Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social problems
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Readings in American Citizenship
Author: American Citizenship Readings
Author: Ray S. ErlandsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
Making Americans
Author: Readings in Citizenship
Author: John Catron JonesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Citizenship
Languages : en
Pages : 936
Book Description
Celebrate the Constitution with the Great New American Citizenship Challenge and Related Readings
Author: J. S. AaronPublisher:
ISBN: 9781936583393
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
"Celebrate the Constitution introduces highlights of the Constitution and the history of immigration and citizenship, lets you test your civics knowledge with the official U.S. citizenship test, and then explores the history and importance of each question. It is this basic knowledge of our government, history and symbols that binds all Americans and forms the basis of the common "American Story: that every citizen should know." -- amazon.com.
Citizens of the World
Author: Donald H. WhitfieldPublisher:
ISBN: 9781933147499
Category : Human rights
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Citizen
Author: Claudia RankinePublisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1555973485
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
* Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry * * Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism * Winner of the NAACP Image Award * Winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize * Winner of the PEN Open Book Award * ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, Boston Globe, The Atlantic, BuzzFeed, NPR. Los Angeles Times, Publishers Weekly, Slate, Time Out New York, Vulture, Refinery 29, and many more . . . A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking book Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric. Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the supermarket, at home, on the tennis court with Serena Williams and the soccer field with Zinedine Zidane, online, on TV-everywhere, all the time. The accumulative stresses come to bear on a person's ability to speak, perform, and stay alive. Our addressability is tied to the state of our belonging, Rankine argues, as are our assumptions and expectations of citizenship. In essay, image, and poetry, Citizen is a powerful testament to the individual and collective effects of racism in our contemporary, often named "post-race" society.
Making Americans; Responsive Readings for Teaching Citizenship
Author: Etta V (Etta Veronica) B LeightonPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781022430389
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Making Americans is a collection of readings for use in teaching citizenship. It includes essays, speeches, and other works by prominent Americans such as Abraham Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony, and Theodore Roosevelt. The book is an excellent resource for educators interested in developing a deeper understanding of American history and civic culture. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Christian Citizens
Author: Elizabeth L. JemisonPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469659700
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
With emancipation, a long battle for equal citizenship began. Bringing together the histories of religion, race, and the South, Elizabeth L. Jemison shows how southerners, black and white, drew on biblical narratives as the basis for very different political imaginaries during and after Reconstruction. Focusing on everyday Protestants in the Mississippi River Valley, Jemison scours their biblical thinking and religious attitudes toward race. She argues that the evangelical groups that dominated this portion of the South shaped contesting visions of black and white rights. Black evangelicals saw the argument for their identities as Christians and as fully endowed citizens supported by their readings of both the Bible and U.S. law. The Bible, as they saw it, prohibited racial hierarchy, and Amendments 13, 14, and 15 advanced equal rights. Countering this, white evangelicals continued to emphasize a hierarchical paternalistic order that, shorn of earlier justifications for placing whites in charge of blacks, now fell into the defense of an increasingly violent white supremacist social order. They defined aspects of Christian identity so as to suppress black equality—even praying, as Jemison documents, for wisdom in how to deny voting rights to blacks. This religious culture has played into remarkably long-lasting patterns of inequality and segregation.
Making Americans
Author: Etta Veronica LeightonPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780243411733
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Excerpt from Making Americans: Responsive Readings for Teaching Citizenship Let us, teachers and pupils, do our part to continue the Roosevelt traditions of citizenship, for in so doing we shall be sure of making Americans. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.