The WPA Guide to the Minnesota Arrowhead Country, Federal Writer`s Project
Автор: Federal Writers` Project, Works Progress Administration Название: Vermont: A Guide to the Green Mountain State ISBN: 1258793288 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781258793289 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 8083.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Stewart Catherine A. Название: Long Past Slavery: Representing Race in the Federal Writers` Project ISBN: 1469626268 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469626260 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 5010.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: From 1936 to 1939, the New Deal's Federal Writers' Project collected life stories from more than 2,300 former African American slaves. These narratives are now widely used as a source to understand the lived experience of those who made the transition from slavery to freedom. But in this examination of the project and its legacy, Catherine A. Stewart shows it was the product of competing visions of the past, as ex-slaves' memories of bondage, emancipation, and life as freedpeople were used to craft arguments for and against full inclusion of African Americans in society. Stewart demonstrates how project administrators, such as the folklorist John Lomax; white and black interviewers, including Zora Neale Hurston; and the ex-slaves themselves fought to shape understandings of black identity. She reveals that some influential project employees were also members of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, intent on memorializing the Old South. Stewart places ex-slaves at the center of debates over black citizenship to illuminate African Americans' struggle to redefine their past as well as their future in the face of formidable opposition.By shedding new light on a critically important episode in the history of race, remembrance, and the legacy of slavery in the United States, Stewart compels readers to rethink a prominent archive used to construct that history.
Описание: During the Great Depression, Henry Alsberg, a journalist with a passion for social justice, directed the Federal Writers' Project, a New Deal program of the Works Progress Administration. Under his guidance, thousands of unemployed writers were hired. Despite attacks from the House Committee on Un-American Activities, the Project produced more than 1,000 publications from 1935 to 1939, including some literary masterpieces and the still highly acclaimed American Guide series. Some writers, such as Richard Wright, went on to storied careers. Alsberg also led the Project's unprecedented collection of more than 10,000 oral histories from ex-slaves, immigrants and others.Alsberg volunteered to aid Jewish pogrom survivors in Eastern Europe, initiating the first major effort to assist international political prisoners. His friends included anarchist revolutionary Emma Goldman and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. This book brings Alsberg to light as an important but forgotten figure of the 20th-century.
