Common Ground: Reimagining American History
In Common Ground, Gary Okihiro uses the experiences of Asian Americans to reconfigure the ways in which American history can be understood. He examines a set of binaries--East and West, black and white, man and woman, heterosexual and homosexual--that have structured the telling of our nation's...
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| Zusammenfassung: | In Common Ground, Gary Okihiro uses the experiences of Asian Americans to reconfigure the ways in which American history can be understood. He examines a set of binaries--East and West, black and white, man and woman, heterosexual and homosexual--that have structured the telling of our nation's history and shaped our ideas of citizenship since the late nineteenth century. Okihiro not only exposes the artifice of these binaries but also offers a less rigid and more embracing set of stories on which to ground a national history. Influenced by European hierarchical thinking in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Anglo Americans increasingly categorized other newcomers to the United States. Binaries formed in the American imagination, creating a sense of coherence among white citizens during times of rapid and far-reaching social change. Within each binary, however, Asian Americans have proven disruptive: they cannot be fully described as either Eastern or Western; they challenge the racial categories of black and white; and within the gender and sexual binaries of man and woman, straight and gay, they have been repeatedly positioned as neither nor. Okihiro analyzes how groups of people and numerous major events in American history have generally been depicted, and then offers alternative representations from an Asian-American viewpoint--one that reveals the ways in which binaries have contributed toward simplifying, excluding, and denying differences and convergences. Drawing on a rich variety of sources, from the Chicago Exposition of 1898 to The Wizard of Oz, this book is a provocative response to current debates over immigration and race, multiculturalism and globalization, and questions concerning the nature of America and its peoples. The ideal foil to conventional surveys of American history, Common Ground asks its readers to reimagine our past free of binaries and open to diversity and social justice |
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| DOI: | 10.1515/9781400844364 |
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| spelling | Okihiro, Gary Y. Verfasser aut Common Ground Reimagining American History Gary Y. Okihiro Princeton, NJ Princeton University Press [2020] © 2001 1 online resource (176 pages) 16 halftones txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Okt 2020) In Common Ground, Gary Okihiro uses the experiences of Asian Americans to reconfigure the ways in which American history can be understood. He examines a set of binaries--East and West, black and white, man and woman, heterosexual and homosexual--that have structured the telling of our nation's history and shaped our ideas of citizenship since the late nineteenth century. Okihiro not only exposes the artifice of these binaries but also offers a less rigid and more embracing set of stories on which to ground a national history. Influenced by European hierarchical thinking in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Anglo Americans increasingly categorized other newcomers to the United States. Binaries formed in the American imagination, creating a sense of coherence among white citizens during times of rapid and far-reaching social change. Within each binary, however, Asian Americans have proven disruptive: they cannot be fully described as either Eastern or Western; they challenge the racial categories of black and white; and within the gender and sexual binaries of man and woman, straight and gay, they have been repeatedly positioned as neither nor. Okihiro analyzes how groups of people and numerous major events in American history have generally been depicted, and then offers alternative representations from an Asian-American viewpoint--one that reveals the ways in which binaries have contributed toward simplifying, excluding, and denying differences and convergences. Drawing on a rich variety of sources, from the Chicago Exposition of 1898 to The Wizard of Oz, this book is a provocative response to current debates over immigration and race, multiculturalism and globalization, and questions concerning the nature of America and its peoples. The ideal foil to conventional surveys of American history, Common Ground asks its readers to reimagine our past free of binaries and open to diversity and social justice In English African Americans;aliens;Asian Indians;barbarism;binaries;biracials;blackness;Cassatt, Mary;Chinese;Christianity;colonization;conquest;deviance;Dahomeyans East Empress of China Filipino Americans Hayakawa, Sessue Hunter, Robert Irish Japanese Jefferson, Thomas Kansas Kimball, Nell Latinos Orientalism Pacific civilization frontier gendering geography immigrants imperialism lynching manliness miscegenation modernity naturalization nonwhiteness patriarchy prostitutes purity racializing science HISTORY / United States / 20th Century bisacsh Asian Americans Social conditions Binary principle (Linguistics) Cultural pluralism United States Group identity United States Minorities United States Social conditions National characteristics, American Subjectivity Social aspects United States https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400844364 Verlag URL des Erstveröffentlichers Volltext |
| spellingShingle | Okihiro, Gary Y. Common Ground Reimagining American History African Americans;aliens;Asian Indians;barbarism;binaries;biracials;blackness;Cassatt, Mary;Chinese;Christianity;colonization;conquest;deviance;Dahomeyans East Empress of China Filipino Americans Hayakawa, Sessue Hunter, Robert Irish Japanese Jefferson, Thomas Kansas Kimball, Nell Latinos Orientalism Pacific civilization frontier gendering geography immigrants imperialism lynching manliness miscegenation modernity naturalization nonwhiteness patriarchy prostitutes purity racializing science HISTORY / United States / 20th Century bisacsh Asian Americans Social conditions Binary principle (Linguistics) Cultural pluralism United States Group identity United States Minorities United States Social conditions National characteristics, American Subjectivity Social aspects United States |
| title | Common Ground Reimagining American History |
| title_auth | Common Ground Reimagining American History |
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| title_full | Common Ground Reimagining American History Gary Y. Okihiro |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Common Ground Reimagining American History Gary Y. Okihiro |
| title_short | Common Ground |
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| title_sub | Reimagining American History |
| topic | African Americans;aliens;Asian Indians;barbarism;binaries;biracials;blackness;Cassatt, Mary;Chinese;Christianity;colonization;conquest;deviance;Dahomeyans East Empress of China Filipino Americans Hayakawa, Sessue Hunter, Robert Irish Japanese Jefferson, Thomas Kansas Kimball, Nell Latinos Orientalism Pacific civilization frontier gendering geography immigrants imperialism lynching manliness miscegenation modernity naturalization nonwhiteness patriarchy prostitutes purity racializing science HISTORY / United States / 20th Century bisacsh Asian Americans Social conditions Binary principle (Linguistics) Cultural pluralism United States Group identity United States Minorities United States Social conditions National characteristics, American Subjectivity Social aspects United States |
| topic_facet | African Americans;aliens;Asian Indians;barbarism;binaries;biracials;blackness;Cassatt, Mary;Chinese;Christianity;colonization;conquest;deviance;Dahomeyans East Empress of China Filipino Americans Hayakawa, Sessue Hunter, Robert Irish Japanese Jefferson, Thomas Kansas Kimball, Nell Latinos Orientalism Pacific civilization frontier gendering geography immigrants imperialism lynching manliness miscegenation modernity naturalization nonwhiteness patriarchy prostitutes purity racializing science HISTORY / United States / 20th Century Asian Americans Social conditions Binary principle (Linguistics) Cultural pluralism United States Group identity United States Minorities United States Social conditions National characteristics, American Subjectivity Social aspects United States |
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