Books with author Anthony Lee Medina

This visually and intellectually exciting book brings the history of San Francisco's Chinatown alive by taking a close look at images of the quarter created during its first hundred years, from 1850 to 1950. Picturing Chinatown contains more than 160 photographs and paintings, some well known and many never reproduced before, to illustrate how this famous district has acted on the photographic and painterly imagination. Bringing together art history and the social and political history of San Francisco, this vividly detailed study unravels the complex cultural encounter that occurred between the women and men living in Chinatown and the artists who walked its streets, observed its commerce, and visited its nightclubs. Artistic representations of San Francisco's Chinatown include the work of some of the city's most gifted artists, among them the photographers Laura Adams Armer, Arnold Genthe, Dorothea Lange, Eadweard Muybridge, and Carleton Watkins and the painters Edwin Deakin, Yun Gee, Theodore Wores, and the members of the Chinese Revolutionary Artists' Club. Looking at the work of these artists and many others, Anthony Lee shows how their experiences in the district helped encourage, and even structured, some of their most ambitious experiments with brush and lens. In addition to discussing important developments in modern art history, Lee highlights the social and political context behind these striking images. He demonstrates the value of seeing paintings and photographs as cultural documents, and in so doing, opens a fascinating new perspective on San Francisco's Chinatown.

On a June morning in 1870, seventy-five Chinese immigrants stepped off a train in the New England factory town of North Adams, Massachusetts, imported as strikebreakers by the local shoe manufacturer. They threaded their way through a hostile mob and then--remarkably--their new employer lined them up along the south wall of his factory and had them photographed as the mob fell silent. So begins A Shoemaker's Story. Anthony Lee seeks to understand the social forces that brought this now-famous photograph into being, and the events and images it subsequently spawned. He traces the rise of photography as a profession and the hopes and experiences of immigrants trying to find their place in the years following the Civil War. He describes the industrialization of the once-traditional craft of shoemaking, and the often violent debates about race, labor, class, and citizenship that industrialization caused. Generously illustrated with many extraordinary photographs, A Shoemaker's Story brings 1870s America to vivid life. Lee's spellbinding narrative interweaves the perspectives of people from very different walks of life--the wealthy factory owner who dared to bring the strikebreakers to New England, the Chinese workers, the local shoemakers' union that did not want them there, the photographers themselves, and the ordinary men and women who viewed and interpreted their images. Combining painstaking research with world-class storytelling, Lee illuminates an important episode in the social history of the United States, and reveals the extent to which photographs can be sites of intense historical struggle.

The Anger Management Workbook For Teens: Find Simple Ways of Managing Anger And How To Control Anger In Teens And Kids Have you ever wondered how to control anger? Have you tried some steps to managing your anger but failed? Is there any other way that you can still be angry without making the situation worse? Can you direct your anger to something positive in your life that will help you? Are there practical strategies in anger management for teens that you can adopt in controlling your anger? As a teenager, there are times that you feel you have to let out and express your anger without any form of limitation. Here, in this anger management workbook for teens, you will find: • Activities to help you in managing your anger • Simple steps to keep you encouraged all through your anger management exercises • Guide on how to control anger and turn it into a positive action • Practical ways to deal with situations that can lead to anger • Find ways on how to handle anger in both school and family. The twenty-three exercises in this anger management workbook for teens will help you to know when anger is about to start and what step you can take to control it. It will explain to you through practical exercises what causes your anger and how to control your anger. As a teenager, the exercise in this book will give you a direct explanation on knowing how your family anger can influence what you have been experiencing in your life. Following these exercises every day, you can find ways to control your anger. The days of anger are over with this anger management book for teens.