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Sentimental Collaborations
Mourning and Middle-Class Identity in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2000
During the 1992 Democratic Convention and again while delivering Harvard University’s commencement address two years later, Vice President Al Gore shared with his audience a story that showed the effect of sentiment in his life. In telling how an accident involving his son had provided him with...
3 American Cranks
A Satire in Three Voices
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
America is downtown earth and will not be ignored. Yet the question lingers: the last best hope of earth or the land that Satan blessed? 3 American Cranks takes you on a satirical roller coaster tour of the best and worse of the Land of the Free and the Homeless and, when that breathless ride comes...
Reinterpreting the Spanish American Essay
Women Writers of the 19th and 20th Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2010
Latin American women have long written essays on topics ranging from gender identity and the female experience to social injustice, political oppression, lack of educational opportunities, and the need for female solidarity in a patriarchal environment. But this rich vein of writing has often been ignored...
by Zitkala-Sa
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
**Zitkala-Sa was a 19th century Sioux author and activist, and this is a collection of Native American tales he compiled during trips to various reservations. **
Among Native American tribes, the Sioux are one of the best known and most important. Participants in some of the most...
by Himilce Novas, Rosemary Silva
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
In the first cookbook to encompass the full spectrum of Latin American cooking all across America today, Himilce Novas and Rosemary Silva offer 200 enticing recipes that have been drawn from the home kitchens of Americans with roots in Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Jamaica, Brazil, Argentina, Chile,...
The Black Pacific Narrative
Geographic Imaginings of Race and Empire between the World Wars
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
The Black Pacific Narrative: Geographic Imaginings of Race and Empire between the World Wars chronicles the profound shift in geographic imaginings that occurred in African American culture as the United States evolved into a bioceanic global power. The author examines the narrative of the “black...
In the Name of the Mother
Italian Americans, African Americans, and Modernity from Booker T. Washington to Bruce Springsteen
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
In the Name of the Mother examines the cultural relationship between African American intellectuals and Italian American writers and artists, and how it relates to American blackness in the twentieth century. Samuele Pardini links African American literature to the Mediterranean tradition of the Italian...
by Nikki L. M. Brown, Barry M. Stentiford
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Many Americans imagine that African Americans' struggle to achieve equal rights has advanced in a linear fashion from the end of slavery until the present. In reality, for more than six decades, African Americans had their civil rights and basic human rights systematically denied in much of the nation....
The Return of the Native
American Indian Political Resurgence
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 1990
An incisive look at American Indian and Euro-American relations from the 16th century to the present, this book focuses on how such relations have shaped the Native American political identity and tactics in the ongoing struggle for power. Cornell shows how, in the early days of colonization, Indians...
Survivance, Sovereignty, and Story
Teaching American Indian Rhetorics
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Focusing on the importance of discussions about sovereignty and of the diversity of Native American communities, Survivance, Sovereignty, and Story offers a variety of ways to teach and write about indigenous North American rhetorics.
These essays introduce indigenous rhetorics, framing both...
The Girl in the Photograph
The True Story of a Native American Child, Lost and Found in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2019
Through the story of Tamara, an abused Native American child, North Dakota Senator Byron Dorgan describes the plight of many children living on reservations—and offers hope for the future**.**
On a winter morning in 1990, U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan of North Dakota picked up the Bismarck Tribune....
Planning the American Indian Reservation
From Theory to Empowerment
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
American Indian reservation planning is one of the most challenging and poorly understood specializations within the American planning profession. Charged with developing a strategy to protect irreplaceable tribal homelands that have been repeatedly diminished over the ages through unjust public policy...
Laying Claim
African American Cultural Memory and Southern Identity
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
In Laying Claim: African American Cultural Memory and Southern Identity, Patricia Davis identifies the Civil War as the central narrative around which official depictions of southern culture have been defined. Because that narrative largely excluded African American points of view, the resulting southern...
African American Fraternities and Sororities
The Legacy and the Vision
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
The first African American fraternities and sororities were established at the turn of the twentieth century to encourage leadership, racial pride, and academic excellence among black college students confronting the legacy of slavery and the indignities of Jim Crow segregation. With a strong presence...