The Makings And Unmakings Of Americans

Author : Cristina Stanciu
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-24
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9780300224351

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The Makings and Unmakings of Americans by Cristina Stanciu Pdf

Challenges the myth of the United States as a nation of immigrants by bringing together two groups rarely read together: Native Americans and Eastern European immigrants In this cultural history of Americanization during the Progressive Era, Cristina Stanciu argues that new immigrants and Native Americans shaped the intellectual and cultural debates over inclusion and exclusion, challenging ideas of national belonging, citizenship, and literary and cultural production. Deeply grounded in a wide-ranging archive of Indigenous and new immigrant writing and visual culture--including congressional acts, testimonies, news reports, cartoons, poetry, fiction, and silent film--this book brings together voices of Native and immigrant America. Stanciu shows that, although Native Americans and new immigrants faced different legal and cultural obstacles to citizenship, the challenges they faced and their resistance to assimilation and Americanization often ran along parallel paths. Both struggled against idealized models of American citizenship that dominated public spaces. Both participated in government-sponsored Americanization efforts and worked to gain agency and sovereignty while negotiating naturalization. Rethinking popular understandings of Americanization, Stanciu argues that the new immigrants and Native Americans at the heart of this book expanded the narrow definitions of American identity.

Author : Ned Blackhawk
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 611 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780300244052

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The Rediscovery of America by Ned Blackhawk Pdf

A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essential to understanding the evolution of modern America The most enduring feature of U.S. history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories focus on Europeans and their descendants. This long practice of ignoring Indigenous history is changing, however, with a new generation of scholars insists that any full American history address the struggle, survival, and resurgence of American Indian nations. Indigenous history is essential to understanding the evolution of modern America. Ned Blackhawk interweaves five centuries of Native and non‑Native histories, from Spanish colonial exploration to the rise of Native American self-determination in the late twentieth century. In this transformative synthesis he shows that * European colonization in the 1600s was never a predetermined success; * Native nations helped shape England's crisis of empire; * the first shots of the American Revolution were prompted by Indian affairs in the interior; * California Indians targeted by federally funded militias were among the first casualties of the Civil War; * the Union victory forever recalibrated Native communities across the West; * twentieth-century reservation activists refashioned American law and policy. Blackhawk's retelling of U.S. history acknowledges the enduring power, agency, and survival of Indigenous peoples, yielding a truer account of the United States and revealing anew the varied meanings of America.

Author : Kirby Brown,Stephen Ross,Alana Sayers
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000638325

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The Routledge Handbook of North American Indigenous Modernisms by Kirby Brown,Stephen Ross,Alana Sayers Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of North American Indigenous Modernisms provides a powerful suite of innovative contributions by both leading thinkers and emerging scholars in the field. Incorporating an international scope of essays, this volume reaches beyond traditional national or euroamerican boundaries to locate North American Indigenous modernities and modernisms in a hemispheric context. Covering key theoretical approaches and topics, this volume includes: Diverse explorations of Indigenous cultural and intellectual production in treatments of dance, poetry, vaudeville, autobiography, radio, cinema, and more Investigation of how we think about Indigenous lives, literatures, and cultural productions in North America from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Surveys of critical geographies of Indigenous literary and cultural studies, including refocused and reframed exploration of the diverse cultures, knowledges, traditions, geographies, experiences, and formal innovations that inform Indigenous literary, intellectual, and cultural productions The Routledge Handbook of North American Indigenous Modernisms presents fresh insight to modernist studies, acknowledging and reconciling the occluded histories of Indigenous erasure, and inviting both students and scholars to expand their understanding of the field.

Author : Melanie V. Dawson,Meredith L. Goldsmith
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813052403

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American Literary History and the Turn toward Modernity by Melanie V. Dawson,Meredith L. Goldsmith Pdf

The years between 1880 and 1930 are usually seen as a time in which American writers departed from values and traditions of the Victorian era in wholly new works of modernist literature, with the turn of the century typically used as a dividing line between the old and the new. Challenging this periodization, contributors argue that this entire time span should instead be studied as a coherent and complex literary field. The essays in this volume show that these were years of experimentation, negotiation of boundaries, and hybridity—resulting in a true literature of transition. Contributors offer new readings of authors including Jack London, Edith Wharton, and Theodore Dreiser in light of their ties to both the nineteenth-century past and the emerging modernity of the twentieth century. Emphasizing the diversity of the literature of this time, contributors also examine poetry written by and for Native American students in a Westernized boarding school, the changing attitudes of authors toward marriage, turn-of-the-century feminism, dime novels, anthologies edited by late-nineteenth-century female literary historians, and fiction of the Harlem Renaissance. Calling for readers to look both forward and backward at the cultural contexts of these works and to be mindful of the elastic categories of this era, these essays demonstrate the plurality and the tensions characteristic of American literature during the century’s long turn. Contributors: Dale M. Bauer | Donna M. Campbell | Melanie Dawson | Myrto Drizou | Meredith Goldsmith | Karin Hooks | John G. Nichols | Kristen Renzi | Cristina Stanciu

Author : Kristina Ackley,Cristina Stanciu
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-31
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780815653141

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Laura Cornelius Kellogg by Kristina Ackley,Cristina Stanciu Pdf

Laura Cornelius Kellogg was an eloquent and fierce voice in early twentieth century Native American affairs. An organizer, author, playwright, performer, and linguist, Kellogg worked tirelessly for Wisconsin Oneida cultural self-determination when efforts to Americanize Native people reached their peak. She is best known for her extraordinary book Our Democracy and the American Indian (1920) and as a founding member of the Society of American Indians. In an era of government policies aimed at assimilating Indian peoples and erasing tribal identities, Kellogg supported a transition from federal paternalism to self-government. She strongly advocated for the restoration of tribal lands, which she considered vital for keeping Native nations together and for obtaining economic security and political autonomy. Although Kellogg was a controversial figure, alternately criticized and championed by her contemporaries, her work has endured in Oneida community memory and among scholars in Native American studies, though it has not been available to a broader audience. Ackley and Stanciu resurrect her legacy in this comprehensive volume, which includes Kellogg’s writings, speeches, photographs, congressional testimonies, and coverage in national and international newspapers of the time. In an illuminating and richly detailed introduction, the editors show how Kellogg’s prescient thinking makes her one of the most compelling Native intellectuals of her time.

Author : Cori Hayden
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780691216362

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When Nature Goes Public by Cori Hayden Pdf

Bioprospecting--the exchange of plants for corporate promises of royalties or community development assistance--has been lauded as a way to develop new medicines while offering southern nations and indigenous communities an incentive to preserve their rich biodiversity. But can pharmaceutical profits really advance conservation and indigenous rights? How much should companies pay and to whom? Who stands to gain and lose? The first anthropological study of the practices mobilized in the name and in the shadow of bioprospecting, this book takes us into the unexpected sites where Mexican scientists and American companies venture looking for medicinal plants and local knowledge. Cori Hayden tracks bioprospecting's contentious new promise--and the contradictory activities generated in its name. Focusing on a contract involving Mexico's National Autonomous University, Hayden examines the practices through which researchers, plant vendors, rural collectors, indigenous cooperatives, and other actors put prospecting to work. By paying unique attention to scientific research, she provides a key to understanding which people and plants are included in the promise of "selling biodiversity to save it"--and which are not. And she considers the consequences of linking scientific research and rural "enfranchisement" to the logics of intellectual property. Roving across UN protocols, botanical collecting histories, Mexican nationalist agendas, neoliberal property regimes, and North-South relations, When Nature Goes Public charts the myriad, emergent publics that drive and contest the global market in biodiversity and its futures.

Author : Desmond King
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004-12-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190287146

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The Liberty of Strangers by Desmond King Pdf

Harry S. Truman once said, "Ours is a nation of many different groups, of different races, of different national origins." And yet, the debate over what it means--and what it takes--to be an American remains contentious. Nationalist solidarity, many claim, requires a willful blending into the assimilationist alloy of these United States. Others argue that the interests of both nation and individual are best served by allowing multiple traditions to flourish--a salad bowl of identities and allegiances, rather than a melting pot. Tracing how Americans have confronted and relinquished, but mostly clung to group identities over the past century, Desmond King here debunks one of the guiding assumptions of American nationhood, namely that group distinction and identification would gradually dissolve over time, creating a "postethnic" nation. Over the course of the twentieth century, King shows, the divisions in American society arising from group loyalties have consistently proven themselves too strong to dissolve. For better or for worse, the often-disparaged politics of multiculturalism are here to stay, with profound implications for America's democracy. Americans have now entered a post-multiculturalist settlement in which the renewal of democracy continues to depend on groups battling it out in political trenches, yet the process is ruled by a newly invigorated and strengthened state. But Americans' resolute embrace of their distinctive identities has ramifications not just internally and domestically but on the world stage as well. The image of one-people American nationhood so commonly projected abroad camouflages the country's sprawling, often messy diversity: a lesson that nation-builders worldwide cannot afford to ignore as they attempt to accommodate ever-evolving group needs and the demands of individuals to be treated equally. Spanning the entire twentieth century and encompassing immigration policies, the nationalistic fallout from both world wars, the civil rights movement, and nation-building efforts in the postcolonial era, The Liberty of Strangers advances a major new interpretation of American nationalism and the future prospects for diverse democracies.

Author : Melvyn Freilicher,Obscure Publications
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:53234316

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The Unmaking of Americans by Melvyn Freilicher,Obscure Publications Pdf

Author : Claudia Milian
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780820368351

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Latining America by Claudia Milian Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1909
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CORNELL:31924106417649

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The American Catholic Quarterly Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert Marion La Follette
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:164614329

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The Making of America by Robert Marion La Follette Pdf

Author : Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore,Thomas J. Sugrue
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : United States
ISBN : 0393239527

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These United States by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore,Thomas J. Sugrue Pdf

A powerful history of the making and unmaking of American democracy and global power, told in sweeping scope and intimate detail.

Author : W. Cleon Skousen
Publisher : Verity Publishing
Page : 1647 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780934364669

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The Making of America by W. Cleon Skousen Pdf

The United States of America has been blessed with the world’s greatest political success formula. In a little over a century, this formula allowed a small segment of the human family—less than 6 percent—to become the richest nation on earth. It allowed them to create more than half of the world’s total output in production and enjoy the highest standard of living in the history of the world. In this book, we learn how the Founding Fathers discovered this success formula. Much of this discovery is told in the words of the Founders themselves, so that the reader can feel the power of their minds sweeping away thousands of years of bad government and illogical laws to formulate a whole new society based on human freedom. By returning to the roots of the Founders’ thinking, and contemplating the logic that they used in establishing the Constitution, we can better understand the challenges and solutions that confront us in today’s political world. This eBook includes the original index, illustrations, footnotes, table of contents and page numbering from the printed format.

Author : Gertrude Stein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 972 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1564780880

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The Making of Americans by Gertrude Stein Pdf

"Essential for all literature collections . . . Several of Stein's titles returned to print in 1995, but none more important than The Making of Americans." Library Journal

Author : William Allison Shimer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCAL:B4502922

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The American Scholar by William Allison Shimer Pdf