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UNINA9910466504003321 |
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Román Elda María <1983-> |
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Race and upward mobility : seeking, gatekeeping, and other class strategies in postwar America / / Elda María Román |
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Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , 2018 |
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©2018 |
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1 online resource (313 pages) |
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Stanford Studies in Comparative Race and Ethnicity Series |
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American literature - Minority authors - History and criticism |
African Americans in literature |
Mexican Americans in literature |
Social classes in literature |
Social mobility in literature |
Ethnicity in literature |
Race in literature |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1. MORTGAGED STATUS -- Chapter 2. CLASS SUICIDE -- Chapter 3. CULTURAL BETRAYAL -- Chapter 4. STATUS PANIC -- Chapter 5. RACIAL INVESTMENTS -- Chapter 6. SWITCHED ALLEGIANCES -- EPILOGUE -- NOTES -- INDEX |
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Over the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Mexican American and African American cultural productions have seen a proliferation of upward mobility narratives: plotlines that describe desires for financial solvency, middle-class status, and social incorporation. Yet the terms "middle class" and "upward mobility"—often associated with assimilation, selling out, or political conservatism—can hold negative connotations in literary and cultural studies. Surveying literature, film, and television from the 1940's to the 2000's, Elda María Román brings forth these narratives, untangling how they present the intertwined effects of capitalism and white supremacy. |
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Race and Upward Mobility examines how class and ethnicity serve as forms of currency in American literature, affording people of color material and symbolic wages as they traverse class divisions. Identifying four recurring character types—status seekers, conflicted artists, mediators, and gatekeepers—that appear across genres, Román traces how each models a distinct strategy for negotiating race and class. Her comparative analysis sheds light on the overlaps and misalignments, the shared narrative strategies, and the historical trajectories of Mexican American and African American texts, bringing both groups' works into sharper relief. Her study advances both a new approach to ethnic literary studies and a more nuanced understanding of the class-based complexities of racial identity. |
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UNINA9910814667003321 |
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Millar Mary S. <1939-> |
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Disraeli's disciple : the scandalous life of George Smythe / / Mary S. Millar |
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Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2006 |
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©2006 |
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1 online resource (413 pages) : illustrations, photographs |
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Young England movement |
Politicians - England |
Nobility - England |
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Grande-Bretagne Politique et gouvernement 1837-1901 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Chronology 1818�75""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Prologue: The Wild Ass's Skin""; ""1 A Splendid |
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Failure?""; ""2 1400�1817: The Strangford Inheritance""; ""3 1818�26: Cradled in Commotions""; ""4 1826�35: George Smythe's Schooldays""; ""5 1836�7: Herstmonceux and Cambridge""; ""6 1837�8: Faber""; ""7 1838�9: Pearls and Swine""; ""8 1840: Lady Tankerville""; ""9 1841: Heaven-Born Statesman or Devil-Born Orator""; ""10 1841: I Am a Very Zero""; ""11 1842: Young England""; ""12 1843: Worrying Peel � and Reading Casanova"" |
""13 1844: Coningsby and Historic Fancies""""14 1844: The Pursuit of Psyche""; ""15 1845: The Double Game""; ""16 1846: Falling Upstairs � and Down""; ""17 1847: With a Tongue and a Pen of His Own""; ""18 1848�9: Very Like Assassination""; ""19 1850�2: Diplomatic Moves""; ""20 1852: Something about the Duke""; ""21 1853�5: The Stage-Box of My Soul""; ""22 1856�7: Bed-Ridden Lovelace""; ""Afterwards""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T"" |
""V""""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""; ""Illustrations"" |
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She also documents Smythe's numerous and often disreputable love affairs with remarkable partners: the French countess thirty years his senior, the Anglican priest who wrote him passionate poetry, the circus equestrienne he groomed for marriage to an Earl, and the Scottish heiress he married as he lay dying of tuberculosis." "In addition to the portrait it paints of a fascinating man whose public life was as earnest and idealistic as his private life was shocking and titillating, Disraeli's Disciple also provides new insights into the politics of this formative stage in British history."--Jacket. |
"Mary S. Millar redresses this omission with Disraeli's Disciple, the first ever biography of Smythe. Drawing from extensive original research, Millar details the full extent of Smythe's early brilliance as a writer and politician with the Young England splinter group that fostered Disraeli's political rise. Millar's research reveals how heavily Disraeli relied on Smythe and how closely Disraeli's fictional characters were based on him: his looks and idealism in Coningsby (1844), his duplicity in Tancred (1847), and his charm in Endymion (1880). Millar identifies Smythe's incisive journalism for the first time, illustrating his fine grasp of European politics and the venom of his personal attacks. |
"One of the most intriguing relationships in Victorian history is that between George Smythe (1818-57), handsome aristocrat and iconoclast, and Benjamin Disraeli (1804-81), society novelist, Jewish outsider, and future British prime minister. While Smythe's friendship was central to Disraeli's rise to political power in the 1840s and 1850s, little has been written about Smythe's life beyond a few paragraphs in biographies and histories of the period." |
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