Pub Date : 2024-02-08DOI: 10.1017/s0021875823000580
ROSS BULLEN
In this paper I examine P. T. Barnum's attempt to bring the first “sacred white elephant” to America, and his subsequent “white elephant war” with rival showman Adam Forepaugh, through the lens of Afro-Asian comparative racialization. I look at several accounts of white elephants that describe their skin color in terms of the US's Black/white race dichotomy and ask why this animal was a popular figure for examining the US's shifting attitude toward race and transpacific imperialism in the late nineteenth century. By reading the “white elephant war” through a comparative framework, I argue that the heterogeneous histories of both African American and Asian racialization inhered and intersected in this specific instance of racial comparison, while tracking the overlaps and oversights that this analysis reveals.
在本文中，我将通过亚非种族比较的视角，研究 P. T. 巴纳姆试图将第一头 "神圣的白象 "带到美国，以及他后来与竞争对手亚当-福尔波夫（Adam Forepaugh）的 "白象战争"。我从美国黑人/白人种族二元对立的角度来审视关于白象的几种描述，并探究为什么这种动物在 19 世纪晚期成为研究美国对种族和跨太平洋帝国主义态度转变的热门形象。通过比较框架解读 "白象战争"，我认为非裔美国人和亚裔美国人种族化的异质历史在这一特定的种族比较实例中继承和交汇，同时追踪这一分析所揭示的重叠和疏忽。
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Pub Date : 2024-02-08DOI: 10.1017/s0021875823000439
EMILY MURPHY
This article considers how the archive, particularly material produced by children, destabilizes the boundaries between the domestic and the foreign, citizenship and empire. Through its analysis of a wave of educational reform in the United States during the 1930s, which encouraged global citizenship among the young, it demonstrates how children not typically associated with global citizenship – those from both rural and working-class backgrounds – engaged with the imperial messages embedded in global education of the period.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-18DOI: 10.1017/s0021875823000567
ROSA MARTINEZ
An overlooked advertisement, entitled “An Incident at the South” (1849), calls attention to Ellen Craft's Spanish masquerade during her 1848 escape from American slavery. The author underscores her masculine costume, feigning disability, running to sea, and “a darkness of complexion that betokened Spanish extraction.” Despite contemporary criticism, the advertisement asserts Spanish-ness in the production history of Ellen's escape; thus the essay considers a reinterpretation of Ellen's transnational masquerades by reexamining the advertisement (1849) and in relation to her portrait (1850) and slave narrative (1860). Of emphasis is a history of hemisphere conflict – over land, at the borderlands, and at sea – during Anglo-American expansion, Spanish/Mexican displacement, and antebellum enslavement. Ellen's story is also contextualized with rising literary traditions of the mid-nineteenth century.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-03DOI: 10.1017/s0021875823000427
DEBBY ESMEÉ DE VLUGT
In 1969, a group of activists in the Netherlands formed the Solidariteitscomité met de Black Panthers, or Black Panther Solidarity Committee, intended to support the Black Panther Party through a platform of public education, fund-raising, and political protest. Their efforts were part of a broader campaign for European solidarity launched by the African Americans themselves earlier that year. This article is the first to explore how Dutch activists understood their transatlantic partnership with the Black Panthers, arguing that their solidarity served not only to support the party but also to challenge American imperialism and Dutch colonialism in new ways.
1969年，荷兰的一群积极分子成立了“团结委员会”(solidariteitscomit met de Black Panthers)，即“黑豹团结委员会”，旨在通过公共教育、筹款和政治抗议等平台来支持黑豹党。他们的努力是当年早些时候由非裔美国人自己发起的更广泛的欧洲团结运动的一部分。本文首次探讨了荷兰活动人士如何理解他们与黑豹党的跨大西洋伙伴关系，认为他们的团结不仅支持了黑豹党，而且以新的方式挑战了美帝国主义和荷兰殖民主义。
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Pub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.1017/S002187582300035X
Chris J. Gismondi
{"title":"Simon P. Newman, Freedom Seekers: Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London (London: University of London Press, 2022, £12.00). Pp. 250. isbn 978 1 9127 0293 0.","authors":"Chris J. Gismondi","doi":"10.1017/S002187582300035X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S002187582300035X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14966,"journal":{"name":"Journal of American Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"595 - 597"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139326998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.1017/s0021875823000397
Ahmed Honeini
{"title":"NOW I CAN WRITE: THE TENACITY AND ENDURANCE OF WILLIAM FAULKNER'S THE SOUND AND THE FURY","authors":"Ahmed Honeini","doi":"10.1017/s0021875823000397","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021875823000397","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14966,"journal":{"name":"Journal of American Studies","volume":"396 2 1","pages":"602 - 604"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139327407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.1017/s0021875823000348
Emily Gowen
{"title":"Edward Sugden (ed.), Crossings in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: Junctures of Time, Space, Self, and Politics (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022, $110.00). Pp. 272. isbn 978 1 4744 7628 7.","authors":"Emily Gowen","doi":"10.1017/s0021875823000348","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021875823000348","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14966,"journal":{"name":"Journal of American Studies","volume":"147 1","pages":"593 - 595"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139328535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.1017/S0021875823000373
Georgia Woodroffe
{"title":"Martin Dines, The Literature of Suburban Change (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020, £85.00). Pp. 288. isbn 978 1 4744 2648 0.","authors":"Georgia Woodroffe","doi":"10.1017/S0021875823000373","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875823000373","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14966,"journal":{"name":"Journal of American Studies","volume":"245 1","pages":"599 - 601"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139327771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.1017/s0021875823000403
Carl Rollyson
{"title":"BECOMING MY OWN AUTHORITY","authors":"Carl Rollyson","doi":"10.1017/s0021875823000403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021875823000403","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14966,"journal":{"name":"Journal of American Studies","volume":"85 1","pages":"604 - 606"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139331042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.1017/s0021875823000555
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