When Patriot Becomes Hate-triot: The Relationship Between American Identity and the Production of Cyberhate

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley V. Reichelmann ◽  
Matthew Costello
Keyword(s):  
American Identity ◽  
The Relationship

“That Pause for Contemplation”

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Callahan
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
Thought Experiment ◽  
Ralph Ellison ◽  
Abraham Lincoln ◽  
American Identity ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Father Figures ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship

In “’That Pause for Contemplation’: A Centennial Meditation on Ralph Ellison,” John Callahan—Ellison’s literary executor and the dean of Ellison studies—looks back upon Ellison’s life and work, asking what Ellison’s accomplishment looks like 100 years after his birth, and a new century proceeds in his wake. Beginning with the “thought experiment” of a young Barack Obama jogging past Ralph Ellison in New York in the 1980s, Callahan meditates on Ellison’s investigation of the relationship between the individual search for identity and America’s pursuit of democratic equality. Drawing upon Ellison’s wealth of posthumously published material—the short stories, essays, interviews, and his unfinished second novel—Callahan emphasizes Ellison’s relentless pursuit of the novel form as his means of interrogating the fluid, improvisational, evolving form of American identity. Callahan probes the omnipresent father figures that dominate Ellison’s work after Invisible Man—Lewis Ellison, Abraham Lincoln, Alonzo Hickman, and others.

Raising the Bar

2020 ◽  
pp. 12-45
Author(s):  
Cat M. Ariail
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Black Woman ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Gold Medal ◽  
American Identity ◽  
Black Womanhood ◽  
Traditional Gender Roles ◽  
Ideal Image ◽  
Sport Culture ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter chronicles the international athletic experiences of Alice Coachman, the first black woman to win an Olympic gold medal, examining how her successes, especially at the 1948 Olympic Games, challenged the ideal image of American athleticism and, in turn, American identity. The relative invisibility of Coachman in the white sporting press indicates that she raised uncomfortable questions about race, gender, and American belonging. The interracial homecoming held in her hometown of Albany, Georgia, and a visit to Oval Office further expose how Coachman’s achievement required white America to rethink the relationship between race, gender, and American identity. While black sport culture lauded Coachman, they presented her as figure of black womanhood, reinforcing the centrality of traditional gender roles to ideal Americanness.

scholarly journals "He that Hath an Ear to Hear": Deaf America and the Second Great Awakening

2011 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sari Altschuler
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
American Identity ◽  
Great Awakening ◽  
Deaf People ◽  
Deaf Community ◽  
Second Great Awakening ◽  
National Unity ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Oral Transmission ◽  
The Relationship

<p>This essay explores the American Deaf community as a revealing limit-case for constructions of nineteenth-century national identity — specifically, how the religious boom during the Second Great Awakening rhetorically, structurally, and conceptually clashed with the Deaf community it spawned. The argument has three parts. The first part is a prehistory that explores the relationship between early nineteenth-century evangelism and construction of the first American Deaf community. The second part probes the hearing-based rhetoric and practice of evangelical preachers and the problems that deaf people the posed to emerging Protestant-American identity. The last section focuses on the actual battleground — language — arguing that oralism/manualism conflicts grew impassioned because they both located issues that deaf people raised with regard to oral transmission and became a lightning rod for less articulable threats to national unity. Finally, I suggest that many significant contributions Deaf studies has to offer American history and historiography have yet to be explored.</p>

scholarly journals Something Wicked Westward Goes: Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson’s Californian Uncanny

Humanities ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Robyn Pritzker
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Gold Rush ◽  
American Identity ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Gothic Fiction ◽  
American Gothic ◽  
American Author ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship

This essay offers a first critical reading of American author Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson’s short story “The Warlock’s Shadow” (1886), asserting that the tale appropriates historical traumas in order to navigate, and transgress, boundaries of genre and gender. The strangeness of the text’s Central Californian setting, to the narrator, precipitates a series of Gothic metamorphoses, and “The Warlock’s Shadow” engages with this transformation via a concept that this essay defines as the “Californian Uncanny”. The latter framework is a result of the specific, layered indigenous and colonial identities of post-Gold Rush California coming into contact with the unstable subjectivities of the Gothic genre. “The Warlock’s Shadow” manifests the Californian Uncanny primarily through the relationship between the home, the environment, and the “unassimilable” inhabitant. Stevenson’s text illustrates, through these images, the ways in which late-nineteenth-century American Gothic fiction has allowed the white feminine subject to negotiate her own identity, complicating the binary distinctions between Self and Other which underpin American colonialism both internally and externally. The phenomenon of the Californian Uncanny in “The Warlock’s Shadow” reflects these gendered and geographical anxieties of American identity, confronting the ghosts of the nation’s westernmost region.

The Slave1

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Still
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Animals ◽  
American Identity ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Robinson Crusoe ◽  
The People ◽  
Modern Slavery ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
American Farmer

This chapter takes off from Derrida’s examination of the relationship between the sovereign and the people in Early Modern political philosophy, notably Rousseau’s Social Contract and Rousseau’s interlocutors (Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes); and from Derrida’s analysis of servitude or slavery in Robinson Crusoe. It sets this in the context of other Enlightenment writings on slavery and abolition (e.g. returning to the Encyclopédie), and to representations of slavery in the Americas more generally, including the English and French versions of the Letters from an American Farmer by the founding father of American identity, Crèvecoeur. Like the savage, the slave exists on the borderline between what is set up as the human and what is set up as the animal. Supporters of slavery put forward the hypothesis of natural slaves who are (like) animals; abolitionists, including former slaves, focus on the bestialisation of human beings who are forced to be property as domestic animals are. Debates over the precise definition of a slave, and over the distinction between figural and literal slaves, also have a purchase on modern slavery and the difficulty of drafting legislation.

The Precarity of the Baton Pass

2020 ◽  
pp. 165-174
Author(s):  
Cat M. Ariail
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
White Women ◽  
American Identity ◽  
Track And Field ◽  
The Political ◽  
Competitive Sports ◽  
Black And White ◽  
The Status ◽  
Track Athletes ◽  
The Relationship

The chapter briefly surveys the status of black and white women athletes in the aftermath of Wilma Rudolph. By appearing to combine elite athleticism and appropriate femininity, Rudolph opened a cultural space for young white women to begin participating in track and field and other highly competitive sports. At the same time, the political and social ruptures of the mid- to late 1960s United States rendered black women track stars less resonant symbols of American identity, as demonstrated by the fate of the Tigerbelle sprint star who succeeded Rudolph, Wyomia Tyus. However, during the conservative culture of the 1980s, black women track athletes would reemerge as icons of Americanness. Black American track women thus are barometers of the boundaries of American belonging, with their variable periods of visibility and invisibility revealing much about the relationship between race, gender, sexuality, and national identity.

American identity and neutral rights from independence to the War of 1812

1997 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mlada Bukovansky
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
International Relations ◽  
International Relations Theory ◽  
American Identity ◽  
War Of 1812 ◽  
Material Distribution ◽  
State Identity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Distribution Of Power ◽  
The Relationship

In recent international relations theory debates, constructivists have argued that explanations based primarily on interests and the material distribution of power cannot fully account for important international phenomena and that analysis of the social construction of state identities ought to precede, and may even explain, the genesis of state interests. This claim has proved difficult to operationalize empirically, though some persuasive results are now emerging. This article analyzes the relationship between state identity and state interest in the development of American neutral rights policy from U.S. independence to the War of 1812.

Gay Asian Americans Are Seen as More American Than Asian Americans Who Are Presumed Straight

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 336-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mika Semrow ◽  
Linda X. Zou ◽  
Shuyang Liu ◽  
Sapna Cheryan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
Asian American ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Identity ◽  
Culture Studies ◽  
Asian American Men ◽  
Orientation Information ◽  
The Relationship

Four studies investigate whether gay Asian Americans are stereotyped as more American than Asian Americans who are presumed straight. Gay Asian American men (Study 1) and women (Study 2) were rated as more American than their counterparts whose sexual orientation was unspecified. However, sexual orientation did not influence judgments of Whites’ American identity. The relationship between Asian Americans’ sexual orientation and perceptions of their American identity was mediated by a belief that American culture is relatively more accepting of gay people than Asian culture (Studies 3 and 4). Manipulating how accepting of gay people a target’s country of origin is relative to the United States altered ratings of American identity for gay but not straight targets (Study 4). Using an intersectional approach, these studies demonstrate that sexual orientation information comes together with race to influence who is likely to be perceived as American.

scholarly journals Ramifications of Racial Identity in Gloria Naylor’s Linden Hills

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (10) ◽  
pp. 430-438
Author(s):  
Dr.S. Mahadevan ◽  
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Racial Identity ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
American Identity ◽  
Main Theme ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Tragic Mulatto ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
African American Identity ◽  
The Relationship

This paper attempts to bring out the racial identity in Gloria Naylor’s Linden Hills. It presents the struggle for African-American identity; the idea of feminist consciousness is brought forward. There is a fight against racism. Women are found to be dominated, humiliated, and harassed by the male characters. The theme of tragic mulatto is introduced in the novel, reinforcing the importance of racial roots. Linden Hills portrays a sarcastic examination of the uncertain struggle for African-American identity in the nineteenth century and twentieth century. The relationship between personal identity and cultural history is the main theme in this novel. Naylor focuses on a community of heartless people who have become detached from their cultural past in the action of ascending the corporate ladder towards a promising monetary future. In this quest of upward mobility, the occupants of Linden Hills have even turned away from the sense of their racial identity.

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