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Don Rothwein wrote a new blog post Civilization-Barbarian-Savage: Categorization and Othering in the group American Studies: 5 years, 11 months ago
Lewis Henry Morgan, a nineteenth century anthropologist, is credited with bringing the idea of the “ladder of cultural evolution” to the public. His theory, accepted as scientific at the time, suggested that the […]
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Don Rothwein wrote a new blog post “Gloriously Catastrophic Futures” in the group American Studies: 5 years, 11 months ago
The English historian Horace Walpole once declared, “The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic.” In response, Joseph Roach includes in Cities of the Dead: Circum-Atlantic Performance the […]
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Don Rothwein edited the blog post New Orleans Bounce: A Circum-Atlantic Performance in the group American Studies: 5 years, 11 months ago
New Orleans is traditionally considered the home of the genre of bounce music. The city is designated as both the genre’s origin point and its continuing center. To some degree, this is true. Artists considered at the foundation of bounce music all hail from New Orleans. Bounce music maintains its prominence in the region through concerts and f…
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Don Rothwein edited the blog post “Go Hurricanes!” in the group American Studies: 5 years, 11 months ago
In recent news, one can find a host of sports team names challenged by public outcry. Teams ranging from the Washington Redskins to the Ithaca Bombers to the Holy Cross Knights have had tough questions to answer about their selected nicknames and mascots. Yet for the Carolina Hurricanes of the NHL, this scrutiny has been virtually non-existent…
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Don Rothwein wrote a new blog post The Two Angolas in the group American Studies: 5 years, 12 months ago
“The Lousiana State Penitentiary, known as Angola, is situated on the lush land of a plantation of that name founded by a slave trader.” This detail can be found in the chapter of Solnit and Snedeker’s Unfat […]
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Don Rothwein wrote a new blog post Getting the Full Picture in the group American Studies: 6 years ago
In the credit sequence of “When the Levees Broke,” there is a notable uniformity in presentation. Each of the film’s interviewees, with his or her face contained within a picture frame, looks at the camera and t […]
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Don Rothwein wrote a new blog post Stages as Performers in the group American Studies: 6 years ago
“All the world’s a stage,” so begins the well-known monologue from Shakespeare’s As You Like It. The melancholy Jacques who speaks the line goes on to describe life as a performance. Importantly he begins with a […]
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Don Rothwein edited the blog post “The Dead Stay Dead” in the group American Studies: 6 years, 1 month ago
In his book Cities of the Dead: Circum-Atlantic Performance, Joseph Roach titles a chapter “Echoes in the Bone.” Roach himself acknowledges the title as a nod to a play by Jamaican playwright Dennis Scott entitled An Echo in the Bone. The allusion is fitting for the chapter in Roach’s book that deals primarily with remembering, forgetting, and t…[Read more]
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Don Rothwein edited the blog post Autochthony and the Imagined Community in the group American Studies: 6 years, 1 month ago
Our class discussion about allochthony and autochthony reminded me of something we talked about in the Civil War Historical Novel class I took last semester with Dr. Rutkowski. In the class, we focused heavily on the divide between Union and Confederate, North and South. The border that separated the two and divided America was a contrived…[Read more]
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Don Rothwein joined the group American Studies 6 years, 2 months ago
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Don Rothwein became a registered member 6 years, 2 months ago