Claiming America

Claiming America PDF Author: K. Wong
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 1439907706
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 233

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A collection of essays that recovers the lives and experiences of individuals who staked their claim to Chinese American identity.

Claiming America

Claiming America PDF Author: K. Wong
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 1439907706
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 233

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Book Description
A collection of essays that recovers the lives and experiences of individuals who staked their claim to Chinese American identity.

Claiming the Call to Preach

Claiming the Call to Preach PDF Author: Donna Giver-Johnston
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197576370
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 345

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"Claiming the Call to Preach traces the history of call through the nineteenth century, at a time when the question of women's call to preach, although seemingly fixed by ecclesial authority and cultural convention, was being raised by courageous women in different settings, through different genres, and to different effect. This book recovers the neglected narrative of women's call to preach through the historical accounts and rhetorical witness of four ground-breaking women preachers: Jarena Lee, Frances Willard, Louisa Woosley, and Florence Spearing Randolph. Scholarship has been written on women who have preached in history, but not on how they managed to claim their call to preach despite the restrictions of gender inequality. This project explores the question: how did women claim their call to preach? Through feminist hermeneutics, this book examines call narratives which used rhetorical strategies to articulate effective arguments for women's call to the preaching ministry of the church. In response, these women received endorsement of their claims to pulpit places, engaged in sacred persuasive speech, and preached as ministers of the sacred office. This project examines women's call to preach-the history and theology, rhetoric and practice, struggle and success, and the necessary work of interpretation and re-interpretation through call narratives. This book concludes with practical applications for contemporary homiletics, showing how historical tradition can be re-invented in order to give women-and anyone struggling with their call to preach-rhetorical tactics and narrative scripts in order to make effective claims to preach today"--

At America's Gates

At America's Gates PDF Author: Erika Lee
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807863138
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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With the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Chinese laborers became the first group in American history to be excluded from the United States on the basis of their race and class. This landmark law changed the course of U.S. immigration history, but we know little about its consequences for the Chinese in America or for the United States as a nation of immigrants. At America's Gates is the first book devoted entirely to both Chinese immigrants and the American immigration officials who sought to keep them out. Erika Lee explores how Chinese exclusion laws not only transformed Chinese American lives, immigration patterns, identities, and families but also recast the United States into a "gatekeeping nation." Immigrant identification, border enforcement, surveillance, and deportation policies were extended far beyond any controls that had existed in the United States before. Drawing on a rich trove of historical sources--including recently released immigration records, oral histories, interviews, and letters--Lee brings alive the forgotten journeys, secrets, hardships, and triumphs of Chinese immigrants. Her timely book exposes the legacy of Chinese exclusion in current American immigration control and race relations.

Claiming the Bicycle

Claiming the Bicycle PDF Author: Sarah Hallenbeck
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 0809334445
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241

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This book considers how American women encouraged one another to adopt a new technology--the bicycle--adapt it to their own purposes, and use it to transform cultural assumptions about femininity and gender difference. It also considers the role of women's rhetorical agency in the transformation of bicycle culture and the bicycle itself.

Claiming the City

Claiming the City PDF Author: Mary Lethert Wingerd
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801488856
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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The author brings together the voices of citizens and workers and the power dynamics of civic leaders including James J. Hill and Archbishop John Ireland.

Irredeemable America

Irredeemable America PDF Author: Imre Sutton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indian land transfers
Languages : en
Pages : 454

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Book Description
Concerns cases before the United States Indian Claims Commission.

Claiming the Oriental Gateway

Claiming the Oriental Gateway PDF Author: Shelley Sang-Hee Lee
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 1439902151
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273

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How the interests of Seattle and Japanese Americans were linked in the processes of urban boosterism before World War II.

The Claims of Kinfolk

The Claims of Kinfolk PDF Author: Dylan C. Penningroth
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807862134
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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In The Claims of Kinfolk, Dylan Penningroth uncovers an extensive informal economy of property ownership among slaves and sheds new light on African American family and community life from the heyday of plantation slavery to the "freedom generation" of the 1870s. By focusing on relationships among blacks, as well as on the more familiar struggles between the races, Penningroth exposes a dynamic process of community and family definition. He also includes a comparative analysis of slavery and slave property ownership along the Gold Coast in West Africa, revealing significant differences between the African and American contexts. Property ownership was widespread among slaves across the antebellum South, as slaves seized the small opportunities for ownership permitted by their masters. While there was no legal framework to protect or even recognize slaves' property rights, an informal system of acknowledgment recognized by both blacks and whites enabled slaves to mark the boundaries of possession. In turn, property ownership--and the negotiations it entailed--influenced and shaped kinship and community ties. Enriching common notions of slave life, Penningroth reveals how property ownership engendered conflict as well as solidarity within black families and communities. Moreover, he demonstrates that property had less to do with individual legal rights than with constantly negotiated, extralegal social ties.

Complying with the Made in USA Standard

Complying with the Made in USA Standard PDF Author: United States. Federal Trade Commission
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buy national policy
Languages : en
Pages : 56

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The Marginalized Majority

The Marginalized Majority PDF Author: Onnesha Roychoudhuri
Publisher: Melville House
ISBN: 1612196993
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 225

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“This book is a daring intervention to get us back in the game—and a witty, delightfully personal meditation on collective power.” —Naomi Klein The energy on the left has never been higher. But because there are so many issues to tackle, each one more urgent and divisive than the next, some say progressives will once again fail to seize the moment and gain real power. But what if we’re getting the story all wrong? In The Marginalized Majority, Onnesha Roychoudhuri makes the galvanizing case that our plurality of identities is not only our greatest strength, but is also at the indisputable core of successful progressive change throughout history. From the civil rights movement to the Women’s March, mainstream media to Saturday Night Live, Roychoudhuri illuminates how historical narratives are written and, by holding the myths about our disenfranchisement up to the light, reveals we have far more power than we’re often led to believe. With both clear-eyed hope and electrifying power, she examines our ideas about what’s possible, and what’s necessary—opening up space for action, new realities, and, ultimately, survival. Now, Roychoudhuri urges us, is the time to fight like the majority we already are.