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Geschiedenisboeken, Verenigde Staten

Margot Mifflin – Looking for Miss America

Margot Mifflin Looking for Miss America recensie en informatie over de inhoud van dit boek over de geschiedenis van 100 jaar Miss America verkiezing. Op 4 augustus 2020 bij Uitgeverij Counterpoint Press het nieuwe geschiedenisboek van de Amerikaanse schrijfster Margot Mifflin.

Margot Mifflin Looking for Miss America Recensie en Informatie

Als de redactie het boek gelezen heeft, kun je op deze pagina de recensie en waardering vinden van het boek over Amerika aan de hand van de Miss America verkiezing, Looking for Miss America. Het boek is geschreven door Margot Mifflin. Daarnaast zijn hier gegevens van de uitgave en bestelmogelijkheden opgenomen. Bovendien kun je op deze pagina informatie lezen over de inhoud van het nieuwe boek van de Amerikaanse schrijfster Margot Mifflin.

Margot Mifflin Looking for Mis America

Looking for Miss America

A Paegent’s 100-Year Quest to Define Womanhood

  • Schrijfster: Margot Mifflin (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: geschiedenisboek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Counterpoint Press
  • Verschenen: 4 augustus 2020
  • Omvang: 320 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: Gebonden Boek

Flaptekst van het boek over de geschiedenis van Miss America

Looking for Miss America is a fast-paced narrative history of a curious and contradictory institution. From its start in 1921 as an Atlantic City tourist draw to its current incarnation as a scholarship competition, the pageant has indexed women’s status during periods of social change–the post-suffrage 1920s, the Eisenhower 1950s, the #MeToo era. This ever-changing institution has been shaped by war, evangelism, the rise of television and reality TV, and, significantly, by contestants who confounded expectations.

Spotlighting individuals, from Yolande Betbeze, whose refusal to pose in swimsuits led an angry sponsor to launch the rival Miss USA contest, to the first black winner, Vanessa Williams, who received death threats and was protected by sharpshooters in her hometown parade, Margot Mifflin shows how women made hard bargains even as they used the pageant for economic advancement. The pageant’s history includes, crucially, those it excluded; the notorious Rule Seven, which required contestants to be “of the white race,” was retired in the 1950s, but no women of color were crowned until the 1980s.

In rigorously researched, vibrant chapters that unpack each decade of the pageant, Looking for Miss America examines the heady blend of capitalism, patriotism, class anxiety, and cultural mythology that has fueled this American ritual.

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Geschiedenisboeken, Olympische Spelen, Sport

Olympic Pride, American Prejudice

Olympic Pride American Prejudice boek over de Afro-Amerikaanse atleten die deelnamen aan de Olympische Spelen van 1936, geschreven door Deborah Riley Draper en Travis Thrasner. Op 4 februari 2020 is bij Uitgeverij Atria Books dit boek verschenen met het nog niet vertelde verhaal van de achttien Afro-Amerikaanse atleten ondanks alle vooroordelen en discriminatie toch deelnamen aan de Olympische Spelen van Adolf Hitler in Berlijn.

Olympic Pride American Prejudice Recensie en Informatie

Als de redactie het boek leest, kun je op deze pagina de recensie en waardering vinden van deze Amerikaanse sportgeschiedenis boek, Olympic Pride, American Prejudice van Deborah Riley Draper, Travis Thrasner. Daarnaast zijn hier gegevens van de uitgave en bestelmogelijkheden opgenomen. Bovendien kun je op deze pagina informatie lezen over de inhoud van dit bijzonder geschiedenisboek.

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Olympic Pride, American Prejudice

The untold story of 18 African Americans who defied Jim Crow and Adolf Hitler to compete in the 1936 Berlin Olympics

  • Schrijvers: Deborah Riley Draper, Travis Thrasner (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: geschiedenisboek, sportboek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Atria Books
  • Verschenen: 4 februari 2020
  • Omvang: 400 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: Gebonden Boek / Ebook

Flaptekst van het boek over Afro-Amerikaanse atleten tijdens de Berlijnse Spelen van 1936

Discover the astonishing, inspirational, and largely unknown true story of the eighteen African American athletes who competed in the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, defying the racism of both Nazi Germany and the Jim Crow South.

Set against the turbulent backdrop of a segregated United States, sixteen black men and two black women are torn between boycotting the Olympic Games in Nazi Germany or participating. If they go, they would represent a country that considered them second-class citizens and would compete amid a strong undercurrent of Aryan superiority that considered them inferior. Yet, if they stayed, would they ever have a chance to prove them wrong on a global stage? To be better than anyone ever expected

Five athletes, full of discipline and heart, guide readers through this harrowing and inspiring journey. There’s a young and sometimes feisty Tidye Pickett from Chicago, whose lithe speed makes her the first African American woman to compete in the Olympic Games; a quiet Louise Stokes from Malden, Massachusetts, who breaks records across the Northeast with humble beginnings training on railroad tracks. We find Mack Robinson in Pasadena, California, setting an example for his younger brother, Jackie Robinson; and the unlikely competitor Archie Williams, a lanky book-smart teen in Oakland takes home a gold medal. Then there’s Ralph Metcalfe, born in Atlanta and raised in Chicago, who becomes the wise and fierce big brother of the group. Drawing on over five years of research, Draper and Thrasher bring to life a timely story of perseverance and the will to beat unsurmountable odds.

From burning crosses set on the Robinsons’s lawn to a Pennsylvania small town on fire with praise and parades when the athletes return from Berlin, Olympic Pride, American Prejudice is full of emotion, grit, political upheaval, and the American dream. Capturing a powerful and untold chapter of history, the narrative is also a celebration of the courage, commitment, and accomplishments of these talented athletes and their impact on race, sports and inclusion around the world.

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Geschiedenisboeken, Journalistieke boeken, Non-Fictie

Jerry Mitchell – Race Against Time

Jerry Mitchell Race Against Time recensie en informatie over dit boek over de moord op drie burgerrechtenactivisten door de ku klux klan in 1964. Op 4 februari 2020 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Simon & Schuster dit boek van de Amerikaanse journalist en schrijver Jerry Mitchell. Er is nog geen Nederlandse vertaling van dit boek aangekondigd.

Jerry Mitchell Race Against Time Recensie en Informatie

Als de redactie het boek leest, kun je op deze pagina de recensie en waardering vinden van dit journalistiek non-fictie boek, Race Against Time van Jerry Mitchell. Daarnaast zijn hier gegevens van de uitgave en bestelmogelijkheden opgenomen. Bovendien kun je op deze pagina informatie lezen over de inhoud van dit boek over de moord op drie burgerrechtenactivisten door de ku klux klan in 1964.

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Race Against Time

A reporter reopens the unsolved murder cases of the Civil Rights era

  • Schrijver: Jerry Mitchell (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: geschiedenisboek, non-fictie
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 4 februari 2020
  • Omvang: 432 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: Gebonden Boek

Flaptekst van het boek van Jerry Mitchell

On June 21, 1964, more than twenty Klansmen murdered three civil rights workers. The killings, in what would become known as the “Mississippi Burning” case, were among the most brazen acts of violence during the Civil Rights Movement. And even though the killers’ identities, including the sheriff’s deputy, were an open secret, no one was charged with murder in the months and years that followed.

It took forty-one years before the mastermind was brought to trial and finally convicted for the three innocent lives he took. If there is one man who helped pave the way for justice, it is investigative reporter Jerry Mitchell.

In Race Against Time, Mitchell takes readers on the twisting, pulse-racing road that led to the reopening of four of the most infamous killings from the days of the Civil Rights Movement, decades after the fact. His work played a central role in bringing killers to justice for the assassination of Medgar Evers, the firebombing of Vernon Dahmer, the 16th Street Church bombing in Birmingham and the Mississippi Burning case. Mitchell reveals how he unearthed secret documents, found long-lost suspects and witnesses, building up evidence strong enough to take on the Klan. He takes us into every harrowing scene along the way, as when Mitchell goes into the lion’s den, meeting one-on-one with the very murderers he is seeking to catch. His efforts have put four leading Klansmen behind bars, years after they thought they had gotten away with murder.

Race Against Time is an astonishing, courageous story capturing a historic race for justice, as the past is uncovered, clue by clue, and long-ignored evils are brought into the light. This is a landmark book and essential reading for all Americans.

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