Jeffrey Louis Decker
Biographic Data
| ID | 680497 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeffrey Louis Decker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeffrey Louis |
| FAMILY NAME | Decker |
| SIGNATURE | DECKER J L |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Beyond White Ethnicity
Beyond White Ethnicity Jeffrey Louis Decker (bio) Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post-Civil Rights America. By Matthew Frye Jacobson. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. 496 pages. $29.95 (cloth). Feeling Italian: The Art of Ethnicity in America. By Thomas J. Ferraro. New York: New York University Press, 2005. 288 pages. $65.00 (cloth). $21.00 (paper). At the 1982 meeting of the Organization of American Historians, John Higham, …
Made in America: Self-Styled Success from Horatio Alger to Oprah Winfrey
Journal Article Made in America: Self Styled Success from Horatio Alger to Oprah Winfrey. By Jeffrey Louis Decker. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997. xxx, 170 pp. Cloth, $44.95, ISBN 0-8166-3020-8. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8166-3021-6.) Get access Pamela Walker Laird Pamela Walker Laird University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume…
The State of Rap: Time and Place in Hip Hop Nationalism
We're gonna treat you like a king, threatens a white cop from the LAPD on the Side of Ice Cube's 1991 album, Death Certificate. What goddamn king? inquires the indignant from South Central Los Angeles. Rodney King! Martin Luther King! And all the other goddamn kings from Africa!' As the premier rapper in hip hop (whose credits include the gangsta anthem tha Police),2 Ice Cube emerges on the Life Side of this album, to the astonishment of many, as…
American Studies. Toward and beyond an Antihumanist Method: A Reply to Bruce Kuklick and T. J. Jackson Lears
Dis-Assembling the Machine in the Garden: Antihumanism and the Critique of American Studies
INETEEN SIXTY-NINE was a significant year for New Literary History because it marked the journal's beginning. For those of us in Studies, NLH's inaugural issue also signaled a watershed in the debate around our (inter)discipline's methodology. In this issue, Leo Marx published something akin to a manifesto for traditional Studies scholarship entitled American Studies--A Defense of an Unscientific Method. As the title of this essay suggests, and a…
Postmodernity, or, the Worlding of America
Terrorism (Un) Veiled: Frantz Fanon and the Women of Algiers
She was therefore enveloped in veils and flowing robes like explosive material which has to be well packed. In some Arab societies, this uncovering of a finger or a toe was considered a potential source of fitna [i.e., chaos motivated by feminine seductiveness] in society which might therefore lead to anarchy, uprisings, rebellions and the total destruction of the established order! -Nawal El Saadawi
The State of Rap: Time and Place in Hip Hop Nationalism
We're gonna treat you like a king, threatens a white cop from the LAPD on the Side of Ice Cube's 1991 album, Death Certificate. What goddamn king? inquires the indignant from South Central Los Angeles. Rodney King! Martin Luther King! And all the other goddamn kings from Africa!' As the premier rapper in hip hop (whose credits include the gangsta anthem tha Police),2 Ice Cube emerges on the Life Side of this album, to the astonishment of many, as…
Terrorism (Un) Veiled: Frantz Fanon and the Women of Algiers
She was therefore enveloped in veils and flowing robes like explosive material which has to be well packed. In some Arab societies, this uncovering of a finger or a toe was considered a potential source of fitna [i.e., chaos motivated by feminine seductiveness] in society which might therefore lead to anarchy, uprisings, rebellions and the total destruction of the established order! -Nawal El Saadawi
Dis-Assembling the Machine in the Garden: Antihumanism and the Critique of American Studies
INETEEN SIXTY-NINE was a significant year for New Literary History because it marked the journal's beginning. For those of us in Studies, NLH's inaugural issue also signaled a watershed in the debate around our (inter)discipline's methodology. In this issue, Leo Marx published something akin to a manifesto for traditional Studies scholarship entitled American Studies--A Defense of an Unscientific Method. As the title of this essay suggests, and a…
Postmodernity, or, the Worlding of America
Made in America: Self-Styled Success from Horatio Alger to Oprah Winfrey
Journal Article Made in America: Self Styled Success from Horatio Alger to Oprah Winfrey. By Jeffrey Louis Decker. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997. xxx, 170 pp. Cloth, $44.95, ISBN 0-8166-3020-8. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8166-3021-6.) Get access Pamela Walker Laird Pamela Walker Laird University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume…
Terrorism (Un) Veiled: Frantz Fanon and the Women of Algiers
She was therefore enveloped in veils and flowing robes like explosive material which has to be well packed. In some Arab societies, this uncovering of a finger or a toe was considered a potential source of fitna [i.e., chaos motivated by feminine seductiveness] in society which might therefore lead to anarchy, uprisings, rebellions and the total destruction of the established order! -Nawal El Saadawi
American Studies. Toward and beyond an Antihumanist Method: A Reply to Bruce Kuklick and T. J. Jackson Lears
Dis-Assembling the Machine in the Garden: Antihumanism and the Critique of American Studies
INETEEN SIXTY-NINE was a significant year for New Literary History because it marked the journal's beginning. For those of us in Studies, NLH's inaugural issue also signaled a watershed in the debate around our (inter)discipline's methodology. In this issue, Leo Marx published something akin to a manifesto for traditional Studies scholarship entitled American Studies--A Defense of an Unscientific Method. As the title of this essay suggests, and a…
Postmodernity, or, the Worlding of America
The State of Rap: Time and Place in Hip Hop Nationalism
We're gonna treat you like a king, threatens a white cop from the LAPD on the Side of Ice Cube's 1991 album, Death Certificate. What goddamn king? inquires the indignant from South Central Los Angeles. Rodney King! Martin Luther King! And all the other goddamn kings from Africa!' As the premier rapper in hip hop (whose credits include the gangsta anthem tha Police),2 Ice Cube emerges on the Life Side of this album, to the astonishment of many, as…
Made in America: Self-Styled Success from Horatio Alger to Oprah Winfrey
Journal Article Made in America: Self Styled Success from Horatio Alger to Oprah Winfrey. By Jeffrey Louis Decker. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997. xxx, 170 pp. Cloth, $44.95, ISBN 0-8166-3020-8. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8166-3021-6.) Get access Pamela Walker Laird Pamela Walker Laird University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume…
Beyond White Ethnicity
Beyond White Ethnicity Jeffrey Louis Decker (bio) Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post-Civil Rights America. By Matthew Frye Jacobson. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. 496 pages. $29.95 (cloth). Feeling Italian: The Art of Ethnicity in America. By Thomas J. Ferraro. New York: New York University Press, 2005. 288 pages. $65.00 (cloth). $21.00 (paper). At the 1982 meeting of the Organization of American Historians, John Higham, …
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