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Author | : Richard Wiley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2007-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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A sword-swinging page-turner infused with a heady mix of Japanese etiquette, American ideals, and Machiavellian philosophy, written by a PEN/Faulkner Award winner.
Author | : Richard Wiley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2007-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Download Commodore Perry's Minstrel Show Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A sword-swinging page-turner infused with a heady mix of Japanese etiquette, American ideals, and Machiavellian philosophy, written by a PEN/Faulkner Award winner.
Author | : Richard Wiley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 1999 |
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Author | : Rhoda Blumberg |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 1985-06-20 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0688037232 |
Download Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Details Commodore Matthew Perry's role in opening Japan's closed society to world trade in the 1850s, one of history's most significant diplomatic achievements.
Author | : Tim Brooks |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2019-11-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1476676763 |
Download The Blackface Minstrel Show in Mass Media Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The minstrel show occupies a complex and controversial space in the history of American popular culture. Today considered a shameful relic of America's racist past, it nonetheless offered many black performers of the 19th and early 20th centuries their only opportunity to succeed in a white-dominated entertainment world, where white performers in blackface had by the 1830s established minstrelsy as an enduringly popular national art form. This book traces the often overlooked history of the "modern" minstrel show through the advent of 20th century mass media--when stars like Al Jolson, Bing Crosby and Mickey Rooney continued a long tradition of affecting black music, dance and theatrical styles for mainly white audiences--to its abrupt end in the 1950s. A companion two-CD reissue of recordings discussed in the book is available from Archeophone Records at www.archeophone.com.
Author | : Emily Roxworthy |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2008-07-31 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0824865049 |
Download The Spectacle of Japanese American Trauma Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In The Spectacle of Japanese American Trauma, Emily Roxworthy contests the notion that the U.S. government’s internment policies during World War II had little impact on the postwar lives of most Japanese Americans. After the curtain was lowered on the war following the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, many Americans behaved as if the “theatre of war” had ended and life could return to normal. Roxworthy demonstrates that this theatrical logic of segregating the real from the staged, the authentic experience from the political display, grew out of the manner in which internment was agitated for and instituted by the U.S. government and media. During the war, Japanese Americans struggled to define themselves within the web of this theatrical logic, and they continue to reenact this trauma in public and private to this day. The political spectacles staged by the FBI and the American mass media were heir to a theatricalizing discourse that can be traced back to Commodore Matthew Perry’s “opening” of Japan in 1853. Westerners, particularly Americans, drew upon it to orientalize—disempower, demonize, and conquer—those of Japanese descent, who were characterized as natural-born actors who could not be trusted. Roxworthy provides the first detailed reconstruction of the FBI’s raids on Japanese American communities, which relied on this discourse to justify their highly choreographed searches, seizures, and arrests. Her book also makes clear how wartime newspapers (particularly those of the notoriously anti-Asian Hearst Press) melodramatically framed the evacuation and internment so as to discourage white Americans from sympathizing with their former neighbors of Japanese descent. Roxworthy juxtaposes her analysis of these political spectacles with the first inclusive look at cultural performances staged by issei and nisei (first- and second-generation Japanese Americans) at two of the most prominent “relocation centers”: California’s Manzanar and Tule Lake. The camp performances enlarge our understanding of the impulse to create art under oppressive conditions. Taken together, wartime political spectacles and the performative attempts at resistance by internees demonstrate the logic of racial performativity that underwrites American national identity. The Spectacle of Japanese American Trauma details the complex formula by which racial performativity proved to be a force for both oppression and resistance during World War II.
Author | : Mark W. Driscoll |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2020-11-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1478012749 |
Download The Whites Are Enemies of Heaven Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In The Whites Are Enemies of Heaven Mark W. Driscoll examines nineteenth-century Western imperialism in Asia and the devastating effects of "climate caucasianism"—the white West's pursuit of rapacious extraction at the expense of natural environments and people of color conflated with them. Drawing on an array of primary sources in Chinese, Japanese, and French, Driscoll reframes the Opium Wars as "wars for drugs" and demonstrates that these wars to unleash narco- and human traffickers kickstarted the most important event of the Anthropocene: the military substitution of Qing China's world-leading carbon-neutral economy for an unsustainable Anglo-American capitalism powered by coal. Driscoll also reveals how subaltern actors, including outlaw societies and dispossessed samurai groups, became ecological protectors, defending their locales while driving decolonization in Japan and overthrowing a millennia of dynastic rule in China. Driscoll contends that the methods of these protectors resonate with contemporary Indigenous-led movements for environmental justice.
Author | : Frank W. Sweet |
Publisher | : Backintyme |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2000-09-01 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780939479214 |
Download A History of the Minstrel Show Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Brooke L. Blower |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2015-06-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0801455456 |
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In The Familiar Made Strange, twelve distinguished historians offer original and playful readings of American icons and artifacts that cut across rather than stop at the nation’s borders to model new interpretive approaches to studying United States history. These leading practitioners of the "transnational turn" pause to consider such famous icons as John Singleton Copley’s painting Watson and the Shark, Alfred Eisenstaedt’s photograph V-J Day, 1945, Times Square, and Alfred Kinsey’s reports on sexual behavior, as well as more surprising but revealing artifacts like Josephine Baker’s banana skirt and William Howard Taft’s underpants. Together, they present a road map to the varying scales, angles and methods of transnational analysis that shed light on American politics, empire, gender, and the operation of power in everyday life.
Author | : Mark E. Cunningham |
Publisher | : Twenty-First Century Books |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2013-01-01 |
Genre | : Young Adult Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 146770377X |
Download The End of the Shoguns and the Birth of Modern Japan, 2nd Edition Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
How did the end of the shoguns pave the way for modern Japan? Between the eighth and twelfth centuries, emperors ruled Japan. But powerful families gained the loyalty of the samurai - the emperors’ warriors. In 1185 one local lord took control as shogun, leader of the samurai armies. For the next seven hundred years, the emperors were ceremonial figures, and the shoguns ruled Japan, banning interaction with the Western world. In the nineteenth century, Westerners demanded that Japan open to trade under the threat of invasion. Japan’s shogunate realized it didn’t have the military technology to fight them. When the shogun government made concessions to the Westerners, Japanese lords were outraged and returned their support to the emperor. The shogunate crumbled. In 1868 Emperor Meiji became ruler of Japan. He opened Japan to modern technology, and his military advisers created a global fighting force. The end of the shoguns, which led to the birth of modern Japan, was one of the world’s pivotal moments.