Joseph Darda
Biographic Data
| ID | 323171 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph Darda |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph |
| FAMILY NAME | Darda |
| SIGNATURE | DARDA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas Christian University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Runner's Low
In the late summer of 1983, the consulting firm Business International Corporation hired a young Columbia University graduate named Barack Obama. Some of his coworkers found the young Obama, they later told the journalist David Maraniss, “aloof, with an arrogance that bordered on condescension.”1 Some, learning that Obama had attended the elite Punahou School in Honolulu and an Ivy League university, assumed he was a trust-fund kid. He didn't eat…
The Mismeasure of Sport: Race and the Science of Athletic Performance
The dominance of some Black athletes in some sports after civil rights led scientists and journalists to search for explanations in athletes' culture, geography, psychology, and, increasingly, in their genes-all contributing, whether they landed on culture or biology, to a resurgent race science that invented what it purported to investigate. Science writers could not stop asking whether Kenyans won marathons because of their genes or because of …
Roberto Clemente on the Black/Brown Color Line
When Afro-Puerto Rican outfielder Roberto Clemente debuted with the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1955, baseball writers identified him as another in a long line of Black stars remaking the game. When he died at the end of 1972, they remembered him as something else: a great Latin athlete. Clemente had traveled from Black to brown. Most historians trace the emergence of a panethnic Latinx identity to a post-civil rights convergence of social movements, f…
The Body Athletic
The Body Athletic Joseph Darda (bio) and Amira Rose Davis (bio) In the twilight of the print magazine, ESPN took one last shot at winning the newsstand. On October 1, 2009, a year into the financial crisis that all but killed analog media, it announced the arrival of ESPN The Magazine's first annual Body Issue. A press release described it as "a celebration and exploration of the athletic form" and, in a dig at Sports Illustrated's Swimsuit Issue…
The Strange Career of Racial Liberalism
How Americans learned to wait on time for racial change What if, Joseph Darda asks, our desire to solve racism—with science, civil rights, antiracist literature, integration, and color blindness—has entrenched it further? In The Strange Career of Racial Liberalism , he traces the rise of liberal antiracism, showing how reformers' faith in time, in the moral arc of the universe, has undercut future movements with the insistence that racism constit…
How White Men Won the Culture Wars: A History of Veteran America
"'If war among the whites brought peace and liberty to the blacks, ' Frederick Douglass asked in 1875, peering into the nation's future, 'what will peace among the whites bring?' The answer then and now, after the Civil War and civil rights, is a white reunion disguised as a veterans' reunion. How White Men Won the Culture Wars shows how a broad contingent of white men--conservative and liberal, hawk and dove, vet and non-vet--transformed the Vie…
Antiracism as War
Racial liberalism, which dominated racial thought from the onset of the Second World War to the Brown v. Board decision, inherited from that war an enduring figurative frame: racism as world-historical event, the struggle against it a war. That frame, which liberal anthropologists introduced, undercut nonstatist and radical antiracisms (states wage war), militated against enduring change (wars shouldn't last forever), and contradicted the anthrop…
The Race Novel: An Education
Empire of Defense: Race and the Cultural Politics of Permanent War
Like a Refugee: Veterans, Vietnam, and the Making of a False Equivalence
Throughout his presidential campaign, Donald Trump claimed that American veterans were treated worse than refugees and undocumented immigrants. That belief—that the government was taking in refugees while abandoning its own soldiers—first emerged, as this essay shows, in the wake of the Vietnam War, when songwriters, journalists, and filmmakers began reimagining the white male veteran as “like a refugee” who had been dislocated from his innocence…
The Thin White Line: Veterans and the White Racial Politics of Creative Writing
This essay considers how the creative writing workshop transformed the white Vietnam vet into a minority writer. The MFA system, which organized the group-based politics of post-civil rights American literature, originated as a space geared toward white combat veterans. Some of the first graduate programs in creative writing were founded in the years after World War II, and their classes were dominated by white vets attending college on the GI Bi…
The Racial Imaginary of the Cold War Kitchen: From Sokol’niki Park to Chicago’s South SideReading America: Citizenship, Democracy, and Cold War Literature
A model kitchen served as the venue for one of the defining events of the Cold War. On July 24, 1959, Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev went head-to-head at the American National Exhibition in Moscow, part of a cultural exchange program between the United States and the Soviet Union, with Nixon pointing to the labor-saving appliances of the model kitchen as evidence of what capitalism had done for the average Ameri…
Military Whiteness
Cold War Friendships: Korea, Vietnam, and Asian American Literature. Josephine Nock-Hee Park
At the height of the Korean War, Maxine Hong Kingston, then in the sixth grade, tormented another Chinese American girl for her timidness, for not being “friendly.” As she recounts in her classic memoir The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts (1976), she confronted the girl in the “army green” basement of their school, where the students huddled during air raid drills (qtd. in Park 259). Cornering the girl and ordering her to talk u…
Kicking the Vietnam Syndrome Narrative: Human Rights, the Nayirah Testimony, and the Gulf War
This essay chronicles how the George H. W. Bush administration—taking its cues from the fabricated Nayirah testimony given before the Congressional Human Rights Caucus—revised the cultural narrative of the Vietnam War by militarizing the humanitarian ethic of the antiwar movement in the Persian Gulf. While more commonly associated with the Clinton administration’s use of force in Somalia, Bosnia, and Kosovo, humanitarianism also centrally informe…
Humanitarian Violence: The U.S. Deployment of Diversity. Neda Atanasoski
In June 1999, announcing an end to US-led NATO air strikes in Kosovo, Bill Clinton looked back on a “bloody century” and forecasted the future of American military intervention. “Because of our resolve,” he told a national audience, “the twentieth century is ending not with helpless indignation but with a hopeful affirmation of human dignity and human rights for the twenty-first century” (qtd. in Atanasoski 138). In her important new book, Humani…
Universality at War: Race, Nation, and Communism in Chester Himes's If He Hollers Let Him Go
This essay shows how Chester Himes's first novel, If He Hollers Let Him Go (1945), centrally engages with and contests two universalisms manifest in World War II-era Los Angeles: that of militarized US nationalism and that of procommunist organized labor. By emphasizing the irony of his protagonist's nationalist and working-class identities, Himes points to the limits of these universalisms, the disparity between their claims and their lived real…
The Literary Afterlife of the Korean War
Within the United States, the Korean War has never attracted the memory culture that other twentieth-century wars do. Korea is remembered only for not being remembered, as the "forgotten war." And yet, as commentators continue to characterize the war on terror as an unparalleled era marked by permanent war, literary authors are returning to Korea to tell a different story. Many of these authors trace the rhetorical and material origin of the war …
Precarious World: Rethinking Global Fiction in Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Through a reading of Pakistani author Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist , this essay outlines a theory of critical global fiction: literary works that contest the forces inhibiting global understanding and advance international coalitions through this struggle itself
Constructing the Enemy: Empathy/Antipathy in U.S. Literature and Law. Rajini Srikanth
Journal Article Constructing the Enemy: Empathy/Antipathy in U.S. Literature and Law. Rajini Srikanth. Get access Constructing the Enemy: Empathy/Antipathy in U.S. Literature and Law. Rajini Srikanth. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2012. 218 pages. $87.50 cloth; $28.95 paper; $28.95 electronic. Joseph Darda Joseph Darda University of Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 38, Iss…
When Is Postwar
When Is Postwar? Joseph Darda (bio) How We Forgot the Cold War: A Historical Journey across America. By Jon Wiener. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. 384 pages. $34.95 (cloth). $34.95 (eBook). War Time: An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences. By Mary L. Dudziak. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. 221 pages. $24.95 (cloth). $18.99 (eBook). Warfare State: World War II Americans and the Age of Big Government. By James T. Sparrow. O…
The Literary Afterlife of the Korean War
Within the United States, the Korean War has never attracted the memory culture that other twentieth-century wars do. Korea is remembered only for not being remembered, as the "forgotten war." And yet, as commentators continue to characterize the war on terror as an unparalleled era marked by permanent war, literary authors are returning to Korea to tell a different story. Many of these authors trace the rhetorical and material origin of the war …
Precarious World: Rethinking Global Fiction in Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Through a reading of Pakistani author Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist , this essay outlines a theory of critical global fiction: literary works that contest the forces inhibiting global understanding and advance international coalitions through this struggle itself
The Thin White Line: Veterans and the White Racial Politics of Creative Writing
This essay considers how the creative writing workshop transformed the white Vietnam vet into a minority writer. The MFA system, which organized the group-based politics of post-civil rights American literature, originated as a space geared toward white combat veterans. Some of the first graduate programs in creative writing were founded in the years after World War II, and their classes were dominated by white vets attending college on the GI Bi…
Military Whiteness
Universality at War: Race, Nation, and Communism in Chester Himes's If He Hollers Let Him Go
This essay shows how Chester Himes's first novel, If He Hollers Let Him Go (1945), centrally engages with and contests two universalisms manifest in World War II-era Los Angeles: that of militarized US nationalism and that of procommunist organized labor. By emphasizing the irony of his protagonist's nationalist and working-class identities, Himes points to the limits of these universalisms, the disparity between their claims and their lived real…
When Is Postwar
When Is Postwar? Joseph Darda (bio) How We Forgot the Cold War: A Historical Journey across America. By Jon Wiener. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. 384 pages. $34.95 (cloth). $34.95 (eBook). War Time: An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences. By Mary L. Dudziak. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. 221 pages. $24.95 (cloth). $18.99 (eBook). Warfare State: World War II Americans and the Age of Big Government. By James T. Sparrow. O…
Constructing the Enemy: Empathy/Antipathy in U.S. Literature and Law. Rajini Srikanth
Journal Article Constructing the Enemy: Empathy/Antipathy in U.S. Literature and Law. Rajini Srikanth. Get access Constructing the Enemy: Empathy/Antipathy in U.S. Literature and Law. Rajini Srikanth. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2012. 218 pages. $87.50 cloth; $28.95 paper; $28.95 electronic. Joseph Darda Joseph Darda University of Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 38, Iss…
When Is Postwar
When Is Postwar? Joseph Darda (bio) How We Forgot the Cold War: A Historical Journey across America. By Jon Wiener. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. 384 pages. $34.95 (cloth). $34.95 (eBook). War Time: An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences. By Mary L. Dudziak. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. 221 pages. $24.95 (cloth). $18.99 (eBook). Warfare State: World War II Americans and the Age of Big Government. By James T. Sparrow. O…
Precarious World: Rethinking Global Fiction in Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Through a reading of Pakistani author Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist , this essay outlines a theory of critical global fiction: literary works that contest the forces inhibiting global understanding and advance international coalitions through this struggle itself
Humanitarian Violence: The U.S. Deployment of Diversity. Neda Atanasoski
In June 1999, announcing an end to US-led NATO air strikes in Kosovo, Bill Clinton looked back on a “bloody century” and forecasted the future of American military intervention. “Because of our resolve,” he told a national audience, “the twentieth century is ending not with helpless indignation but with a hopeful affirmation of human dignity and human rights for the twenty-first century” (qtd. in Atanasoski 138). In her important new book, Humani…
Universality at War: Race, Nation, and Communism in Chester Himes's If He Hollers Let Him Go
This essay shows how Chester Himes's first novel, If He Hollers Let Him Go (1945), centrally engages with and contests two universalisms manifest in World War II-era Los Angeles: that of militarized US nationalism and that of procommunist organized labor. By emphasizing the irony of his protagonist's nationalist and working-class identities, Himes points to the limits of these universalisms, the disparity between their claims and their lived real…
The Literary Afterlife of the Korean War
Within the United States, the Korean War has never attracted the memory culture that other twentieth-century wars do. Korea is remembered only for not being remembered, as the "forgotten war." And yet, as commentators continue to characterize the war on terror as an unparalleled era marked by permanent war, literary authors are returning to Korea to tell a different story. Many of these authors trace the rhetorical and material origin of the war …
Cold War Friendships: Korea, Vietnam, and Asian American Literature. Josephine Nock-Hee Park
At the height of the Korean War, Maxine Hong Kingston, then in the sixth grade, tormented another Chinese American girl for her timidness, for not being “friendly.” As she recounts in her classic memoir The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts (1976), she confronted the girl in the “army green” basement of their school, where the students huddled during air raid drills (qtd. in Park 259). Cornering the girl and ordering her to talk u…
Kicking the Vietnam Syndrome Narrative: Human Rights, the Nayirah Testimony, and the Gulf War
This essay chronicles how the George H. W. Bush administration—taking its cues from the fabricated Nayirah testimony given before the Congressional Human Rights Caucus—revised the cultural narrative of the Vietnam War by militarizing the humanitarian ethic of the antiwar movement in the Persian Gulf. While more commonly associated with the Clinton administration’s use of force in Somalia, Bosnia, and Kosovo, humanitarianism also centrally informe…
The Racial Imaginary of the Cold War Kitchen: From Sokol’niki Park to Chicago’s South SideReading America: Citizenship, Democracy, and Cold War Literature
A model kitchen served as the venue for one of the defining events of the Cold War. On July 24, 1959, Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev went head-to-head at the American National Exhibition in Moscow, part of a cultural exchange program between the United States and the Soviet Union, with Nixon pointing to the labor-saving appliances of the model kitchen as evidence of what capitalism had done for the average Ameri…
Military Whiteness
Empire of Defense: Race and the Cultural Politics of Permanent War
Like a Refugee: Veterans, Vietnam, and the Making of a False Equivalence
Throughout his presidential campaign, Donald Trump claimed that American veterans were treated worse than refugees and undocumented immigrants. That belief—that the government was taking in refugees while abandoning its own soldiers—first emerged, as this essay shows, in the wake of the Vietnam War, when songwriters, journalists, and filmmakers began reimagining the white male veteran as “like a refugee” who had been dislocated from his innocence…
The Thin White Line: Veterans and the White Racial Politics of Creative Writing
This essay considers how the creative writing workshop transformed the white Vietnam vet into a minority writer. The MFA system, which organized the group-based politics of post-civil rights American literature, originated as a space geared toward white combat veterans. Some of the first graduate programs in creative writing were founded in the years after World War II, and their classes were dominated by white vets attending college on the GI Bi…
The Race Novel: An Education
How White Men Won the Culture Wars: A History of Veteran America
"'If war among the whites brought peace and liberty to the blacks, ' Frederick Douglass asked in 1875, peering into the nation's future, 'what will peace among the whites bring?' The answer then and now, after the Civil War and civil rights, is a white reunion disguised as a veterans' reunion. How White Men Won the Culture Wars shows how a broad contingent of white men--conservative and liberal, hawk and dove, vet and non-vet--transformed the Vie…
Antiracism as War
Racial liberalism, which dominated racial thought from the onset of the Second World War to the Brown v. Board decision, inherited from that war an enduring figurative frame: racism as world-historical event, the struggle against it a war. That frame, which liberal anthropologists introduced, undercut nonstatist and radical antiracisms (states wage war), militated against enduring change (wars shouldn't last forever), and contradicted the anthrop…
The Strange Career of Racial Liberalism
How Americans learned to wait on time for racial change What if, Joseph Darda asks, our desire to solve racism—with science, civil rights, antiracist literature, integration, and color blindness—has entrenched it further? In The Strange Career of Racial Liberalism , he traces the rise of liberal antiracism, showing how reformers' faith in time, in the moral arc of the universe, has undercut future movements with the insistence that racism constit…
Roberto Clemente on the Black/Brown Color Line
When Afro-Puerto Rican outfielder Roberto Clemente debuted with the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1955, baseball writers identified him as another in a long line of Black stars remaking the game. When he died at the end of 1972, they remembered him as something else: a great Latin athlete. Clemente had traveled from Black to brown. Most historians trace the emergence of a panethnic Latinx identity to a post-civil rights convergence of social movements, f…
The Body Athletic
The Body Athletic Joseph Darda (bio) and Amira Rose Davis (bio) In the twilight of the print magazine, ESPN took one last shot at winning the newsstand. On October 1, 2009, a year into the financial crisis that all but killed analog media, it announced the arrival of ESPN The Magazine's first annual Body Issue. A press release described it as "a celebration and exploration of the athletic form" and, in a dig at Sports Illustrated's Swimsuit Issue…
The Mismeasure of Sport: Race and the Science of Athletic Performance
The dominance of some Black athletes in some sports after civil rights led scientists and journalists to search for explanations in athletes' culture, geography, psychology, and, increasingly, in their genes-all contributing, whether they landed on culture or biology, to a resurgent race science that invented what it purported to investigate. Science writers could not stop asking whether Kenyans won marathons because of their genes or because of …
Runner's Low
In the late summer of 1983, the consulting firm Business International Corporation hired a young Columbia University graduate named Barack Obama. Some of his coworkers found the young Obama, they later told the journalist David Maraniss, “aloof, with an arrogance that bordered on condescension.”1 Some, learning that Obama had attended the elite Punahou School in Honolulu and an Ivy League university, assumed he was a trust-fund kid. He didn't eat…
Political science (18 works) · Law (16 works) · History (15 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Politics (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Race, History, and American Society (8 works) · Art (7 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works)