The American Fraternity

The American Fraternity is a mysterious photo and ritual book that lifts the veil on America's oldest and most influential male tradition. The text comes from a decaying ritual manual from a prominent college fraternity. Seventy-five percent of modern U.S. presidents, senators, justices, and executives have taken arcane oaths of allegiance like the ones it contains. Six decades of red ceremonial wax stain it like blood. It is filled with dark power.
The American Fraternity is a mysterious photo and ritual book that lifts the veil on America's oldest and most influential male tradition.
Andrew Moisey is an award winning photographer and educator. He is Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Studies, a Rosevear Faculty Fellow at Cornell University. He received his Ph.D. in Film and Media Studies (May 2014) at the University of California, Berkeley.
...released amid a nationwide conversation about toxic masculinity sparked by the #Metoo movement...,
- Time, September 17, 2018
...a historical document of a powerful--and aggressive--American subculture.,
- Vice, October 4, 2018
This is a naked look inside the American frat house.,
- The New York Post, September 27, 2018
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