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Author | : Akemi Johnson |
Publisher | : The New Press |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2019-06-18 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1620973324 |
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"A lively encounter with identity and American military history in Okinawa. Night in the American Village is by turns intellectual, hip, and sexy. I admire it for its ferocity, style, and vigor. A wonderful book." —Anthony Swofford, author of Jarhead A beautifully written examination of the complex relationship between the women living near the U.S. bases in Okinawa and the servicemen who are stationed there At the southern end of the Japanese archipelago lies Okinawa, host to a vast complex of U.S. military bases. A legacy of World War II, these bases have been a fraught issue in Japan for decades—with tensions exacerbated by the often volatile relationship between islanders and the military, especially after the brutal rape of a twelve-year-old girl by three servicemen in the 1990s. But the situation is more complex than it seems. In Night in the American Village, journalist Akemi Johnson takes readers deep into the "border towns" surrounding the bases—a world where cultural and political fault lines compel individuals, both Japanese and American, to continually renegotiate their own identities. Focusing on the women there, she follows the complex fallout of the murder of an Okinawan woman by an ex–U.S. serviceman in 2016 and speaks to protesters, to women who date and marry American men and groups that help them when problems arise, and to Okinawans whose family members survived World War II. Thought-provoking and timely, Night in the American Village is a vivid look at the enduring wounds of U.S.-Japanese history and the cultural and sexual politics of the American military empire.
Author | : Barbara Holland |
Publisher | : Thomas T. Beeler Publisher |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781574901795 |
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In 1990, Barbara Holland inherited her mother's summer cabin in the northern Blue Ridge Mountains. She quit her job in Philadelphia, said goodbye to friends and family, and moved into a different world. On the mountain she wrestled with winter isolation, stoked the woodstove and learned to live with the wildlife. Just as she settled into this gentle world where crime was a toolbox stolen from the back of a pickup truck, it began to change. The suburbs were moving in, changing the very bedrock of the community.
Author | : Bob Thall |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780801861581 |
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"In The New American Village, Thall captures four components of the new edge city - corporate, commercial, domestic, and environmental - in a way that no previous photographer has achieved. To find the stark but provocatively beautiful images that appear in the book, Thall spent years exploring the western and northwestern suburbs of Chicago, photographing remnants of open land and farm structures, the process of clearing and construction, corporate headquarters, townhouse developments, model homes, office parks, strip malls, and the many aspects of nature that remain, in one way or another, in these miniature cities." "Thall's photographs are not simply snapshots of raw visual facts but images full of meaning. Documenting these new American places, he draws attention to the choices being made when they are built and discovers some unexpected transformations."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Akemi Johnson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Military bases, American |
ISBN | : 9781620973318 |
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An examination of the complex relationship between the women living near the U.S. base in Okinawa and the servicemen who are stationed there.
Author | : Robert Ingersoll Kutak |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Charles Wheeler Denison |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1845 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Frederick Judson Soule |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : Village communities |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Michael E. Connaughton |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 395 |
Release | : 2009-03-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1443809160 |
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In October 2005 a conference honoring the contributions of Sinclair Lewis to Midwest and American culture and celebrating the friendship between Sinclair Lewis and Ida K. Compton was held at St. Cloud State University in St. Cloud, Minnesota. Sinclair Lewis would no doubt have been flattered, and perhaps a bit surprised by the breadth of this conference in his honor. The fact that scholars, writers, students and readers gathered to discuss his work and its broader influence would have pleased him. He would have learned that readers still found stimulus for serious thought in his writing, and that his works can serve as a springboard to discussion of today’s societal issues, some of which might surprise him considerably. The papers selected from the conference entitled The American Village in a Global Setting consider elements of Lewis’ world through today’s lens. In Part I, his version of community is compared to that documented in other ways, including architecture and television. Scholars address issues such as anti-Semitism, theocratic communities, the Irish, and outdoor life. In Part II, the concept of community is expanded to the visions of other authors including his contemporaries, such as Martha Ostenso, Josephine Donovan, and Willa Cather, as well as more recent writers. In Part III, today’s social and cultural issues in America are addressed, expressing the global and interdisciplinary intent of the conference. And, last, Part IV continues the global theme, addressing international communities and pedagogical philosophies through film and literature.
Author | : Field Horne |
Publisher | : Syracuse University Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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In this book, 82 eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europeans and Americans speak through their writings. Their impressions of life in Saratoga Springs provide the richest-known contemporary record of any American village. Sometimes full of humor, sometimes critical, and sometimes taking the waters for poor health, these writers are our guides through a century and a half of community history.
Author | : Robert A. Cook |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2017-11-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1108508731 |
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Two common questions asked in archaeological investigations are: where did a particular culture come from, and which living cultures is it related to? In this book, Robert A. Cook brings a theoretically and methodologically holistic perspective to his study on the origins and continuity of Native American villages in the North American Midcontinent. He shows that to affiliate archaeological remains with descendant communities fully we need to unaffiliate some of our well-established archaeological constructs. Cook demonstrates how and why Native American villages formed and responded to events such as migration, environment and agricultural developments. He focuses on the big picture of cultural relatedness over broad regions and the amount of social detail that can be gleaned from archaeological and biological data, as well as oral histories.