Dissent & Protest (1635-2017)

Dissent & Protest (1635-2017)
Author: Aaron John Gulyas
Publisher:
Total Pages: 688
Release: 2017
Genre: Civil rights movements
ISBN: 9781682172919

Dissent & Protest studies crucial documents from various protests, dissents, revolts, riots, and revolutions throughout American history, from the American Revolution to the Black Lives Matter Movement of today. This text closely studies more than eighty primary source documents to deliver a thorough examination of issues so important to Americans that they took action, exercised their rights and stood up to protest.

Articulating Dissent

Articulating Dissent
Author: Pollyanna Ruiz
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2014
Genre:
ISBN: 9781849648868

An analysis of the new communicative strategies of coalition protest movements and how these impact on mainstream media

Boundaries of Dissent

Boundaries of Dissent
Author: Bruce D'Arcus
Publisher:
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2006
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780415948739

Boundaries of Dissent looks at the way that political protest, as it is shaped through the space-time collapsing power of media, questions national identity and state authority. Through this lens of protest politics, Bruce D'Arcus examines how public and private space is symbolically mediated-the way that power and dissent are articulated in the contemporary media. Along the way, he addresses broader questions about the relationships between contemporary power and identity, citizenship and marginality, and society and geographic space. Further, he sets forth ways to distinguish legitimate protest from illegitimate dissent. In order to accomplish this task, D'Arcus looks at four case studies: the violent protests at the 1968 Democratic convention; the 1973 occupation of the Wounded Knee reservation; the 1999 rescue and subsequent custody battle over Elia n Gonza lez; and the 1999 anti-globalization protests in Seattle and Que bec City. D'Arcus argues for ways in which to usefully study thesecases, demonstrating the way that citizenship is socially constructed and how it is tied to concrete space.

Azimuth VII (2019), nr. 14. Subjectivity and Digital Culture – Soggettività e cultura digitale

Azimuth VII (2019), nr. 14. Subjectivity and Digital Culture – Soggettività e cultura digitale
Author: Federica Buongiorno
Publisher: Inschibboleth edizioni
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2020-02-20T00:00:00
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 8855290622

What role does subjectivity play in digital culture? While the 19th century was characterized by print culture and the 20th century by broadcasting culture, we are now experiencing a new paradigm shift: digital technology has radically changed the way we produce (and consume) information, goods, values, social relationships, institutional bonds, etc. Subjects living in such a digital environment are ‘digitalizing’ themselves as well: the label ‘digital Self’ can help understand this change by establishing a parallel between subject and culture based on their common feature of being ‘digital’. Nevertheless, significant differences in this ‘being digital’ on both sides are at play, which should not be overlooked if we are to critically understand not only what a ‘digital Self’ and a ‘digital culture’ are, but also their dark sides and most problematic aspects. With this issue, our aim is to provide an interdisciplinary overview of the most problematic features of digital culture and the digital self according to contemporary debate, which might suggest new directions for future research and collaborative work.

American Heretics

American Heretics
Author: Peter Gottschalk
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2013-11-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1137278293

A journey through American history that reveals an unsettling pattern of religious intolerance, from colonial anti-Quaker sentiment to modern-day Islamophobia

The Sum of Our Dreams

The Sum of Our Dreams
Author: Louis P. Masur
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2020
Genre: History
ISBN: 019069257X

"This volume delivers a concise, clear round-up of American history starting from America's colonial era to current days of political disagreements and social uncertainty. Covering central themes and events of American history, Masur evaluates the contested meanings of the American dream and questions its viability"--

John Marshall

John Marshall
Author: Jean Edward Smith
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Total Pages: 788
Release: 2014-03-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1466862319

A New York Times Notable Book of 1996 It was in tolling the death of Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall in 1835 that the Liberty Bell cracked, never to ring again. An apt symbol of the man who shaped both court and country, whose life "reads like an early history of the United States," as the Wall Street Journal noted, adding: Jean Edward Smith "does an excellent job of recounting the details of Marshall's life without missing the dramatic sweep of the history it encompassed." Working from primary sources, Jean Edward Smith has drawn an elegant portrait of a remarkable man. Lawyer, jurist, scholars; soldier, comrade, friend; and, most especially, lover of fine Madeira, good food, and animated table talk: the Marshall who emerges from these pages is noteworthy for his very human qualities as for his piercing intellect, and, perhaps most extraordinary, for his talents as a leader of men and a molder of consensus. A man of many parts, a true son of the Enlightenment, John Marshall did much for his country, and John Marshall: Definer of a Nation demonstrates this on every page.

The Negro and the First Amendment

The Negro and the First Amendment
Author: Harry Kalven
Publisher: Columbus : Ohio State U. P
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1965
Genre: African Americans
ISBN:

Based on lectures at the Ohio State Law Forum in April, 1964, showing the impact of the Negro Civil Rights Movement on the U.S. Constitution First Amendment.

The American Nation

The American Nation
Author: Bruce Frohnen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 620
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN:

The American Nation makes available, in one volume, many of the most crucial documents necessary for understanding the variety of policies and viewpoints driving American public life during an important, substantive part of American history. The primary sources in The American Nation are relevant to the Civil War, Reconstruction, the rise of a national capitalist system and culture, the waves of reform-minded thought and policy that moved the nation toward formation of the national administrative and welfare states, and Americaʹs emergence as a major power on the world stage. This period was a watershed in the history of the nation -- the time of establishing and consolidating national power and laying the foundations of a national government committed to promoting the material well-being of Americans. It was an era that witnessed the development of the nation-state and the establishment of the New Deal regime, which set the stage for the radical social movements of the 1960s and beyond.