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pro vyhledávání: '"Culture of the United States"'
Autor:
Luis Alvarez
2023 Honorable Mention Best History Book, International Latino Book Awards Broad and encompassing examination of Chicanx popular culture since World War II and the utopian visions it articulated Amid the rise of neoliberalism, globalization, and mov
Autor:
Stephanie R. Larson
What It Feels Like interrogates an underexamined reason for our failure to abolish rape in the United States: the way we communicate about it. Using affective and feminist materialist approaches to rhetorical criticism, Stephanie Larson examines how
Autor:
Brian Donovan
The stereotype of the'gold digger'has had a fascinating trajectory in twentieth-century America, from tales of greedy flapper-era chorus girls to tabloid coverage of Anna Nicole Smith and her octogenarian tycoon husband. The term entered American ver
Autor:
Shalom Goldman
From the days of steamship travel to Palestine to today's evangelical Christian tours of Jesus's birthplace, the relationship between the United States and the Holy Land has become one of the world's most consequential international alliances. While
Autor:
Nina Sun Eidsheim
In The Race of Sound Nina Sun Eidsheim traces the ways in which sonic attributes that might seem natural, such as the voice and its qualities, are socially produced. Eidsheim illustrates how listeners measure race through sound and locate racial subj
Autor:
Steven L. Piott
This volume reveals the everyday actions of individuals and their reflections on their lives during the 1920s.The Jazz Age was a tumultuous time for Americans as they attempted to come to terms with'modernity.'Daily Life in Jazz Age America tells the
Autor:
Jason Zenor
The popularity of cable news, satire, documentaries, and political blogs suggest that people are often absorbing and dissecting direct political messages from informational media. But entertainment media also discusses the important political issues
Autor:
Stephen R. Duncan
Subterranean nightspots in 1950s New York and San Francisco were social, cultural, and political hothouses for left-wing bohemians.The art and antics of rebellious figures in 1950s American nightlife—from the Beat Generation to eccentric jazz music
Autor:
Frye Gaillard
“There are many different ways to remember the sixties,” Frye Gaillard writes, “and this is mine. There was in these years the sense of a steady unfolding of time, as if history were on a forced march, and the changes spread to every corner of
Autor:
Timothy Melley
In December 2010 the U.S. Embassy in Kabul acknowledged that it was providing major funding for thirteen episodes of Eagle Four—a new Afghani television melodrama based loosely on the blockbuster U.S. series 24. According to an embassy spokesperson