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Looking for America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 408

Looking for America

Looking for America: The Visual Production of Nation andPeople is a groundbreaking collection that explores the“visual” in defining the kaleidoscope of Americanexperience and American identity in the 20th century. Covers enduringly important topics in American history:nationhood, class, politics of identity, and the visual mapping of“others” Includes editorial introductions, suggested readings, a primeron how to "read" an image, and a guide to visual archives andcollections Well-illustrated book for those in American Studies and relatedfields eager to incorporate the visual into theirteaching—and telling—of the American story.

Unbuttoning America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 240

Unbuttoning America

In this lively account of the writing, publication, and legacy of the 1956 bestselling novel, "Peyton Place," Ardis Cameron tells how the story of a patricide in a small New England village became a cultural phenomenon.

Peyton Place
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 411

Peyton Place

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-03-15
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  • Publisher: UPNE

A new paperback edition of the infamous novel that shocked the nation

Radicals of the Worst Sort
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 260

Radicals of the Worst Sort

Ardis Cameron focuses on the textile workers' strikes of 1882 and 1912 in this examination of class and gender formation as drawn from the experience and language of the working-class neighborhoods of Lawrence. She shows clearly that the working women who unionized and fought for equality were considered the "worst sort" because they challenged both economic and sexual hierarchies, providing alternative models for turn-of-the-century women.

History and Identity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 507

History and Identity

This introduction to contemporary historical theory and practice shows how issues of identity have shaped how we write history. Stefan Berger charts how a new self-reflexivity about what is involved in the process of writing history entered the historical profession and the part that historians have played in debates about the past and its meaningfulness for the present. He introduces key trends in the theory of history such as postmodernism, poststructuralism, constructivism, narrativism and the linguistic turn and reveals, in turn, the ways in which they have transformed how historians have written history over the last four decades. The book ranges widely from more traditional forms of history writing, such as political, social, economic, labour and cultural history, to the emergence of more recent fields, including gender history, historical anthropology, the history of memory, visual history, the history of material culture, and comparative, transnational and global history.

Gender, Class, Race, and Reform in the Progressive Era
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 295

Gender, Class, Race, and Reform in the Progressive Era

In this collection of informative essays, Noralee Frankel and Nancy S. Dye bring together work by such notable scholars as Ellen Carol DuBois, Alice Kessler-Harris, Barbara Sicherman, and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn to illuminate the lives and labor of American women from the late nineteenth century to the early 1920s. Revealing the intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, and social class, the authors explore women's accomplishments in changing welfare and labor legislation; early twentieth century feminism and women's suffrage; women in industry and the work force; the relationship between family and community in early twentieth-century America; and the ways in which African American, immigrant, and working-class women contributed to progressive reform. This challenging collection not only displays the dramatic transformations women of all classes experienced, but also helps construct a new scaffolding for progressivism in general.

Are Italians White?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 344

Are Italians White?

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-11-12
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This dazzling collection of original essays from some of the country's leading thinkers asks the rather intriguing question - Are Italians White? Each piece carefully explores how, when and why whiteness became important to Italian Americans, and the significance of gender, class and nation to racial identity.

The Hidden Foundation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 314

The Hidden Foundation

  • Categories: Art

Ranging from the earliest days of the cinema to the present, The Hidden Foundation reestablishes class as a fundamental aspect of film history. Featuring prominent film scholars and historians, this volume is unique in its international scope, diversity of perspectives and methodologies, and the sweep of its analysis. The Hidden Foundation begins with a review of the history of class in social and political thought, going on to chronicle its disappearance from film and cultural studies. Subsequent essays consider topics ranging from American and Soviet silent film through Chinese and American film in the fifties, to the restructuring of the working class that was a feature of films of the 1980s in both the United States and Great Britain.

Dirty Whites and Dark Secrets
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 238

Dirty Whites and Dark Secrets

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011
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  • Publisher: UPNE

The first full-length scholarly study of Peyton Place, Grace Metalious's classic story of New England indiscretion

Freedom
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 176

Freedom

"A profound rumination on the concept of freedom from the New York Times bestselling author of Tribe"--