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30 Cards in this Set
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"No shining city on a hill: American studies and the problem of place"
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George Lipsitz, about globalization and how cultures and identitys mix. Hybridity.
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"Myth and Historical Memory"
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Richard Slotkin, about myths and reinforcing of narratives through culture. Custers last stand.
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"Uncle Ollie's Spite Fence"
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Jack Conroy, poor stick together out of necessity
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"Madonnas of the Fields: photography, gender, and 1930's farm relief"
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Wendy Kozol, pretty self explanitory.
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"Ethics of living Jim Crow"
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Richard Wright
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"Joe Louis uncovers dynamite"
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Richard Wright
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"Mules and Men"
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Zora Neale Hurston, talks about folk culture
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"First Person America"
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Ann Banks, immagrant stories, excluded from middle landscape. Usable past.
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"The art of cultural politics:| from regionalism to abstract expressionism"
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Erika Doss, talks about Pollock and Benton. Postwar freedom. Hollywood is a jeremiad.
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"Two Soldiers"
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William Faulkner, bro goes to war, younger bro goes after him. American exceptionalism. Jeremiad?
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"the meaning of national culture"
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Daniel Farber, media controls people, TV, national culture...
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"Beatlemania, Girls just want to have fun"
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Barbara Ehrenreich,media, popularity, drives girls nuts over beatles.
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"Snow White and other poems from Transformations"
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Anne Sexton, jeremiad about society's gender roles
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"Coming of Age in Mississippi"
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Anne Moody, Anne is a political activist in civil rights movement, is threatened.
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"Born on the Fourth of July"
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Ron Kovic, criticises frontier narrative, dismembered in 'Nam
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"Khe Sanh" from Dispatches
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Michael Herr, talks about the waste of vietnam war, beer coolers
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"Somewhere outside Duc Pho"
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Daniel Cano
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"on hearing a chameleon outside the city"
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Nguyen Duy, 10 years after tet offensive, war still damaged him
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"the noodle cart"
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Wendy Wilder Larson, Wasteful american commercialism takes even necessities of Vietnamese. Other side told by Tran Thi Nga.
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"Him on the bicycle"
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Bruce Weigel,shows dehumanization of vietnamese, shows them as people too.
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"Woman hollering creek"
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Sandra Cisneros, american / mexican identities for women
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"the things they carried"
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Tim O'brien, criticism of American consumer culture
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"Black Noise"
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Tricia Rose
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Learning to see ourselves inside an ideology. "Where you are at"
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Ontology
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Body of concepts, beliefs, and values articulated by a social group that defines its interpretations of life, etc.
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Ideology
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personal decisions reinforce / challenge narrative
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personal is political
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conformity, "keeping up with the Jones'
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consensus culture
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Balance between decadent civilization and howling wilderness.
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Middle Landscape
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Americans create their identity through exploration / conquer of new frontier.
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Frontier Narrative
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Use of past experiences to construct our identity of the present / future.
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Usable past.
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