David Leverenz

Honor Bound

Race and Shame in America

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Produktbeschreibung

Argues that in the United States, the rise and decline of white people's racial shaming reflects the rise and decline of white honour. To explore the implications of this argument, he casts an unusually wide net, from ancient and modern cultures of honour to social, political, and military history to American literature and popular culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None edition
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 154mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9780813552705
• ISBN-10: 0813552702
• Artikelnr.: 34945820

Autorenporträt

Leverenz, David

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Fear, Honor, and Racial Shaming
Overview
Hardball versus Eric Holder
Fear, Honor, and Fictions of Race
Racial Shaming
Slavery Still Matters
Chapter 2. How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?
How White Shaming Worked
Two Explanations
Fear and Honor
Shaming and Civil Rights
Chapter 3. Honor Bound
Honor-Shame Societies
Tocqueville on American Honor
When Honor Turned White
"The Souls of White Folk"
 
Chapter 4. Four Novels
Toward Freedom?
The Scarlet Letter
Honor and Shaming from Huck to Humbert
Challenging White Honor
Chapter 5. Two Wars
Humiliation and American Wars
The Barbary Pirates, 1783-1815
The Clash of Civilizations
The Second Iraq War, 2003 - ?
Chapter 6. The 2008 Campaign
John McCain's Lineage
The 2008 Presidential Campaign
Honor Unbound
Chapter 7. To the Tea Party -- and Beyond?
The Tea Party
"You Lie!"
The Drumbeat of Public Shaming
The Gates Arrest
Notes
Index