Public Culture : Diversity, Democracy, and Community in the United States.

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In the United States today many people are as likely to identify themselves by their ethnicity or region as by their nationality. In this country with its diversity and inequalities, can there be a shared public culture? Is there an unbridgeable gap between cultural variety and civic unity, or can p...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shaffer, Marguerite S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012.
Temas:
Popular culture > United States > Congresses.
Political culture > United States > Congresses.
Cultural pluralism > United States > Congresses.
Democracy > United States > Congresses.
Community life > United States > Congresses.
Public spaces > United States > Congresses.
National characteristics, American > Congresses.
Culture populaire > États-Unis > Congrès.
Diversité culturelle > États-Unis > Congrès.
Communauté > États-Unis > Congrès.
Espaces publics > États-Unis > Congrès.
Civilization
Community life
Cultural pluralism
Democracy
National characteristics, American
Political culture
Popular culture
Public spaces
Social conditions
United States > Civilization > Congresses.
United States > Social conditions > Congresses.
États-Unis > Civilisation > Congrès.
États-Unis > Conditions sociales > Congrès.
United States
Conference papers and proceedings
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface : why public culture? / Marguerite S. Shaffer
  • What is public culture? : agency and contested meaning in American culture : an introduction / Mary Kupiec Cayton
  • pt I. Public action
  • 1. Looking for the public in time and space : the case of the Los Angeles Plaza from the eighteenth century to the present / Mary P. Ryan
  • 2. Remembrance, contestation, excavation : the work of memory in Oklahoma City, the Washita Battlefield, and the Tulsa Race Riot / Edward T. Linenthal
  • 3. Public sentiments and the American remembrance of World War II / John Bodnar
  • part II. Public image
  • 4. Sponsorship and snake oil : medicine shows and contemporary public culture / Susan Strasser
  • 5. Entertainment wars : television culture after 9/11 / Lynn Spigel
  • 6. Screening pornography / Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
  • part III. Public space
  • 7. The Billboard war : gender, commerce, and public space / Catherine Gudis
  • 8. The social space of shopping : mobilizing dreams for public culture / Sharon Zukin
  • 9. Gates, barriers, and the rise of affinity : parsing public-private space in postindustrial America / Hal Rothman
  • part IV. Public identity
  • 10. To serve the living : the public and civic identity of African American funeral directors / Suzanne Smith
  • 11. Denizenship as transnational practice / Rachel Ida Buff
  • 12. The queen's mirrors : public identity and the process of transformation in Cincinnati, Ohio / Mary E. Frederickson
  • Epilogue : pitfalls and promises : wither the "public" in America? / Sheila L. Croucher
  • Notes
  • List of contributors
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments.

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