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''For students of race and culture, this book contains vital information and analysis on the originsof a multicultural society. . . . Lindsey shows the complicated way that one black institution,while still under white control, devised to manage the education and socialization of African andNative American students, not for their needs but in the ......
Theoretical Issues in Twentieth-Century Black Literature
'It is a peculiar sensation, this double consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's selfthrough the eyes of others.' For Adell, W. E. B. Du Bois's famous articulation of the 'twoness' ofblack Americans is the key to understanding the 'double bind' which afflicts contemporaryAfrican-American literary theory. . . . [The book] demands and ......
Conserving Culture examines heritage protection in the United States and how it has been implemented in specific cases. Contributors challenge the division of heritage into nature, the built environment, and culture. They describe cultural conservation as an integrated process for resource planning and recommend supplanting the current ......
''A fast-moving, insightful, politically astute and upfront feminist examination of the power struggles involved in building and controlling space.''-- Women's Review of Books''A readable account of the force of male dominance in the built environment. . . . Those looking to this book for a clearer vision of the changes that need to be made in the ......
Why have some working women succeeded at organizing in spite of obstacles to labor activity? Under what circumstances were they able to form alliances with male workers? Carole Turbin explores these and other questions by examining the case of Troy, New York, which in the 1860s produced nearly all the nation's detachable shirt collars and cuffs. ......
Long a symbol of American culture, the banjo actually originated in Africa and was later adopted by European-Americans. In this book Karen Linn shows how the banjo - despite design innovations and several modernizing agendas - has failed to escape its image as a ''half-barbaric'' instrument symbolic of antimodernism and sentimentalism. Caught in ......
What is science? Is social science a science? Why are more and more so-called scientific discoveries being exposed as outright frauds? Henry Bauer tackles these and many more intriguing questions that are emerging from within the academic and scientific communities and attracting attention from the popular media and the general public. Whether one ......
Mexican Citrus Worker Villages in a Southern California County, 1900-1950
The emergence, maturity, and decline of the southern California citrus industry is seen here through the network of citrus worker villages that dotted part of the state's landscape from 1910 to 1960. Labor and Community shows how Mexican immigrants shaped a partially independent existence within a fiercely hierarchical framework of economic and ......
Rainbow at Midnight details the origins and evolution of working-class strategies for independence during and after World War II. Arguing that the 1940s may well have been the most revolutionary decade in U.S. history, George Lipsitz combines popular culture, politics, economics, and history to show how war mobilization transformed the working ......
