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Format: 395 Seiten : , Illustrationen.

ISBN: 978-0-674-73724-2 , 9780674237421

Content: Arlington National Cemetery holds a distinctive place in American culture and self-conception. An active cemetery that averages thirty interments every weekday, it receives four million visitors each year who come to pay their respects to those who have sacrificed their lives to defend and protect the nation through war and peace. It is a sacred shrine in the popular imagination, hallowed ground that stands not only for those buried within but also for the ideals for which they died and which continue to require honor and respect from all American citizens. As perhaps the most critical site of collective mourning and remembrance in the country, Arlington has become an icon of American patriotism and national identity. Yet despite its central place in the nation's commemoration of its past heroes, few have ventured into the actual history of the place to show how it has evolved from its initial establishment during the Civil War to its current status. Micki McElya delves deeply into the historical past to get beyond the popular narratives and guides to this favorite tourist destination that is so heavily invested with national honor and reverence. In doing so, she gives us the first full history of the cemetery as a physical place that has been shaped and transformed by the political and cultural aims and circumstances of succeeding generations....

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index

Language: English

Keywords: Gefallener ; Nationalbewusstsein ; Kollektives Gedächtnis

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Format: 322 S.

ISBN: 0674024338 , 9780674024335

Language: English

Subjects: Sociology

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

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URL: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip079/2007001231.html

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ISBN: 0-674-02433-8 , 978-0-674-02433-5

Language: English

Subjects: Sociology

Keywords: Schwarze Frau ; Rassismus ; Massenkultur ; Sozialpsychologie

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Format: 322 p. : , ill.

Edition: Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books.

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Edition: Electronic reproduction. Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] : Harvard University Press, 2007. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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ISBN: 9780674040793

Content: Loving, hating, pitying, or pining for mammy became a way for Americans to make sense of shifting economic, social, and racial realities. Assertions of black contentment with servitude alleviated white fears while reinforcing racial hierarchy. McElya's stories expose the power and reach of this myth, not only in advertising, films, and literature about the South, but also in national monument proposals, child custody cases, New Negro activism, anti-lynching campaigns, and the civil rights movement.

Note: Frontmatter -- , CONTENTS -- , ILLUSTRATIONS -- , INTRODUCTION: THE FAITHFUL SLAVE -- , 1. THE LIFE OF "AUNT JEMIMA" -- , 2. ANXIOUS PERFORMANCES -- , 3. THE LINE BETWEEN MOTHER AND MAMMY -- , 4. MONUMENTAL POWER -- , 5. THE VIOLENCE OF AFFECTION -- , 6. CONFRONTING THE MAMMY PROBLEM -- , EPILOGUE: RECASTING THE FAITHFUL SLAVE -- , NOTES -- , ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- , INDEX. , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.4159/9780674040793

URL: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674040793

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Edition: Electronic reproduction. Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] : Harvard University Press, 2007. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Edition: System requirements: Web browser.

Edition: Access may be restricted to users at subscribing institutions.

ISBN: 9780674040793

Content: Loving, hating, pitying, or pining for mammy became a way for Americans to make sense of shifting economic, social, and racial realities. Assertions of black contentment with servitude alleviated white fears while reinforcing racial hierarchy. McElya's stories expose the power and reach of this myth, not only in advertising, films, and literature about the South, but also in national monument proposals, child custody cases, New Negro activism, anti-lynching campaigns, and the civil rights movement.

Note: Frontmatter -- , CONTENTS -- , ILLUSTRATIONS -- , INTRODUCTION: THE FAITHFUL SLAVE -- , 1. THE LIFE OF "AUNT JEMIMA" -- , 2. ANXIOUS PERFORMANCES -- , 3. THE LINE BETWEEN MOTHER AND MAMMY -- , 4. MONUMENTAL POWER -- , 5. THE VIOLENCE OF AFFECTION -- , 6. CONFRONTING THE MAMMY PROBLEM -- , EPILOGUE: RECASTING THE FAITHFUL SLAVE -- , NOTES -- , ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- , INDEX. , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.4159/9780674040793

URL: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674040793

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Format: 1 online resource (416 p.) : , 22 halftones

ISBN: 9780674974050

Content: Arlington National Cemetery is America’s most sacred shrine, a destination for four million visitors who each year tour its grounds and honor those buried there. For many, Arlington’s symbolic importance places it beyond politics. Yet as Micki McElya shows, no site in the United States plays a more political role in shaping national identity. Arlington commemorates sacrifices made in the nation’s wars and armed conflicts. Yet it has always been a place of struggle over the boundaries of citizenship and the meaning of honor and love of country. A plantation built by slave labor overlooking Washington, D.C., Arlington was occupied by Union forces early in the Civil War. A portion was designated a federal cemetery in 1864. A camp for the formerly enslaved, Freedman’s Village, had already been established there in 1863, and remained for three decades. The cemetery was seen primarily as a memorial to the white Civil War dead until its most famous monument was erected in 1921: the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, symbolizing universal military sacrifice through the interment of a single World War I Unknown. As a century of wars abroad secured Arlington’s centrality in the American imagination and more Unknowns joined the first at the tomb, inclusion within its gates became a prerequisite for broader claims to national belonging. In revealing how Arlington encompasses the most inspiring and the most shameful aspects of American history, McElya enriches the story of this landscape, demonstrating that remembering the past and reckoning with it must go hand in hand.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Introduction: A Nation’s Heart -- , 1. Keeper of the Keys -- , 2. Freedman’s Village -- , 3. A National Cemetery -- , 4. Bringing Home the Dead -- , 5. Out of Many, One Unknown -- , 6. For Us, the Living -- , 7. Knowns and Unknowns -- , Conclusion: Hereafter -- , Notes -- , Acknowledgments -- , Illustration Credits -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.4159/9780674974050

URL: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674974050

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674974050

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Format: 1 online resource

ISBN: 9780814739280

Series Statement: Sexual Cultures ; 37

Content: Alongside the O.J. Simpson trial, the affair between Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky now stands as the seminal cultural event of the 90s. Alternatively transfixed and repelled by this sexual scandal, confusion still reigns over its meanings and implications. How are we to make sense of a tale that is often wild and bizarre, yet replete with serious political and cultural implications? Our Monica, Ourselves provides a forum for thinking through the cultural, political, and public policy issues raised by the investigation, publicity, and Congressional impeachment proceedings surrounding the affair. It pulls this spectacle out of the framework provided by the conventions of the corporate news media, with its particular notions of what constitutes a newsworthy event. Drawing from a broad range of scholars, Our Monica, Ourselves considers Monica Lewinsky's Jewishness, Linda Tripp's face, the President's penis, the role of shame in public discourse, and what it's like to have sex as the president, as well as specific legal and historical issues at stake in the impeachment of Bill Clinton. Thoughtful but accessible, immediate yet far reaching, Our Monica, Ourselves will change the way we think about the Clinton affair, while helping us reimagine culture and politics writ large. Contributors include: Lauren Berlant, Eric O. Clarke, Ann Cvetkovich, Simone Weil Davis, Lisa Duggan, Jane Gallop, Marjorie Garber, Janet R. Jakobsen, James R. Kincaid, Laura Kipnis, Tomasz Kitlinski, Pawel Leszkowicz, Joe Lockard, Catharine Lumby, Toby Miller, Dana D. Nelson, Anna Marie Smith, Ellen Willis, and Eli Zaretsky.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction -- , Part 1. DEMOCRACY AND PRESIDENTIALISM -- , 1. The Culture Wars of the 1960s and the Assault on the Presidency -- , 2. The Symbolics of Presidentialism -- , Part 2. BODILY IMAGINARIES AND SEXUAL PRACTICES -- , 3. The Face That Launched a Thousand Jokes -- , 4. It’s Not about Sex -- , 5. The Door Ajar -- , 6. Sex of a Kind -- , 7. The First Penis Impeached -- , Part 3. FANTASIES OF RACE, CLASS, AND ETHNICITY -- , 8. The Return of the Oppressed -- , 9. Trashing the Presidency -- , 10. Moniker -- , 11. Monica Dreyfus -- , Part 4. FEMINISM AND SEXUAL POLITICS -- , 12. The President’s Penis -- , 13. ’Tis Pity He’s a Whore -- , 14. Loose Lips -- , 15. Sexuality’s Archive -- , Part 5. ETHICS AND MORALITY -- , 16. Sex and Civility -- , 17. “He Has Wronged America and Women” -- , 18. Sexual Risk Management in the Clinton White House -- , Contributors , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.18574/9780814739280

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814739280

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Format: 1 online resource (335 p.)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 0-674-26596-3 , 0-674-04079-1

Content: Loving, hating, pitying, or pining for mammy became a way for Americans to make sense of shifting economic, social, and racial realities. Assertions of black contentment with servitude alleviated white fears while reinforcing racial hierarchy. McElya's stories expose the power and reach of this myth, not only in advertising, films, and literature about the South, but also in national monument proposals, child custody cases, New Negro activism, anti-lynching campaigns, and the civil rights movement.

Note: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph , Frontmatter -- , CONTENTS -- , ILLUSTRATIONS -- , INTRODUCTION: THE FAITHFUL SLAVE -- , 1. THE LIFE OF "AUNT JEMIMA" -- , 2. ANXIOUS PERFORMANCES -- , 3. THE LINE BETWEEN MOTHER AND MAMMY -- , 4. MONUMENTAL POWER -- , 5. THE VIOLENCE OF AFFECTION -- , 6. CONFRONTING THE MAMMY PROBLEM -- , EPILOGUE: RECASTING THE FAITHFUL SLAVE -- , NOTES -- , ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- , INDEX , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-674-02433-8

Language: English

DOI: 10.4159/9780674040793

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Format: 1 online resource (302 p.) : , 35 illustrations, incl. 13 in color

ISBN: 9780822393399

Content: Often featuring lighthouses, bridges, or quaint country homes, Thomas Kinkade’s soft-focus landscapes have permeated American visual culture during the past twenty years, appearing on everything from Bibles to bedsheets to credit cards. Kinkade sells his work through his shopping-mall galleries, QVC, the Internet, and Christian stores. He is quite possibly the most collected artist in the United States. While many art-world and academic critics have dismissed him as a passing fad or marketing phenomenon, the contributors to this collection do not. Instead, they explore his work and its impact on contemporary art as part of the broader history of American visual culture. They consider Kinkade’s imagery and career in relation to nineteenth-century Currier and Ives prints and Andres Serrano’s Piss Christ, the collectibles market and the fine-art market, the Thomas Kinkade Museum and Cultural Center, and “The Village at Hiddenbrooke,” a California housing development inspired by Kinkade’s paintings. The conceptual artist Jeffrey Vallance, the curator of the first major museum exhibition of Kinkade’s art and collectibles, recounts his experiences organizing that show. All of the contributors draw on art history, visual culture, and cultural studies as they seek to understand Kinkade’s significance for both art and audiences. Along the way, they delve into questions about beauty, class, kitsch, religion, and taste in contemporary art.Contributors. Julia Alderson, Alexis L. Boylan , Anna Brzyski, Seth Feman, Monica Kjellman-Chapin, Micki McElya, Karal Ann Marling, David Morgan, Christopher Pearson, Andrea Wolk Rager, Jeffrey Vallance

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Illustrations -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction -- , Thomas Kinkade and the History of Protestant Visual Culture in America -- , Painter of the Right: Thomas Kinkade’s Political Art -- , God in the Retails: Thomas Kinkade and Market Piety -- , Brand-Name Living from the Painter of Light -- , Purchasing Paradise: Nostalgic Longing and the Painter of Light -- , Repetition, Exclusion, and the Urbanism of Nostalgia: The Architecture of Thomas Kinkade -- , “A Temple Next Door”: The Thomas Kinkade Museum and Cultural Center -- , Thomas Kinkade’s Heaven on Earth -- , Manufacturing “Masterpieces” for the Market: Thomas Kinkade and the Rhetoric of High Art -- , Art Ethics: Thomas Kinkade and Contemporary Art -- , Bibliography -- , Contributors -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780822393399

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822393399

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822393399