Tag: political science
World Anthropology Day
On February 16th, the American Anthropological Association celebrates World Anthropology Day, which has been set to recognize the field of anthropology and the work of anthropologists within it.
World Anthropology Day is a day for anthropologists to celebrate and participate in their discipline with the public around them. For more information on Anthropology day, visit the AAA website.
In support of these efforts and to mark this special day, we are delighted to showcase titles from across all strands of the subject and offer a time-limited discount of 25% off all anthropology print titles ordered via our website by 24th February. Simply enter the code WAD17 at checkout. Continue reading “World Anthropology Day”
Berghahn Journals: New Issues Published in December
Berghahn Journals: New Issues Published in November
“No Savage Shall Inherit the Land”: The Indian Enemy Other, Indiscriminate Warfare, and American National Identity, 1607-1783
by Walter L. Hixson
John Quincy Adams warned Americans not to search abroad for monsters to destroy, yet such figures have frequently habituated the discourses of U.S. foreign policy. U.S. Foreign Policy And The Other focuses on counter-identities in American consciousness to explain how foreign policies and the discourse surrounding them develop. This excerpt, adapted from Chapter 1. “No Savage Shall Inherit the Land”: The Indian Enemy Other, Indiscriminate Warfare, and American National Identity, 1607-1783, looks at how Native Americans, as the primary and quintessential American other, proved central to forging national identity. This book is now available in paperback.
Words Matter: ‘Race’ in American Campaign Rhetoric
by Augustine Agwuele.
Augustine Agwuele is the author of the article “Culture Trumps Scientific Fact: ‘Race’ in US American Language” appearing in Volume: 60 Issue: 2 of Social Analysis: The International Journal of Social and Cultural Practice.
Momma she send me to school, I get educated
I get educated, so sophisticated
Not under-rated but really elevated
West African youths quickly appropriated this 1983 lyrical refrain of Eek-a-Mus as it aligns with the singular message about education flogged into them since kindergarten. Education liberates, elevates, promotes, empowers, and places one on a distinguished pedestal. Continue reading “Words Matter: ‘Race’ in American Campaign Rhetoric”
Does Every Vote Count In America? Emotions, Elections, and the Quest for Black Political Empowerment
by Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson
The following excerpt was adapted from chapter 11 in the book Emotions in American History: An International Assessment edited by Jessica C. Gienow-Hecht, published in 2010.
The history of emotions provides important keys to understanding human behavior and can be of great assistance in explaining wider political, social, and economic trends in American history.1 This applies in particular to the history of African Americans, as racial conflicts in general and the black struggle for freedom and equality in particular repeatedly stirred public emotions in the United States to a degree hardly ever reached by other domestic issues. Thus, interracial relations have always been identified as an extremely emotionally charged aspect of American history, and in view of the new approaches to historical research proposed by the history of emotion, a closer examination of this phenomenon can offer significant additional insights into the close connection between emotions and politics. A broad and multifaceted cluster, such as the Civil Rights Movement or any other social protest movement, encompasses emotions on various levels and should therefore be analyzed from more than one perspective. Continue reading “Does Every Vote Count In America? Emotions, Elections, and the Quest for Black Political Empowerment”
I Want To Be Greedy for the United States
This is a post by Jared Poley, author of The Devil’s Riches: A Modern History of Greed (Now in Paperback!). The Financial Times called this book “…a thought-provoking study of a subject that is too often taken for granted, rather than subjected to critical examination.”
Back in late January 2016, just before the Iowa caucus, Donald Trump held an event in support of military veterans. Exhorting the crowd to donate to veteran’s charities and critiquing the power held by lobbyists over the political system, Trump took the opportunity to express what might be called his theory of financial success and how it related to larger geopolitical realities.
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Berghahn Journals: New Issues Published in September
The Capitol Building (Under Construction)
By Michael Minkenberg
The Capitol Building is in the midst of a $60 million renovation project, the first time work has been done on the iconic dome in fifty years. The renovation will be completed by January 2017, for the next presidential inauguration, but it is safe to say the inner workings of the building will still be in great disrepair after the scaffolding comes off. Tours of the dome have been suspended, but television networks and producers still rely on the dome to signal their correspondent or pundit is based in DC. We have become familiar to seeing the dome, covered in a wiry shell, while the work is being done during this tumultuous election year.
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