A Dream of the Future
Race, Empire, and Modernity at the Atlanta and Nashville World's Fairs
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2018
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-027472-6 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-027472-6 (ISBN)
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The Atlanta and Nashville world's fairs provided a local, national, and global stage for Southerners to prove how the South had embraced a rapidly changing world. As Nathan Cardon explores in A Dream of the Future, Southerners presented themselves as modern and imperial citizens ready to spread the South's culture and racial politics across the globe.
As an age of empire and industry dawned in the wake of American Civil War, Southerners grappled with what it meant to be modern. The fair expositions popular at this time allowed Southerners to explore this changing world on their own terms. On a local, national, and global stage, African Americans, New South boosters, New Women, and Civil War soldiers presented their dreams of the future to prove to the world how rapidly the South had embraced and, in the words of Henry Grady in 1890, built "from pitiful resources a great and expanding empire."
Nowhere was this more apparent than at the Atlanta and Nashville world's fairs held at the close of the nineteenth century. Here, Southerners presented themselves as modern and imperial citizens ready to spread the South's culture and racial politics across the globe. Unlike the World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago in 1893, the Southern expositions also gave African Americans an opportunity to present their own vision of modernity within the fairs' "Negro Buildings." At the fairs, southern African Americans defined themselves as both a separate race and a modern people, as "New Negroes." In Dream of the Future, Cardon explores these assertions of Southern identity and culture, critically placing them within the wider context of imperialism and industrialization.
As an age of empire and industry dawned in the wake of American Civil War, Southerners grappled with what it meant to be modern. The fair expositions popular at this time allowed Southerners to explore this changing world on their own terms. On a local, national, and global stage, African Americans, New South boosters, New Women, and Civil War soldiers presented their dreams of the future to prove to the world how rapidly the South had embraced and, in the words of Henry Grady in 1890, built "from pitiful resources a great and expanding empire."
Nowhere was this more apparent than at the Atlanta and Nashville world's fairs held at the close of the nineteenth century. Here, Southerners presented themselves as modern and imperial citizens ready to spread the South's culture and racial politics across the globe. Unlike the World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago in 1893, the Southern expositions also gave African Americans an opportunity to present their own vision of modernity within the fairs' "Negro Buildings." At the fairs, southern African Americans defined themselves as both a separate race and a modern people, as "New Negroes." In Dream of the Future, Cardon explores these assertions of Southern identity and culture, critically placing them within the wider context of imperialism and industrialization.
Nathan Cardon is Lecturer in United States History at the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, and afterwards held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Historical and Cultural Studies, University of Toronto Scarborough.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: A New South Vision
Chapter 2: The Negro Buildings
Chapter 3: New Women, New South
Chapter 4: Exhibiting a New South Empire
Conclusion: The 1907 Jamestown Ter-Centennial: A Dream or Nightmare of the Future?
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 21.09.2018 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 10 halftones |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 244 x 155 mm |
| Gewicht | 399 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-027472-7 / 0190274727 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-027472-6 / 9780190274726 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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