Cultural Hegemony and African-American Patriotism
Author: Timothy Almon Askew
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9781607971238
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Cultural Hegemony & African American Patriotism: an Analysis of the Song Lift Every Voice and Sing
Author: Timothy Askew
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781607978237
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCultural Hegemony in the United States
Author: Lee Artz
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2000-06-23
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 1452221960
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPopular usage equates hegemony with dominance–a meaning far from Antonio Gramsci′s original concept where hegemony appears as a contested culture that meets the minimum needs of the majority while serving the interests of the dominant class. This text is the first to present cultural hegemony in its original form–as a process of consent, resistance, and coercion. Hegemony is illustrated with examples from American history and contemporary culture, including practices that represent race, gender, and class in everyday life. U.S. cultural hegemony depends in part on how well media, government, and other dominant institutions popularize beliefs and organize practices that promote individualism and consumerism. Corporate dominance and market values reign only through the consent of the majority, which, for the time being - finds material, political, and cultural benefit from existing social relations. As deep social contradictions undermine brittle hegemonic relations, the subordinate majority - including blacks, women, and workers will seek a new cultural hegemony that overcomes race, gender, and class inequality.
Contesting Patriotism
Author: Lynne M. Woehrle
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2008-12-16
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 0742565726
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring war, space for debate shrinks. Narrow ideas of patriotism and democracy marginalize and silence opposition to militarism abroad and repression at home. Although powerful, these ideas encounter widespread resistance. Analyzing the official statements of 15 organizations from 1990-2005, the authors show that the U.S. peace movement strongly contested taken-for-granted assumptions regarding nationalism, religion, security, and global justice. Contesting Patriotism engages cutting-edge theories in social movements research to understand the ways that activists promote peace through their words. Concepts of culture, power, strategy, and identity are used to explain how movement organizations and activists contribute to social change. The diversity of organizations and conflicts studied make this book a unique and important contribution to peace building and to social movements scholarship.
The White Racial Frame
Author: Joe R. Feagin
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-08-21
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1135127654
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book Joe Feagin extends the systemic racism framework in previous Routledge books by developing an innovative concept, the white racial frame. Now four centuries-old, this white racial frame encompasses not only the stereotyping, bigotry, and racist ideology emphasized in other theories of "race," but also the visual images, array of emotions, sounds of accented language, interlinking interpretations and narratives, and inclinations to discriminate that are still central to the frame’s everyday operations. Deeply imbedded in American minds and institutions, this white racial frame has for centuries functioned as a broad worldview, one essential to the routine legitimation, scripting, and maintenance of systemic racism in the United States. Here Feagin examines how and why this white racial frame emerged in North America, how and why it has evolved socially over time, which racial groups are framed within it, how it has operated in the past and in the present for both white Americans and Americans of color, and how the latter have long responded with strategies of resistance that include enduring counter-frames. In this new edition, Feagin has included much new interview material and other data from recent research studies on framing issues related to white, black, Latino, and Asian Americans, and on society generally. The book also includes a new discussion of the impact of the white frame on popular culture, including on movies, video games, and television programs as well as a discussion of the white racial frame’s significant impacts on public policymaking, immigration, the environment, health care, and crime and imprisonment issues.
Transnational Cosmopolitanism
Author: Ins Valdez
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-05-09
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 1108483321
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAdvances normative notion of transnational cosmopolitanism based on Du Bois's writings and practice, and discusses limitations of Kantian cosmopolitanism.
Anthem
Author: Shana L. Redmond
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 0814789323
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"An extraordinary, innovative, and generative book." - George Lipsitz, author of How Racism Takes Place
May We Forever Stand
Author: Imani Perry
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2018-02-02
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1469638614
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe twin acts of singing and fighting for freedom have been inseparable in African American history. May We Forever Stand tells an essential part of that story. With lyrics penned by James Weldon Johnson and music composed by his brother Rosamond, "Lift Every Voice and Sing" was embraced almost immediately as an anthem that captured the story and the aspirations of black Americans. Since the song's creation, it has been adopted by the NAACP and performed by countless artists in times of both crisis and celebration, cementing its place in African American life up through the present day. In this rich, poignant, and readable work, Imani Perry tells the story of the Black National Anthem as it traveled from South to North, from civil rights to black power, and from countless family reunions to Carnegie Hall and the Oval Office. Drawing on a wide array of sources, Perry uses "Lift Every Voice and Sing" as a window on the powerful ways African Americans have used music and culture to organize, mourn, challenge, and celebrate for more than a century.
The Ideologies of African American Literature
Author: Robert E. Washington
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780742509504
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book challenges the long-held assumption that African American literature aptly reflects black American social consciousness. Offering a novel sociological approach, Washington delineates the social and political forces that shaped the leading black literary works. Washington shows that deep divisions between political thinkers and writers prevailed throughout the 20th century. Visit our website for sample chapters!
Sugar and Civilization
Author: April Merleaux
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2015-07-13
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1469622521
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the weeks and months after the end of the Spanish-American War, Americans celebrated their nation's triumph by eating sugar. Each of the nation's new imperial possessions, from Puerto Rico to the Philippines, had the potential for vastly expanding sugar production. As victory parties and commemorations prominently featured candy and other sweets, Americans saw sugar as the reward for their global ambitions. April Merleaux demonstrates that trade policies and consumer cultures are as crucial to understanding U.S. empire as military or diplomatic interventions. As the nation's sweet tooth grew, people debated tariffs, immigration, and empire, all of which hastened the nation's rise as an international power. These dynamics played out in the bureaucracies of Washington, D.C., in the pages of local newspapers, and at local candy counters. Merleaux argues that ideas about race and civilization shaped sugar markets since government policies and business practices hinged on the racial characteristics of the people who worked the land and consumed its products. Connecting the history of sugar to its producers, consumers, and policy makers, Merleaux shows that the modern American sugar habit took shape in the shadow of a growing empire.
