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A Dream of the Future

Race, Empire, and Modernity at the Atlanta and Nashville World's Fairs

Nathan (Lecturer in United States History, Co-Director of American and Canadian Studies, University of Birmingham) Cardon

A Dream of the Future

A Dream of the Future

Race, Empire, and Modernity at the Atlanta and Nashville World's Fairs

A Dream of the Future

 

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.


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Beschrijving A Dream of the Future

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.


ISBN
9780190274726
Pagina's
192
Verschenen
NUR
680
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Hardback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
OUP USA

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