American Identities An Introductory Textbook.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rudnick, Lois P.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2005.
Series:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
Subjects:
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • AMERICAN IDENTITIES
  • Table of Contents
  • Alternative Contents by Genre
  • Preface: How to Use This Book
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • PART I IDENTITY, FAMILY, AND MEMORY
  • Understanding Identity
  • 1 Identities and Social Locations: Who Am I? Who Are My People?
  • American Families in Historical Perspective
  • 2 What We Really Miss About the 1950s
  • Memory and Community
  • 3 Generational Memory in an American Town
  • 4 Growing Up Asian in America
  • PART II WORLD WAR II AND THE POSTWAR ERA 1940-1960
  • World War II and American Families
  • 5 War Babies
  • 6 From Citizen 13660
  • The Cold War and Domestic Politics
  • 7 Containment at Home: Cold War, Warm Hearth
  • 8 The Problem That Has No Name
  • 9 The Civil Rights Revolution, 1945-1960
  • 10 From Like One of the Family: Conversations from a Domestic's Life
  • Family Migrations, Urban and Suburban
  • 11 Songs of the Chicago Blues
  • 12 Halfway to Dick and Jane: A Puerto Rican Pilgrimage
  • 13 From Goodbye, Columbus
  • PART III WAR AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, 1960-1975
  • The Civil Rights Movement
  • 14 Letter from Birmingham City Jail
  • 15 Message to the Grass Roots
  • 16 Songs of the Civil Rights Movement
  • Student Activism
  • 17 Port Huron Statement
  • 18 The Port Huron Statement at 40
  • The Vietnam War
  • 19 From Working-Class War: American Combat Soldiers and Vietnam
  • 20 From Born on the Fourth of July
  • 21 From Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans
  • Black and Puerto Rican Power
  • 22 Black Power: Its Need and Substance
  • 23 ''Respect''
  • 24 ''Say It Loud (I'm Black and I'm Proud)''
  • 25 13-Point Program and Platform
  • Women's Lives, Women's Rights
  • 26 Sources of the Second Wave: The Rebirth of Feminism
  • 27 NOW Bill of Rights
  • 28 The Liberation of Black Women
  • 29 Jessie Lopez De La Cruz: The Battle for Farmworkers' Rights
  • The American Indian Movement
  • 30 This Country Was a Lot Better Off When the Indians Were Running It
  • The Occupation of Alcatraz Island
  • The Gay Liberation Movement
  • 31 Gay Liberation
  • 32 The Fighting Irishman
  • 33 The Drag Queen
  • The New American Right
  • 34 From Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right
  • PART IV A POSTINDUSTRIAL AND GLOBAL SOCIETY, 1975-2000
  • Deindustrializing America
  • 35 From The Great U-Turn: Corporate Restructuring and the Polarizing of America
  • 36 From ''It Ain't No Sin To Be Glad You're Alive'': The Promise of Bruce Springsteen
  • 37 A Musical Representation of Work in Postindustrial America
  • 38 Class in America: Myths and Realities (2000)
  • Marriage and Family: Modern and Postmodern
  • 39 From Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood
  • 40 The Making and Unmaking of Modern Families
  • Multicultural America
  • 41 From Jasmine
  • 42 Growing Up Biracial and Bicultural
  • 43 From The Business of Fancydancing: Stories and Poems

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