Open Educational Resources: American Ideals, Global Questions by Steven Weiland

Get full text

Brothers must stand together. “Americanism” during the Paraguayan War in Argentina (1865-1870) by María Victoria Baratta

“…In contrast to the popular revisionist approach, we find that the “American” ideal appears in a weak way during the conflict. …”
Get full text

Failed Cultural Hybridity and Takeaways for the Euro-Noir in the American-Romanian Series Comrade Detective by Caius Dobrescu

“…Hybridity is also absent from the series: the presumable networks of connexions activated by a Romanian versus an American ideal viewer are completely non-interfering. …”
Get full text

The University of the future – or rather: The University as it should be by Martin Dege

“…As this paper illustrates, the German educational systems attempt to create new educational structures based on an Anglo American ideal is highly problematic, and, in fact, rather a pretext for an economization that is focussed on creating comparable education, ratable universities, and sellable research outcomes. …”
Get full text

O Brasil e o Congresso Anfictiônico do Panamá by José Carlos Brandi Aleixo

“…According to the author, Brazilians played an important role in fostering the Pan-American ideal, even though they do not participate in the 1826 Congress. …”
Get full text

'A city upon a hill’: The Wire and its distillation of the United States polity by Wheeler, Mark

“…The Home Box Office's series The Wire (2002–2008) provides an informed critique of the decline of the democratic American ideal of the ‘city upon a hill’. From its inception as a police procedural, it expanded its interests across the dystopian city of Baltimore to consider the linkage between drug crimes, policing, the collapse of blue-collar life, social deprivation, institutional compromise, the public school system, media compliance and political self-interest. …”
Get full text

Spreading the wealth: a step by step guide to the Swedish socialist model; what it is, what it does, and why America desperately needs it by Joseph Ronald Signore

“…In the end, two points become clear; one, that democratic socialism works, and two, that democratic socialism has been an American ideal all along.…”
Get full text

La teatralità del campus universitario. Lezioni americane / The Theatricality of the University Campus. American Lessons by Paolo Strina

“…According to the American ideal, nowadays the campus represents a completed city part that wishes to impress the spectator – whether student, city inhabitant or visitor – by heightening emotional effects through its capacity to introject the complex functional programme of the entire urban settlement, and to communicate by means of thespian figures.…”
Get full text

Reorienting "Lost" time : reading Godey's Lady's Book in the Civil War by Hand, Charlotte

“…Ordered by male time, the temporal experience of antebellum women (which I term “domestic time”) socialised them according to the American ideal of the “true woman.” This male-oriented domestic time was inevitably disrupted during the Civil War when many men marched off to battle. …”
Get full text

An intimate dialog between race and gender at Women’s Suffrage Centennial by Mimi Yang

“…The article argues that the women’s suffrage movement was indeed a gigantic step towards the American ideal of gender equality but it fell short of racial equality. …”
Get full text

New towns from gowns : urban form and placemaking at college campuses by Stout, Amanda C. (Amanda Caroline)

Get full text

Keberanian menggapai harapan : gagasan meraih kembali impian Amerika / by 318275 Obama, Barack

Ministers on the Lecture Circuit: Education, Entertainment and Religion in Early 20th Century America by Lisa Gonzalez

“…In their role as lecturers in multiple educational and civic venues, ministers functioned as experts on the Bible, as well as supporting American ideals that were loosely connected to Protestant Christianity. …”
Get full text

“New York and yet not New York”: Reading the Region in Contemporary Brooklyn Fictions by James Peacock

“…It argues that Brooklyn is frequently defined in opposition to Manhattan: the former being viewed as the epitome of American ideals of community-in-diversity, the latter as homogenizing, globalizing and obsessed with newness. …”
Get full text

La presencia portuguesa en Revista de las Españas (1926-1936) by Antonio Sáez Delgado

“…However, the presence of Portuguese collaborators is notable, and its projection runs parallel to that of La Gaceta Literaria, with which it shares Ibero-American ideals. In this context, the presence of the writer Ernesto Giménez Caballero is fundamental in both projects, since in addition to directing La Gaceta Literaria he coordinated the section «Revista Literaria Ibérica» in Revista de las Españas. …”
Get full text

Transatlantic Exile and Othering in Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence by Tia Byer

“…I argue that Ellen’s forceful and brutal eradication from New York society, although intended to reinstate the near compromised dignity of American ideals and future bloodlines, instead derives from self-conscious misjudgement concerning national insularity.…”
Get full text

Proposition 187 and the Travel Ban: Addressing Economy, Security, and White Christian Nationalism in U.S. Christian Communities by Laura E. Alexander

“…This ideology intersects with public debate over immigration, posing a threat both to immigrants’ well-being and to American ideals of democracy. This essay considers how religious leaders in primarily white Christian communities addressed two historical moments related to immigration in the U.S.: Proposition 187 in California, and the “travel ban” instituted by the Trump administration in 2017. …”
Get full text

Cultural priming effect in dyadic negotiation. by Fu, Ho Ying.

“…It is proposed that Singaporean Chinese when primed into the American culture, will tend to exhibit an orientation towards American ideals and values like competing and individualism; likewise, Singaporean Chinese when primed into the Chinese culture, will tend to exhibit an orientation towards Chinese ideals and values like avoiding and collectivism. …”
Get full text

Teaching about Human Rights: Female Genital Mutilation in America by James R Moore

“…Moreover, these practices, such as female genital mutilation (FGM), are incompatible with American ideals of equality, social justice, and human rights. …”
Get full text

Language, gender, and patriarchy in Mulan: a diachronic analysis of a Disney Princess movie by Pimpatchanok Manaworapong, Neil Evan Jon Anthony Bowen

“…However, Hollywood movies are no longer confined to the influence of American ideals, as media companies now have to consider the growing influence of markets such as China. …”
Get full text