American Identities An Introductory Textbook [Paperback]

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• 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.

Alternative Contents by Genre x

Preface: How to Use This Book xiii

Acknowledgments xiv

Introduction 1

PART I IDENTITY, FAMILY, AND MEMORY 6

Understanding Identity

1 Identities and Social Locations: Who Am I? Who Are My People? 8
Gwyn Kirk and Margo Okazawa-Rey

American Families in Historical Perspective

2 What We Really Miss About the 1950s 17
Stephanie Coontz

Memory and Community

3 Generational Memory in an American Town 29
John Bodnar

4 Growing Up Asian in America 39