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In this highly readable work that engages topics in American cultural, social and business history, Ann Fabian details of gambling in industrializing America. She investigates the relationship between gambling and other ways of making profit, such as speculation and land investment in the nineteenth century, and explores the moral and cultural implications of this relationship.
First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor and
Francis, an informa company.
When Philadelphia naturalist Samuel George Morton died in 1851, no
one cut off his head, boiled away its flesh, and added his grinning
skull to a collection of crania. It would have been strange, but
perhaps fitting, had Morton's skull wound up in a collector's
cabinet, for Morton himself had collected hundreds of skulls over
the course of a long career. Friends, diplomats, doctors, soldiers,
and fellow naturalists sent him skulls they gathered from
battlefields and burial grounds across America and around the
world. With The Skull Collectors, eminent historian Ann Fabian
resurrects that popular and scientific movement, telling the
strange-and at times gruesome-story of Morton, his contemporaries,
and their search for a scientific foundation for racial difference.
From cranial measurements and museum shelves to heads on stakes,
bloody battlefields, and the "rascally pleasure" of grave robbing,
Fabian paints a lively picture of scientific inquiry in service of
an agenda of racial superiority, and of a society coming to grips
with both the deadly implications of manifest destiny and the mass
slaughter of the Civil War. Even as she vividly recreates the past,
Fabian also deftly traces the continuing implications of this
history, from lingering traces of scientific racism to debates over
the return of the remains of Native Americans that are held by
museums to this day. Full of anecdotes, oddities, and insights, The
Skull Collectors takes readers on a darkly fascinating trip down a
little-visited but surprisingly important byway of American
history.
The practice of selling one's tale of woe to make a buck has long
been a part of American culture. "The Unvarnished Truth: Personal
Narratives in Nineteenth-Century America" is a powerful cultural
history of how ordinary Americans crafted and sold their stories of
hardship and calamity during the nineteenth century. Ann Fabian
examines the tales of beggars, convicts, ex-slaves, prisoners of
the Confederacy, and others to explore cultural authority,
truth-telling, and the nature of print media as the country was
shifting to a market economy. This well-crafted book describes the
fascinating controversies surrounding these little-read tales and
returns them to the social worlds where they were produced.
Drawing on an enormous number of personal narratives--accounts of
mostly poor, suffering, and often uneducated Americans--"The
Unvarnished Truth" analyzes a long-ignored tradition in popular
literature. Historians have treated the spread of literacy and the
growth of print culture as a chapter in the democratization of
refinement, but these tales suggest that this was not always the
case. Producing stories that purported to be the plain, unvarnished
truth, poor men and women edged their way onto the cultural stage,
using storytelling strategies far older than those relying on a
Renaissance sense of refinement and polish. This book introduces a
unique collection of tales to explore the nature of truth,
authenticity, and representation.
Race has long shaped shopping experiences for many Americans.
Retail exchanges and establishments have made headlines as
flashpoints for conflict not only between blacks and whites, but
also between whites, Mexicans, Asian Americans, and a wide variety
of other ethnic groups, who have at times found themselves
unwelcome at white-owned businesses. Race and Retail documents the
extent to which retail establishments, both past and present, have
often catered to specific ethnic and racial groups. Using an
interdisciplinary approach, the original essays collected here
explore selling and buying practices of nonwhite populations around
the world and the barriers that shape these habits, such as racial
discrimination, food deserts, and gentrification. The contributors
highlight more contemporary issues by raising questions about how
race informs business owners' ideas about consumer demand,
resulting in substandard quality and higher prices for minorities
than in predominantly white neighborhoods. In a wide-ranging
exploration of the subject, they also address revitalization and
gentrification in South Korean and Latino neighborhoods in
California, Arab and Turkish coffeehouses and hookah lounges in
South Paterson, New Jersey, and tourist capoeira consumption in
Brazil. Race and Retail illuminates the complex play of forces at
work in racialized retail markets and the everyday impact of those
forces on minority consumers. The essays demonstrate how past
practice remains in force in subtle and not-so-subtle ways.
Race has long shaped shopping experiences for many Americans.
Retail exchanges and establishments have made headlines as
flashpoints for conflict not only between blacks and whites, but
also between whites, Mexicans, Asian Americans, and a wide variety
of other ethnic groups, who have at times found themselves
unwelcome at white-owned businesses. Race and Retail documents the
extent to which retail establishments, both past and present, have
often catered to specific ethnic and racial groups. Using an
interdisciplinary approach, the original essays collected here
explore selling and buying practices of nonwhite populations around
the world and the barriers that shape these habits, such as racial
discrimination, food deserts, and gentrification. The contributors
highlight more contemporary issues by raising questions about how
race informs business owners' ideas about consumer demand,
resulting in substandard quality and higher prices for minorities
than in predominantly white neighborhoods. In a wide-ranging
exploration of the subject, they also address revitalization and
gentrification in South Korean and Latino neighborhoods in
California, Arab and Turkish coffeehouses and hookah lounges in
South Paterson, New Jersey, and tourist capoeira consumption in
Brazil. Race and Retail illuminates the complex play of forces at
work in racialized retail markets and the everyday impact of those
forces on minority consumers. The essays demonstrate how past
practice remains in force in subtle and not-so-subtle ways.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Deutsch - Sonstiges,
Note: 2,3, Otto-von-Guericke-Universitat Magdeburg (Institut fur
Germanistik), Veranstaltung: Sprachpflege und Sprachkritik,
Sprache: Deutsch, Anmerkungen: Gemeinschaftsarbeit mit Denis
Fabian, Abstract: Die Arbeit beginnt mit der Geschichte des
Allgemeinen Deutschen Sprachvereins. Die Organisationsstruktur wird
ebenso behandelt, wie die Zielsetzungen des Allgemeinen Deutschen
Sprachvereins. Zudem werden die Arbeitsbereiche kritisch
betrachtet.
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