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The Great Midland
In an introduction written for this edition, Alexander Saxton reveals that he does not regret having been a Communist, even though his political convictions cost him job opportunities.
The Indispensable Enemy
Winner, Silver Medal, California Book Awards—Commonwealth Club of California With a foreword by William DeverellThe Indispensable Enemy examines the anti-Chinese confrontation on the Pacific Coast as it was experienced and rationalized by the white majority. Focusing on the Democratic party and the labor movement of California through the forty-year period after the Civil War, Alexander Saxton explores aspects of the Jacksonian background which proves crucial to an understanding of what occurred in California. The Indispensable Enemy looks beyond the turn of the 19th century to trace results of the sequence of events in the West for the labor movement as a whole, influencing events that le...
The Rise and Fall of the White Republic
In this acclaimed historical study, Alexander Saxton establishes the centrality of white racism to American politics and culture. Examining images of race at a popular level – from blackface minstrelsy to the construction of the Western hero, from grassroots political culture to dime novels – as well as the philosophical constructions of the political elite, it is a powerful and comprehensive account of the ideological forces at work in the formation of modern America.
Bright Web in the Darkness
Set in the San Francisco Bay area during World War II, Bright Web in the Darkness is a novel that illuminates the role of women workers during the war and the efforts of African Americans to achieve regular standing as union members. The central characters are two young women—one black, one white—who meet in a welding class and become friends as they work to qualify for the well-paid jobs opening to women as male workers are drafted. Sensitively and presciently written, this novel addresses social issues that still demand our attention.
Religion and the Human Prospect
Since September 11, 2001, Religion Has Been At The Center Of Debates About The Global Future. Religion And The Human Prospect Relates These Issues Systematically To A Path-Breaking Interpretation Of The History Of Religion, Its Part In Human Development, And Its Potential Role In Preventing Or Enabling Global Catastrophe.Religion Has Made Possible Critical Transitions In The Emergence And Development Of Human Society. At The Moment When Our Humanoid Ancestors Became Aware Of The Inevitability Of Death, Religion Interposed The Belief In Spiritual Beings Who Gave It New Significance. When Individual Self-Interest And Collective Survival Conflicted, Religion Defended Collective Survival By Codi...
The Rise and Fall of the White Republic
Saxton asks why white racism remained an ideological force in America long after the need to justify slavery and Western conquest had disappeared.
The Hieros Gamos of Sam and An Smith
During the day a blazing and merciless sun beat down on "the boy" and at night a friendless and cold darkness enveloped him. It was a bleak and lonely countryside over which he had been wandering for ten years. A rare tree, bird or wild animal was the only life he encountered during his desolate trek through his young years of roaming. Infrequently, he was fortunate enough to find shelter and food in the shops of deserted villages; otherwise he foraged what he could from the nearly barren land. Contact with other humans was his innermost and greatest fear. But the day came when his curiosity overcame his sensibilities of self-preservation and he was drawn to the sound of a great wailing not ...
Locating American Studies
This collection of 17 esays first printed in "American Quarterly", the journal of the American Studies Association. To mark the Association's 50th anniversary in 1998, the editor has brought together works by a group of scholars which she believes provide a window into the history and evolution of the practice of American studies. Each essay, originally published between 1950 and 1996 is accompanied by a commentary in which a scholar from a related field provides critical information for understanding the continuing importance of the work to the American Studies field. Contributors include: Gene Wise; Henry Nash Smith; Barbara Welter; Alexander Saxton; and Kevin Mumford.
American Night
American Night, the final volume of an unprecedented trilogy, brings Alan Wald's multigenerational history of Communist writers to a poignant climax. Using new research to explore the intimate lives of novelists, poets, and critics during the Cold War, Wald reveals a radical community longing for the rebirth of the social vision of the 1930s and struggling with a loss of moral certainty as the Communist worldview was being called into question. The resulting literature, Wald shows, is a haunting record of fracture and struggle linked by common structures of feeling, ones more suggestive of the "negative dialectics" of Theodor Adorno than the traditional social realism of the Left. Establishi...
Reasonable Perspectives on Religion
This book seeks to bring together a range of discussions, both critical and apologetic, each of which examines some element or function of religion. Covering a wide range of topics, including ethics, religious pluralism, the existence of God, and reasonableness of Islam, these pieces have in common arguments that are made in careful and scholarly ways_they represent reasonable perspectives on a wide swath of contemporary religious debates, in contrast to the unreasonableness that creeps into discussions on religion in American society.
