Ruthless Democracy
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Abolitionism
African Americans
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American Colonization Society
American imperialism
Americans
Anglo
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Benedict Anderson
Benito Cereno
Black Codes (United States)
Black nationalism
Black people
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Census
Cherokee
Citizenship
Citizenship of the United States
Clotel
Colonization
Compromise of 1850
Cultural conflict
Cultural diversity
Desecration
Dialogic
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Exclusion
F. O. Matthiessen
Free negro
Fugitive slave laws
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Henry Bibb
Henry David Thoreau
Herman Melville
His Family
Hybridity
Immigration
Imperialism
Indian removal
Indian Removal Act
Indian Territory
John C. Calhoun
Liberia
Literature
Manifest destiny
Mexicans
Miscegenation
Moby-Dick
Moluntha
Monoculturalism
Mr.
Mulatto
Multiculturalism
Narrative
National identity
Native Americans in the United States
Nativism (politics)
Oxford University Press
Politics
Prejudice
Racism
Rhetoric
Slavery
Suffrage
Tax
The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta
The Other Hand
The President's Daughter (1928 book)
United States
White people
White supremacy
William Lloyd Garrison
William Wells Brown
Product details
- ISBN 9780691007304
- Weight: 312g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 28 May 2000
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In Ruthless Democracy, Timothy Powell reimagines the canonical origins of "American" identity by juxtaposing authors such as Hawthorne, Melville, and Thoreau with Native American, African American, and women authors. Taking his title from Melville, Powell identifies an unresolvable conflict between America's multicultural history and its violent will to monoculturalism. Powell challenges existing perceptions of the American Renaissance--the period at the heart of the American canon and its evolutions--by expanding the parameters of American identity. Drawing on the critical traditions of cultural studies and new historicism, Powell invents a new critical paradigm called "historical multiculturalism." Moving beyond the polarizing rhetoric of the culture wars, Powell grounds his multicultural conception of American identity in careful historical analysis. Ruthless Democracy extends the cultural and geographical boundaries of the American Renaissance beyond the northeast to Indian Territory, Alta California, and the transnational sphere that Powell calls the American Diaspora.
Arguing for the inclusion of new works, Powell envisions the canon of the American Renaissance as a fluid dialogue of disparate cultural voices.
Timothy B. Powell is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Georgia. He is the editor of Beyond the Binary: Reconstructing Cultural Identity in a Multicultural Context.
