American Dreaming
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American Dreaming
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Author : Sarah J. Mahler
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2021-02-09
American Dreaming written by Sarah J. Mahler and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-09 with Social Science categories.
American Dreaming chronicles in rich detail the struggles of immigrants who have fled troubled homelands in search of a better life in the United States, only to be marginalized by the society that they hoped would embrace them. Sarah Mahler draws from her experiences living among undocumented Salvadoran and South American immigrants in a Long Island suburb of Manhattan. In moving interviews they describe their disillusionment with life in the United States but blame themselves individually or as a whole for their lack of economic success and not the greater society. As she explores the reasons behind this outlook, the author argues that marginalization fosters antagonism within ethnic groups while undermining the ethnic solidarity emphasized by many scholars of immigration. Mahler's investigation leads to conditions that often bar immigrants from success and that they cannot control, such as residential segregation, job exploitation, language and legal barriers, prejudice and outright hostility from their suburban neighbors. Some immigrants earn surplus income by using private cars as taxis, subletting space in apartments to lower rent burdens, and filling out legal forms and applications--in essence generating institutions largely parallel to those of the mainstream society whereby only a small group of entrepreneurs can profit. By exacting a price for what used to be acts of reciprocal good will in the homeland, these entrepreneurs leave people who had expected to be exploited by "Americans" feeling victimized by their own.
American Dreaming And Other Stories
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Author : Doris Iarovici
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
American Dreaming And Other Stories written by Doris Iarovici and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Fiction categories.
American Dreaming A Novel
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Author : Larry Lee Portis
language : en
Publisher: Virtualbookworm.com Publishing
Release Date : 2011-03-14
American Dreaming A Novel written by Larry Lee Portis and has been published by Virtualbookworm.com Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-14 with Fiction categories.
There is the American Dream, and there are Americans Dreaming. Each generation of them does it differently. And Individuals must come to terms with whomever they are and where they want to go with themselves, and with others. Growing up is hard for most people, especially if you have dreams that go beyond a comfortable, conformist life. "American Dreaming" is the story of how a boy became a man, and how his limited horizons gradually broaden through toil and trouble. The change is dramatic from hotrodding and menial jobs to the life of the mind and revolution. Spanning three continents, his spiritual travels bring him to self-knowledge-and to the meaning of love.
American Dreams
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Author : Ricardo Miguez
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2009-03-26
American Dreams written by Ricardo Miguez and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-26 with Social Science categories.
The scholars included in this collection sought to indicate more contemporary working definitions for the expression "American Dream", or rather Dreams. The multidisciplinary selections come from many countries and represent scholars from different backgrounds. They reflect the current developments and approaches in the field of US Studies and we hope to help broaden the scope of programs in higher education institutions. The chapters are thematically organized in two sections: “Initial Dialogues” and “Comparative Dialogues.” The first one comprises essays that set the foundations for our discussions and intends to familiarize newcomers with the theme. The second section extends the possibilities of working comparatively with the American Dreams and a number of other interdisciplinary fields of interest for US Studies programs.
American Dreaming
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Author : Dianne Liuzzi Hagan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-01-17
American Dreaming written by Dianne Liuzzi Hagan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-17 with categories.
In a country that can't seem to close the divide between Black and white Americans, Dianne and Ronald's enduring love shows how. In the 1940s, Liuzzi Hagan's father, Frank, an Italian-American, met Ruth, an Australian of Irish descent, in Ryde, Australia, where he was stationed during World War II. They married and settled in Albany, New York, where Frank's family refused to accept a foreigner into their fold. Much like our country today, the resulting division, vitriol, and isolation were overwhelming for the couple, and their relationship disintegrated into arguments and alcoholism. Thirty years later, in 1976, their daughter, Dianne, met Ronald, who is Black, during their freshman year of college at Syracuse University. Against external judgments, threats of violence, and her family's strong disapproval, they fell deeply in love. Unlike her parents, Dianne and Ronald found solace, equality, acceptance, and a peaceful reconciliation in their relationship-a lesson for America on healing the racial divide. Liuzzi Hagan artfully weaves the stories of two generations, who struggle against convention, with dreams, commentary about the state of systemic racism and race relations in America, and an intimate portrayal of fractured family relations.
American Dreams
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Author : John Jakes
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-11-01
American Dreams written by John Jakes and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-01 with Fiction categories.
John Jakes continues the fascinating story of the Crown family dynasty in Chicago. Moving from 1906 to 1917, AMERICAN DREAMS brings to life a brash young nation taking its place on an international stage as the children of the German immigrant Crown family prepare themselves for the excitement of a new century. As Fritzi Crown becomes a comedy film star, her younger brother Carl seeks greater thrills in flying planes and their cousin Paul finds his destiny filming the destruction wrought by World War I to show Americans back home. From the early carefree days of a new century to the stark realities of the first world war, AMERICAN DREAMS goes through a decade of change with the men and women who coloured a nation's future. As he has in his previous bestsellers, John Jakes combines deep historical research with a powerful story peopled by characters both vivid and memorable. AMERICAN DREAMS once again brings Jakes' legions of readers the drama and passion that are his hallmarks.
Asian American Dreams
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Author : Helen Zia
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2000-03-09
Asian American Dreams written by Helen Zia and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-03-09 with Social Science categories.
The fascinating story of the rise of Asian Americans as a politically and socially influential racial group This groundbreaking book is about the transformation of Asian Americans from a few small, disconnected, and largely invisible ethnic groups into a self-identified racial group that is influencing every aspect of American society. It explores the junctures that shocked Asian Americans into motion and shaped a new consciousness, including the murder of Vincent Chin, a Chinese American, by two white autoworkers who believed he was Japanese; the apartheid-like working conditions of Filipinos in the Alaska canneries; the boycott of Korean American greengrocers in Brooklyn; the Los Angeles riots; and the casting of non-Asians in the Broadway musical Miss Saigon. The book also examines the rampant stereotypes of Asian Americans. Helen Zia, the daughter of Chinese immigrants, was born in the 1950s when there were only 150,000 Chinese Americans in the entire country, and she writes as a personal witness to the dramatic changes involving Asian Americans. Written for both Asian Americans -- the fastest-growing population in the United States -- and non-Asians, Asian American Dreams argues that America can no longer afford to ignore these emergent, vital, and singular American people.
Dreaming Culture
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Author : J. Mageo
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2011-11-07
Dreaming Culture written by J. Mageo and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-07 with Social Science categories.
Dreams seem the most private territory of experience. Yet Dreaming Culture argues they are a space in which we practice, consider, question, and adapt cultural models of the self, gender, sexuality, relationships, and agency. Through an innovative "dream ethnography" from college students in the northwestern U.S., this book contributes to recent research on dreaming and the brain in psychology and continuing research on dreaming and the self in clinical psychology and psychological anthropology. Dreaming Culture uses critical theory to understand power relations embedded in cultural models, a perspective often lacking in cognitive anthropology and in psychological studies of self and mind.
American Dreaming
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
American Dreaming written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Photography categories.
American Dreaming presents a vision of America from 1990 to 1995. Spagnoli took these photographs with a small Leica camera in the classic manner of street photography and then selected small details from the negatives. The resulting images of gestures, signs, faces and objects are freed from their original contexts and reconfigured. Spagnoli's subject is the build-up to the First Gulf War, but we see these social and political events at best obliquely as Spagnoli's version of history is primarily subjective and fragmentary. American Dreaming is the second of Spagnoli's books in a trilogy about the personal experience of history, the first being Daguerreotypes (2006).
American Dreaming 2
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Author : King Benjamin
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2022-11-09
American Dreaming 2 written by King Benjamin and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-09 with categories.
American Dreaming is a standalone series with completely unrelated characters in each book centered around the same premise of chasing dreams. * * Gabriela Harley has a dream of becoming the biggest fashion runway model the industry has ever seen. She wants desperately to get out of the hood and experience the worldly things she dreamed about as a kid. But on the northside of Philly, most people are too busy trying to get out of the way of constant gunfire to think about getting out of the hood. Her boyfriend Nightmare is knee-deep in the streets and although she loves him and benefits greatly from the menacing presence he's established in the hood, Nightmare doesn't support her dreams of a different life. When Gabriela's best male friend Nathario comes back in town, she finally feels like she has the support she needs to go after everything she wants. But the closer she gets to the goal; the more obstacles seem to form a line waiting to cause chaos. There's tension between the Nightmare and Nathario, there are deadly secrets that lie beneath the surface, and the modeling industry is nothing like she dreamed it would be. When Gabriela finds out she may have to risk her life and sanity to make it big will she still want it? Can she truly have it all or will her laser focus cause her to lose everything?