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Go Southwest, Old Man, a sort of personal remake of 'Go West, Young Man', the founding episteme of the American nineteenth century, conciliates these two souls (well, not to be pretentious, let's simply say two sides) that have actually always lived in harmony. This is a book generated by a quarter of a century spent wandering around the canyons and deserts of Arizona, Colorado, Utah and, above all New Mexico, with a view to penetrating the by now universal legend of the West, approaching the cultures (English, Hispanic and native American), and mastering the literature. The slant is composite: melding the scholarly with the informative and the travel journal, and the writing is composite too, because the book speaks English and Italian. It talks about cinema (lots of John Ford) and about detective stories, the most popular genre here, about visual arts and Latino folklore, about the legend of the West, the so-called 'Soul of the Southwest', and the kitsch style of Santa Fe. And it talks about (and with) some of the greatest writers that the Southwest has spawned: Rudolfo Anaya, Stanley Crawford, John Nichols and Hillerman. So what we have is a first-hand experience of the Southwest; where the ego is not entrenched within a precise disciplinary role but opens up – and exposes itself – to the thrilling risk of the discovery that can renew it.

Memoirs --- Stati Uniti d'America --- Viaggi --- Letteratura

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Go Southwest, Old Man, a sort of personal remake of 'Go West, Young Man', the founding episteme of the American nineteenth century, conciliates these two souls (well, not to be pretentious, let's simply say two sides) that have actually always lived in harmony. This is a book generated by a quarter of a century spent wandering around the canyons and deserts of Arizona, Colorado, Utah and, above all New Mexico, with a view to penetrating the by now universal legend of the West, approaching the cultures (English, Hispanic and native American), and mastering the literature. The slant is composite: melding the scholarly with the informative and the travel journal, and the writing is composite too, because the book speaks English and Italian. It talks about cinema (lots of John Ford) and about detective stories, the most popular genre here, about visual arts and Latino folklore, about the legend of the West, the so-called 'Soul of the Southwest', and the kitsch style of Santa Fe. And it talks about (and with) some of the greatest writers that the Southwest has spawned: Rudolfo Anaya, Stanley Crawford, John Nichols and Hillerman. So what we have is a first-hand experience of the Southwest; where the ego is not entrenched within a precise disciplinary role but opens up – and exposes itself – to the thrilling risk of the discovery that can renew it.

Stati Uniti d'America --- Viaggi --- Letteratura

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Founded in 1894 at a peak of social and industrial turmoil, the Chicago school of pragmatist philosophy is emblematic of the progressive spirit of early twentieth-century America. The Chicago pragmatists under the leadership of John Dewey pursued a close critique of the modern workplace, school, and neighborhood which provided a theoretical base for the progressive reform agenda. Andrew Feffer here provides a richly textured group portrait of Dewey and his colleagues George Herbert Mead and James Hayden Tufts against the backdrop of Chicago's social history.In this nuanced intellectual biography of the Chicago pragmatists, Feffer retraces the story of their personal involvement in reform movements and examines how they revised contemporary political rhetoric and social theory in order to reestablish the foundations of democracy in productive and rewarding work. Drawing on liberal Christian reformist as well as philosophical idealist traditions, the pragmatists advanced a radically humanistic social theory that attacked the regimentation of factory life and demanded the democratization of industry and education. Feffer also gives an account of certain elitist and anti-democratic assumptions of pragmatist theory; he shows, in particular, how progressive reformers inherited the pragmatists' mistrust of the political impulses of the industrial workers they championed.

Progressivismo (Politica) --- Pragmatismo --- Sociologia --- Stati Uniti d'America. --- Stati Uniti d'America. --- Studi americani. --- Dewey, John. --- Stati Uniti d'America --- Vita intellettuale --- 1865-1918.

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Disciplinare i poveri affronta la trasformazione del governo della povertà negli ultimi quarant’anni negli Stati Uniti: cosa è successo e perché, come funziona oggi il welfare e come influisce sulla vita delle persone. Attraverso un’analisi attenta della sua evoluzione storica, il saggio chiarisce come la questione razziale rivesta ancora un ruolo centrale all’interno di questo sistema.Collegando la riforma del welfare ad altri sviluppi politici, gli autori utilizzano varie fonti di dati per spiegare le origini, le forme e le conseguenze di una nuova modalità di governance della povertà che è allo stesso tempo neoliberale – allineata ai principi del mercato – e paternalista – fondata sul dire ai poveri ciò che è meglio per loro. Lo studio ricostruisce questo nuovo modello attraverso un percorso che va dal livello federale a quello statale e di contea, fino ad analizzare i modi in cui gli street-level bureaucrats gestiscono i singoli casi, spesso attraverso pratiche sanzionatorie. Il risultato è un resoconto convincente di come questo sistema stia, oggi come ieri, disciplinando i poveri.Il volume contiene un saggio inedito degli autori e la postfazione di Antonella Meo.

Povertà --- Poverty --- Effetti [della] Politica economica --- Stati Uniti d'America.

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In the past few years, a new generation of progressive intellectuals has dramatically transformed how law, race, and racial power are understood and discussed in America. Questioning the old assumptions of both liberals and conservatives with respect to the goals and the means of traditional civil rights reform, critical race theorists have presented new paradigms for understanding racial injustice and new ways of seeing the links between race, gender, sexual orientation, and class. This reader, edited by the principal founders and leading theoreticians of the critical race theory movement, gathers together for the first time the movement's most import essays. -- Back cover.

Race discrimination --- Law and legislation --- United States --- Race relations. --- Race question --- Rassendiscriminatie. --- Grondrechten. --- Rassentheorieën. --- Bürgerrecht. --- Gesetzgebung. --- Kritik. --- Minderheitenrecht. --- Rassendiskriminierung. --- Discriminazioni razziali --- Law and legislation. --- Stati Uniti d'America --- Legislazione. --- United States. --- USA.