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Category : Cherokee Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 82
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Statue of Sequoyah
Author: Annual Report of the American Historical Association
Author: American Historical AssociationPublisher:
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Category : Historiography
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Writings on American History
Author: Sound-Blind
Author: Alex BensonPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469674645
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
In the 1880s, a new medical term flashed briefly into public awareness in the United States. Children who had trouble distinguishing between similar speech sounds were said to suffer from "sound-blindness." The term is now best remembered through anthropologist Franz Boas, whose work deeply influenced the way we talk about cultural difference. In this fascinating work of literary and cultural history, Alex Benson takes the concept as an opening onto other stories of listening, writing, and power—stories that expand our sense of how a syllable, a word, a gesture, or a song can be put into print, and why it matters. Benson interweaves ethnographies, memoirs, local-color stories, modernist novels, silent film scripts, and more. Taken together, these seemingly disparate texts—by writers including John M. Oskison, Helen Keller, W. E. B. Du Bois, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Elsie Clews Parsons—show that the act of transcription, never neutral, is conditioned by the histories of race, land, and ability. By carefully tracing these conditions, Benson argues, we can tease out much that has been left off the record in narratives of American nationhood and American literature.
Art and Artists of the Capitol of the United States of America
Author: Charles Edwin FairmanPublisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 556
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Crawford W. Long
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 90
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A Catalog of Books Represented by Library of Congress Printed Cards Issued to July 31, 1942
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 748
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Monthly Bulletin of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Author: Carnegie Library of PittsburghPublisher:
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Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 830
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The Georgia Genealogical Society Quarterly
Author: Chronicles of Oklahoma
Author: James Shannon BuchananPublisher:
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 576
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