age ~53
from Providence, RI
Matthew Pratt Guterl is Professor of Africana Studies and American Studies at Brown University. Prior to his arrival at Brown University, Guterl was the James...
ISBN #
3
With the social change brought on by the Great Migration of African Americans into the urban northeast after the Great War came the surge of a biracial sensibility that made America different from other Western nations. How white and black people thought about race and how both groups understood and...
Author
Matthew Pratt Guterl
Binding
Paperback
Pages
256
Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN #
0674010124
EAN Code
9780674010123
ISBN #
6
In this fiercely urgent book, Matthew Pratt Guterl focuses on how and why we come to see race in very particular ways. What does it mean to see someone as a color? As racially mixed or ethnically ambiguous? What history makes such things possible? Drawing creatively from advertisements, YouTube vide...
Author
Matthew Pratt Guterl
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
248
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
ISBN #
146961068X
EAN Code
9781469610689
ISBN #
1
This digital document, covering the life and work of Matthew Pratt Guterl, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the entry is 691 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each ...
Author
Gale Reference Team
Binding
Digital
Pages
3
Publisher
Thomson Gale
ISBN #
9
How did slave-owning Southern planters make sense of the transformation of their world in the Civil War era? Matthew Pratt Guterl shows that they looked beyond their borders for answers. He traces the links that bound them to the wider fraternity of slaveholders in Cuba, Brazil, and elsewhere, and c...
Author
Matthew Pratt Guterl
Binding
Paperback
Pages
250
Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN #
0674072286
EAN Code
9780674072282
ISBN #
8
What is a hotel? As Caroline Field Levander and Matthew Pratt Guterl show us in this thought-provoking book, even though hotels are everywhere around us, we rarely consider their essential role in our modern existence and how they help frame our sense of who and what we are. They are, in fact, as ce...
Author
Caroline Field Levander, Matthew Pratt Guterl
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
224
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
ISBN #
1469621126
EAN Code
9781469621128
ISBN #
7
Creating a sensation with her risqué nightclub act and strolls down the Champs Elysées, pet cheetah in tow, Josephine Baker lives on in popular memory as the banana-skirted siren of Jazz Age Paris. In Josephine Baker and the Rainbow Tribe, Matthew Pratt Guterl brings out a little known side of the c...
Author
Matthew Pratt Guterl
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
288
Publisher
Belknap Press
ISBN #
0674047559
EAN Code
9780674047556
ISBN #
4
While public debates over America's current foreign policy often treat American empire as a new phenomenon, this lively collection of essays offers a pointed reminder that visions of national and imperial greatness were a cornerstone of the new country when it was founded. In fact, notions of empire...
Binding
Paperback
Pages
392
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
ISBN #
0807858285
EAN Code
9780807858288
ISBN #
2
Josephine Baker and Eva Pern both came from humble backgrounds, bootst...