1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910785034903321

Autore

Goggans Jan

Titolo

California on the breadlines [[electronic resource] ] : Dorothea Lange, Paul Taylor, and the making of a New Deal narrative / / Jan Goggans

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, CA, : University of California Press, 2010

ISBN

1-282-69771-4

9786612697715

0-520-94589-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (363 p.)

Disciplina

770.92/2

Soggetti

Women photographers - United States

Social scientists - United States

Rural poor - United States - History

Depressions - 1929 - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Prologue. Uncommon Ground -- Chapter 1. From Belleau Wood to Berkeley -- Chapter 2. The Magnet of the West -- Chapter3. Labor on the Land -- Chapter 4. Far West Factories -- Chapter 5. A New Social Order -- Chapter 6. Women on the Breadlines -- Chapter 7. An American Exodus -- Conclusion. Can the Subaltern Speak? -- NOTES -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

California on the Breadlines is the compelling account of how Dorothea Lange, the Great Depression's most famous photographer, and Paul Taylor, her labor economist husband, forged a relationship that was private-they both divorced spouses to be together-collaborative, and richly productive. Lange and Taylor poured their considerable energies into the decade-long project of documenting the plight of California's dispossessed, which in 1939 culminated in the publication of their landmark book, American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion. Jan Goggans blends biography, literature, and history to retrace the paths that brought Lange and Taylor together. She shows how American Exodus set forth a new way of understanding those in crisis during the



economic disaster in California and ultimately informed the way we think about the Great Depression itself.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910154322803321

Autore

Gash Alison L

Titolo

Below the radar : how silence can save civil rights

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015

ISBN

0-19-026630-9

0-19-023555-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)

Collana

Studies in postwar American political development Below the radar

Disciplina

323.0973

Soggetti

Parent and child - Legal status, laws, etc - United States

Gay parents - Housing - United States

Custody of children - United States

Group homes for people with mental disabilities - United States

People with mental disabilities - United States

Civil rights - United States

Law - U.S

Law, Politics & Government

Law - U.S. - General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Scholars and pundits have come to expect backlash to civil rights battles, especially when courts are involved. Drawing from interviews with advocates and opponents, this book introduces readers to two sets of civil rights battles in which advocates devised strategies to remain 'under the radar' and away from the prying eyes of a volatile public. In so doing they diminished both the incidence and influence of backlash.