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- Gioielli, Robert
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"Pruitt-lgoe in the Suburbs" : Connecting White Flight, Sprawl, and Climate Change in Metropolitan America
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Ingår i: Amerikastudien. - : JSTOR. - 0340-2827 .- 2625-2155. ; 65:2, s. 213-233
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores the connections between racial inequality and fossil fuel-intensive sprawl in the post-civil rights metropolitan landscape, through a case study of the Blackjack housing controversy. In 1970, a local religious group tried to build a low-income housing project in Blackjack, Missouri, a bedroom community four miles northwest of the city of St. Louis. Local residents opposed to the project argued that public housing would bring the crime, poverty, and social disorder of the city to the suburbs. Although they were forced to strip their opposition of overtly racist language, these White suburbanites were part of a nation-wide project to racialize, and thus delegitimize, the extension of urban form into American suburbs, including public housing and public transportation. When these efforts failed, as they did in Black Jack, inner-ring suburbs began to desegregate, and in response, Whites again fled, further out, to second-ring suburbs and exurbs. This process, which has played out across American cities from the 1960s until the present day, has had devastating consequences for racial and economic inequality, but also on the global climate. Millions of White Americans, driven by their desire to maintain metropolitan racial segregation, have become hostile to the forms of urban infrastructure that would create less carbon-intensive cities, recreating racist, auto-intensive sprawl farther out into the countryside.
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- Strömberg, Fredrik, Doktorand, 1968-
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‘Yo, Rag-Head!’ : Arab and Muslim Superheroes in American Comic Books after 9/11
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Ingår i: Amerikastudien. - Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter. - 0340-2827. ; 56:4, s. 573-601
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The relationship between the United States and the Arab/Muslim world has atic, to say the least, and it has left its mark on American popular culture in general in particular. A small number of studies conducted in the 1980s and 1990s about of Arabs and Muslims in American comics have shown a profusion of negative a conspicuous absence of Arab and/or Muslim heroes. This essay revisits this amines the ways in which Arabs and Muslims have been portrayed in the most genres—the superhero comic book—since the terrorist attacks of September to understand how these comics communicate ideas and representations of Eastern/Muslim' to American readers, this essay conducts a critical discourse on the idea of the 'Oriental Other.' After 9/11, the number of characters who Arab Muslims, Arab Americans, and American Muslims, both male and female, devout and zealous to the privately and nominally religious, has increased noticeably. such characters seem to have been created to resist stereotypical or racist configurations abs and/or Muslims as terrorists, they nonetheless partake in the 'Othering' of American public discourse through stereotypes in both visual and verbal communication, thus often unintentionally reinforce rather than counteract stereotypes
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