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The Strange Career of Racial Liberalism - Joseph Darda
How Americans learned to wait on time for racial change What if, Joseph Darda asks, our desire to solve racism—with science, civil rights, antiracist literature, integration, and color blindness—has entrenched it further?
Empire of Defense
Race and the Cultural Politics of Permanent War Empire of Defense tells the story of how the United States turned war into defense. When the Truman administration dissolved the Department of War in 1947 and formed the Department of Defense, it marked not the end of conventional war but, Joseph Darda argues, the introduction of new racial criteria for who could wage it––for which countries and communities could claim self-defense.
How White Men Won the Culture Wars
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2022 A cultural history of how white men exploited the image of the Vietnam veteran to roll back civil rights and restake their claim on the nation “If war among the whites brought peace and liberty to the blacks,” Frederick Douglass asked in 1875, peering into the nation’s future, “what will peace among the whites bring?” The answer then and now, after civil war and civil rights: a white reunion disguised as a veterans’ reunion.
The Racial Politics of National Defense
When Donald Trump designated the Iranian Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization this spring, a move that has led to talk of a new war in the Middle East, he described Iran as an “outlaw” regime that endangered American lives. When he declared a national emergency on the southern border, he imagined an “invasion” of drugs, human traffickers, criminals, and gang members from Mexico and Central America.
The Philosophy of Creative Writing
FEBRUARY 25, 2019 I. IN 1930, Sinclair Lewis sailed to Sweden to accept the Nobel Prize in Literature. In Stockholm, where he received the gold medal and a check for $46,000 from King Gustaf V, Lewis thanked the Swedish Academy and then devoted the next hour to condemning American literature and criticism.
The Thin White Line
NOVEMBER 19, 2018 IN MAY, a bipartisan group of senators and congresspeople introduced legislation that would make it a federal crime to target a person for being a police officer. The bill’s sponsors modeled it on a federal hate-crime statute, believing, without evidence, that attacks on police had escalated and should be covered under civil rights law as crimes motivated by a kind of anti-police “racism.” The bipartisan group titled the bill the Protect and Serve Act of 2018.
The Surprising Roots of Recent White Extremism
THIS WAS NO ordinary jacket copy. “What will you do when they come to take your guns?” asks white supremacist William Luther Pierce on the back cover of his 1978 novel The Turner Diaries, an enduring literary icon among Klansmen, neo-Nazis, Identitarian Christians, and skinheads. Timothy McVeigh sold it at gun shows and brought pages of the book with him to Oklahoma City when he bombed the Murrah Federal Building in 1995.
Post-Traumatic Whiteness: How Vietnam Veterans Became the Basis for a New White Identity Politics
IN MARCH 1982, after months of heated negotiations among veterans groups, officials, and donors, a construction crew broke ground on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The sloping black granite walls may never have been built if not for the deft politicking of Jack Wheeler, the chairman of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund responsible for planning and financing the memorial.
“My Ántonia” Revisited
ONE OF THE MOST famous Western novels was, in fact, more dewy nostalgia than an accurate depiction of life on the frontier. The reality of 1880s Nebraska finds the pioneers of Willa Cather’s My Ántonia far more tough and even heroic than the romantic oil painting in prose that she left us wants to admit. Perhaps because of the omissions, Cather’s seemingly simple 1918 novel about an immigrant farm girl has proved as resilient as all-weather prairie grass in the American literary imagination.
A New New White Man: Toni Morrison’s “Playing in the Dark” Turns 25
AUGUST 17, 2017 I. ON NOVEMBER 9, 1987, at the Pierre Hotel in Manhattan, Larry Heinemann received the National Book Award for Fiction. The announcement that Heinemann had won for his Vietnam War novel Paco’s Story (1986) astonished the ballroom of authors, editors, and booksellers because the nominees included two of the biggest names in American literature, Toni Morrison and Philip Roth.
Trump taps a long U.S. cultural history of pitting immigrants against veterans | Commentary | Dallas News
Last month, the Supreme Court announced that it would hear oral arguments on the Trump administration's revised travel ban. After a federal appeals court ruled in May that the ban violated the establishment clause of the First Amendment by targeting Muslims, the administration petitioned the higher court to revive the ban. It argued that the ban did not denigrate Muslims but honored the service of American veterans.
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