A moment of clarity? The American media and Hurricane Katrina

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As stories and photos from Hurricane Katrina began to accumulate in the first week after, the American media decided that race and class could become the focal points of stories. In a moment of clarity, the media saw the stark truth of devastation beneath the narratives and myths that make daily news coverage, and incorrect stories were written due to lack of communication.

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Blood-lines That Waver South: hybridity, the "south," and American bodies

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The prevalence of racialized discourses of modernity and nationalism in the Americans are discussed. For mixed-race American artists, there were significant differences between the way they imagined their connection to the space of the primitive and those legions of European artists.

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American nationalism and the defense of poetry

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After acquiring political independence United States felt the need for creation of cultural and intellectual interdependence, which was a part of literary emancipation. Many authors major and minor tried to promote the establishment of national literature.

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