Richard Wightman Fox
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Richard Wightman Fox is a professor of history at the University of Southern California and the author of Jesus in America and Trials of Intimacy, among other books. He lives in Venice, California.
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The Culture of Consumption: Critical Essays in American History 1880-1980 (1983) — Herausgeber — 51 Exemplare
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Fox is also very attentive to the differences in memory between white Americans and Black Americans across history, which is awesome! It also made me reflect a lot on the regional differences he doesn't quite touch on--he divides the country between "north" and "south," which makes some sense, but doesn't really get into the "west" which I think is super interesting, and even within those, there's a radically different sense? Like as someone who used to live in the Land of Lincoln and now lives about an hour and a half from Mankato (site of the largest mass execution conducted in the US, where 38 Dakota men were killed on orders from Lincoln himself) there is an entirely different sense about Lincoln there and here. And while that's not necessarily Fox's fault--he acknowledges in his Notes on Sources that he couldn't find the archival material to address other racialized groups in the US--it does leave some interesting gaps.
Nonetheless, I really think this book is valuable, particularly for Fox's body analytic--even if Lincoln/dead white dudes aren't your thing, if you're interested in thinking about embodiment in history, this could be a really really valuable book for you!… (mehr)