Often hours and days telescope as life seems to be flitting past, whilst at other times the minutes drag by. This work attempts to ascertain how phenomena such as suffering, violence, danger, boredom, exhilaration, concentration, shock and novelty influence the perception of time.
Tourists exult in Bahia, Brazil, as a tropical paradise infused with the black population's one-of-a-kind vitality. But the alluring images of smiling black faces and dancing black bodies masks an ugly reality of anti-black authoritarian violence. Christen A. Smith argues that the dialectic of glorified representations of black bodies and ......
Tourists exult in Bahia, Brazil, as a tropical paradise infused with the black population's one-of-a-kind vitality. But the alluring images of smiling black faces and dancing black bodies masks an ugly reality of anti-black authoritarian violence.
Christen A. Smith argues that the dialectic of glorified ......
This exceptional collection revisits the aftermath of the 1954 coup that ousted the democratically elected Guatemalan president Jacobo Arbenz. Contributors frame the impact of 1954 not only in terms of the Liberal Reforms and coffee revolutions of the nineteenth century, but also in terms of post-1954 U.S. foreign policy and the genocide of the ......
This exceptional collection revisits the aftermath of the 1954 coup that ousted the democratically elected Guatemalan president Jacobo Arbenz. Contributors frame the impact of 1954 not only in terms of the Liberal Reforms and coffee revolutions of the nineteenth century, but also in terms of post-1954 U.S. foreign policy and the genocide of the ......
Whether they're decorating Easter trees or celebrating Wagner's birthday by playing recordings of his Ring cycle operas and incinerating a model of Valhalla on an outdoor barbecue to the closing strains of ''Gotterdämerung,'' Americans know both how to create and how to celebrate holidays! Jack Santino's guide to such frivolity is a wonderfully ......
Representing a selection of the finest new research on immigration, ''American Dreaming, Global Realities'' explores the ways in which immigrant lives and those of their children are shaped by transnational bonds, globalization, family ties, and personal choice, and the ways in which they engender a sense of belonging and a sense of themselves as ......
The American Indian occupation of Alcatraz Island was the catalyst for a more generalized movement in which Native Americans from across the country have sought redress of grievances, attempting to right the many wrongs committed against them. In this volume, some of the dominant scholars in the field chronicle and analyze Native American activism ......
''A rich and rewarding book, one that has stood up well under the test of time, and one that still provides readers with significant insights.''-David Herbert Donald, author of Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe ''An exceptionally perceptive history of the cult of striving and success in American culture written with great clarity, and with a ......
