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"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide (2002) is a book by American Samantha Power, at that time Professor of Human Rights Practice at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, which explores the United States's understanding of, response to, and inaction on genocides in the 20th century, from the Armenian genocide to the "ethnic cleansings" of the Kosovo War.
Scott McLemee of Inside Higher Ed compared the title to the line "Hell is other people" from Jean-Paul Sartre's play No Exit, which refers to the characters' "desperate and insurmountable need to connect with other people". McLemee found the situation of solitary confinement worse than Sartre's depiction of Hell, due to the smaller space and ...
1 Summary. 2 Analysis. 3 Definition. 4 References. ... Anti-intellectualism in American Life is a book by Richard Hofstadter published in 1963 that won the 1964 ...
'Margin Call' is the story of the first small circle of Americans to learn that the world was going to end.
Malcolm X, four months after giving the speech "Message to the Grass Roots" is a public speech delivered by black civil rights activist Malcolm X.The speech was delivered on November 10, 1963, at the Northern Negro Grass Roots Leadership Conference, which was held at King Solomon Baptist Church in Detroit, Michigan. [1]
African-American author LeRoi Jones, in 1965, published the novel The System of Dante's Hell, in which a young African-American man lives nomadically in the Southern United States, struggling with segregation and racism. The book correlates the man's experience with Dante's Inferno, and includes a diagram of the fictional hell described by Dante.
Middletown: A Study in American Culture was primarily a look at changes in the white population of a typical American city between 1890 and 1925, a period of great economic change. The Lynds used the "approach of the cultural anthropologist " (see field research and social anthropology ), existing documents, statistics, old newspapers ...
The notion of the suburbs as the American dream's dark underbelly isn't exactly new, but Aster's heart-poundingly, head-trippingly, paint-drinkingly intense iteration of the trope is a thrilling one.