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John and Amy Gatewood and Their Descendants, 1666-1986
John Gatewood (ca. 1663) of Rappahannock County, Virginia, married Amy about 1678 and they had nine children. The book is divided into nine sections which are composed of genealogical tables representing each of the nine children, according to birth order.
The Color of Success
The Color of Success tells of the astonishing transformation of Asians in the United States from the "yellow peril" to "model minorities"--peoples distinct from the white majority but lauded as well-assimilated, upwardly mobile, and exemplars of traditional family values--in the middle decades of the twentieth century. As Ellen Wu shows, liberals argued for the acceptance of these immigrant communities into the national fold, charging that the failure of America to live in accordance with its democratic ideals endangered the country's aspirations to world leadership. Weaving together myriad perspectives, Wu provides an unprecedented view of racial reform and the contradictions of national be...
A Checkered Life
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Common Ground
In this collection of seventeen essays, anthropologists, art historians, museum curators, writers, designers, and historians provide case studies exploring collaboration with community-oriented partners in order to document, interpret, and present their histories and experiences and provide a new understanding of what museums can and should be in the United States.
The Semblance of Identity
The history of Asian American literature reveals the ongoing attempt to work through the fraught relationship between identity politics and literary representation. This relationship is especially evident in literary works which claim that their content represents the socio-historical world. The Semblance of Identityargues that the reframing of the field as a critical, rather than identity-based, project nonetheless continues to rely on the logics of identity. Drawing on the writings of philosopher and literary critic Georg Lukacs, Christopher Lee identifies a persistent composite figure that he calls the "idealized critical subject," which provides coherence to oppositional knowledge projec...
Between Two Empires
The incarceration of Japanese Americans has been discredited as a major blemish in American democratic tradition. Accompanying this view is the assumption that the ethnic group help unqualified allegiance to the United States. Between Two Empires probes the complexities of prewar Japanese America to show how Japanese in America held an in-between space between the United States and the empire of Japan, between American nationality and Japanese racial identity.
Ella Mayfield's Pawpaw Militia
A strong willed, independent woman, all Ella Mayfield wanted was to help her widowed mother and siblings survive during the Civil War. Invasions by Union soldiers and Kansas Jawhawkers into Vernon Co. Missouri forced Ella to join a Bushwhacker band. Brave and daring, Ella dressed like a man, was a crack shot and superb horseman. Her dangerous exploits are legendary while she served as a spy and faught to protect her home near Montevallo, Mo.
Mexican Hat
The murder of a Mexican tourist and the discovery of a disoriented man in the wild thrust Kevin Kerney--who has taken a job as a seasonal forest ranger--into an investigation that carries him back to a 60-year-old sibling rivalry. See centerpiece feature.W. Norton & Co. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
"Football! Navy! War!"
Not coincidentally, the sport of football naturally employs terms usually associated with war, such as "aerial attack," "blitz," and "trench warfare." During World War II, the United States military and colleges joined forces and fielded competitive football teams. The book highlights the Department of the Navy's role in preserving the game and football's impact on national morale and the war effort through their "lend-lease" to colleges of officer candidates, including All-America and professional players. It describes wartime college and military football throughout the globe and offers listings of college and military teams, records, scores, big games, and statistics; player and team profiles; and a glossary of period football terminology.
Displacements and Diasporas
Includes statistics.
