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• W2056586971 abstract "“The Radical Roots of American Studies”: Presidential Address to the American Studies Association, November 9, 1995 Elaine Tyler May (bio) One year ago, the American Studies Program at the University of Minnesota celebrated its fiftieth anniversary. We held a conference to commemorate the event; to reflect on how our department and the field had evolved over the last half century; and to bring together new and old friends, students, and colleagues. Before the conference, I had no idea how enlightening it would be for me. Up to that time, I thought I understood the basic parameters of American studies lore. I never questioned the prevailing “creation myth” that permeates current understandings of the history of American studies. As in many academic disciplines, it is a version of the common “Oedipal” story: killing off the alleged fathers to create a new, oppositional scholarship. Graduate students sharpen their sense of intellectual identity by attacking the myth and symbol school that pervaded American studies in the fifties. According to this creation story, most of the myth and symbol scholars were White Protestant men who studied White Protestant men in an effort to understand American exceptionalism—leaving out everyone else. Presumably, the myth and symbol school, forged in the era of the cold war, was an effort to celebrate American exceptionalism and justify American dominance in the post-World War II world. Then, [End Page 179] when the politics of the 1960s transformed academia along with the rest of society, scholars in the field discovered women, workers, ethnic and racial diversity, and popular culture. It is a well-known story and one with much truth to it. But it is not the whole story, as I was to discover. The creation myth fails to acknowledge the critical edge that characterized much of the scholarship of the postwar years. Even more significantly, it largely ignores the fact that the field was not born during the cold war era. It emerged in the 1930s, and it was practiced by a number of scholars outside as well as inside the academy whose concerns reflect many of the issues at the heart of American studies today. Indeed, at our fiftieth anniversary conference, I discovered that there is more common ground between the founding generation and the practitioners of today than we are generally taught to believe. The first real surprise for me came at the reunion breakfast of the 1940s and 1950s generation. I expected to find a group that would conform to my stereotype of the era: a bunch of aging cold-warrior academics reminiscing about the good ol’ days when everyone was involved in the worthy effort of discovering what made the United States a great nation. I was surprised to enter a room filled with lively men and women eagerly greeting each other with hugs, laughter, and warm camaraderie. The men, many wearing plaid flannel workshirts and well-worn caps, did not look the part of the stuffy academics I expected. The women, forceful and funny, were right at home with a group that, according to lore, would never have accepted them as full partners. They rose one by one and spoke of the early days at Minnesota and why they came. They talked about the freedom they found in American studies to pursue scholarly projects that traditional disciplines scorned or dismissed. They talked about the excitement of doing interdisciplinary work at a time when the disciplines were defending their boundaries. They described American studies as a political oasis at a time when McCarthyism stifled dissent and many scholars with radical leanings lost their jobs. Several recounted stories of escaping the loyalty oaths required by universities in other states, arriving at Minnesota, and establishing Communist Party groups on campus. They remembered with fondness their late colleague Mulford Sibley, the mild-mannered anarchist who faced years of vicious red-baiting but never lost his sense of humor, his political passion, or his job. While I watched and listened [End Page 180] as these men and women described their political and academic radicalism, the picture in my mind of the “bad old days” began to shift. Humbled and awed by their high-spirited gathering, I went into..." @default.
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• W2056586971 title "The Radical Roots of American Studies&quot;: Presidential Address to the American Studies Association, November 9, 1995" @default.
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