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Books on: 1940s american politics

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Heroism and the Black Intellectual: Ralph Ellison, Politics, and Afro-American Intellectual Life

Book by Jerry Gafio Watts; University of North Carolina Press, 1994

Subjects:

African Americans In Literature, African Americans--Intellectual Life, African Americans--Politics And Government, Courage In Literature, Ellison, Ralph--Political And Social Views, Heroes In Literature, Politics And Literature--United States--History--20th Century, Race In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...In After Alienation. American Novelists in Mid-Century...83 During the middle 1940s Ellison became thoroughly disillusioned with American Communism. Though never...84 Since that time his politics have gradually become...during the 1930s and 1940s is that their abhorrence...
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Propaganda and Aesthetics: The Literary Politics of Afro-American Magazines in the Twentieth Century

Book by Ronald Maberry Johnson, Abby Arthur Johnson; University of Massachusetts Press, 1979

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African American Aesthetics, African American Periodicals--Publishing--History, African Americans--Politics And Government, American Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism, American Literature--African American Authors--History And Criticism, Fiction, Literature Publishing--Political Aspects--United States, Politics And Literature--United States--History--20th Century, Press And Propaganda--United States--History--20th Century

Collections: Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...conditions affecting Afro-American writers since the 1920s. 1...young black writers in the 1940s and 1950s "preferred to seek...fuller dimensions of Afro-American life. 4 For this reason...theme took new form in the 1940s and 1950s, however, as many...
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Deep in the Heart: The Texas Tendency in American Politics

Book by James McEnteer; Praeger, 2004

Subjects:

National Characteristics, American, Political Culture--Texas, Political Culture--United States, Texas--Politics And Government, Texas--Politics And Government--Philosophy, United States--Foreign Relations, United States--Politics And Government

Collections: History, Entire Library

...essential to the Democratic coalition of the 1940s and 1950s. Growing political apathy in the American electorate, producing ever-lower voter...and then offered his own Contract with the American Family. Reeds agenda included easing legal...
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God and Race in American Politics: A Short History

Book by Mark A. Noll; Princeton University Press, 2008

Subjects:

African Americans--Civil Rights--History, African Americans--Intellectual Life, African Americans--Religion, Christianity And Politics--United States--History, United States--Politics And Government--19th Century, United States--Politics And Government--2001-2009, United States--Politics And Government--20th Century, United States--Race Relations--Political Aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...contextual work on African-American appropriation of Scripture...Rodman, eds., African Americans and the Bible: Sacred...Talking Book: African Americans and the Bible (New...which dates from the 1940s, see James Hitchcock...Court and Religion in American Life, vol. 1: The...Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment...
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The Farrakhan Phenomenon: Race, Reaction, and the Paranoid Style in American Politics

Book by Robert Singh; Georgetown University Press, 1997

Subjects:

African Americans--Politics And Government, Farrakhan, Louis, Hate--Political Aspects--United States, United States--Politics And Government--1989-, United States--Race Relations

Collections: History, Entire Library

...history, suggested that a politics of extremism that had...fringes of national American political life was increasingly...itself, a view that the politics of the 104th Congress...interest in extremist politics in America, but the...impulses among African-Americans was once more compounded...McCarthyism during the 1940s and early 1950s have...

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Journal Articles on: 1940s american politics

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Book Review Essay: Ministers at Mid-Century: Canadian Politics and Politicians of the 1940s, '50S, and '60S

Journal article by Kevin J. Christiano; American Review of Canadian Studies, Vol. 34, 2004

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Books--Book reviews, Mackenzie King and the Prairie West (Book), Memoirs of a Very Civil Servant: Mackenzie King to Pierre Trudeau (Book), Pearson: The Unlikely Gladiator (Book), Walter Gordon and the Rise of Canadian Nationalism (Book)--Book reviews, he Diefenbaker Legacy: Canadian Politics, Law and Society Since 1957. (Book)

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...societies, a distrust of American influences, a strict...1962 he entered federal politics and was elected to the...departure from partisan politics, Gordon did not recede...Political History," The American Review of Canadian Studies...opinions about Canadian politics in this era, see his...
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Nisei Politics of Identity and American Popular Music in the 1930s and 1940s

Journal article by Susan Miyo Asai; Ethnic Studies Review, Vol. 32, 2009

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...ideology inherent in American life and how music...acceptance. The politics of identity frames...World War II. A politics of identity narrates...internment of Japanese Americans primarily from the West Coast in the 1940s. Cultural politics provides a useful...reveal whether American music, especially...
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Building a Democratic Political Order: Reshaping American Liberalism in the 1930s and 1940s

Journal article by Colin Gordon; The Historian, Vol. 61, 1999

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Books--Reviews, Building a Democratic Political Order: Reshaping American Liberalism in the 1930s and 1940s (Book)--Reviews

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...Political Order: Reshaping American Liberalism in the 1930s and 1940s by Colin Gordon Building...Liberalism in the 1930s and 1940s. By David Plotke...order in the 1930s and 1940s. David Plotkes goal...much light on American politics to conclude that...
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Political Tourists: Travellers from Australia to the Soviet Union in the 1920s-1940s

Journal article by Roger D. Markwick; The Australian Journal of Politics and History, Vol. 55, 2009

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Books--Book reviews, Political Tourists: Travellers from Australia to the Soviet Union in the 1920s-1940s (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Soviet Union in the 1920s-1940s. Edited by Sheila Fitzpatrick...Soviet Union in the 1920s-1940s, more than 12 are portrayed...different from European and North American fellow travellers in the 1930s and 1940s, although there were comparatively...
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The Anglophone Caribbean Immigrant and Partisan Politics in New York City, 1900-1972

Journal article by John C. Walter, James H. Rigali; Afro - Americans in New York Life and History, Vol. 30, 2006

Subjects:

American history, Blacks, Education, Immigration, Leadership, Political parties, Politics, Race relations, State government

Collections: Education, History, Entire Library

...the Spanish American War. THE CARIBBEAN...LURE OF PARTY POLITICS Many of these...contact with Americans, and from this...dedication to the politics and solution...increase African American influence and...support African Americans for electoral...first African American Borough President...but by the 1940s these expectations...But ethnic politics is the norm...

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Magazine Articles on: 1940s american politics

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Elizabeth Catlett: A Life in Art and Politics

Magazine article by Lowery Stokes Sims; American Visions, Vol. 13, April 1998

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African American women artists--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Catlett, Elizabeth--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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...contributions of African Americans to the war effort...Catletts work by the mid-1940s parallels that of her...dignified image of African Americans. When Catlett to Mexico...theme of the African-American woman. She had begun...her involvement in the politics of the Carver School...graphic work during the 1940s, she continued to work...
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Corporations and the Rise of American Conservatism

Magazine article by Kim Phillips-Fein; Renewal : a Journal of Labour Politics, Vol. 17, 2009

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Conservatism, Government spending, New Deal, Political activism, Political alliances, Political economy, Political parties, Politics, Recessions, War

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...liberal programme shifted the politics of the country far to the...consensus dominated American politics, especially around economics...and poor that had dominated American politics in the early years of the...standard of living for most Americans, as the economy grew without...
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The Broken Engine of Progressive Politics

Magazine article by Bruce Ackerman; The American Prospect, May-June 1998

Subjects:

Progressivism (United States politics)--Analysis

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...that blatantly religious politics has limited appeal in American life. At the same time...Charles Black imagined that American courts might lead a similar...protection" for those millions of Americans deprived of a fair starting...most serious challenge to American democracy in the next generation...
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Organizing like Jesus: the Politics of Faith-based Community Organizing

Magazine article by Shayna Strom; The Next American City, 2003

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Community organizations, Community support, Faith, Grass roots movement, Religion & politics, Religious congregations

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...what role they want to play in politics beyond the local level. All...explicitly engages in partisan politics and tries to address issues...groups.To influence national politics, the groups would not necessarily...individuals in every major American city might have some political...
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Ground Zero for Big Government: Special Interest Politics and the Porkbarrel Were Invented in New York City

Magazine article by Fred Siegel; The American Enterprise, Vol. 13, June 2002

Subjects:

Giuliani, Rudolph W.--Political activity, Koch, Edward I.--Political activity, LaGuardia, Fiorello--Political activity, Mayors--New York, New York, New York--Politics and government

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...government: special interest politics and the porkbarrel were...average of other big American cities. New York Citys...debt, and its mayoral politics. In a metropolis where...possible. In the early 1940s, while the U.S...York City and other American central cities more...New Yorkers and other Americans creating a different...

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Newspaper Articles on: 1940s american politics

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Baron of U.S. Politics: Digesting Data Is Easy for Him

Newspaper article by Kevin Chaffee; The Washington Times, September 12, 1997

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Baron of U.S. politics: Digesting data is easy...of the "Almanac of American Politics," the biennial 1...Rules Committee in the 1940s and 50s. He was born...has your passion for politics changed over the years...
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Wasteful Politics; Yucca Mountain Binds Kerry

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 8, 2004

Subjects:

Kerry, John F.

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Wasteful Politics; Yucca Mountain Binds...seems to me that some American politicians and intellectuals...the Manhattan Project in 1940s. There should be a site...most difficult task in American politics. I hope Mr. Kerry knows...
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Artistry Imperfect in 'Visual Politics'; Modern Protest Art at the Katzen

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 22, 2006

Subjects:

Exhibitions--Demonstrations and protests, Exhibitions--Political aspects, Exhibitions--Surveys

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...WASHINGTON TIMES "Visual Politics: The Art of Engagement," an exhibit at the American University Museum and...Californias art and artists in politics and culture since 1945...Nazi death camps of the 1940s to the current Iraqi...Discrimination and Identity Politics" (the worst segment...which the artist shows Americans driving tanks out...
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Black Migration to Suburbia Alters Big-City Politics: Middle-Class Flight a National Trend

Newspaper article by Thomas D. Elias; The Washington Times, January 3, 1999

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Los Angeles, California

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...suburbia alters big-city politics: Middle-class flight...change the ethnicity and politics of some large American cities. Blacks are...moving there in the 1940s and 50s: better schools...no Latino or Asian-American has mounted a serious...
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Student Politics Attracts Funding; National Parties Offer Resources

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, November 22, 2005

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Elections--Political aspects, Political parties--Political aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Student Politics Attracts Funding; National...independence in the 1940s. Railway Minister Lalu...background through student politics. Ironically, he banned...play a role in campus politics, including the far...Walker Williams, an American student who recently...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: 1940s american politics

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Supreme Court, United States

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...result of the Spanish American War, the court asserted...activities. The court of the 1940s, with seven appointments...internment of Japanese-Americans. The 1950s and 1960s...appointed the first African American, Thurgood Marshall...The Supreme Court in American Life (1986); David...Supreme Court in American Politics (1986); Archibald...
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Abstract Expressionism

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...City during the mid-1940s and attained singular prominence in American art in the following...abstract paintings of the 1940s were followed by images...abstract late in the 1940s and soon developed...Expressionism: Other Politics (1997); D. Craven...
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Indiana , State, United States

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...occupied mainly by Native American groups of the Miami...Acts ). During the American Revolution an expedition...established in 1787. Native Americans in the territory resisted...effectively ended Native American resistance in the Old...age. In the 1930s and 1940s, Wendell Willkie and...prominent figures in politics and journalism, respectively...
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Mexico , Country, North America

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...architecture , and Spanish American literature ). Economy From the mid-1940s through the 1970s...first president. Politics were dominated by...opening of the Inter-American Highway after the...Unlike most other American nations, Mexico...
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Lleras Camargo, Alberto

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...journalist, he entered politics as a Liberal, occupying...posts in the 1930s and 1940s. After his first short...director of the Pan-American Union (1947 48) and...the Organization of American States (1948 54...almost unique in the politics of the hemisphere...

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