Language and Identity Politics: The Linguistic Autobiographies of Latinos in the United States

2005 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 166-176
Author(s):  
Lea Ramsdell
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
The United States ◽  
Language And Identity

The Revolting American Elites: Christopher Lasch and his Enemies

1997 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. J. HEALE
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Human Agency ◽  
The United States ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Dark Night ◽  
American Life ◽  
Christopher Lasch ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Human Condition

Christopher Lasch completed this book under “trying circumstances,” which presumably included the knowledge that he was dying from leukemia. Its final sardonic section is entitled “The Dark Night of the Soul,” and contemplates the pitiable plight of modern and secularized man, who denies himself the discipline of religion and is compelled to seek security in the easier and probably falser gods of science or therapy or identity politics. Lasch's last, racking examination of the human condition as it is displayed in the United States is not exactly despairing, because the human agency means that there is always hope, but his subjects are unfulfilled beings in a dysfunctional society. In short, Lasch has not used his farewell address to reprieve his fellow intellectuals of the charges he has previously levelled against them; rather, the indictment has been intensified. In many ways this a perfect Parthian shaft, gathering together and synthesising into one compelling critique the many misgivings that Lasch had long been developing about American life.

Central American-American Identity and Politics

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maritza E. Cárdenas
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Asian American ◽  
The United States ◽  
Central American ◽  
Geographic Space ◽  
Cultural Specificity ◽  
Time Period ◽  
The Us ◽  
Identity Category

The use of the term “Central American” as an identity category is neither new nor restricted to the US diaspora. However, it is within the last forty years and in the geopolitical setting of the United States that a thriving identity politics has developed. It is during this time period that the use of the term Central American has emerged to denote a tactical American pan-ethnic social identity. This act of consciously employing the term “Central American” as a unification strategy for peoples from the isthmus in the United States echoes other US-based ethnoracial identity politics. Such movements often utilize a pan-ethnic term not only to advocate on the behalf of a racialized minoritarian community but also seeking to provide them a space of belonging by focusing on sociopolitical, cultural, and ethnic commonalities. As other identity markers in the United States such as “Asian American” and “African American” illustrate, Central Americans are not the first population to utilize a region as a strategic unifying term of self-identification. Yet, unlike these other US ethnoracial categories, for those who identify as “Central American” the term “Central America” often connotes not simply a geographic space but also a historical formation that advances the notion that individuals from the isthmus comprise a distinct but common culture. Another key difference from other US ethnoracial identities is that use of the term “Central American” in US cultural politics emerged during a historical era where the broader collective terms “Hispanic” or “Latino” were already in place. The creation and deployment of “Central American” is therefore an alternative to this other supra-ethnic identity category, as subjects view this isthmian-based term as being able to simultaneously create a broader collective while still invoking a type of geographic and cultural specificity that is usually associated with national identities.

Public Opinion on Nonwhite Underrepresentation and Racial Identity Politics in Brazil

2009 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 69-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanley R. Bailey
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Sample Survey ◽  
African Origin ◽  
Class Differences ◽  
Political Preferences

AbstractBrazil has an “African-origin” population that is proportionally more than four times larger that of African Americans in the United States, but white Brazilians mostly dominate electoral politics. How do ordinary citizens explain this phenomenon? Drawing on a large-sample survey of public opinion in the state of Rio de Janeiro, this article explores perceived explanations for nonwhite underrepresentation in the political arena. It also examines attitudes toward a particular black candidate, Benedita da Silva, to discern the state ofnegroidentity politics. Most Brazilians in Rio de Janeiro cite racial prejudice to explain nonwhite exclusion, although whites do this less than nonwhites. Indicators of a racial undercurrent in political preferences suggest the importance of allegiances based on perceived common racial origins. Class is robustly associated with voting preferences, suggesting that, in contrast to the United States, class differences among nonwhites in Brazil could attenuate the success ofnegroidentity politics.

Transnationalism and Classic American Literature

PMLA ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 118 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Giles
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
The United States ◽  
Temporal Dimension ◽  
Self Reliance

Taking issue with associations between American literature and identity politics, this essay argues that to remap the culture of the United States in global terms is to problematize its exemplary and exceptionalist qualities and recognize inherent transnational frictions. As an example of this, the writings of Emerson and Thoreau in the 1840s are situated in relation to conflicts over the Oregon Territory, so that their textual designs come to seem less abstract or Neoplatonic than aggressively nationalistic. To restore a sense of the spatial problematic to American literature is to interrogate its more traditional integration within a temporal dimension of prophetic destiny. The essay concludes by suggesting that reexamining American allegories of interiority through pre-Romantic theories of spatial formation effectively produces a different perspective on texts that have become naturalized as examples of liberal self-reliance and institutionalized as types of classic American literature.

scholarly journals Sounding the Tricolore: France and the United States during World War ii

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 9-21
Author(s):  
Annegret Fauser
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
The United States ◽  
World War ◽  
Musical Identity ◽  
Pelleas Et Melisande ◽  
French Music ◽  
French Composers ◽  
Global War

During World War ii, French music found itself in a unique position in the United States. As the sonic embodiment of an Allied nation, it was nonetheless subjected to musical identity politics that drew on stereotypes of France as an elegant, cosmopolitan, and even effeminate culture whose products needed the transformation of US reception to toughen themselves up for the global war, fought both on the battlefield and through propaganda. I focus on three aspects of this complex story of cultural mediation: the reception and adaptation of Claude Debussy’s music, especially Pelléas et Mélisande; American cultural artifacts representing France, such as the 1943 motion picture Casablanca; and the role of French composers and performers in the United States during the war.

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