urban Abandonment, Identity Adjustment, May Day the Powderhorn Way
  • Notes
  • Index.

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