Lincoln’s “Race of Life” Is Not the American Dream of Equal Opportunity

Michael J. Illuzzi

doi:10.1086/677732

Lincoln’s “Race of Life” Is Not the American Dream of Equal Opportunity

American Political Thought ◽

10.1086/677732 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 228-253

Author(s):

Michael J. Illuzzi

Keyword(s):

American Dream ◽

Equal Opportunity ◽

Race Of Life

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American Dream Deferred

Pacific Historical Review ◽

10.1525/phr.2021.90.2.233 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 90 (2) ◽

pp. 233-260

Author(s):

P. James Paligutan

Keyword(s):

African Americans ◽

Civil Rights ◽

American Dream ◽

Equal Opportunity ◽

Coast Guard ◽

Traditional Use ◽

Civil Rights Era ◽

Migratory Movement ◽

Naval Officers ◽

The U.S

This article examines a unique migratory movement of Filipinos to America: Filipino nationals recruited by the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard between 1952 and 1970. Such recruits were seen as a solution to a mounting labor problem stemming from the Navy’s traditional use of minorities to fulfill duties as servants for naval officers. With African Americans' demands for equal opportunity reaching a crescendo during the Civil Rights era, the U.S. Navy looked to its former colony to replenish its supply of dark-skinned servants. Despite expectations of docility, however, such Filipino sailors were able to forge a culture of resistance manifested through non-confrontational acts of defiance, protest through official channels, and labor stoppage. Such actions ultimately resulted in the reversal of naval policy that relegated Filipinos to servile labor.

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The American Dream Revisited: A Corpus-Driven Study

International Journal of English Linguistics ◽

10.5539/ijel.v7n3p182 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 7 (3) ◽

pp. 182

Author(s):

Zhide Hou

Keyword(s):

National Identity ◽

Discourse Analysis ◽

American Dream ◽

Equal Opportunity ◽

Dominant Ideology ◽

Dominant Ideologies ◽

American National Identity ◽

Mind Set ◽

Media Discourses ◽

Linguistic Approach

As a dominant ideology throughout America, the American Dream rests on the idea that with hard work and personal determination anyone, regardless of background, has equal opportunity to achieve his or her aspirations. Given the importance of the American Dream to American national identity, and the enormity of it in shaping dominant ideologies, this study explores this deeply-held belief and particular mind-set in media discourses related to the American Dream. Modeled on the approach of corpus-driven discourse analysis, and combining the framework of a sociocultual linguistic approach to identity and interaction, the article reports on a corpus-driven sociocultural discourse study which aims to discover, through the analysis of frequent lexical and semantic patterns, discursive characteristics of media discourses related to the American dream, and whether there are any changes of the American dream to American national identity and ideologies which might be developed in time and space.

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