Urban poverty, along with all of its poignant manifestations, is moving from city centers to
working-class and industrial suburbs in contemporary America. Nowhere is this more evident than in East St. Louis, Illinois. Once a thriving manufacturing and transportation center, ...
Challenging the conventional understandings of literary naturalism defined primarily through its male writers, Donna M.
Campbell examines the ways in which American women writers wrote naturalistic fiction and redefined its principles for their own purposes. Bitter Tastes looks at examples ...
In this first study of all Dos Passos' writing, Linda W. Wagner examines his fiction,
poetry, drama, travel essays, and history-a body of work that evokes a vivid image of America meant to be neither judgmental nor moralistic.
As an anthropology student studying with Franz Boas, Zora Neale Hurston recorded African American folklore
in rural central Florida, studied hoodoo in New Orleans and voodoo in Haiti, talked with the last ex-slave to survive the Middle Passage, and collected ...
A rollicking biography of a pioneering American woman and one of our greatest culinary figures
In Hometown Appetites, Kelly Alexander and Cynthia Harris come together to revive the legacy of the most important food writer you have never heard of. ...
Diploma Thesis from the year 2006 in the subject Statistics, grade: 1,4, University of Applied
Sciences Kufstein Tirol, 45 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The discussion about the existence of theHot Hand,a widespread belief that success breeds success, ...
In the years of the Reagan–Bush era, the controversy over ‘political correctness’ erupted on American
campuses, spreading to the mainstream media as right-wing pundits like Dinesh D’Souza and Roger Kimball prosecuted their publicity campaign against progressive academics. Michael ...
Peterson’s® Scholarships, Grants & Prizes 2021 provides up-to-date information on more than 1.6 million privately
funded awards worth over 10 billion dollars available to college students. It contains detailed profiles of awards based on academic fields and career goals, ethnic ...