Sterling A. Brown's A Negro Looks at the South [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Sanders Mark A |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford University Press, USA, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (652 p.) |
Disciplina |
940.5308996073
975/.00496073 |
Altri autori (Persone) | TidwellJohn Edgar |
Soggetto topico |
African Americans
Community life Country life Oral history African Americans - Social life and customs - 20th century - Southern States African Americans - Social conditions - 20th century - Southern States African Americans - History - 20th century - Southern States Oral history - History - 20th Century - Southern States Country life - Southern States Gender & Ethnic Studies Social Sciences Ethnic & Race Studies |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-19-029537-6
0-19-972745-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; A Note on the Text; Looking at Sterling A. Brown's South: An Introduction; Prologue; "South on the Move"; "Out of Their Mouths"; By Way of Autobiography; "Old Buck"; "Old Man McCorkle"; "Bus Station"; "Club Car"; "Roommate"; "Return of the Native"; Jim Crow Journal; "On the Government"; "V for Victory"; "Jim Crow Snapshots"; "A Harvardian Goes South"; "Separate but Equal"; "Fats"; "Words on a Bus"; "Georgia Nymphs"; "And/Or"; Gone with the Wind; "I Look at the Old South"; "Sister Cities"; Gone with What Wind"; "Symbol of the Old South"; "A Tour of History: Old New Orleans"
"Gee's Bend""Low Cotton"; "Take Your Coat Off, Gene!"; "Insurance Executive"; "Let's Look at Your Base"; "Meekness in Bronze"; "No Ties That Bind"; Academic Retreat; "The Little Gray Schoolhouse"; "The Path to Alcorn"; "And Gladly Teach"; "What Could Freddie Say?"; "One Language, One People"; "Vicious Circle"; "The Palmer Case"; "Signs of Improvement"; "Colleges: Retreat or Reconnaissance"; Pursuit of Happiness; "And He Never Said a Mumbalin' Word"; "Song Hunter"; "The Duke Comes to Atlanta"; "Farewell to Basin Street"; "Po' Wanderin' Pildom, Miserus Chile"; "Jitterbugs' Joy" "From Montmartre to Beaver Slide"Men of War; "Soldiers of Construction"; "Cubs"; "Primary Field"; Epilogue; "Count Us In"; Annotations; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910453432203321 |
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Sterling A. Brown's A Negro Looks at the South [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Sanders Mark A |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford University Press, USA, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (652 p.) |
Disciplina |
940.5308996073
975/.00496073 |
Altri autori (Persone) | TidwellJohn Edgar |
Soggetto topico |
African Americans
Community life Country life Oral history African Americans - Social life and customs - 20th century - Southern States African Americans - Social conditions - 20th century - Southern States African Americans - History - 20th century - Southern States Oral history - History - 20th Century - Southern States Country life - Southern States Gender & Ethnic Studies Social Sciences Ethnic & Race Studies |
ISBN |
0-19-772288-1
0-19-029537-6 0-19-972745-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; A Note on the Text; Looking at Sterling A. Brown's South: An Introduction; Prologue; "South on the Move"; "Out of Their Mouths"; By Way of Autobiography; "Old Buck"; "Old Man McCorkle"; "Bus Station"; "Club Car"; "Roommate"; "Return of the Native"; Jim Crow Journal; "On the Government"; "V for Victory"; "Jim Crow Snapshots"; "A Harvardian Goes South"; "Separate but Equal"; "Fats"; "Words on a Bus"; "Georgia Nymphs"; "And/Or"; Gone with the Wind; "I Look at the Old South"; "Sister Cities"; Gone with What Wind"; "Symbol of the Old South"; "A Tour of History: Old New Orleans"
"Gee's Bend""Low Cotton"; "Take Your Coat Off, Gene!"; "Insurance Executive"; "Let's Look at Your Base"; "Meekness in Bronze"; "No Ties That Bind"; Academic Retreat; "The Little Gray Schoolhouse"; "The Path to Alcorn"; "And Gladly Teach"; "What Could Freddie Say?"; "One Language, One People"; "Vicious Circle"; "The Palmer Case"; "Signs of Improvement"; "Colleges: Retreat or Reconnaissance"; Pursuit of Happiness; "And He Never Said a Mumbalin' Word"; "Song Hunter"; "The Duke Comes to Atlanta"; "Farewell to Basin Street"; "Po' Wanderin' Pildom, Miserus Chile"; "Jitterbugs' Joy" "From Montmartre to Beaver Slide"Men of War; "Soldiers of Construction"; "Cubs"; "Primary Field"; Epilogue; "Count Us In"; Annotations; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791303803321 |
Sanders Mark A
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Oxford University Press, USA, 2007 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Sterling A. Brown's A Negro Looks at the South [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Sanders Mark A |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford University Press, USA, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (652 p.) |
Disciplina |
940.5308996073
975/.00496073 |
Altri autori (Persone) | TidwellJohn Edgar |
Soggetto topico |
African Americans
Community life Country life Oral history African Americans - Social life and customs - 20th century - Southern States African Americans - Social conditions - 20th century - Southern States African Americans - History - 20th century - Southern States Oral history - History - 20th Century - Southern States Country life - Southern States Gender & Ethnic Studies Social Sciences Ethnic & Race Studies |
ISBN |
0-19-772288-1
0-19-029537-6 0-19-972745-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; A Note on the Text; Looking at Sterling A. Brown's South: An Introduction; Prologue; "South on the Move"; "Out of Their Mouths"; By Way of Autobiography; "Old Buck"; "Old Man McCorkle"; "Bus Station"; "Club Car"; "Roommate"; "Return of the Native"; Jim Crow Journal; "On the Government"; "V for Victory"; "Jim Crow Snapshots"; "A Harvardian Goes South"; "Separate but Equal"; "Fats"; "Words on a Bus"; "Georgia Nymphs"; "And/Or"; Gone with the Wind; "I Look at the Old South"; "Sister Cities"; Gone with What Wind"; "Symbol of the Old South"; "A Tour of History: Old New Orleans"
"Gee's Bend""Low Cotton"; "Take Your Coat Off, Gene!"; "Insurance Executive"; "Let's Look at Your Base"; "Meekness in Bronze"; "No Ties That Bind"; Academic Retreat; "The Little Gray Schoolhouse"; "The Path to Alcorn"; "And Gladly Teach"; "What Could Freddie Say?"; "One Language, One People"; "Vicious Circle"; "The Palmer Case"; "Signs of Improvement"; "Colleges: Retreat or Reconnaissance"; Pursuit of Happiness; "And He Never Said a Mumbalin' Word"; "Song Hunter"; "The Duke Comes to Atlanta"; "Farewell to Basin Street"; "Po' Wanderin' Pildom, Miserus Chile"; "Jitterbugs' Joy" "From Montmartre to Beaver Slide"Men of War; "Soldiers of Construction"; "Cubs"; "Primary Field"; Epilogue; "Count Us In"; Annotations; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910811710703321 |
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The virtues of Captain America : modern-day lessons on character from a World War II superhero / / Mark D. White |
Autore | White Mark D. <1971-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, England : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (252 p.) |
Disciplina | 940.5308996073 |
Soggetto topico | World War, 1939-1945 - Social aspects - United States |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-118-61925-0
1-118-61935-8 1-118-61924-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
The Virtues of Captain America: Modern-Day Lessons on Character from a World War II Superhero; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Acknowledgments; Notes on Source Material; About the Author; 1 Superhuman Ethics Class; Utilitarianism; Deontology; A Civil War ... of Ethics!; Virtue Ethics; Virtuous Deontology ... No, Deontological Virtue ... Maybe "Deontovirtue"?; Notes; 2 Captain America as a Moral Exemplar; Can a Fictional Character Be a Moral Exemplar?; Aren't Fictional Characters Liable to Be Perfect?; Fifty Years, Dozens of Writers ... One Captain America?; Notes; 3 Five Basic Virtues; Courage
Humility Righteous Indignation; Sacrifice and Responsibility; Perseverance; Notes; 4 Honor and Integrity; The Honor of Captain America; External Honor as Respect; Internal Honor as Integrity; Principle and Compromise; Duty and Sacrifice (Again); Notes; 5 Judgment; Making the Hard Decisions; Whose Right Answer?; Tragic Dilemmas and How to Avoid Them; "Black-and-White" or Red, White, and Blue? When Judgment Evolves; Hitting the Threshold; Notes; 6 Principle and Politics; Patriotism: The Captain and America; Cosmopolitanism; The American Dream Versus the American Reality "I' m a Hero, Not a Politician!"Principle over Politics; Captain America in (Principled) Action; Secret Empire/Nomad; The Captain; Civil War; Notes; 7 Can Captain America Help Us Achieve Greater Unity and Civility?; The "Divided States of America," Then and Now; The Three Core American Ideals; Justice; Equality; Liberty; Debating What We Disagree On While Recognizing What We Share; Now It's Our Turn; Notes; Appendix: Why are There Seven Volumes of Captain America and Five Volumes of Avengers ?; Notes; References; Notes; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910138964003321 |
White Mark D. <1971->
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Chichester, England : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2014 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The virtues of Captain America : modern-day lessons on character from a World War II superhero / / Mark D. White |
Autore | White Mark D. <1971-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, England : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (252 p.) |
Disciplina | 940.5308996073 |
Soggetto topico | World War, 1939-1945 - Social aspects - United States |
ISBN |
1-118-61925-0
1-118-61935-8 1-118-61924-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
The Virtues of Captain America: Modern-Day Lessons on Character from a World War II Superhero; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Acknowledgments; Notes on Source Material; About the Author; 1 Superhuman Ethics Class; Utilitarianism; Deontology; A Civil War ... of Ethics!; Virtue Ethics; Virtuous Deontology ... No, Deontological Virtue ... Maybe "Deontovirtue"?; Notes; 2 Captain America as a Moral Exemplar; Can a Fictional Character Be a Moral Exemplar?; Aren't Fictional Characters Liable to Be Perfect?; Fifty Years, Dozens of Writers ... One Captain America?; Notes; 3 Five Basic Virtues; Courage
Humility Righteous Indignation; Sacrifice and Responsibility; Perseverance; Notes; 4 Honor and Integrity; The Honor of Captain America; External Honor as Respect; Internal Honor as Integrity; Principle and Compromise; Duty and Sacrifice (Again); Notes; 5 Judgment; Making the Hard Decisions; Whose Right Answer?; Tragic Dilemmas and How to Avoid Them; "Black-and-White" or Red, White, and Blue? When Judgment Evolves; Hitting the Threshold; Notes; 6 Principle and Politics; Patriotism: The Captain and America; Cosmopolitanism; The American Dream Versus the American Reality "I' m a Hero, Not a Politician!"Principle over Politics; Captain America in (Principled) Action; Secret Empire/Nomad; The Captain; Civil War; Notes; 7 Can Captain America Help Us Achieve Greater Unity and Civility?; The "Divided States of America," Then and Now; The Three Core American Ideals; Justice; Equality; Liberty; Debating What We Disagree On While Recognizing What We Share; Now It's Our Turn; Notes; Appendix: Why are There Seven Volumes of Captain America and Five Volumes of Avengers ?; Notes; References; Notes; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910807024303321 |
White Mark D. <1971->
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Chichester, England : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2014 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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