AMCULT 100 Lecture Notes - Burning Of Washington
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American culture 201 (1865 to present): imagining community, nationalism and the problems of we . U of m: 1935, first american studies department. Myth and symbol school:1950s, social history:1960s, cultural history:1970s, ethnic studies:1980s, Four themes: patriotism and war, racial hierarchies, gender and the idea of separate spheres as a solution to the moral problems of industrial capitalism, natural roots. The nation is secular cognitive terrain constructed by willfully misremembered pasts . Benedict anderson: top 20% of population thinking about social organizations and about people in a bigger community. 1750s-60s, people had profound shared sense of mission stories about past create investment for future: often these stories don"t 100% relate to what actually happened, they pick the version of the past that works for the future. War, music and constructions of the nation before civil war. An analysis of hunters of kentucky demonstrates the process through which the nation is imagined and constructed by cultural practices of wistfully misremembering the past.