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Oct. 25th, 2007 10:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
novapsycheI got a chance to read Walker's Appeal this week. It's digestible in a night.
I want to read more material from that time period.
The American history I've been most versed in is post-Civil War. I tend to naturally begin with the failure of Reconstruction and proceed upward through time. However, now that I examine my own wells of knowledge, I wonder if I somehow was . . . complacent? too satisfied to start my stores of American lore post-slavery?
As an American Studies major, I was highly exhorted to study a minority culture, such as Native American culture or African-American culture. I avoided this (and at the time I would have described myself as deft); but now I wonder if I were trying naively to preserve some sense of an unbroken Culture, some ideal from which these adjuncts surely could be studied (these would be mere branches in this schema). Did I mean to preserve some grand fiction?
I wonder.
I want to read more material from that time period.
The American history I've been most versed in is post-Civil War. I tend to naturally begin with the failure of Reconstruction and proceed upward through time. However, now that I examine my own wells of knowledge, I wonder if I somehow was . . . complacent? too satisfied to start my stores of American lore post-slavery?
As an American Studies major, I was highly exhorted to study a minority culture, such as Native American culture or African-American culture. I avoided this (and at the time I would have described myself as deft); but now I wonder if I were trying naively to preserve some sense of an unbroken Culture, some ideal from which these adjuncts surely could be studied (these would be mere branches in this schema). Did I mean to preserve some grand fiction?
I wonder.