Joan Burbick
Autor(a) de Rodeo Queens and the American Dream
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Joan Burbick teaches American Studies at Washington State University. She lives in the Palouse region of northern Idaho and eastern Washington, writing, taking photographs, and working with horses
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Rodeo Queens and the American Dream de Joan Burbick
This book looks at rodeo queens of the rural American West and their changing role over the decades. Starting off as a hard-working and hard-riding lady of the ring, who's skills with a horse were all-important, the rodeo queen has devolved into a gaudy show pony who's main qualification is her ability to sell sell sell. I liked this book, but it made me sad.
This is an excellent read. A really fascinating look at an American subculture that explores some of the more unknown facets of racism - the desire of Native American women to also be Rodeo Queens but their non-acceptance for the most part by the white majority, and how they solve the problem. Interviewed, mostly years later, these rodeo queens come across a set of strong, lovely women and the rodeo queen circuit sounds like great fun.
This book, which might have been an interesting history of American gun culture, is instead a tedious political tract. The author tries to tar every movement and organization which supports gun rights, encouraged gun ownership, or opposed gun control with the racism brush. Each and every organization is labelled as appealing to whites, or as serving the interests of whites, or of promoting a white ideal of America. While most such groups shared in the racism of their times, the author presents no evidence whatsoever that any of the groups she discusses were more particularly racist than the society at large, or anti-gun groups of the same period. The racist history of gun control movements in America is completely ignored, and no person or group supporting gun control is ever described with racial qualifiers, and are only ever mentioned as acting in the public interest. This overwhelming bias makes the book a waste of time to anyone other than the student of propaganda.… (mais)
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- Obras
- 5
- Membros
- 96
- Popularidade
- #196,089
- Avaliação
- 2.8
- Resenhas
- 3
- ISBNs
- 15
- Idiomas
- 1