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Hug, Bill. "Jacob Riis and Double Consciousness: The Documentary/Ethnic “I” in How the Other Half Lives." Ethnic Studies Review 33, no. 1 (2010): 130–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/esr.2010.33.1.130.

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“Contradictory” is the watchword in scholarship on Danish-American photojournalist Jacob Riis. “Wildly contradictory, morally schizophrenic”: so Keith Gandal describes Riis' work (18). “A deeply contradictory figure […] a conservative activist and a skillful entertainer who presented controversial ideas in a compelling but ultimately comforting manner”: such is the assessment of Riis offered by Bonnie Yochelson and Daniel Czitrom (xv). “The typical Victorian moralist,” but also the Progressive-so Tom Buk-Swienty proclaims him (239, XIII).

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Hug, Bill. "Walking the Ethnic Tightwire: Ethnicity and Dialectic in Jacob Riis' How the Other Half Lives." Journal of American Culture 20, no. 4 (1997): 41–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1542-734x.1997.00041.x.

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deNoyelles, Adrienne. "“Letting in the Light”: Jacob Riis’s Crusade for Breathing Spaces on the Lower East Side." Journal of Urban History 46, no. 4 (2019): 775–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0096144219829074.

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During the twentieth century, Jacob Riis’s once-widely-acknowledged role as father of the urban small-parks movement receded in historical significance in favor of his contributions to journalism, photography, housing reform, and settlement work. This pattern overlooks the central importance that Riis himself placed on parks and playgrounds activism in his broader social agenda, at one point calling it “the logical sequel to ‘How the Other Half Lives.’” This essay examines how Riis, through his efforts to provide New York’s tenement districts with “breathing spaces,” refashioned eminent domain

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O'Donnell, Edward T. "Pictures vs. Words? Public History, Tolerance, and the Challenge of Jacob Riis." Public Historian 26, no. 3 (2004): 7–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/tph.2004.26.3.7.

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Through his pioneering use of photography and muckraking prose (most especially in How the Other Half Lives, 1890), Jacob Riis earned fame as a humanitarian in the classic Progressive Era mold. Yet in recent years some revisionist scholars have denounced Riis as an unreconstructed racist who merely posed as a benevolent reformer. Does this rethinking of Riis and the character of his work mean that public historians who have come to revere his photographs should shun them when producing public history related to themes of ethnicity, immigration, multiculturalism, and tolerance? The author argue

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Lowe, Margaret. "Leviatin, Ed., How The Other Half Lives." Teaching History: A Journal of Methods 26, no. 1 (2001): 50–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.33043/th.26.1.50-51.

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In one fell swoop, Jacob Riis's How the Other Half Lives introduces readers to almost all of the critical themes they will need to confront to understand the Progressive Era. Riis's evocative and disturbing language and his stark photographs grab the reader's attention and demand interrogation. With little prodding, students ask: What was city life really like in the late nineteenth century? How did immigrants react to the conditions they faced?

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Weinstein, Cindy. "How Many Others are There in the Other Half? Jacob Riis and the Tenement Population." Nineteenth-Century Contexts 24, no. 2 (2002): 195–216. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0890549022000017869.

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CLYMER, JEFFORY A. "Modeling, Diagramming, and Early Twentieth-Century Histories of Invention and Entrepreneurship: Henry Ford, Sherwood Anderson, Samuel Insull." Journal of American Studies 36, no. 3 (2002): 491–512. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s002187580200693x.

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The historical narrative arguing that independent artisans were increasingly transformed into mere tenders of complicated machinery during the second half of the nineteenth century, leading ultimately to Henry Ford's minute division of labor in the assembly line, is both conventional and well known. Technology became more complex, its inner workings were less self-evident or easily comprehensible, and the material conditions of production, exemplified by modern factories built around a division of labor, became too large and systematic to be understood from the viewpoint of a single worker sel

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Hernandez, Josefino. "Jacob S. Matubis, MD (1950-2022) “Bye, Jake!”." Philippine Journal of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery 37, no. 1 (2022): 63. http://dx.doi.org/10.32412/pjohns.v37i1.1943.

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    Those words reverberate in our minds as we remember how Dr. Nati Almazan, president of the Philippine Board of Otolaryngology- Head and Neck Surgery, bid Jake goodbye on many occasions, also being a member of the board.      Dr. Jacob Sadang Matubis, a colleague, a brother in the Mu Sigma Phi fraternity, and a batchmate during our residency in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the University of the Philippines-Philippine General Hospital from 1981 to 1984, was a friend to many of us. Jake, as we fondly called him, was a memb

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Marquis, Nicolas. "“What Can I Do to Get Out of It?”: How Self-Help Readers Make Use of the Language Game of Resilience." M/C Journal 16, no. 5 (2013). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.693.

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Introduction Resilience is, as a concept and as a discourse, a cultural resource that has experienced a growing importance over the last two decades, especially in the field of psychology. In September 2013, the most important database for scientific productions in psychology (www.psycinfo.org) contained more than 14,000 references concerning resilience. In French-speaking countries, for example, each new book by Boris Cyrulnik, the famous neuropsychiatrist who imported the notion of resilience into the psychological field, sells like hotcakes, with total sales of several million copies (see M

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Glitsos, Laura, Steinar Ellingsen, and Mark Deuze. "Nightmare Fuel." M/C Journal 27, no. 6 (2024). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.3108.

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Introduction Skibidi Toilet began as an animated YouTube Web series early in 2023 that quickly spiralled into a wildly popular cultural phenomenon sprouting fandoms, wikis, threads, merchandise, and its very own moral panic (McKinnon and Harmon). It has recently grabbed the attention of Hollywood, and there are rumours that it is on its way to TV and a possible film treatment by Michael Bay (Wallenstein and Steiner). The episodes are short, surreal videos featuring bizarre, monstrous characters embroiled in violent clashes—to the non-stop repetition of “skibidi dom dom dom yes yes.” Kids love

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Books on the topic "How the other half lives (Riis, Jacob A.)"

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Gandal, Keith. The virtues of the vicious: Jacob Riis, Stephen Crane, and the spectacle of the slum. Oxford University Press, 1997.

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How the Other Half Lives: A Jacob Riis Classic. Cedar Lake Publications, 2010.

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A, Riis Jacob, and David Leviatin. American Promise 2e Volume 2 and How the Other Half Lives: By Jacob A. Riis. Bedford/St. Martin's, 2003.

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A, Riis Jacob, David Brody, Lynn Dumenil, David Leviatin, and James A. Henretta. America's History 5e Volume 2 and How the Other Half Lives: By Jacob A. Riis. Bedford/St. Martin's, 2003.

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Johnson, Michael P., Sarah Stage, James L. Roark, et al. American Promise Compact 2e Volume 2 and How the Other Half Lives: By Jacob A. Riis. Bedford/St. Martin's, 2003.

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A, Riis Jacob, and David Leviatin. America A Concise History 2e Volume 2 and How the Other Half Lives: By Jacob A. Riis. Bedford/St. Martin's, 2001.

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Gooding-Williams, Robert, Riis Jacob A, Du Bois, W. E. B., et al. Who Built America Volume 2 and Souls of Black Folk and How the Other Half Lives: By Jacob A. Riis. Bedford/St. Martin's, 2000.

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How the other half lives; studies among the tenements of New York, by Jacob A. Riis; with illustrations chiefly from photographs taken by the author. Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library, 2006.

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Gandal, Keith. Virtues of the Vicious: Jacob Riis, Stephen Crane and the Spectacle of the Slum. Oxford University Press, 1997.

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Cole, Jean Lee. How the Other Half Laughs. University Press of Mississippi, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496826527.001.0001.

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In the popular press of the early twentieth century, immigrant masses and the tenement districts were frequently portrayed as occasions for laughter rather than as objects of pity or problems to be solved. This distinctly comic sensibility, most visible in the form of the comic strip, merged the grotesque with the urbane and the whimsical with the cynical, representing the world of what Jacob Riis called the “Other Half” with a jaundiced, yet sympathetic, eye. Various forms of the comic sensibility emerged from a competitive, collaborative environment fostered at newspapers and magazines publi

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Book chapters on the topic "How the other half lives (Riis, Jacob A.)"

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Loock, Kathleen. "Riis, Jacob August: How the Other Half Lives." In Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL). J.B. Metzler, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05728-0_18579-1.

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Tambling, Jeremy. "New York and How the Other Half Lives (Jacob A. Riis)." In The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies. Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62592-8_242-1.

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Tambling, Jeremy. "New York and How the Other Half Lives (Jacob A. Riis)." In The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies. Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62419-8_242.

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"Jacob Riis: How the Other Half Lives." In Schlager Anthology of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Schlager Group Inc., 2021. https://doi.org/10.3735/9781935306658.book-part-031.

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Jacob Riis (1849–1914) was a Danish immigrant and photojournalist best known for his first book, How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York. Published in 1890, the book shocked the conscience of Americans by showing in vivid detail the slum conditions of the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where Jewish, Bohemian, German, Italian, Chinese, and Irish immigrants were packed into tenements, many of them with no windows or ventilation, and waged a daily battle against overcrowding, crime, disease, filth, and poverty.

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Cole, Jean Lee. "The Comic Sensibility." In How the Other Half Laughs. University Press of Mississippi, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496826527.003.0001.

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In How the Other Half Lives, Jacob Riis sentimentalized the urban poor, a familiar rhetorical and representational strategy used to elicit righteous outrage that would propel social reform. Others took a different approach. Based in bodily forms of humor in all its crass vulgarity, the comic sensibility cultivated camaraderie and solidarity among members of the Other Half, rather than uniting the elite on their behalf. The multivalent, public laughter effected by the comic sensibility enabled its audience to laugh on their own terms, and thus become co-creators of meaning. As we see in example

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Andal, Keith G. "Riis and Charity Writing." In The Virtues of the Vicious. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195110630.003.0002.

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Abstract Though in many ways Jacob Riis’s How the Other Half Lives follows in the tradition of nineteenth-century charity writing, portions of his book are unlike any previous American writings on poverty. His description of the infamous Mulberry Bend is one. It is touristic. What a birds-eye view of “the Bend” would be like is a matter of bewildering conjecture. Its everyday appearance, as seen from the corner of Bayard Street on a sunny day, is one of the sights of New York.

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Dawkins, Laura. "“It Won’t Be Long Before the Grind-Mill Gets Hold of Him”: Child Labor in Mary E. Wilkins Freeman’s The Portion of Labor." In New Perspectives on Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. Edinburgh University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781399504478.003.0009.

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This chapter argues that The Portion of Labor is one of the few works of fiction that examines the controversial issue of child labor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Freeman protests the theft of education, vitality, and individuality from generations of children who began to work for wages at an early age. Writing in the tradition of “moral realism” exemplified by Jacob Riis’s How the Other Half Lives (1890), Freeman departs from Riis in her insistence that only the organization of labor unions and the political activism of the working class—not the middle-class social r

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"Chronology of Jacob A. Riis’s Life." In How the Other Half Lives. Harvard University Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1p6hntz.6.

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Krstić, Igor. "Sensational Remediations." In Slums on Screen. Edinburgh University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474406864.003.0003.

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This chapter takes the decade of the birth of cinema, the 1890s, as a vantage point and tackles the question of how, by that time, the slum has become a topic of high visibility in various media. The author identifies the notion of ‘remediation’ (Bolter and Grusin) as this era’s key paradigm, because clichéd slum imagery and sensationalist stories (of violent crime, immorality, abject poverty etc.) travel around 1890 across (old and new) media, from the stage to the cinema, from photo books to magic lantern shows. The chapter focuses thereby on the ‘documentary impulse’ (Gunning) to disclose u

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Andal, Keith G. "The Touristic Ethic and Photography." In The Virtues of the Vicious. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195110630.003.0004.

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Abstract When How the Other Half Lives was advertised, it was not marketed strictly as a reform piece, exclusively as “an indictment of the tenement system.” One advertisement for the book declared: No page is uninstructive, but it would be misleading to suppose the book even tinctured with didacticism. It is from beginning to end as picturesque in treatment as it is in material. The author’s acquaintance with the latter is extremely intimate. The reader feels that he is being guided through the dirt and crime, the tatters and rags, the byways and alleys of nether New York by an experienced ci

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