2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Functions and Roles of U.S. Political Cartoons in Hawaiian Annexation Problem at the turn of 20th century: Visual Paradigm Analysis of Racial Representations.
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26870631
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Historical studies in general
History of Europe and America
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| Research Institution | Meiji University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
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| Keywords | アメリカ史 / アメリカ対外関係史 / 領土問題 / ハワイ / 風刺マンガ / 人種表象 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This research grasps the imagined scenery of diplomatic consciousness of "ordinary Americans (mainstream Americans)" toward the Hawaiian Annexation problem in the latter half of the 19th century, which was difficult due to restrictions on historical documents thus far. For that reason, the researcher treated Political Cartoons published in newspapers and magazines of the same era as visual historical documents and tried analyzing them.
The researcher collected political cartoons as historical documents in the Hawaii University's Hawaiian Collection, the Hawaii Historical Society Archives, the Hawaii State Archives and the Hawaii State Libraries.
As a result, this research intensively analyzed diplomatic consciousness of American mainstream among political cartoons published in such contemporary newspapers and magazines, and revealed that there was a visual paradigm of racial discrimination based on "White Supremacy" to indigenous people and citizens of their overseas possessions.
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| Free Research Field |
アメリカ史
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