scholarly journals The Emancipation and Liberation of One Karen Smith

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Destinee Wilson '21 ◽  
Alexandra Lang '21 ◽  
And Chloe Campos '21
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
White Woman ◽  
The United States ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
Insider Information ◽  
Happy Life ◽  
Ordinary Life ◽  
Suffrage Movement ◽  
National Women's Party

Set in the late 1910s, a white woman named Karen Smith lives an ordinary life married to her husband in Brooklyn, New York in a lovely home. Brad, the husband of Karen, has a job on Wall Street, where he commutes to work. He is very controlling, misogynist, and racist. They have been married for five years and have a normal and happy life, the complete American Dream. During this time, the women of the United States are embroiled in the fight for suffrage, with many in opposition. Karen and Brad are a part of the anti-suffrage movement that believes in a limited role for women, such as “working in the home.” Realizing that the suffrage movement was gaining momentum, Karen decides to infiltrate the National Women’s Party. Karen is determined to find out insider information to harm the suffrage movement. While engaging in espionage, Karen discovers herself, makes friends, and decides how she wants to be remembered by history. Listen to the playlist on Spotify     

scholarly journals Book Review: Susan Neiman, Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-77
Author(s):  
Iñaki Tofiño Quesada
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
White Woman ◽  
Jewish Woman ◽  
The United States ◽  
Philosophical Analysis ◽  
First Person ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
The South

Learning from the Germans. Race and the Memory of Evil examines German efforts to atone for Nazi atrocities and identifies lessons on how the United States might come to terms with its legacy of slavery and racism. Divided into three parts (German lessons, Southern discomfort, and Setting things straight), the book brings together historical and philosophical analysis; interviews with politicians, activists, and contemporary witnesses in Germany and the United States; and Neiman’s own first-person observations as a white woman growing up in the South and a Jewish woman who has lived for almost three decades in Berlin.

The Great Interruption

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Goodier ◽  
Karen Pastorello
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
The United States ◽  
Woman Suffrage ◽  
Citizenship Rights ◽  
The Public ◽  
Suffrage Movement ◽  
Woman Suffrage Movement

This chapter examines the woman suffrage movement during the outbreak of war in Europe. Contradictions and upheaval related to the war marred the last three years of the suffrage campaign in New York. Most suffragists and anti-suffragists turned their attention from suffragism to patriotism, war preparedness, or pacifism between August 1914 and April 1917, when the United States entered the war. The movement, which previously faced divisions among members of its rank and file over tactics and strategies related to women's enfranchisement, now divided along new lines of patriotism and militarism. Sensitive to citizenship rights and responsibilities, most suffragists felt compelled to choose a position in response to the war. Nevertheless, they insisted on keeping their campaign before the public, most often linking suffrage with patriotism to highlight their worthiness for full citizenship.

Patterns of American Railroad Finance, 1830–50

1954 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 248-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfred D. Chandler
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
The United States ◽  
Common Stock ◽  
The South ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
Financial Center ◽  
State Street

When American railroad promoters, in the years immediately after 1830, had to look beyond their own regions for capital, they turned first to Broad Street in Philadelphia, where Nicholas Biddle and his associates served as the agents for marketing vast amounts of sterling bonds in London. This mechanism was disrupted by the failure of the Bank of the United States of Pennsylvania in 1841. Then State Street in Boston became the center, and common stock became the chief instrument, of American railroad finance. The sharp recession of 1847 showed that the Boston capitalists had already made long-term investments in excess of the liquid capital available to them. New York merchants, bankers, and brokers now took up the task of financing the railroads of the South and West, and Wall Street became the undisputed financial center of the country.

scholarly journals ONE YEAR LATER AND THE MYTH OF A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY

2009 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael C. Dawson ◽  
Lawrence D. Bobo
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Wall Street Journal ◽  
New York Times ◽  
The United States ◽  
White Americans ◽  
Substantial Evidence ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
One Year

Many commentators, both conservative and liberal, have celebrated the election of Barack Obama as president of the United States, claiming the election signified America has truly become a “post-racial” society. It is not just Lou Dobbs who argues the United States in the “21st century [is a] post-partisan, post-racial society.” This view is consistent with beliefs the majority of White Americans have held for well over a decade: that African Americans have achieved, or will soon achieve, racial equality in the United States despite substantial evidence to the contrary. Indeed, this view is consistent with opinions found in the Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and elsewhere—attitudes that even the tragic events following the Katrina disaster had nothing to do with race.

Book Reviews

2009 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 213-217
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
World War I ◽  
The United States ◽  
New York University ◽  
World War ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
Rutgers University

Michael D. Bordo of Rutgers University and NBER reviews “When Washington Shut Down Wall Street: The Great Financial Crisis of 1914 and the Origins of America’s Monetary Supremacy” by William L. Silber,. The EconLit Abstract of the reviewed work begins “Traces Treasury Secretary William Gibbs McAdoo’s triumph over a monetary crisis at the outbreak of World War I that threatened the United States with financial disaster. Explores how McAdoo responded to the twin threats of external gold drain to Europe and the internal drain of currency from banks that were triggered by the outbreak of war. Silber is Marcus Nadler Professor of Finance and Economics at the Stern School of Business, New York University. Index.”

scholarly journals Occupy in One Classroom

2013 ◽  
pp. 54-58
Author(s):  
Ira Shor
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
The United States ◽  
Occupy Wall Street ◽  
Wall Street

2011 was an historic year of global protests. Here in New York, the Capitol of Capital, Occupy Wall Street (OWS) sustained a rebel encampment for 59 days at now-famous Zuccotti Park in the financial district. Hundreds of other occupations erupted around the United States and abroad. Occupy activists declared “Another world is possible!” and set out to build it in a small concrete park.

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