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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 Hardballâin which two white commentators restore their honor by mocking U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder after he called Americans âcowardsâ for not talking more about raceâLeverenz 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 McCainâs Faith of My Fathers is used to frame the 2008 presidential campaign as white honorâs last national stand.
Honor Bound concludes by probing the endless attempts in 2009 and 2010 to preserve white honor through racial shaming, from the âbirthersâ and Tea Party protests to Joe Wilsonâs âYou lie!â 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.
About: As Bill Clinton said in his second inaugural address, âThe divide of race has been Americaâs constant curse.
About: As Bill Clinton said in his second inaugural address, âThe divide of race has been Americaâs constant curse.
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