Savage Perils

Savage Perils
Author: Patrick B. Sharp
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2012-09-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 0806182423

Revisiting the racial origins of the conflict between “civilization” and “savagery” in twentieth-century America The atomic age brought the Bomb and spawned stories of nuclear apocalypse to remind us of impending doom. As Patrick Sharp reveals, those stories had their origins well before Hiroshima, reaching back to Charles Darwin and America’s frontier. In Savage Perils, Sharp examines the racial underpinnings of American culture, from the early industrial age to the Cold War. He explores the influence of Darwinism, frontier nostalgia, and literary modernism on the history and representations of nuclear weaponry. Taking into account such factors as anthropological race theory and Asian immigration, he charts the origins of a worldview that continues to shape our culture and politics. Sharp dissects Darwin’s arguments regarding the struggle between “civilization” and “savagery,” theories that fueled future-war stories ending in Anglo dominance in Britain and influenced Turnerian visions of the frontier in America. Citing George W. Bush’s “Axis of Evil,” Sharp argues that many Americans still believe in the racially charged opposition between civilization and savagery, and consider the possibility of nonwhite “savages” gaining control of technology the biggest threat in the “war on terror.” His insightful book shows us that this conflict is but the latest installment in an ongoing saga that has been at the heart of American identity from the beginning—and that understanding it is essential if we are to eradicate racist mythologies from American life.

Racial Frontiers

Racial Frontiers
Author: Arnoldo De León
Publisher:
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN:

Excluding the slave states from the narrative, De Leon (history, Angelo State U.) compares the historiographies of the African American, Chinese, and Mexican settlers in the American West during the latter half of the 19th century. He explores the economic positions they held, their attempts to participate in political structures, and the racial discrimination and violence they faced. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Race, Ethnicity, and Sexuality

Race, Ethnicity, and Sexuality
Author: Joane Nagel
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2003
Genre: Ethnicity
ISBN:

What do race, ethnicity and nationalism have to do with sex, and vice versa? This title uses examples to examine how sex shapes ideas and feelings about race, ethnicity and national identity and how sexual images, fears and desires shape racial, ethnic and national stereotypes and conflicts.

Before Mestizaje

Before Mestizaje
Author: Ben Vinson III
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2018
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107026431

This book deepens our understanding of race and the implications of racial mixture by examining the history of caste in colonial Mexico.

Racial Frontiers

Racial Frontiers
Author: Arnoldo De León
Publisher: UNM Press
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780826322722

Both a synthesis of the recent literature and an explanation of what happened when distinctly identifiable races interacted on the frontier.

Invisible Frontiers

Invisible Frontiers
Author: Stephen S. Hall
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2002
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780195151596

Author Stephen Hall weaves together the scientific, social and political threads of this story - the fierce rivalry between labs, the fateful clash of egos within labs, the invasion of academia by commerce, the public fears about genetic engineering, the threat of government regulation, and the ultimate triumph of modern biology - to give us an outstanding tale of scientific research."--BOOK JACKET.

Cultural Encounters on China's Ethnic Frontiers

Cultural Encounters on China's Ethnic Frontiers
Author: Stevan Harrell
Publisher: Studies on Ethnic Groups in Ch
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-09-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780295998923

Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804088 China's exploitation by Western imperialism is well known, but the imperialist treatment within China of ethnic minorities has been little explored. Around the geographic periphery of China, as well as some of the less accessible parts of the interior, and even in its cities, live a variety of peoples of different origins, languages, ecological adaptations, and cultures. These people have interacted for centuries with the Han Chinese majority, with other minority ethnic groups (minzu), and with non-Chinese, but identification of distinct groups and analysis of their history and relationship to others still are problematic. Cultural Encounters on China's Ethnic Frontiers provides rich material for the comparative study of colonialism and imperialism and for the study of Chinese nation-building. It represents some of the first scholarship on ethnic minorities in China based on direct research since before World War II. This, combined with increasing awareness in the West of the importance of ethnic relations, makes it an especially timely book. It will be of interest to anthopologists, historians, and political scientists, as well as to sinologists.

Frontiers of Fear

Frontiers of Fear
Author: Ariane Chebel d'Appollonia
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2012-03-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0801464382

On both sides of the Atlantic, restrictive immigration policies have been framed as security imperatives since the 1990s. This trend accelerated in the aftermath of 9/11 and subsequent terrorist attacks in Europe. In Frontiers of Fear, Ariane Chebel d’Appollonia raises two central questions with profound consequences for national security and immigration policy: First, does the securitization of immigration issues actually contribute to the enhancement of internal security? Second, does the use of counterterrorist measures address such immigration issues as the increasing number of illegal immigrants, the resilience of ethnic tensions, and the emergence of homegrown radicalization? Chebel d’Appollonia questions the main assumptions that inform political agendas in the United States and throughout Europe, analyzing implementation and evaluating the effectiveness of policies in terms of their stated objectives. She argues that the new security-based immigration regime has proven ineffective in achieving its prescribed goals and even aggravated the problems it was supposed to solve: A security/insecurity cycle has been created that results in less security and less democracy. The excesses of securitization have harmed both immigration and counterterrorist policies and seriously damaged the delicate balance between security and respect for civil liberties.

Medicalizing Blackness

Medicalizing Blackness
Author: Rana A. Hogarth
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2017-09-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1469632888

In 1748, as yellow fever raged in Charleston, South Carolina, doctor John Lining remarked, "There is something very singular in the constitution of the Negroes, which renders them not liable to this fever." Lining's comments presaged ideas about blackness that would endure in medical discourses and beyond. In this fascinating medical history, Rana A. Hogarth examines the creation and circulation of medical ideas about blackness in the Atlantic World during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. She shows how white physicians deployed blackness as a medically significant marker of difference and used medical knowledge to improve plantation labor efficiency, safeguard colonial and civic interests, and enhance control over black bodies during the era of slavery. Hogarth refigures Atlantic slave societies as medical frontiers of knowledge production on the topic of racial difference. Rather than looking to their counterparts in Europe who collected and dissected bodies to gain knowledge about race, white physicians in Atlantic slaveholding regions created and tested ideas about race based on the contexts in which they lived and practiced. What emerges in sharp relief is the ways in which blackness was reified in medical discourses and used to perpetuate notions of white supremacy.

Frontiers of Citizenship

Frontiers of Citizenship
Author: Yuko Miki
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2018-02-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108417507

An engaging, innovative history of Brazil's black and indigenous people that redefines our understanding of slavery, citizenship, and national identity. This book focuses on the interconnected histories of black and indigenous people on Brazil's Atlantic frontier, and makes a case for the frontier as a key space that defined the boundaries and limitations of Brazilian citizenship.