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Hardcover:
9780292729148 | Univ of Texas Pr, September 15, 2014, cover price $35.00
Paperback:
9781477310519 | Reprint edition (Univ of Texas Pr, September 15, 2014), cover price $24.95
Hardcover:
9780387573052 | Springer Verlag, December 1, 1993, cover price $165.00 | About this edition: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Toxoplasmosis, held at Fontevraud, France, June 28 - July 2, 1992
Paperback:
9783642785610 | Reprint edition (Springer Verlag, November 22, 2011), cover price $149.00 | About this edition: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Toxoplasmosis, held at Fontevraud, France, June 28 - July 2, 1992
Paperback:
9780136015710 | 7 edition (Taylor & Francis, November 1, 2009), cover price $119.60
Paperback:
9781428815179 | 5th edition (Academic Internet Pub Inc, December 31, 2006), cover price $28.95
9780131898240 | 6 edition (Taylor & Francis, July 9, 2004), cover price $83.80
9780130115812 | Taylor & Francis, July 1, 1999, cover price $58.00
9780136690450 | 4 sub edition (Taylor & Francis, January 1, 1994), cover price $51.00
9780132936897 | 3 sub edition (Taylor & Francis, January 1, 1988), cover price $37.80
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Visions of Belonging explores how beloved and still-remembered family storiesâA Tree Grows in Brooklyn, I Remember Mama, Gentleman's Agreement, Death of a Salesman, Marty, and A Raisin in the Sunâentered the popular imagination and shaped collective dreams in the postwar years and into the 1950s. These stories helped define widely shared conceptions of who counted as representative Americans and who could be recognized as belonging. The book listens in as white and black authors and directors, readers and viewers reveal divergent, emotionally textured, and politically charged social visions. Their diverse perspectives provide a point of entry into an extraordinary time when the possibilities for social transformation seemed boundless. But changes were also fiercely contested, especially as the war's culture of unity receded in the resurgence of cold war anticommunism, and demands for racial equality were met with intensifying white resistance. Judith E. Smith traces the cultural trajectory of these family stories, as they circulated widely in bestselling paperbacks, hit movies, and popular drama on stage, radio, and television. Visions of Belonging provides unusually close access to a vibrant conversation among white and black Americans about the boundaries between public life and family matters and the meanings of race and ethnicity. Would the new appearance of white working class ethnic characters expand Americans'understanding of democracy? Would these stories challenge the color line? How could these stories simultaneously show that black families belonged to the larger "family" of the nation while also representing the forms of danger and discriminations that excluded them from full citizenship? In the 1940s, war-driven challenges to racial and ethnic borderlines encouraged hesitant trespass against older notions of "normal." But by the end of the 1950s, the cold war cultural atmosphere discouraged probing of racial and social inequality and ultimately turned family stories into a comforting retreat from politics. The book crosses disciplinary boundaries, suggesting a novel method for cultural history by probing the social history of literary, dramatic, and cinematic texts. Smith's innovative use of archival research sets authorial intent next to audience reception to show how both contribute to shaping the contested meanings of American belonging.
Hardcover:
9780231121705 | Columbia Univ Pr, August 15, 2004, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: Visions of Belonging explores how beloved and still-remembered family storiesâA Tree Grows in Brooklyn, I Remember Mama, Gentleman's Agreement, Death of a Salesman, Marty, and A Raisin in the Sunâentered the popular imagination and shaped collective dreams in the postwar years and into the 1950s.
Paperback:
9780231121712 | Columbia Univ Pr, June 1, 2006, cover price $30.00
Hardcover:
9781405134620 | Revised edition (Blackwell Pub, November 30, 2005), cover price $55.01 | About this edition: "American Identities" is a dazzling array of primary documents and critical essays culled from American history, literature, memoir, and popular culture that explore major currents and trends in American history from 1945 to the present.
Hardcover:
9780631234319 | Blackwell Pub, October 14, 2005, cover price $157.95
Paperback:
9780631234326 | Blackwell Pub, October 14, 2005, cover price $49.95
Hardcover:
9783540573050 | Gardners Books, December 1, 1993, cover price $111.15 | About this edition: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Toxoplasmosis, held at Fontevraud, France, June 28 - July 2, 1992
Hardcover:
9780873959643 | State Univ of New York Pr, June 1, 1985, cover price $53.50 | About this edition: Book by Smith, Judith E.
Paperback:
9780873959650 | State Univ of New York Pr, June 1, 1985, cover price $25.50 | About this edition: Book by Smith, Judith E.
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