The Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race, and American Identity, Paperback - Eric L. Goldstein

Reducere. What has it meant to be Jewish in a nation preoccupied with the categories of black and white? The Price of Whiteness documents the uneasy place Je...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the American imagination, no figure is more central to national identity and the nation's origin story than the cowboy. Yet the Ameri...

After World War II, the United States used international sport to promote democratic values and its image of an ideal citizen. But African American...

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Reducere. Otah Machi, caught between ancient wonders and a modern empire, has survived more than most men endure in two lifetimes. In Price of War, an omnibu...

"Check your privilege" is not a request for a simple favor. It asks white people to consider the painful dimensions of what they have been socializ...

Reducere. When LD Starr, a twelve-year-old boy with extra-terrestrial roots, encounters an utterly starless sky on a crystal-clear, moonlit, summernight, he ...

Reducere. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

Reducere. For decades, scholars have conceived of the coastal city of New Orleans as a remarkable outlier, an exception to nearly every "rule" of accepted U....

This book explores the convergence of gender, race, and social identities in the often-exclusionary arena of American politics. Contributors examin...

Reducere. This book reviews types of Iberian Conversos (i.e. primarily forced but also voluntary Jewish converts to Christianity) from the late 14th to the 1...

Reducere. Madam C. J. Walker-reputed to be America's first self-made woman millionaire-has long been celebrated for her rags-to-riches story. Born to former ...

In Speaking of Race, Jennifer B. Delfino draws on three years of teaching experience and ethnographic research to examine language and racial ident...

Reducere. The acclaimed work that debunks our myths and false assumptions about race in AmericaMaurice Berger grew up hypersensitized to race in the charged ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Shelly TochlukWitnessing Whiteness invites readers to consider what it means to be white, describes and critiques strategie...

This volume explores the ways in which the cultural, scientific and political myth of whiteness influenced the identities and integration of Nordic...

Reducere. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

Reducere. That the Blood Stay Pure traces the history and legacy of the commonwealth of Virginia's effort to maintain racial purity and its impact on the rel...

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Reducere. Speaking of Race explores the linguistic practices of African American children in an after school program in Washington, DC. Drawing on ethnograph...

In the American West, water adjudication lawsuits are adversarial, expensive, and lengthy. Unsettled Waters is the first detailed study of water ad...

Contributor(s): Author: Mary L. DudziakIn 1958, an African-American handyman named Jimmy Wilson was sentenced to die in Alabama for stealing two do...

Reducere. With Price of a Child--the story of Ginnie Pryor (cook, mistress and servant to a Virginia planter) and her struggle with slavery in 1855--Cary con...

Reducere. When the U.S. government forced 70, 000 American citizens of Japanese ancestry into internment camps in 1942, it created administrative tribunals t...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Melissa L. CooperDuring the 1920s and 1930s, anthropologists and folklorists became obsessed with uncovering connections be...

Reducere. The last several decades have seen the emergence of a remarkable phenomenon: a Jewish rebirth that is occurring throughout Africa. A variety of dif...

Reducere. This book explores the formation of the African-American identity through the theory of cultural trauma. The trauma in question is slavery, not as ...

Reducere. In this groundbreaking study, Julian Carter demonstrates that between 1880 and 1940, cultural discourses of whiteness and heterosexuality fused to ...

Reducere. In The Souls of Black Folks, W.E.B. DuBois wrote that the question whites wanted to ask him was: How does it feel to be a problem? In The Heart of ...

Boston Book ReviewAmerica's racial odyssey is the subject of this remarkable work of historical imagination. Matthew Frye Jacobson argues that race...

Reducere. DescriptionMormonism is one of the few homegrown religions in the United States, one that emerged out of the religious fervor of the early nineteen...

Reducere. With a Foreword by Tracey Jones. The late Charlie Tremendous Jones was a publisher, motivator, and humorist who gained a reputation as one of the m...

Reducere. There is nothing in this world sweeter or more refreshing than forgiveness. If your goal seems just out of reach, think of this selfless man. When ...

Reducere. 392When railroads met at Promontory Point, Utah, in 1869, the world changed. For the first time, trains spanned the continent from the Atlantic to ...

Reducere. A hand scripted letter arrives in a rural mailbox on a vineyard in Northern California saying, "I think you may be my grandmother." This shocking s...

Reducere. Nick Barnett, 41, small town divorce lawyer, divorced himself and trying to cope with being an every other weekend dad to his teenage daughter has ...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Ruth FrankenbergNumber of pages: 302Publication date: 1993Dimensions: 151 x 228 x 21Cover type: ...

Reducere. Highlighting certain socioeconomic and cultural trends, this exploration discloses the new dynamics shaping contemporary lives of African Americans...

Reducere. Nothing has so radically transformed the world as the distinction between true and false religion. In this nuanced consideration of his own controv...

During the Napoleonic Wars, England sent many soldiers and spies to France. Many soldiers and sailors had been captured and imprisoned for years, i...

After months of hiding in the attic of Otto and Ingrid Mannerheim's Berlin flat, the Caslav family knew the time had come for them to risk the dang...

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