Abigail Markwyn
Biographic Data
| ID | 686116 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Abigail Markwyn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Abigail |
| FAMILY NAME | Markwyn |
| SIGNATURE | MARKWYN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carroll University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
“The Finest Example of Nisei Service”
The Japanese government seized the opportunity to stage an expensive and elaborate display at San Francisco’s 1939–40 Golden Gate International Exposition. Pulling off such a spectacle required the labor of hundreds, including the dozens of young Nisei (American-born children of Japanese immigrants) men and women who worked in the Japan Pavilion. One such employee, Clara Sasaki, documented her time at the fair in carefully curated photo albums; a…
Envisioning an Immigrant Invasion
Comparing Donald Trump’s use of anti-immigrant rhetoric during the 2024 presidential campaign to that deployed by the anti-Japanese movement of early twentieth-century California reveals significant parallels. He, like the nativists of a century before, claimed that immigrants were invading the United States, taking jobs from White American men, and threatening the integrity of American culture. California’s anti-Japanese movement successfully re…
Reproduction on the Reservation: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Colonialism in the Long Twentieth Century by Brianna Theobold
Reviewed by: Reproduction on the Reservation: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Colonialism in the Long Twentieth Century by Brianna Theobold Abigail Markwyn Brianna Theobold. Reproduction on the Reservation: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Colonialism in the Long Twentieth Century. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. 288 pp. Paper, $29.95. Brianna Theobold's excellent new book, Reproduction on the Reservation: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and C…
Unfair Labor: American Indians and the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago
The Gateway to the Pacific: Japanese Americans and the Remaking of San Francisco
Meredith Oda's innovative addition to the historiography of Japanese Americans, San Francisco, and the post–World War II Pacific world, The Gateway to the Pacific, reveals a hitherto unexplored aspect of urban redevelopment. Although the book focuses on an intensely local story—the urban redevelopment of San Francisco's multiethnic Western Addition neighborhood into a more visibly Japanese cultural hub—it is not simply a San Francisco story. Inst…
I Would Like to Have This Tribe Represented: Native Performance and Craft at Chicago's 1933 Century of Progress Exposition
Chicago's 1933–34 Century of Progress Exposition is best known for its modernist architecture, Sally Rand's scandalous fan dance, and its celebration of American progress in the depths of the Depression. So why did hundreds of American Indians from across the nation contact fair and city officials seeking to participate in the exposition? What did this enormous cultural event offer them? This article examines the experiences of the hundreds of In…
Bruce G. Harvey. World’s Fairs in a Southern Accent: Atlanta, Nashville, and Charleston, 1895–1902
Journal Article Bruce G. Harvey. World’s Fairs in a Southern Accent: Atlanta, Nashville, and Charleston, 1895–1902. Get access Bruce G. Harvey. World’s Fairs in a Southern Accent: Atlanta, Nashville, and Charleston, 1895–1902. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2014. Pp. xxii, 384. $83.00. Abigail Markwyn Abigail Markwyn Carroll University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Am…
Queen of the Joy Zone Meets Hercules: Gendering Imperial California at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition
San Francisco’s 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition relied on female bodies and beauty to solidify the city’s and state’s imperial claims. Publicists and exhibitors used women’s bodies to advertise the city, fair, and state at the same time amusement concessions displayed them in ways that reaffirmed racial hierarchies. In a reflection of the expansion of white women’s claims to public space, the fair’s Woman’s Board worked to make the f…
BeyondThe End of the Trail: Indians at San Francisco's 1915 World's Fair
This article examines the participation and representation of Indians at San Francisco's 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition (PPIE), arguing that the PPIE represents a change in cultural depictions of Indians from the vanishing Indian of the turn of the century to the qualified appreciation of Indian culture that would emerge in the 1920s and 1930s. The popularity of James Earle Fraser's statue The End of the Trail and other attractions …
Women Building History: Public Art at the 1893 Columbian Exposition
Wanda M. Corn's study of the art of the Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition demonstrates that there is always more to say about this monumental event. She demonstrates that female artists used their art to engage in contemporary political debates about women's roles and activities. Her careful analysis of the artwork reveals “a female gaze resisting and reforming the male one” (p. 9). Therefore, she argues, the art of the Wo…
Economic Partner and Exotic Other: China and Japan at San Francisco's Panama-Pacific International Exposition
China's and Japans role in San Francisco's Panama-Pacific International Exposition demonstrates that although both nations sought to use the fair to construct themselves as progressive, modern nations, they faced entrenched anti-Asian racism in California, which contributed to the production of contradictory representations of the Chinese and Japanese at the fair
BeyondThe End of the Trail: Indians at San Francisco's 1915 World's Fair
This article examines the participation and representation of Indians at San Francisco's 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition (PPIE), arguing that the PPIE represents a change in cultural depictions of Indians from the vanishing Indian of the turn of the century to the qualified appreciation of Indian culture that would emerge in the 1920s and 1930s. The popularity of James Earle Fraser's statue The End of the Trail and other attractions …
Economic Partner and Exotic Other: China and Japan at San Francisco's Panama-Pacific International Exposition
China's and Japans role in San Francisco's Panama-Pacific International Exposition demonstrates that although both nations sought to use the fair to construct themselves as progressive, modern nations, they faced entrenched anti-Asian racism in California, which contributed to the production of contradictory representations of the Chinese and Japanese at the fair
Queen of the Joy Zone Meets Hercules: Gendering Imperial California at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition
San Francisco’s 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition relied on female bodies and beauty to solidify the city’s and state’s imperial claims. Publicists and exhibitors used women’s bodies to advertise the city, fair, and state at the same time amusement concessions displayed them in ways that reaffirmed racial hierarchies. In a reflection of the expansion of white women’s claims to public space, the fair’s Woman’s Board worked to make the f…
Economic Partner and Exotic Other: China and Japan at San Francisco's Panama-Pacific International Exposition
China's and Japans role in San Francisco's Panama-Pacific International Exposition demonstrates that although both nations sought to use the fair to construct themselves as progressive, modern nations, they faced entrenched anti-Asian racism in California, which contributed to the production of contradictory representations of the Chinese and Japanese at the fair
Women Building History: Public Art at the 1893 Columbian Exposition
Wanda M. Corn's study of the art of the Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition demonstrates that there is always more to say about this monumental event. She demonstrates that female artists used their art to engage in contemporary political debates about women's roles and activities. Her careful analysis of the artwork reveals “a female gaze resisting and reforming the male one” (p. 9). Therefore, she argues, the art of the Wo…
Bruce G. Harvey. World’s Fairs in a Southern Accent: Atlanta, Nashville, and Charleston, 1895–1902
Journal Article Bruce G. Harvey. World’s Fairs in a Southern Accent: Atlanta, Nashville, and Charleston, 1895–1902. Get access Bruce G. Harvey. World’s Fairs in a Southern Accent: Atlanta, Nashville, and Charleston, 1895–1902. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2014. Pp. xxii, 384. $83.00. Abigail Markwyn Abigail Markwyn Carroll University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Am…
Queen of the Joy Zone Meets Hercules: Gendering Imperial California at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition
San Francisco’s 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition relied on female bodies and beauty to solidify the city’s and state’s imperial claims. Publicists and exhibitors used women’s bodies to advertise the city, fair, and state at the same time amusement concessions displayed them in ways that reaffirmed racial hierarchies. In a reflection of the expansion of white women’s claims to public space, the fair’s Woman’s Board worked to make the f…
BeyondThe End of the Trail: Indians at San Francisco's 1915 World's Fair
This article examines the participation and representation of Indians at San Francisco's 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition (PPIE), arguing that the PPIE represents a change in cultural depictions of Indians from the vanishing Indian of the turn of the century to the qualified appreciation of Indian culture that would emerge in the 1920s and 1930s. The popularity of James Earle Fraser's statue The End of the Trail and other attractions …
Unfair Labor: American Indians and the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago
The Gateway to the Pacific: Japanese Americans and the Remaking of San Francisco
Meredith Oda's innovative addition to the historiography of Japanese Americans, San Francisco, and the post–World War II Pacific world, The Gateway to the Pacific, reveals a hitherto unexplored aspect of urban redevelopment. Although the book focuses on an intensely local story—the urban redevelopment of San Francisco's multiethnic Western Addition neighborhood into a more visibly Japanese cultural hub—it is not simply a San Francisco story. Inst…
I Would Like to Have This Tribe Represented: Native Performance and Craft at Chicago's 1933 Century of Progress Exposition
Chicago's 1933–34 Century of Progress Exposition is best known for its modernist architecture, Sally Rand's scandalous fan dance, and its celebration of American progress in the depths of the Depression. So why did hundreds of American Indians from across the nation contact fair and city officials seeking to participate in the exposition? What did this enormous cultural event offer them? This article examines the experiences of the hundreds of In…
Reproduction on the Reservation: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Colonialism in the Long Twentieth Century by Brianna Theobold
Reviewed by: Reproduction on the Reservation: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Colonialism in the Long Twentieth Century by Brianna Theobold Abigail Markwyn Brianna Theobold. Reproduction on the Reservation: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Colonialism in the Long Twentieth Century. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. 288 pp. Paper, $29.95. Brianna Theobold's excellent new book, Reproduction on the Reservation: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and C…
Envisioning an Immigrant Invasion
Comparing Donald Trump’s use of anti-immigrant rhetoric during the 2024 presidential campaign to that deployed by the anti-Japanese movement of early twentieth-century California reveals significant parallels. He, like the nativists of a century before, claimed that immigrants were invading the United States, taking jobs from White American men, and threatening the integrity of American culture. California’s anti-Japanese movement successfully re…
“The Finest Example of Nisei Service”
The Japanese government seized the opportunity to stage an expensive and elaborate display at San Francisco’s 1939–40 Golden Gate International Exposition. Pulling off such a spectacle required the labor of hundreds, including the dozens of young Nisei (American-born children of Japanese immigrants) men and women who worked in the Japan Pavilion. One such employee, Clara Sasaki, documented her time at the fair in carefully curated photo albums; a…
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