Society and culture: general

In 1996, Democratic president Bill Clinton and the Republican-controlled Congress ended welfare as we know it and trumpeted workfare as a dramatic break from the past.

Looking beyond broad theories of globalization, this volume examines the specific effects of globalizing forces on the southern United States.

In the first half of the twentieth century, Americans' intense concern with sex crimes against children led to a wave of public discussion, legislative action, and criminal prosecution.

In the mid-nineteenth century, some of Cubas most influential writers settled in U.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2021 im Fachbereich Geschlechterstudien / Gender Studies, Note: 1,7, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Ausarbeitung widmet sich nun der Frage ob, und wenn ja, wie sich die Vorstellungen und Denkfiguren innerhalb rechtspopulistischer und rechtsextremer Diskurse im Kontext von Geschlecht und Gender unterscheiden lassen können und welche Funktionen diese jeweils innerhalb ihrer Referenzräume erfüllen.

In an in-depth community study of women in the civil rights movement, Christina Greene examines how several generations of black and white women, low-income as well as more affluent, shaped the struggle for black freedom in Durham, North Carolina.

On a summer day in 1846 two years before the Seneca Falls convention that launched the movement for womans rights in the United States six women in rural upstate New York sat down to write a petition to their states constitutional convention, demanding equal, and civil and political rights with men.

Celebrated as new consumers and condemned for their growing delinquencies, teenage girls emerged as one of the most visible segments of American society during and after World War II.

In this classic portrait of Jews in the South, Eli N.

The civil rights movement was first and foremost a struggle for racial equality, but questions of gender lay deeply embedded within this struggle.

Crucial to understanding Islam is a recognition of the role of Muslim networks.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2021 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Allgemeines und Begriffe, Note: 1,0, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Ausgehend von Theorien der britischen Cultural Studies, Pierre Bourdieus und der 'Kulturindustrie'-These wird in dieser Hausarbeit anhand von zwei Beispielen, der Hippie- und der Punkkultur, die Frage diskutiert, ob Sub- und Jugendkulturen als Triebkräfte gesellschaftlichen Wandels verstanden werden können.

Recent scholarship on slavery has explored the lives of enslaved people beyond the watchful eye of their masters.

In 1978 Brookings Senior Fellow Stephen Hess surveyed 450 journalists who were covering national government for U.

In the early years of the republic, the United States government negotiated with Indian nations because it could not afford protracted wars politically, militarily, or economically.

In this collection of essays, Lawrence O.

In the first full biography of actor Sidney Poitier, Aram Goudsouzian analyzes the life and career of a Hollywood legend, from his childhood in the Bahamas to his 2002 Oscar for lifetime achievement.

Nineteenth-century newspaper editor Jane Grey Swisshelm (18151884) was an unconventionally ambitious woman.

Generations of historians have maintained that in the last decade of the nineteenth century white-supremacist racial ideologies such as Anglo-Saxonism, social Darwinism, benevolent assimilation, and the concept of the white mans burden drove American imperialist ventures in the nonwhite world.

Between 1877 and 1930 years rife with tensions over citizenship, suffrage, immigration, and the Negro problem African American activists promoted an array of strategies for progress and power built around racial destiny, the idea that black Americans formed a collective whose future existence would be determined by the actions of its members.

A disrobing acrobat, a female Hamlet, and a tuba-playing labor activist all these women come to life in Rank Ladies.

During World War II, the civilian Office of Censorship supervised a huge and surprisingly successful program of news management: the voluntary self-censorship of the American press.

In this remarkable book, Graham Hodges presents a comprehensive history of African Americans in New York City and its rural environs from the arrival of the first African a sailor marooned on Manhattan Island in 1613 to the bloody Draft Riots of 1863.

Inspired and informed by the latest research in African American, military, and social history, the fourteen original essays in this book tell the stories of the African American soldiers who fought for the Union cause.

As we approach the fiftieth anniversary of Brown v.

Was Robert E.

The only comprehensive study of Irish immigrants in the nineteenth-century South, this book makes a valuable contribution to the story of the Irish in America and to our understanding of southern culture.

The first intensive, close-up investigation of the practice and teaching of religion at American colleges and universities, Religion on Campus is an indispensable resource for all who want to understand what religion really means to todays undergraduates.

During World War I, the publishers of Americas crusading black newspapers faced a difficult dilemma.

Pioneering African American journalist Ida B.

In February 1862, General Ambrose E.

In 1860 farmers accounted for 60 percent of the American workforce; in 1910, 30.

Women with Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) and other Substance Use Disorders (SUDs) have different etiology, mortality, relapse antecedents, clinical presentations, and courses of the disorders than men.

Women with Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) and other Substance Use Disorders (SUDs) have different etiology, mortality, relapse antecedents, clinical presentations, and courses of the disorders than men.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2021 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Religion, Note: 2,3, Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (Institut für Politikwissenschaft und Soziologie), Veranstaltung: Friedens- und Konfliktforschung: Toleranz – eine umstrittene Tugend, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit wird sich in diesem Zuge mit zweierlei befassen: Zuerst wird einen kurzen historischen Rückblick über die Geschichte religiöser Freiheit im historischen Kontext geben und einige klassische Ansätze zu dieser Thematik darlegen.

Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Martin Delany these figures stand out in the annals of black protest for their vital antislavery efforts.

While public debates over Americas current foreign policy often treat American empire as a new phenomenon, this lively collection of essays offers a pointed reminder that visions of national and imperial greatness were a cornerstone of the new country when it was founded.

For more than fifty years, Hoover has been viewed as a lily-white racist who attempted to revitalize Republicanism in the South by driving blacks from positions of leadership at all party levels.

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Historians of postwar American politics often identify race as a driving force in the dynamically shifting political culture.

The black separatist movement led by Marcus Garvey has long been viewed as a phenomenon of African American organization in the urban North.

Islam is often described as abstract, ascetic, and uniquely disengaged from the human body.

During the Great Depression, black intellectuals, labor organizers, and artists formed the National Negro Congress (NNC) to demand a second emancipation in America.

Paul and Angela Knipples culinary tour of the contemporary American South celebrates the flourishing of global food traditions down home.

For decades, most American Indians have lived in cities, not on reservations or in rural areas.

Home economics emerged at the turn of the twentieth century as a movement to train women to be more efficient household managers.

In this evocative biography, Benjamin E.

After the Supreme Court ruled school segregation unconstitutional in 1954, southern white backlash seemed to explode overnight.

Thirteenth-century Sufi poet, mystic, and legal scholar Muhyi al-Din ibn al-'Arabi gave deep and sustained attention to gender as integral to questions of human existence and moral personhood.

In this first full-length biography of Benjamin Mays (18941984), Randal Maurice Jelks chronicles the life of the man Martin Luther King Jr.