{"id":13656,"date":"2009-10-02T10:08:19","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T15:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=13656"},"modified":"2012-10-14T02:03:37","modified_gmt":"2012-10-14T07:03:37","slug":"re-visioning-american-military-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/10\/02\/re-visioning-american-military-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Re-Visioning American Military History"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jamy B.<\/a> snapped this photo<\/a> of an ad for a U.S. Army “live action” show in the D.C. metro:<\/p>\n

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The show is called “Spirit of America” and the slogan along the top reads: “Celebrate the spirit, strength and history of our nation!”\u00a0\u00a0 The inclusion of a white woman and a black man alongside what appears to be a white man, suggests that the ad-makers want us to understand that the “spirit of America” involves racial and gender inclusiveness.\u00a0 Of course, this is in contrast to historical fact.\u00a0\u00a0 Being “patriotic,” I guess, means erasing historical injustices.<\/p>\n

Frankly, I have some sympathy for the promoters of this event.\u00a0 Inclusiveness is a nice idea.\u00a0 Unfortunately, they’re stuck between a rock and a hard place in trying to bring together ideology and reality.<\/p>\n

NEW!<\/strong><\/span> Simon H. sent in a British poster (found at Free Market Fairy<\/a>) urging men to sign up to serve in World War I. In this case, the British Empire is portrayed as a family of nations, all happily working together with the same patriotic aims:<\/p>\n

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Lisa Wade is a\u00a0professor of sociology at Occidental College<\/a>. You can follow her on\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jamy B. snapped this photo of an ad for a U.S. Army “live action” show in the D.C. metro: The show is called “Spirit of America” and the slogan along the top reads: “Celebrate the spirit, strength and history of our nation!”\u00a0\u00a0 The inclusion of a white woman and a black man alongside what appears […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55,2102,253,778,23703,285,1760,309],"class_list":["post-13656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gender","tag-gender-history","tag-history","tag-intersectionality","tag-marketing","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans","tag-warmilitary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13656"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13869,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13656\/revisions\/13869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}