Rudnick / Smith / Rubin American Identities

An Introductory Textbook
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4051-5009-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 384 Seiten, E-Book

American Identities is a dazzling array of primary documentsand critical essays culled from American history, literature,memoir, and popular culture that explore major currents and trendsin American history from 1945 to the present.
* * Charts the rich multiplicity of American identities through thedifferent lenses of race, class, and gender, and shaped by commonhistorical social processes such as migration, families, work, andwar.
* Includes editorial introductions for the volume and for eachreading, and study questions for each selection.
* Enables students to engage in the history-making process whiledeveloping the skills crucial to interpreting rich and enduringcultural texts.
* Accompanied by an instructor's guide containing reading,viewing, and listening exercises, interview questions,bibliographies, time-lines, and sample excerpts of students' familyhistories for course use.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rudnick, Lois P.

Smith, Judith E.

Rubin, Rachel Lee

Über Autor(innen)

Lois P. Rudnick is Professor of English and American Studiesand Director of the American Studies Program at the University ofMassachusetts Boston.
Judith E. Smith is Professor of American Studies andDirector, Graduate Program in American Studies at the University ofMassachusetts Boston.
Rachel Lee Rubin is Associate Professor of AmericanStudies at the University of Massachusetts Boston.