[PDF] Rethinking Social Realism eBook

Author : Stacy I. Morgan
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 24,90 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820325798

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The social realist movement, with its focus on proletarian themes and its strong ties to New Deal programs and leftist politics, has long been considered a depression-era phenomenon that ended with the start of World War II. This study explores how and why African American writers and visual artists sustained an engagement with the themes and aesthetics of social realism into the early cold war-era--far longer than a majority of their white counterparts. Stacy I. Morgan recalls the social realist atmosphere in which certain African American artists and writers were immersed and shows how black social realism served alternately to question the existing order, instill race pride, and build interracial, working-class coalitions. Morgan discusses, among others, such figures as Charles White, John Wilson, Frank Marshall Davis, Willard Motley, Langston Hughes, Sterling Brown, Elizabeth Catlett, and Hale Woodruff.

Author : Michael O. Hardimon
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,9 MB
Release : 2017-06-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0674975669

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Because science has shown that racial essentialism is false, and because the idea of race has proved virulent, many people believe we should eliminate the word and concept entirely. Michael Hardimon criticizes this thinking, arguing that we must recognize the real ways in which race exists in order to revise our understanding of its significance.

Author : Melissa Daniels-Rauterkus
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 22,16 MB
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 080717341X

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Winner of the SAMLA Studies Award Honorable Mention for the MLA William Sanders Scarborough Prize From the 1880s to the early 1900s, a particularly turbulent period of U.S. race relations, the African American novel provided a powerful counternarrative to dominant and pejorative ideas about blackness. In Afro-Realisms and the Romances of Race, Melissa Daniels-Rauterkus uncovers how black and white writers experimented with innovative narrative strategies to revise static and stereotypical views of black identity and experience. In this provocative and challenging book, Daniels-Rauterkus contests the long-standing idea that African Americans did not write literary realism, along with the inverse misconception that white writers did not make important contributions to African American literature. Taking up key works by Charles W. Chesnutt, Frances E. W. Harper, Pauline Hopkins, William Dean Howells, and Mark Twain, Daniels-Rauterkus argues that authors blended realism with romance, often merging mimetic and melodramatic conventions to advocate on behalf of African Americans, challenge popular theories of racial identity, disrupt the expectations of the literary marketplace, and widen the possibilities for black representation in fiction. Combining literary history with close textual analysis, Daniels-Rauterkus reads black and white writers alongside each other to demonstrate the reciprocal nature of literary production. Moving beyond discourses of racial authenticity and cultural property, Daniels-Rauterkus stresses the need to organize African American literature around black writers and their meditations on blackness, but she also proposes leaving space for nonblack writers whose use of comparable narrative strategies can facilitate reconsiderations of the complex social order that constitutes race in America. With Afro-Realisms and the Romances of Race, Daniels-Rauterkus expands critical understandings of American literary realism and African American literature by destabilizing the rigid binaries that too often define discussions of race, genre, and periodization.

Author : Patricia O’Campo
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 32,49 MB
Release : 2011-10-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9400721382

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To date, much of the empirical work in social epidemiology has demonstrated the existence of health inequalities along a number of axes of social differentiation. However, this research, in isolation, will not inform effective solutions to health inequalities. Rethinking Social Epidemiology provides an expanded vision of social epidemiology as a science of change, one that seeks to better address key questions related to both the causes of social inequalities in health (problem-focused research) as well as the implementation of interventions to alleviate conditions of marginalization and poverty (solution-focused research). This book is ideally suited for emerging and practicing social epidemiologists as well as graduate students and health professionals in related disciplines.

Author : Roger Sibeon
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,97 MB
Release : 2004-03-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780761950691

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Identifies and explores unresolved controversies and ambiguities in present day sociological theorizing.

Author : D. Tucker
Publisher : Springer
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 47,42 MB
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230306381

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This is the first book of its kind to look across disciplines at this vital aspect of British art, literature and culture. It brings the various intertwined histories of social realism into historical perspective, and argues that this sometimes marginalized genre is still an important reference point for creativity in Britain.

Author : Christian Smith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 34,42 MB
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0226765946

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The task of understanding human beings, what we ourselves are, our constitution and condition, is a perennial problem in philosophy and related disciplines. Smith argues here that our understanding of human persons is threatened by technological development and capricious academic theories alike, seeking to deny or relativize the personhood of humanity. Smith's book puts a stake in the ground, in defense of a view of the human that is genuinely humanistic in the traditional sense and capable of sustaining with intellectual coherence things like modern human rights and universal benevolence.

Author : J. Samuel Barkin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 49,79 MB
Release : 2010-03-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1139484400

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Realism and constructivism, two key contemporary theoretical approaches to the study of international relations, are commonly taught as mutually exclusive ways of understanding the subject. Realist Constructivism explores the common ground between the two, and demonstrates that, rather than being in simple opposition, they have areas of both tension and overlap. There is indeed space to engage in a realist constructivism. But at the same time, there are important distinctions between them, and there remains a need for a constructivism that is not realist, and a realism that is not constructivist. Samuel Barkin argues more broadly for a different way of thinking about theories of international relations, that focuses on the corresponding elements within various approaches rather than on a small set of mutually exclusive paradigms. Realist Constructivism provides an interesting new way for scholars and students to think about international relations theory.

Author : R. Andrew Sayer
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 23,90 MB
Release : 2000-02-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780761961246

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Realism and Social Science offers an authoritative guide to critical realism and an assessment of its virtues in comparison with other leading traditions in social science. It is illustrated throughout with relevant and accessible examples.

Author : John Michael Vlach
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 21,71 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Art
ISBN : 0820312339

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Included in the examples are works from the Charleston and Old Slave Mart museums and the ironwork of Philip Simmons.