Bøger af Martin Lund
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188,95 kr. The socially constructed phenomenon of whiteness: how it was created, how it changes, and how it protects and privileges people who are perceived as white.This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series examines the socially constructed phenomenon of whiteness, tracing its creation, its changing formation, and its power to privilege and protect people who are perceived as white. Whiteness, author Martin Lund explains, is not one single idea but a shifting, overarching category, a flexible cluster of historically, culturally, and geographically contingent ideals and standards that enable systems of hierarchical classification. Lund discusses words used to talk about whiteness, from white privilege to white fragility; the intersections of whiteness with race, class, and gender; whiteness in popular culture; and such ideas as "e;colorblindness"e; and "e;reverse racism,"e; which, he argues, actually uphold whiteness.Lund shows why it is important to keep talking and thinking about whiteness. The word "e;whiteness,"e; he writes, doesn't describe; it conjures something into being. Drawing on decades of critical whiteness studies and citing a range of examples (primarily from the United States and Sweden), Lund argues that whiteness is continually manufactured and sustained through language, laws, policies, science, and representations in media and popular culture. It is often positioned as normative, even universal. And despite its innocuous-seeming manifestations in sitcoms and superheroes, whiteness is always in the service of racial domination.
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- 188,95 kr.
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- En biografi om danskeren William S. Knudsen – produktionsgeniet der satte de allierede i stand til at vinde Anden Verdenskrig
94,95 kr. Dette er en usædvanlig biografi. Ikke fordi den beskriver en ung mand, der på lykke og fromme rejste til USA, arbejdede sig op fra bunden og steg helt til tops i den amerikanske bilindustri, men fordi den handler om en dansker, der i sit andet hjemland anerkendes som helt afgørende for de allieredes sejr i Anden Verdenskrig, men i Danmark stort set er glemt. Speed-Up King Knudsen eller Big Bill, som amerikanerne yndede at kalde ham, betragtede hele livet sig selv som håndværker. Han færdedes på direktørgangene hos Ford og General Motors, han blev som den eneste civile amerikaner nogensinde udnævnt til trestjernet general, han modtog flere hædersbevisninger både i USA og i Danmark, og han krævede lige så meget af sine omgivelser, som han selv ydede. Men han glemte aldrig sin håndværksmæssige baggrund, og det gjorde ham til en vellidt leder, der fik ting til at lykkes i de enorme organisationer, han stod i spidsen for. Journalist og forfatter Martin Lund har arbejdet med denne bog i ti år; han har gennemtrawlet arkiver, besøgt William S. Knudsens tidligere hjem, talt med familiemedlemmer og fået unik indsigt i dette usædvanlige menneskes karakter og rolle, ikke kun som industrimand, men også som søn, ægtemand, far og bedstefar. **** "... en bog, som man læser med fornøjelse." – Berlingske T. **** "Velskrevet ... Knudsens historie er virkelig fantastisk, og den gør læseren i godt humør." – Krist. Dagblad ****** "En grundig bog, fuld af detaljer men letlæst alligevel. En bog hvor man kommer helt tæt på en af Danmarks allerstørste og med totalt uret glemte sønner." – danmarksbloggen.dk "Velskrevet og spændende ... man kan kun håbe, at Knudsens liv nu bliver mere kendt." – DBC Medier
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- How the Global Optimism Literature Can Help Solve the Crisis of the Global History Subdiscipline
443,95 kr. - Bog
- 443,95 kr.
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- How the Global Optimism Literature Can Help Solve the Crisis of the Global History Subdiscipline
217,95 - 248,95 kr. This book, in a sentence, claims that an ahistorical and ill informed doom and gloom atmosphere in Western public debate threatens to turn into a selffulfilling prophecy, that a new 'Global Optimism Literature' represented by e. g. Hans Rosling and Steven Pinker, based on vast historical sources and social scientific data fortunately intends to correct this misperception, that the also newly emerged sub-discipline of Global History in spite of severe birth diseases could contribute substantially to this mission, and when it all comes down to it: do we have a choice anyway?
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- Superman 1938-1941, Jewish American History, and the Invention of the Jewish-Comics Connection
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- 515,95 kr.