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The New York Daily News and the History of Conservative Media 《纽约每日新闻》与保守媒体的历史
Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2021-10-07 DOI: 10.1017/mah.2021.17
Matthew Pressman
The media outlets usually identified as building blocks of New Right are niche ideological journals (such as National Review) and radio broadcasts. As crucial as these outlets were, other mainstream publications propagating similar ideas had a far greater reach—foremost among them the New York Daily News, the highest-circulation newspaper in the country. From the 1940s through the 1960s, the Daily News espoused a conservative populism further right than National Review, binding its readers into a community based on anti-elitism and white working-class identity.
通常被认为是新右翼基石的媒体是小众意识形态期刊(如《国家评论》)和广播。与这些媒体一样重要的是,其他传播类似观点的主流出版物的影响范围要大得多——其中最重要的是《纽约每日新闻》(New York Daily News),它是美国发行量最高的报纸。从20世纪40年代到60年代,《每日新闻》拥护比《国家评论》更右翼的保守民粹主义,将读者束缚在一个以反精英主义和白人工人阶级身份为基础的群体中。
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The Vital Center Reborn: Redefining Liberalism between 9/11 and the Iraq War 重要中心的重生:重新定义9/11和伊拉克战争之间的自由主义
Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2021-09-06 DOI: 10.1017/mah.2021.18
Joseph Stieb
Following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a set of liberal intellectuals promoted a vision of liberal renewal at home and abroad, hoping to create a new political and foreign policy paradigm. They sought to revive a form of early Cold War “Vital Center” liberalism by supporting democratization and human rights, designing a liberal version of patriotism, and supporting confrontations with illiberal autocracies and radical Islamists. They hoped to reverse decades of liberal decline in domestic politics, to distance themselves from the political left, and to critique President George Bush's response to 9/11, which they viewed as unilateralist, militaristic, and intellectually vapid. This revival of optimistic, universalist liberalism represents the peak of liberals’ post–Cold War belief in the ability of U.S. power to spread presumably universal values. The failure of the Iraq War, which many of these thinkers supported, undermined this brief project and returned liberals to a more cautious, defensive mindset.
“9·11”恐怖袭击后,一批自由主义知识分子在国内外倡导自由主义复兴的愿景,希望创造一种新的政治和外交政策范式。他们试图通过支持民主化和人权,设计自由主义版本的爱国主义,以及支持与不自由的专制国家和激进伊斯兰主义者的对抗,来复兴冷战早期的“重要中心”自由主义。他们希望扭转几十年来自由主义在国内政治中的衰落,与政治左派保持距离,并批评乔治·布什总统对9/11事件的反应,他们认为这种反应是单边主义、军国主义和愚蠢的。这种乐观的、普遍的自由主义的复兴代表了冷战后自由主义者对美国力量传播普遍价值观的能力的信念达到了顶峰。许多思想家都支持伊拉克战争的失败,破坏了这个简短的计划,使自由主义者回归到更加谨慎和防御的心态。
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Cops at War: How World War II Transformed U.S. Policing – Corrigendum 战争中的警察:第二次世界大战如何改变了美国的治安-勘误
Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2021-09-06 DOI: 10.1017/mah.2021.19
S. Schrader
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No Unnecessary Burden: Taxpayers and the Politics of Work, Family, and Welfare 没有不必要的负担:纳税人与工作、家庭和福利的政治
Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2021-07-01 DOI: 10.1017/mah.2021.15
M. Michelmore
The history of the Social Security Amendments of 1967 illuminates the contours of fiscal citizenship. This watershed law created both work requirements for Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) recipients and new policy instruments, including federal child support enforcement, to compel poor men to fulfill their financial obligations to their families. Welfare reformers claimed that such changes were necessary to protect the rights of taxpayers against the “criminal” predations of welfare recipients. These policy changes initiated in 1967 redefined poor women's non-work, as well as their sexual and reproductive decisions, as crimes against taxpayers. Welfare recipients contested this logic and the policies that flowed from it by insisting on the value of their own domestic labor and rejecting a narrow view of taxpaying citizenship. The resolution of these questions played a critical role in revising the American social contract.
1967年《社会保障修正案》的历史阐明了财政公民的轮廓。这项具有分水岭意义的法律既为有受抚养子女家庭援助(AFDC)受助人制定了工作要求,也制定了新的政策工具,包括联邦儿童支持执法,以迫使贫困男性履行对家庭的经济义务。福利改革者声称,为了保护纳税人的权利免受福利接受者的“犯罪”掠夺,这些改革是必要的。1967年开始的这些政策变化将贫穷妇女的非工作以及她们的性和生育决定重新定义为对纳税人的犯罪。福利接受者对这种逻辑和由此产生的政策提出异议,他们坚持自己的家务劳动的价值,拒绝狭隘的纳税公民观。这些问题的解决对美国社会契约的修正起到了至关重要的作用。
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Why Did Teachers Organize? Feminism and Socialism in the Making of New York City Teacher Unionism 教师为什么要组织起来?女权主义与社会主义在纽约市教师工会运动中的作用
Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2021-07-01 DOI: 10.1017/mah.2021.11
Christopher Phelps
What prompted New York City teachers to form a union in the Progressive Era? The founding of the journal American Teacher in 1912 led to creation of the Teachers’ League in 1913 and then the Teachers Union in 1916, facilitating formation of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). Despite historiographical claims that teacher union drives needed a focus on bread-and-butter issues to succeed, ideals of educational democracy and opposition to managerial autocracy motivated the Teachers’ League. Contrary to claims that early New York City teacher unionism was unrepresentative because dominated by radical male Jewish high-school instructors, heterogeneous majorities of women and elementary school teachers formed the Teachers’ League and Teachers Union leaderships. Board of Education representation, maternity leave, free speech, and pensions were aims of this radically democratic movement led by socialists and feminists, which received demonstrably greater mass teacher support than the conservative feminism of a rival association.
是什么促使纽约市教师在进步时代成立工会?1912年《美国教师》杂志的创刊导致了1913年教师联盟和1916年教师工会的成立,促进了美国教师联合会(AFT)的形成。尽管历史学家声称,教师工会运动需要关注面包和黄油问题才能成功,但教育民主的理想和反对管理独裁的理想推动了教师联盟的成立。早期纽约市教师工会被激进的男性犹太高中教师所主导,因此没有代表性,与此相反,女性和小学教师组成了教师联盟和教师工会的领导层。教育委员会代表权、产假、言论自由和养老金是这场由社会主义者和女权主义者领导的激进民主运动的目标,与竞争对手协会的保守女权主义相比,这场运动显然得到了更多的教师群众支持。
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MAH volume 4 issue 2 Cover and Back matter MAH第4卷第2期封面和封底
Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2021-07-01 DOI: 10.1017/mah.2021.14
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MAH volume 4 issue 2 Cover and Front matter MAH第4卷第2期封面和正面问题
Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2021-07-01 DOI: 10.1017/mah.2021.13
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Cops at War: How World War II Transformed U.S. Policing 战争中的警察:第二次世界大战如何改变了美国的警务
Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2021-06-28 DOI: 10.1017/mah.2021.12
S. Schrader
World War II transformed policing in the United States. Many police enlisted in the military during the war, and in turn many veterans joined police forces following the victories of 1945. As wartime labor shortages depleted their ranks, police chiefs turned to new initiatives to strengthen and professionalize their forces, redoubling those efforts as growing fears of crime and internal security threats outlasted the global conflict. This article investigates the rapid growth of the military police, how African Americans responded to changes in policing due to the war, and these wartime experiences’ lingering impacts. Based on research in obscure and difficult-to-find police professional literature, and closely examining New York City, it argues that the war's effects on policing did not amount to “militarization” as currently understood, but did inspire more standardized and nationally coordinated approaches to recruitment as well as military-style approaches to discipline, training, and tactical operations.
第二次世界大战改变了美国的警察制度。许多警察在战争期间参军,许多退伍军人在1945年的胜利后加入了警察部队。由于战时劳动力短缺,警察局长们采取了新的举措来加强和专业化他们的部队,并加倍努力,因为对犯罪和国内安全威胁的担忧持续了全球冲突。本文调查了军事警察的快速增长,非裔美国人如何应对战争导致的治安变化,以及这些战时经历的挥之不去的影响。基于对晦涩难懂且难以找到的警察专业文献的研究,并对纽约市进行了仔细研究,该报告认为,战争对警务的影响并不像目前所理解的那样达到“军事化”,但确实激发了更多标准化和全国协调的招聘方法,以及军事化的纪律、训练和战术行动方法。
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引用次数: 5
The Trouble with Bathrooms 卫生间的麻烦
Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2021-05-26 DOI: 10.1017/mah.2021.10
Bryant Simon
Western Electric’s constellation of factories in Baltimore’s Point Breeze section manufactured the kinds of heavy-duty wires and cables that the American military could not get enough of during World War II. That demand turned the company’s workforce into production soldiers, vital clogs in the war machine. Government-issued films and posters urged these women and men to take vitamins, eat healthy, and never miss a single shift. But on an August afternoon in 1942, Western Electric workers were away from their posts. They were gathered in a courtyard as officials from Washington presented Western Electric plant managers with a tri-colored banner and the Army-Navy “E” award. Despite its innocuous sounding name, this honor was not doled out easily. Only five percent of the nation’s 85,000 war production plants earned an “E” award between Pearl Harbor and V-J Day. Before heading back to their posts, each and every Western Electric worker received a lapel pin in recognition of the “quality and quantity” of their contributions to the war effort. But the summer celebrations at Western Electric could not cover up the tensions roiling below the surface, tensions that not even patriotic calls to duty could keep a lid on. By the end of 1942, these pressures boiled over into a “hate strike,” one that mirrored the walk-outs that broke out during the war in response to efforts to integrate Mobile shipyards and Philadelphia trolley car operations. Each of these strikes represented a defense of segregation, and each put race, really whiteness, ahead of wartime unity. Each revealed fractures on the homefront and some of the earliest stirrings of massive resistance against the breakdown of white privilege or what the journalist Isabel Wilkerson has recently described as a caste system that prevailed in the United States long before the 1940s and long afterward. The issue that would trigger white workers at Western Electric was access to bathrooms. This was no accident. Public bathrooms have played a unique role in modern societies. As broad notions of privacy took shape, and as work and home became physically and ideologically separated in the last decades of the nineteenth century, access to a bathroom became an absolute requirement. It was the essential entry point to the public. And quickly, those in favor of exclusion, of upholding caste systems, recognized that cutting off access to a bathroom translated into cutting off access to the public and social equality. The opposite was true as well. Those fighting for equality brought their struggles to the public bathroom door. This article, therefore, reveals the racial tensions of the war years, and at the same time, makes a case for what might be called toilet studies, for the importance of paying attention to the role that public bathrooms played in upholding, and in many cases, creating color lines.
西部电气公司在巴尔的摩的波茨布雷兹区(Point Breeze)的多家工厂生产的各种重型电线和电缆在第二次世界大战期间让美国军方供不应求。这种需求将公司的劳动力变成了生产士兵,成为战争机器中至关重要的障碍。政府发行的电影和海报敦促这些女性和男性服用维生素,健康饮食,不要错过任何一个班次。但在1942年8月的一个下午,西部电力公司的工人离开了岗位。他们聚集在一个院子里,华盛顿的官员向西部电力公司的经理们颁发了一面三色旗和陆军-海军“E”奖。尽管这个名字听起来无伤大雅,但这一荣誉来之不易。从珍珠港事件到抗日战争胜利日,全国85,000家战争生产工厂中只有5%获得了“E”奖。在返回岗位之前,每一位西部电力公司的工人都会收到一枚领章,以表彰他们为战争做出的“质量和数量”贡献。但西电的夏季庆祝活动无法掩盖表面之下的紧张局势,这种紧张局势即使是爱国主义的责任呼吁也无法控制。到1942年底,这些压力演变成了一场“仇恨罢工”,这场罢工反映了战争期间爆发的罢工,这是对莫比尔造船厂和费城有轨电车运营整合努力的回应。每一次罢工都代表了对种族隔离的捍卫,每一次都把种族,实际上是白人,置于战时的团结之前。每一件事都揭示了美国国内的裂痕,以及一些最早的大规模抵抗活动的萌芽,这些抵抗活动是针对白人特权的崩溃,也就是记者伊莎贝尔·威尔克森(Isabel Wilkerson)最近所描述的,早在20世纪40年代之前和之后很久就在美国盛行的种姓制度。引起西电白人工人不满的问题是厕所的使用权。这并非偶然。公共厕所在现代社会中扮演着独特的角色。随着广泛的隐私概念的形成,随着19世纪最后几十年工作和家庭在物质上和意识形态上的分离,上厕所成为一种绝对的要求。这是通向公众的重要入口。很快,那些支持排斥、支持种姓制度的人认识到,切断卫生间就意味着切断了与公众和社会平等的联系。反之亦然。那些为平等而斗争的人把他们的斗争带到了公共厕所门口。因此,这篇文章揭示了战争年代的种族紧张关系,同时也为所谓的厕所研究提出了理由,说明了关注公共厕所在维护、在许多情况下创造肤色界限方面所起的作用的重要性。
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The Wartime Battlefield of Sex 战时的性战场
Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2021-05-26 DOI: 10.1017/MAH.2021.8
Ruth Lawlor
When American forces broke through German resistance in the spring of 1945, U.S. Army commanders began to worry about rising reports of sexual violence. “Since the entry into Germany by the Seventh Army the number of cases of rape have increased greatly,” General Alexander Patch reported. “The situation is one in which it is believed emergency action is required.” Omar Bradley, commander of the largest group of armies on the continent, warned General Dwight D. Eisenhower that “certain conditions of looting, pillaging, wanton destruction, rape and other crimes” were widespread. By the time of his writing, in April 1945, some 500 reports of rape per week were flooding into the Judge Advocate General’s office. An after-action report would later confirm these concerns: “We were members of a conquering army and we came as conquerors. The rates of reported rapes sprang skyward.” This report acknowledged that many more rapes occurred than were reflected in general court-martial records, which listed 552 trials for Germany as a whole until the end of the war. The Judge Advocate said that not more than 25 percent of reported cases ever made it to trial. The situation was “ripe for violent sex crimes,” the report concluded, and “the avalanche came.” The history of Allied sexual violence in Nazi Germany is a troubled one. Numerous historians have documented the extensive sexual assaults that German women suffered at war’s end; in popular memory, this history is associated above all with the Soviet “Rape of Berlin,” though French and American troops were also regularly accused of gendered violence. After Germany’s defeat in 1945, such stories of sexual violation would be transformed into a mythology of national violation that was effectively racialized and put toward neo-fascist ends. This prospect was immediately discernible to black soldiers and journalists on the ground in Germany in the spring of 1945, who saw how the U.S. Army’s commitment to Jim Crow segregation—including prohibitions on sex and fraternization across the color line—aligned with
1945年春天,当美军突破德军的抵抗时,美国陆军指挥官开始担心不断上升的性暴力报告。“自从第七集团军进入德国以来,强奸案件的数量大大增加,”亚历山大·帕奇将军报告说。“在这种情况下,我们认为需要采取紧急行动。”奥马尔·布拉德利(Omar Bradley)是非洲大陆最大军队群的指挥官,他警告德怀特·d·艾森豪威尔将军(Dwight D. Eisenhower),“某些抢劫、掠夺、肆意破坏、强奸和其他罪行的情况”很普遍。到他于1945年4月写作时,每周大约有500起强奸案的报告涌进总检察官办公室。一份事后报告证实了这些担忧:“我们是一支征服大军的成员,我们是作为征服者而来的。报告的强奸率直线上升。”这份报告承认,发生的强奸案比一般军事法庭记录所反映的要多得多。一般军事法庭记录列出了战争结束前整个德国的552起审判。法官辩护律师表示,只有不到25%的报告案件最终进入了审判。报告总结道,“暴力性犯罪的时机已经成熟”,“雪崩来了”。纳粹德国盟军的性暴力史是一段令人不安的历史。许多历史学家记录了德国妇女在战争结束时遭受的广泛性侵犯;在大众的记忆中,这段历史首先与苏联的“柏林大屠杀”(Rape of Berlin)联系在一起,尽管法国和美国军队也经常被指控实施性别暴力。1945年德国战败后,这种性侵犯的故事被转化为民族侵犯的神话,实际上被种族化,并被推向新法西斯主义的目的。1945年春天,在德国战场上的黑人士兵和记者们立即察觉到了这一前景,他们看到了美国军队对吉姆·克劳种族隔离的承诺——包括禁止跨肤色的性行为和兄弟会——是如何与之一致的
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