Many voices, one nation : material culture reflections on race and migration in the United States / edited by Margaret Salazar-Porzio and Joan Fragaszy Troyano, with Lauren Safranek.

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

Salazar-Porzio, Margaret, editor.

Troyano, Joan Fragaszy, editor.

Safranek, Lauren.

Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, publisher.

Series:

Smithsonian contribution to knowledge

A Smithsonian contribution to knowledge.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minorities--United States--History.

Minorities.

United States.

History.

Immigrants--United States--History.

Immigrants.

United States--Emigration and immigration--History.

Emigration and immigration.

United States--Race relations--History.

Race relations.

United States--Social life and customs.

Manners and customs.

United States--Civilization.

Civilization.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

v, 300 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2017.

Summary:

"Many Voices, One Nation: Material Culture Reflections on Race and Migration in the United States shares in print the important stories, artifacts, images, and events featured in the National Museum of American History's eponymous exhibit. Through sixteen carefully selected essays from Smithsonian curators and affiliated scholars, this book reaches a broad audience and makes a major contribution to historical scholarship on the peopling of the United States and the field of material culture. Essays demonstrate how artifacts can be read to better understand issues related to nation, race and migration that have informed social interactions and cultural narratives locally, nationally, and globally. American culture and society emerges from exchanges between natives and newcomers, and these interactions constantly transform and enrich the nation. The variety of American stories and objects included in this volume brings our seemingly disparate pasts together to inspire possibilities for a shared future as we constantly reinterpret our e pluribus unum - our nation of many voices."--Provided by the publisher.

Contents:

Welcome / John L. Gray

Foreword / Gary Gerstle

Introduction / Margaret Salazar-Porzio and Joan Fragaszy Troyano

Unsettling the continent, 1492-1776 / Barbara Clark Smith

Exploring the colonial history of New Mexico through artifacts / Ramón A. Gutiérrez

Native American objects of memory and journey from the National Museum of the American Indian / Christopher Lindsay Turner

Now/then, we/them? Toward a more global U.S. history / John Kwo Wei Tchen

Creating and expanding the nation / Bonnie Campbell Lilienfeld

Communities of refuge in frontier Illinois / Nancy Davis

African American expression in antebellum America: the story of Dave Drake / Kym Rice

Lady in the harbor: the Statue of Liberty as American Icon / Alan M. Kraut

Contesting the nation, 1900-1965 / Fath Davis Ruffins

Education and Americanization: the language of community / Joan Fragaszy Troyano and Debbie Scaefer-Jacobs

Chicago's "concentric zones": thinking through the material history of an iconic map / Davarian L. Baldwin

Pulling at the threads: a Korean American diptych / Sojin Kim

New Americans, continuing debates, 1965-2014 / Margaret Salazar-Porzio

Old south, new migrations / L. Stephen Velasquez

Beyond apology and assertion in Beyond Bollywood / Masum Momaya

The desert colossus: fragments of twenty-first-century undocumented migration / Jason de León

Epilogue: our polycultural past and future century / Scott Kurashige.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781944466091

1944466096

OCLC:

958141304