The Course of the Melting Pot Idea to 1910
Author | : Richard Conant Harper |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 852 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Americanization |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Richard Conant Harper |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 852 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Americanization |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jessica Enoch |
Publisher | : SIU Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2008-05-16 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780809328352 |
Refiguring Rhetorical Education: Women Teaching African American, Native American, and Chicano/a Students, 1865-1911 examines the work of five female teachers who challenged gendered and cultural expectations to create teaching practices that met the civic and cultural needs of their students. The volume analyzes Lydia Maria Child’s The Freedmen’s Book, a post–Civil War educational textbook for newly freed slaves; Zitkala Ša’s autobiographical essays published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1900 that questioned the work of off-reservation boarding schools for Native American students; and Jovita Idar, Marta Peña, and Leonor Villegas de Magnón’s contributions to the Spanish-language newspaper La Crónica in 1910 and 1911—contributions that offered language and cultural instruction their readers could not receive in Texas public schools. Author Jessica Enoch explores the possibilities and limitations of rhetorical education by focusing on the challenges that Child, Zitkala Ša, Idar, Peña, and Villegas made to dominant educational practices. Each of these teachers transformed their seemingly apolitical occupation into a site of resistance, revising debilitating educational methods to advance culture-based and politicized teachings that empowered their students to rise above their subjugated positions. Refiguring Rhetorical Education considers how race, culture, power, and language are both implicit and explicit in discussions of rhetorical education for marginalized students and includes six major tenets to guide present-day pedagogies for civic engagement.
Author | : Francesco Cordasco |
Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780810814059 |
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Author | : Israel Zangwill |
Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | : 580 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780814329559 |
In his historic play The Melting Pot, Israel Zangwill (1864-1926) introduced into our discourse a potent metaphor that for nearly a hundred years has served as a key definition of the United States. The play, enthusiastically espoused by President Theodore Roosevelt, to whom it was dedicated, offered a grand vision of America as a dynamic process of ethnic and racial amalgamation. By his own admission, The Melting Pot grew out of Zangwill's intense involvement in issues of Jewish immigration and resettlement and was grounded in his interpretation of Jewish history. Zangwill, Anglo Jewry's most renowned writer, began writing seriously for the stage in the late 1890s. At the time, the negative stereotype of the so-called Stage Jew was still deeply entrenched in the theatrical mainstream, so much so that Jewish playwrights writing for the English-language stage avoided altogether the portrayal of Jewish life. Zangwill shattered this silence in 1899 with the American premiere of Children of the Ghetto-his first full-length drama, and the first English-language play devoted in its entirety to the depiction of Jewish life in an authentic and positive fashion. The play's groundbreaking production drew tremendous attention and generated heated debates, but since the script was never published, the memory of the passions it generated dimmed, and its whereabouts eventually became unknown. After more than a century, theater historian Edna Nahshon has discovered the original manuscript of this milestone text, as well as that of another unpublished Zangwill play, The King of Schnorrers, and the original version of The Melting Pot. Nahshon brings these three works together in print for the first time in From the Ghetto to the Melting Pot. Edna Nahshon's in-depth introduction to this volume includes a biography of Israel Zangwill that especially pertains to these works and situates them within the Anglo-American theater of the time. The essays preceding each play provide rich and hitherto unknown information on the scripts, their stage productions, and their popular and critical reception. While some issues addressed in From the Ghetto to the Melting Pot are uniquely Jewish, others are universal and typical of the negotiation of self-presentation by ethnic and minority groups, particularly within the American experience.
Author | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 469 |
Release | : 1987-08-14 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0313387613 |
The second in a two-volume bibliography on church-state relations in U.S. history, this book contains eleven critical essays and accompanying bibliographical listings on periods or topics from the Civil War to the present day. Each essay reviews the available relevant literature, and the listings emphasize critical studies and documents published in the last quarter-century. This reference work will enable the reader to grasp the historiographic issues, become acquainted with the resources available, and move on to interpret current as well as past issues more knowledgebly and effectively.
Author | : Athena S. Leoussi |
Publisher | : Transaction Publishers |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781412822558 |
"With over one hundred entries the Encyclopaedia of Nationalism offers a complete and concise set of tools for the study of nationalism in a single volume. The focus throughout is theoretical, and for this reason particular nationalist movements and individual leaders are treated only as illustrative historical contemporary cases in numerous entries. The Encyclopaedia is organized in an alphabetical sequence of entries, each of which includes a short bibliography for further reading. The reader will find in-depth discussions of the work of modern theoreticians of nationalism."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Heike Paul |
Publisher | : transcript Verlag |
Total Pages | : 451 |
Release | : 2014-08-31 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3839414857 |
This essential introduction to American studies examines the core foundational myths upon which the nation is based and which still determine discussions of US-American identities today. These myths include the myth of »discovery,« the Pocahontas myth, the myth of the Promised Land, the myth of the Founding Fathers, the melting pot myth, the myth of the West, and the myth of the self-made man. The chapters provide extended analyses of each of these myths, using examples from popular culture, literature, memorial culture, school books, and every-day life. Including visual material as well as study questions, this book will be of interest to any student of American studies and will foster an understanding of the United States of America as an imagined community by analyzing the foundational role of myths in the process of nation building.
Author | : John L. Pollock |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 744 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 9780262161527 |
A sequel to the author's How to Build a Person, this work builds upon that theoretical groundwork for the implementation of rationality through artificial intelligence. It argues that progress in AI has stalled because of its creators' reliance upon unformulated intuitions about rationality. Instead, the author bases the OSCAR architecture upon an explicit philosophical theory of rationality, encompassing principles of practical cognition, epistemic cognition and defeasible reasoning. One of the results is the first automated defeasible reasoner capable of reasoning in a rich, logical environment.
Author | : Elizabeth A. Wells |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0810876663 |
Wells presents a scholarly study of the American musical West Side Story, viewing the work from cultural, historical, and musical perspectives. --from publisher description.
Author | : Lisa García Bedolla |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2005-10-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520243692 |
Annotation This project examines the political dynamics of Latino immigrants in California.