Sam Hitchmough
Biographic Data
| ID | 1375658 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sam Hitchmough |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sam |
| FAMILY NAME | Hitchmough |
| SIGNATURE | HITCHMOUGH S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bristol |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Rethinking the Red Power Movement
Rethinking the Red Power Movement examines Red Power ideology with a focus on its many forms of solidarity with African Americans, the role of gender in shaping the movement, its international expansion, and its current meaning in contemporary activism. The Red Power Movement is often considered the apex of Indigenous activism in the twentieth century. While diverse, the movement is typically told through four actions. Beginning with the occupati…
The Origins and Contexts of the Movement
Simulated authenticity: Storytelling and mythic space on the hyper-frontier in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West and Westworld
This article explores how the mythic, nineteenth-century American frontier is authenticated by postmodern forms of storytelling. The study examines accounts of William Cody’s extensive 1902–1903 Buffalo Bill’ s Wild West tours in the United Kingdom and the futuristic television series, HBO’s Westworld (2016–), which is set in an android-hosted theme park. Comparing the semiotics of the two examples indicates how over a century apart, the authenti…
Performative Protest and the Lost Contours of Red Power Activism
The historical mapping of the Red Power movement is dominated by a handful of monumental events, and the intervening Native activism is often overshadowed by these summits. This article seeks to reveal the lost contours of the landscape and to rethink the ‘classic’ Red Power narrative. It argues that the lesser-known events and activism had a distinctively performative element to them that, in turn, was comprised of two strands: the first was a c…
Authenticity in North America: Place, Tourism, Heritage, Culture and the Popular Imagination
The chapter examines how New York (and Manhattan specifically) has been viewed in recent popular cultural artefacts as the epitome of America (and certainly in the post-9/11 era) as well as a heterotopic conceptional and cultural space. It identifies the paradoxical fantasy of New York through a range of media; film crossovers of comic books, literature, documentary film and popular music. As well as exploring other themes (the city as utopia/dys…
Smooth’ and ‘Alternative’ Patriotisms: Chicago and the decline of a civil rights strategy
At the Riverside Church in New York, April 1967, Martin Luther King, Jr. did not just speak out against the war in Vietnam, he was in many ways defending one of the underlying ideological strategies of the entire civil rights movement. He urged people to avoid confusing dissent with disloyalty, stressed that he voiced his opinion to save the soul of America, and cautioned against what he called “smooth patriotism”. This article forwards and explo…
It’s not your country any more’. Contested national narratives and the Columbus Day parade protests in Denver
This article explores long-standing American Indian opposition to Columbus Day in Denver. In 2007, Glenn Morris, a leading activist from the American Indian Movement of Colorado, stated that the rejection of the racist philosophy behind Columbus Day ‘may be the most important issue facing Indian country today’. Activism aimed at Columbus Day and the parades is a struggle over identity and historical memory, and Denver forms a distinctive, complex…
Missions of Patriotism: Joseph H. Jackson and Martin Luther King
I.Introduction Joseph H. Jackson has been treated very negatively in history-writing. Most texts refer to him in passing as the “brilliantly conservative”, “autocratic” president of the National Baptist Convention, a figure opposed to the Civil Rights Movement or else a man with a personal grudge or a neurotic dislike of Martin Luther King. King’s deputy, Ralph Abernathy, speculates that it may have been a “certain amount of envy” that caused Jac…
Simulated authenticity: Storytelling and mythic space on the hyper-frontier in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West and Westworld
This article explores how the mythic, nineteenth-century American frontier is authenticated by postmodern forms of storytelling. The study examines accounts of William Cody’s extensive 1902–1903 Buffalo Bill’ s Wild West tours in the United Kingdom and the futuristic television series, HBO’s Westworld (2016–), which is set in an android-hosted theme park. Comparing the semiotics of the two examples indicates how over a century apart, the authenti…
It’s not your country any more’. Contested national narratives and the Columbus Day parade protests in Denver
This article explores long-standing American Indian opposition to Columbus Day in Denver. In 2007, Glenn Morris, a leading activist from the American Indian Movement of Colorado, stated that the rejection of the racist philosophy behind Columbus Day ‘may be the most important issue facing Indian country today’. Activism aimed at Columbus Day and the parades is a struggle over identity and historical memory, and Denver forms a distinctive, complex…
Missions of Patriotism: Joseph H. Jackson and Martin Luther King
I.Introduction Joseph H. Jackson has been treated very negatively in history-writing. Most texts refer to him in passing as the “brilliantly conservative”, “autocratic” president of the National Baptist Convention, a figure opposed to the Civil Rights Movement or else a man with a personal grudge or a neurotic dislike of Martin Luther King. King’s deputy, Ralph Abernathy, speculates that it may have been a “certain amount of envy” that caused Jac…
Missions of Patriotism: Joseph H. Jackson and Martin Luther King
I.Introduction Joseph H. Jackson has been treated very negatively in history-writing. Most texts refer to him in passing as the “brilliantly conservative”, “autocratic” president of the National Baptist Convention, a figure opposed to the Civil Rights Movement or else a man with a personal grudge or a neurotic dislike of Martin Luther King. King’s deputy, Ralph Abernathy, speculates that it may have been a “certain amount of envy” that caused Jac…
It’s not your country any more’. Contested national narratives and the Columbus Day parade protests in Denver
This article explores long-standing American Indian opposition to Columbus Day in Denver. In 2007, Glenn Morris, a leading activist from the American Indian Movement of Colorado, stated that the rejection of the racist philosophy behind Columbus Day ‘may be the most important issue facing Indian country today’. Activism aimed at Columbus Day and the parades is a struggle over identity and historical memory, and Denver forms a distinctive, complex…
Smooth’ and ‘Alternative’ Patriotisms: Chicago and the decline of a civil rights strategy
At the Riverside Church in New York, April 1967, Martin Luther King, Jr. did not just speak out against the war in Vietnam, he was in many ways defending one of the underlying ideological strategies of the entire civil rights movement. He urged people to avoid confusing dissent with disloyalty, stressed that he voiced his opinion to save the soul of America, and cautioned against what he called “smooth patriotism”. This article forwards and explo…
Authenticity in North America: Place, Tourism, Heritage, Culture and the Popular Imagination
The chapter examines how New York (and Manhattan specifically) has been viewed in recent popular cultural artefacts as the epitome of America (and certainly in the post-9/11 era) as well as a heterotopic conceptional and cultural space. It identifies the paradoxical fantasy of New York through a range of media; film crossovers of comic books, literature, documentary film and popular music. As well as exploring other themes (the city as utopia/dys…
Simulated authenticity: Storytelling and mythic space on the hyper-frontier in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West and Westworld
This article explores how the mythic, nineteenth-century American frontier is authenticated by postmodern forms of storytelling. The study examines accounts of William Cody’s extensive 1902–1903 Buffalo Bill’ s Wild West tours in the United Kingdom and the futuristic television series, HBO’s Westworld (2016–), which is set in an android-hosted theme park. Comparing the semiotics of the two examples indicates how over a century apart, the authenti…
Performative Protest and the Lost Contours of Red Power Activism
The historical mapping of the Red Power movement is dominated by a handful of monumental events, and the intervening Native activism is often overshadowed by these summits. This article seeks to reveal the lost contours of the landscape and to rethink the ‘classic’ Red Power narrative. It argues that the lesser-known events and activism had a distinctively performative element to them that, in turn, was comprised of two strands: the first was a c…
Rethinking the Red Power Movement
Rethinking the Red Power Movement examines Red Power ideology with a focus on its many forms of solidarity with African Americans, the role of gender in shaping the movement, its international expansion, and its current meaning in contemporary activism. The Red Power Movement is often considered the apex of Indigenous activism in the twentieth century. While diverse, the movement is typically told through four actions. Beginning with the occupati…
The Origins and Contexts of the Movement
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