Undefeated: John Wayne’s Confederate-Yankee Adventure in Mexico and the Rise of Populist-Conservatism, 1860s/1960s

James Review 2 (2016): 49-74. Historical projections are conglomerations of memory and history weaving through rhetoric, discourse, gestures, and symbols, which connect to sets of ideology in the present as well as material power. Historical projections gain potency from the positionality of its source—particularly those who cast a larger shadow of legitimacy as a source of credible information. Historical projections police the dominant common-sense using history and memory as a justification on the present. Those historically marginalized from the traditional histories passed down through education popular media often face historical erasure. As performances, historical projections regenerate traditional notions of the past for incorporation into the everyday, further securing a dominant narrative while containing statements made by historically marginalized peoples who seek to challenge existing power relations. Accordingly, historical projections are critical sites for culture wars. See also Daniel A of Neoliberalism, from the Sixties to the Reagan Revolution