Cultural History
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From  NEW! Red Wine and EmpanadasThe Sauce |
John Lorinc discusses Salvador Allende and his use of food (empanadas) to present a strong Chilean identity, national identities and food, food and politics, empanada as a symbol of nationalist … | John Lorinc | 5 | 2022 | $0.50 Add |
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From  ReferencesFrom: Family Ties |
This "chapter" is a list of references and endnotes. | Peter McFarlane | 23 | 2024 | $2.30 Add |
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From  Regurgitations: What’s Left? |
In this chapter, Filippi traces how roughly eighty years of Italian colonial rule, spanning the late nineteenth to early twenty-first centuries, left enduring marks on language, cinema, and … | Francesco Filippi | 26 | 2024 | $2.60 Add |
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From  RememberingFrom: Earthkeeping |
Part Eight contains the sections: Neil Van Nostrand, Ecologist, Hezekiah and the Pine, A Rose for Mary Matilda, Remembering Lucy and Helen, Lloyd S. Hawboldt, and Bug Man. These stories are about … | Gary Saunders | 31 | 2022 | $3.10 Add |
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From  Responding to Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson & Claiming the Power of Native VoiceFrom: Bigotry on Broadway |
The author recounts her shock and offense at the play Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, which, as she explores in this essay, is ahistorical and includes racist and problematic represenations of … | Betsy Theobald Richards | 10 | 2021 | $1.00 Add |
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From  Romantic Winter: The Season SightFrom: Winter |
In this chapter, Gopnik traces how humanity’s relationship with winter evolved from classical mythology through to the modern era, highlighting figures like William Cowper, Caspar David … | Adam Gopnik | 50 | 2011 | $5.00 Add |
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From Russian RocketsFrom: Family Ties |
This chapter focuses on the author’s visit to Western Ukraine in the fall of 2022, and discusses the failed attempts made by Canada and the United States to unite the Global South against … | Peter McFarlane | 22 | 2024 | $2.20 Add |
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From  Sambo and Uncle RemusFrom: Uncle |
This chapter explores the creation and career of two other stock characters: Sambo and Uncle Remus, both of whom share important charactaristics with Uncle Tom. | Cheryl Thompson | 7 | 2021 | $0.70 Add |
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From NEW! Sink or Swim: A Riff on the Essence of the Matzo BallThe Wrapper |
David Buchbinder reflects on the matzo ball of Jewish culinary cuisine, what makes for the best matzo, preferences and generational traditions, Jewish traditions, and the power of food for a … | David Buchbinder | 9 | 2022 | $0.90 Add |
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From NEW! Siopao Is Not Just for KidsThe Wrapper |
Christina Gonzales discusses the Filipino siopao, how they attest to the history of the Philippines, colonization, cultural influence of Spanish, Chinese, and Americans on the islands, and her … | Christina Gonzales | 7 | 2022 | $0.70 Add |
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From Skeletons in the ClosetFrom: Family Ties |
This chapter discusses Canada’s modern understanding of its relationship to Axis powers, and the need for transparent political accountability rather than a sanitized public memory. | Peter McFarlane | 4 | 2024 | $0.40 Add |
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From  NEW! Slave-Descendants, Diaspora Subjects, and World CitizensPaul Gilroy’s Historical Sensibility From: Thinking While Black |
In this chapter the author further examines Paul Gilroy’s work and his contributions to cultural criticism and black academia. The topics explored in this chapter included, <Young Soul … | Daniel McNeil | 20 | 2022 | $2.00 Add |
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From Sleeping Car Porters and Uncle BenFrom: Uncle |
This chapter examines railway sleeping cars, the Black men who served as porters to tourists on the rails, and how these men were forced to conform to the Uncle Tom stereotype. | Cheryl Thompson | 8 | 2021 | $0.80 Add |
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From NEW! Solid, Glutinous, and ToothsomeThe Wrapper |
André Alexis reflects on the Trinidadian dumplings of the island of his birth, ideas of belonging and not belonging in the identity of first generation immigrants, food cultures and taboos, … | André Alexis | 5 | 2022 | $0.50 Add |
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From Song of the South and Uncle Remus’s ReturnFrom: Uncle |
This chapter explores Song of the South, a 1944 Disney movie that featured Uncle Remus. | Cheryl Thompson | 12 | 2021 | $1.20 Add |
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From South Pacific, Miss Saigon, Soft Power and MeFrom: Bigotry on Broadway |
This author recounts her experiences and perceptions of Anti-Asian bigotry in theatre/Broadway. | Aimee Phan | 10 | 2021 | $1.00 Add |
