... Bridges Watts Rebecca Cash Wilbur J Drive By Truckers Ebony Hillbillies Film Globalization McKinnon Ray Woodward C Vann Cobb James C Peacock James Tacky South Carolina South of the Border Atlantic Beach American culture tourist sites touriscape This is a story about two very different...

...This chapter aims to recreate the conditions of the production of the African American novel between 1945 and 1950. In doing so, it is necessary to not only recover the lost voices of the time but pry open a space in the critical models available for theorizing postwar African American culture...

...This chapter discusses the grassroots Black Arts movement of Chicago and specifically looks at the Organization for Black American Culture (OBAC). It explains that OBAC was considered as a branch of the Black Arts Movement (BAM). However, OBAC’s aesthetic was inspired by its own unique, culturally...

.... Furthermore, hip-hop culture has continued to draw material from the African American culture of the 1960s and 1970s, retelling the era’s cultural politics, invoking nostalgia to its audiences. activism American aesthetics accessible Black Artist consciousness Afrocentric hip hop nationalism black...

... to understand aspects of American culture that will remain prominent for the foreseeable future....

...—by a more general self-identification as “white” and a longing to be Black, or at least to experience immersion in African American culture. This process is facilitated by their experiences of city life and their attraction to jazz music and nightlife—all of which exposes them to the racial, ethnic...

... montuno section Orquesta Aragón son chá “Baile Suavito ” charanga mambo chromaticism flute improvisations charanga mambo quotations melodic Batman TV show theme Boogaloo Latin bugalú African American culture Commercial fusion Conjunto Nosotros grabamos “Black Is Black.” ¿Sabes lo que ha...

... a unified community strong enough to repel the encroaching influences of American culture, and restoring the great image of France. De Gaulle believed that in order to advance in modern times, a French citizen should have a sense of themselves and knowledge of their place, as part of the French people...

...This concluding chapter summarizes the book's main themes relating to the many different ways that Hollywood films represented passing between 1947 and 1960, thus casting light on the contradictory discourses about identity that coexisted in postwar American culture. The book has shown how...

...This chapter discusses how the boxing film genre uses changing historical perspectives to express the ongoing ambivalence in American culture toward market values and the success ethic. The analysis includes films such as The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933), Champion...

...This chapter focuses on the framing of Eudora Welty's photographs. It mentions the social utility of Welty's photographs in terms of representing American culture and construction of meaning. The meaning of a photograph is highly dependent on its context and publication venue. As time goes...

... Horowitz’s description of Clinton as an empty vessel into which her detractors can pour everything they detest about politicians, ambitious women and an American culture they fear is being wrested from their control. This chapter also provides some examples of anti-Hillary jokes. Bobbitt Lorena Branch...

... saturated American culture in the 1930s and 1940s, and that the left social movements of the period were in no small part responsible. The book examines the prose of Carlos Bulosan and H. T. Tsiang; the photo essays of Margaret Bourke-White in Life magazine; the bestsellers of Erskine...

... seen in mainstream American culture since the 1960s. Blindness “Borderline cases ” Bronze Age Cyborg Victor Stone Deformity Iron Man Tony Stark Mitchell David T She Thing Sharon Ventura Ms Marvel Sikes Smiley Snyder Sharon Supercrip Superhero Thing The Ben Grimm Thor Donald Blake...

...This chapter uses Lee’s film The Chinese Connection (1972) to explore the theme of ethnic imperialism involving Japanese and African American cultures in Ishmael Reed’s Japanese by Spring and the Japanese anime series Samurai Champloo. Set against...

... Robert Farris Second-line parade New Orleans African-American culture Vernacular dance Interstitial spaces For more than 150 years, working-class African Americans of New Orleans have created and sustained a second-line culture of pleasure, parading, and aesthetic performance, with all three...