The Ellis Island Snow Globe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Ellis Island Snow Globe write by Erica Rand. This book was released on 2005-09-07. The Ellis Island Snow Globe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In The Ellis Island Snow Globe, Erica Rand, author of the smart and entertaining book Barbie’s Queer Accessories, takes readers on an unconventional tour of Ellis Island, the migration station turned heritage museum, and its neighbor, the Statue of Liberty. By pausing to reflect on what is and is not on display at these two iconic national monuments, Rand focuses attention on whose heritage is honored and whose obscured. She also reveals the shifting connections between sex, money, material products, and ideas of the nation in everything from the ostensible father-mother-child configuration on an Ellis Island golf ball purchased at the gift shop to the multi-million dollar July 4, 1986 Liberty Weekend extravaganza celebrating the Statue’s centennial just days after the Supreme Court’s un-Libertylike decision upholding the antisodomy laws challenged in Bowers v. Hardwick. Rand notes that portrayals of the Statue of Liberty as a beacon for immigrants tend to suppress the Statue’s connections to people brought to this country by force. She examines what happened to migrants at Ellis Island whose bodies did not match the gender suggested by the clothing they wore. In light of contemporary ideas about safety and security, she examines the “Decide an Immigrant’s Fate” program, which has visitors to Ellis Island act as a 1910 board of inspectors hearing the appeal of an immigrant about to be excluded from the country. Rand is a witty, insightful, and open-minded tour guide, able to synthesize numerous diverse ideas—about tourism, immigration history, sexuality, race, ethnicity, commodity culture, and global capitalism—and to candidly convey her delight in her Ellis Island snow globe. And pen. And lighter. And back scratcher. And golf ball. And glittery pink key chain.
Celebrating Snow Globes
Celebrating Snow Globes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Celebrating Snow Globes write by Nina Chertoff. This book was released on 2006-10. Celebrating Snow Globes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. All it takes is a shake of the wrist to make the flakes fall on Santa’s sleigh, Elvis’s hips, or the Statue of Liberty’s torch--creating a miniature world in each snow globe. From the ornate to the political, from children’s characters to American cities and personalities, these colorful images will propel collectors back to their curio cabinets to watch a dazzling display and set the rest of us out on a lovely nostalgic trip. Each picture comes with a description that gives the history of the piece--going back to the time when snow globes weren’t just tourist souvenirs but depictions of the most romantic sites on earth. Find out where they were first created, which companies specialized in making them, and why they’re so irresistible.
Tourists of History
Tourists of History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tourists of History write by Marita Sturken. This book was released on 2007-11. Tourists of History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. DIVStudy of how the memorials created in Oklahoma City and at the World Trade Center site raise questions about the relationship between cultural memory and consumerism./div
Closing the Golden Door
Closing the Golden Door - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Closing the Golden Door write by Anna Pegler-Gordon. This book was released on 2021-10-28. Closing the Golden Door available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The immigration station at New York's Ellis Island opened in 1892 and remained the largest U.S. port for immigrant entry until World War I. In popular memory, Ellis Island is typically seen as a gateway for Europeans seeking to join the "great American melting pot." But as this fresh examination of Ellis Island's history reveals, it was also a major site of immigrant detention and exclusion, especially for Chinese, Japanese, and other Asian travelers and maritime laborers who reached New York City from Europe, the Americas and the Caribbean, and even within the United States. And from 1924 to 1954, the station functioned as a detention camp and deportation center for a range of people deemed undesirable. Anna Pegler-Gordon draws on immigrants' oral histories and memoirs, government archives, newspapers, and other sources to reorient the history of migration and exclusion in the United States. In chronicling the circumstances of those who passed through or were detained at Ellis Island, she shows that Asian exclusion was both larger in scope and more limited in force than has been previously recognized.
American Civil Religion
American Civil Religion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Civil Religion write by Peter Gardella. This book was released on 2014. American Civil Religion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Peter Gardella explores the monuments, texts, and images that embody the spirit of the United States.
