Stigma cities the reputation and history of Birmingham, San Francisco, and Las Vegas

Imagining place -- Not always a pariah: Birmingham's journey from Magic City to Bombingham -- Remembering Bombingham: race and anxiety in post-civil rights movement Birmingham -- Never quite American: the deviantly exotic reputation of San Francisco, 1776-1969 -- Battlefield by the bay: San Fra...

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1. Verfasser: Foster, Jonathan (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Norman University of Oklahoma Press 2018
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Zusammenfassung:Imagining place -- Not always a pariah: Birmingham's journey from Magic City to Bombingham -- Remembering Bombingham: race and anxiety in post-civil rights movement Birmingham -- Never quite American: the deviantly exotic reputation of San Francisco, 1776-1969 -- Battlefield by the bay: San Francisco's emergence, trials, and acceptance as America's gay mecca -- Sinning in the desert: the origins and development of America's Sin City -- Mainstream currents: Las Vegas and respectability at the turn the of the twenty-first century -- Stigma and cities
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:xiv, 274 Seiten
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24 cm
ISBN:9780806160719
978-0-8061-6071-9