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The Return of the Regulatory State: Nation-States as Policy Actors in Digital Platform Governance
This chapter tracks the evolution of Internet governance from the “open Internet” discourses of the 1990s towards the current “policy turn”, and the...
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Rural as Nation
This chapter, ‘Rural as Nation’, explores the national aspect of rurality, drawing on Mike Bartlett’s Albion (Almeida, 2017) as a key case study. The...
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Indigenous to where? Homelands and nation (pueblo) in Indigenous Latinx studies
This paper centers the importance of homelands in the distinction between indigeneity and Latinidades, or multiple Latinx identities. I emphasize the...
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Identity Construction Between Nation Building and Nation Branding
In the past decade, the cultural projection of China has become increasingly important to the Communist Party of China (CPC) and to the state in...
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Writing Reality: Constructing a Nation
Literary journalism produced in the colonial era was central to the formation of the nation. This book—written as a cultural rather than...
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“Still a North and a South”: The Birth of a Nation and National Trauma
In President Obama’s 2015 State of The Union Address, he said: “I want [future generations] to grow up in a country that shows the world what we...
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Cultural Diplomacy Despite the State: Mobility and Agency of State and Amateur Musicians in Turkish Classical Music Choirs
The creation of Turkish classical music state choirs beginning in 1976 was one of the most significant cultural institutional developments of the...
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‘Playing sport is building nation’: Issues of Colombian Football and Nation in the Magazines Estadio and Semana during the El Dorado Professional League (1948–1954)
This chapter shows that the success of Colombia’s first professional league provided the opportunity for sport to return to being a central aspect of...
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From Emigrant to Migrant Nation: Reckoning with Irish Historical Duty
This chapter surveys the Republic of Ireland’s post-1990s transition from a nation primarily associated with emigration to one re-shaped by...
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Fixing The Birth of a Nation?: Hampton Institute and The New Era
The New Era Hampton epilogueas response to film" \r "mbnAwas Hampton’s answer to the nefarious representation of African Americans in The Birth of a...
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The Influence of The Birth of a Nation on South Africa: Film Culture and Race
D. W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation was screened for the first time in South Africa in 1931, for a very limited run of four nights only in the...
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Blackface, Disguise and Invisibility in the Reception of The Birth of a Nation
This chapter explores a question of audience perception in the light of the divergence between interpretative accounts of films as texts and social...
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The Birth of a Nation Footage We Do Not Want to Find
The Birth of a Nation (1915) met controversy beginning the year of its release, facing protests in multiple cities, many organized by the newly...
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Nation, Media and Communicative Space
Media are implicated in the exercise and formation of citizenship in a number of ways. The nation-state, as the main ‘communicative space’, was a...
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“At This Time in This City”: Black Atlanta and the Première of The Birth of a Nation
The Birth of a Nation was protested widely, not just in northern cities like Boston and New York but in many cities of the South. Curiously, Atlanta,...
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Introduction: Women, Nation, Enablement, and the Irish Question
A prolific playwright with an oeuvre of almost sixty plays, Bernard Shaw has, as Nicholas Grene contends, “so long remained the invisible man of...
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Gender, Race, Nation … and Barbie Savior
This chapter explores the Instagram account Barbie Savior, in which a satirical Barbie doll is given an imaginary world where she travels to Africa...
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“Should It Not Therefore Be Banned?”: Screening and Broadcasting The Birth of a Nation in Britain
In 1952, the London County Council permitted a screening of The Birth of a Nation at the Marble Arch Pavilion, running at just one and a half hours,...
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“Black Horror on the Rhine”: D. W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation and the French-occupied Rhineland after World War I
A few years ago, one of my graduate students, Arlene HuiHui, Arlene, showed me a photocopy of a New York Times article about the banning of The Birth...
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Resisting The Birth of a Nation in Virginia
“Resisting the Birth” focuses on the response of Black and white communities and institutions in Virginia where unsuccessful attempts to fix the film...