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Historians sometimes forget that history is continually being made and experienced before it is studied, interpreted, and read.
Historians sometimes forget that history is continually being made and experienced before it is studied, interpreted, and read.
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2019-02-01
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Historians sometimes forget that history is continually being made and experienced before it is studied, interpreted, and read. These latter activities have their own history, of course, which may impinge in unexpected ways on public events. It is difficult to predict when "new pasts" will overturn established historical interpretations and change the course of history.
In the fall of 1954, for example, C. Vann Woodward delivered a lecture series at the University of Virginia which challenged the prevailing dogma concerning the history, continuity, and uniformity of racial segregation in the South. He argued that the Jim Crow laws of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries not only codified traditional practice but also were a determined effort to erase the considerable progress made by Black people during and after Reconstruction in the 1870’s. This revisionist view of Jim Crow legis- lation grew in part from the research that Woodward had done for the NAACP legal campaign during its preparation for Brown v. Board of Education. The Supreme Court had issued its ruling in this epochal desegregation case a few months before Woodward’ s lectures.
The lectures were soon published as a book—The Strange Career of Jim Crow. Ten years later, in a preface to the second revised edition, Woodward confessed with ironic modesty that the first edition "had begun to suffer under some of the handicaps that might be ex- pected in a history of the American Revolution published in 1776." That was a bit like hearing Thomas Paine apologize for the timing of his pamphlet Common Sense, which had a compara- ble impact. Although Common Sense also had a mass readership, Paine had intended to reach and inspire: he was not a historian, and thus not concerned with accuracy or the dangers of histori- cal anachronism. Yet, like Paine, Woodward had an unerring sense of the revolutionary moment, and of how historical evidence could undermine the mythological tradition that was crushing the dreams of new social possibilities. Martin Luther King, Jr. testified to the profound effect of The Strange Career of Jim Crow on the civil rights movement by praising the book and quoting it frequently.
Which of the following best describes the new idea expressed by C. Vann Woodward in his University of Virginia lectures in 1954?
选项
A、Southern racial segregation was continuous and uniform.
B、Black people made considerable progress only after Reconstruction.
C、Jim Crow legislation was conventional in nature.
D、Jim Crow laws did not go as far in codifying traditional practice as they might have.
E、Jim Crow laws did much more than merely reinforce a tradition of segregation.
答案
E
解析
哪一选项最好地体现了Woodward在195年体现的观点?A.南方种族隔离延续,同一。此点原文并未明确是Woodward指出的。B.“only after Reconstruction”,无。C.易混。Jim Crow法在本质上保守。此内容有,但原文L19—20用not only和but also连起Woodward的观点,应更强调后者,而此选项是not only之后的内容:使一些传统做法合法化。D.未到使传统合法化地步。和原文所述相反。E.正确。Jim Crow法比仅仅确认种族隔离的传统要更可怕(保守)。符合原文。
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