Rebecca J Kinney
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 233496 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Rebecca J Kinney |
| NOMBRES | Rebecca J |
| APELLIDO | Kinney |
| FIRMA | KINNEY R J |
| AFILIACIONES | Bowling Green State University |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-1841-6825 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 5 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 2 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 5 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2010 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2018 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
America's Great Comeback Story
This essay unpacks the narrative of Detroit as "America's great comeback story" by suggesting that the narration of the city as an authentically American frontier of opportunity is rooted in what Aileen Moreton-Robinson calls "the white possessive." In so doing, the essay emerges from and extends work that poses whiteness and property as co-constructions within the settler colonial state. I argue that tourism narratives of exploration and discove…
Riding Shotgun with an LA Son
This article analyzes the narratives embedded within chef Roy Choi’s cookbook L.A. Son: My Life, My City, My Food. Choi rose to success with his highly successful food truck empire, Kogi BBQ. While on one hand Choi’s story represents a new narrative for the next generation of American chefs, on the other his story operates as a modern retelling of the myth of immigrant mobility in America. Through his reflections on his life, city, and food he si…
Detroit Is Closer than You Think
This essay analyzes the ways that the "tourist gaze" and the "development gaze" overlap in the neoliberal gentrification of Detroit. It situates Shinola Detroit's corporate branding as an extension of the tourist gaze, a way for tourist consumers to experience the city through local stores, via virtual factory tours, and, of course, by purchasing luxury goods. Centrally, the essay argues that what Shinola offers for sale is less about a specific …
The auto-mobility ofGran Torino'sAmerican immigrant dream
This article argues that Clint Eastwood's 2008 film Gran Torino presents a regeneration of the myth of the American Immigrant Dream through the trope of auto-mobility, a conceptual shorthand for self-reliance and class mobility. Rather than reading the film as an embrace of multicultural America, as many of its reviewers do, the author argues that the film operates to redeploy the idea of collective American immigrant identity through a reaffirma…
Beautiful Wasteland
Beautiful Wasteland critically examines the racial logics embedded in the contemporary stories of Detroit that flow through popular culture, from Internet forums, photography, films, advertising, to news medias, in order to map the extension of the mythology of the frontier in American culture. Through analysing the cross-sections of these cultural locations, the book reveals the continued process of racialization in stories told about the rise, …
America's Great Comeback Story
This essay unpacks the narrative of Detroit as "America's great comeback story" by suggesting that the narration of the city as an authentically American frontier of opportunity is rooted in what Aileen Moreton-Robinson calls "the white possessive." In so doing, the essay emerges from and extends work that poses whiteness and property as co-constructions within the settler colonial state. I argue that tourism narratives of exploration and discove…
The auto-mobility ofGran Torino'sAmerican immigrant dream
This article argues that Clint Eastwood's 2008 film Gran Torino presents a regeneration of the myth of the American Immigrant Dream through the trope of auto-mobility, a conceptual shorthand for self-reliance and class mobility. Rather than reading the film as an embrace of multicultural America, as many of its reviewers do, the author argues that the film operates to redeploy the idea of collective American immigrant identity through a reaffirma…
Beautiful Wasteland
Beautiful Wasteland critically examines the racial logics embedded in the contemporary stories of Detroit that flow through popular culture, from Internet forums, photography, films, advertising, to news medias, in order to map the extension of the mythology of the frontier in American culture. Through analysing the cross-sections of these cultural locations, the book reveals the continued process of racialization in stories told about the rise, …
The auto-mobility ofGran Torino'sAmerican immigrant dream
This article argues that Clint Eastwood's 2008 film Gran Torino presents a regeneration of the myth of the American Immigrant Dream through the trope of auto-mobility, a conceptual shorthand for self-reliance and class mobility. Rather than reading the film as an embrace of multicultural America, as many of its reviewers do, the author argues that the film operates to redeploy the idea of collective American immigrant identity through a reaffirma…
Riding Shotgun with an LA Son
This article analyzes the narratives embedded within chef Roy Choi’s cookbook L.A. Son: My Life, My City, My Food. Choi rose to success with his highly successful food truck empire, Kogi BBQ. While on one hand Choi’s story represents a new narrative for the next generation of American chefs, on the other his story operates as a modern retelling of the myth of immigrant mobility in America. Through his reflections on his life, city, and food he si…
Detroit Is Closer than You Think
This essay analyzes the ways that the "tourist gaze" and the "development gaze" overlap in the neoliberal gentrification of Detroit. It situates Shinola Detroit's corporate branding as an extension of the tourist gaze, a way for tourist consumers to experience the city through local stores, via virtual factory tours, and, of course, by purchasing luxury goods. Centrally, the essay argues that what Shinola offers for sale is less about a specific …
America's Great Comeback Story
This essay unpacks the narrative of Detroit as "America's great comeback story" by suggesting that the narration of the city as an authentically American frontier of opportunity is rooted in what Aileen Moreton-Robinson calls "the white possessive." In so doing, the essay emerges from and extends work that poses whiteness and property as co-constructions within the settler colonial state. I argue that tourism narratives of exploration and discove…
Art (5 obras) · Sociology (5 obras) · Gender Studies (4 obras) · History (4 obras) · Literature (4 obras) · Mythology (4 obras) · Gender Studies (3 obras) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (3 obras) · Narrative (3 obras) · Race, History, and American Society (3 obras)