Miscegenation, ‘Melaleukation,’ and Public Reception
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Document Type
Book Chapter
Description
Chapter in Fear Itself: Enemies Real and Imagined in American Culture.
This collection contains twenty-seven new essays on American paranoia drawn from a range of disciplines, including American studies, film studies, history, literature, religious studies, and sociology. It's arranged by topic and largely in chronological order, explore manifestations of fear throughout the history of the United States. Approaching the topic from a variety of perspectives and methodologies, contributors to the collection explore theoretical constructions of fear, religious intolerance in early American culture, racial discrimination, literary expressions of paranoia, and Cold War anxieties, as well as phobias of the modern age and about the future. Together, these essays cover topics from nearly every period of U.S. history, offering a remarkable picture of the "nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror" that Roosevelt discerned as such a paralyzing threat on the eve of the Second World War, and which continues to haunt American culture even as we shape our perceptions of the future.
ISBN
9781557531155
Publication Date
1998
Publisher
Purdue University Press
City
West Lafayette
Disciplines
English Language and Literature
Recommended Citation
Raimon, Eve. "Miscegenation, ‘Melaleukation,’ and Public Reception,” Fear Itself: Enemies Real and Imagined in American Culture, Purdue University Press, 1999
