Haunted by waters [[electronic resource] ] : a journey through race and place in the American West / / Robert T. Hayashi ; foreword by Wayne Franklin

• Autore: Hayashi Robert Terry <1963->
• Pubblicazione: Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, 2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (217 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.8009796
• Soggetto topico: Minorities - Idaho - History; Human ecology - Idaho; Japanese Americans - Idaho - History
• Soggetto geografico: Idaho Race relations
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-188) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Innocence of our Intentions: Thomas Jefferson, the Corps of Discovery, and the Natural Progression of Idaho; Matching the Hatch Nikkei, the Environment, and Idaho Statehood; O Pioneers: The Democratic Spaces of Minidoka; Haunted by Waters: Shoshone, Mormon, and Japanese American Relations to Place; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Using a wide range of materials that include memoirs, oral interviews, poetry, legal cases, letters, government documents, and even road signs, Robert Hayashi illustrates how Thomas Jefferson's vision of an agrarian, all white, and democratic West affected the Gem State's Nez Perce, Chinese, Shoshone,Mormon, and Japanese residents. Starting at the site of the Corps of Discovery's journey into Idaho, he details the ideological, aesthetic, and material manifestations of these intertwined notions of race and place. As he fly-fishes Idaho's fabled rivers and visits its historical sites and museums
• Titolo autorizzato: Haunted by waters
• ISBN: 1-58729-722-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782572203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: American land and life series.