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Clio-2014.Pdf PREFACE Twenty-five years ago, the CSU-Sacramento History Department approved the student publication of a scholarly historical journal. With this blessing from the college and university the History Department and the historical scholarship society, Phi Alpha Theta, the CLIO Journal published the first collection of scholarly writings from the, then, upper division and graduate students of history. Then as now, the editorial staff of the Journal conducted a competitive selection of submitted writings to determine the most representative scholarly student academic efforts for that academic year for inclusion in the CLIO Journal. After 25 years, the process continues unabated. With this background, the CLIO Journal editorial staff, in conjunction with Phi Alpha Theta, Rho Xi chapter, presents proudly the 25th Anniversary edition. This year’s journal reveals the diversity of scholarly interests pursued by today’s student scholar. Given such a benchmark anniversary date, the selections demonstrate, most acutely, the myriad scholarly issues currently researched by today’s historical scholar. Research, however, requires support and this journal, as a tool for developing scholarship, is no exception. Some support goes beyond the call of duty and, as such, merit personal acknowledgement. The CLIO Journal wishes to thank Tim Tadlock, Brittani Orona and Lorraine Herbon for their contributions and untiring efforts in producing this year’s CLIO. The Journal wishes also to thank Professor Nicolas Lazaridis, faculty advisor for the CLIO Journal, Professor Candace Gregory, faculty advisor for Phi Alpha Theta and Professor Aaron Cohen, faculty chair of the history department for all their support. Last, but certainly not least, is the California State University, Sacramento, Student Organization and Leadership division of the university and the CSU Student Academic Council for their support and backing without whose support this 25th edition of the CLIO Journal becomes impossible. Eugene Boyd CLIO Journal Editor-In-Chief CONTENTS Subjectivity, Truth, And Power: A Brief Overview Of Postmodern Theory And Its Application To The Archival Profession. Erin Bostick Creative Consciousness And The Counter-monument In Public History. Bobby Edwards Small Stories With Large Implications: How Interpretive Anthropology And Microhistory Influence Historiography. Adam Gosney Perpetuating The Myth: The Lost Cause In Feature Films 1930-1940. Lorraine Herbon What’s Love Got To Do With It? How The Contagious Diseases Acts Failed To Control The World’s Oldest Profession. Mieke Lisuk Searching For The American Working Class. Shay McNee Let’s Talk About Sex: Degrees of Power in Mid-century “Queer” Pulp. Trevor Garcia-Neeley We’re All In The Same Boat…Well, Not Really: Germ Theory And Immigrant Baggage Bring Need For Ellis Island: Separating Immigrants From The Mainland. Caitlin Ramirez From The Shadows: The Emergence Of The Filipino Farmworker In The American Collective Memory. Jason Sarmiento Truth And Consequences: The Origin and Victory Of The War Of 1812. Timothy Tadlock “Subjectivity, Truth, and Power: A Brief Overview of Postmodern Theory and its Application to the Archival Profession” ABOUT THE AUTHOR Erin Bostwick graduated cum laude from Humboldt State University with a Bachelor of Arts in History (American History emphasis) and a minor in Women’s Studies. As part of the Public History graduate program at Sacramento State, she has interned for the California Office of Historic Preservation, the city of Sacramento’s Historic Preservation office, and as the project assistant for an NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture Grant focusing on California’s Gold Rush history. Her research interests include local, architectural, and women’s history – which she hopes to pursue soon in her hometown of Boise, Idaho. Postmodernism philosophy originated in the 20th century as successor to modernism and positivism. Modernist philosophy is predicated on the belief that rationality triumphs over religiosity and custom. The modern individual is an independent decision maker and acts of his own volition.1 The predecessor to modernism is positivism, a philosophical movement of the 19th century which posited that the only true knowledge was born from the application of scientific and mathematical principles and rational deduction. Positivism was heavily informed by the Enlightenment’s scientific worldview that reason, science, technology, and bureaucratic management heralded the improvement of society. According to positivist philosophy, humanity can discover the underlying natural truth to any question through reason and personal experience.2 Postmodernism, in contrast to modernism and positivism, questions mankind’s ability to objectively seek truth, disregarding the belief that through rational deduction individuals may arrive at the truth. When postmodernism is applied to archives, it brings into question the objectivity of the archivist, the concept of archival holdings representing the truth of history, and the ways in which archives help replicate existing power relations in society through their collecting practices. Postmodern Theory Postmodernism is a reaction to modernist and positivist schools of thought.3 The foundations of postmodernism as a general philosophy began in the 1960s by philosophers inspired by the theories of thinkers like Nietze and Freud. In a general sense, postmodernism 1 Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt, and Margaret Jacob, Telling the Truth About History (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1994), 201 2 Randall C. Jimerson, Archives Power: Memory, Accountability, and Social Justice (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2009), 293. 3 Postmodernism is an incredibly large school of thought that reaches into an array of disciplines. This paper focuses primarily on the aspects of postmodernism that are most pertinent to archival theory. Some theorists differentiate between postmodern and poststructuralist thought. However, for the purposes of this paper postmodernism has been used as an umbrella term incorporating both aspects. critiques “modernity as a set of assumptions about industrial and technological forms of life.”4 As a school of thought and tool for analysis and critique, postmodernism questioned modernistic enlightenment values like progress, rationality, and truth. To postmodernists, ideas, like progress, represent a discourse supporting the “monolithic structure” of modern society by marginalizing threats to its cultural dominance.5 Postmodernists deconstruct the modern idea of the autonomous individual and self- conscious agent. They believe Western Man is trapped by ideology and incapable of freeing himself. Language, they argue, is the barrier to truth.6 Consequently, the surrounding reality tempers all decisions, thereby making real agency impossible. To the postmodernists, ideology limits the ability to objectively experience the world due to the constraints placed by hegemonic discourses. In postmodern thought, people in power construct the answers and truths to feed and sustain their own authority—a concept referred to as hegemonic discourse. A major tenet of postmodernism, this concept challenges the positivist idea that people apply objective principles to understand and arrive at universal truths. In addition to questioning the autonomy of the individual, postmodernism challenges the objectivity of truth.7 Postmodern thought rejects the modernist belief that there is a priori knowledge; objective knowledge gained through theoretical deduction, not personal experience or observation. They dismiss those concepts as invalid—the foundations, assumptions, and commonly held beliefs—that constitute “common sense.”8 Furthermore, postmodernism posits that experience tempers all knowledge. Reality does not have essential truths; rather the world is 4 Appleby, Hunt, and Jacob, Telling the Truth About History, 201. 5 Jimerson, Archives Power, 215. 6 Appleby, Hunt, and Jacob, Telling the Truth About History, 208-13. 7 Appleby, Hunt, and Jacob, Telling the Truth About History, 201-08. 8 “Common Sense” is now a commonly used concept in postmodern analysis. It refers to the definition coined by theorist Antonio Gramsci, who defined the term as the embedded, incoherent and spontaneous beliefs and assumptions characterizing the conformist thinking of the mass of people in a given social order. Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Books, ed. Quintin Hoare and Geoffrey Nowell-Smith (London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1982), 419-25. shaped by our own interpretations of it. Thus, experiences are corrupted by “the cultural and personal prejudices or prejudgments” of the person interpreting them.9 Discussing the concept of objective knowledge, historian Joyce Appleby engages the postmodern perspective: Human beings do not discover a truth in concordance with nature; they invent it, so that truth is always changing just as the water in a river is always changing. Claims for truth can therefore only be dissimulations, invariably advanced by those who have power.10 The idea of truth as a human construct, and therefore impermanent, directly contradicts the modernist concept of rational truth. Modernism embraces the concept of an inherent truth or answer wherein a reasonable person arrives at truth using rational means. With hegemonic discourse defining “truth”, in postmodern thought, people in positions of power construct the answers and truths to feed their own authority. Thus, examination of the relationship between power and knowledge becomes
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