Browsing by Subject "Paternalism"
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Item Jim and Uncle Remus : stereotypicity versus authenticity in representations of blackness in the Gilded Age(2016-05) Brozovsky, Erica Sharon; Hancock, Ian F.; Hinrichs, LarsAccuracy and authenticity in literary representations of blackness in the modern age are of utmost importance in order to dissuade accusations of racism; however in centuries past, this was not the case. Given the cultural and social climate, what we today see as overt racism may have been viewed in the 1800s as the accepted norm. Actual authenticity was less important than portraying black characters in a way that readers would accept. The purpose of this project is to examine representations of blackness in terms of language and character descriptions in nineteenth century American fiction through the lens of factors that led to the stereotyped versions of black characters that were prevalent at the time. I investigated two works: Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings by Joel Chandler Harris, taking into account not only the physical texts themselves, but also each author’s biographic history and personal knowledge and experience of black culture. By examining the phonological, lexical, and grammatical aspects of the Black English found in each text in conjunction with physical, emotional, and intellectual descriptions of the chosen characters, I found archetypes of the Sambo slave stereotype, also influenced by the culture of minstrelsy prevalent at the time. While Twain and Harris claim to have represented their characters as genuinely as possible, external societal pressures and their own limitations as white men clearly affected their depictions of blackness. In the century since these Gilded Age pieces first made their appearance, hundreds of scholarly works on African American speech have been published, reifying the academic study of Black English into a well-established field. Nevertheless its occasional representation in fiction and in entertainment media— especially now film—is evidence that stereotype can still too often win out over accuracy.Item Life, land, and labor on Avery Island in the 1920s and 1930s(2011-05) Boutte, Charity Michelle; Thompson, Shirley Elizabeth; Tang, Eric, 1974-Avery Island, Louisiana and McIlhenny Company provide a lens through which to understand how performances of masculinity and paternalism operated in the New South and were deployed for U. S. empire-building projects. Focusing on the tenure of Edward Avery McIlhenny as President of McIlhenny Company, this paper utilizes primary documents from the McIlhenny Company & Avery Island, Inc. Archives to construct a narrative based on correspondence between E. A. and his Wall Street investment banker, Ernest B. Tracy, revealing how E.A. confronted disaster capitalism and influenced the production of cultural tourism amidst environmental and economic crises in the 1920s and 1930s.Item “Yes, Coach” : the rhetoric of paternalism in collegiate athletics(2023-05-04) Lever, Katie; Butterworth, Michael L.; Hartelius, Johanna; Ganesh, Shiv; Todd, Jan; McClearen, JenniferThis project is an analysis of NCAA policy and college sports bills and laws that discuss the presence of paternalism at varying levels of athlete regulation and its impact on college athletes. Paternalism is widely understood as a management style in which supervisors unduly control their subordinates, allegedly for the benefit of those under their authority. NCAA policy and legislation aimed at college athletes often contain levels of paternalism that I argue are both unnecessary and harmful. Further, even policy that is designed to benefit athletes, such as name, image, and likeness legislation that grants college athletes economic freedoms they have been historically been denied, contains elements of paternalism that mirror more oppressive policies supported by the NCAA for the purpose of denying college athlete workplace rights. Throughout my analysis, I present three different types of paternalism that operate at different levels of college sports policy both within and outside of the NCAA: internal paternalism, external paternalism, and passive paternalism.