scholarly journals DNA, Historical Evidence and The Settlement of Sephardic and Ashkenazic Jews in Colonial Texas

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Native Americans ◽  
American West ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Historical Documents ◽  
Historical Evidence ◽  
The West ◽  
Genealogical Analysis ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
The Alamo ◽  
Jewish Descent

The Lone Star state has long been a symbol of the American West, complete with cowboys, Native Americans, buffalo, cattle drives and the Alamo. Using DNA and genealogical analysis, together with historical documents, this article shows that both the original Spanish settlers and the later “Anglo” arrivals were primarily of Sephardic and Ashkenazic Jewish descent. These findings challenge traditional narratives of “how the West was won”, as well as the prevailing ideology of Anglo-American culture.

Meat Economies of the Chinese American West

2020 ◽  
pp. 250-274
Author(s):  
Charlotte K. Sunseri
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
American West ◽  
Food Access ◽  
Meat Products ◽  
Chinese American ◽  
Food Choices ◽  
Historical Evidence ◽  
The West ◽  
Food Practices ◽  
Rural Sites

Cuisine and diet are topics of particular interest to scholars of Chinese communities in the nineteenth-century American West. Many zooarchaeological analyses have identified beef and pork among the main provisions for miners and townsfolk, and this chapter synthesizes archaeological and historical evidence for food access and supply while exploring contexts of socioeconomics and cuisine which likely structured food choices. By focusing on both urban and rural sites to compare access and food choices, the historical evidence of national railroad–based chains of supply for meat products and Chinese food practices in varied living contexts are investigated. Taphonomic marks of centralized processing and redistribution, documented pricing of meat cuts, and patterns of access across the West provide new perspectives on feeding American communities.

scholarly journals Fear of China: Economic and Political Challenge in the 21st Century: A Pacific Society, Weapons, Roots and Trends

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niccolo Caldararo
Keyword(s):  
American West ◽  
Aboriginal Peoples ◽  
The West ◽  
Specific Nature ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The World ◽  
Revitalization Movement ◽  
Political Challenge ◽  
Anglo American

While the world has been distracted since the American war in Vietnam and the Soviet and western adventures in Afghanistan, as well as a rising tide of rebellion directed against symbols of the west by Islamic fundamentalists, a curious contest has appeared on two fronts: Russia and China. At the same time the west is distracted by populist movements whose theme is focused on immigrants from former colonial nations or non-whites in a context, as in America, where aboriginal peoples have been slaughtered and marginalized. The specific nature of this conflict is economic in general form, yet political in rhetoric, especially from western sources. From the Ukraine to the Pacific a kind of “Phoney War” has crept along in starts and stops with overtures of friendship interrupted with threats of violence and minor acts of aggression. Investigation of some of the underlying factors in the East illuminate potential trends for the future. At the same time a new revitalization movement is reshaping the Anglo-American west, one that challenges the role of China in trade and policy.

Conquered Landscape in the American West

Linguaculture ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Irina Chirica
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
American West ◽  
Thomas Jefferson ◽  
The West ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Western Expansion ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Future Policy ◽  
Historic Significance

AbstractThe paper traces the history of “conquered landscape” back to the original European colonists and the Puritans. We discuss the contribution of Thomas Jefferson as an architect of Western expansion through the purchase of the Louisiana territory and the mapping of future policy regarding the settling of Western territory. We cover the major moments in the settling of the West and their historic significance. We discuss Frederick Jackson Turner’s concept of the West as “a succession of frontiers” versus revisionist historian Patricia Nelson Limerick’s concept of conquest and conquered territory. The second part of the paper deals with the Native American view of the land, with reference to Paula Gunn Allen’s ideas and Leslie Marmon Silko’s novels Ceremony and Almanac of the Dead. Silko juxtaposes two different kinds of space, Native American versus federal space. The Native American and Anglo-American views of nature are contrasted and explained, with the discussion of aspects of native removal, reterritorialization and misrepresentation.

scholarly journals Rewriting the Western: Transnational Dimensions and Gender Fluidity in Sebastian Barry’s Days without End

2021 ◽  
Vol 63 ◽  
pp. 77-93
Author(s):  
David Río Raigadas
Keyword(s):  
Native Americans ◽  
American West ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Westward Expansion ◽  
Irish Immigrants ◽  
Gender Fluidity ◽  
Frontier Narratives ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Main Protagonist

The present essay will explore the Irish writer Sebastian Barry’s transnational rendering of the American West in his novel Days without End (2016), emphasizing his representation of neglected western questions and realities and his revision of traditional western tropes and archetypes. Barry’s approach to the American West in Days without End moves beyond the regional and national imagery of this territory, revealing its international and hybrid properties and its multiple and overlapping cultures. It is argued that Barry’s recreation of a different reality from the traditional western monomyth of masculinity, individualism, and Anglo-American conquest allows him to challenge classical frontier narratives and to address international and transcultural issues, such as gender fluidity. The novel, whose main protagonist and narrator is a poor, homosexual Irish immigrant, embraces a different West, questioning romanticized versions of the westward expansion and drawing interesting connections between the Irish immigrants in this region and the Native Americans. Overall, Days without End may be viewed as an acute depiction of the transnational dimension of the American West, proving the power of the Western to overcome its traditional formulaic and mythic boundaries and to travel across global spaces.

Anglo-American Aesthetes and Native Indian Corn: Candace Wheeler and the Revision of American Nationalism

1993 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 377-397 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary W. Blanchard
Keyword(s):  
American West ◽  
The West ◽  
Western History ◽  
Cultural Convergence ◽  
Historical Reality ◽  
Frederick Jackson Turner ◽  
American Nationalism ◽  
Indian Corn ◽  
Anglo American

Recently, revisionist scholars of the “new Western history” have challenged the frontier thesis of Frederick Jackson Turner who, in 1893, canonized a view of the American West as wild and uncivilized, an area penetrated, conquered and subdued by the rugged individual fighter. These historians point out that highly developed Indian civilizations existed in the West, that “cultural convergence” not conquest was the historical reality, and that women played a prominent role in the over-all story. What has gone unnoticed by these revisionist scholars, however, was an earlier attempt by a Victorian woman artist to re-write the myth of the West in her own time, a re-telling much like the new Western scholars of today.

Indians and the Politics of Gender

2020 ◽  
pp. 167-191
Author(s):  
Kate Flint
Keyword(s):  
Native Americans ◽  
Travel Writing ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Social Attitudes ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Native Peoples ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
The Witch

This chapter reflects on issues of gender in relation to native peoples—in commentaries by travelers and sportsmen and, more particularly, in the use of Indian themes to comment on contemporary domestic gender debates, as in Elizabeth Gaskell's “Lois the Witch” and Gilbert Parker's 1894 novel The Translation of a Savage, which may be read as a reworking of the Pocahontas story. When it came to commenting on gender in relation to Native Americans, the usual strategy, whether consciously invoked or silently underpinning the representations, was to read Indian society in relation to the customary standards of white British, or on occasion Anglo-American, culture. There is little to surprise here. Such assumptions of cultural and racial normativity have been extensively commented upon in discussions of ethnography, travel writing, and representation. As well as revelatory of dominant social attitudes, and illustrative of how shared assumptions can be used to consolidate bonds between authors and readers at both national and transnational levels, such writing illustrates the enabling role of the socially familiar when it comes to making vivid something strange.

The Blue Flower and the Account Book

2016 ◽  
Vol 85 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Anne F. Hyde
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
North American ◽  
American West ◽  
Fur Trade ◽  
Blue Flower ◽  
Racial Category ◽  
North American West ◽  
Mixed Blood ◽  
Anglo American

This essay, a revised version of the August 2015 talk, examines the story of two mixed-blood women, indigenous and Anglo American, who lived in the fur trade North American West. The essay examines a racial category, mixed blood or “half-breed” and considers the challenges for people who lived in and used that category in the nineteenth century. The essay illuminates the challenges of using different kinds of personal records to understand how these nineteenth-century women might have thought about identity, a word they never would have used.

America in Britain's Place: The Leadership of the West and Anglo-American Unity.

1962 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 436
Author(s):  
C. J. C. ◽  
Lionel Gelber ◽  
Edgar Ansel Mowrer
Keyword(s):  
The West ◽  
Anglo American
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