Matthew Pratt Guterl
Biographic Data
| ID | 608714 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Pratt Guterl |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew Pratt |
| FAMILY NAME | Guterl |
| SIGNATURE | GUTERL M P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University Bloomington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
I ra D workin . Congo Love Song: African American Culture and the Crisis of the Colonial State
Ira Dworkin’s fascinating survey of African American sensibilities about the Congo, Congo Love Song: African American Culture and the Crisis of the Colonial State, is an enormously important book, breaking down the abstract gesture to the diaspora, or to “Africa,” and more tightly focusing our attention on one small region of outsized importance in that vast and variegated continent. One small region, that is, and the myriad political engagements…
A gulf society
Josephine Baker and the Rainbow Tribe
Her performing days numbered, Josephine Baker did something outrageous: she transformed her chateau into a theme park whose main attraction was her Rainbow Tribe--12 children from around the globe, adopted as the family of the future. Matthew Pratt Guterl concludes that Baker was a serious activist, determined to make a positive difference
Jacqueline Jones. A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America
Journal Article Jacqueline Jones. A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America. Get access Jacqueline Jones. A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America.New York: Basic Books, 2013. Pp. xvii, 381. $29.99. Matthew Pratt Guterl Matthew Pratt Guterl Brown University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical…
Seeing Race in Modern America
This book focuses on how and why we come to see race in very particular ways. What does it mean to see someone as a color? As racially mixed or ethnically ambiguous? What history makes such things possible? Drawing creatively from advertisements, YouTube videos, and everything in between, it redirects our understanding of racial sight away from the dominant categories of color—away from brown and yellow and black and white—and instead insists tha…
Race and Nature: From Transcendentalism to the Harlem Renaissance
Book Review| April 01 2011 Race and Nature: From Transcendentalism to the Harlem Renaissance Race and Nature: From Transcendentalism to the Harlem Renaissance. By Paul Outka. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. xiii + 266 pp. Photos, notes, index, and bibliography. $84.95 (cloth). Matthew Pratt Guterl Matthew Pratt Guterl Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2011) 30 (3)…
Shadowing the White Man's Burden: U.S. Imperialism and the Problem of the Color Line
This beautifully argued and engaging literary history addresses a fairly simple question: How did the distinctive multiracial nature of the United States transform that country's sense of itself as an empire? Unlike most other polyglot settler societies, the United States was an ambitious, if slightly tardy, participant in the great expansion of overseas empires in the late nineteenth century. Unlike most other seats of empire—particularly the Fr…
The Art of the Americas Wing
Permanent exhibition, opened Nov. 2010. 125,000 sq. ft. Malcolm Rogers, project director. With great fanfare, the venerable Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) in Boston opened its new Art of the Americas Wing in November 2010. Early press coverage was generous and enthusiastic, with a chorus of voices celebrating the glamour of this new survey of Pan-American art. The first viewing of the wing (open to members of the press and invited guests) was a classi…
Slavery in White and Black: Class and Race in the Southern Slaveholders' New World Order
The Importance of Place in Post-Everything American Studies
The Importance of Place in Post-Everything American Studies Matthew Pratt Guterl (bio) New World Poetics: Nature and the Adamic Imagination of Whitman, Neruda, and Walcott. By George B. Handley. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2007. 448 pages. $39.95 (cloth). Blackface Cuba, 1840-1895. By Jill Lane. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. 288 pages. $59.59 (cloth). Waves of Decolonization: Discourses of Race and Hemispheric Cit…
Atlantic and Pacific Crossings: Race, Empire, and "the Labor Problem" in the Late Nineteenth Century
Research Article| January 01 2005 Atlantic and Pacific Crossings: Race, Empire, and “the Labor Problem” in the Late Nineteenth Century Matthew Guterl; Matthew Guterl Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Christine Skwiot Christine Skwiot Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2005) 2005 (91): 40–61. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2005-91-40 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook…
A Note on the Word White
White on Arrival: Italians, Race, Color, and Power in Chicago, 1890-1945. By Thomas A. Guglielmo. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. 280 pages. $45.00 (cloth) In my office, many of the finer works on whiteness are conveniently arranged on the same bookshelf: David R. Roediger's Wages of Whiteness; Matthew Frye Jacobson's Whiteness of a Different Color; Grace Elizabeth Hale's Making Whiteness; Noel Ignatiev's How the Irish Became White; Toni…
After Slavery: Asian Labor, the American South, and the Age of Emancipation
In comparing the adjustments to a free labor economy in the post-emancipation United States South and in slaveholding Cuba, this essay reveals certain parallels and divergences. Most particularly, it emphasizes the relative position of both places in the global, national, and colonial economies, and it explores the political economy of race and work. Following Confederate expatriates and Victorian travelers from the United States to the Caribbean…
The Color of Race in America, 1900-1940
The Color of Race in America, 1900-1940
The Color of Race in America, 1900-1940
Guterl details how white and black people thought about race and how both groups understood and attempted to control the demographic transformation. An account of the roiling environment that witnessed a shift from the multiplicity of white races to biracialism’s arrival, this book focuses on four representative spokesmen for the transforming age
The Color of Race in America, 1900-1940
Journal Article The Color of Race in America, 1900–1940 Get access The Color of Race in America, 1900–1940. By Guterl Matthew Pratt. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001. xii, 234 pp. $39.95, isbn0-674-00615-1.) David W. Stowe David W. Stowe Michigan State UniversityEast Lansing, Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 89, Issue 3, December 2002, Pages 1091–1092, …
Atlantic and Pacific Crossings: Race, Empire, and "the Labor Problem" in the Late Nineteenth Century
Research Article| January 01 2005 Atlantic and Pacific Crossings: Race, Empire, and “the Labor Problem” in the Late Nineteenth Century Matthew Guterl; Matthew Guterl Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Christine Skwiot Christine Skwiot Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2005) 2005 (91): 40–61. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2005-91-40 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook…
The Importance of Place in Post-Everything American Studies
The Importance of Place in Post-Everything American Studies Matthew Pratt Guterl (bio) New World Poetics: Nature and the Adamic Imagination of Whitman, Neruda, and Walcott. By George B. Handley. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2007. 448 pages. $39.95 (cloth). Blackface Cuba, 1840-1895. By Jill Lane. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. 288 pages. $59.59 (cloth). Waves of Decolonization: Discourses of Race and Hemispheric Cit…
The Color of Race in America, 1900-1940
Guterl details how white and black people thought about race and how both groups understood and attempted to control the demographic transformation. An account of the roiling environment that witnessed a shift from the multiplicity of white races to biracialism’s arrival, this book focuses on four representative spokesmen for the transforming age
The Color of Race in America, 1900-1940
Journal Article The Color of Race in America, 1900–1940 Get access The Color of Race in America, 1900–1940. By Guterl Matthew Pratt. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001. xii, 234 pp. $39.95, isbn0-674-00615-1.) David W. Stowe David W. Stowe Michigan State UniversityEast Lansing, Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 89, Issue 3, December 2002, Pages 1091–1092, …
After Slavery: Asian Labor, the American South, and the Age of Emancipation
In comparing the adjustments to a free labor economy in the post-emancipation United States South and in slaveholding Cuba, this essay reveals certain parallels and divergences. Most particularly, it emphasizes the relative position of both places in the global, national, and colonial economies, and it explores the political economy of race and work. Following Confederate expatriates and Victorian travelers from the United States to the Caribbean…
The Color of Race in America, 1900-1940
The Color of Race in America, 1900-1940
A Note on the Word White
White on Arrival: Italians, Race, Color, and Power in Chicago, 1890-1945. By Thomas A. Guglielmo. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. 280 pages. $45.00 (cloth) In my office, many of the finer works on whiteness are conveniently arranged on the same bookshelf: David R. Roediger's Wages of Whiteness; Matthew Frye Jacobson's Whiteness of a Different Color; Grace Elizabeth Hale's Making Whiteness; Noel Ignatiev's How the Irish Became White; Toni…
Atlantic and Pacific Crossings: Race, Empire, and "the Labor Problem" in the Late Nineteenth Century
Research Article| January 01 2005 Atlantic and Pacific Crossings: Race, Empire, and “the Labor Problem” in the Late Nineteenth Century Matthew Guterl; Matthew Guterl Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Christine Skwiot Christine Skwiot Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2005) 2005 (91): 40–61. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2005-91-40 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook…
The Importance of Place in Post-Everything American Studies
The Importance of Place in Post-Everything American Studies Matthew Pratt Guterl (bio) New World Poetics: Nature and the Adamic Imagination of Whitman, Neruda, and Walcott. By George B. Handley. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2007. 448 pages. $39.95 (cloth). Blackface Cuba, 1840-1895. By Jill Lane. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. 288 pages. $59.59 (cloth). Waves of Decolonization: Discourses of Race and Hemispheric Cit…
Slavery in White and Black: Class and Race in the Southern Slaveholders' New World Order
Race and Nature: From Transcendentalism to the Harlem Renaissance
Book Review| April 01 2011 Race and Nature: From Transcendentalism to the Harlem Renaissance Race and Nature: From Transcendentalism to the Harlem Renaissance. By Paul Outka. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. xiii + 266 pp. Photos, notes, index, and bibliography. $84.95 (cloth). Matthew Pratt Guterl Matthew Pratt Guterl Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2011) 30 (3)…
Shadowing the White Man's Burden: U.S. Imperialism and the Problem of the Color Line
This beautifully argued and engaging literary history addresses a fairly simple question: How did the distinctive multiracial nature of the United States transform that country's sense of itself as an empire? Unlike most other polyglot settler societies, the United States was an ambitious, if slightly tardy, participant in the great expansion of overseas empires in the late nineteenth century. Unlike most other seats of empire—particularly the Fr…
The Art of the Americas Wing
Permanent exhibition, opened Nov. 2010. 125,000 sq. ft. Malcolm Rogers, project director. With great fanfare, the venerable Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) in Boston opened its new Art of the Americas Wing in November 2010. Early press coverage was generous and enthusiastic, with a chorus of voices celebrating the glamour of this new survey of Pan-American art. The first viewing of the wing (open to members of the press and invited guests) was a classi…
Seeing Race in Modern America
This book focuses on how and why we come to see race in very particular ways. What does it mean to see someone as a color? As racially mixed or ethnically ambiguous? What history makes such things possible? Drawing creatively from advertisements, YouTube videos, and everything in between, it redirects our understanding of racial sight away from the dominant categories of color—away from brown and yellow and black and white—and instead insists tha…
Josephine Baker and the Rainbow Tribe
Her performing days numbered, Josephine Baker did something outrageous: she transformed her chateau into a theme park whose main attraction was her Rainbow Tribe--12 children from around the globe, adopted as the family of the future. Matthew Pratt Guterl concludes that Baker was a serious activist, determined to make a positive difference
Jacqueline Jones. A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America
Journal Article Jacqueline Jones. A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America. Get access Jacqueline Jones. A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America.New York: Basic Books, 2013. Pp. xvii, 381. $29.99. Matthew Pratt Guterl Matthew Pratt Guterl Brown University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical…
A gulf society
I ra D workin . Congo Love Song: African American Culture and the Crisis of the Colonial State
Ira Dworkin’s fascinating survey of African American sensibilities about the Congo, Congo Love Song: African American Culture and the Crisis of the Colonial State, is an enormously important book, breaking down the abstract gesture to the diaspora, or to “Africa,” and more tightly focusing our attention on one small region of outsized importance in that vast and variegated continent. One small region, that is, and the myriad political engagements…
History (14 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Race, History, and American Society (9 works) · History (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Art history (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (5 works)