Papers by Patricia Schechter
Racists, Race Rebels, and Transformations of American Identity, 2009
To mark the centennial year since the Tulsa Race Massacre, a number of news outlets and public br... more To mark the centennial year since the Tulsa Race Massacre, a number of news outlets and public broadcasting stations, including the History Channel, put together one-hour specials. Included on this list is testimony solicited by the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. Congress in May, 2021.https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/tulsa/1005/thumbnail.jp
This bibliography gathers the most significant and important scholarship on the Tulsa Race Massac... more This bibliography gathers the most significant and important scholarship on the Tulsa Race Massacre. It includes books and articles by historians, journalists, lawyers, and political commentators, like President Joseph Biden.https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/tulsa/1002/thumbnail.jp
Oregon Historical Quarterly, 2007
Lyric Truth: Rosemarie Beck Symposium
Highlight reel from Lyric Truth: Rosemarie Beck symposium
The American Historical Review, 2017
Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, 2020
Spain can be difficult to place in contemporary discourses about the economic global north or glo... more Spain can be difficult to place in contemporary discourses about the economic global north or global south. This ambiguity has a pointed history in moves by European actors on the Iberian Peninsula. In the late nineteenth century, the House of Rothschild expanded their investment portfolio via the mining and rail industries of Andalucia. This paper sifts the results of these activities that produced the rural industrial and mining village Pueblonuevo del Terrible in northern Cordoba province. Drawing on the scholarship on transnational company towns and place making, the essay explores the actions of local miners and shopkeepers that created this municipality. Documents reveal a protracted struggle over numerous issues: the power to draw political boundaries, the Catholic character of Spanish life, the place of migrants in the community, and the status of land-ownership. The parties to these disputes relied on a gendered language of family, especially the notion of a matríz, a founding, original settlement, in order to ground their sense of place and belonging. Over time, however, the language of family broke down and hobbled the political process in Cordoba. The foreign mining company largely disappeared itself from the debate and, finally, in 1905, the administration in Madrid ruled in favor of creating the new town. The essay suggests that the achievement of town status marked a crisis of politics and political meaning as much as it did a successful effort at place making by everyday Spaniards at the peak of international industrial capitalism
Postcolonial Studies, 2018
This essay examines archival materials about the mock wedding staged to commemorate the creation ... more This essay examines archival materials about the mock wedding staged to commemorate the creation of the State of Oklahoma in November 1907 in the town of Guthrie. It suggests that 'The Wedding' performs a number of ideological moves in establishing settler common sense for the state and for the nation. Most obviously, it updates the 'Pocahontas marriage', a founding myth of the United States from the seventeenth century, adapting it to modern colonial needs in state creation. The essay roots the durability of The Wedding in its Edenic underpinnings, expressed first as an iconic founding couple, and secondly via a longed-for prelapsarian Adam figure, endowed with lands and empowered to name, sans Eve. Finally, The Wedding is a kind of proof text for the effacement of wives in the modern state's entailments and dis-entailments via civil marriage, colonial sense-making and immigration law. By reading the cultural script of The Wedding as a phase of Anglo-American colonial inscription, the essay suggests that the tropes of Matrimony and Discovery inform and support one another in the US case. Neither shows signs of weakening as settler common sense, despite critiques by Native Americans and African Americans in Oklahoma.
The Journal of American History, 2001
American Jewish History, 2008
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Papers by Patricia Schechter