Autore	Flamming Douglas
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Santa Barbara, Calif., : ABC-CLIO, c2009
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (378 p.)
Disciplina	978.0496073
Collana	Cultures in the American West
Soggetto topico	African Americans - West (U.S.) - History African Americans - West (U.S.) - Social conditions African Americans - West (U.S.) African American pioneers - West (U.S.) - History Frontier and pioneer life - West (U.S.)
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-282-29493-8 9786612294938 1-59884-003-7
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Series Introduction""; ""Preface""; ""Maps""; ""1 The African American West: Getting Started""; ""Defining the West""; ""Why Study the West?""; ""Americans of African Descent""; ""About This Book""; ""2 Frontiers of Slavery and Freedom, 1815â€?1865""; ""Slavery on the Early Frontier""; ""The Community Impulse""; ""Black Individualism""; ""Texas and Slavery""; ""Indian Territory and Slavery""; ""The Mexican War""; ""The California Gold Rush""; ""The Slavery Cases and Colored Conventions""; ""Beyond the West of Bondage?""; ""The West and the Civil War"" ""Conclusion""""Bibliographic Essay""; ""3 Trailblazers in the New West, 1866â€?1890""; ""The Cowboys""; ""Soldiering West""; ""To Kansas!""; ""Oklahoma""; ""The Black Towns""; ""The Rise of the Urban West""; ""Building ""Community""""; ""Bibliographic Essay""; ""4 Seeking Freedom in the West, 1890â€?1920""; ""A Different Kind of Black Experience""; ""The South in Crisis""; ""The ""Talented Tenth"" Migration""; ""The Great Migration""; ""No Rush Westward""; ""Community Life in the Black West""; ""The Afro-American Council""; ""The Colored Women's Clubs""; ""The Rise of the NAACP"" ""World War I""""Bibliographic Essay""; ""5 Between the World Wars, 1920â€?1940""; ""The Tulsa Race Riot""; ""The Second Ku Klux Klan""; ""Garveyism out West""; ""The New Negro Renaissance""; ""The NAACP Convention of 1928""; ""The Great Depression and the New Deal""; ""Bibliographic Essay""; ""6 World War II and the Great Transformation""; ""The Defense Economy""; ""The Second Great Migration""; ""The Role of the Federal Government""; ""Race and Organized Labor""; ""The Port Chicago Disaster""; ""The Housing Crisis""; ""Liberty Ships""; ""Bibliographic Essay"" ""7 The Era of Racial Liberalism, 1945â€?1965""""An Even Greater Migration""; ""The Housing Crises""; ""Fighting for Civil Rights""; ""Direct-Action Protests""; ""Direct Action in the West""; ""Sports and Entertainment""; ""The Political Arena""; ""Bibliographic Essay""; ""8 The Era of Black Nationalism, 1965â€?1980""; ""The Black West as Trendsetter""; ""Rebellion in Watts""; ""The Aftermath""; """"Black Power!""""; ""Karenga and Kwanzaa""; ""The Black Panthers""; ""Angela Davis and Che-Lumumba""; ""Civil Rights in the West (continued . . .)""; ""The Electoral Arena"" ""The 1968 Olympic Games""""Blacks and Hollywood""; ""Conclusion""; ""Bibliographic Essay""; ""9 The African American West since 1980: Decline and Success""; ""The Urban Crisis""; ""The Rodney King Beating""; ""The L.A. Riot""; ""Gangsta Rap""; ""Willie Brown: Political Star""; ""Sports as the Great Equalizer?""; ""Suburbanization""; ""Leaving the West""; ""Bibliographic Essay""; ""10 Historiography and Current Issues""; ""The Historiography of the Black West""; ""A New Wave of Multiracial History?""; ""A ""Minority Majority""?""; ""Chronology""; ""Glossary""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D"" ""E""
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910459162003321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Reno, Nevada ; ; Las Vegas, [Nevada] : , : University of Nevada Press, , 2011
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (273 p.)
Disciplina	978
Collana	Urban West Series
Soggetto topico	City and town life - West (U.S.) Community life - West (U.S.) City planning - West (U.S.) Urbanization - West (U.S.) Group identity - West (U.S.) Rural development - West (U.S.)
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-87417-864-9
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Introduction / Amy L. Scott and Kathleen A. Brosnan -- The wishful West / John M. Findlay -- pt. 1. The metropolitan retreat to the eco-urban -- Crafting the good life in Irvine, California / Stephanie Kolberg -- Open-space politics in Boulder, Colorado / Amy L. Scott -- Wilderburbs and Rocky Mountain development / Lincoln Bramwell -- Middle-class migration and rural gentrification in western Montana / Rina Ghose -- pt. 2. Tourism, memory, and Western urban identities -- Urbanity and pastoralism in Napa tourism / Kathleen A. Brosnan -- Family travel, national parks, and the Cold War West / Susan S. Rugh -- Public art, memory, and mobility in 1920s New Mexico / Jeffrey C. Sanders -- Reclaiming Cannery Row's industrial history / Connie Y. Chiang -- Seattle's Pike Place Market / Judy Mattivi Morley -- pt. 3. From cultural and geographic margins to urban centers -- The making of San Francisco's queer urban scene / Nan Alamilla Boyd -- San Francisco, Red power, and the emergence of an "Indian city" / Kent Blansett -- Gay male rural-urban migration in the American West / Peter Boag.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910458052503321

Autore	Barkan Elliott Robert
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Bloomington, [Indiana] ; ; Indianapolis, [Indiana] : , : Indiana University Press, , 2007
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (648 pages) : illustrations, maps
Disciplina	305.800978
Soggetto topico	Racism - West (U.S.) - History Acculturation - West (U.S.) - History Cultural pluralism - West (U.S.) - History Pioneers - West (U.S.) - History Immigrants - West (U.S.) - History Minorities - West (U.S.) - History
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-253-02796-9
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Immigrant stories from the West -- The draw of the late-nineteenth-century West -- Where in the West were they? -- Targets of racism : Chinese and others on the mainland and Hawaiʻi -- The Scandinavians and step migration -- The German presence -- Proximity of homeland : the Mexicans -- In the year 1903 -- Foreshadowing twentieth-century patterns -- Immigrant stories and the West in the 1900s -- Who came? -- The Dillingham commission and the West -- The continuing evolution of immigration and naturalization issues and policies (Asians) -- Miners, merchants, and entrepreneurs : Europeans compete with Europeans (Greeks and others) -- Land, labor, and immigrant communities : Hawaiʻi and the mainland (Asians, Portuguese, Armenians, and Scandinavians) -- Newcomers, old and new (Italians, Basques, French, and Mexicans) -- The First World War and Americanization -- State and federal laws and decisions, 1917-1920 -- The early 1920s : threshold of momentous changes -- A world of peoples : the 1920s and 1930s -- Demographic trends : a changing West and changing Westerners -- Institutionalizing the quota system : 1924 -- Divided yet interlinked : the rural West -- Filipinos : the newer immigrant wave bridging the rural and urban West -- Divided yet interlinked : the urban West in the interwar years -- Urban landscapes and ethnic encounters -- From "reoccupation" to repatriation : Mexicans in the Southwest between the wars -- Darker turns during the interwar years : workers and refugees -- Aliens and race issues on the eve of the Second World War -- Interwar or interlude? twilight and dawn in the West -- Voices from America on the eve of war -- War : against all those of Japanese descent -- The Second World War's other enemy aliens : Italians and Germans -- The homefront in wartime : preface to an era of change -- Wartime and postwar agricultural issues : land, labor, growers, and unions -- Immigrants and ethnics in the postwar years -- The Cold War heats up : the politics of immigration, 1950-1952 -- Dora and the harbinger of coming events -- Looking back on America's immigrant West.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910154712303321

Autore	Patton Tracey Owens
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Lanham, Md., : Lexington, Books, c2012
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (261 p.)
Disciplina	791.8/40978
Altri autori (Persone)	SchedlockSally M
Soggetto topico	Rodeos - Social aspects - West (U.S.) Women rodeo performers - West (U.S.) Cowgirls - West (U.S.) - Social conditions Discrimination in sports - United States Sex discrimination in sports - United States
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-283-58402-6 9786613896476 0-7391-7321-9
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Contents; Preface: Straight Out of the Gate: Why Study Rodeo?; A Girl Howdy of a Beginning: An Introduction to Rodeo; CHAPTER ONE. Circle the Wagons and Let's Talk Rodeo: The Foundation of Rodeo and the Myth of the West; CHAPTER TWO. The Equality Cowgirl Can "Just LeDoux" It: The Golden Age of Cowgirls in the Arena; CHAPTER THREE. Neo-Victorian Cowgirl Can Git 'Er Done: The New Dichotomized Role for Cowgirls; CHAPTER FOUR. Pin-Up Cowgirl Has to Head 'Em Up and Move 'Em Out: A New Era of the Silver Screen with Cheesecake and Pin-up Cowgirls CHAPTER FIVE. Sex Kitten Cowgirl Knows Money Is in the Mane: Sex, Status, and SalaciousnessCHAPTER SIX. Back to Equality Says Let 'Er Buck: The Return to Equality in the Arena; CHAPTER SEVEN. Let's Go, Let's Show, Let's Rodeo: Ethnic Minority Involvement in Rodeo; CHAPTER EIGHT. Concluding Thoughts: "Cowgirl Up, We're More than Barbie and Big Hair!"; Rodeo Definitions; Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910462119103321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Lincoln, Nebraska : , : University of Nebraska Press, , [2022]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (419 pages)
Disciplina	978.034
Soggetto topico	History
ISBN	9781496233288 9781496230430
Classificazione	HIS036070HIS036140
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Foreword / by Patricia Nelson Limerick -- Introduction: Updating "modern West" histories for the 21st century / by Brenden W. Rensink -- Poisoned wilderness : Superfund and Libby, Montana / by Jennifer Dunn -- Vulnerable harvests : agricultural risk and environmental hazard in the modern Great Plains West / by David D. Vail -- Sacred space and identity : the fight for Oak Flat and the history of the San Carlos Apachean peoples / by Marcus C. Macktima -- Chess or checkers? Fracking in the Greater Chaco / by Sonia Porelle Grant -- Westworld : life on the high-tech frontier / by Stuart W. Leslie and Layne R. Karafantis -- Our mission, no eviction : resisting gentrification in San Francisco / by Lindsey Passenger Wieck -- Agritourism as land saving action in the New West / by Jeffrey M. Widener -- "A violation of the most elementary human rights of children" : the rise of migrant youth detention and family separation in the American West / by Ivón Padilla-Rodríguez -- Toxins in the field : the CRLA, farmworker families, and environmental justice in contemporary California / by Taylor Cozzens -- NAFTA's legacy in the high country : Mexican migration to Colorado's Western Slope / by Ernesto Sagás -- "I oppose the ERA, but I do approve of equal rights for women" : gender and politics in the aftermath of the Equal Rights Amendment campaign in the Western United States / by Chelsea Ball -- LGBTQ civil rights in Washington state since 1977 : an unresolved history / by Peter Boag -- The American West, Native Americans, and controversies over the Antiquities Act : Bears Ears National Monument, a Utah case study / by Andrew Gulliford -- Afterword / by Frank Bergon.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910795978903321