Savage Perils: Racial Frontiers and Nuclear Apocalypse in American Culture - Couverture souple

Sharp, Patrick B.

 
9780806143064: Savage Perils: Racial Frontiers and Nuclear Apocalypse in American Culture
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0806143061 ISBN 13 : 9780806143064
Editeur : University of Oklahoma Press, 2012

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l?auteur

Patrick B. Sharp is Assistant Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Liberal Studies at California State University, Los Angeles.

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Éditeur
University of Oklahoma Press
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0806143061
ISBN 13 
9780806143064
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
288
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780806138220: Savage Perils: Racial Frontiers and Nuclear Apocalypse in American Culture

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  080613822X ISBN 13 :  9780806138220
Editeur : University of Oklahoma Press, 2007
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