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| Why Study Popular Culture? | |
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| "The Case for Studying Popular Culture" | |
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| "Deconstructing Popular Culture as Political" | |
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| "Approaches to Interpreting Popular Culture." | |
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| Popular Culture Expresses and Constructs Race: Minstrel Shows across Two Centuries, 1850 � 1950 | |
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| Minstrel Stump Speech, 1868 | |
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| Minstrelsy Creates Racist Stereotypes, 1896 | |
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| Minstrel Sheet Music Extends Racist Stereotypes from African Americans to Asian Americans, 1907 | |
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| Edward LeRoy Rice Remembers Minstrelsy, 1911 | |
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| Instructions for Twentieth Century Amateur Minstrels Reinforce Earlier Racist Ideas, 1938 | |
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| The Urban League Objects to Amateur Minstrel Shows, 1950 | |
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| A Catholic Newspaper Confronts Minstrelsy's Racism, 1950 | |
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| Essays | |
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| "Minstrels and African Americans in the Nineteenth Century" | |
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| "Chinese American Stereotypes in Nineteenth-Century Minstrelsy" | |
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| "Twentieth-Century Amateur Minstrels." | |
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| Nineteenth-Century Audiences Contribute to Popular Culture, 1849 � 1880 | |
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| An Eyewitness Details the Class Conflict of the Astor Place Riot, 1849 | |
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| Viewing the Violent Astor Place Riot, 1843 | |
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| Charleston Courier Reports on an Exhibition of the Fejee Mermaid, 1843 | |
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| P.T. Barnum Explains the Appeal of the FeJee Mermaid, 1855 | |
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| Observer Olive Logan Describes Active Theater Audiences, 1878 | |
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| Playwright G.W.H. Griffin Rewrites Hamlet for Nineteenth-Century Audiences, 1880 | |
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| "Audiences Riot Over Interpretations of Shakespeare" | |
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| "Audiences Enjoy Being Fooled by P.T. Barnum." | |
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| World's Fairs, Circuses, and Wild West Shows Express Ideas about U.S. Imperialism, 1876 � 1918 | |
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| British Journalist Fred A. McKenzie Notes the Americanization of the United Kingdom, 1901 | |
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| Literary Digest Sees World's Fairs as Educational, 1904 | |
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| The Circus Encounters the Spanish-American War in the United States, 1898 | |
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| The Circus Re-Enacts the Spanish-American War, 1899 | |
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| Circus Clown Jules Turnour Comments on His International Travels, 1910 | |
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| Wild West Shows Take American Culture Outside the United States, 1896 | |
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| Essays | |
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| "Fairs Take the United States to Europe" | |
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| "Circuses Educate Americans about Nationalism and Imperialism." | |
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| Workers Deman Leisure Time, 1866 � 1914 | |
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| Songwriter Jesse Henry Addresses Workers' Demands, c. 1866 | |
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| Activist Edward H. Rogers Struggles for an Eight-Hour Day, 1872 | |
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| Reporter Edwin E. Slosson Explains the Business of Leisure, 1904 | |
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| Russian Novelist Maxim Gorky Criticizes Commercialized Leisure, 1907 | |
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| Ordinary People Challenge Propriety at the Beach, 1903�1909 | |
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| The New York Sun Portrays a Typical Baseball Crowd, 1884 | |
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| Anne O'Hagan Describes the Athletic American Girl, 1901 | |
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| H. Addington Bruce Analyzes Baseball and the National Life, 1913 | |
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| Essays | |
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| "Workers Seek Leisure Time and Space" | |
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| "Sports Change Urban Leisure." | |
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| Movies, Gender, and The Making of Fans, 1910 � 1935 | |
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| Early Writer W.W. Winters Defines Movie Fanatics, 1910 | |
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| William Lewis Gordon Advises Fans on How to Script Movies, 1914 | |
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| Playwrights George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly Explain Male Film Fans in "Merton of the Movies," 1925 | |
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| Chicago Daily Tribune Reports Positive Audience Reaction to Movie about Fans, 1924 | |
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| W.W. Charters, Educational Researcher, Reports the Effects of Movies on Boys and Girls, 1933 | |
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| Essays | |
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| "Movies as Popular Culture" | |
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| "Studying Movie Audiences." | |
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| Advertising and The Culture of Consumption, 1880 � 1930 | |
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| Early Magazine Advertisements Crowd the Page, 1880 | |
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| Advertising Changes Visually, 1900 | |
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| Playwrights Roi Cooper Megrue and Walter Hackett Make Fun of Advertising and Consumers, 1917 | |
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| A Pioneer Ad Man, Bruce Barton, Defends the Need for Advertising, 1925 | |
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| Home Economist Christine | |