A moment of clarity? The American media and Hurricane Katrina

Article Abstract:

As stories and photos from Hurricane Katrina began to accumulate in the first week after, the American media decided that race and class could become the focal points of stories. In a moment of clarity, the media saw the stark truth of devastation beneath the narratives and myths that make daily news coverage, and incorrect stories were written due to lack of communication.

Public affairs, Social aspects, Environmental aspects, Religious aspects, Media coverage, Hurricanes, Disaster victims, Hurricane Katrina, 2005

---

Blood-lines That Waver South: hybridity, the "south," and American bodies

Article Abstract:

The prevalence of racialized discourses of modernity and nationalism in the Americans are discussed. For mixed-race American artists, there were significant differences between the way they imagined their connection to the space of the primitive and those legions of European artists.

International Affairs, Nationalism, Evaluation

---

American nationalism and the defense of poetry

Article Abstract:

After acquiring political independence United States felt the need for creation of cultural and intellectual interdependence, which was a part of literary emancipation. Many authors major and minor tried to promote the establishment of national literature.

Cultural movements, American literary renaissance

Similar abstracts:

• Abstracts: A Poetics of an outsider. The southern poet as expatriate. On being a southern poet
• Abstracts: Sex in the Inner City: The fidelity between sex and politics in Siam. The quest for "siwilai": a geographical discourse of civilizational thinking in the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Siam
• Abstracts: Towards a decolonization of scholarship in Africa and a vision for the 1990s and beyond. Human rights and minorities in Africa: a theoretical and conceptual overview
• Abstracts: Presidents, precedents and the use of military force. American political culture and the end of the Cold War. A few words on Christopher Thorne's pursuit of American political culture
• Abstracts: There's something about Holly. Black power meets gray flannel. Of Black, White and Gray

This website is not affiliated with document authors or copyright owners. This page is provided for informational purposes only. Unintentional errors are possible.