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"Do you know if you are going to heaven?" Shortly after being appointed the first Director of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives-the "faith czar"-John J. DiIulio Jr. was asked this question. Suddenly DiIulio, a Catholic Democrat who pioneered programs for inner-city children, was acutely aware that he was no longer a private citizen who might have humored the television evangelist standing before him. Now he was, as he recalls in his introduction-"responsible for assisting the president in faithfully upholding the Constitution . . . and faithfully acting in the public interest without regard to religious identities." Using his brief tenure in the George W. Bush administration as a springboard, this lively, informative, and entertaining book leaps into the ongoing debate over whether as a nation America is Christian or secular and to what degree church-state separation is compelled by the Constitution. Avoiding political pieties, DiIulio makes an impassioned case for a middle way. Written by a leading political scholar, Godly Republic offers a fast-paced, faith-inspired, and fact-based approach to enhancing America's civic future for one and all.
Christianity and politics --- Religion and politics --- United States --- Church history. --- academic. --- afterlife. --- american history. --- catholic. --- catholicism. --- christian faith. --- christian living. --- christian. --- christianity. --- civic. --- community initiatives. --- democracy. --- democrat. --- faith based community. --- faith based. --- faith. --- heaven. --- morals. --- political scholar. --- political. --- politics. --- religious identity. --- scholarly. --- televangelist. --- united states history. --- us history.
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A study of the Ford Foundation's support and of funding of human rights projects and NGOs, illuminating its extraordinary role in helping undermine and destroy major world repressive authoritarian and totalitarian regimes during the latter part of the twentieth century.
Human rights --- Human rights. --- Droits de l'homme --- Droits de l'homme. --- Femmes --- Einfluss. --- Menschenrechtspolitik. --- Droits. --- Ford Foundation --- Ford Foundation. --- Ford foundation --- History. --- Histoire. --- Geschichte. --- Social justice --- United States-History --- History, Modern --- Political theory --- Political science --- World history --- Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights --- US History --- Modern History --- Political Theory --- Political Philosophy --- World History, Global and Transnational History --- Political philosophy --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Modern history --- World history, Modern --- Equality --- Justice --- Universal history --- History --- Philosophy --- E-books
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Proud to Be an Okie brings to life the influential country music scene that flourished in and around Los Angeles from the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930's to the early 1970's. The first work to fully illuminate the political and cultural aspects of this intriguing story, the book takes us from Woody Guthrie's radical hillbilly show on Depression-era radio to Merle Haggard's "Okie from Muskogee" in the late 1960's. It explores how these migrant musicians and their audiences came to gain a sense of identity through music and mass media, to embrace the New Deal, and to celebrate African American and Mexican American musical influences before turning toward a more conservative outlook. What emerges is a clear picture of how important Southern California was to country music and how country music helped shape the politics and culture of Southern California and of the nation.
Popular culture --- Music --- Country music --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- Art music --- Art music, Western --- Classical music --- Musical compositions --- Musical works --- Serious music --- Western art music --- Western music (Western countries) --- Country and western music --- Hillbilly music --- Western and country music --- Folk music --- Popular music --- Old-time music --- History --- Political aspects. --- History and criticism. --- Country music - California - History and criticism. --- 1930s. --- 1960s. --- 1970s. --- 20th century. --- america. --- american music. --- country music scene. --- country music. --- cultural history. --- cultural politics. --- depression era. --- dust bowl migration. --- great depression. --- hillbilly. --- identity. --- los angeles. --- mass media. --- mass migration. --- merle haggard. --- migrant musicians. --- migration. --- music and culture. --- music historians. --- music history. --- new deal. --- oklahoma. --- political history. --- regional history. --- southern california. --- united states. --- us history. --- woody guthrie.
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This study discovers how contemporary writers have imagined possible relationships between African American and white women that overcome the stereotypical patterns of racism, using novels and autobiographies and focusing on works by William Faulkner, Lillian Hellman, Audre Lorde, Kaye Gibbons, Elizabeth Cox, Sherley Anne Wiliams, and Toni Morrison.
African American women in literature --- Afro-Amerikaanse vrouwen in de literatuur --- Amitié interraciale dans la littérature --- Faulkner, William, 1897-1962. Requiem for a Nun --- Femme (Théologie chrétienne) dans la littérature --- Femmes afro-américaines dans la littérature --- Femmes dans la littérature --- Femmes dans la poésie --- Femmes dans le théâtre --- Interracial friendship in literature --- Interraciale vriendschap in de literatuur --- Race dans la littérature --- Race in literature --- Ras in de literatuur --- Vrouw (Christelijke theologie) in de literatuur --- Vrouwen in de literatuur --- Vrouwen in de poëzie --- Vrouwen in het toneel --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in literature --- Women in poetry --- Sociology of culture --- Fiction --- Sociology of minorities --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Literature --- Morrison, Toni --- Hellman, Lillian --- Lorde, Audre --- United States --- American literature --- Interracial friendship --- Friendship --- Race relations --- Afro-American women in literature --- History and criticism --- Cox, Elizabeth --- Gibbons, Kaye --- 20th century --- Criticism and interpretation --- Williams, Sherley Anne --- America-Literatures. --- Sociology. --- Literature-Philosophy. --- Culture-Study and teaching. --- United States-History. --- History, Modern. --- North American Literature. --- Gender Studies. --- Literary Theory. --- Cultural Theory. --- US History. --- Modern History. --- United States of America --- Race --- Relationships --- Women --- Whiteness --- Blackness --- Book
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In the 1930's and 40's, Los Angeles became an unlikely cultural sanctuary for a distinguished group of German artists and intellectuals-including Thomas Mann, Theodore W. Adorno, Bertolt Brecht, Fritz Lang, and Arnold Schoenberg-who had fled Nazi Germany. During their years in exile, they would produce a substantial body of major works to address the crisis of modernism that resulted from the rise of National Socialism. Weimar Germany and its culture, with its meld of eighteenth-century German classicism and twentieth-century modernism, served as a touchstone for this group of diverse talents and opinions. Weimar on the Pacific is the first book to examine these artists and intellectuals as a group. Ehrhard Bahr studies selected works of Adorno, Horkheimer, Brecht, Lang, Neutra, Schindler, Döblin, Mann, and Schoenberg, weighing Los Angeles's influence on them and their impact on German modernism. Touching on such examples as film noir and Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus, Bahr shows how this community of exiles reconstituted modernism in the face of the traumatic political and historical changes they were living through.
Jews, German --- Germans --- Modernism (Aesthetics) --- German Jews --- Ethnology --- Aesthetics --- Intellectual life. --- Los Angeles (Calif.) --- Los Anheles (Calif.) --- Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula (Calif.) --- Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels of Porciuncula (Calif.) --- Tʻien-shih-chih-chʻeng (Calif.) --- Tianshizhicheng (Calif.) --- Los Andzsheles (Calif.) --- Lo-shan-chi (Calif.) --- Loshanji (Calif.) --- Angeles (Calif.) --- Ciudad de Los Angeles (Calif.) --- Pueblo de Los Angeles (Calif.) --- Pueblo Los Angeles (Calif.) --- City of Los Angeles (Calif.) --- LA (Calif.) --- L.A. (Calif.) --- City of Angels (Calif.) --- لوس أنجلوس (Calif.) --- Lūs Anjilūs (Calif.) --- Los Anceles (Calif.) --- Горад Лос-Анджэлес (Calif.) --- Horad Los-Andz︠h︡ėles (Calif.) --- Лос-Анджэлес (Calif.) --- Los-Andz︠h︡ėles (Calif.) --- Лос Анджелис (Calif.) --- Los Andzhelis (Calif.) --- Λος Αντζελες (Calif.) --- Los Antzeles (Calif.) --- Los-Anĝeleso (Calif.) --- 로스앤젤레스 (Calif.) --- Losŭ Aenjellesŭ (Calif.) --- לוס אנג'לס (Calif.) --- Angelopolis (Calif.) --- Losandželosa (Calif.) --- Los Andželas (Calif.) --- Лос Анџелес (Calif.) --- Los Andželes (Calif.) --- ロサンゼルス (Calif.) --- Rosanzerusu (Calif.) --- ロサンゼルス市 (Calif.) --- Rosanzerusu-shi (Calif.) --- Los Anjeles (Calif.) --- Лос Андьелес (Calif.) --- Los Andʹeles (Calif.) --- Los Anxheles (Calif.) --- Лос Анђелес (Calif.) --- Our Lady Queen of the Angels (Calif.) --- Los Angeles City (Calif.) --- La La Land (Calif.) --- Intellectual life --- Exil. --- Intellektueller. --- Literatur. --- Moderne. --- Modernism (Aesthetics). --- Schriftsteller. --- 1900-1999. --- Geschichte 1933-1945. --- Modernism (Aesthetics) -- California -- Los Angeles.. --- Germans -- California -- Los Angeles -- Intellectual life.. --- Jews, German -- California -- Los Angeles -- Intellectual life.. --- Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. --- 18th century. --- 1930s. --- 1940s. --- 20th century. --- american history. --- arnold schoenberg. --- bertolt brecht. --- california. --- classicism. --- ehrhard bahr. --- exile. --- fritz lang. --- german artists. --- german modernism. --- germany. --- intellectual. --- los angeles. --- modernism. --- national socialism. --- pacific coast. --- schoenberg. --- socialism. --- southern california. --- theodore adorno. --- thomas mann. --- united states history. --- us history. --- weimer germany. --- weimer republic. --- west coast. --- western united states.
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