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1	A Generation of Race and Nationalism: Thomas Dixon, Jr. and American Identity West, Tiffany 08 July 2016 (has links) Thomas Dixon (1864-1946) has won a singular place in history as a racial ideologue and an exemplar of Southern racism. The historical evidence, however, suggests Southern culture was only one of a variety of intellectual influences, and, though highly visible in most famous works, not Dixon’s primary concern. Rather, his discussions of the South are framed within larger intellectual debates over the region as a whole, and how it related to the rest of the nation. Throughout his life, Dixon helped shape and articulate those values in the formation of a new American identity at the turn-of-the-century. By incorporating the methods of intellectual biography, whiteness studies, literary analysis, and cultural studies into the scholarly approaches of history, this work enlarges the historical understanding of Dixon through the examination of his very long life and varied career and the exploration of his equally diverse and numerous writings, both personal and public. This project’s end goal is to enrich historical understanding of how national identity is interpreted, constructed, and shaped over time, and the many different components influencing its formation. This research found that defining what is and is not American built on and responded to the major issues of a specific historical context. Dixon’s, and the nation’s larger attempts at defining the terms of Americanism became increasingly complicated during key national turning points, such as the Spanish-American War, the economic depressions of the 1890s, and political realignments at the turn-of-the-century. Analyzing Dixon’s works revealed the influence of the various forces that reshaped American identity, including race theories, scientific advancements, immigration, sectional reconciliation, imperialism, and religion. This work concludes that national identity construction is fluid, and that researchers must consider the importance of historical context in analyses of ideology and cultural trends. Thomas Dixon nationalism racism Reconstruction collective memory fiction popular culture film socialism Social Gospel
2	Beyond "white supremacy:" white reactions to The Clansman and The Birth of a nation in New South North Carolina and Georgia / 「白人至上主義」の向こう側 : ノースカロライナ州及びジョージア州における劇『クランズマン(1905)』と『國民の創生(1915)』に対する南部白人たちの評価 / ハクジンシジョウシュギノムコウガワ : ノースカロライナシュウオヨビジョージアシュウニオケルゲキクランズマン 1905 トコクミンノソウセイ 1915 ニタイスルナンブハクジンタチノヒョウカ / 白人至上主義の向こう側 : ノースカロライナ州及びジョージア州における劇クランズマン1905と國民の創生1915に対する南部白人たちの評価三島(原) 恵実子, 三島恵実子, 原恵実子, Emiko Mishima Hara 07 March 2019 (has links) 昨今「白人至上主義」という単語が多用されているが、その定義は不明確なままである。なぜならば、たとえ人々の「白人至上主義」への認識に多少の差異があったとしても、結果がほぼ変わらないという見解が一般的であるからである。しかしながら本研究は、「白人至上主義」とは時代、場所、そして歴史的・社会的背景によって変容するものであると定義付けた。またある特定の「白人至上主義」を強調した演劇『クランズマン』、後の映画『國民の創生』、に対する南部白人の評価を分析することで、その概念を最も享受したであろう彼らが如何にその言葉の意味を定義し、またどのように保持し習慣づけていったのかを解明しようと試みたものである。 / This dissertation hypothesizes that white supremacy is a flexible ideology that changes depending on the location, the period, and historical as well as social conditions in which it is promoted. By examining and comparing the differences between the responses of white North Carolinians and white Georgians towards The Clansman in 1905 and The Birth of a Nation in 1915, this dissertation argues that even though we assume that Radical white supremacy seems to have covered the entire South during the Jim Crow era, and images and stories of supposed “black beast rapists” obscured social differences within the white group, there were a range of variable and sometimes competing ideologies among white supremacists. / 博士(アメリカ研究) / Doctor of Philosophy in American Studies / 同志社大学 / Doshisha University 白人至上主義南部史ホワイトネス・スタディーズ國民の創生クランズマンジョージア州ノースカロライナ州アトランタ人種暴動ウィルミントン人種暴動クー・クラックス・クラン人種アフリカ系アメリカ人ジム・クロウ融合政治ポピュリズム White Supreamcy Southern History Whiteness Studies The Birth of a Nation The Clansman Thomas Dixon Jr. Gerogia North Carolina Atlanta Race Riot Wilmington Race Riot Ku Klux Klan Race African American Jim Crow Fusion Governement Populism

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A Generation of Race and Nationalism: Thomas Dixon, Jr. and American Identity