The Manifest Destiny of the Hypomanic Immigrant

PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 50 (22) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dean Keith Simonton
Keyword(s):  
Manifest Destiny

“The Greatest Nation on Earth”

2017 ◽  
Vol 86 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah K.M. Rodriguez
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Manifest Destiny ◽  
The United States ◽  
Northern Mexico ◽  
Texas Revolution

Between 1820 and 1827 approximately 1,800 U.S. citizens immigrated to northern Mexico as part of that country’s empresario program, in which the federal government granted foreigners land if they promised to develop and secure the region. Historians have long argued that these settlers, traditionally seen as the vanguard of Manifest Destiny, were attracted to Mexico for its cheap land and rich natural resources. Such interpretations have lent a tone of inevitability to events like the Texas Revolution. This article argues that the early members of these groups were attracted to Mexico for chiefly political reasons. At a time when the United States appeared to be turning away from its commitment to a weak federal government, Mexico was establishing itself on a constitution that insured local sovereignty and autonomy. Thus, the Texas Revolution was far from the result of two irreconcilable peoples and cultures. Moreover, the role that these settlers played in the United States’ acquisition of not just Texas, but ultimately half of Mexico’s national territory, was more paradoxical than inevitable.

Contre-Épreuve : Le Nord vu du Sud

1948 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 466-466
Author(s):  
Pierre Vilar
Keyword(s):  
Manifest Destiny ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Dollar Diplomacy

« Amérique du Sud », « Latino », « Hispano », « Ibéro-Amérique » : l'auteur emploïe ces mots et ne choisit pas. II. est difficile de croire qu'il se leurre, ayant voyagé, sur l'unité qu'ils recouvrent. C'est devant son sujet qu'il y a unité : devant le grand Etat du Nord qui a réussi, et qui, depuis un siècle, périodiquement, sous des formes diverses, laisse entendre qu'il parle en maître, où le continent non anglo-saxon réagit sourdement, subit un complexe commun. C'est du moins ce qui s'impose à l'esprit quand an lit cette curieuse introduction de soixante-quinze pages que M. ALBERTO SANCHEZ a appelée « prejuicio », soit, au choix, « préjugé » ou « pré jugement ». On y voit, de naïfs élans d'une admiration comme filiale, toujours devant un nom d'homme : Washington, Lincoln, Wilson, Roosevelt. Et de dures réalités, qui, elles, ne meurent pas, et prennent des noms de slogans : « Doctrine de Monroe », « Manifest Destiny », « Dollar diplomacy », ” Big Stick », « I took Panama ».

Orientalized Aztecs: Observations on the Americanization of Theatrical Dance

2019 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-50
Author(s):  
K. Mitchell Snow
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Manifest Destiny ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Policy ◽  
Ballets Russes

The opening decades of the twentieth century saw a passing fashion for “Aztec” dancing in the vaudeville theaters of the United States. Russian classical dancers Kosloff and Fokine tapped the orientalist currents of the Ballets Russes, adopting the Aztec as superficial signs of the American. Conversely, works by Shawn and film director Cecil B. DeMille, which served as points of reference for the Russians, represented a continuation of equally orientalist attitudes toward Mexico's past, forged during the realization of the United States’ policy of Manifest Destiny. The emergence of a cadre of trained dancers from Mexico, trained by students of Kosloff and Shawn, would bring a distinctively different perspective on the presentation of their heritage to the dance stage, one that was no longer based in the imagination of an expansionist America.

Deafness and Ethnic Identity: The Idea of a Deaf State and its Resonances with American Exceptionalism and Frontier Ideology

2019 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-90
Author(s):  
Marion Rana
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
American Exceptionalism ◽  
Manifest Destiny ◽  
The United States ◽  
Culture Studies ◽  
Deaf Identity ◽  
American Nation

Abstract This article focuses on the nineteenth century as a pivotal time for the development of a Deaf identity in the United States and examines the way John Jacob Flournoy’s idea of a “Deaf-Mute Commonwealth” touches upon core themes of American culture studies and history. In employing pivotal democratic ideas such as egalitarianism, liberty, and self-representation as well as elements of manifest destiny such as exceptionalism and the frontier ideology in order to raise support for a Deaf State, the creation and perpetuation of a Deaf identity bears strong similarities to the processes of American nation-building. This article will show how the endeavor to found a Deaf state was indicative of the separationist and secessionist movements in the United States at that time, and remains relevant to Deaf group identity today.

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