http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/alexis-de-tocqueville Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Mon, 18 May 2026 07:06:46 -0400 Mon, 18 May 2026 07:06:46 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/267/ending-the-exceptional-defiance-of-conventions-in-dennis-hoppers-easy-rider By Daniel J. Schneider - This overarching assumption is more difficult to find in later Westerns; films like John Ford’s The Searchers, while not overtly condemning the actions of its mysterious protagonist, are certainly not exactly ecstatic about the Western White Man; both in his attempts to control a land and an indigenous people who never seemed to want him there in the first place.. In fact, that old teleological ethic - which kept America strong through a civil war, two world wars and two centuries of expansion - was beginning to erode. In 1969, after years of protests against institutional racism, the Vietnam... Tue, 06 Jul 2010 07:05 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/267/ending-the-exceptional-defiance-of-conventions-in-dennis-hoppers-easy-rider