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9781405150095

American Identities: An Introductory Textbook

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  • ISBN13:

    9781405150095

  • ISBN10:

    1405150092

  • Format: eBook
  • Copyright: 2009-02-01
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

American Identities is a dazzling array of primary documents and critical essays culled from American history, literature, memoir, and popular culture that explore major currents and trends in American history from 1945 to the present. Charts the rich multiplicity of American identities through the different lenses of race, class, and gender, and shaped by common historical social processes such as migration, families, work, and war. Includes editorial introductions for the volume and for each reading, and study questions for each selection. Enables students to engage in the history-making process while developing the skills crucial to interpreting rich and enduring cultural texts. Accompanied by an instructor's guide containing reading, viewing, and listening exercises, interview questions, bibliographies, time-lines, and sample excerpts of students' family histories for course use.

Table of Contents

Alternative Contents by Genre
Preface: How to Use This Book
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Identity, Family, and Memory
Understanding Identity.
Identities and Social Locations: Who Am I?
Who Are My People
American Families in Historical Perspective.
What We Really Miss About the 1950s
Memory and Community.
Generational Memory in an American Town
Growing Up Asian in America
World War II and the Postwar Era 1940-1960
World War II and American Families.
War Babies
From Citizen 13660
The Cold War and Domestic Politics.
Containment at Home: Cold War, Warm Hearth
The Problem That Has No Name
The Civil Rights Revolution, 1945-1960
From Like One of the Family: Conversations from a Domestic's Life
Family Migrations Urban and Suburban.
Songs of the Chicago Blues
Halfway to Dick and Jane: A Puerto Rican Pilgrimage
From Goodbye, Columbus
War and Social Movements, 1960-1975
The Civil Rights Movement.
Letter from Birmingham City Jail
Message to the Grass Roots
Songs of the Civil Rights Movement
Student Activism.
Port Huron Statement (Students for a Democratic Society)
The Port Huron Statement at 40
From Working-Class War: American Combat Soldiers and Vietnam
From Born on the Fourth of July
From Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans
Black and Puerto Rican Power.
Black Power: Its Need and Substance
"Respect"
"Say It Loud (I'm Black and I'm Proud)"
13-Point Program and Platform
Women's Lives, Women's Rights.
Sources of the Second Wave: The Rebirth of Feminism
NOW Bill of Rights (National Organization for Women)
The Liberation of Black Women
Jessie Lopez De La Cruz: The Battle for Farmworkers' Rights
The American Indian Movement.
This Country Was a Lot Better Off When the Indians Were Running It
The Occupation of Alcatraz Island (Indians of All Tribes)
The Gay Liberation Movement.
Gay Liberation
The Fighting Irishman
The Drag Queen
The New American Right.
From Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right
A Postindustrial and Global Society, 1975-2000
Deindustrilzing America.
From the Great U-Turn Corporate Restructuring and the Polarizing of America
From "It Ain't No Sin To Be Glad You're Alive": The Promise of Bruce Springsteen
A Musical representation of Work in Postindustrial America
Class in America: Myths and Realities (2000)
Marriage and Family : Modern and Postmodern.
From Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood
The Making and Unmaking of Modern Families
Multicultural America.
From Jasmine
Growing Up Biracial and Bicultural
From the Business of Fancydancing: Stories and Poems
The United Stats as Borderlands.
Through a Glass Darkly: Toward the Twenty-first Century
"To Live in the Borderlands Means You"
From No Logo: taking Ami at the Brand Bullies
The Future of Us All?
Brave New World: Gray Boys, Funky Axtecs, and Honorary Homegirls
From The Future of Us All
The Society That Unions Can Build
Text and Illustration Credits
Index
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