Faces Of America

Author : Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814732656

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Faces of America by Henry Louis Gates Jr. Pdf

Explores the family trees and genealogical identity of 12 of America's most extraordinary people As a nation of immigrants, the American experience is vibrantly defined by the diverse racial, ethnic, cultural, and religious heritage of its people. Perhaps because so many of their ancestors migrated to this country relatively recently, Americans are especially concerned with their family trees, carving out personal histories by combing through documents such as wills and estate records, federal and state censuses, and private family papers, and mining the stories and tales handed down to them by their forebears. Since 2007, the Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., has been helping African Americans find long-buried details about their ancestors by researching their family trees and then, when the paper trail ends, by analyzing their DNA and marrying that information to a wealth of historical data. Now, in Faces of America Gates explores the family trees of twelve of America’s most recognizable and extraordinary citizens, individuals who learn that they are of Asian, English, French, German, Irish, Italian, Jamaican, Jewish, Latino, Native American, Swiss, and Syrian ancestry: Inaugural poet Elizabeth Alexander, chef Mario Batali, comedian and television personality Stephen Colbert, writer Louise Erdrich, writer Malcolm Gladwell, actress Eva Longoria, cellist Yo Yo Ma, writer and director Mike Nichols, former monarch of Jordan Queen Noor, surgeon and author Dr. Mehmet Oz, actress Meryl Streep, and Olympic gold medalist and figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi. In addition, each of the subjects in Faces of America underwent dense genotyping to trace their genetic ancestry on their father’s line, their mother’s line, and their percentages of European, Asian, Native American, and African ancestry. Faces of America unfolds as a riveting journey into our country’s complex ancestral past. Readers will share in the surprise and delight, the shock and sadness of these twelve individuals themselves as Gates unveils their rich family stories, traced back to their arrival on America’s shores, and beyond, deep into the history of their ancestors’ countries of origin. America, as Gates shows us, is a nation of many historical threads, interwoven and united in the present moment. In this compelling book, Gates demonstrates that where we come from profoundly and fundamentally informs who we are today.

Author : Aziz Rana
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674266551

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The Two Faces of American Freedom by Aziz Rana Pdf

The Two Faces of American Freedom boldly reinterprets the American political tradition from the colonial period to modern times, placing issues of race relations, immigration, and presidentialism in the context of shifting notions of empire and citizenship. Today, while the U.S. enjoys tremendous military and economic power, citizens are increasingly insulated from everyday decision-making. This was not always the case. America, Aziz Rana argues, began as a settler society grounded in an ideal of freedom as the exercise of continuous self-rule—one that joined direct political participation with economic independence. However, this vision of freedom was politically bound to the subordination of marginalized groups, especially slaves, Native Americans, and women. These practices of liberty and exclusion were not separate currents, but rather two sides of the same coin. However, at crucial moments, social movements sought to imagine freedom without either subordination or empire. By the mid-twentieth century, these efforts failed, resulting in the rise of hierarchical state and corporate institutions. This new framework presented national and economic security as society’s guiding commitments and nurtured a continual extension of America’s global reach. Rana envisions a democratic society that revives settler ideals, but combines them with meaningful inclusion for those currently at the margins of American life.

Author : Charles S. Prebish,Kenneth K. Tanaka
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520920651

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The Faces of Buddhism in America by Charles S. Prebish,Kenneth K. Tanaka Pdf

Buddhism is the fastest growing religion in the United States, with adherents estimated in the several millions. But what exactly defines a "Buddhist"? This has been a much-debated question in recent years, particularly in regard to the religion's bifurcation into two camps: the so-called "imported" or ethnic Buddhism of Asian immigrants and the "convert" Buddhism of a mostly middle-class, liberal, intellectual elite. In this timely collection Charles S. Prebish and Kenneth K. Tanaka bring together some of the leading voices in Buddhist studies to examine the debates surrounding contemporary Buddhism's many faces. The contributors investigate newly Americanized Asian traditions such as Tibetan, Zen, Nichiren, Jodo Shinshu, and Theravada Buddhism and the changes they undergo to meet the expectations of a Western culture desperate for spiritual guidance. Race, feminism, homosexuality, psychology, environmentalism, and notions of authority are some of the issues confronting Buddhism for the first time in its three-thousand-year history and are powerfully addressed here. In recent years American Buddhism has been featured as a major story on ABC television news, National Public Radio, and in other national media. A strong new Buddhist journalism is emerging in the United States, and American Buddhism has made its way onto the Internet. The faces of Buddhism in America are diverse, active, and growing, and this book will be a valuable resource for anyone interested in understanding this vital religious movement.

Author : Rosemary Radford Ruether
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317491248

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America, Amerikkka by Rosemary Radford Ruether Pdf

America views itself as a nation inhabiting a "promised land" and enjoying a favoured relation with God. This view of unique election has been coupled with racial exclusivism and the marginalization of non-white citizens. America, Amerikkka traces the historical and ideological patterns behind America’s sense of itself. In its examination of America’s "chosenness", the book ranges across the doctrine of the "rights of man" in the 18th and 19th centuries, the role of America in the twentieth century as "global policeman", and the enforcement of neo-colonial relations over the "third world". The volume argues for a vision of global relations between peoples based on justice and mutuality, rather than hegemonic dominance.

Author : Eileen M. Foti
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-27
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781669811664

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Faces of America by Eileen M. Foti Pdf

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Author : Lindsey K. Hanson,Timothy J. Essenburg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 986 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781610691826

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The New Faces of American Poverty [2 volumes] by Lindsey K. Hanson,Timothy J. Essenburg Pdf

A timely examination of the effects of the Great Recession on Americans and the resulting federal reforms to healthcare, employment, and housing policies as a means to alleviate poverty. The Great Recession (2007 to 2009) brought the United States—routinely touted as the richest country in the world—to historical levels of poverty. Rising unemployment, government budget crises, and the collapse of the housing market had devastating effects on the poor and middle class. This is one of the first books to focus on the impact of the Great Recession on poverty in America, examining governmental and cultural responses to the economic downturn; the demographics of poverty by gender, age, occupation, education, geographical area, and ethnic identity; and federal and state efforts toward reform and relief. Essays from more than 20 contributing writers explore the history of poverty in America and provide a vision of what lies ahead for the American economy.

Author : Loretta I. Winters,Herman L. DeBose
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0761923004

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New Faces in a Changing America by Loretta I. Winters,Herman L. DeBose Pdf

How multiracial people identify themselves can have a big impact on their positions in family, community & society. This volume examines the multiracial experience in the US.

Author : Alexander von Wuthenau
Publisher : Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Art
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173017999100

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Unexpected Faces in Ancient America (1500 B.C.-A.D. 1500) by Alexander von Wuthenau Pdf

Author : Ronald S. Coddington
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421406251

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African American Faces of the Civil War by Ronald S. Coddington Pdf

A renowned collector of Civil War photographs and a prodigious researcher, Ronald S. Coddington combines compelling archival images with biographical stories that reveal the human side of the war. This third volume in his series on Civil War soldiers contains previously unpublished photographs of African American Civil War participants—many of whom fought to secure their freedom. During the Civil War, 200,000 African American men enlisted in the Union army or navy. Some of them were free men and some escaped from slavery; others were released by sympathetic owners to serve the war effort. African American Faces of the Civil War tells the story of the Civil War through the images of men of color who served in roles that ranged from servants and laborers to enlisted men and junior officers. Coddington discovers these portraits— cartes de visite, ambrotypes, and tintypes—in museums, archives, and private collections. He has pieced together each individual’s life and fate based upon personal documents, military records, and pension files. These stories tell of ordinary men who became fighters, of the prejudice they faced, and of the challenges they endured. African American Faces of the Civil War makes an important contribution to a comparatively understudied aspect of the war and provides a fascinating look into lives that helped shape America.

Author : Alaska Anthropological Association. Meeting
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Ethnopsychology
ISBN : 9781552380932

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Many Faces of Gender by Alaska Anthropological Association. Meeting Pdf

Many Faces of Gender: Roles and Relationships through Time in Indigenous Northern Communities is an interdisciplinary volume that addresses the dearth in descriptions and analyses of gender roles and relationships in Native societies in North America's boreal reaches. This collection complements existing conceptual frameworks and develops new methodological and theoretical approaches that more fully articulate the complex nature of social, economic, political, and material relationships between indigenous men and women in this region. The contributors challenge the widespread notion that Native women's and men's roles are frozen in time, a concept precluding the possibility of differently constructed gender categories and changing power relations and roles through time. By examining the prehistorical, historical, and modern records, they demonstrate that these roles are not fixed and have indeed gradually transformed. Many Faces of Gender: Roles and Relationships through Time in Indigenous Northern Communities is ideal for anthropologists and archaeologists interested in cross-disciplinary studies of gender, households, women, and lithics. With Contributions By: Lillian Ackerman Hetty Jo Brumbach Barbara Crass Lisa Frink Brian Hoffman Robert Jarvenpa Carol Zane Jolles Gregory Reinhardt Rita Shepard Henry Stewart Jennifer Ann Tobey Peter Whitridge

Author : Brendan McConville
Publisher : University of North Carolina Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0807830658

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The King's Three Faces by Brendan McConville Pdf

King's Three Faces: The Rise and Fall of Royal America, 1688-1776

Author : Lyman L. Johnson,Sonya Lipsett-Rivera
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1998-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0826319068

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The Faces of Honor by Lyman L. Johnson,Sonya Lipsett-Rivera Pdf

Honor was everywhere in Colonial Latin America, and to understand the many ways it had an impact on people's lives is to understand the organizing principles of a society.

Author : Douglas Ambrose,Robert W. T. Martin
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780814707241

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The Many Faces of Alexander Hamilton by Douglas Ambrose,Robert W. T. Martin Pdf

Annotation Alexander Hamilton has been the focus of debate from his day to ours. On the one hand, Hamilton was the quintessential Founding Father, playing a central role in every key debate and event in the Revolutionary and Early Republic eras. Who was he really and what is his legacy? Was Hamilton a closet monarchist or a sincere republican?

Author : Bernard Bailyn
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307798473

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Faces of Revolution by Bernard Bailyn Pdf

Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Bernard Bailyn brings us a book that combines portraits of American revolutionaries with a deft exploration of the ideas that moved them and still shape our society today.

Author : Eugene R. Wittkopf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015018335649

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Faces of Internationalism by Eugene R. Wittkopf Pdf

In Faces of Internationalism, Eugene R. Wittkopf examines the changing nature of public attitudes toward American foreign policy in the post-Vietnam era and the role that public opinion plays in the American foreign policymaking process. Drawing on new data--four mass and four elite opinion surveys undertaken by the Chicago Council of Foreign Relations from 1974 to 1986--combined with sophisticated analysis techniques, Wittkopf offers a pathbreaking study that addresses the central question of the relationship of a democracy to its foreign policy. The breakdown of the "consensus" approach to American foreign policy after the Cold War years has become the subject of much analysis. This study contributes to revisionist scholarship by describing the beliefs and preferences that have emerged in the wake of this breakdown. Wittkopf counters traditional views by demonstrating the persistence of U.S. public opinion defined by two dominant and distinct attitudes in the post-Vietnam war years--cooperative and militant internationalism. The author explores the nature of these two "faces" of internationalism, focusing on the extent to which elites and masses share similar opinions and the political and sociodemographic correlates of belief systems. Wittkopf also offers an original examination of the relationship between beliefs and preferences.