Conversations with Scholars of American Popular Culture: Matthew Frye Jacobson

What Have They Built You to Do?: The Manchurian Candidate and Cold War America (with Gaspar Gonzalez, University of Minnesota Press, 2006); Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post-Civil Rights America (Harvard University Press, 2005); Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples a...

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Published inAmericana (Hollywood, Calif.) Vol. 10; no. 2
Main Author Matthew Frye Jacobson
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Hollywood Americana: The Institute for the Study of American Popular Culture 01.10.2011
Subjects
Celebrities
Civil rights movements
Diaspora
Immigrants
Interviews
Odetta
Polish language
Professional baseball
Race
Scholars
United Kingdom > UK
United States > US
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Summary:What Have They Built You to Do?: The Manchurian Candidate and Cold War America (with Gaspar Gonzalez, University of Minnesota Press, 2006); Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post-Civil Rights America (Harvard University Press, 2005); Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876-1917 (Hill and Wang, 2000); Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race (Harvard University Press, 1998); and Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants in the United States (University of California Press, 1995). (When Curt Flood refused to join the Phillies and launched his epic legal struggle against Major League Baseball for the right of free agency, it was in part because of the way Allen had been treated in Philadelphia.) I became interested in the diamond and the stadium as sites of racial struggle; I also became interested in Allen's story as so clearly a desegregation story, even though he came up fifteen years after Jackie Robinson had famously taken the field in Brooklyn.
ISSN:1553-8931