[PDF] American Encounters eBook

Author : Angela L. Miller
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,34 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Art and society
ISBN : 9780130300041

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"Contextual in approch, this text draws on socio-economic and political studies as well as histories of religion, science, literature, and popular culture, and explores the diverse, conflicted history of American art and architecture. Thematically interrelating the visual arts to other material artifacts and cultural practices, the text examines how artists and architects produced artwork that visually expressed various social and political values."--Publisher's website.

Author : Melani McAlister
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 39,27 MB
Release : 2005-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0520932013

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Epic Encounters examines how popular culture has shaped the ways Americans define their "interests" in the Middle East. In this innovative book—now brought up-to-date to include 9/11 and the Iraq war—Melani McAlister argues that U.S. foreign policy, while grounded in material and military realities, is also developed in a cultural context. American understandings of the region are framed by narratives that draw on religious belief, news media accounts, and popular culture. This remarkable and pathbreaking book skillfully weaves lively and accessible readings of film, media, and music with a rigorous analysis of U.S. foreign policy, race politics, and religious history. The new chapter, titled "9/11 and After: Snapshots on the Road to Empire," considers and brilliantly analyzes five images that have become iconic: (1) New York City firemen raising the American flag out of the rubble of the World Trade Center, (2) the televised image of Osama bin-Laden, (3) Afghani women in burqas, (4) the statue of Saddam Hussein being toppled in Baghdad, and (5) the hooded and wired prisoner in Abu Ghraib. McAlister's singular achievement is to illuminate the contexts of these five images both at the time they were taken and as they relate to current events, an accomplishment all the more remarkable since—to paraphrase her new preface—we are today struggling to look backward at something that is still rushing ahead.

Author : Gilbert Michael Joseph
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 43,77 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822320999

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Essays that suggest new ways of understanding the role that US actors and agencies have played in Latin America." - publisher.

Author : Alex Lubin
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 47,13 MB
Release : 2016-08-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1469628856

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In the field of American studies, attention is shifting to the long history of U.S. engagement with the Middle East, especially in the aftermath of war in Iraq and in the context of recent Arab uprisings in protest against economic inequality, social discrimination, and political repression. Here, Alex Lubin and Marwan M. Kraidy curate a new collection of essays that focuses on the cultural politics of America's entanglement with the Middle East and North Africa, making a crucial intervention in the growing subfield of transnational American studies. Featuring a diverse list of contributors from the United States, the Arab world, and beyond, American Studies Encounters the Middle East analyzes Arab-American relations by looking at the War on Terror, pop culture, and the influence of the American hegemony in a time of revolution. Contributors include Christina Moreno Almeida, Ashley Dawson, Brian T. Edwards, Waleed Hazbun, Craig Jones, Osamah Khalil, Mounira Soliman, Helga Tawil-Souri, Judith E. Tucker, Adam John Waterman, and Rayya El Zein.

Author : Jose Limon
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,13 MB
Release : 1999-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807002377

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The idea of crossing the border between the United States and what award-winning anthropologist José Limón calls "Greater Mexico" has always conjured images of racial hostility and exclusion. Through literature, film, song, and dance, American Encounters explores an alternative history of attraction and desire between the U.S. and Greater Mexico, offering a vision of hope for the future.

Author : Dan McKanan
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 46,16 MB
Release : 2012-11-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 080701317X

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A broad, definitive history of the profound relationship between religion and movements for social change in America The United States has always had an active, vibrant, and influential religious Left. In every period of our history, people of faith have envisioned a society of peace and justice, and their tireless efforts have powered the social movements that have defined America’s progress: the abolition of slavery, feminism, the New Deal, civil rights, and others. In this groundbreaking, definitive work, McKanan treats the histories of religion and of the Left as a single history, showing that American radicalism is a continuous tradition rather than a collection of disparate movements. Emphasizing the power of encounter—between whites and former slaves, between the middle classes and the immigrant masses, and among activists themselves—McKanan shows that the coming together of people of different perspectives and beliefs has been transformative for centuries, uniting those whose faith is a source of activist commitment with those whose activism is a source of faith. Offering a history of the diverse religious dimensions of radical movements from the American Revolution to the present day, Prophetic Encounters invites contemporary activists to stand proudly in a tradition of prophetic power.

Author : Peter C. Mancall
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 36,40 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Indian Removal, 1813-1903
ISBN : 9780415923750

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A collection of articles that describe the relationships and encounters between Native Americans and Europeans throughout American history.

Author : Michele Greet
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 28,80 MB
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300228422

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Paris was the artistic capital of the world in the 1920s and '30s, providing a home and community for the French and international avant-garde. Latin American artists contributed to and reinterpreted nearly every major modernist movement that took place in the creative center of Paris between World War I and World War II, including Cubism (Diego Rivera), Surrealism (Antonio Berni and Roberto Matta), and Constructivism (Joaquin Torres-Garcia). Yet their participation in the Paris art scene has remained largely overlooked until now. This book examines their collective role, surveying the work of both household names and an extraordinary array of lesser-known artists. Michele Greet illuminates the significant ways in which Latin American expatriates helped establish modernism and, conversely, how a Parisian environment influenced the development of Latin American artistic identity.

Author : Mimi Thi Nguyen
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 16,72 MB
Release : 2007-04-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822339229

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DIVA collection of essays that examine the production and consumption of Asian American popular culture, from musical expression to television cooking shows./div

Author : Mirela Altic
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 33,60 MB
Release : 2022-07-08
Category : History
ISBN : 022679105X

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The history and concept of Jesuit mapmaking -- The possessions of the Spanish crown -- The viceroyalty of Peru -- Portuguese possessions: Brazil -- New France: searching for the Northwest Passage.