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• 1. Colonial Histories
• 2. National Histories
• 3. Modern Histories
• 4. Other Histories.
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From studies of the colonial era to the 20th century, much of the writing of American history is prefigured on the historical construction and operation of racial ideas and their consequences over time. But race works in another way as well: historians regularly write the history of the United States in racial language similar to the times they study. "Black, " "White, " and "Indian" are as ubiquitous in modern scholarship as they are in historical documents. When scholars use present-day racial language to articulate past histories of race and society, they collapse different historical significations of skin color into a transhistorical and essential notion of race that implicates their work in the histories that they endeavor to study. Such a constant and conventional reliance on the language of race means that in many ways the practice of United States history reproduces the same racial categories it seeks to critique, displace, and demolish. It is a circle that needs to be exposed before it can be broken.
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• Contents: Preface Introduction Julian Maxwell Hayter
• 1. The arc of racial stereotyping, prejudice and discrimination: social psychological perspectives Steven Fein
• 2. How the enemies of Reconstruction created Reconstruction Edward L. Ayers
• 3. Urban black protestants and the predicament of emancipation Charles F. Irons
• 4. Never get over it: night-riding's imprint on African American victims Kidada E. Williams
• 5. Veteran, author, activist: Joseph T. Wilson of Norfolk and black leadership in the Civil War era Elizabeth R. Varon
• 6. The post-emancipation city of the dead Thomas J. Brown
• 7. To end divisions: reflections of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 Julian Maxwell Hayter
• 8. What about us? African American workers and the struggle for economic justice in the age of diversity Claudrena N. Harold
• 9. Forging a unified proletariat: relocating working class agency J. Phillip Thompson Conclusion. Reconstructions: lessons for racial (in)justice in America Eric S. Yellin Index.
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This collection of original essays and commentary considers not merely how history has shaped the continuing struggle for racial equality, but also how backlash and resistance to racial reforms continue to dictate the state of race in America. Informed by a broad historical perspective, this book focuses primarily on the promise of Reconstruction and the long demise of that promise. It traces the history of struggles for racial justice from the post US Civil War Reconstruction through the Jim Crow era, the Civil Rights and Voting Rights decades of the 1950s and 1960s to the present day. The book uses psychological, historical and political perspectives to put today's struggles for justice in historical perspective, considering intersecting dynamics of race and class in inequality and the different ways that people understand history. Ultimately, the authors question Martin Luther King, Jr.'s contention that the moral arc of the universe bends toward justice, challenging portrayals of race relations and the realization of civil rights laws as a triumph narrative. Scholars in history, political science and psychology, as well as graduate students in these fields, can use the issues explored in this book as a foundation for their own work on race, justice and American history.
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• Acknowledgements Table of Contents Abbreviations Glossary Notes on the Contributors Introduction PART I: THE EMPIRE AND PUBLIC OPINION Popular Enthusiasm for Empire in France-- G.de Gantes A Colonial Propaganda Campaign: Gallieni, Lyautey and the Defence of the Military Regime in Madagascar, 1899-1900-- P.Venier Drawing Settlers to New Caledonia: French Colonial Propaganda in the Late Nineteenth Century-- I.Merle The Dissenters: Anticolonialism in France c.1900-40-- J.Derrick PART II: REPRESENTATIONS OF EMPIRE Imperial Facades: Muslim Institutions and Propaganda in Inter-War Paris-- N.MacMaster The French Provinces and 'La Plus Grande France'-- O.Goerg Alienation or Political Strategy? The Colonised Defend the Empire-- C.Atlan & J.Jezequel Propagating Patriarchy: Marianne and Joan of Arc in French Propaganda and Cambodian Nationalism-- P.Edwards Miscegenation and the Popular Imagination-- O.White PART III: THE EMPIRE AND SCIENCE 'Faire Naitre vs. 'Faire du Noir': Race Regeneration in France and West Africa, 1895-1930-- A.Conklin Colonial Ethnography and Racism in France around 1900-- E.Sibeud Direct or Indirect Rule: Propaganda around a Scientific Controversy-- V.Dimier The Representation of the Colonies in War Memorials-- B.Kidd Defending the Empire in Retrospect: The Discourse of the Extreme Right-- C.Flood & H.Frey Colonial Paris: Traces of the Empire in the Paris Landscape-- R.Aldrich Select Bibliography Index.
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Challenging the notion that there was no 'popular imperialism' in France, this important new book examines the importance of France's colonial role in the development of French society and culture after 1870. It assesses the impact of colonial propaganda on public attitudes in France and the relationship between French imperialism, republicanism and nationalism. It analyses metropolitan representations of empire, traces the development of a colonial 'science' and discusses the enduring importance of images and symbols of empire in contemporary France. It will be of interest to students of imperial, social and cultural history as well as to historians of contemporary France.
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• Acknowledgments List of Museums Visited List of Abbreviations Introduction: Desegregating the Past
• 1. Memory Entrepreneurs: History in the Making
• 2. The Curated Past: Remembering the Collective
• 3. Managing Collective Representations
• 4. Memory Deviants: Breaking the Collective Conclusion: Museumification of Memory Notes Selected Bibliography Index.
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At the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg, South Africa, visitors confront the past upon arrival. They must decide whether to enter the museum through a door marked "whites" or another marked "non-whites." Inside, along with text, they encounter hanging nooses and other reminders of apartheid-era atrocities. In the United States, museum exhibitions about racial violence and segregation are mostly confined to black history museums, with national history museums sidelining such difficult material. Even the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture is dedicated not to violent histories of racial domination but to a more generalized narrative about black identity and culture. The scale at which violent racial pasts have been incorporated into South African national historical narratives is lacking in the U.S. Desegregating the Past considers why this is the case, tracking the production and display of historical representations of racial pasts at museums in both countries and what it reveals about underlying social anxieties, unsettled emotions, and aspirations surrounding contemporary social fault lines around race. Robyn Autry consults museum archives, conducts interviews with staff, and recounts the public and private battles fought over the creation and content of history museums. Despite vast differences in the development of South African and U.S. society, Autry finds a common set of ideological, political, economic, and institutional dilemmas arising out of the selective reconstruction of the past. Museums have played a major role in shaping public memory, at times recognizing and at other times blurring the ongoing influence of historical crimes. The narratives museums produce to engage with difficult, violent histories expose present anxieties concerning identity, (mis)recognition, and ongoing conflict.
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• Einleitung, zentrale Begriffe und Verortung
• Zu den Begriffen Rassifizierung, "Rasse" und race
• Zur Dichotomie Schwarz und weiss (und den Graubereichen)
• Der Begriff Menschen afrikanischer Herkunft und die Idee des Ursprungs
• Zur Herstellung von Geschlecht : die Begriffe Frau* und Mann*
• Naheverhältnis zum Gegenstand als Chance und Herausforderung
• Eine Schwarze Bewegung greift Raum : die Recherchegruppe zu Schwarzer österreichischer Geschichte
• Talking back als zentraler Ansatz
• Gesellschaftlicher und politischer Kontext
• Organisationsgeschichte und Zielsetzungen
• Rechercheverlauf und Projektergebnisse
• Lückenhafte Quellenlage und eigen-sinniges Handeln
• Rassisierende und objektisierende Formen der Repräsentation, koloniale Herrschaftsverhältnisse und Momente des Widerstands
• Verharmlosung in der traditionellen Historiografie
• Eigene Vermittlungsformen Schwarzer selbstbestimmter Positionen
• Zur Bedeutung von kollektivem Gedächtnis, Sprache und Wissen
• Kollektives Gedächtnis und Geschichtspolitik
• Kollektives Gedächtnis und Erinnerung
• Minority histories und Geschichte als Instrument politischer Befreiungsbewegungen
• Reflexion über Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak und das Sprechen als Subalterne
• Diskurs und das Herstellen von Bedeutung
• Stuart Hall : Sprache als Zeichensystem zur Bedeutungsproduktion
• Diskurs, Wissen und Macht
• Anwendung der historischen Diskursanalyse nach Achim Landwehr
• Schwarze Geschichte : Repräsentationen Schwarzer Frauen*
• Von Gura bis Elaine B. : die sexualisierte Schwarze Frau*
• Die Kämpferin : Josefine Soliman und die Schwarze Frauen* geschichte
• Von Phillis Wheatley bis Ursula Rucker : weitere Pionierinnen
• Von Queen Nzinga bis Angela Davis : African Queens und African-Sein
• "Our fellow sisters"
• Schwarze Frauen* geschichte : Welches Wissen wird unterdrückt?
• Schwarze Geschichte : Repräsentationen Schwarzer Männer*
• Von Monostatos bis Seibane Wague : der kriminalisierte Schwarze Mann*
• Der Hof-M* : der Schwarze Mann* als Fetischobjekt
• Angelo X : Vorkämpfer für die Bürgerrechte
• "Brothers" als Brüderschaft Schwarzer Männer*
• Fazit : Strategien der Schwarzen österreichischen Geschichte
• Glossar
• Anhang
• Quellenverzeichnis
• Abbildungsverzeichnis.

• PART ONE: THE NORTHERN MYSTIQUE-- PART TWO: IMAGINING THE SOUTH-- PART THREE: BORDER CROSSINGS-- PART FOUR: POLITICAL REALIGNMENT.
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More than one-third of the population of the United States now lives in the South, a region where politics, race relations, and the economy have changed dramatically since World War II. Yet historians and journalists continue to disagree over whether the modern South is dominating, deviating from, or converging with the rest of the nation. Has the time come to declare the end of southern history? And how do the stories of American history change if the South is no longer seen as a region apart-as the conservative counterpoint to a liberal national ideal? The Myth of Southern Exceptionalism challenges the idea of southern distinctiveness in order to offer a new way of thinking about modern American history. For too long, the belief in an exceptional South has encouraged distortions and generalizations about the nation's otherwise liberal traditions, especially by compartmentalizing themes of racism, segregation, and political conservatism in one section of the country. This volume dismantles popular binaries-of de facto versus de jure segregation, red state conservatism versus blue state liberalism, the "South" versus the "North"-to rewrite the history of region and nation alike. Matthew Lassiter and Joseph Crespino present thirteen essays-framed by their provocative introduction-that reinterpret major topics such as the civil rights movement in the South and the North, the relationship between conservative backlash and liberal reform throughout the country, the rise of the Religious Right as a national phenomenon, the emergence of the metropolitan Sunbelt, and increasing suburban diversity in a multiracial New South. By writing American history across regional borders, this volume spends as much time outside as inside the traditional boundaries of the South, moving from Mississippi to New York City, from Southern California to South Carolina, from Mexico to Atlanta, from Hollywood to the Newport Folk Festival, and from the Pentagon to the Attica prison rebellion.
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• Twelve propositions for a history of U.S. cultural history / James W. Cook and Lawrence B. Glickman
• A native among the headhunters / Ann Fabian
• Rags, blacking, and paper soldiers : money and race in the Civil War / Michael O'Malley
• The envelope, please / Shane White ... [et al.]
• Re-membering John Dillinger / Elliott J. Gorn
• Behind Shirley Temple's smile : children, emotional labor, and the Great Depression / John F. Kasson
• Gimme shelter : do-it-yourself defense and the politics of fear / Elaine Tyler May
• "Be real Black for me" : representation, authenticity, and the cultural politics of Black power / Waldo E. Martin Jr.
• Turning structure into culture : reclaiming the freeway in San Diego's Chicano Park / Eric Avila
• The return of the culture industry / James W. Cook
• On grief and complicity : notes toward a visionary cultural history / Nan Enstad
• From nation to neighborhood : land, policy, culture, colonialism, and empire in U.S.-Indian relations / Philip J. Deloria
• Capitalism, culture, and catastrophe / Jean-Christophe Agnew
• The art of listening / Karen Halttunen.

This is a definitive account of one of the most dominant trends in recent historical writing. "The Cultural Turn in U.S. History" takes stock of the field at the same time as it showcases exemplars of its practice.The first of this volume's three distinct sections offers a comprehensive genealogy of American cultural history, tracing its multifaceted origins, defining debates, and intersections with adjacent fields. The second section comprises previously unpublished essays by a distinguished roster of contributors who illuminate the discipline's rich potential by plumbing topics that range from nineteenth-century anxieties about greenback dollars to confidence games in 1920s Harlem, from Shirley Temple's career to the story of a Chicano community in San Diego that created a public park under a local freeway.Featuring an equally wide-ranging selection of pieces that meditate on the future of the field, the final section explores such subjects as the different strains of cultural history, its relationships with arenas from mass entertainment to public policy, and the ways it has been shaped by catastrophe. Taken together, these essays represent a watershed moment in the life of a discipline, harnessing its vitality to offer a glimpse of the shape it will take in years to come.
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• Acknowledgments List of Museums Visited List of Abbreviations Introduction: Desegregating the Past
• 1. Memory Entrepreneurs: History in the Making
• 2. The Curated Past: Remembering the Collective
• 3. Managing Collective Representations
• 4. Memory Deviants: Breaking the Collective Conclusion: Museumification of Memory Notes Selected Bibliography Index.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

At the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg, South Africa, visitors confront the past upon arrival. They must decide whether to enter the museum through a door marked "whites" or another marked "non-whites." Inside, along with text, they encounter hanging nooses and other reminders of apartheid-era atrocities. In the United States, museum exhibitions about racial violence and segregation are mostly confined to black history museums, with national history museums sidelining such difficult material. Even the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture is dedicated not to violent histories of racial domination but to a more generalized narrative about black identity and culture. The scale at which violent racial pasts have been incorporated into South African national historical narratives is lacking in the U.S. Desegregating the Past considers why this is the case, tracking the production and display of historical representations of racial pasts at museums in both countries and what it reveals about underlying social anxieties, unsettled emotions, and aspirations surrounding contemporary social fault lines around race. Robyn Autry consults museum archives, conducts interviews with staff, and recounts the public and private battles fought over the creation and content of history museums. Despite vast differences in the development of South African and U.S. society, Autry finds a common set of ideological, political, economic, and institutional dilemmas arising out of the selective reconstruction of the past. Museums have played a major role in shaping public memory, at times recognizing and at other times blurring the ongoing influence of historical crimes. The narratives museums produce to engage with difficult, violent histories expose present anxieties concerning identity, (mis)recognition, and ongoing conflict.
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• Introduction / David A. Gerber
• Worlds Apart and Together : From Italian American Girlhood to Historian of Immigration / Virginia Yans
• Sidewalk Histories / Deborah Dash Moore
• Coal Town Chronicles and Scholarly Books / John Bodnar
• Ethnic and Racial Identities : A Polish Filipina's Progress in Chicago and the Profession / Barbara M. Posadas
• From Back of the Yards to the College Classroom / Dominic A. Pacyga
• Why Irish? : Writing Irish American History / Timothy J. Meagher
• In Our Own Words : Reclaiming Chinese/American/Women's History / Judy Yung
• Ordinary People / Eileen H. Tamura
• Americana / María Cristina Garcia
• Meddling in the American Dilemma : Examining Race, Migrations, and Identities from an Africana Transnational Perspective / Violet M. Showers Johnson
• Ethnic Historians and the Mainstream : Shaping America's Immigration Story from Uncle Mustafa to Auntie Rana : Journeys to Mexico, the U.S., and Lebanon / Theresa Alfaro-Velcamp
• Coda / Alan M. Kraut.

Do historians "write their biographies" with the subjects they choose to address in their research? In this collection, editors Alan M. Kraut and David A. Gerber compiled eleven original essays by historians whose own ethnic backgrounds shaped the choices they have made about their own research and writing as scholars. These authors, historians of American immigration and ethnicity, revisited family and personal experiences and reflect on how their lives helped shape their later scholarly pursuits, at times inspiring specific questions they asked of the nation's immigrant past. They address issues of diversity, multiculturalism, and assimilation in academia, in the discipline of history, and in society at large. Most have been pioneers not only in their respective fields, but also in representing their ethnic group within American academia. Some of the women in the group were in the vanguard of gender diversity in the discipline of history as well as on the faculties of the institutions where they have taught. The authors in this collection represent a wide array of backgrounds, spanning Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. What they have in common is their passionate engagement with the making of social and personal identities and with finding a voice to explain their personal stories in public terms. Contributors: Theresa Alfaro-Velcamp, John Bodnar, Maria C. Garcia, David A. Gerber, Violet M. Showers Johnson, Alan M. Kraut, Timothy J. Meagher, Deborah Dash Moore, Dominic A. Pacyga, Barbara M. Posadas, Eileen H. Tamura, Virginia Yans, Judy Yung.
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• Introduction / David A. Gerber
• Worlds Apart and Together : From Italian American Girlhood to Historian of Immigration / Virginia Yans
• Sidewalk Histories / Deborah Dash Moore
• Coal Town Chronicles and Scholarly Books / John Bodnar
• Ethnic and Racial Identities : A Polish Filipina's Progress in Chicago and the Profession / Barbara M. Posadas
• From Back of the Yards to the College Classroom / Dominic A. Pacyga
• Why Irish? : Writing Irish American History / Timothy J. Meagher
• In Our Own Words : Reclaiming Chinese/American/Women's History / Judy Yung
• Ordinary People / Eileen H. Tamura
• Americana / María Cristina Garcia
• Meddling in the American Dilemma : Examining Race, Migrations, and Identities from an Africana Transnational Perspective / Violet M. Showers Johnson
• Ethnic Historians and the Mainstream : Shaping America's Immigration Story from Uncle Mustafa to Auntie Rana : Journeys to Mexico, the U.S., and Lebanon / Theresa Alfaro-Velcamp
• Coda / Alan M. Kraut.

Do historians "write their biographies" with the subjects they choose to address in their research? In this collection, editors Alan M. Kraut and David A. Gerber compiled eleven original essays by historians whose own ethnic backgrounds shaped the choices they have made about their own research and writing as scholars. These authors, historians of American immigration and ethnicity, revisited family and personal experiences and reflect on how their lives helped shape their later scholarly pursuits, at times inspiring specific questions they asked of the nation's immigrant past. They address issues of diversity, multiculturalism, and assimilation in academia, in the discipline of history, and in society at large. Most have been pioneers not only in their respective fields, but also in representing their ethnic group within American academia. Some of the women in the group were in the vanguard of gender diversity in the discipline of history as well as on the faculties of the institutions where they have taught. The authors in this collection represent a wide array of backgrounds, spanning Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. What they have in common is their passionate engagement with the making of social and personal identities and with finding a voice to explain their personal stories in public terms. Contributors: Theresa Alfaro-Velcamp, John Bodnar, Maria C. Garcia, David A. Gerber, Violet M. Showers Johnson, Alan M. Kraut, Timothy J. Meagher, Deborah Dash Moore, Dominic A. Pacyga, Barbara M. Posadas, Eileen H. Tamura, Virginia Yans, Judy Yung.
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• Introduction: The End of Southern History-- PART ONE: THE NORTHERN MYSTIQUE--
• 1. De Jure/De Facto Segregation: The Long Shadow of a National Myth--
• 2. Hidden in Plain Sight: The Civil Rights Movement outside the South--
• 3. Blinded by a "Barbaric" South: Prison Horrors, Inmate Abuse, and the Ironic History of American Penal Reform-- PART TWO: IMAGINING THE SOUTH--
• 4. Mississippi as Metaphor: Civil Rights, the South, and the Nation in the Historical Imagination--
• 5. Black as Folk: The Southern Civil Rights Movement and the Folk Music Revival--
• 6. Red Necks, White Sheets, and Blue States: The Persistence of Regionalism in the Politics of Hollywood-- PART THREE: BORDER CROSSINGS--
• 7. A Nation in Motion: Norfolk, the Pentagon, and the Nationalization of the Metropolitan South, 1941-1953--
• 8. The Cold War at the Grassroots: Militarization and Modernization in South Carolina--
• 9. African-American Suburbanization and Regionalism in the Modern South--
• 10. Latin American Immigration and the New Multiethnic South-- PART FOUR: POLITICAL REALIGNMENT--
• 11. Into the Political Thicket: Reapportionment and the Rise of Suburban Power--
• 12. Beyond the Southern Cross: The National Origins of the Religious Right--
• 13. Neo-Confederacy against the New Deal: The Regional Utopia of the Modern American Right.
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• PART ONE: THE NORTHERN MYSTIQUE-- PART TWO: IMAGINING THE SOUTH-- PART THREE: BORDER CROSSINGS-- PART FOUR: POLITICAL REALIGNMENT.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

More than one-third of the population of the United States now lives in the South, a region where politics, race relations, and the economy have changed dramatically since World War II. Yet historians and journalists continue to disagree over whether the modern South is dominating, deviating from, or converging with the rest of the nation. Has the time come to declare the end of southern history? And how do the stories of American history change if the South is no longer seen as a region apart--as the conservative counterpoint to a liberal national ideal? The Myth of Southern Exceptionalism challenges the idea of southern distinctiveness in order to offer a new way of thinking about modern American history. For too long, the belief in an exceptional South has encouraged distortions and generalizations about the nation's otherwise liberal traditions, especially by compartmentalizing themes of racism, segregation, and political conservatism in one section of the country. This volume dismantles popular binaries--of de facto versus de jure segregation, red state conservatism versus blue state liberalism, the "South" versus the "North"--to rewrite the history of region and nation alike. Matthew Lassiter and Joseph Crespino present thirteen essays--framed by their provocative introduction--that reinterpret major topics such as the civil rights movement in the South and the North, the relationship between conservative backlash and liberal reform throughout the country, the rise of the Religious Right as a national phenomenon, the emergence of the metropolitan Sunbelt, and increasing suburban diversity in a multiracial New South. By writing American history across regional borders, this volume spends as much time outside as inside the traditional boundaries of the South, moving from Mississippi to New York City, from Southern California to South Carolina, from Mexico to Atlanta, from Hollywood to the Newport Folk Festival, and from the Pentagon to the Attica prison rebellion.
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