7 research outputs found
COLA and Cartoons: A Showcase of Freshman Research At UNLV
Full text linkACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Professor McMahon and the students of his COLA 100 section wish to acknowledge the kind support this project received from the following members of the Lied Library staff:
Patricia Iannuzzi (Dean, University Libraries)
Vicki A. Nozero (Director, User Services)
Dan Werra (Media and Computer Services)
Priscilla Finley (Humanities Librarian
Conclusion-Cola and Cartoons: A Showcase of Freshman Research At UNLV
Full text linkThe decisions we make about politics and society are influenced by what we see and hear in the news. That is why political cartoons are so important. They present clear opinions on complicated matters in ways that transcend everyday language
The Global Dimensions of Irish Identity: Race, Nation, and the Popular Press, 1840-1880
Full text linkDavid T. Gleeson, ed. The Irish in the Atlantic World. The Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World Series. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2010. Pp. viii + 341. $69.95 (cloth).
No full textM. Alison Kibler , Censoring Racial Ridicule: Irish, Jewish, and African American Struggles over Race and Representation, 1890–1930 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015, 28.99 ebook). Pp. xii + 314. isbn
No full textThe Pages of Whiteness: Theory, Evidence, and the American Immigration Debate
Full text linkThe author traces the growth and decline of whiteness studies over the past two and a half decades, from the publication of David Roediger’s The Wages of Whiteness in the early 1990s to the present day. Although it accurately identified race as a social construct in modern society, ‘whiteness’ also employed over-simplifications that ultimately undermined its critical relevance. Nonetheless, the author demonstrates how the colourful career of ‘whiteness’ as a scholarly concept can inform contemporary debates over immigration and identity
