Engendering the political for feminism: citizenship and American motherhood

Buck, Claire

doi:10.3366/para.1998.21.3.290

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“…105 This statement was not dissimilar in tone to one set forth by the pastor John Abbot, who, in 1833, averred "When our land is filled with virtuous and patriotic mothers, then will it be filled with virtuous and patriotic men." 106 At the same time, in conformity with the white masculinist line of thought, Asparēz rejected female exposure to the outside world for, as Joan Nagel explains, a woman stood as the "bearer of masculine honor." 107 It surmised that women by their very nature possessed more delicate and fragile physical and psychological peculiarities that rendered them unfit for the public sphere.…”

Section: The American Anglo-saxon Ethos and Hierarchical Racialismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ottoman Armenian Racialization in an American Space (1908–1914)

Torosian

2021

Mashriq&Mahjar

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At the dawn of the twentieth century, droves of former Ottoman subjects including Armenians and Syrians began to set foot in the United States searching for better opportunities. Many faced American white supremacist xenophobia and fell victim to racial discrimination. Various Ottoman diasporic communities responded to this harassment by expressing an increasing investment in the question of American whiteness and vigorously yearning to move beyond its fringes. Their voices, however, remain considerably muted; their stories are largely excluded from most American immigration narratives and conventional area-studies histories. This study endeavors to help reverse this scholarly tradition by examining the mindset of Ottoman Armenian expatriates as articulated in the editorials of Asbarēz, an Armenian-language weekly published in Fresno, California starting in 1908. As this micro-study shows, the migrants used the European racialist knowledge imported from the Ottoman empire to lay claim to whiteness and achieve integration in the US but also to affect change at home.

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Section: The American Anglo-saxon Ethos and Hierarchical Racialismmentioning

confidence: 99%