American Mobilities: Geographies of Class, Race, and Gender in US Culture

»American Mobilities« focuses on a pivotal point when Americans realized that mobility could have disadvantages, which would in later decades again become apparent. A historical perspective helps us to better understand the origins of contemporary representations of mobility in uneven flows of capit...

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Main Author: Leyda, Julia (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bielefeld transcript 2016
Series:American Culture Studies Volume 14
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Summary:»American Mobilities« focuses on a pivotal point when Americans realized that mobility could have disadvantages, which would in later decades again become apparent. A historical perspective helps us to better understand the origins of contemporary representations of mobility in uneven flows of capital and labor. Julia Leyda shows: In the new millennium, questions of mobility prove to be an important thread that runs through the »American« century from the desperation of the Depression through the prosperous years of economic and international expansion and back into global financial crisis
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (215 Seiten)
ISBN:9783839434550
9783837634556
DOI:10.14361/9783839434550

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