Looking To America
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Looking For America
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Author : Ardis Cameron
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2008-04-15
Looking For America written by Ardis Cameron and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-15 with Social Science categories.
Looking for America: The Visual Production of Nation andPeople is a groundbreaking collection that explores the“visual” in defining the kaleidoscope of Americanexperience and American identity in the 20th century. Covers enduringly important topics in American history:nationhood, class, politics of identity, and the visual mapping of“others” Includes editorial introductions, suggested readings, a primeron how to "read" an image, and a guide to visual archives andcollections Well-illustrated book for those in American Studies and relatedfields eager to incorporate the visual into theirteaching—and telling—of the American story.
Looking For America On The New Jersey Turnpike Second Edition
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Author : Angus Kress Gillespie
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2024-09-13
Looking For America On The New Jersey Turnpike Second Edition written by Angus Kress Gillespie and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-09-13 with History categories.
A twelve-lane behemoth cutting through the least scenic parts of the Garden State, the New Jersey Turnpike may lack the romantic allure of highways like Route 66, but it might just be a more accurate symbol of American life, representing the nation at both its best and its worst. When Angus Gillespie and Michael Rockland wrote Looking for America on the New Jersey Turnpike in 1989, they simply wanted to express their fascination with a road that many commuters regarded with annoyance or indifference. Little did they expect that it would be hailed as a classic, listed by the state library alongside works by Whitman and Fitzgerald as one of the ten best books ever written about New Jersey or by a New Jerseyan. Now Looking for America on the New Jersey Turnpike is back in a special updated and expanded edition, examining how this great American motorway has changed over the past thirty-five years. You’ll learn how the turnpike has become an icon inspiring singers and poets. And you’ll meet the many people it has affected, including the homeowners displaced by its construction, the highway patrol and toll-takers who work on it, and the drivers who speed down its lanes every day.
Looking For America S Dog
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Author : Steven Weissman
language : en
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Release Date : 2016-11-09
Looking For America S Dog written by Steven Weissman and has been published by Fantagraphics Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-09 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
In this surreal graphic novel, Vice President Joe Biden left the gate open at the White House and America’s Dog (Bo) has gone missing. Mom is mad and Dad is busy, so now it’s up to the kids to find him. Teenagers Sasha and Malia navigate an increasingly strange and hostile world in search of their lost dog. But is a lost dog ever really just a lost dog? Like, what if it’s not America’s Dog that’s lost, but America itself?
Beyond The Talking Points Taking A Deeper Look At America S Issues
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Author : Mark Goshdigian
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2014-06-20
Beyond The Talking Points Taking A Deeper Look At America S Issues written by Mark Goshdigian and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-20 with Business & Economics categories.
Even before the election of Barack Obama, Americans were beginning to notice that the country had changed direction. Five years into his presidency, neither he nor the legislators in Congress are willing to do the work necessary to solve our problems. Critical thinking may not be sexy, but it's what will enable us to overcome our most formidable challenges. Author Mark Goshdigian, an everyday American concerned about the nation's future, bucks the trend in a series of essays that pose tough questions: Can the federal government and Federal Reserve continue to turbo-charge the economy by spending so much money? How has globalization affected the United States? What can we do to fight an entitlement culture? Can we still learn from our failures and dare to be great? Whether you're a government worker, politician, voter, or student, you owe it to yourself to examine the economy, the nation's social issues, and the political process so we can move beyond the talking points.
Looking For America
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Author : Avirook Sen
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2015-08-01
Looking For America written by Avirook Sen and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-01 with Social Science categories.
Having patted me down for weapons, now that I was a suspect, Officer Scott asked me where I was headed next. I told him that I was bound for Orlando, then on to Alexandria, Virginia, on to Toledo, Ohio, to Chicago, Illinois, to Madison, Wisconsin, to parts of North Dakota...'Man,' he said, 'I wish I could travel like that. But I'm stuck here.' Armed only with an outsider's insight, a sense of humour and sturdy shoes, journalist and writer Avirook Sen sets out on a journey across America. It is the year of the Obama election, the recession has arrived, and change is on its way-for America and the world. As he travels to places, both prominent and obscure, Sen finds stories at every stop: of the average Joe who feels the 'hand of history' on his shoulder even as he goes about shaping it with his vote, of radioactive frogs in Knoxville, Tennessee, and ghosts in Gary, Indiana, Michael Jackson's hometown. Drug dealers talk about green cards, pastors discuss presidents, convicts state their convictions, as Sen engages America in conversation. The result is an engrossing narrative full of colour and pungent social commentary.
Looking For America Since 1865
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Author : Stanley I. Kutler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
Looking For America Since 1865 written by Stanley I. Kutler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with United States categories.
Looking For Miss America
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Author : Margot Mifflin
language : en
Publisher: Catapult
Release Date : 2021-08-03
Looking For Miss America written by Margot Mifflin and has been published by Catapult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-03 with History categories.
Winner of the Popular Culture Association’s Emily Toth Best Book in Women’s Studies Award From an author praised for writing “delicious social history” (Dwight Garner, The New York Times) comes a lively account of memorable Miss America contestants, protests, and scandals—and how the pageant, now in its one hundredth year, serves as an unintended indicator of feminist progress Looking for Miss America is a fast–paced narrative history of a curious and contradictory institution. From its start in 1921 as an Atlantic City tourist draw to its current incarnation as a scholarship competition, the pageant has indexed women’s status during periods of social change—the post–suffrage 1920s, the Eisenhower 1950s, the #MeToo era. This ever–changing institution has been shaped by war, evangelism, the rise of television and reality TV, and, significantly, by contestants who confounded expectations. Spotlighting individuals, from Yolande Betbeze, whose refusal to pose in swimsuits led an angry sponsor to launch the rival Miss USA contest, to the first black winner, Vanessa Williams, who received death threats and was protected by sharpshooters in her hometown parade, Margot Mifflin shows how women made hard bargains even as they used the pageant for economic advancement. The pageant’s history includes, crucially, those it excluded; the notorious Rule Seven, which required contestants to be “of the white race,” was retired in the 1950s, but no women of color were crowned until the 1980s. In rigorously researched, vibrant chapters that unpack each decade of the pageant, Looking for Miss America examines the heady blend of capitalism, patriotism, class anxiety, and cultural mythology that has fueled this American ritual.
Looking At America
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Author : Bernard Drachman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1934
Looking At America written by Bernard Drachman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1934 with United States categories.
Out Of The Dust
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Author : Janice Mirikitani
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2014-07-31
Out Of The Dust written by Janice Mirikitani and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-31 with Poetry categories.
Out of the Dust is a collection of new poems by activist, leader, poet, and editor Janice Mirikitani. After being named San Francisco’s second Poet Laureate in 2000, this fifth book of poems from Mirikitani was written in response to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Drawing from her own background as a Sansei (third generation) Japanese American, Mirikitani reflects on the many ways we connect through the dust and our ability to rise and renew ourselves from this place. From the dust of the World Trade Center in New York to the retaliatory ashes of the dead in America’s war in Afghanistan, the poems in this volume seek to explicate the connections of our humanity to the reactionary profiling of people of Middle Eastern descent and different ethnicities, comparing these choices to the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. Mirikitani’s poems cover topics about rape, incest, the continued struggle for justice and economic equality, and the poet’s experiences throughout her 50-year career at Glide Foundation and Church in San Francisco, where she has helped to create groundbreaking programs for the poor, women and children, and those who are healing from sexual assault, violence and abuse. Though constructed from a depth of experiences with struggle, these poems also erupt in celebration of marriage, daughters, and the discovery of self through diversity.
Everyday Information
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Author : William Aspray
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2011
Everyday Information written by William Aspray and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Computers categories.
This book examines the evolution of information seeking in nine areas of everyday American life. --from publisher description.