Culture Wars in America, Ed. by Roger Chapman And James Ciment

Автор: Kenneth Lipartito and David B. Sicilia
Название: Constructing Corporate America: History, Politics, Culture
ISBN: 0199251908 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199251902
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: Why and how has the business corporation come to exert such a powerful influence on American society? The essays here take up this question, offering a fresh perspective on the ways in which the business corporation has assumed an enduring place in the modern capitalist economy.

Автор: Stuckey Sterling
Название: Slave Culture: Nationalist Theory and the Foundations of Black America
ISBN: 0199931674 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199931675
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: An updated edition of the highly acclaimed contribution to African-American scholarship, Slave Culture considers how various African peoples interacted on the plantations of the South to achieve a common culture, tracing of the roots of black nationalist feelings in America over several centuries.

Автор: Schulman Bruce J.
Название: Making the American Century: Essays on the Political Culture of Twentieth Century America
ISBN: 0199845417 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199845415
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: In this volume, a group of distinguished historians revisit and revise many of the chestnuts of American political history. Blurring the boundaries between political, cultural, and economic history, the contributors raise penetrating questions and challenge readers` understanding of the broader narrative of twentieth-century U.S. history.

Автор: Noonan Ellen
Название: The Strange Career of Porgy and Bess: Race, Culture, and America S Most Famous Opera
ISBN: 1469617536 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469617534
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Created by George Gershwin and DuBose Heyward and sung by generations of black performers, Porgy and Bess has been both embraced and reviled since its debut in 1935. In this comprehensive account, Ellen Noonan examines the opera`s long history of invention and reinvention as a barometer of twentieth-century American expectations about race, culture, and the struggle for equality.

Автор: Branche Jerome C.
Название: Black Writing, Culture, and the State in Latin America
ISBN: 0826520634 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780826520630
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Examines the complex landscape of art and literature among Afro-Hispanic and Latin artists. Jerome Branche and his contributors describe individuals such as Juan Francisco Manzano, who wrote an antislavery novel in Cuba during the nineteenth century. The reader finds a thriving Afro-Hispanic theatrical presence throughout Latin America and even across the Atlantic.

Автор: Vila Pablo
Название: Music and Youth Culture in Latin America: Identity Construction Processes from New York to Buenos Aires
ISBN: 0199986282 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199986286
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: This book examines the ways in which music is used to advance identity claims in several Latin American countries and among Latinos in the US. Drawing on a vast array of fields including popular music studies, ethnomusicology, sociology, and history it sheds new light on the complex ways in which music provides people from different countries and social sectors with both enjoyment and tools for understanding who they are in terms of nationality, region, race,ethnicity, class, gender, and migration status.