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Images:
1. Ronald Reagan, courtesy
of the Ronald Reagan Library, Simi Valley, CA (Image E13-3)
2. "The Footprint of the
Chicken," political cartoon by Don James, Boulder Daily Camera (5/27/71).
3. Political Cartoon from
the DeGolyer Collection at the DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist
University, Dallas.
4. Image of Everett DeGolyer
for the DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University, Dallas.
5.Allen Ginsberg, Open Head,
Melbourne: Sun Books, 1972
6. Image of Henry B.
Gonzales from website of The Library of Congress
www.loc.gov
7. Billy James Hargis, The
Far Left, Tulsa: Christian Crusade, 1964.
8. Carey McWilliams,
California: The Great Exception, New York: Current Books, 1959.
9. Ping Yuen Political
Cartoon, San Francisco Daily Chronicle (June 10, 1963).
10. Society of California
Pioneers, The Huntington Library (RB 70775)
11. United and Strong
Farmers Union Logo from Nebraska Farmers Union.
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As recent elections have
shown, the politics of the American West defy easy categorization.
The essayists in
The Political Culture of the New West,
edited by Jeff Roche, move far beyond simple Red and Blue
categorizations to show a diverse, complex, and often contradictory
political culture. From the demography of the American voter, to the
issues that get them to the polls and to the language our national
politicians use to get their message across, the West has come to
stand for the larger nation. The contributors to The Political
Culture consider a variety of topics including: Native American
activism, the globalization of resource extraction, urban racial
coalitions, modern enviromentalism, plain folk evangelicalism, the
evolution of farmers' political ideology, the evolution of Latino
political culture, the relationship between western myth and modern
conservatism, counterculture libertarianism, micropolitan spaces and
hip capitalism, regionalism and liberalism, and the role of memory
in regional political culture. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas,
2008.
THE
POLITICAL LEGACIES OF THE AMERICAN WEST
A Public Symposium
held February 26, 2005 on the campus of Southern Methodist University
One cannot understand
American politics without understanding western politics. Western
politicians, trends, organizations, and movements have driven the American
political agenda for much of the century. Historians will offer original
work on key issues, personalities, and themes, offering both stimulating
questions and provocative answers about the nature of the political west and its
relationship with national politics.
“Anyone interested in the politics of our time should attend this event.
There is much to learn from the research of these historians.”
Texas Governor William P.
Clements, Jr. (1979-83, 1987-91)
Introductions
by Jeff Roche, organizer, College of Wooster
First Session: Region, Identity, & Progressive Politics
Michael
Steiner,
Department of American Studies, California State University-Fullerton
“Carey McWilliams, Western Regionalism, and the Politics of Place: Creating a
Radical Regional Voice, 1922-1937”
Amy
Scott, Ph.D.
candidate in History, University of New Mexico
“Lifestyle Politics, Hip Capitalism, and Micropolitan Urbanism in the American
West”
Andrew
G. Kirk,
Department of History, University of Nevada- Las Vegas
"Ecotopia and Political
Realism: Green Consumerism and Counterculture Libertarianism”
Second Session: Western Myth &
Political Reality
Robert
Alan Goldberg,
Department of History, University of Utah
“The Western Hero in Politics: Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, and the Rise of
the American Conservative Movement”
Karen
Merrill,
Department of History, Williams College
“The Illusions of Independence: Texas Oilmen and the Politics of Petroleum”
R.
Douglas Hurt,
Department of History, Purdue University
“Agricultural Politics in the American West”
Third Session: Authenticity &
the Politics of Place
John
Herron, Department of History, University of Missouri-Kansas City
“The Call in the Wild: Nature, Technology, and Environmental Politics”
Ignacio
Garcia,
Department of History, Brigham Young University
“White or Brown But Not Equal: Latinos in the Politics of the West”
Scott
Tang, Department
of American Studies, California State University – Fullerton
“Becoming the New Objects of Racial Scorn: Black Politics and Racial Hierarchy
in Postwar San Francisco, 1945-1960”
Fourth Session: The West as
America
Darren Dochuk, Lilly
Fellow in History, Valparaiso University
“’They Locked God Outside the Iron Curtain’: The Politics of Anti-Communism
and the Ascendancy of Plain-Folk Religion in the Postwar West”
David M. Wrobel,
Department of History, University of Nevada-Las Vegas
“The Politics of Western Memory”
Sponsored by the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies
With
support from SMU’s John G. Tower Center for Political Studies
For more information, please contact (214) 768-3684 or
swcenter@smu.edu
To learn more about the participants,
click here.
Directions and
maps
to sites frequently used for
Clements Center events at SMU.
Visitor
Parking at SMU.
Last updated
March 24, 2008.
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