Jim Lovensheimer
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195377026
- eISBN:
- 9780199864560
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195377026.003.0003
- Subject:
- Music, Popular, History, American
This chapter provides biographical information about James A. Michener’s involvement in, and writing about, World War II in the Pacific as well as an analysis of Tales of the South Pacific, the ...
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This chapter provides biographical information about James A. Michener’s involvement in, and writing about, World War II in the Pacific as well as an analysis of Tales of the South Pacific, the source for the characters and situations in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical. After noting the source of the name Bali Ha’i and the book’s unusual palindromic structure, the chapter discusses Michener’s thematic and narrative techniques, paying careful attention to his discussions of race and racial intolerance among servicemen and women in the Pacific theater. Finally, the chapter provides information drawn from Hammerstein’s notes on the book, found among his papers in the Library of Congress and thus far undiscussed in the literature on Hammerstein or South Pacific. These notes provide insight into Hammerstein’s earliest thoughts concerning the adaptation of Michener’s Pulitzer Prize–winning book. The chapter also introduces co-author and director Joshua Logan.Less
This chapter provides biographical information about James A. Michener’s involvement in, and writing about, World War II in the Pacific as well as an analysis of Tales of the South Pacific, the source for the characters and situations in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical. After noting the source of the name Bali Ha’i and the book’s unusual palindromic structure, the chapter discusses Michener’s thematic and narrative techniques, paying careful attention to his discussions of race and racial intolerance among servicemen and women in the Pacific theater. Finally, the chapter provides information drawn from Hammerstein’s notes on the book, found among his papers in the Library of Congress and thus far undiscussed in the literature on Hammerstein or South Pacific. These notes provide insight into Hammerstein’s earliest thoughts concerning the adaptation of Michener’s Pulitzer Prize–winning book. The chapter also introduces co-author and director Joshua Logan.
P. J. Cain
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780198203902
- eISBN:
- 9780191719141
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198203902.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter charts the development of Hobson's ideas before and during his visit to South Africa in 1899 and shows how books such as The War in South Africa and The Psychology of Jingoism arose out ...
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This chapter charts the development of Hobson's ideas before and during his visit to South Africa in 1899 and shows how books such as The War in South Africa and The Psychology of Jingoism arose out of that visit. It also tries to illustrate the tension between his interest in financiers as a body of men capable of using politics for their own sinister ends and his growing awareness of the evolution of a new kind of capitalism based on the growth of big business. The chapter ends with a sustained analysis and critique of Part I of Imperialism: A Study and of the sections of Part II that are directly linked to the economic analysis presented by Hobson in Part I.Less
This chapter charts the development of Hobson's ideas before and during his visit to South Africa in 1899 and shows how books such as The War in South Africa and The Psychology of Jingoism arose out of that visit. It also tries to illustrate the tension between his interest in financiers as a body of men capable of using politics for their own sinister ends and his growing awareness of the evolution of a new kind of capitalism based on the growth of big business. The chapter ends with a sustained analysis and critique of Part I of Imperialism: A Study and of the sections of Part II that are directly linked to the economic analysis presented by Hobson in Part I.
Jim Lovensheimer
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195377026
- eISBN:
- 9780199864560
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195377026.003.0005
- Subject:
- Music, Popular, History, American
After a preliminary discussion of race and World War II that draws from historian Micahel Bess’s work on the subject, this chapter demonstrates how Hammerstein repeatedly subdued South Pacific’s ...
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After a preliminary discussion of race and World War II that draws from historian Micahel Bess’s work on the subject, this chapter demonstrates how Hammerstein repeatedly subdued South Pacific’s criticism of prejudice throughout the creative process. Beginning with an examination of Nellie Forbush and what her background in 1930s prewar rural Arkansas would have been, the chapter moves on to reveal how Hammerstein retained her prejudice while making it increasingly less abrasive than it was in James A. Michener’s Tales of the South Pacific. Attention is then shifted to Joe Cable, whose grappling with prejudice provides the musical’s tragic subplot. Act 2, scene 4, the musical’s climactic scene, is analyzed in its many manifestations indicated by the numerous drafts and sketch studies for it found among Hammerstein’s papers. While some representations of race in the musical remain problematic—references to the Japanese enemy and the characterization of island women, for example—this chapter demonstrates Hammerstein’s ongoing commitment to racial equality and tolerance that anticipate the American civil rights movement.Less
After a preliminary discussion of race and World War II that draws from historian Micahel Bess’s work on the subject, this chapter demonstrates how Hammerstein repeatedly subdued South Pacific’s criticism of prejudice throughout the creative process. Beginning with an examination of Nellie Forbush and what her background in 1930s prewar rural Arkansas would have been, the chapter moves on to reveal how Hammerstein retained her prejudice while making it increasingly less abrasive than it was in James A. Michener’s Tales of the South Pacific. Attention is then shifted to Joe Cable, whose grappling with prejudice provides the musical’s tragic subplot. Act 2, scene 4, the musical’s climactic scene, is analyzed in its many manifestations indicated by the numerous drafts and sketch studies for it found among Hammerstein’s papers. While some representations of race in the musical remain problematic—references to the Japanese enemy and the characterization of island women, for example—this chapter demonstrates Hammerstein’s ongoing commitment to racial equality and tolerance that anticipate the American civil rights movement.
Jim Lovensheimer
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195377026
- eISBN:
- 9780199864560
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195377026.003.0004
- Subject:
- Music, Popular, History, American
This chapter is concerned with drafts and sketches involving two principal characters in Tales of the South Pacific that eventually were reduced to bit roles in South Pacific. After discussing the ...
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This chapter is concerned with drafts and sketches involving two principal characters in Tales of the South Pacific that eventually were reduced to bit roles in South Pacific. After discussing the importance of Harbison and Nurse Culbert in Michener’s novel and Hammerstein’s initial interest in them, this chapter traces their gradual excision from the script. For Culbert, this process also involved major changes in two of the show’s best known numbers—“I’m Gonna Wash That Man Right Out-a My Hair” and “I’m in Love with a Wonderful Guy”—and the elimination of a subplot connecting Culbert with the comic character Luther Billis. The examination of Harbison includes a detailed analysis of a long but eventually discarded draft for act 1, scene 1, in which Hammerstein created a satire of the postwar young white collar executive that recalls the postwar writings of C. Wright Mills, William H. Whyte Jr., and David Riesman; the draft also contains a full set of lyrics for which no music is extant.Less
This chapter is concerned with drafts and sketches involving two principal characters in Tales of the South Pacific that eventually were reduced to bit roles in South Pacific. After discussing the importance of Harbison and Nurse Culbert in Michener’s novel and Hammerstein’s initial interest in them, this chapter traces their gradual excision from the script. For Culbert, this process also involved major changes in two of the show’s best known numbers—“I’m Gonna Wash That Man Right Out-a My Hair” and “I’m in Love with a Wonderful Guy”—and the elimination of a subplot connecting Culbert with the comic character Luther Billis. The examination of Harbison includes a detailed analysis of a long but eventually discarded draft for act 1, scene 1, in which Hammerstein created a satire of the postwar young white collar executive that recalls the postwar writings of C. Wright Mills, William H. Whyte Jr., and David Riesman; the draft also contains a full set of lyrics for which no music is extant.
Penne L. Restad
- Published in print:
- 1997
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195109801
- eISBN:
- 9780199854073
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195109801.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This chapter starts with William Gilmore Simms' The Bachelor's Christmas written in 1845. This text creatively describes the wonderful Southern Christmas, from all the weeks' preparation prior to the ...
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This chapter starts with William Gilmore Simms' The Bachelor's Christmas written in 1845. This text creatively describes the wonderful Southern Christmas, from all the weeks' preparation prior to the celebration of the day, up to the main event and the social order that transpired, where a fairly continuous Christmas celebration was enjoyed at least among the plantation elite. This chapter tackles changes experienced in the South as slavery spread westward and competition intensified resulting in more pronounced sectional differences, wherein after 1820 criticism in slavery intensified. Although with the challenges laid upon the Southern people, Christmas in the South still provided a picture of harmony amidst the increasing social tension, described vividly and beautifully in Simms' A Christmas Story of the South.Less
This chapter starts with William Gilmore Simms' The Bachelor's Christmas written in 1845. This text creatively describes the wonderful Southern Christmas, from all the weeks' preparation prior to the celebration of the day, up to the main event and the social order that transpired, where a fairly continuous Christmas celebration was enjoyed at least among the plantation elite. This chapter tackles changes experienced in the South as slavery spread westward and competition intensified resulting in more pronounced sectional differences, wherein after 1820 criticism in slavery intensified. Although with the challenges laid upon the Southern people, Christmas in the South still provided a picture of harmony amidst the increasing social tension, described vividly and beautifully in Simms' A Christmas Story of the South.
Claudio Saunt
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780195176315
- eISBN:
- 9780199788972
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195176315.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, Social History
Until the late 18th century, when some Indians began adopting plantation slavery, there was little racism in the Creek Nation. By the early 19th century, however, relations between Indians and ...
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Until the late 18th century, when some Indians began adopting plantation slavery, there was little racism in the Creek Nation. By the early 19th century, however, relations between Indians and Africans were deteriorating. The Redstick War marked a turning point, after which many Indians concluded they could only survive by abiding by the South's racial hierarchy. Katy Grayson was one such Creek. Although she had had two children with an African man, she and her partner separated shortly after the war.Less
Until the late 18th century, when some Indians began adopting plantation slavery, there was little racism in the Creek Nation. By the early 19th century, however, relations between Indians and Africans were deteriorating. The Redstick War marked a turning point, after which many Indians concluded they could only survive by abiding by the South's racial hierarchy. Katy Grayson was one such Creek. Although she had had two children with an African man, she and her partner separated shortly after the war.
Glenn Feldman
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780813036847
- eISBN:
- 9780813043999
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813036847.003.0014
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This conclusion connects the southern experience to the national one. It explores in detail the southern (and increasingly American) propensity for plain people to put emotional issues ahead of their ...
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This conclusion connects the southern experience to the national one. It explores in detail the southern (and increasingly American) propensity for plain people to put emotional issues ahead of their more rational and class interests. And it examines how conservatives first ingeniously engineered a “Great Melding” of white supremacy and economic rightism in the South to vilify government, glorify capital, and capture the votes of masses of plain people. The import of media and technology revolution, the Religious Right, the Reconstruction experience, think tanks and policy institutes, Democratic timidity, and a “new racism” of muted white supremacy combined with vague emotional issues are explored. Attention is paid to Republican success in mainstreaming extremist thought as well as policy attacks on New Deal progeny like Social Security and labor rights, as well as taxes, regulation, Medicare, and public employees. The chapter posits that#x2014;although the South has altered its partisan affiliation from Democratic to Republican#x2014;there has been little actual change due to the pre-eminence of deep, distinctive, and enduring southern cultural mores and conservative values. And the implications for American politics are potentially seismic….Less
This conclusion connects the southern experience to the national one. It explores in detail the southern (and increasingly American) propensity for plain people to put emotional issues ahead of their more rational and class interests. And it examines how conservatives first ingeniously engineered a “Great Melding” of white supremacy and economic rightism in the South to vilify government, glorify capital, and capture the votes of masses of plain people. The import of media and technology revolution, the Religious Right, the Reconstruction experience, think tanks and policy institutes, Democratic timidity, and a “new racism” of muted white supremacy combined with vague emotional issues are explored. Attention is paid to Republican success in mainstreaming extremist thought as well as policy attacks on New Deal progeny like Social Security and labor rights, as well as taxes, regulation, Medicare, and public employees. The chapter posits that#x2014;although the South has altered its partisan affiliation from Democratic to Republican#x2014;there has been little actual change due to the pre-eminence of deep, distinctive, and enduring southern cultural mores and conservative values. And the implications for American politics are potentially seismic….
Canter Brown and Larry Eugene Rivers
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780813061146
- eISBN:
- 9780813051420
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813061146.003.0013
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
In 1875 Mary Edwards Bryan returned to Atlanta to work at The Sunny South. Chapter 12 relates the circumstances of her life for the next five years, including the whiffs of scandal that greeted her ...
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In 1875 Mary Edwards Bryan returned to Atlanta to work at The Sunny South. Chapter 12 relates the circumstances of her life for the next five years, including the whiffs of scandal that greeted her in Georgia, her increasing disenchantment with publisher John H. Seals, and her deepening friendship with Mary Sanders Seals. The authors follow Mary’s establishment of her Azalea Farm homestead in the suburb of Clarkston, Georgia; the evolution of her family life and the marriage of her daughters; and her increasing commitment to causes such as the prevention of cruelty to animals and forest conservation. The chapter concludes with the 1880 publication of her novel Manch by D. Appleton and Company and its popular reception by critics and readers across the nation.Less
In 1875 Mary Edwards Bryan returned to Atlanta to work at The Sunny South. Chapter 12 relates the circumstances of her life for the next five years, including the whiffs of scandal that greeted her in Georgia, her increasing disenchantment with publisher John H. Seals, and her deepening friendship with Mary Sanders Seals. The authors follow Mary’s establishment of her Azalea Farm homestead in the suburb of Clarkston, Georgia; the evolution of her family life and the marriage of her daughters; and her increasing commitment to causes such as the prevention of cruelty to animals and forest conservation. The chapter concludes with the 1880 publication of her novel Manch by D. Appleton and Company and its popular reception by critics and readers across the nation.
Claudio Saunt
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780195176315
- eISBN:
- 9780199788972
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195176315.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, Social History
In the two decades preceding removal, Creeks and other Indians in the South were under great pressure to distance themselves from their black relatives. Georgia and the United States seized Creek ...
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In the two decades preceding removal, Creeks and other Indians in the South were under great pressure to distance themselves from their black relatives. Georgia and the United States seized Creek land in the Treaty of Indian Springs and the Treaty of Washington. After the Creek removal treaty of 1832, white land speculators began stealing Indian allotments. At this time, William Grayson purchased his father's slave, Judah, and married her.Less
In the two decades preceding removal, Creeks and other Indians in the South were under great pressure to distance themselves from their black relatives. Georgia and the United States seized Creek land in the Treaty of Indian Springs and the Treaty of Washington. After the Creek removal treaty of 1832, white land speculators began stealing Indian allotments. At this time, William Grayson purchased his father's slave, Judah, and married her.
Canter Brown and Larry Eugene Rivers
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780813061146
- eISBN:
- 9780813051420
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813061146.003.0012
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
This chapter surveys Mary Edwards Bryan's final attempt at Louisiana residence from 1869 to 1875. It delves into her deepening relationship with Myron Napier Bartlett, her possible whereabouts from ...
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This chapter surveys Mary Edwards Bryan's final attempt at Louisiana residence from 1869 to 1875. It delves into her deepening relationship with Myron Napier Bartlett, her possible whereabouts from mid-1869 until mid-1870, conditions at the Red River community of Coushatta, natural and other disasters that devastated the region, her attempts to write for the New Orleans Times and the New Orleans-based Our Home Journal, and her relationship with Republican leader Marshall Harvey Twitchell. The chapter concludes with Mary's renewed attempt to seek an independent life and career, the Atlanta creation by John H. Seals of The Sunny South, Mary's continuing ties with Alexander Stephens, the notorious Coushatta Massacre and her husband’s and son’s parts in it, her acquaintance with James Cephus Derby of D. Appleton and Company, an encounter with Madame Octavia Walton Le Vert, and her 1875 return to Atlanta.Less
This chapter surveys Mary Edwards Bryan's final attempt at Louisiana residence from 1869 to 1875. It delves into her deepening relationship with Myron Napier Bartlett, her possible whereabouts from mid-1869 until mid-1870, conditions at the Red River community of Coushatta, natural and other disasters that devastated the region, her attempts to write for the New Orleans Times and the New Orleans-based Our Home Journal, and her relationship with Republican leader Marshall Harvey Twitchell. The chapter concludes with Mary's renewed attempt to seek an independent life and career, the Atlanta creation by John H. Seals of The Sunny South, Mary's continuing ties with Alexander Stephens, the notorious Coushatta Massacre and her husband’s and son’s parts in it, her acquaintance with James Cephus Derby of D. Appleton and Company, an encounter with Madame Octavia Walton Le Vert, and her 1875 return to Atlanta.
Glenn Feldman
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780813036847
- eISBN:
- 9780813043999
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813036847.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This introduction lays out the book's central themes: namely the question of whether or not the South has become a Republican stronghold where it was once Democratic. The chapter stresses the ...
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This introduction lays out the book's central themes: namely the question of whether or not the South has become a Republican stronghold where it was once Democratic. The chapter stresses the centrality of race in the South's realignment to the GOP. But it also recognizes the importance of religion, economics, and other factors. This chapter emphasizes the deep continuity and enduring import of cultural and ideological factors in the southern experience over the more cosmetic change of partisan realignment. The chapter also broaches the question of why it is southerners seem especially prone to allow a “politics of emotion” to distract plain people from pursuit of their more rational and class interests. Southern distinctiveness, regional exceptionalism, and the extremism of the modern Republican Party are also examined.Less
This introduction lays out the book's central themes: namely the question of whether or not the South has become a Republican stronghold where it was once Democratic. The chapter stresses the centrality of race in the South's realignment to the GOP. But it also recognizes the importance of religion, economics, and other factors. This chapter emphasizes the deep continuity and enduring import of cultural and ideological factors in the southern experience over the more cosmetic change of partisan realignment. The chapter also broaches the question of why it is southerners seem especially prone to allow a “politics of emotion” to distract plain people from pursuit of their more rational and class interests. Southern distinctiveness, regional exceptionalism, and the extremism of the modern Republican Party are also examined.
Fred Arthur Bailey
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780813036847
- eISBN:
- 9780813043999
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813036847.003.0013
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter tracks the extraordinary influence of Texas literary figure and political philosopher Melvin E. Bradford on the development of modern conservatism and the Republican appeal in the South. ...
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This chapter tracks the extraordinary influence of Texas literary figure and political philosopher Melvin E. Bradford on the development of modern conservatism and the Republican appeal in the South. Bradford's aversion to all forms of egalitarianism—including racial—deeply influenced his work, and that of other key southern conservatives, as Bradford became a theoretical rock star for the political right during the 1980s. The author of scores of popular and professional articles, Bradford was also an accomplished orator who supported conservatives from George Wallace to Ronald Reagan and, in return, was rewarded with celebrity and a position in the Reagan Administration. The chapter argues that Bradford's case for an ordered society premised upon the supposed innate inequality of mankind (based on a faulty understanding of the American Revolution and the Civil War) was highly influential to a host of neo-Confederate and other modern conservative and Republican thinkers, especially in the South.Less
This chapter tracks the extraordinary influence of Texas literary figure and political philosopher Melvin E. Bradford on the development of modern conservatism and the Republican appeal in the South. Bradford's aversion to all forms of egalitarianism—including racial—deeply influenced his work, and that of other key southern conservatives, as Bradford became a theoretical rock star for the political right during the 1980s. The author of scores of popular and professional articles, Bradford was also an accomplished orator who supported conservatives from George Wallace to Ronald Reagan and, in return, was rewarded with celebrity and a position in the Reagan Administration. The chapter argues that Bradford's case for an ordered society premised upon the supposed innate inequality of mankind (based on a faulty understanding of the American Revolution and the Civil War) was highly influential to a host of neo-Confederate and other modern conservative and Republican thinkers, especially in the South.
P. Nicole King
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781617032516
- eISBN:
- 9781617032523
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781617032516.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, Social History
This chapter presents the story of Alan Schafer, South of the Border’s controversial owner. The tale of South of the Border is mainly Schafer’s story, because he obtained the power to construct the ...
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This chapter presents the story of Alan Schafer, South of the Border’s controversial owner. The tale of South of the Border is mainly Schafer’s story, because he obtained the power to construct the physical and rhetorical space of his tourist empire through his innovative business practices, accrued wealth, and political connections. South of the Border exemplified trends in mid-century American roadside culture and tourism, such as bright billboards, gigantic designs, and “modern” attractions.Less
This chapter presents the story of Alan Schafer, South of the Border’s controversial owner. The tale of South of the Border is mainly Schafer’s story, because he obtained the power to construct the physical and rhetorical space of his tourist empire through his innovative business practices, accrued wealth, and political connections. South of the Border exemplified trends in mid-century American roadside culture and tourism, such as bright billboards, gigantic designs, and “modern” attractions.
P. Nicole King
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781617032516
- eISBN:
- 9781617032523
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781617032516.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, Social History
This chapter analyzes South of the Border’s tacky aesthetic. South of the Border was originally tacky because it pushed booze and catered to all races in a segregated society. Today, it is tacky ...
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This chapter analyzes South of the Border’s tacky aesthetic. South of the Border was originally tacky because it pushed booze and catered to all races in a segregated society. Today, it is tacky because of its neon palette, dated look, and stereotypical depiction of Mexicans. Its aesthetic of tackiness becomes more complex when dealing with its controversial mascot, Pedro. Examining the strange career of Pedro during South of the Border’s rise as a roadside empire reveals how the politics surrounding identity have expanded from the realm of physical occupancy to representation. Alan Schafer’s use of Pedro in the context of South of the Border’s larger history, culture, and aesthetic shows that the postmodern shift from truth and reality to representation and simulation is not only the province of privileged intellectuals, but has been gaining momentum in the provinces all along.Less
This chapter analyzes South of the Border’s tacky aesthetic. South of the Border was originally tacky because it pushed booze and catered to all races in a segregated society. Today, it is tacky because of its neon palette, dated look, and stereotypical depiction of Mexicans. Its aesthetic of tackiness becomes more complex when dealing with its controversial mascot, Pedro. Examining the strange career of Pedro during South of the Border’s rise as a roadside empire reveals how the politics surrounding identity have expanded from the realm of physical occupancy to representation. Alan Schafer’s use of Pedro in the context of South of the Border’s larger history, culture, and aesthetic shows that the postmodern shift from truth and reality to representation and simulation is not only the province of privileged intellectuals, but has been gaining momentum in the provinces all along.
Steve Estes
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781469622323
- eISBN:
- 9781469624921
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469622323.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
This chapter explores the dilemmas faced by southern lawmen in communities like Charleston, in order to understand better the ways the civil rights movement succeeded and failed in altering power ...
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This chapter explores the dilemmas faced by southern lawmen in communities like Charleston, in order to understand better the ways the civil rights movement succeeded and failed in altering power relations in the South. It focuses in particular on the story of Reuben Greenberg, the first black and first Jewish police chief in Charleston's history. As the Charleston police chief for nearly a quarter of a century, Greenberg came to embody both the promise and the problems of policing the South in the post-civil rights era. Greenberg's professionalism and racial identity shielded him from the kinds of allegations that had historically plagued southern lawmen, but he worked in a political environment in which coded rhetoric linked “law and order” with control and containment of minority communities.Less
This chapter explores the dilemmas faced by southern lawmen in communities like Charleston, in order to understand better the ways the civil rights movement succeeded and failed in altering power relations in the South. It focuses in particular on the story of Reuben Greenberg, the first black and first Jewish police chief in Charleston's history. As the Charleston police chief for nearly a quarter of a century, Greenberg came to embody both the promise and the problems of policing the South in the post-civil rights era. Greenberg's professionalism and racial identity shielded him from the kinds of allegations that had historically plagued southern lawmen, but he worked in a political environment in which coded rhetoric linked “law and order” with control and containment of minority communities.
Audrey Murfin
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781474451987
- eISBN:
- 9781474477109
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474451987.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter the progression of several textual fragments describing Pacific islands that the Stevensons visited on the ship the Janet Nichol, from their first draft as holograph manuscript ...
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This chapter the progression of several textual fragments describing Pacific islands that the Stevensons visited on the ship the Janet Nichol, from their first draft as holograph manuscript fragments, to their inclusion in Fanny Stevenson’s published diary The Cruise of the Janet Nicoll [sic], and sometimes their inclusion in Louis’s published nonfiction in In the South Seas as well as fiction such as The Beach of Falesá. Much of this material, which was originally written by Louis but later claimed by Fanny, concerns one topic--that of the sexual exploitation of young Pacific Island girls by white traders. The shared nature of the family’s diaries allowed Louis to hide in his wife’s diary material on a topic that was evidently of great interest to him, but that would have negatively affected this very famous author’s reputation as a family-friendly author.Less
This chapter the progression of several textual fragments describing Pacific islands that the Stevensons visited on the ship the Janet Nichol, from their first draft as holograph manuscript fragments, to their inclusion in Fanny Stevenson’s published diary The Cruise of the Janet Nicoll [sic], and sometimes their inclusion in Louis’s published nonfiction in In the South Seas as well as fiction such as The Beach of Falesá. Much of this material, which was originally written by Louis but later claimed by Fanny, concerns one topic--that of the sexual exploitation of young Pacific Island girls by white traders. The shared nature of the family’s diaries allowed Louis to hide in his wife’s diary material on a topic that was evidently of great interest to him, but that would have negatively affected this very famous author’s reputation as a family-friendly author.
Joan Malczewski
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780226394626
- eISBN:
- 9780226394763
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226394763.003.0002
- Subject:
- Education, History of Education
Chapter One explores the emergence of three 20th Century foundations that promoted southern education reform, the General Education Board, the Rosenwald Fund, and the Negro Rural School Fund (Jeanes ...
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Chapter One explores the emergence of three 20th Century foundations that promoted southern education reform, the General Education Board, the Rosenwald Fund, and the Negro Rural School Fund (Jeanes Fund). The annual Conference for Education in the South began at Capon Springs, West Virginia in 1898 and brought together an assembly of leaders in farming, business, church, and school, but quickly became an important venue for far-reaching collaboration between reformers, university scholars, northern businessmen, and southerners who represented state interests. The foundations involved in southern education developed from the extensive collaboration that these meetings produced. This chapter argues that education reform was instrumental to the broader goal of state building, and foundation programs specifically targeted state and local governance capacity. An effective public system of education required governance structures that could provide sufficient oversight, integrate a range of state and local agencies, and promote the organization and participation of local communities. Schooling promoted those administrative structures and helped to organize rural black communities. Foundation programs extended black educational opportunity and strengthened local governance capacity, but restricted the quality of education that would be available. Yet, their programs also had the potential to affect black agency over the longer term.Less
Chapter One explores the emergence of three 20th Century foundations that promoted southern education reform, the General Education Board, the Rosenwald Fund, and the Negro Rural School Fund (Jeanes Fund). The annual Conference for Education in the South began at Capon Springs, West Virginia in 1898 and brought together an assembly of leaders in farming, business, church, and school, but quickly became an important venue for far-reaching collaboration between reformers, university scholars, northern businessmen, and southerners who represented state interests. The foundations involved in southern education developed from the extensive collaboration that these meetings produced. This chapter argues that education reform was instrumental to the broader goal of state building, and foundation programs specifically targeted state and local governance capacity. An effective public system of education required governance structures that could provide sufficient oversight, integrate a range of state and local agencies, and promote the organization and participation of local communities. Schooling promoted those administrative structures and helped to organize rural black communities. Foundation programs extended black educational opportunity and strengthened local governance capacity, but restricted the quality of education that would be available. Yet, their programs also had the potential to affect black agency over the longer term.
Glenn Feldman (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780813036847
- eISBN:
- 9780813043999
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813036847.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This book is an eloquent examination of one of the most important political questions of the last half-century. It explores whether the South, once the “Solid South” of the Democratic Party, has ...
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This book is an eloquent examination of one of the most important political questions of the last half-century. It explores whether the South, once the “Solid South” of the Democratic Party, has truly become a Republican stronghold. And if so, when, where, why, and how did this seismic change occur? Moreover, what are the implications for the U.S. body politic, and for the future of liberalism and conservatism in America? Painting Dixie Red is the first volume to grapple with these difficult yet critical questions. In this fascinating and timely collection, a distinguished group of scholars engages in an enlightening debate. Some make the case that the South has become Republican, and some contend that it has not. Some outline the region's exceptionalism, and some reject the idea of regional distinctiveness. Some point to white backlash and discontent over civil rights as the root of political changes, and some cite color-blind factors. All offer invaluable insights into U.S. politics during these ultra-partisan times.Less
This book is an eloquent examination of one of the most important political questions of the last half-century. It explores whether the South, once the “Solid South” of the Democratic Party, has truly become a Republican stronghold. And if so, when, where, why, and how did this seismic change occur? Moreover, what are the implications for the U.S. body politic, and for the future of liberalism and conservatism in America? Painting Dixie Red is the first volume to grapple with these difficult yet critical questions. In this fascinating and timely collection, a distinguished group of scholars engages in an enlightening debate. Some make the case that the South has become Republican, and some contend that it has not. Some outline the region's exceptionalism, and some reject the idea of regional distinctiveness. Some point to white backlash and discontent over civil rights as the root of political changes, and some cite color-blind factors. All offer invaluable insights into U.S. politics during these ultra-partisan times.
Jennifer Ritterhouse
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781469630946
- eISBN:
- 9781469630960
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469630946.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter introduces Jonathan Daniels and explains his intentions for his 1937 automobile trip around the South. He wanted to explore the range of political and cultural possibilities in the ...
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This chapter introduces Jonathan Daniels and explains his intentions for his 1937 automobile trip around the South. He wanted to explore the range of political and cultural possibilities in the region during the Great Depression and show a truer picture than either plantation romance or "white trash" caricatures showed. His views as a white southern liberal and what his observations reveal about the start of the nation's long civil rights era are put into historical and historiographical context. The book Daniels published, A Southerner Discovers the South (1938), is compared to photo-documentary works of the era such as You Have Seen Their Faces and Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. The role of Jonathan Daniels's father, Josephus Daniels, in solidifying racial capitalism in North Carolina is introduced. The chapter concludes with a discussion of sources and methodology and a chapter outline.Less
This chapter introduces Jonathan Daniels and explains his intentions for his 1937 automobile trip around the South. He wanted to explore the range of political and cultural possibilities in the region during the Great Depression and show a truer picture than either plantation romance or "white trash" caricatures showed. His views as a white southern liberal and what his observations reveal about the start of the nation's long civil rights era are put into historical and historiographical context. The book Daniels published, A Southerner Discovers the South (1938), is compared to photo-documentary works of the era such as You Have Seen Their Faces and Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. The role of Jonathan Daniels's father, Josephus Daniels, in solidifying racial capitalism in North Carolina is introduced. The chapter concludes with a discussion of sources and methodology and a chapter outline.
Naomi André
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780252041921
- eISBN:
- 9780252050619
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252041921.003.0006
- Subject:
- Music, Opera
This chapter places Winnie: The Opera (Bongani Ndodana-Breen, Warren Wilensky, and Mfundi Vundla, 2011) in a larger comparative framework that includes the Western opera tradition, opera in the ...
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This chapter places Winnie: The Opera (Bongani Ndodana-Breen, Warren Wilensky, and Mfundi Vundla, 2011) in a larger comparative framework that includes the Western opera tradition, opera in the United States, and the representation of blackness in opera more generally. With a reading of postcolonial and post-apartheid theorists (for example, Homi Bhabha and the “unhomely,” Karin Barber and entextualization, and Sarah Nuttal’s entanglement), this chapter also draws upon the Global South (and global studies) along with transnationalism. This chapter examines events from the opera in Winnie Mandela’s life (torture, the Mandela United Football Club, and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission) as they are characterized musically and in the drama.Less
This chapter places Winnie: The Opera (Bongani Ndodana-Breen, Warren Wilensky, and Mfundi Vundla, 2011) in a larger comparative framework that includes the Western opera tradition, opera in the United States, and the representation of blackness in opera more generally. With a reading of postcolonial and post-apartheid theorists (for example, Homi Bhabha and the “unhomely,” Karin Barber and entextualization, and Sarah Nuttal’s entanglement), this chapter also draws upon the Global South (and global studies) along with transnationalism. This chapter examines events from the opera in Winnie Mandela’s life (torture, the Mandela United Football Club, and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission) as they are characterized musically and in the drama.
