1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910467950103321

Autore

Ibrahim Awad

Titolo

Black immigrants in North America [[electronic resource] ] : essays on race, immigration, identity, language, hip-hop, pedagogy, and the politics of becoming black / / by Awad Ibrahim

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gorham, Maine : , : Myers Education Press, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

1-9755-0198-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (250 pages)

Disciplina

304.87

Soggetti

Immigrants - North America - Social conditions

Immigrants - North America

Electronic books.

North America Emigration and immigration History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910676688003321

Autore

Ginsberg Benjamin

Titolo

Warping time : how contending political forces manipulate the past, present, and future / / Benjamin Ginsberg and Jennifer Bachner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor, Michigan : , : University of Michigan Press, , 2023

©2023

ISBN

0-472-90334-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 141 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

320

Soggetti

Time - Political aspects

Historiography - Political aspects

Forecasting - Political aspects

Political science - 21st century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (page 127-134) and index.

Nota di contenuto

List of TablesList of FiguresPreface -- Chapter 1. Time and Politics -- Chapter 2. Reshaping the Past to Change the Present -- Chapter 3. Reimagining the Future to Reshape the Present -- Chapter 4. How the Future Affects the Past -- Chapter 5. Conclusion: The Uncertainty of Reality -- Appendix. National Survey on Policy Attitudes.

Sommario/riassunto

Warping Time shows how narratives of the past influence what people believe about the present and future state of the world. In Benjamin Ginsberg and Jennifer Bachner’s simple experiments, in which the authors measured the impact of different stories their subjects heard about the past, these “history lessons” moved contemporary policy preferences by an average of 16 percentage points; forecasts of the future moved contemporary policy preferences by an average of 12 percentage points; the two together moved preferences an average of 21 percentage points. And, in an Orwellian twist, the authors estimate that the “history lessons” had an average “erasure effect” of 8.5 percentage points—the difference between those with long-held preferences and those who did not recall that they previously held other opinions before participating in the experiment. The fact that the



past, present, and future are subject to human manipulation suggests that history is not simply the product of impersonal forces, material conditions, or past choices. Humans are the architects of history, not its captives.  Political reality is tenuous. Changes in our understanding of the past or future can substantially alter perceptions of and action in the present. Finally, the manipulation of time, especially the relationship between past and future, is a powerful political tool.