Expansionism was a sign of progress and optimism in a century that witnessed Jim Crow laws, the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan, and the lynching of Mexicans. The author starts his examination with Turner’s Frontier Thesis in the early 20 th century, which states that expansionism created “a uniquely American form of political equality, a vibrant, forward-looking individualism” (p. society?’ ‘How can we account for Donald Trump’s election?’ and ‘Does Trump represent a rupture or a continuity in the history of racism in the U.S.?’ In his book, Greg Grandin convincingly answers these questions by explaining what the word frontier came to mean over time and how it shaped society in the U.S.’s past and present.
He asks the wide-reaching questions ‘How has the definition of the frontier evolved throughout history?’ ‘How can we account for racism in current U.S. transformed from a frontier into a border, and how this shaped the U.S. However, Greg Grandin’s The End of the Myth is singular in that it shines light on how the U.S. The border has become the research focus of many scholars nowadays, who bring their attention to the militarization, multiplication, and externalization of borders worldwide, as well as to the various undocumented migration issues that result. Review of The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America by Greg Grandin (Metropolitan Books, 2019).
Her research centers on the notions of security and community in the border towns of Douglas, Arizona, United States and Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico. In 2020 she is a Fulbright fellow and visiting scholar at the University of Arizona. Cléa is a PhD candidate in American Studies and a member of the Center for Research on the English-speaking World (CREW) at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris, where she teaches American history.
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