Patchwork Quilts: Connections with Geometry, Technology and Culture

2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-50
Author(s):  
Leah P. McCoy ◽  
Jean M. Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Native Americans ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Underground Railroad ◽  
American Women ◽  
Early American ◽  
Technology And Culture ◽  
Family Histories ◽  
History Of ◽  
Young Students

Patchwork quilts are an important part of American culture and history. The patchwork designs are geometric, and early American women used mathematics and artistry as they sewed warm covers for their families. The history of quilts can be traced through several cultures, including that of Native Americans, western pioneers, slaves escaping through the Underground Railroad, and immigrants from Europe and Asia. Often, students have seen quilts in their homes and are interested in exploring the patterns. Quilt making is related to family heritage, and the study of quilts may connect young students with their grandparents or family histories.

scholarly journals Arab American Women Writers Defending Their Identities

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Arab American ◽  
Identity Conflict ◽  
Arab Women ◽  
American Women Writers ◽  
American Women ◽  
Race Identity ◽  
History Of ◽  
Arab American Women

This paper addresses the issue of assimilation and identity as seen through some work that is written by Arab American women writers. The paper provides a brief history of Arab American immigration to USA. It primarily, examines three Arab American writers and highlights their impact on the American culture. The paper explores the three writers’ impact on the literature on showing assimilation and identity conflict as Arab women born, raised or lived in America. This paper explores some of their work to examine how they tackle the issue of race, identity, and ethnicity in their work. The three Arab American writers this paper studies are Diana Abu Jaber, Leila Ahmad, and Naomi Shihab Nye. Finally, this paper argues whether Arab American women writers manage to achieve the assimilation and whether they utilize the issue of their identity in what they have written as fictional and nonfictional work.

Histrionics of the Pulpit

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 315-337
Author(s):  
Scott Larson
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
Evangelical Christianity ◽  
American Christianity ◽  
Early American ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Form ◽  
The Masses

Abstract The eighteenth-century Atlantic world was swept with a radical new form of Christian preaching that aimed to engage the feelings and sensations of mass audiences. In the nineteenth century, this heart-centered preaching became a mainstream form of American Christianity, but in its first hundred years, it was widely regarded as perverse, effeminate, and depraved. Early evangelical Christianity threatened to destabilize social and political orders, to drive the masses “out of their senses,” and to throw gender norms into chaos. This article argues that attention to “trans tonality”—an investigation of trans at the level of tone, expression, and sensation—offers a surprising trans history of early American culture and opens up an archive rich with accounts of gender and sensory variance.

scholarly journals The History of the Five Indian Nations Depending on the Province of New-York in America

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cadwallader Colden
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Native People ◽  
Intellectual Life ◽  
Early American ◽  
British America ◽  
History Of ◽  
American Intellectual ◽  
Indian Nations

This book, originally published in 1727 and revised in 1747, is one of the most important intellectual works published in eighteenth-century British America. The author was among the most learned American men of his time, and his history of the Iroquois tribes makes fascinating reading. The book discusses the religion, manners, customs, laws, and forms of government of the confederacy of tribes composed of the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, and Senecas (and, later, the Tuscaroras), and gives accounts of battles, treaties, and trade with these Indians up to 1697. Since the book was first reprinted in 1958, it has served as an invaluable resource for scholars and students interested in Iroquois history and culture, Enlightenment attitudes toward Native Americans, early American intellectual life, and Anglo-French imperial contests over North America. This new edition features materials not previously included, such as the 1747 introduction, which contains rich and detailed descriptions of Iroquois culture, government, economy, and society. New chapters place the volume in a historical and cultural context and provide a balanced introduction to the historic culture of the Iroquois, as well as their relationship to other Native people.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Wendy Raphael Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Sustained Attention ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Aesthetic Movement ◽  
Early American ◽  
History Of ◽  
Verse Forms

This chapter states, and briefly explains, the main claims of the book: that early evangelicalism must be understood as a central aesthetic movement of the eighteenth century; and that to understand early evangelicalism as it first took shape requires sustained attention to its prolific poetry. The chapter situates the book, which is the first history of early American non-hymnal poetry, within the current scholarship of early American culture and poetry, early evangelical history and hymnody, and British eighteenth-century enthusiasm. The author defines evangelicalism (as primarily a way of feeling and doing “authentic” Christianity) and then three new terms this study introduces: revival poetry (a constellation of verse forms, which addresses the tendency to associate evangelical poetry soley with hymnody); poet-minister (a revitalized role at the nexus of the affective sermon and aesthetic oriented conversion); and print itinerant (an evangelical conception of print within the new practices of itinerancy). The author concludes with a narrative summary of the book and each of the chapters.

Cultural Hybridity in the USA exemplified by Tex-Mex cuisine

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 90-98
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Martynuska
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Cultural Exchange ◽  
Cultural Hybridity ◽  
Family Presence ◽  
The Usa ◽  
History Of ◽  
The U.S

AbstractThe article concerns the hybrid phenomenon of Tex-Mex cuisine which evolved in the U.S.-Mexico borderland. The history of the U.S.-Mexican border area makes it one of the world’s great culinary regions where different migrations have created an area of rich cultural exchange between Native Americans and Spanish, and then Mexicans and Anglos. The term ‘Tex-Mex’ was previously used to describe anything that was half-Texan and half-Mexican and implied a long-term family presence within the current boundaries of Texas. Nowadays, the term designates the Texan variety of something Mexican; it can apply to music, fashion, language or cuisine. Tex-Mex foods are Americanised versions of Mexican cuisine describing a spicy combination of Spanish, Mexican and Native American cuisines that are mixed together and adapted to American tastes. Tex-Mex cuisine is an example of Mexicanidad that has entered American culture and is continually evolving.

Migration and Modernities

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Native Americans ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Racial Categories ◽  
Geographic Boundaries ◽  
The Us ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries

Migration and Modernities recovers a comparative literary history of migration by bringing together scholars from the US and Europe to explore the connections between migrant experiences and the uneven emergence of modernity. The collection initiates transnational, transcultural and interdisciplinary conversations about migration in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, demonstrating how mobility unsettles the geographic boundaries, temporal periodization, and racial categories we often use to organize literary and historical study. Migrants are by definition liminal, and many have existed historically in the spaces between nations, regions or ethnicities. In exploring these spaces, Migration and Modernities also investigates the origins of current debates about belonging, rights, and citizenship. Its chapters traverse the globe, revealing the experiences — real or imagined — of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century migrants, from dispossessed Native Americans to soldiers in South America, Turkish refugees to Scottish settlers. They explore the aesthetic and rhetorical frameworks used to represent migrant experiences during a time when imperial expansion and technological developments made the fortunes of some migrants and made exiles out of others. These frameworks continue to influence the narratives we tell ourselves about migration today and were crucial in producing a distinctively modern subjectivity in which mobility and rootlessness have become normative.

Strategies for Survival of the World — Risk Management

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jovo Lojanica ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
National Level ◽  
Country Level ◽  
Management Standards ◽  
Family Level ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
Iso 31000 ◽  
History Of ◽  
Personal Level

All management standards have requirements for different aspects of improvements on the personal level, family level, company level, in business and life. What is about national level and country level? Is it possible for today’s generations to learn history of nations and of civilizations? If it is — ok, let’s apply it on actual time and people to have less problems and difficulties — especially if is actual in field of risk management. Majority of people are occupied by today’s problems. They don’t consider past and future challenges. People from each country strive for better quality, better and cleaner environment, higher safety etc. historically and today. But could we remember: How did Genghis Khan conquer many regions and how was he defeated? How did Mayas and Aztecs die out? How were Native Americans in North America drastically reduced in numbers? How did the Roman Imperium vanish? How was the Ottoman Imperium established and how it vanished? How many people were killed in the wars in XX century, etc? In all these catastrophic changes risks were not considered in an adequate way. Requirements of risk management — Principles and guidelines — ISO 31000:2009 are very consultative. They could be used on country level, national level, regional level, continental and intercontinental level.

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