Daniel J. Walkowitz, Working With Class: Social Workers and the Politics of Middle-Class Identity. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xi + 413 pp. $59.95 cloth; $22.50 paper.

2000 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. 165-167
Author(s):  
Cheryl Pahaham
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
North Carolina ◽  
New York City ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
York City ◽  
Class Identity ◽  
Chapel Hill

This book examines the construction of middle-class identity in the twentieth-century United States through a focus on social workers. Much of the description of class formation in this book derives from glimpses at the experiences of Jewish social workers in New York City. For these social workers, class identity vacillated between proletarianism and professionalism, between working class and middle class.

Billy Graham's America

2009 ◽  
Vol 78 (3) ◽  
pp. 489-511 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grant Wacker
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
New York City ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
York City ◽  
White Middle Class ◽  
Family Vacation ◽  
Madison Square Garden ◽  
Twentieth Century America ◽  
Conservative Protestants

Billy and I hit New York City at the same time, the summer of 1957. He was 38 and about to clinch his reputation as the premier evangelist in twentieth-century America. I was twelve and about to taste freedom. But not quite yet. Without my permission, my parents packed themselves and me into a steamy subway to go down to Madison Square Garden to hear the Great Man preach. I remember that he was witty and charismatic and at the end of the sermon thousands surged forward to give or recommit their lives to Christ. Beyond that, nothing stuck. Soon our first family vacation to the Big Apple was finished, and we headed back to the quiet of a small town in southwest Missouri. As a kid, I never could figure out what the big whoop over Graham was all about. I soon realized, however, that Graham's core constituents—the millions of preponderantly white, middle-class, moderately conservative Protestants we might call “Heartland Americans”—did not share my puzzlement. They knew exactly what the big whoop was all about.

scholarly journals The Body as Archive: Will to Re-Enact and the Afterlives of Dances

2010 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 28-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
André Lepecki
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Body ◽  
Contemporary Dance ◽  
Washington Square

Laurence Louppe once advanced the intriguing notion that the dancer is “the veritable avatar of Orpheus: he has no right to turn back on his course, lest he be denied the object of his quest” (Louppe 1994, 32). However, looking across the contemporary dance scene in Europe and the United States, one cannot escape the fact that dancers—contrary to Orpheus, contrary to Louppe's assertion—are increasingly turning back on their and dance history's tracks in order to find the “object of their quest.” Indeed, contemporary dancers and choreographers in the United States and Europe have in recent years been actively engaged in creating re-enactments of sometimes well-known, sometimes obscure, dance works of the twentieth century. Examples abound: we can think of Fabian Barba's Schwingende Landschaft (2008), an evening-length piece where the Ecuadorian choreographer returns to Mary Wigman's seven solo pieces created in 1929 and performed during Wigman's first U.S. tour in 1930; of Elliot Mercer returning in 2009 and 2010 to several of Simone Forti's Construction Pieces (1961/62), performing them at Washington Square Park in New York City; or Anne Collod's 2008 return to Anna Halprin's Parades and Changes (1965), among many other examples.

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