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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451432303321

Titolo

American identities [[electronic resource] ] : an introductory textbook / / edited by Lois P. Rudnick, Judith E. Smith, and Rachel Lee Rubin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Blackwell, 2006

ISBN

1-280-23764-3

9786610237647

1-4051-5009-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (384 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

RudnickLois Palken <1944-2021.>

SmithJudith E. <1948->

RubinRachel <1964->

Disciplina

973.92

Soggetti

Electronic books.

United States History 1945-

United States History 1945- Sources

United States Social conditions 1945-

United States Social conditions 1945- Sources

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

AMERICAN IDENTITIES; Table of Contents; Alternative Contents by Genre; Preface: How to Use This Book; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Identities and Social Locations: Who Am I? Who Are My People?; 2 What We Really Miss About the 1950s; 3 Generational Memory in an American Town; 4 Growing Up Asian in America; 5 War Babies; 6 From Citizen 13660; 7 Containment at Home: Cold War, Warm Hearth; 8 The Problem That Has No Name; 9 The Civil Rights Revolution, 1945–1960; 10 From Like One of the Family: Conversations from a Domestic's Life; 11 Songs of the Chicago Blues

12 Halfway to Dick and Jane: A Puerto Rican Pilgrimage13 From Goodbye, Columbus; 14 Letter from Birmingham City Jail; 15 Message to the Grass Roots; 16 Songs of the Civil Rights Movement; 17 Port Huron Statement; 18 The Port Huron Statement at 40; 19 From Working-Class War: American Combat Soldiers and Vietnam; 20 From Born on the Fourth of July; 21 From Bloods: An Oral History of the



Vietnam War by Black Veterans; 22 Black Power: Its Need and Substanc

Sommario/riassunto

Acting as an array of documents and essays culled from American history, literature, memoir, and culture; that explore the trends in American history from World War II; this work charts the multiplicity of American identities as refracted through the different lenses of race, class, and gender, and shaped by common historical social processes.