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RSA Journal, 2010 This essay explains why Italian students should study Italian-American culture as an entre into American studies. It presents a viable beginning in the study of American culture through the Italian immigrant experience and the subsequent evolution of ...
Fred L. Gardaphé
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"Strengthen the Bonds": The United States on Display in 1938 France
Journal of Transnational American Studies, 2017 In 1938, curators from the Museum of Modern Art installed their first international exhibition, Three Centuries of American Art, in Paris. This article examines the powerful role that museums played in constructing national art-historical narratives ...
Caroline M. Riley
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Toys Are Good for Us: Why We Should Embrace the Historical Integration of Children’s Literature, Material Culture, and Play [PDF]
, 2013 This manifesto argues that the field of children’s literature has, for too long, downplayed the historical relationship among children’s literature, toys, and play. If we desist from erecting arbitrary boundaries among these modes of cultural production,
Bernstein, Robin M
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Vernacular Music Material Culture in Space and Time [PDF]
, 2010 Few musical instruments are more closely tied or hold greater significance to American history than the banjo. From its West African roots, to its birth in the seventeenth century Caribbean, and through its meteoric rise in nineteenth century American ...
George Wunderlich +2 more
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Narratives of success and national culture dimensions: Serbia and the USA [PDF]
Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2012 The paper starts with underlying the American myth of success basic elements/believes: American democracy allows all citizens to raise above limitations of their birth, hard work brings wealth and comfort, rewarded are who are deserving and with ...
Drašković Slavka
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The collaboration of James Mutch and Franz Boas, 1883-1922 [PDF]
, 2008 James Mutch, baleinier et gérant du petit port baleinier écossais de Kekerten, situé dans le chenal de Cumberland, avait apporté son aide à Franz Boas lorsque celui-ci effectuait son étude de terrain de la culture inuit entre 1883 et 1884.
Harper, Kenn
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Compte-rendu de « Black Dolls, la collection Deborah Neff »
Transatlantica, 2018 From February 23rd to May 20th 2018, the Parisian exhibition space La maison rouge presents for the first time outside of the United States Deborah Neff private collection of black dolls.
Emmanuel Falguières
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Pedagogies of Race: The Politics of Whiteness in an African American Studies Course [PDF]
, 2011 This paper evaluates students\u27 arguments for a color-blind society to avoid discussions related to the continued existence of racism in USA culture.
Jones, Regina V.
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Leisure Traveling for 21st Century Americans: Mass Tourism as a Cultural Trap
American, British and Canadian Studies Journal, 2014 The majority of mass men in the American environment exhibit predictable and similar patterns of behavior as tourists. Pre-Industrial Revolution modes of traveling as liberation and exploration are now thwarted by the leveling effect of globalization and
Aniculăese Ovidiu
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The Nuclear Winter of Our Discontent: Soviet Animated Adaptations of American Science Fiction in the 1980s [PDF]
Литература двух АмерикThe article examines three mid-1980s Soviet animated films, based on American science fiction short stories: “There Will Come Soft Rains” (Ray Bradbury, dir. by Nazim Tulyakhodzhaev, 1984), “Contract” (Robert Silverberg, dir.
Nina A. Moroz
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