American History and European Identity

Pero, Mario Del; Frank, Tibor; Klimke, Martin; Porsdam, Helle; Tuck, Stephen

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“…Accordingly, and as the scholars in question have often noted, it matters where the history of the Black diaspora is written, as well as by whom. This is true in terms of the stake that various authors might have in the topic, as well as in scholarly traditions, methodologies, and subject choices (Bedasse et al, 2020;Del Pero et al, 2014).…”

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“…It was, however, exceedingly rare during the twentieth century for European-based African Americanists to explicitly address the relevance of their field for Europe. This was partly due to its orientation towards the United States, as the preeminence of American academia created pressures to publish in English for U.S. journals and disincentivized discussions from a European angle (Del Pero et al, 2014). 17 Cultural-linguistic factors partly explain why European scholars have also been reluctant to apply concepts from U.S.based Black Studies to European contexts.…”

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Oppressive Even As It Inspires

Visser-Maessen,

Van den Berk

2024

Du Bois Rev.

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In this article, we trace the evolution of the connections between Black America and (Black) Europe since the mid-twentieth century and the study thereof. We do so through the lens of ‘Black American centrality,’ referring to the ways in which perceptions of Black America serve as an outsized reference point in European understandings of race, ‘Blackness,’ and Black (European) emancipation struggles. This allows for exploring the dilemmas that the, at times overwhelming, visibility of ‘Black America’ poses to Black Europeans, particularly during the current moment of flourishing Black European culture, politics, and scholarship. In that context, we show how both U.S.- and Europe-based scholars of Black American history and Black European history have approached Black American-European connections differently. The article concludes with suggestions for how these fields can engage with each other to develop academic approaches that account for but do not privilege the position of Black Americans within diasporic exchanges in the North Atlantic region, which is currently an underexplored area in diaspora studies.

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Oppressive Even As It Inspires

Visser-Maessen,

Van den Berk

2024

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Performing innocence: Violence and the nation in Ian McEwan’s Saturday and Sunjeev Sahota’s Ours Are the Streets

Sánchez-Arce

2017

The Journal of Commonwealth Literature

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Mainstream British society and post-9/11 fiction borrow from the discourse of American exceptionalism (including the fall from innocence to experience, the desire to create or preserve a better world, a “Messianic consciousness” reflecting the arrogance of virtue, the development of narratives of heroism and goodness tied to nation-building, and the use of the above to justify “exemptionalism”) to expose and query the entitlement of those within the narrative home of Britishness and the outsider status of those used to define its borders. This article discusses Ian McEwan’s Saturday and Sunjeev Sahota’s Ours Are the Streets, arguing that they illustrate a turning point in Britain’s imagination of itself as a nation in a struggle over Britishness which is predicated on notions of violence and innocence. Since 9/11 the debate about Britishness has used innocence as a constitutive inside of the nation and direct violence as an exclusionary characteristic. McEwan satirizes this rhetoric of innocence whereas Sahota challenges it. Both novels illustrate how post-9/11 British fiction deals with politics as war, placing violence at the heart of society. McEwan parodies the point of view of British normative society by allowing his main character to justify his privileged position under the guise of arguing for the current social and international status quo. Sahota charts the journey of those who are caught between the rejection of unjust social structures and the desire to fit within them, depicting his protagonist’s misguided attempt to redefine the British nation through terrorism. Violence and exceptionalism are central to both novels, which portray a turn in the imagining of Britain. The events of 9/11 can therefore be seen not just as a historical turning point but as a turn in Britain’s imagination of itself.

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The 1928 Presidential Campaign: Toward a Transatlantic and Institutional Approach to Catholic Histories

Faggioli¹

2015

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The article examines the exchanges between the Vatican Secretary of State and the Vatican’s diplomatic post in Washington, DC, during the time of the presidential election of 1928 to show the different players and roles in the debate about the role of Catholics in American politics. These newly-available documents demonstrate and confirm Peter D’Agostino’s call for the need for a more transnational approach to the history of American Catholicism. The relationship between “American exceptionalism” and American Catholic history needs to be investigated with greater consideration for Roman perspectives and Roman institutional influence on the American Catholic experience. This research highlights, in Robert Orsi’s words, an “ambiguity and ambivalence” of American Catholic identity that has methodological consequences for historians of Catholicism as it takes a global turn.

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American History and European Identity

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Oppressive Even As It Inspires

Oppressive Even As It Inspires

Performing innocence: Violence and the nation in Ian McEwan’s Saturday and Sunjeev Sahota’s Ours Are the Streets

The 1928 Presidential Campaign: Toward a Transatlantic and Institutional Approach to Catholic Histories

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