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American Identities: An Introductory Textbook

Lois P. Rudnick (Editor), Judith E. Smith (Editor), Rachel Lee Rubin (Editor)
ISBN: 978-0-631-23432-6
Paperback
386 pages
October 2005, ©2005, Wiley-Blackwell
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  • Collects critical essays and documents from American history, literature, memoirs, and popular culture that explore major currents and trends from 1945 to the present.

  • Charts the rich multiplicity of American identities through the different lenses of race, class, and gender, and shaped by common historical social processes such as migration, families, work, and war.

  • Includes editorial introductions for the volume and for each reading, and study questions for each selection.

  • Enables students to engage in the history-making process while developing the skills crucial to interpreting rich and enduring cultural texts.

  • Accompanied by an instructor’s guide containing reading, viewing, and listening exercises, interview questions, bibliographies, time-lines, and sample excerpts of students’ family histories for course use.
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