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Imaging Disaster: Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan’s ...

Imaging Disaster: Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan’s ...

Gennifer Weisenfeld

... by Amy Stanley Imaging Disaster: Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan's Great Earthquake of 1923, by Gennifer Weisenfeld Taiko Boom: Japanese Drumming in Place and Motion, by Shawn Bender Anyuan: Mining China's Revolutionary ...
Spectacles of Authenticity: The Emergence of Transnational ...

Spectacles of Authenticity: The Emergence of Transnational ...

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Recent work by new scholars such as Alice Tseng, Maki Fukuoka, Alicia Volk, Chelsea Foxwell, and Gennifer Weisenfeld have embraced the complexity of Japanese modernity and done much to expand the historical field of Japanese art ...
The Problem of Women in Early Modern Japan

The Problem of Women in Early Modern Japan

Marcia Yonemoto

28. 29. 30. The Missionary's Curse and Other. 23. 24. 25. Imaging Disaster: Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan's Great Earthquake of 1923, by Gennifer Weisenfeld Taiko Boom: Japanese Drumming in Place and Motion, by Shawn Bender ...
World's Fairs on the Eve of War: Science, Technology, and ...

World's Fairs on the Eve of War: Science, Technology, and ...

Robert H. Kargon

Gennifer Weisenfeld, “Touring JapanasMuseum: NIPPON and Other Japanese Imperialist Travelogues,” Positions 8, no. 3 (2000): 747–93, esp. 748. 47. Andrea Germer, “Visual Propaganda in Wartime East Asia: The Case of Natori Yonosuke  ...
Anyuan: Mining China's Revolutionary Tradition

Anyuan: Mining China's Revolutionary Tradition

Elizabeth J. Perry

... by Amy Stanley Imaging Disaster: Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan's Great Earthquake of 1923, by Gennifer Weisenfeld Taiko Boom: Japanese Drumming in Place and Motion, by Shawn Bender Anyuan: Mining China's Revolutionary ...
Kingdom of Beauty: Mingei and the Politics of Folk Art in ...

Kingdom of Beauty: Mingei and the Politics of Folk Art in ...

Kim Brandt

... Cathy Ciepiela, Janet Gyatso, Margaret Hunt, Mark Jones, Mary Jones, Okamoto K ̄oichi, Janet Poole, Sean Redding, Jordan Sand, Andre Schmid, Mark Shapiro, Alan Tansman, Miriam Wattles, Gennifer Weisenfeld, and Kären Wigen.
Mavo: Japanese Artists and the Avant-garde, 1905-1931

Mavo: Japanese Artists and the Avant-garde, 1905-1931

Gennifer Stacy Weisenfeld

MAVO is the first book-length study in English that critically evaluates the Japanese artistic avant-garde (1905-1931) and its relationship to broader developments in modernism worldwide.
Mavo: Japanese Artists and the Avant-garde, 1905-1931

Mavo: Japanese Artists and the Avant-garde, 1905-1931

Gennifer Stacy Weisenfeld

MAVO is the first book-length study in English that critically evaluates the Japanese artistic avant-garde (1905-1931) and its relationship to broader developments in modernism worldwide.
Hollywood be Thy Name: African American Religion in American ...

Hollywood be Thy Name: African American Religion in American ...

Judith Weisenfeld

"This is a ground-breaking book. The text is remarkable in its use of MPAA files and studio archives; Weisenfeld uncovers all sorts of side stories that enrich the larger narrative.
Preaching Justice: Ethnic and Cultural Perspectives

Preaching Justice: Ethnic and Cultural Perspectives

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15. Ibid. 16. Judith Weisenfeld, “We Have Been Believers: Patterns of African American Women's Religiosity,” in This Far by Faith: Readings in African American Women's Religious Biography, ed. Judith Weisenfeld and Richard Newman (New ...
Faith in the Market: Religion and the Rise of Urban ...

Faith in the Market: Religion and the Rise of Urban ...

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Eight Judith Weisenfeld ... American film has typically presented black religion as simplistic, sincere, instinctive, 155 Eight "Saturday Sinners and Sunday Saints": The Nightclub as Moral Menace in 1940s Race Movies Judith Weisenfeld.
Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women

Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women

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Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 2; Judith Weisenfeld, “We Have Been Believers: Patterns of African-American Women's Religiosity,” in This Far by Faith : Readings in African-American Women's Religious Biography, ed. Judith Weisenfeld ...
Embracing Disabilities in the Classroom: Strategies to ...

Embracing Disabilities in the Classroom: Strategies to ...

Toby Karten

Zipper, the Kid With AD/HD, by Caroline Janover The Man Who Loved Clowns, by June Rae Wood (Down syndrome) Al Capone Does My Shirts, by Gennifer Choldenko (Autism) Freak the Mighty, by Rodman Philbrick (physical and learning ...
Al Capone Shines My Shoes

Al Capone Shines My Shoes

Gennifer Choldenko

After Natalie got accepted, a note appeared in Moose?s freshly laundered shirt that said: Done. As this book begins, Moose discovers a new note. This one says: Your turn. Is it really from Capone? What does it mean?
Haunted Ground: Journeys Through a Paranormal America

Haunted Ground: Journeys Through a Paranormal America

Darryl V. Caterine

I would like to express my deepest gratitude to the following people: Anthony Chiffolo, John Kavanagh, Richard Seager, Frederick Stecker, Alba Valeriani, and Judith Weisenfeld for their support from the very beginning; Christina Michaelson  ...
African American Women and Christian Activism: New York's ...

African American Women and Christian Activism: New York's ...

Judith Weisenfeld

"Between the Civil War and World War II, Catholic charities evolved from volunteer and local origins into a centralized and professionally trained workforce that played a prominent role in the development of American welfare.
This Far By Faith: Readings in African-American Women's ...

This Far By Faith: Readings in African-American Women's ...

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INTRODUCTION JUDITH WEISENFELD WE HAVE BEEN BELIEVERS: PATTERNS OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN'S RELIGIOSITY We have been believers yielding substance for the world. With our hands have we fed a people and out of ...
Hollywood Be Thy Name: African American Religion in American ...

Hollywood Be Thy Name: African American Religion in American ...

Judith Weisenfeld

In a 1945 report on Hollywood in the black journal Phylon, William Thomas Smith also emphasized the impact of the concerns of white southerners on Hollywood's representations of African Americans. He wrote, “The censors and the ...
New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity ...

New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity ...

Judith Weisenfeld

The book demonstrates that the efforts by members of these movements to contest conventional racial categorization contributed to broader discussions in black America about the nature of racial identity and the collective future of black ...
New Directions in American Religious History

New Directions in American Religious History

Harry S. Stout

I4 ON JORDAN S STORMY BANKS Margins, Center, and Bridges in African American Religious History Judith Weisenfeld THE CHICAGO WORLD'S COLUMBIAN Exposition of 1893 was an event rife with difficult meanings for African ...
Righteous Content: Black Women's Perspectives of Church and ...

Righteous Content: Black Women's Perspectives of Church and ...

Daphne C. Wiggins

Black women's religiosity is also chronicled in Clarence Taylor, The Black Churches of Brooklyn (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994); Judith Weisenfeld, African American Women and Christian Activism: New York's Black YWCA, ...

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