Envisioning America

Author : Tritia Toyota
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804772822

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Envisioning America by Tritia Toyota Pdf

Envisioning America is a groundbreaking and richly detailed study of how naturalized Chinese living in Southern California become highly involved civic and political actors. Like other immigrants to the United States, their individual life stories are of survival, becoming, and belonging. But unlike any other Asian immigrant group before them, they have the resources—Western-based educations, entrepreneurial strengths, and widely based social networks in Asia—to become fully accepted in their new homes. Nevertheless, Chinese Americans are finding that their social credentials can be a double-edged sword. Their complete incorporation as citizens is bounded both by mainstream discourse in the United States, which paints them racially as perpetual foreigners, and by an existing Asian-Pacific American community not always accepting of their economic achievements and transnational ties. Their attempts at inclusion are at the heart of a vigorous struggle for recognition and political empowerment. This book challenges the notion that Asian Americans are apathetic or apolitical about civic engagement, reminding us that political involvement would often have been a life-threatening act in their homeland. The voices of Chinese Americans who tell their stories in these pages uncover the ways in which these new citizens actively embrace their American citizenship and offer a unique perspective on how global identities transplanted across borders become rooted in the local.

Author : Scott Appelrouth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351607964

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Envisioning America and the American Self by Scott Appelrouth Pdf

This book explores the Democratic and Republican Party platforms from 1840 to 2016. As the only official, institutionally sanctioned document espousing the parties’ views on the state of the nation, the platforms present to the party faithful a diagnosis of what ails the country and the promise of possessing the necessary cure. In doing so, they offer more than a listing of specific issues in need of redress through legislative action, and moreover serve as a form of national storytelling through which political parties forge their vision of America and of what it means to be an American. Using topic modeling as an entry point into the documents, the author moves to consider more closely two related themes: those of how the platforms narrate the "American" self and individual freedom. With consideration of the extent to which the parties envision the self as an isolated economic actor or as an individual with a range of duties and obligations to a broader community, the spheres of action that they consider focal points for individual autonomy, and the extent to which they view liberty as freedom from restraint or freedom to act, this book sheds light on the historical trajectory of the growing fracture in American politics as well as the points of convergence across the two parties. Moreover, positing that behind their divisive rhetoric, both share a fundamental vision of what it means to be a "person," the author argues that perhaps their seemingly intractable differences are more a matter of degree than kind.

Author : Peter C. Mancall
Publisher : Bedford/St. Martin's
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1319048900

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Envisioning America by Peter C. Mancall Pdf

Through a collection of documents and a revised introduction that incorporates updates in scholarship over the past two decades, particularly on the north and environmental history, Peter C. Mancall gives twenty-first century readers a glimpse of the time when the possibility of colonizing North America was anything but certain. Pamphlets, accounts, and engravings from the late-sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth century capture the process of English colonization from its origins in promotional propaganda to its realization on the shores of North America. New to this edition is Ferdinando Gorges' A briefe Relation of the Discovery and Plantation of New England, which extends the geographical range of this collection and reminds readers of the difficulties the English experienced in new regions. An updated chronology and bibliography, along with new Questions for Consideration, further aid students' understanding of this compelling topic. Book jacket.

Author : Cecily Raynor,Rhian Lewis
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487538811

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Digital Encounters by Cecily Raynor,Rhian Lewis Pdf

To understand the creative fabric of digital networks, scholars of literary and cultural studies must turn their attention to crowdsourced forms of production, discussion, and distribution. Digital Encounters explores the influence of an increasingly networked world on contemporary Latin American cultural production. Drawing on a spectrum of case studies, the contributors to this volume examine literature, art, and political activism as they dialogue with programming languages, social media platforms, online publishing, and geospatial metadata. Implicit within these connections are questions of power, privilege, and stratification. The book critically examines issues of inequitable access and data privacy, technology’s capacity to divide people from one another, and the digital space as a site of racialized and gendered violence. Through an expansive approach to the study of connectivity, Digital Encounters illustrates how new connections – between analog and digital, human and machine, print text and pixel – alter representations of self, Other, and world.

Author : Beeke Sell Tower
Publisher : Harvard University Art Museums
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015018843659

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Envisioning America by Beeke Sell Tower Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004302150

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Envisioning Others: Race, Color, and the Visual in Iberia and Latin America by Anonim Pdf

Envisioning Others offers a multidisciplinary view of the relationship between race and visual culture in the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking world, from the kingdoms of Spain and Portugal to colonial Peru and Colombia, post-Independence Mexico, and the pre-Emancipation United States.

Author : Edward Countryman,Thomas S. Kidd,Peter C. Mancall,Richard Godbeer
Publisher : Bedford/st Martins
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 145763936X

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How Did American Slavery Begin + Great Awakening + Envisioning America + Salem Witch Hunt by Edward Countryman,Thomas S. Kidd,Peter C. Mancall,Richard Godbeer Pdf

Author : Mary Landon Darden
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781607090755

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Beyond 2020 by Mary Landon Darden Pdf

In a world progressing with dizzying acceleration into the Information Age, the slow, measured approach of the traditional university can place administrator, faculty member, and student alike at a disadvantage. To move into this brave new world, the academic animal needs tools. Beyond 2020: Envisioning the Future of Universities in America is that tool. Higher education experts in a host of fields project into the future and paint a clear picture of the future university. Nearly two dozen scholars, including James Duderstadt and Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, provide the most detailed road map yet to the perils and promise of the Information Age_as it directly applies to academia. This is a collection of refreshingly frank opinions and observations from forward-thinking experts on the front lines with the best views on how to prepare the healthiest possible institution of tomorrow. It is something akin to an academic prophesy, but grounded in the expertise of a combined several centuries' worth of higher education experience.

Author : Karen Melvin
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826359230

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Imagining Histories of Colonial Latin America by Karen Melvin Pdf

Imagining Histories of Colonial Latin America teaches imaginative and distinctive approaches to the practice of history through a series of essays on colonial Latin America. It demonstrates ways of making sense of the past through approaches that aggregate more than they dissect and suggest more than they conclude. Sidestepping more conventional approaches that divide content by subject, source, or historiographical “turn,” the editors seek to take readers beyond these divisions and deep into the process of historical interpretation. The essays in this volume focus on what questions to ask, what sources can reveal, what stories historians can tell, and how a single source can be interpreted in many ways.

Author : Benjamin Leontief Alpers
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807854166

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Dictators, Democracy, and American Public Culture by Benjamin Leontief Alpers Pdf

Focusing on portrayals of Mussolini's Italy, Hitler's Germany, and Stalin's Russia in U.S. films, magazine and newspaper articles, books, plays, speeches, and other texts, Benjamin Alpers traces changing American understandings of dictatorship from the la

Author : David K. Yoo,Khyati Y. Joshi
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780824882747

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Envisioning Religion, Race, and Asian Americans by David K. Yoo,Khyati Y. Joshi Pdf

In Envisioning Religion, Race, and Asian Americans, David K. Yoo and Khyati Y. Joshi assemble a wide-ranging and important collection of essays documenting the intersections of race and religion and Asian American communities—a combination so often missing both in the scholarly literature and in public discourse. Issues of religion and race/ethnicity undergird current national debates around immigration, racial profiling, and democratic freedoms, but these issues, as the contributors document, are longstanding ones in the United States. The essays feature dimensions of traditions such as Islam, Hinduism, and Sikhism, as well as how religion engages with topics that include religious affiliation (or lack thereof), the legacy of the Vietnam War, and popular culture. The contributors also address the role of survey data, pedagogy, methodology, and literature that is richly complementary and necessary for understanding the scope and range of the subject of Asian American religions. These essays attest to the vibrancy and diversity of Asian American religions, while at the same time situating these conversations in a scholarly lineage and discourse. This collection will certainly serve as an invaluable resource for scholars, students, and general readers with interests in Asian American religions, ethnic and Asian American studies, religious studies, American studies, and related fields that focus on immigration and race.

Author : Marybeth Gasman
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007-06-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 080188604X

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Envisioning Black Colleges by Marybeth Gasman Pdf

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Author : Kameelah L. Martin
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498523295

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Envisioning Black Feminist Voodoo Aesthetics by Kameelah L. Martin Pdf

In the twenty-first century, American popular culture increasingly makes visible the performance of African spirituality by black women. Disney’s Princess and the Frog and Pirates of the Caribbean franchise are two notable examples. The reliance on the black priestess of African-derived religion as an archetype, however, has a much longer history steeped in the colonial othering of Haitian Vodou and American imperialist fantasies about so-called ‘black magic’. Within this cinematic study, Martin unravels how religious autonomy impacts the identity, function, and perception of Africana women in the American popular imagination. Martin interrogates seventy-five years of American film representations of black women engaged in conjure, hoodoo, obeah, or Voodoo to discern what happens when race, gender, and African spirituality collide. She develops the framework of Voodoo aesthetics, or the inscription of African cosmologies on the black female body, as the theoretical lens through which to scrutinize black female religious performance in film. Martin places the genre of film in conversation with black feminist/womanist criticism, offering an interdisciplinary approach to film analysis. Positioning the black priestess as another iteration of Patricia Hill Collins’ notion of controlling images, Martin theorizes whether film functions as a safe space for a racial and gendered embodiment in the performance of African diasporic religion. Approaching the close reading of eight signature films from a black female spectatorship, Martin works chronologically to express the trajectory of the black priestess as cinematic motif over the last century of filmmaking. Conceptually, Martin recalibrates the scholarship on black women and representation by distinctly centering black women as ritual specialists and Black Atlantic spirituality on the silver screen.

Author : Robert Appelbaum,John Wood Sweet
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812204421

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Envisioning an English Empire by Robert Appelbaum,John Wood Sweet Pdf

Envisioning an English Empire brings together leading historians and literary scholars to reframe our understanding of the history of Jamestown and the literature of empire that emerged from it. The founding of an English colony at Jamestown in 1607 was no isolated incident. It was one event among many in the long development of the North Atlantic world. Ireland, Spain, Morocco, West Africa, Turkey, and the Native federations of North America all played a role alongside the Virginia Company in London and English settlers on the ground. English proponents of empire responded as much to fears of Spanish ambitions, fantasies about discovering gold, and dreams of easily dominating the region's Natives as they did to the grim lessons of earlier, failed outposts in North America. Developments in trade and technology, in diplomatic relations and ideology, in agricultural practices and property relations were as crucial as the self-consciously combative adventurers who initially set sail for the Chesapeake. The collection begins by exploring the initial encounters between the Jamestown settlers and the Powhatan Indians and the relations of both these groups with London. It goes on to examine the international context that defined English colonialism in this period—relations with Spain, the Turks, North Africa, and Ireland. Finally, it turns to the ways both settlers and Natives were transformed over the course of the seventeenth century, considering conflicts and exchanges over food, property, slavery, and colonial identity. What results is a multifaceted view of the history of Jamestown up to the time of Bacon's Rebellion and its aftermath. The writings of Captain John Smith, the experience of Powhatans in London, the letters home of a disappointed indentured servant, the Moroccans, Turks, and Indians of the English stage, the ethnographic texts of early explorers, and many other phenomena all come into focus as examples of the envisioning of a nascent empire and the Atlantic world in which it found a hold.

Author : Deborah Willis,Barbara Krauthamer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 1439909865

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Envisioning Emancipation by Deborah Willis,Barbara Krauthamer Pdf

What freedom looked like for black Americans in the Civil War era