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The Democratic Gap : Transcultural Confrontations of German Immigrants and the Promise of American Democracy.
Why has the promise of American democracy been so persuasive to immigrants despite prejudice regarding cultural inferiority, a history of slavery and genocide, violations of human rights, media manipulations, and imperial self-righteousness? How can we analyze, understand, and evaluate the response...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Heidelberg :
Universitätsverlag Winter,
2014.
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| Colección: | European views of the United States.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 520 | |a Why has the promise of American democracy been so persuasive to immigrants despite prejudice regarding cultural inferiority, a history of slavery and genocide, violations of human rights, media manipulations, and imperial self-righteousness? How can we analyze, understand, and evaluate the response patterns of immigrants, which evolved after the shock of arrival in the United States and the encounter with severe democratic shortcomings? This book investigates patriotic dissent of naturalized German immigrants to overcome what I call "the democratic gap," namely the discrepancy between democrat. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Table of Contents ; Preface; List of Publications under the Auspices of the European Association for American Studies; List of Illustrations, Musical Examples, and Color Plates; Acknowledgment; Introduction; I Transcultural Confrontations; (Dis)continuities: Re-evaluating the German-American Experience; Who Are We/They? National Identity, Patriotism, and Democracy; Nation qua Thing: Response Patterns to the Democratic Gap; Thrills of Citizenship: German Declarations of Americanness; II Unconditional Abolitionism: Charles Follen; Great Expectations: Freedom, Equality, and Fraternity. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Foreign Meddlers: Between Integration and DissentRevolution or Reform: Charles Follen and David Walker; Summary; III Declarations of Emancipation: Ottilie Assing; Children of the Failed Revolution: Transatlantic Political Activism; Neither Pariah nor Parvenu: Between Domesticity and Independence; Performing Emancipation: Ottilie Assing and Sojourner Truth; Summary; IV Transcultural Pluralism: Winold Reiss; Inter-Cultural Fault Lines: American Vistas in Germany; Transcultural America: A Plea for Color; Unfinished Democracy: Winold Reiss and Alain Locke; Summary. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a V Staging Americanness: Kurt WeillSelf-Americanization: Performing the "Self" as "Other"; Imaginary Spaces: Patriotic Musicals; Theatricality of "America": Kurt Weill and Langston Hughes; Summary; VI Afro-German-American Dissent: Hans J. Massaquoi; Afro-German Vistas: The Racial Dilemma of Recognition; Transatlantic Double V: Politics of Afro-German Recognition; Nazi Jim Crow: Hans J. Massaquoi and Malcolm X; Summary; VII Holocaust Consciousness: Hannah Arendt; Unmasterable Future? Jewish-German Identity and the Fiction of Fascism. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a For the Sake of Freedom: Nay-Saying in the Shadow of the HolocaustTransatlantic Traumas: Hannah Arendt and Toni Morrison; Summary; Conclusion; Bibliography; Archives; Musical Scores; Primary German American Literature; Secondary Literature; Filmography; Index. | |
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