{"id":435,"date":"2017-04-04T23:25:18","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T03:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/?p=435"},"modified":"2017-04-04T23:25:18","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T03:25:18","slug":"the-discovery-of-what-it-means-to-be-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/james-baldwin\/the-discovery-of-what-it-means-to-be-american\/","title":{"rendered":"The Discovery of What it Means to Be American"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found Baldwin&#8217;s paper on American-European relations particularly interesting. His commentary on status, claiming that Americans place greater emphasis on status than Europeans, aligned with some points made in the Great Gatsby, like those regarding social mobility, old money versus new money, etc. However looking at his claim historically, I don&#8217;t understand the origin of the American importance on status. While European traditions with status originate from monarchial and feudalist systems, America is derived from anti-European traditions which rejected the ranking of individuals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found Baldwin&#8217;s paper on American-European relations particularly interesting. His commentary on status, claiming that Americans place greater emphasis on status than Europeans, aligned with some points made in the Great Gatsby, like those regarding social mobility, old money versus new money, etc. However looking at his claim historically, I don&#8217;t understand the origin of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-james-baldwin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}