LEADER 04996nam 2200817 a 450 001 9910822541203321 005 20240516133528.0 010 $a1-280-49251-1 010 $a9786613587749 010 $a0-8135-5331-8 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813553313 035 $a(CKB)2670000000160996 035 $a(OCoLC)781542951 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10540540 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000743220 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11468066 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000743220 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10780410 035 $a(PQKB)10951892 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC871834 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse17498 035 $a(DE-B1597)530182 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813553313 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL871834 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10540540 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL358774 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000160996 100 $a20110728d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHonor bound$b[electronic resource] $erace and shame in America /$fDavid Leverenz 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew Brunswick, N.J. $cRutgers University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (292 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8135-5269-9 311 $a0-8135-5270-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- $tINTRODUCTION -- $tCHAPTER 1. FEAR,HONOR, AND RACIAL SHAMING -- $tCHAPTER 2. HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE A PROBLEM? -- $tCHAPTER 3. HONOR BOUND -- $tCHAPTER 4. FOUR NOVELS -- $tCHAPTER 5. TWO WARS -- $tCHAPTER 6. THE 2008 CAMPAIGN -- $tCHAPTER 7. TO THE TEA PARTY-AND BEYOND? -- $tNOTES -- $tINDEX -- $tABOUT THE AUTHOR 330 $aAs Bill Clinton said in his second inaugural address, ?The divide of race has been America?s constant curse.? In Honor 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 people?s 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 of Hardball?in 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 race?Leverenz 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 as The Scarlet Letter and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and in the U.S. wars against the Barbary pirates from 1783 to 1815 and the Iraqi insurgents from 2003 to the present. John McCain?s Faith of My Fathers is used to frame the 2008 presidential campaign as white honor?s last national stand. Honor Bound concludes 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 Wilson?s ?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. 606 $aRacism$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aNational characteristics, American$xHistory 606 $aPolitical culture$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aShame$zUnited States 606 $aHonor$zUnited States 606 $aSocial values$zUnited States 606 $aRace in literature 606 $aRace relations in literature 606 $aLiterature and society$zUnited States$xHistory 607 $aUnited States$xRace relations$xHistory 615 0$aRacism$xHistory. 615 0$aNational characteristics, American$xHistory. 615 0$aPolitical culture$xHistory. 615 0$aShame 615 0$aHonor 615 0$aSocial values 615 0$aRace in literature. 615 0$aRace relations in literature. 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory. 676 $a305.800973 700 $aLeverenz$b David$01720410 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910822541203321 996 $aHonor bound$94119031 997 $aUNINA