Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Patrick B. Sharp

Editorial

University of Oklahoma Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

286

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

20.8x14.7x2 cm

Peso

0.39 kg.

ISBN

0806143061

ISBN13

9780806143064

Categorías

Estados unidos de américa
Discriminación social y desigualdad
Grupos étnicos y estudios multiculturales
Historia de américa

savage perils (en Inglés)

Patrick B. Sharp (Autor) · University of Oklahoma Press · Tapa Blanda

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Revisiting the racial origins of the conflict between "civilization" and "savagery" in twentieth-century America The atomic age brought the Bomb and spawned stories of nuclear apocalypse to remind us of impending doom. As Patrick Sharp reveals, those stories had their origins well before Hiroshima, reaching back to Charles Darwin and America's frontier. In Savage Perils, Sharp examines the racial underpinnings of American culture, from the early industrial age to the Cold War. He explores the influence of Darwinism, frontier nostalgia, and literary modernism on the history and representations of nuclear weaponry. Taking into account such factors as anthropological race theory and Asian immigration, he charts the origins of a worldview that continues to shape our culture and politics. Sharp dissects Darwin's arguments regarding the struggle between "civilization" and "savagery," theories that fueled future-war stories ending in Anglo dominance in Britain and influenced Turnerian visions of the frontier in America. Citing George W. Bush's "Axis of Evil," Sharp argues that many Americans still believe in the racially charged opposition between civilization and savagery, and consider the possibility of nonwhite "savages" gaining control of technology the biggest threat in the "war on terror." His insightful book shows us that this conflict is but the latest installment in an ongoing saga that has been at the heart of American identity from the beginning-and that understanding it is essential if we are to eradicate racist mythologies from American life. Patrick B. Sharp is Assistant Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Liberal Studies at California State University, Los Angeles.