Suchergebnisse

"Woman Proved Herself Man's Helpmate": Nationalism, Gender, and the Memory of the American Revolution -- "A Long and Mighty Race of Heroic Men": Remembering the Pioneers and American Nation-Building -- "Let Us Clasp Hands, Red Man and White Man": The DAR and the American Indian -- "Conserve the Sources of Our Race in the Anglo-Saxon Line": African Americans, New Immigrants, and -- Ethnic Nationalism -- "I Wanted It to Change and to Make Up for Its Past": The Daughters between 1945 and 2000

Wurden Kriegshelden, politische Führerhelden und Superhelden zum Thema unzähliger Studien, hat sich die Forschung bisher kaum mit der Heroisierung gewöhnlicher Menschen auseinandergesetzt. Das Buch schließt diese Forschungslücke am Beispiel der USA, Deutschlands und Großbritanniens - es ist die erste systematische wissenschaftliche Auseinandersetzung mit Alltagshelden, die aufgrund tatsächlicher oder ihnen zugeschriebener außergewöhnlicher Taten heroisiert werden. Simon Wendt ist Juniorprofessor für Amerikanistik an der Universität Frankfurt am Main.

Black self-defense and the emergence of nonviolent protest -- Gandhi, God, and guns in Tuscaloosa -- The Deacons for Defense and Justice -- Armed resistance and the Mississippi movement -- Black power and white fear -- Black manhood and the end of nonviolence -- Conclusion

This article explores how peaceful protest and armed resistance reflected and shaped certain gender identities in the southern US civil rights movement and the Black Power movement, and reveals much about the significance of violence for 'marginalised masculinities' within the African American freedom struggle of the 1950s and 1960s. In the Deep South, civil rights organisers found that their non‐violent strategy's connotations of effeminate submissiveness hampered attempts to win over black men to the movement's cause. Conversely, those African Americans who decided to use armed force to protect the movement against racist attacks were proud of their ability to defend themselves and their communities. A comparison of armed resistance efforts in southern civil rights campaigns with those of post‐1965 Black Power groups such as the Black Panther Party shows both commonalities and differences with regard to the inter‐relationship between self‐defence and gender. In the southern movement, the affirmation of manhood remained a by‐product of the physical imperative to protect black lives against racism. Among Black Power militants and their black nationalist precursors, self‐defence, while initially intended to stop police brutality and other racist oppression, ultimately became mainly a symbol of militant black manhood. The Black Power movement's affirmative message countered stereotypes of black male powerlessness and instilled a positive black identity into many activists, but the gendered discourse it produced also tended to perpetuate black women's subordination.

Chapter 1: The Racialization of the Globe: Historical Perspectives: Frank Dikötter -- Chapter 2: How Racism Arose in Europe and Why It Did Not in the Near East: Benjamin Braude -- Chapter 3: Culture's Shadow: "Race" and Postnational Belonging in the Twentieth Century: Christian Geulen -- Chapter 4: Racism and Genocide: Boris Barth -- Chapter 5: Slavery and Racism in Nineteenth-Century Cuba: Michael Zeuske -- Chapter 6: Toward a Transnational History of Racism: Wilhelm Marr and the Interrelationships between Colonial Racism and German Anti-Semitism: Claudia Bruns -- Chapter 7: Transatlantic Anthropological Dialogue and "the Other": Felix von Luschan's Research in America, 1914-1915: John David Smith -- Chapter 8: Transits of Race: Empire and Difference in Philippine-American Colonial History: Paul A. Kramer -- Chapter 9: Interrogating Caste and Race in South Asia: Gita Dharampal-Frick and Katja Götzen -- Chapter 10: The Making of a "Ruling Race": Defining and Defending Whiteness in Colonial India: Harald Fischer-Tiné -- Chapter 11: Glocalizing "Race" in China: Concepts and Contingencies at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Gotelind Mul̈ler; Chapter 12: Race without Supremacy: On Racism in the Political Discourse of Late Meiji Japan, 1890-1912: Urs Matthias Zachmann; Chapter 13: Hendrik Verwoerd's Long March to Apartheid: Nationalism and Racism in South Africa: Christoph Marx -- Chapter 14: The "Right Kind of White People": Reproducing Whiteness in the United States and Australia, 1780s-1930s: Gregory D. Smithers -- Chapter 15: Race and Indigeneity in Contemporary Australia: A. Dirk Moses.