American Identities: An Introductory Textbook - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0631234322 ISBN 13: 9780631234326

Casa editrice: Wiley-Blackwell, 2005

Riassunto

American Identities is a dazzling array of primary documents and critical essays culled from American history, literature, memoir, and popular culture that explore major currents and trends in American history from 1945 to the present.

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• Charts the rich multiplicity of American identities through the different lenses of race, class, and gender, and shaped by common historical social processes such as migration, families, work, and war.
  
• Includes editorial introductions for the volume and for each reading, and study questions for each selection.
  
• Enables students to engage in the history-making process while developing the skills crucial to interpreting rich and enduring cultural texts.
  
• Accompanied by an instructor's guide containing reading, viewing, and listening exercises, interview questions, bibliographies, time-lines, and sample excerpts of students' family histories for course use.

Su questo libro

Recensione:

This unique collection has what students (and their teachers) will find absorbing, provocative, and useful in that perennial quest to locate ourselves in a world we may not have made but that we can understand and change. Paul Lauter, Trinity College

L'autore:

Lois P. Rudnick is Professor of English and American Studies and Director of the American Studies Program at the University of Massachusetts Boston.

Judith E. Smith is Professor of American Studies and Director, Graduate Program in American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston.

Rachel Lee Rubin is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Wiley-Blackwell
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0631234322
• ISBN 13: 9780631234326
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 386
• Redattore: Rudnick Lois P.