Recently added articles from The Journal of American Culture:
Editor's Introduction: Remembering a Year
Sep 01, 2009; ... Some people seem to be equipped with internal global positioning systems, enabling them to navigate from place to place and find things easily. I always get lost, and maps don't help. However, I do have a knack for time, possessing a sort of inner rhythm that makes me aware of dates, ...
Hate, Narrative, and Propaganda in The Turner Diaries
Sep 01, 2009; ... When Agent William Eppright of the FBI's evidence response team opened the sealed envelope found in Timothy McVeigh's yellow Mercury, he found among the clippings two highlighted passages from The Turner Diaries. This novel of Aryan revolution was written by Dr. William Pierce, leader of the ...
Shadows to Walk: Ursula Le Guin's Transgressions in Utopia
Sep 01, 2009; ... Feminist Utopian Fiction Feminist Utopian fiction is a theoretical response to patriarchy (Gearhart, Peel). In this sense, Utopian fiction is a critical response to an unsatisfactory present condition, with feminist Utopian fiction in particular addressing patriarchal problems in its ...
"A Nation Is Born": Thomas Dixon's Vision of White Nationhood and His Northern Supporters
Sep 01, 2009; ... Thomas Dixon, Jr. was a Southerner who wrote about the South in his influential book, The Clansman (1905), and in many other racist articles and novels. Yet I hold that the most ardent supporters of, and the most significant publicists for, this racist demagogue were in the ...
Flag Display Post-9/11: A Discourse on American Nationalism
Sep 01, 2009; ... Honorable Mention Winner of the 2008 William M. Jones Best Graduate Student Paper Award The emotional reaction to the September 11, 2001, attacks (hereafter referred to as 9/11) was varied. The anger, fears, and panic of Americans were caused by hijackers who managed to gain control of ...