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Full-Text Articles in American Studies
The Hillbilly In The Living Room: Television Representations Of Southern Mountaineers In Situation Comedies, 1952-1971, Anthony Harkins
The Hillbilly In The Living Room: Television Representations Of Southern Mountaineers In Situation Comedies, 1952-1971, Anthony Harkins
History Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Robertson, Clara Louise, 1908-2004 (Mss 87), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Robertson, Clara Louise, 1908-2004 (Mss 87), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 87. Diary kept by Clara Louise Robertson of Louisville, Kentucky, detailing schools, church and club activities and amusements. Vivid description of a 1921 Washington, D.C. family vacation. Associated letter, 1991. A copy of Robertson "Little Colonel’s Good Times Book" diary is included as an "Additional File" below. Click on it to see the diary in its entirety.
Toni Morrison, Oprah Winfrey, And Postmodern Popular Audiences, John K. Young
Toni Morrison, Oprah Winfrey, And Postmodern Popular Audiences, John K. Young
English Faculty Research
In this essay the author examines the "Oprah Effect" on the career of Toni Morrison, who after three appearances on "Oprah's Book Club" has become the most dramatic example of postmodernism's merger between Morrison's canonical status and Winfrey's commercial power has superseded the publishing industry's field of normative whiteness, enabling Morrison to reach a broad, popular audience while being marketed as artistically important.
Mr. Edgar Anderson On Leisure, Amber Panzella
Mr. Edgar Anderson On Leisure, Amber Panzella
We Exist Series 4: Quotes
Interviewer: Amber Panzella
Interviewee: Mr. Edgar Anderson (Male; age 51; born 1950 in Chicago suburb called Harvey; Moved to Portland Maine in 1985)
“I just spent last weekend down in Massachusetts with-as I said before-with my daughter who played in basketball tournaments Saturday and Sunday, so we spent the weekend in Massachusetts playing basketball. This weekend her mom will spend time with her in Hudson, New Hampshire, playing softball. She's also a softball player…Yeah, and two weeks from now we're gonna be in Connecticut, and the week after that we'll be playing basketball in D.C. So we're very involved with …
"The Greatest Golf Crusade Ever:" Sir Walter, Exhibitionism, And Pebble Beach, Stephen Lowe
"The Greatest Golf Crusade Ever:" Sir Walter, Exhibitionism, And Pebble Beach, Stephen Lowe
Faculty Scholarship – History
Walter Hagen’s 1922 exhibition tour with Australian star, Joe Kirkwood, was unprecedented in duration, distance, and profits. Moreover, it was historically significant because it became just one early episode of many in the colorful, controversial career of “Sir Walter” Hagen, golf’s first touring professional.
Mrs. Odessa Barret On Leisure, Usm African American Collection
Mrs. Odessa Barret On Leisure, Usm African American Collection
We Exist Series 4: Quotes
Interviewer: -
Interviewee: Odessa Barret (born in Port Arthur, Texas, 1948)
“Life for me as a child was bitter sweet. I was between the youngest boy and girl so I was never alone. Church was the focal point of our lives. It was a time of "White Only" restrooms and drinking fountains, but we were spared a lot of that because we owned our own car so public transportation was not a worry for us. Traveling food for us was a basket of fried sausage and biscuits if it was morning and fried chicken and bread if it was lunch …
Mrs. Rose Jackson On Leisure, Hamida Suja
Mrs. Rose Jackson On Leisure, Hamida Suja
We Exist Series 4: Quotes
Interviewer: Hamida Suja
Interviewee: Mrs. Rose Jackson (age 66; born in Louisville, Mississippi; lives in South Portland for 39 years; married 34 years; has six children; had five children with her first husband; he died and she remarried and had a child with the current husband)
“And we would get together, like, have a fish fry on the weekend with our white friends, our white neighbors. And when we would get out and fish, my daddy and them would go down and get in the water and just muddy the water up with hoes-what you chop cotton with-and the fish …
Ms. Lucille Young On Leisure, Anab Osman
Ms. Lucille Young On Leisure, Anab Osman
We Exist Series 4: Quotes
Interviewer: Anab Osman
Interviewee: Ms. Lucille Young (age 73; born 1928 in Jackson, Mississippi; moved to Maine in 1967) “[Barbeque] Yeah. We have four picnic tables in the backyard, and chairs, and we have a grill. And I have a swimming pool, so they’re always there. They’re always at my house. Which I’m trying to get rid of half of them, but I know it’ll never happen.”
Mrs. June Mckenzie On Leisure, Aretha Williams
Mrs. June Mckenzie On Leisure, Aretha Williams
We Exist Series 4: Quotes
Interviewer: Aretha Williams
Interviewee: Mrs. June McKenzie (age 72; born 1929 in Portland Maine; fifth-generation Mainer; lived in Maine all her life)
“Oh, yes we do, and they're really big. My sister in Connecticut has, what, seven children, and my sister in the islands has three, and my other sister has one. And all our families and our grandchildren and everything, we all get together on Fourth of July and have a picnic at Sebago Lake, which started out as a big church thing. Our church did it every year, and we've just kept up the tradition.”
“Well, my neighborhood …
Ms. Beverly Bowens On Leisure, Vanessa Saric
Ms. Beverly Bowens On Leisure, Vanessa Saric
We Exist Series 4: Quotes
Interviewer: Vanesa Saric
Interviewee: Ms. Beverly Bowens (born in Maine; age 67; left at 21 years old for about 35 to 40 years and then returned to Maine)
“Actually, I'm a product of my environment. So when I went to New York, I had difficulty getting used to, for instance, going to a party, 8 o'clock. And even though in New York a party starts at eight, no one comes until ten. I go to bed early, and I get up very early. And this is something that I found a little bit different when I was in New York. …
Mr. James Mathews On Leisure, Maureen Elgersman Lee
Mr. James Mathews On Leisure, Maureen Elgersman Lee
We Exist Series 4: Quotes
Interviewer: Maureen Elgersman Lee
Interviewee: Mr. James Mathews (age 59; born 1941 in Portland Maine; married with five children; lived in Maine all his life – lived in South Portland for over 26 years)
“Well, when we talk about the Mathews family reunions and also the Fisher family reunions, because they're a part of our family. We all evolved from the Mathews really, and, of course, my name is Mathews. We had a family reunion in Nova Scotia that I went to in 1998. It was July; I think it was the 14th thru the 16th, or something like that, …
Road Maps - The American Way, Osher Map Library And Smith Center For Cartographic Education
Road Maps - The American Way, Osher Map Library And Smith Center For Cartographic Education
Osher Map Library Exhibition Catalogs
Road Maps - The American Way.
February 13, 2001 to December 21, 2001
U.S. road maps have always emphasized a proud national history and have promised a glorious future, through the magic of the automobile. So get out the road map to plot your course . . . and don't forget to buy our brand of gas!
Guest Curator - Robert French.
Why Do They Strike Us?, James Polchin
Why Do They Strike Us?, James Polchin
Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)
Over the past two years since the brutal murder of Matthew Shepard in Laramie Wyoming, the circumstances of his death have held a symbolic place in the story of violence against gay men and lesbians nationally. University of Wyoming Professor Beth Loffreda's book Losing Matt Shepard: Life and Politics in the Aftermath of Anti-Gay Murder is on the "Lambda Book Report" best-sellers list and MTV has recently premiered "Anatomy of a Hate Crime: The Matthew Shepard Story" that dramatized the events of October 6th, 1998. The telling and retelling of Shepard's murder in both academic books and popular culture suggests …
Summer 2001, 90.9 Wmpg Fm
Hollywood Goes To Washington: Scandal, Politics, And Contemporary Media Culture, James Castonguay
Hollywood Goes To Washington: Scandal, Politics, And Contemporary Media Culture, James Castonguay
Communication, Media & The Arts Faculty Publications
Hollywood has long been associated with scandal--with covering it up, with managing its effects, and, in some cases, with creating and directing it. In putting together Headline Hollywood, Adrienne McLean and David Cook approach the relationship between Hollywood and scandal from a fresh perspective. The contributors consider some of the famous transgressions that shocked Hollywood and its audiences during the last century, and explore the changing meaning of scandal over time by zeroing in on issues of power: Who decides what crimes and misdemeanors should be circulated for public consumption and titillation? What makes a Hollywood scandal scandalous? What are …
"Hair Drama" On The Cover Of "Vibe" Magazine, Bertram D. Ashe
"Hair Drama" On The Cover Of "Vibe" Magazine, Bertram D. Ashe
English Faculty Publications
This study consists of a cultural reading of the cover photograph of the June-July 1999 issue of Vibe magazine. It explores the relationship between Mase, an African-American male rap star, and the three anonymous African-American female models that surround him. The study interprets the cover through the long, straightened hair of the models, locating the models' hair in a historically-informed context of black hair theory and practice. The study argues that the models' presence on the cover, particularly their "bone straight and long" hair, "enhances" Mase in much the same way breast-augmented "trophy women" "enhance" their mates. Ultimately, the study …
Bonds And Biopower In The 1920 French Peace Bond Posters, Maureen Shanahan
Bonds And Biopower In The 1920 French Peace Bond Posters, Maureen Shanahan
Maureen G. Shanahan
No abstract provided.