和解叙事:美国内战后一个国家的诞生

IF 10.5 1区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

American Economic Review Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI:10.1257/aer.20210413

E. Esposito, T. Rotesi, Alessandro Saia, Mathias Thoenig

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引用次数: 8

摘要

我们研究了“失败的原因”叙事(一种对美国内战的修正主义和种族主义重述)的传播如何改变了人们对国家统一和对非裔美国人的种族歧视的看法和行为。回顾《一个国家的诞生》(The Birth of a Nation)的放映，我们发现这部电影将公共话语转向了一种更爱国、更少分裂的语言，增加了军事征兵，并促进了昔日敌人之间的文化融合。《一个国家的诞生》是一部轰动一时的电影，在1915年之后极大地推广了失败的事业。我们记录了叙事中的种族主义内容是如何通过“共同敌人”类型的论点与和解联系在一起的。(jj15, l82, n31, n32, n41, z13)

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Reconciliation Narratives: The Birth of a Nation after the US Civil War

We study how the spread of the Lost Cause narrative—a revisionist and racist retelling of the US Civil War—shifted opinions and behaviors toward national reunification and racial discrimination against African Americans. Looking at screenings of The Birth of a Nation, a blockbuster movie that greatly popularized the Lost Cause after 1915, we find that the film shifted the public discourse toward a more patriotic and less divisive language, increased military enlistment, and fostered cultural convergence between former enemies. We document how the racist content of the narrative connects to reconciliation through a “common-enemy” type of argument. (JEL J15, L82, N31, N32, N41, Z13)

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American Economic Review ECONOMICS-

CiteScore

18.60

自引率

2.80%

发文量

122

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