Simon Stow
Biographic Data
| ID | 968818 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon Stow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon |
| FAMILY NAME | Stow |
| SIGNATURE | STOW S |
| AFFILIATIONS | William & Mary |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9198-4567 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
I, Too, Sing America
On Mockingbirds and Finches
“[E]ugenic ideology,” observed Rachel Walman, “is ... written all over the pages of To Kill a Mockingbird” (Walman). Puzzlingly, however, relatively little scholarly attention has been paid to this a
Work that
Rappin' Black in a White World
Emerging from the aftermath of the 1965 Watts Uprising in Los Angeles, CA, the spoken-word group the Watts Prophets embodied a Black aesthetic that rejected the respectability politics of the Civil Rights movement in favor of cultivating a radical Black consciousness in their own community. Offering neither a program nor an ideal, they sought to empower their audience to free themselves from the shackles – mental, physical, political, and economi…
Atticus Finch as Namesake
To Kill a Mockingbird
Chapter 26 of Harper Lee’s 1960 classic To Kill a Mockingbird offers an unexpected discussion of Hitler’s actions in Nazi Germany. The subject arises during a student presentation on “current event
Elizabeth Hinton, America on Fire. The Untold Story of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s
Elizabeth Hinton, America on Fire. The Untold Story of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s. W.W. Norton, 2021. Pp. 408. ISBN: 978-1-63149-890-9 Author: Simon Stow, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA The central claims of Elizabeth Hinton’s America on Fire are not new. What is new is the eloquence and painstaking nature of their presentation. It is a significant accomplishment and a major contribution to our understa…
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird: Why Can’t the Finch Family Pronounce the Names of the Prospects for the 1935 Crimson Tide?." ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, 33(4), pp. 347–348
The Practices of Hope
The Janus-faced nature of hope and its embodiment in the United States’ postwar cultural projects constitute the subject matter of two wonderful new books, Christopher Castiglia’s The Practices of Hope: Literary Criticism in Disenchanted Times and George Blaustein’s Nightmare Envy and Other Stories: American Culture and European Reconstruction. Both are concerned with what it meant, and what it might mean, to be engaged as a scholar of American c…
Response to Don Herzog’s review of American Mourning
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Radicalism and Music
Book Review| July 01 2017 Radicalism and Music: An Introduction to the Music Cultures of al-Qa’ida, Racist Skinheads, Christian-Affiliated Radicals, and Eco-Animal Rights Militants Radicalism and Music: An Introduction to the Music Cultures of al-Qa’ida, Racist Skinheads, Christian-Affiliated Radicals, and Eco-Animal Rights Militants. Jonathan Pieslak. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2015; 320 pages. $85.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-8195…
American Skin
Arguing that the political theorist Danielle Allen and the rock musician Bruce Springsteen offer similar analyses of the causes of, and solutions to, America’s racial divide, this article employs Springsteen’s music and his efforts to model his relationship with Clarence Clemons as an example for the broader American polity to consider the plausibility of Allen’s claims about interracial friendship as a source of political reconstitution. Detaili…
The Iconoclastic Imagination
This is a frustrating book. Ned O'Gorman offers a careful and sometimes-brilliant critical analysis of significant events in U.S. history—the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the space shuttle Challenger disaster, and the attacks of September 11, 2001—and recontextualizes them in politically productive ways. At the same time, however, he presents a series of dense theoretical arguments about neoliberalism and iconoclasm, and the relationship bet…
Modernism at the Barricades
Stephen Eric Bronner New York: Columbia University Press, 2012, 161 pp Stephen Eric Bronner fears the disenchantment of the world and the disengagement of that disenchanted world from politics. In
From Upper Canal to Lower Manhattan
The New Orleans Katrina Memorial is located at the upper end of Canal Street, an inexpensive and relatively short trolley car ride from the city's tourist hub in the French Quarter. Despite its ease of access, and close proximity to the more famous cemeteries to which tourists regularly make pilgrimage, the memorial is little visited and largely unknown, even to many of the city's own residents. In this it stands in stark contrast to the National…
Agonistic Homegoing
What does the furor over the "politicization" of Coretta Scott King's funeral reveal about contemporary black mourning practices? What does it reveal about black political thought, rhetoric, and practice? Identifying two key modes of mourning and their concomitant conceptions of democracy, this article situates the funeral within a tradition of self-consciously political responses to loss that played a significant role in abolitionism and the str…
Exceptional Americanism
Exceptional Americanism Simon Stow (bio) Review of: George Shulman, American Prophecy. Race and Redemption in American Political Culture. (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2008). 315 pages. $25.00 paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-3075-2. $75.00 cloth. ISBN: 978-0-8166-3074-5. George Shulman has written a brilliant book that is at once both classic and timely. While offering new and undoubtedly enduring insights on American politics, politica…
The Intellectuals and the Flag by Todd Gitlin
Journal Article The Intellectuals and the Flag by Todd Gitlin Get access The Intellectuals and the Flagby Todd Gitlin. New York, Columbia University Press, 2007. 192 pp. Cloth, $30.00; paper, $18.95. Simon Stow Simon Stow The College of William and Mary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 123, Issue 2, Summer 2008, Pages 346–347, https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1538-165X.2008.tb01…
Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans? George Bush, the Jazz Funeral, and the Politics of Memory
Republic of Readers
Pericles at Gettysburg and Ground Zero
What does the choice of the Gettysburg Address as a eulogy for the September 11 dead reveal about public mourning in the polity that made it? Tracing the genealogy of the Address back to Pericles' Funeral Oration, this essay argues that Thucydides provides two models of public mourning: one based on the Oration alone, the other on the rituals surrounding the Festival of Dionysia. Each generates a particular patriotic perspective: one unquestionin…
Platonic Noise
Pericles at Gettysburg and Ground Zero
What does the choice of the Gettysburg Address as a eulogy for the September 11 dead reveal about public mourning in the polity that made it? Tracing the genealogy of the Address back to Pericles' Funeral Oration, this essay argues that Thucydides provides two models of public mourning: one based on the Oration alone, the other on the rituals surrounding the Festival of Dionysia. Each generates a particular patriotic perspective: one unquestionin…
Agonistic Homegoing
What does the furor over the "politicization" of Coretta Scott King's funeral reveal about contemporary black mourning practices? What does it reveal about black political thought, rhetoric, and practice? Identifying two key modes of mourning and their concomitant conceptions of democracy, this article situates the funeral within a tradition of self-consciously political responses to loss that played a significant role in abolitionism and the str…
From Upper Canal to Lower Manhattan
The New Orleans Katrina Memorial is located at the upper end of Canal Street, an inexpensive and relatively short trolley car ride from the city's tourist hub in the French Quarter. Despite its ease of access, and close proximity to the more famous cemeteries to which tourists regularly make pilgrimage, the memorial is little visited and largely unknown, even to many of the city's own residents. In this it stands in stark contrast to the National…
Modernism at the Barricades
Stephen Eric Bronner New York: Columbia University Press, 2012, 161 pp Stephen Eric Bronner fears the disenchantment of the world and the disengagement of that disenchanted world from politics. In
The Iconoclastic Imagination
This is a frustrating book. Ned O'Gorman offers a careful and sometimes-brilliant critical analysis of significant events in U.S. history—the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the space shuttle Challenger disaster, and the attacks of September 11, 2001—and recontextualizes them in politically productive ways. At the same time, however, he presents a series of dense theoretical arguments about neoliberalism and iconoclasm, and the relationship bet…
Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans? George Bush, the Jazz Funeral, and the Politics of Memory
Platonic Noise
Republic of Readers
Pericles at Gettysburg and Ground Zero
What does the choice of the Gettysburg Address as a eulogy for the September 11 dead reveal about public mourning in the polity that made it? Tracing the genealogy of the Address back to Pericles' Funeral Oration, this essay argues that Thucydides provides two models of public mourning: one based on the Oration alone, the other on the rituals surrounding the Festival of Dionysia. Each generates a particular patriotic perspective: one unquestionin…
The Intellectuals and the Flag by Todd Gitlin
Journal Article The Intellectuals and the Flag by Todd Gitlin Get access The Intellectuals and the Flagby Todd Gitlin. New York, Columbia University Press, 2007. 192 pp. Cloth, $30.00; paper, $18.95. Simon Stow Simon Stow The College of William and Mary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 123, Issue 2, Summer 2008, Pages 346–347, https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1538-165X.2008.tb01…
Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans? George Bush, the Jazz Funeral, and the Politics of Memory
Exceptional Americanism
Exceptional Americanism Simon Stow (bio) Review of: George Shulman, American Prophecy. Race and Redemption in American Political Culture. (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2008). 315 pages. $25.00 paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-3075-2. $75.00 cloth. ISBN: 978-0-8166-3074-5. George Shulman has written a brilliant book that is at once both classic and timely. While offering new and undoubtedly enduring insights on American politics, politica…
Agonistic Homegoing
What does the furor over the "politicization" of Coretta Scott King's funeral reveal about contemporary black mourning practices? What does it reveal about black political thought, rhetoric, and practice? Identifying two key modes of mourning and their concomitant conceptions of democracy, this article situates the funeral within a tradition of self-consciously political responses to loss that played a significant role in abolitionism and the str…
From Upper Canal to Lower Manhattan
The New Orleans Katrina Memorial is located at the upper end of Canal Street, an inexpensive and relatively short trolley car ride from the city's tourist hub in the French Quarter. Despite its ease of access, and close proximity to the more famous cemeteries to which tourists regularly make pilgrimage, the memorial is little visited and largely unknown, even to many of the city's own residents. In this it stands in stark contrast to the National…
Modernism at the Barricades
Stephen Eric Bronner New York: Columbia University Press, 2012, 161 pp Stephen Eric Bronner fears the disenchantment of the world and the disengagement of that disenchanted world from politics. In
Radicalism and Music
Book Review| July 01 2017 Radicalism and Music: An Introduction to the Music Cultures of al-Qa’ida, Racist Skinheads, Christian-Affiliated Radicals, and Eco-Animal Rights Militants Radicalism and Music: An Introduction to the Music Cultures of al-Qa’ida, Racist Skinheads, Christian-Affiliated Radicals, and Eco-Animal Rights Militants. Jonathan Pieslak. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2015; 320 pages. $85.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-8195…
American Skin
Arguing that the political theorist Danielle Allen and the rock musician Bruce Springsteen offer similar analyses of the causes of, and solutions to, America’s racial divide, this article employs Springsteen’s music and his efforts to model his relationship with Clarence Clemons as an example for the broader American polity to consider the plausibility of Allen’s claims about interracial friendship as a source of political reconstitution. Detaili…
The Iconoclastic Imagination
This is a frustrating book. Ned O'Gorman offers a careful and sometimes-brilliant critical analysis of significant events in U.S. history—the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the space shuttle Challenger disaster, and the attacks of September 11, 2001—and recontextualizes them in politically productive ways. At the same time, however, he presents a series of dense theoretical arguments about neoliberalism and iconoclasm, and the relationship bet…
Response to Don Herzog’s review of American Mourning
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird: Why Can’t the Finch Family Pronounce the Names of the Prospects for the 1935 Crimson Tide?." ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, 33(4), pp. 347–348
The Practices of Hope
The Janus-faced nature of hope and its embodiment in the United States’ postwar cultural projects constitute the subject matter of two wonderful new books, Christopher Castiglia’s The Practices of Hope: Literary Criticism in Disenchanted Times and George Blaustein’s Nightmare Envy and Other Stories: American Culture and European Reconstruction. Both are concerned with what it meant, and what it might mean, to be engaged as a scholar of American c…
To Kill a Mockingbird
Chapter 26 of Harper Lee’s 1960 classic To Kill a Mockingbird offers an unexpected discussion of Hitler’s actions in Nazi Germany. The subject arises during a student presentation on “current event
Elizabeth Hinton, America on Fire. The Untold Story of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s
Elizabeth Hinton, America on Fire. The Untold Story of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s. W.W. Norton, 2021. Pp. 408. ISBN: 978-1-63149-890-9 Author: Simon Stow, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA The central claims of Elizabeth Hinton’s America on Fire are not new. What is new is the eloquence and painstaking nature of their presentation. It is a significant accomplishment and a major contribution to our understa…
Rappin' Black in a White World
Emerging from the aftermath of the 1965 Watts Uprising in Los Angeles, CA, the spoken-word group the Watts Prophets embodied a Black aesthetic that rejected the respectability politics of the Civil Rights movement in favor of cultivating a radical Black consciousness in their own community. Offering neither a program nor an ideal, they sought to empower their audience to free themselves from the shackles – mental, physical, political, and economi…
Atticus Finch as Namesake
On Mockingbirds and Finches
“[E]ugenic ideology,” observed Rachel Walman, “is ... written all over the pages of To Kill a Mockingbird” (Walman). Puzzlingly, however, relatively little scholarly attention has been paid to this a
Work that
I, Too, Sing America
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