Changing the World

Dawley, Alan

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“…9 Important progressives like Jane Addams, Frank Tannenbaum, and John Collier were wholly convinced that theirs was a moment of rebirth characterized by a growing 'world consciousness'. 10 The editor-in-chief of The Survey Paul Kellogg, for his part, certainly believed such renewal was in the air, proclaiming triumphantly in his opening remarks to 'Harlem: Mecca of the new negro' that times finally come when the 'forces that work so slowly and so delicately seem suddenly to flower' and 'the curtain [lifts] on a new act in the drama of part or all of us'. Such 'dramatic flowering', he said, characterized events in 'the New Ireland', in 'the newly awakened Mexico', and in the heart of America where 'a new race spirit [wa]s taking place among American Negroes'.…”

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Globalizing the Harlem Renaissance: Irish, Mexican, and ‘Negro’ renaissances in The Survey, 1919–1929

Johnson¹

2006

Journal of Global History

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This essay situates the Harlem Renaissance in a world-historical context by building on the global perspective offered by the architect of that renaissance, Alain Locke. It demonstrates that contemporaries like Locke saw the Harlem Renaissance to be a local episode in a broader phenomenon of racial and national renaissance that included post-war developments in Ireland and Mexico. The core argument is that American progressives found in these renaissances three distinct models for defining the proper relationship between race and nation: in the Irish case, a racially homogeneous nation-state premised on a repudiation of the colonizer and his culture; in the Mexican case, a syncretic nation-state based on the cultural and biological fusion of the colonizer and colonized; and in the Harlem case, a pluralist nationstate that held in balance otherwise relatively autonomous races.

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Globalizing the Harlem Renaissance: Irish, Mexican, and ‘Negro’ renaissances in The Survey, 1919–1929

Johnson¹

2006

Journal of Global History

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“…Indeed, Dawley appears to have been totally unaware of Laughlin's writings on world government or correspondence with prominent internationalists. 18 This oversight is understandable, because, as a rule, leading eugenicists in the United States focused almost entirely upon domestic issues or the domestic ramifications of international developments. Lothrop Stoddard's notorious The Rising Tide of Color was the sole major work written by an American that consciously viewed international relations through the prism of eugenics.…”

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Making the World Safe for Eugenics: The Eugenicist Harry H. Laughlin's Encounters with American Internationalism

McDonald¹

2013

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Harry H. Laughlin's main claim to fame was as director of the Eugenics Record Office at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, from which position he exerted considerable influence upon early twentieth-century campaigns to restrict immigration and to institute compulsory sterilization of the socially inadequate. Laughlin also had an absorbing fascination for the idea of a single world government. Over the course of forty years, he produced a voluminous body of mostly unpublished work on the subject. In examining Laughlin's musings on internationalism, this article provides a glimpse into how a leading American eugenicist would have projected onto the world stage the policies he was zealously endeavoring to implement at the domestic level. Laughlin sent samples of his work to many of America's leading internationalists. Their responses to Laughlin's ideas reveal much about the character of internationalism in the United States during the era of World War I, especially the extent to which his racist and imperialist assumptions were shared by other members of the internationalist movement. Consequently, this article provides yet another example of how liberal and conservative impulses were neither easily distinguishable nor mutually exclusive during the Progressive Era.

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“…Among many other highways and byways, Changing the World compares the search for promised lands among the oppressed Irish, Jewish, and other diasporas of North America. 73 Putting American race and class relations in this context heightens the sense of turbulent change and aspiring struggle, but there is nothing recognizably Thompsonian about Dawley's position. Rather than seeing workers as developing a common class consciousness through a fusion of cultural traditions, Dawley shows workers divided by race and, implicitly, by region as well.…”

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The Scholarly Odyssey of an Activist Historian: Alan Dawley in Historiography

Tyrrell

2009

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It would be tempting to see the late Alan Dawley as an intellectual product of the 1960s, a decade that has attracted considerable attention among historians and that shaped the political and intellectual preoccupations of a generation. To be sure, Dawley played a part in that era's social-protest movement that shaped his career as a scholar-activist. Katy Weschler Dawley spoke recently of a young man “with a purpose,” who “became committed to achieve goals of justice, civil-rights and antiwar movements.” These were indeed abiding commitments that would have made the separation of activism and scholarship difficult for any historian, and there is no doubt that Dawley was such a writer driven at the outset by political ideals.

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Changing the World

Cited by 100 publications

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Globalizing the Harlem Renaissance: Irish, Mexican, and ‘Negro’ renaissances in The Survey, 1919–1929

Globalizing the Harlem Renaissance: Irish, Mexican, and ‘Negro’ renaissances in The Survey, 1919–1929

Making the World Safe for Eugenics: The Eugenicist Harry H. Laughlin's Encounters with American Internationalism

The Scholarly Odyssey of an Activist Historian: Alan Dawley in Historiography

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