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Gender, Continuity, and the Shaping of Modernity in the Arts of
East Asia, 16th-20th Centuries explores women's and men's
contributions to the arts and gendered visual representations in
China, Korea, and Japan from the premodern through modern eras. A
critical introduction and nine essays consider how threads of
continuity and exchanges between the cultures of East Asia, Europe,
and the United States helped to shape modernity in this region, in
the process revealing East Asia as a vital component of the
trans-Pacific world. The essays are organized into three themes:
representations of femininity, women as makers, and constructions
of gender, and they consider examples of architecture, painting,
woodblock prints and illustrated books, photography, and textiles.
Contributors are: Lara C. W. Blanchard, Kristen L. Chiem, Charlotte
Horlyck, Ikumi Kaminishi, Nayeon Kim, Sunglim Kim, Radu Leca,
Elizabeth Lillehoj, Ying-chen Peng, and Christina M. Spiker.
Gender, Continuity, and the Shaping of Modernity in the Arts of
East Asia, 16th-20th Centuries is now available in paperback for
individual customers.
An ideal resource for students as well as general readers, this
book comprehensively examines the Great Society era and identifies
the effects of its legacy to the present day. With the
assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson
inherited from the Kennedy administration many of the pieces of
what became the War on Poverty. In stark contrast to today, Johnson
was aided by a U.S. Congress that was among the most productive in
the history of the United States. Despite the accomplishments of
the Great Society programs, they failed to accomplish their
ultimate goal of eradicating poverty. Consequently, some 50 years
after the Great Society and the War on Poverty, many of the issues
that Johnson's administration and Congress dealt with then are in
front of legislators today, such as an increase in the minimum wage
and the growing divide between the wealthy and the poor. This
reference book provides a historical perspective on the issues of
today by looking to the Great Society period; identifies how the
War on Poverty continues to impact the United States, both
positively and negatively; and examines how the Nixon and Reagan
administrations served to dismantle Johnson's achievements. This
single-volume work also presents primary documents that enable
readers to examine key historical sources directly. Included among
these documents are The Council of Economic Advisers Economic
Report of 1964; the Civil Rights Act of 1964; John F. Kennedy's
Remarks Upon Signing the Economic Opportunity Act; The Negro
Family: The Case for National Action (a.k.a. the Moynihan Report);
and the Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil
Disorders (a.k.a. the Kerner Report). Documents the evolution of
key issues addressed in the Great Society-such as civil rights,
immigration, and the chasm between rich and poor-that are still
challenging us today Shows how young people were able to influence
massive political and social change-in a time without the benefit
of instant communication and social media Includes dozens of
primary documents, including Lyndon B. Johnson's 1964 State of the
Union Address; the Civil Rights Act of 1964; Lyndon B. Johnson's
"Stepping Up the War on Poverty" address; "Where Do We Go From
Here?," delivered by Martin Luther King Jr. at the SCLC Convention
Atlanta, GA; and remarks given by President Obama at the Civil
Rights Summit at the LBJ Presidential Library in April 2014
Includes content related to the themes of the National Curriculum
Standards for Social Studies and the Common Core requirements for
primary documents and critical thinking exercises
How race continues to shape the citizenship and everyday lives of
later-generation Japanese Americans Japanese Americans are seen as
the “model minority,” a group that has fully assimilated and
excelled within the US. Yet third- and fourth-generation Japanese
Americans continue to report feeling marginalized within the
predominantly white communities they call home. Japanese Americans
and the Racial Uniform explores this apparent contradiction,
challenging the way society understands the role of race in social
and cultural integration. To explore race and the everyday
practices of citizenship, Dana Y. Nakano begins at an unlikely
site, Japanese Village and Deer Park, a now defunct Japan-themed
amusement park in suburban Southern California. Drawing from
extensive interviews with the park’s Japanese American employees
as well as photographic imagery, Nakano shows how the employees'
race acted as part of their work uniform and magnified their sense
of alienation from their white peers and the park’s white
visitors. While the racial perception of Japanese Americans as
forever foreigners made them ideal employees for Deer Park, the
same stigma continues to marginalizes Japanese Americans beyond the
place and time of the amusement park. Into the present day, third
and fourth generation Japanese Americans share feelings of
racialized non-belonging and yearning for community. Japanese
Americans and the Racial Uniform pushes us to rethink the
persistent recognition of racial markers—the racial body as a
visible, ever-present uniform—and how it continues to impact
claims on an American identity and the lived experience of
citizenship.
Traveling in Europe in August 1938, one year before the outbreak of
World War II, David Kurtz, the author's grandfather, captured three
minutes of ordinary life in a small, predominantly Jewish town in
Poland on 16 mm Kodachrome colour film. More than seventy years
later, through the brutal twists of history, these few minutes of
home-movie footage would become a memorial to an entire community,
an entire culture that was annihilated in the Holocaust. Three
Minutes in Poland traces Glenn Kurtz's remarkable four year journey
to identify the people in his grandfather's haunting images. His
search takes him across the United States to Canada, England,
Poland, and Israel. To archives, film preservation laboratories,
and an abandoned Luftwaffe airfield. Ultimately, Kurtz locates
seven living survivors from this lost town, including an eighty six
year old man who appears in the film as a thirteen year old boy.
Painstakingly assembled from interviews, photographs, documents,
and artifacts, Three Minutes in Poland tells the rich, funny,
harrowing, and surprisingly intertwined stories of these seven
survivors and their Polish hometown. Originally a travel souvenir,
David Kurtz's home movie became the sole remaining record of a
vibrant town on the brink of catastrophe. From this brief film,
Glenn Kurtz creates a riveting exploration of memory, loss, and
improbable survival, a monument to a lost world.
This book offers an in-depth engagement with the growing body of
Anglophone Arab fiction in the context of theoretical debates
around memory and identity. Against the critical tendency to
dismiss nostalgia as a sentimental trope of immigrant narratives,
Qutait sheds light on the creative uses to which it is put in the
works of Rabih Alameddine, Ahdaf Soueif, Hisham Matar, Leila
Aboulela, Randa Jarrar, Rawi Hage, and others. Arguing for the
necessity of theorising cultural memory beyond Eurocentric
frameworks, the book demonstrates how Arab novelists writing in
English draw on nostalgia as a touchstone of Arabic literary
tradition from pre-Islamic poetry to the present. Qutait situates
Anglophone Arab fiction within contentious debates about the place
of the past in the Arab world, tracing how writers have deployed
nostalgia as an aesthetic strategy to deal with subject matter
ranging from the Islamic golden age, the era of anti-colonial
struggle, the failures of the postcolonial state and of
pan-Arabism, and the perennial issue of the diaspora's relationship
to the homeland. Making a contribution to the transnational turn in
memory studies while focusing on a region underrepresented in this
field, this book will be of interest for researchers interested in
cultural memory, postcolonial studies and the literatures of the
Middle East.
Conflict and cooperation have shaped the American Southwest since
prehistoric times. For centuries indigenous groups and, later,
Spaniards, French, and Anglo-Americans met, fought, and
collaborated with one another in this border area stretching from
Texas through southern California. To explore the region's complex
past from prehistory to the U.S. takeover, this book uses an
unusual multidisciplinary approach. In interviews with ten experts,
Deborah and Jon Lawrence discuss subjects ranging from warfare
among the earliest ancestral Puebloans to intermarriage and peonage
among Spanish settlers and the Indians they encountered. The
scholars interviewed form a distinguished array of archaeologists,
anthropologists, ethnohistorians, and historians: Juliana Barr,
Brian DeLay, Richard and Shirley Flint, John Kessell, Steven
LeBlanc, Mark Santiago, Polly Schaafsma, David J. Weber, and
Michael Wilcox. All speak forthrightly about complex and
controversial issues, and they do so with minimal academic jargon
and temporizing, bringing the most reliable information to bear on
every subject they discuss. Themes the authors address include the
origin and scope of conflicts between ethnic groups and the extent
of accommodation, cooperation, and cross-cultural adaptation that
also ensued. Seven interviews explore how Indians forced colonizers
to modify their behavior. All of the experts explain how they deal
with incomplete or biased sources to achieve balanced
interpretations. As the authors point out, no single discipline
provides a complete, accurate historical picture. Spanish documents
must be sifted for political and ideological distortion, the
archaeological record is incomplete, and oral traditions erode and
become corrupted over time. By assembling the most articulate
practitioners of all three approaches, the authors have produced a
book that will speak to general readers as well as scholars and
students in a variety of fields.
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Illuminates how religion has shaped Latino politics and community
building Too often religious politics are considered peripheral to
social movements, not central to them. Faith and Power: Latino
Religious Politics Since 1945 seeks to correct this
misinterpretation, focusing on the post-World War II era. It shows
that the religious politics of this period were central to secular
community-building and resistance efforts. The volume traces the
interplay between Latino religions and a variety of pivotal
movements, from the farm worker movement to the sanctuary movement,
offering breadth and nuance to this history. This illuminates how
broader currents involving immigration, refugee policies,
de-industrialization, the rise of the religious left and right, and
the Chicana/o, immigrant, and Puerto Rican civil rights movements
helped to give rise to political engagement among Latino religious
actors. By addressing both the influence of these larger trends on
religious movements and how the religious movements in turn helped
to shape larger political currents, the volume offers a compelling
look at the twentieth-century struggle for justice.
What's your name? Asian Americans know the pain of being called
names that deny our humanity. We may toggle back and forth between
different names as a survival strategy. But it's a challenge to
discern what names reflect our true identities as Asian Americans
and as Christians. In an era when Asians face ongoing
discrimination and marginalization, it can be hard to live into
God's calling for our lives. Asian American Christians need to hear
and own our diverse stories beyond the cultural expectations of the
model minority or perpetual foreigner. A team from East Asian,
Southeast Asian, and South Asian backgrounds explores what it means
to learn our names and be seen by God. They encourage us to know
our history, telling diverse stories of the Asian diaspora in
America who have been shaped and misshaped by migration, culture,
and faith. As we live in the multiple tensions of being Asian
American Christians, we can discover who we are and what God may
have in store for us and our communities.
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