American Hebrew Literature: Writing Jewish National Identity in the United States by Michael Weingrad, and: Red, Black, and Jew: New Frontiers in Hebrew Literature by Stephen Katz, and: Sanctuary in the Wilderness: A Critical Introduction to American Hebrew Poetry by Alan Mintz (review)

AbstractAs long as the American Constitution serves as the focal point of American identity, many constitutional interpretative theories also serve as roadmaps to various visions of American constitutional identity. Using the debate over the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, I expose the identity dimension of various interpretative theories and analyse the differences between the roadmaps offered by them. I argue that according to each of these roadmaps, courts’ authority to review legislation is required in order to protect a certain vision of American constitutional identity even at the price of thwarting Americans’ freedom to pursue their current desires. The conventional framing of interpretative theories as merely techniques to decipher the constitutional text or justifications for the Supreme Court’s countermajoritarian authority to review legislation and the disregard of their identity function is perplexing in view of the centrality of the Constitution to American national identity. I argue that this conventional framing is a result of the current understanding of American constitutional identity in terms of neutrality toward the question of the good. This reading of the Constitution as lacking any form of ideology at its core makes majority preferences the best take of current American identity, leaving constitutional theorists with the mission to justify the Court’s authority to diverge from majority preferences.

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The transformation of tequila: From hangover to highbrow

Journal of Consumer Culture ◽

10.1177/1469540514556169 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 17 (1) ◽

pp. 62-84 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Marie Sarita Gaytán

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

National Identity ◽

The United States ◽

High Class ◽

Song Lyrics

This article examines the evolution of tequila’s reputation – from lowbrow to high class – in Mexico and the United States. Analyzing the content of novels, magazines, newspapers, ads, and song lyrics, it argues that the current cachet associated with tequila was influenced by a range of historical, political, and economic circumstances within and between Mexico and the United States. Specifically, transformations took place in three key phases including tequila’s: (1) increasing ties to national identity in Mexico; (2) changing perception – moving from feared to fun – in the United States; and (3) gaining of state-backed support and legislative protection. In explaining the shifting patterns of prestige, the roles of transnational circuits of consumption and production merit closer analysis in understanding the relations that shape cultural fields.

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The Lucrative Business of the Cyrus Cylinder

Testing the Canon of Ancient Near Eastern Art and Archaeology ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190673161.003.0014 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 299-301

Author(s):

Kamyar Abdi

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Twentieth Century ◽

National Identity ◽

International Business ◽

Jewish People ◽

British Museum ◽

The United States

This chapter focuses on the Cylinder of Cyrus the Great (c. 600–530 BCE) of Persia. More commonly known as the “Cyrus Cylinder,” this archaeological find housed in the British Museum is about 22 centimeters long, made of baked clay, and covered in cuneiform writing that has been noted by biblical scholars to corroborate the story of Cyrus’s liberation of the Jewish people from Babylonian captivity. Since the mid-twentieth century, it has been (mis/ab)used as a political tool to promote Iranian national identity. With its exhibition in Iran in 2010 and in the United States in 2013, it has also become a commodified icon in a lucrative international business.

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American Hebrew Literature: Writing Jewish National Identity in the United States by Michael Weingrad, and: Red, Black, and Jew: New Frontiers in Hebrew Literature by Stephen Katz, and: Sanctuary in the Wilderness: A Critical Introduction to American Hebrew Poetry by Alan Mintz (review)

American Hebrew Literature: Writing Jewish National Identity in the United States, and: Red, Black, and Jew: New Frontiers in Hebrew Literature, and: Sanctuary in the Wilderness: A Critical Introduction to American Hebrew Poetry (review)

American Hebrew literature: writing Jewish national identity in the United States

Out of Brownsville: Encounters with Nobel Laureates and Other Jewish Writers / American Hebrew Literature: Writing Jewish National Identity in the United States / Race, Rights, and Recognition: Jewish American Literature since 1969

American Hebrew Literature: Writing Jewish National Identity in the United States by Michael Weingrad (review)

The Great Tradition: Constitutional History and National Identity in Britain and the United States, 1870-1960, by Anthony Brundage and Richard A. Cosgrove

Hate Speech and National Identity: The Case of the United States and Canada

'The Mother of Combines': Representations of the United States in Early Canadian Discourse on the Combines Problem and the Formation of Canadian National Identity

Interpretative theories as roadmaps to constitutional identity: The case of the United States

The transformation of tequila: From hangover to highbrow

The Lucrative Business of the Cyrus Cylinder

'The Mother of Combines':  Representations of the United States in Early Canadian Discourse on the Combines Problem and the Formation of Canadian National Identity