American Identities An Introductory Textbook.
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Newark :
John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,
2005.
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Series: | New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
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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