The Wedding (1998)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Naremore
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Oprah Winfrey ◽  
Martha's Vineyard ◽  
Reconstruction Era ◽  
The Family ◽  
Martha’S Vineyard ◽  
Television Film ◽  
Jazz Musician ◽  
Family Trees

Based on Dorothy West’s novel of the same title, The Wedding is an expensively mounted, three-hour television film produced by Oprah Winfrey and directed by Burnett, with a large cast and a broad historical sweep. It centers on a wealthy enclave of blacks on Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts, where the youngest daughter of a prominent family is about to be married to a white jazz musician from New York. Neither of the two families approves of the match, and the plans for the elaborate wedding lead to a variety of dramatic conflicts. The film flashes back to the Reconstruction era, revealing the family trees of black “strivers” who have sacrificed love to become successful and are biased against anyone not of their class.

The Impostor Syndrome from Luxury Consumption

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (6) ◽  
pp. 1031-1051 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dafna Goor ◽  
Nailya Ordabayeva ◽  
Anat Keinan ◽  
Sandrine Crener
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Shopping Center ◽  
East Side ◽  
Luxury Consumption ◽  
Martha's Vineyard ◽  
Metropolitan Opera ◽  
Psychological Entitlement ◽  
Martha’S Vineyard ◽  
Sense Of Entitlement ◽  
Impostor Syndrome

Abstract The present research proposes that luxury consumption can be a double-edged sword: while luxury consumption yields status benefits, it can also make consumers feel inauthentic, producing what we call the impostor syndrome from luxury consumption. As a result, paradoxically, luxury consumption may backfire and lead consumers to behave less confidently due to their undermined feelings of self-authenticity. Feelings of inauthenticity from luxury consumption may arise because consumers perceive luxury as an undue privilege. These feelings are less pronounced among consumers with high levels of chronic psychological entitlement, and they are reduced when consumers’ sense of entitlement is temporarily boosted. The effects are robust across studies conducted in the lab and in field settings such as the Metropolitan Opera, Martha’s Vineyard, a luxury shopping center, and the Upper East Side in New York, featuring relevant participant populations including luxury target segments and consumption contexts including consumers’ reflections on their actual past luxury purchases.

Filled with Spirit and Power: Protestant Clergy in Politics. By Laura R. Olson. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000. 174p. $57.50 cloth, $18.95 paper.

2001 ◽  
Vol 95 (4) ◽  
pp. 1005-1006
Author(s):  
Paul J. Weber
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
African American ◽  
Family Values ◽  
State University ◽  
Protestant Clergy ◽  
African American Pastors ◽  
The Family ◽  
Limited Scope

Laura Olson is one of a small but energetic and influential group of Christian political scientists determined to bring the debate politically legitimate called it either racist or sexist. Yet, somewhat surprisingly, African American pastors held the most consistently conservative views on family values, although they also saw the connections among crime, violence, and the deterioration of the family. Within the authorÕs intentionally limited scope, this is an excellent study, but one should be cautious about generalizing.

Vernacular American Landscape: Methodists, Camp Meetings, and Social Respectability

1994 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Robins
Keyword(s):  
Cape Cod ◽  
Church Members ◽  
White Mountains ◽  
Martha's Vineyard ◽  
Home State ◽  
American Landscape ◽  
Camp Meetings ◽  
Martha’S Vineyard ◽  
Religious Landscape ◽  
The Church

In 1822, from his Conway home in the shadow of New Hampshire's White Mountains, one Dr. Porter surveyed the nation's religious landscape and prophesied, “in half a century there will be no Pagans, Jews, Mohammedans, Unitarians or Methodists.” The prophecy proved false on all counts, but it was most glaringly false in the case of the Methodists. In less than a decade, Porter's home state became the eighth to elect a Methodist governor. Should Porter have fled south into Massachusetts to escape the rising Methodist tide, he would only have been buying time. True, the citizens of Provincetown, Massachusetts, had, in 1795, razed a Methodist meetinghouse and tarred and feathered a Methodist in effigy. By 1851, however, the Methodists boasted a swelling Cape Cod membership, a majority of the church members on Martha's Vineyard, and a governor in the Massachusetts statehouse.

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