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Never One Nation - Freaks, Savages, and Whiteness in U.S. Popular Culture, 1850-1877 (Paperback)
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Never One Nation - Freaks, Savages, and Whiteness in U.S. Popular Culture, 1850-1877 (Paperback)
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In Never One Nation, Linda Frost argues that during the eventful
decades surrounding the Civil War, American identity was
constructed not only nationally but also locally. Depictions of
race, class, and sexuality seen in P. T. Barnum's museums, in the
image of the Circassian Beauty, and in popular periodicals like
Harper's Weekly, the Southern Illustrated News, and the San
Francisco Golden Era further illustrated who was - and who was not
- an American. Local coverage of Native Americans and Chinese in
the West, African Americans and recent Irish immigrants in New
York, and slaves and Yankees in the South played a major role in
conflating Americanness with whiteness. These ideas were shaped by
reactions to events such as the 1863 Draft Riots and the Dakota
uprising in Minnesota in 1862, and laid bare through the
demonization of Northern whites in Confederate newspapers and
anxieties expressed in California newspapers about the possibility
of Chinese immigrants gaining U.S. citizenship. Through close
readings of specific articles published in regional periodicals,
mostly unexamined by literary scholars, Frost shows how
Americanness came to be defined in the mid-nineteenth century by
the mainstream popular culture. The era's many social upheavals -
Emancipation, Reconstruction, the start of the Indian wars in the
West, immigration, and the completion of the transcontinental
railroad - sharpened the desire of Americans to feel part of a
national community, even as they made this search for an American
identity extremely contentious and necessarily fragmented. Never
One Nation provocatively reframes the discourse on racial formation
and reveals how local cultures and prejudices can recastthe
identity of a nation.
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