E-Books → Autumn Lightning The Education of an American Samurai

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Free Download Dave Lowry, "Autumn Lightning: The Education of an American Samurai"
English | 2013 | pages: 208 | ISBN: 1570621152 | EPUB | 1,4 mb
Dave Lowry juxtaposes his singular experience as an adept student of kenjutsu (the art of swordsmanship) under a Japanese teacher in St. Louis with a riveting account of the samurai tradition in Japan. Intertwining tales of the masters with reflections on his own apprenticeship in the samurai's arts, he reveals in their time-honored methods a way of life with profound relevance to modern times. The result is a fascinating, singular autobiography. Lowry captures the sense of wonder and mystery that makes martial arts compelling to so many practitioners. Even those who do not practice martial arts will delight in this unusual coming-of-age story.

E-Books → Asian–American Historical Crossing of a Racial Frontier

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Free Download Asian-American: Historical Crossing of a Racial Frontier By David Palumbo-Liu
1999 | 516 Pages | ISBN: 0804734445 | EPUB | 2 MB
This book argues that the invention of Asian American identities serves as an index to the historical formation of modern America. By tracing constructions of "Asian American" to an interpenetrating dynamic between Asia and America, the author obtains a deeper understanding of key issues in American culture, history, and society.The formation of America in the twentieth century has had everything to do with "westward expansion" across the "Pacific frontier" and the movement of Asians onto American soil. After the passage of the last piece of anti-Asian legislation in the 1930's, the United States found it had to grapple with both the presence of Asians already in America and the imperative to develop its neocolonial interests in East Asia. The author argues that, under these double imperatives, a great wall between "Asian" and "American" is constructed precisely when the two threatened to merge. Yet the very incompleteness of American identity has allowed specific and contingent fusion of "Asian" and "American" at particular historical junctures.From the importation of Asian labor in the mid-nineteenth century, the territorialization of Hawaii and the Philippines in the late-nineteenth century, through wars with Japan, Korea, and Vietnam and the Cold War with China, to today's Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation group, the United States in the modern age has seen its national identity as strongly attached to the Pacific. As this has taken place, so has the formation of a variety of Asian American identities. Each contains a specific notion of America and reveals a particular conception of "Asian" and "American."Complicating the usual notion of "identity politics" and drawing on a wide range of writings-sociological, historical, cultural, medical, anthropological, geographic, economic, journalistic, and political-the author studies both how the formation of these identifications discloses the response of America to the presence of Asians and how Asian Americans themselves have inhabited these roles and resisted such categorizations, inventing their own particular subjectivities as Americans.

E-Books → Animation and the American Imagination A Brief History

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Free Download Animation and the American Imagination: A Brief History by Gordon B. Arnold
English | November 28, 2016 | ISBN: 1440833591 | True EPUB | 296 pages | 3.6 MB
Providing a detailed historical overview of animated film and television in the United States over more than a century, this book examines animation within the U.S. film and television industry as well as in the broader sociocultural context.

E-Books → An American Quilt Unfolding a Story of Family and Slavery (2024)

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Free Download Rachel May, "An American Quilt: Unfolding a Story of Family and Slavery"
English | 2018 | pages: 416 | ISBN: 1681774178, 1643132369 | EPUB | 158,3 mb
Following the trail left by an unfinished quilt, this illuminating saga examines slavery from the cotton fields of the South to the textile mills of New England-and the humanity behind it.

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