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

• Pubblicazione: Malden, MA, : Blackwell, 2006
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (384 p.)
• Disciplina: 973.92
• Soggetto geografico: United States History 1945-; United States History 1945- Sources; United States Social conditions 1945-; United States Social conditions 1945- Sources
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: RudnickLois Palken <1944-2021.> SmithJudith E. <1948-> RubinRachel <1964->
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: American identities
• ISBN: 1-280-23764-3; 9786610237647; 1-4051-5009-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910451432303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II