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Surrogate Americans: Masculinity, Masquerade, and the Formation of a National Identity
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 October 2020
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This essay explores the layered, ideologically contradictory, and psychologically overdetermined ways national identities take form. The setting is the birth of the new American nation, the opening moments of George Washington's first administration. As European Americans from Benjamin Franklin to D. W. Griffith tell us, this is a white man's story about his “Black … and Tawney …” (br)others (Franklin, qtd. in Ferguson 169).
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