Unpacking Chinese America: The Political Participation of Taiwanese Americans in the Early Twenty-First-Century United States

An examination of the anti-Muslim reactions to the political career of US Rep. André Carson (D-Indiana) indicates the challenges facing Muslim Americans who desire political assimilation into the United States. This chapter analyzes formal Muslim American political participation in the twenty-first century and the anti-Muslim discrimination, originating at both popular and governmental levels, that in design or effect rejects Muslim American assimilation.

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Coda

History, Abolition, and the Ever-Present Now in Antebellum American Writing ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198825647.003.0007 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 182-194

Author(s):

Jeffrey Insko

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

White Supremacy ◽

The United States ◽

First Century ◽

The Political ◽

Historical Monuments ◽

Twenty First Century

The book’s final chapter turns to the twenty-first-century historical present to examine the resurgence of pious warnings about the dangers of presentism in current debates over historical monuments and other forms of historical commemoration. After linking, by way of Afrofuturism, the recent political slogan #StayWoke to the political disposition identified in the book’s previous chapters, I turn to debates about the renaming of college buildings in order to challenge the ideas about history promoted by antipresentists, whose claims are themselves often ahistorical. The historiographical injunction against presentism, I claim, has unwittingly sustained white supremacy in the United States. I feel strongly that we’re not yet done with history—but not done precisely because of, not despite, the history that we inhabit.

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G. K. Chesterton and Islam

Modern Intellectual History ◽

10.1017/s1479244319000313 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 1-23

Author(s):

Tom Villis

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

First Century ◽

The Political ◽

Religious Context ◽

Anti Semitism ◽

Early Twentieth Century ◽

Early Twenty ◽

Protestant Christianity ◽

Twenty First Century ◽

Scholarly Attention

G. K. Chesterton's anti-Semitism has attracted much scholarly attention, but his views on Islam have largely passed without comment. This article situates Chesterton's writings in relation to historical views of Islam in Britain and the political, cultural and religious context of the early twentieth century. Chesterton's complex and contradictory opinions fail to support easy conclusions about the immutability of prejudice across time. His views of Islam are at times orientalist and at other times critical of imperialism and elitism. As well as drawing on medieval Catholic ideas about the “heresy” of Islam, Chesterton also links Islam with Protestant Christianity. From another perspective, his views of Islam draw on liberal traditions of humanitarian interventionism and democratic patriotism. Finally, he also used Islam as a symbol of a corroding modernity. This study suggests the need for a historically sensitive genealogy of the evolution of anti-Muslim prejudice which is not predetermined by the politics of the early twenty-first century.

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“Beyond the Rainbow”

Adapting The Wizard of Oz ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190663179.003.0012 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 223-240

Author(s):

Walter Frisch

Keyword(s):

Social Contexts ◽

First Century ◽

The Political ◽

Special Focus ◽

Wizard Of Oz ◽

The Past ◽

Early Twenty ◽

Twenty First Century ◽

Iconic Status

To paraphrase one of the most famous lines in movie history, we are not in Kansas—or in Oz—anymore. Nevertheless, the songs of The Wizard of Oz have continued to resonate well beyond the 1939 MGM film, extending deep into the political, cultural, and social contexts of the early twenty-first century. This chapter explores something of the afterlives of the songs, with a special focus on the most popular one, “Over the Rainbow,” which has achieved iconic status over the past eighty years. And if there is any overarching legacy of the songs, it is perhaps the idea that however much we dream or hope, we should not give up our home, our roots.

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Conclusion

Postdramatic Tragedies ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198817680.003.0009 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 275-278

Author(s):

Emma Cole

Keyword(s):

First Century ◽

The Political ◽

Future Directions ◽

Contemporary Theatre ◽

Early Twenty ◽

New Directions ◽

History Of ◽

Late Twentieth ◽

Twenty First Century

Postdramatic receptions of ancient tragedy represent a growing trend in contemporary theatre. This conclusion draws together the three core styles of postdramatic theatre considered in Postdramatic Tragedies, and considers future directions surrounding the combination of ancient tragedy and postdramatic theatre. The chapter reaffirms the significance of the political to postdramatic classical receptions. It claims that postdramatic tragedies have pushed both the tragic genre and the postdramatic style in new directions, and that an appreciation of them is key to understanding the history of theatre and of tragedy in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century.

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The Quartet in the Political Persona of Ida B. Wells

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190236953.013.37 ◽

2017 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Joy James

Keyword(s):

Sexual Violence ◽

First Century ◽

The Political ◽

Black Lives Matter ◽

Political Analysis ◽

Self Defense ◽

Early Twenty ◽

Late Nineteenth ◽

Twenty First Century

Antilynching activism and advocacy are codified in Wells’s writings, particularly the 1892 pamphlet Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases. Wells presented an astute political analysis of racial-sexual violence within US democracy that remains influential from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. A review of Wells’s advocacy for Afro-American autonomy and self-defense to counter racial terror and rape, and her critique of the duplicity of antirape discourse that demonizes blacks, suggests that the legacy of Ida B. Wells is discernible in contemporary analysis and activism found in organizations such as Black Lives Matter and the Black Women’s Blueprint.

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The Transatlantic Pivot

Current History ◽

10.1525/curh.2014.113.761.123 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 113 (761) ◽

pp. 123-124

Author(s):

Daniel S. Hamilton

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The United States ◽

First Century ◽

The Political ◽

Security Challenges ◽

Twenty First Century ◽

Political Economic

The United States and Europe must rebalance their partnership in order to face the political, economic, and security challenges of the twenty-first century.

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