American Dreams, American Nightmares
Author : David Madden
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Page : 229 pages
File Size : 19,55 MB
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Author : David Madden
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Page : 229 pages
File Size : 19,55 MB
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Author : Aarti Namdev Shahani
Publisher :
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 17,95 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Emigration and immigration
ISBN : 9781250264862
"Aarti Shahani’s memoir Here We Are: American Dreams, American Nightmares covers a lot of ground. It traces her family’s journey to a New York City tenement in 1981, travels to elite private schools and suburban neighborhoods, and lands in the criminal justice system. It’s the story of successes, failures, and how unwittingly selling electronics to a Colombian drug cartel shaped the lives of everyone in the Shahani family." -- Publisher
Author : Brian Tracy
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Page : pages
File Size : 14,38 MB
Release : 1987
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Author : Daniel Horowitz
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 21,71 MB
Release : 2022-11-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1469671514
Two decades punctuated by the financial crisis of the Great Recession and the public health crisis of COVID-19 have powerfully reshaped housing in America. By integrating social, economic, intellectual, and cultural histories, this illuminating work shows how powerful forces have both reflected and catalyzed shifts in the way Americans conceptualize what a house is for, in an era that has laid bare the larger structures and inequities of the economy. Daniel Horowitz casts an expansive net over a wide range of materials and sources. He shows how journalists and anthropologists have explored the impact of global economic forces on housing while filmmakers have depicted the home as a theater where danger lurks as elites gamble with the fates of the less fortunate. Real estate workshops and popular TV networks like HGTV teach home buyers how to flip—or flop—while online platforms like Airbnb make it possible to play house in someone else's home. And as the COVID pandemic took hold, many who had never imagined living out every moment at home found themselves cocooned there thanks to corporations like Amazon, Zoom, and Netflix.
Author : Brian Tracy
Publisher :
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 45,62 MB
Release : 1981
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9783506410856
Author : Aarti Namdev Shahani
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 44,68 MB
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1250204739
Here We Are is a heart-wrenching memoir about an immigrant family's American Dream, the justice system that took it away, and the daughter who fought to get it back, from NPR correspondent Aarti Namdev Shahani. The Shahanis came to Queens—from India, by way of Casablanca—in the 1980s. They were undocumented for a few unsteady years and then, with the arrival of their green cards, they thought they'd made it. This is the story of how they did, and didn't; the unforeseen obstacles that propelled them into years of disillusionment and heartbreak; and the strength of a family determined to stay together. Here We Are: American Dreams, American Nightmares follows the lives of Aarti, the precocious scholarship kid at one of Manhattan's most elite prep schools, and her dad, the shopkeeper who mistakenly sells watches and calculators to the notorious Cali drug cartel. Together, the two represent the extremes that coexist in our country, even within a single family, and a truth about immigrants that gets lost in the headlines. It isn’t a matter of good or evil; it's complicated. Ultimately, Here We Are is a coming-of-age story, a love letter from an outspoken modern daughter to her soft-spoken Old World father. She never expected they'd become best friends.
Author : David Madden
Publisher : Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 13,91 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Literary Collections
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The pursuit of the American Dream, supposedly shaped by the edenic promises of the American land, has engaged our writers from the beginning, and much of our literature has come out of the national literary experience thus expressed. This collection of nineteen original, unpublished essays written for this book is particularly relevant today, when our collective field of vision seems obscured, and when the American Dream seems to have become a cliché, symbolic of the Dream defunct. The nineteen critics here presented include, among others, Leslie Fiedler, Oscar Cargill, Maxwell Geismar, Jules Chametzky, Louis Filler, and Ihab Hassan. Most of them seem to agree with the view expressed by the majority of our best creative writers: that in pursuing the American Dream, America has created a nightmare. Taken together, the nineteen essays provide a comprehensive view of American literature, past and present, as it has dealt with the Dream; but the emphasis is on modern works and present social, cultural, and political problems--poverty, war, and racism. Ten of the essays focus on such key works as Herman Melville's "The Two Temples," F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, William Faulkner's "The Bear," Thomas Wolfe's You Can't Go Home Again, Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, and Norman Mailer's Why Are We in Vietnam?
Author : James H. Cone
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 48,89 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0883448246
Reexamines the ideology of the two most prominent leaders of the civil rights movement of the 1960s
Author : Kirsten Fermaglich
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 34,15 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781584655497
A unique contribution to America's encounter with Holocaust memory that links the use of Nazi imagery to liberal politics
Author : Aarti Namdev Shahani
Publisher : Celadon Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 34,50 MB
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781250204745
Here We Are is a heart-wrenching memoir about an immigrant family's American Dream, the justice system that took it away, and the daughter who fought to get it back, from NPR correspondent Aarti Namdev Shahani. The Shahanis came to Queens—from India, by way of Casablanca—in the 1980s. They were undocumented for a few unsteady years and then, with the arrival of their green cards, they thought they'd made it. This is the story of how they did, and didn't; the unforeseen obstacles that propelled them into years of disillusionment and heartbreak; and the strength of a family determined to stay together. Here We Are: American Dreams, American Nightmares follows the lives of Aarti, the precocious scholarship kid at one of Manhattan's most elite prep schools, and her dad, the shopkeeper who mistakenly sells watches and calculators to the notorious Cali drug cartel. Together, the two represent the extremes that coexist in our country, even within a single family, and a truth about immigrants that gets lost in the headlines. It isn’t a matter of good or evil; it's complicated. Ultimately, Here We Are is a coming-of-age story, a love letter from an outspoken modern daughter to her soft-spoken Old World father. She never expected they'd become best friends.