Author: Howard Benjamin Grose
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aliens
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Aliens Or Americans?
Author: Howard Benjamin Grose
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aliens
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aliens
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Aliens in America
Author: Jodi Dean
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801484681
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Discusses the social and political implications of widespread belief in unidentified flying objects, extraterrestrials, and government cover-ups, and considers what they reveal in a culture of mass media and conflicting evidence.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801484681
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Discusses the social and political implications of widespread belief in unidentified flying objects, extraterrestrials, and government cover-ups, and considers what they reveal in a culture of mass media and conflicting evidence.
Extraterrestrials and the American Zeitgeist
Author: Aaron John Gulyas
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476601682
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Since the 1950s, men and women around the world have claimed to have had contact with human-like visitors from space. This book explores how the "contactee" subculture has critiqued political, social and cultural trends in the United States, Europe and elsewhere. Not merely quaint relics of the 1950s Atomic Age, contactees have continued their messages of transformation into the 21st century. Regardless of whether these alleged contacts took the form of physical meetings or channeled paranormal psychic communications, or whether they actually happened at all, contactees have provided a consistently relevant source of commentary on this world and beyond.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476601682
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Since the 1950s, men and women around the world have claimed to have had contact with human-like visitors from space. This book explores how the "contactee" subculture has critiqued political, social and cultural trends in the United States, Europe and elsewhere. Not merely quaint relics of the 1950s Atomic Age, contactees have continued their messages of transformation into the 21st century. Regardless of whether these alleged contacts took the form of physical meetings or channeled paranormal psychic communications, or whether they actually happened at all, contactees have provided a consistently relevant source of commentary on this world and beyond.
Impossible Subjects
Author: Mae M. Ngai
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400850231
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
This book traces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and society, explaining why and how illegal migration became the central problem in U.S. immigration policy—a process that profoundly shaped ideas and practices about citizenship, race, and state authority in the twentieth century. Mae Ngai offers a close reading of the legal regime of restriction that commenced in the 1920s—its statutory architecture, judicial genealogies, administrative enforcement, differential treatment of European and non-European migrants, and long-term effects. She shows that immigration restriction, particularly national-origin and numerical quotas, remapped America both by creating new categories of racial difference and by emphasizing as never before the nation's contiguous land borders and their patrol. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400850231
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
This book traces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and society, explaining why and how illegal migration became the central problem in U.S. immigration policy—a process that profoundly shaped ideas and practices about citizenship, race, and state authority in the twentieth century. Mae Ngai offers a close reading of the legal regime of restriction that commenced in the 1920s—its statutory architecture, judicial genealogies, administrative enforcement, differential treatment of European and non-European migrants, and long-term effects. She shows that immigration restriction, particularly national-origin and numerical quotas, remapped America both by creating new categories of racial difference and by emphasizing as never before the nation's contiguous land borders and their patrol. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.
A Distinct Alien Race
Author: David Vermette
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781771861694
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781771861694
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
American Cosmic
Author: D.W. Pasulka
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190693509
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
More than half of American adults and more than seventy-five percent of young Americans believe in intelligent extraterrestrial life. This level of belief rivals that of belief in God. American Cosmic examines the mechanisms at work behind the thriving belief system in extraterrestrial life, a system that is changing and even supplanting traditional religions. Over the course of a six-year ethnographic study, D.W. Pasulka interviewed successful and influential scientists, professionals, and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who believe in extraterrestrial intelligence, thereby disproving the common misconception that only fringe members of society believe in UFOs. She argues that widespread belief in aliens is due to a number of factors including their ubiquity in modern media like The X-Files, which can influence memory, and the believability lent to that media by the search for planets that might support life. American Cosmic explores the intriguing question of how people interpret unexplainable experiences, and argues that the media is replacing religion as a cultural authority that offers believers answers about non-human intelligent life.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190693509
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
More than half of American adults and more than seventy-five percent of young Americans believe in intelligent extraterrestrial life. This level of belief rivals that of belief in God. American Cosmic examines the mechanisms at work behind the thriving belief system in extraterrestrial life, a system that is changing and even supplanting traditional religions. Over the course of a six-year ethnographic study, D.W. Pasulka interviewed successful and influential scientists, professionals, and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who believe in extraterrestrial intelligence, thereby disproving the common misconception that only fringe members of society believe in UFOs. She argues that widespread belief in aliens is due to a number of factors including their ubiquity in modern media like The X-Files, which can influence memory, and the believability lent to that media by the search for planets that might support life. American Cosmic explores the intriguing question of how people interpret unexplainable experiences, and argues that the media is replacing religion as a cultural authority that offers believers answers about non-human intelligent life.
Citizenship Without Consent
Author: Peter H. Schuck
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300035209
Category : Citizenship
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300035209
Category : Citizenship
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
Aliens Or Americans?
Author: Howard Benjamin Grose
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aliens
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aliens
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Transatlantic Aliens
Author: Will Norman
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421420945
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Examining hardboiled fiction through Flaubert, New Yorker cartoons through modernist painting, and Bette Davis through Hegel and Marx, Transatlantic Aliens challenges and changes the way we understand modernism's place in midcentury American culture.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421420945
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Examining hardboiled fiction through Flaubert, New Yorker cartoons through modernist painting, and Bette Davis through Hegel and Marx, Transatlantic Aliens challenges and changes the way we understand modernism's place in midcentury American culture.
Alien Encounters
Author: Mimi Thi Nguyen
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822339229
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
DIVA collection of essays that examine the production and consumption of Asian American popular culture, from musical expression to television cooking shows./div
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822339229
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
DIVA collection of essays that examine the production and consumption of Asian American popular culture, from musical expression to television cooking shows./div