Forging An American Identity

Author : Detroit Institute of Arts
Publisher : American Paintings in the Detr
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015058763411

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American Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts: Forging a modern identity : masters of American painting born after 1847 by Detroit Institute of Arts Pdf

This long-awaited publication, the third in a series of titles co-published with the Detroit Institute of Arts, completes the study of American paintings in the museum's outstanding collection with 129 colour images of works by artist born after 1847. The American art collection at Detroit covers a broad range of artistic endeavours, but the strength of the American holdings is the painting collection. Especially strong are those paintings from the latter part of the 19th century and the beginnings of the 20th, which are the focus of this volume. Signature works featured in this book include Sargent'sMadame Paul Poirson andMosquito Nets, Chase'sYield of the Waters, Hassam'sPlace Centrale andFort Cabanas, Havana, Dewing'sThe Recitation, Sloan'sMcSorley's Bar, and Hartley'sLog Jam, Penobscot Bay.

Author : Gregory T. Knouff
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0271047755

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Soldiers' Revolution by Gregory T. Knouff Pdf

"The Soldiers' Revolution offers us a rare glimpse into the everyday world of the American Revolution. We see how the common experience of war drew soldiers together as they began the long process of forging an identity for a fledgling nation."--Jacket.

Author : Linda Bantel,William Tylee Ranney,Peter H. Hassrick,Sarah E. Boehme,Mark Bockrath
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Frontier and pioneer life in art
ISBN : UCSC:32106018347143

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Forging an American Identity by Linda Bantel,William Tylee Ranney,Peter H. Hassrick,Sarah E. Boehme,Mark Bockrath Pdf

Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name held at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wyo. and three other museums between May 13, 2006 and Aug. 26, 2007.

Author : Keith Mann
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781845458256

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Forging Political Identity by Keith Mann Pdf

Escaping the traditional focus on Paris, the author examines the divergent political identities of two occupational groups in Lyon, metal and silk workers, who, despite having lived and worked in the same city, developed different patterns of political practices and bore distinct political identities. This book also examines in detail the way that gender relations influenced industrial change, skill, and political identity. Combining empirical data collected in French archives with social science theory and methods, this study argues that political identities were shaped by the intersection of the prevailing political climate with the social relations surrounding work in specific industrial settings.

Author : Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo,Manuel Pastor
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479807970

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South Central Dreams by Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo,Manuel Pastor Pdf

Race, place, and identity in a changing urban America Over the last five decades, South Los Angeles has undergone a remarkable demographic transition. In South Central Dreams, eminent scholars Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Manuel Pastor follow its transformation from a historically Black neighborhood into a predominantly Latino one, providing a fresh, inside look at the fascinating—and constantly changing—relationships between these two racial and ethnic groups in California. Drawing on almost two hundred interviews and statistical data, Hondagneu-Sotelo and Pastor explore the experiences of first- and second-generation Latino residents, their long-time Black neighbors, and local civic leaders seeking to build coalitions. Acknowledging early tensions between Black and Brown communities. they show how Latino immigrants settled into a new country and a new neighborhood, finding various ways to co-exist, cooperate, and, most recently, demonstrate Black-Brown solidarity at a time when both racial and ethnic communities have come under threat. Hondagneu-Sotelo and Pastor show how Latino and Black residents have practiced, and adapted innovative strategies of belonging in a historically Black context, ultimately crafting a new route to place-based identity and political representation. South Central Dreams illuminates how racial and ethnic demographic shifts—as well as the search for identity and belonging—are dramatically shaping American cities and neighborhoods around the country.

Author : Jorge J. E. Gracia
Publisher : Latino Perspectives
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 0268029822

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Forging People by Jorge J. E. Gracia Pdf

Explores how Hispanic American thinkers in Latin America and Latino/a philosophers in the USA have posed and thought about questions of race, ethnicity, and nationality.

Author : Donald Yacovone
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780593467169

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Teaching White Supremacy by Donald Yacovone Pdf

A powerful exploration of the past and present arc of America’s white supremacy—from the country’s inception and Revolutionary years to its 19th century flashpoint of civil war; to the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s and today’s Black Lives Matter. “The most profoundly original cultural history in recent memory.” —Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University “Stunning, timely . . . an achievement in writing public history . . . Teaching White Supremacy should be read widely in our roiling debate over how to teach about race and slavery in classrooms." —David W. Blight, Sterling Professor of American History, Yale University; author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom Donald Yacovone shows us the clear and damning evidence of white supremacy’s deep-seated roots in our nation’s educational system through a fascinating, in-depth examination of America’s wide assortment of texts, from primary readers to college textbooks, from popular histories to the most influential academic scholarship. Sifting through a wealth of materials from the colonial era to today, Yacovone reveals the systematic ways in which this ideology has infiltrated all aspects of American culture and how it has been at the heart of our collective national identity. Yacovone lays out the arc of America’s white supremacy from the country’s inception and Revolutionary War years to its nineteenth-century flashpoint of civil war to the civil rights movement of the 1960s and today’s Black Lives Matter. In a stunning reappraisal, the author argues that it is the North, not the South, that bears the greater responsibility for creating the dominant strain of race theory, which has been inculcated throughout the culture and in school textbooks that restricted and repressed African Americans and other minorities, even as Northerners blamed the South for its legacy of slavery, segregation, and racial injustice. A major assessment of how we got to where we are today, of how white supremacy has suffused every area of American learning, from literature and science to religion, medicine, and law, and why this kind of thinking has so insidiously endured for more than three centuries.

Author : Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Arab Americans
ISBN : 1602584060

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Becoming American? by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad Pdf

Countless generations of Arabs and Muslims have called the United States "home." Yet while diversity and pluralism continue to define contemporary America, many Muslims are viewed by their neighbors as painful reminders of conflict and violence. In this concise volume, renowned historian Yvonne Haddad argues that American Muslim identity is as uniquely American as it is for any other race, nationality, or religion. Becoming American? first traces the history of Arab and Muslim immigration into Western society during the 19th and 20th centuries, revealing a two-fold disconnect between the cultures--America's unwillingness to accept these new communities at home and the activities of radical Islam abroad. Urging America to reconsider its tenets of religious pluralism, Haddad reveals that the public square has more than enough room to accommodate those values and ideals inherent in the moderate Islam flourishing throughout the country. In all, in remarkable, succinct fashion, Haddad prods readers to ask what it means to be truly American and paves the way forward for not only increased understanding but for forming a Muslim message that is capable of uplifting American society.

Author : Sophie Cooper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1474487106

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Forging Identities in the Irish World by Sophie Cooper Pdf

Presents the experiences of two burgeoning cities and the Irish people that helped to establish what it was 'to be Irish' within them Set within colonial Melbourne and Chicago, this book explores the shifting influences of religious demography, educational provision and club culture to shed new light on what makes a diasporic ethnic community connect and survive over multiple generations. The author focuses on these Irish populations as they grew alongside their cities establishing the cultural and political institutions of Melbourne and Chicago, and these comparisons allow scholars to explore what happens when an ethnic group - so often considered 'other' - have a foundational role in a city instead of entering a society with established hierarchies. Forging Identities in the Irish World places women and children alongside men to explore the varied influences on migrant identity and community life. Sophie Cooper is Lecturer in Liberal Arts at Queen's University Belfast.

Author : S. K. Ali
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-13
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781481499248

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Saints and Misfits by S. K. Ali Pdf

Fifteen-year-old Janna Yusuf, a Flannery O'Connor-obsessed book nerd and the daughter of the only divorced mother at their mosque, tries to make sense of the events that follow when her best friend's cousin--a holy star in the Muslim community--attempts to assault her at the end of sophomore year.

Author : Elizabeth A. Armstrong
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2002-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0226026930

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Forging Gay Identities by Elizabeth A. Armstrong Pdf

Unlike many social movements, the gay and lesbian struggle for visibility and rights has succeeded in combining a unified group identity with the celebration of individual differences. Forging Gay Identities explores how this happened, tracing the evolution of gay life and organizations in San Francisco from the 1950s to the mid-1990s.

Author : Amrita Chakrabarti Myers
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807835050

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Forging Freedom by Amrita Chakrabarti Myers Pdf

For black women in antebellum Charleston, freedom was not a static legal category but a fragile and contingent experience. In this deeply researched social history, Amrita Chakrabarti Myers analyzes the ways in which black women in Charleston acquired, de

Author : Daryl J. Maeda
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015049507109

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Forging Asian American Identity by Daryl J. Maeda Pdf

Author : Kathleen Flake
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005-12-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780807863541

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The Politics of American Religious Identity by Kathleen Flake Pdf

Between 1901 and 1907, a broad coalition of Protestant churches sought to expel newly elected Reed Smoot from the Senate, arguing that as an apostle in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Smoot was a lawbreaker and therefore unfit to be a lawmaker. The resulting Senate investigative hearing featured testimony on every peculiarity of Mormonism, especially its polygamous family structure. The Smoot hearing ultimately mediated a compromise between Progressive Era Protestantism and Mormonism and resolved the nation's long-standing "Mormon Problem." On a broader scale, Kathleen Flake shows how this landmark hearing provided the occasion for the country--through its elected representatives, the daily press, citizen petitions, and social reform activism--to reconsider the scope of religious free exercise in the new century. Flake contends that the Smoot hearing was the forge in which the Latter-day Saints, the Protestants, and the Senate hammered out a model for church-state relations, shaping for a new generation of non-Protestant and non-Christian Americans what it meant to be free and religious. In addition, she discusses the Latter-day Saints' use of narrative and collective memory to retain their religious identity even as they changed to meet the nation's demands.

Author : Omar S. Valerio-Jiménez
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822351856

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River of Hope by Omar S. Valerio-Jiménez Pdf

In River of Hope, Omar S. Valerio-Jiménez examines state formation, cultural change, and the construction of identity in the lower Rio Grande region during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He chronicles a history of violence resulting from multiple conquests, of resistance and accommodation to state power, and of changing ethnic and political identities. The redrawing of borders neither began nor ended the region's long history of unequal power relations. Nor did it lead residents to adopt singular colonial or national identities. Instead, their regionalism, transnational cultural practices, and kinship ties subverted state attempts to control and divide the population. Diverse influences transformed the borderlands as Spain, Mexico, and the United States competed for control of the region. Indian slaves joined Spanish society; Mexicans allied with Indians to defend river communities; Anglo Americans and Mexicans intermarried and collaborated; and women sued to confront spousal abuse and to secure divorces. Drawn into multiple conflicts along the border, Mexican nationals and Mexican Texans (tejanos) took advantage of their transnational social relations and ambiguous citizenship to escape criminal prosecution, secure political refuge, and obtain economic opportunities. To confront the racialization of their cultural practices and their increasing criminalization, tejanos claimed citizenship rights within the United States and, in the process, created a new identity. Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University.