Vanishing Moments analyzes how various American authors have reified class through their writing, from the first influx of industrialism in the 1850s to the end of the Great Depression in the early 1940s. Eric Schocket uses this history to document America s long engagement with the problem of class stratification and demonstrates how deeply America s desire to deny the presence of class has marked even its most labor-conscious cultural texts. Schocket offers careful readings of works by Herman Melville, Rebecca Harding Davis, William Dean Howells, Jack London, T. S. Eliot,...
Vanishing Moments analyzes how various American authors have reified class through their writing, from the first influx of industrialism in the...
A passionate examination of the social and economic injustices that continue to shackle the American peoplePraise for Workin on the Chain Gang: . . . bracing and provocative. . . . Publishers Weekly . . . clear-sighted . . . Mosley offers chain-breaking ideas. . . . Los Angeles Times Book Review A] thoroughly potent dismantling of Yanqui capitalism, the media, and the entertainment business, and at the same time a celebration of rebellion, truth as a tool for emancipation, and much else besides. . . ....
A passionate examination of the social and economic injustices that continue to shackle the American peoplePraise for Workin on the Chain G...
"An outstanding piece of scholarship and a welcome contribution to the field, this collection of neglected but powerful poetry speaks to our own time as much as it does to its own era." ---Nicholas Coles, University of Pittsburgh "Opens up a dramatic new aspect of American literature for study, discussion, and enjoyment. The collection of poems is original and engaging and is sure to be useful for classes in literature, American history, and labor studies." ---Alan Wald, University of Michigan You Work Tomorrow provides a glimpse into a relatively unknown aspect of American...
"An outstanding piece of scholarship and a welcome contribution to the field, this collection of neglected but powerful poetry speaks to our own time ...
Commerce in Color exploresthe juncture of consumer culture and race by examining advertising, literary texts, mass culture, and public events in the United States from 1893 to 1933. James C. Davis takes up a remarkable range of subjects--including the crucial role publishers Boni and Liveright played in the marketing of Harlem Renaissance literature, Henry James's critique of materialism in The American Scene, and the commodification of racialized popular culture in James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of anEx-Colored Man--as he argues that racial...
Commerce in Color exploresthe juncture of consumer culture and race by examining advertising, literary texts, mass culture, and public ...
"An outstanding piece of scholarship and a welcome contribution to the field, this collection of neglected but powerful poetry speaks to our own time as much as it does to its own era." ---Nicholas Coles, University of Pittsburgh"Opens up a dramatic new aspect of American literature for study, discussion, and enjoyment. The collection of poems is original and engaging and is sure to be useful for classes in literature, American history, and labor studies." ---Alan Wald, University of Michigan"You Work Tomorrow" provides a glimpse into a relatively unknown aspect of American literary and...
"An outstanding piece of scholarship and a welcome contribution to the field, this collection of neglected but powerful poetry speaks to our own time ...
Commerce in Color exploresthe juncture of consumer culture and race by examining advertising, literary texts, mass culture, and public events in the United States from 1893 to 1933. James C. Davis takes up a remarkable range of subjectsincluding the crucial role publishers Boni and Liveright played in the marketing of Harlem Renaissance literature, Henry James s critique of materialism in The American Scene, and the commodification of racialized popular culture in James Weldon Johnson s The Autobiography of anEx-Colored Manas he argues that racial...
Commerce in Color exploresthe juncture of consumer culture and race by examining advertising, literary texts, mass culture, and public ...
Vanishing Moments analyzes how various American authors have reified class through their writing, from the first influx of industrialism in the 1850s to the end of the Great Depression in the early 1940s. Eric Schocket uses this history to document America s long engagement with the problem of class stratification and demonstrates how deeply America s desire to deny the presence of class has marked even its most labor-conscious cultural texts. Schocket offers careful readings of works by Herman Melville, Rebecca Harding Davis, William Dean Howells, Jack London, T. S. Eliot,...
Vanishing Moments analyzes how various American authors have reified class through their writing, from the first influx of industrialism in the...
"A well-theorized and provocative study that offers a much needed sustained focus on the impact of class through reification on Chicano identity . . . and] a valuable contribution to ongoing debates about critical paradigms in Chicana/o studies, especially in the scholarship about power and limitations of the narrative form." ---Louis Mendoza, University of Minnesota
"A first-rate book that will be widely read by scholars, teachers, and students interested in seeing how a Marxist goes beyond 'intersectionality' theory in his articulation of the multiple connections among...
"A well-theorized and provocative study that offers a much needed sustained focus on the impact of class through reification on Chicano identity . ...
In Moisture of the Earth, Mary Robinson recounts her journey from picking cotton in rural Alabama to becoming an outspoken community leader and labor activist. The daughter of sharecroppers, Robinson came of age at the peak of the civil rights movement and took a job in J. P. Stevens's Montgomery plant when the textile manufacturing giant was forced to admit African American workers. She soon became part of the historic organizing struggle by the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, finding her voice as an outspoken activist and union organizer.
This is a riveting...
In Moisture of the Earth, Mary Robinson recounts her journey from picking cotton in rural Alabama to becoming an outspoken community leader ...
An Angle of Vision is a compelling anthology that collects personal essays and memoir by a diverse group of gifted authors united by their poor or working-class roots in America. The contributors include Dorothy Allison, Joy Castro, Lisa D. Chavez, Mary Childers, Sandra Cisneros, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Teresa Dovalpage, Maureen Gibbon, Dwonna Goldstone, Joy Harjo, Lorraine M. Lopez, Karen Salyer McElmurray, Amelia Maria de la Luz Montes, Bich Minh Nguyen, Judy Owens, Lynn Pruett, Heather Sellers, and Angela Threatt.
In a sense, these stories are the travel narratives of women who...
An Angle of Vision is a compelling anthology that collects personal essays and memoir by a diverse group of gifted authors united by their p...