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Jonathan Scott.
Socialist Joy in the Writing of Langston Hughes.
2006
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American Fascism
A Special Issue of Socialism and Democracy—
Call
for Papers
Many critics of the Bush administration use the term
fascist in describing the regime’s policies and the
agenda of its rightwing Christian social base. While
fascist is useful as a general description of the
ideology of the American Right, there are significant
differences between the American kind and the European.
This special issue of Socialism and Democracy asks the
question: Where did American fascism come from? If not
Europe, what American cultural traditions and social
formations have prepared the way for fascist rule in
U.S. society? What is the hallmark of American fascism?
Can it be said that American fascism is older than
European fascism? We are open to any critique of fascism
in the U.S., but are especially interested in articles
on the following subjects:
The interwar Hegelian Marxist theory of
fascism
A brief history of European fascism
Affinities between U.S. white supremacism
and European fascism
The African American tradition’s early
critique of fascism
The Anatomy of Babbitt, American little man
The Antifeminism of the Evangelicals: the
fascist rhetoric of Christian fundamentalism
The rise of the Right in the age of
capitalist decline
American sports and the fascist personality
American Gangster: the fascist as a social
type
The Civil Rights Movement and the ”white
backlash”
The Clinton agenda: fascism in liberal drag?
New Ghosts: from Communism to Islam
Resisting American fascism |
Articles can be
anywhere between 5,000 and 10,000 words. Send your
manuscript as an email attachment, in Word doc format,
to Jonathan Scott at
jonascott15@aol.com
. Deadline for submissions is Jan. 15, 2008.
The American
Fascist and Nazi parties were quite active and
organized, and held huge rallies in large USA cities in
the 1930s. An adult student in one of my classes at St.
Peter's College noted that her father, an Italian emigre,
was a member of the Fascist Party of America in the
1930s. I would like to see some papers about expatriate
Italian Fascisti.
Also, the FBI
arrested German Americans who belonged to the American
Nazi Party in the 1940s. That would be another fertile
area of studious exploration. The FBI agents tailed
German Americans during WW 1 and 2 whether they were
Nazis or not, my German friends in Wisconsin told me in
the 1970s. German American professors took out full page
ads in the NY Times to protest their patriotism against
the widespread prejudice against all Germans.
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