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Honor bound : race and shame in America, David Leverenz

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Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
1 online resource
Contents
  • Fear and Honor
  • Shaming and Civil Rights
  • Honor-Shame Societies
  • Tocqueville on American Honor
  • When Honor Turned White
  • "The Souls of White Folk"
  • Toward Freedom?
  • The Scarlet Letter
  • Honor and Shaming from Huck to Humbert
  • Challenging White Honor
  • Introduction
  • Humiliation and American Wars
  • The Barbary Pirates, 1783-1815
  • The Clash of Civilizations
  • The Second Iraq War, 2003-?
  • John McCain's Lineage
  • The 2008 Presidential Campaign
  • Honor Unbound
  • The Tea Party
  • "You Lie!"
  • The Drumbeat of Public Shaming
  • Overview
  • The Gates Arrest
  • Hardball versus Eric Holder
  • Fear, Honor, and Fictions of Race
  • Racial Shaming
  • Slavery Still Matters
  • How White Shaming Worked
  • Two Explanations
Isbn
9780813552699
Instance
Label
Honor bound : race and shame in America
Title
Honor bound
Title remainder
race and shame in America
Statement of responsibility
David Leverenz
Title variation
Race and shame in America
Creator
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
Annotation
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YDXCP
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Leverenz, David
Dewey number
305.800973
Index
index present
LC call number
E184.A1
LC item number
L466 2012
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
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  • United States
  • Racism
  • National characteristics, American
  • Political culture
  • Shame
  • Honor
  • Social values
  • Race in literature
  • Race relations in literature
  • Literature and society
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE
  • Honor
  • Literature and society
  • National characteristics, American
  • Political culture
  • Race in literature
  • Race relations
  • Race relations in literature
  • Racism
  • Shame
  • Social values
  • United States
Summary expansion
As Bill Clinton said in his second inaugural address, The divide of race has been Americas constant curse. InHonor Bound, David Leverenz explores the past to the present of that divide. He argues that in the United States, the rise and decline of white peoples racial shaming reflect the rise and decline of white honor. White skin and black skin are fictions of honor and shame. Americans have lived those fictions for over four hundred years. To make his argument, Leverenz casts an unusually wide net, from ancient and modern cultures of honor to social, political, and military history to American literature and popular culture. He highlights the convergence of whiteness and honor in the United States from the antebellum period to the present. The Civil War, the civil rights movement, and the election of Barack Obama represent racial progress; the Tea Party movement represents the latest recoil. From exploring African American narratives to examining a 2009 episode ofHardballin which two white commentators restore their honor by mocking U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder after he called Americans cowards for not talking more about raceLeverenz illustrates how white honor has prompted racial shaming and humiliation. The United States became a nation-state in which light-skinned people declared themselves white. The fear masked by white honor surfaces in such classics of American literature asThe Scarlet LetterandAdventures of Huckleberry Finnand in the U.S. wars against the Barbary pirates from 1783 to 1815 and the Iraqi insurgents from 2003 to the present. John McCainsFaith of My Fathersis used to frame the 2008 presidential campaign as white honors last national stand. Honor Boundconcludes by probing the endless attempts in 2009 and 2010 to preserve white honor through racial shaming, from the birthers and Tea Party protests to Joe Wilsons You lie! in Congress and the arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr. at the front door of his own home. Leverenz is optimistic that, in the twenty-first century, racial shaming is itself becoming shameful
Label
Honor bound : race and shame in America, David Leverenz
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Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Fear and Honor
  • Shaming and Civil Rights
  • Honor-Shame Societies
  • Tocqueville on American Honor
  • When Honor Turned White
  • "The Souls of White Folk"
  • Toward Freedom?
  • The Scarlet Letter
  • Honor and Shaming from Huck to Humbert
  • Challenging White Honor
  • Introduction
  • Humiliation and American Wars
  • The Barbary Pirates, 1783-1815
  • The Clash of Civilizations
  • The Second Iraq War, 2003-?
  • John McCain's Lineage
  • The 2008 Presidential Campaign
  • Honor Unbound
  • The Tea Party
  • "You Lie!"
  • The Drumbeat of Public Shaming
  • Overview
  • The Gates Arrest
  • Hardball versus Eric Holder
  • Fear, Honor, and Fictions of Race
  • Racial Shaming
  • Slavery Still Matters
  • How White Shaming Worked
  • Two Explanations
Control code
781542951
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780813552699
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other control number
9780813552699
http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
22573/ctt4jv52x
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)781542951
Label
Honor bound : race and shame in America, David Leverenz
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Fear and Honor
  • Shaming and Civil Rights
  • Honor-Shame Societies
  • Tocqueville on American Honor
  • When Honor Turned White
  • "The Souls of White Folk"
  • Toward Freedom?
  • The Scarlet Letter
  • Honor and Shaming from Huck to Humbert
  • Challenging White Honor
  • Introduction
  • Humiliation and American Wars
  • The Barbary Pirates, 1783-1815
  • The Clash of Civilizations
  • The Second Iraq War, 2003-?
  • John McCain's Lineage
  • The 2008 Presidential Campaign
  • Honor Unbound
  • The Tea Party
  • "You Lie!"
  • The Drumbeat of Public Shaming
  • Overview
  • The Gates Arrest
  • Hardball versus Eric Holder
  • Fear, Honor, and Fictions of Race
  • Racial Shaming
  • Slavery Still Matters
  • How White Shaming Worked
  • Two Explanations
Control code
781542951
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780813552699
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other control number
9780813552699
http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
22573/ctt4jv52x
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)781542951

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