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  • 2020-2024  (3)
  • Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
  • United States
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  • 1
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781009420198
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 415 Seiten , 24 cm
    Series Statement: Cambridge themes in American literature and culture
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    DDC: 781.650973
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Kulturleben ; Jazz ; Öffentlichkeit ; USA ; Jazz / History and criticism ; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) / History / 20th century ; Jazz / Social aspects / United States ; Jazz / Political aspects / United States ; Music and literature / History ; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) ; Jazz ; Jazz / Political aspects ; Jazz / Social aspects ; Music and literature ; United States ; 1900-1999 ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; History ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; USA ; Jazz ; Kulturleben ; Öffentlichkeit ; Geschichte
    Abstract: "Almost immediately after jazz became popular nationally in the United States in the early 20th century, American writers responded to what this exciting art form signified for listeners. This book takes an expansive view of the relationship between this uniquely American music and other aspects of American life, including books, films, language, and politics. Observing how jazz has become a cultural institution, widely celebrated as 'America's classical music,' the book also never loses sight of its beginnings in Black expressive culture and its enduring ability to critique problems of democracy or speak back to violence and inequality, from Jim Crow to George Floyd. Taking the reader through time and across expressive forms, this volume traces jazz as an aesthetic influence, a political force, and a representational focus in American literature and culture. It shows how Jazz has long been a rich source of aesthetic stimulation, influencing writers as stylistically wide-ranging as Langston Hughes, Eudora Welty, and James Baldwin, or artists as diverse as Aaron Douglas, Jackson Pollock, and Gordon Parks."
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  • 2
    ISBN: 9781108784344
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 376 pages)
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Gutacker, Paul [Rezension von: Watkins, Jordan, 1983-, Slavery and sacred texts] 2022
    Series Statement: Cambridge historical studies in American law and society
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Watkins, Jordan, 1983 - Slavery and sacred texts
    DDC: 973.8092
    Keywords: United States ; Bible ; Slavery and the church History 19th century ; Slavery History 19th century ; Slavery Religious aspects ; USA ; Sklaverei ; USA The United States Constitution 1787 ; Bibel ; Interpretation ; Geschichtsbewusstsein ; Geschichte 1830-1861
    Abstract: In the decades before the Civil War, Americans appealed to the nation's sacred religious and legal texts - the Bible and the Constitution - to address the slavery crisis. The ensuing political debates over slavery deepened interpreters' emphasis on historical readings of the sacred texts, and in turn, these readings began to highlight the unbridgeable historical distances that separated nineteenth-century Americans from biblical and founding pasts. While many Americans continued to adhere to a belief in the Bible's timeless teachings and the Constitution's enduring principles, some antislavery readers, including Theodore Parker, Frederick Douglass, and Abraham Lincoln, used historical distance to reinterpret and use the sacred texts as antislavery documents. By using the debate over American slavery as a case study, Jordan T. Watkins traces the development of American historical consciousness in antebellum America, showing how a growing emphasis on historical readings of the Bible and the Constitution gave rise to a sense of historical distance.
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  • 3
    ISBN: 9781108477956 , 110847795X , 9781108745307 , 110874530X
    Language: English
    Pages: xx, 254 Seiten , Diagramme , 24 cm
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Carey, John M. Campus diversity
    DDC: 378.1/982
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    Keywords: Discrimination in higher education ; Minorities in higher education ; College environment ; Affirmative action programs in education ; Universities and colleges Admission ; College teachers Recruiting ; College students Attitudes ; College teachers Attitudes ; Affirmative action programs in education ; College environment ; College students ; Attitudes ; College teachers ; Attitudes ; College teachers ; Recruiting ; Discrimination in higher education ; Minorities in higher education ; Universities and colleges ; Admission ; United States
    Abstract: "On the evening of November 11, 2015, close to 200 students gathered at Baker Berry Library on the campus of Dartmouth College. Clad in black and holding homemade posters, they marched to the steps of the iconic Dartmouth Hall chanting, "We shall overcome" and "Black lives matter." One poster summed up the emotions of many students involved in the demonstration: "This is how we REALLY feel." The week before that march, a #BlackLivesMatter display in the campus student center had been defaced. The display featured 74 shirts representing 74 unarmed individuals killed by police officers in 2015. Twenty-eight of the shirts were black, representing black individuals who lost their lives. Soon after the display was presented, several of the black shirts were ripped down. The protesters also wanted to stand in solidarity with students of color at the University of Missouri and Yale University, where racially-charged incidents had sparked protests. At Mizzou, a swastika drawn in feces was found in a dormitory bathroom, and reports of racial slurs and an overall climate of bias on campus had inspired a hunger strike by one student and broader demonstrations calling for the university's president and chancellor to step down. At Yale, allegations about a racist fraternity party and a dispute over a faculty member's push-back against university directives on Halloween costumes led to a March of Resilience with over a thousand participants"--
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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