Laura Browder
Biographic Data
| ID | 1707541 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Browder |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Browder |
| SIGNATURE | BROWDER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Commonwealth University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Drunkometer and the Birth of Chemical Citizenship: How the Original Breathalyzer Reconfigured the Relationship between the State and the Body
Tens of millions of Americans are subject to drug and alcohol tests each year. How did this biochemical surveillance become so routine and normalized? This article examines the historical emergence, contestation, and gradual acceptance of the first biochemical surveillance technology, the drunkometer—the predecessor of the breathalyzer—which analyzed blood alcohol content in the breath. In the 1930s, public concerns over drunk driving grew alongs…
Deracialized Nostalgia, reracialized community, and truncated gentrification: Capital and cultural flows in Richmond, Virginia and Durban, South Africa
Gentrification literature often focuses on frictions between gentrifiers (often white) and those being displaced by the process (often low-income people of color). Far less attention is paid to a revealing place-marketing strategy that papers over race politics. Businesses in gentrifying neighborhoods appeal to their customers’ sense of nostalgia for a vanished way of life, while eliding racial injustices prevalent in the times they evoke. The pr…
Dystopian Romance: True Crime and the Female Reader
Sheep Hill Memories, Carver Dreams: Creating a Living Newspaper Today
In November 2000, the living newspaper drama Sheep Hill Memories, Carver Dreams premiered to packed houses at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in Richmond. This documentary play concerns the history and survival of Carver, a historically African- American working-class community bordering VCU which was being threatened by the university’s planned expansion. Performed by a Carver-based theater group with a twenty-seven-year history, in colla…
Slippery Characters: Ethnic Impersonators and American Identities
In the 1920s, black janitor Sylvester Long reinvented himself as Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance, and Elizabeth Stern, the native-born daughter of a German Lutheran and a Welsh Baptist, authored the immigrant's narrative I Am a Woman--and a Jew; in the 1990s, Asa Carter, George Wallace's former speechwriter, produced the fake Cherokee autobiography, The Education of Little Tree . While striking, these examples of what Laura Browder calls ethnic im…
Rousing the Nation: Radical Culture in Depression America
Journal Article Rousing the Nation: Radical Culture in Depression America. By Laura Browder. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998. x, 217 pp. $29.95, ISBN 1-55849-125-2.) Get access Colette A. Hyman Colette A. Hyman Winona State University, Winona, Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 288–289, https://doi.org/10.2307/256751…
Dystopian Romance: True Crime and the Female Reader
Deracialized Nostalgia, reracialized community, and truncated gentrification: Capital and cultural flows in Richmond, Virginia and Durban, South Africa
Gentrification literature often focuses on frictions between gentrifiers (often white) and those being displaced by the process (often low-income people of color). Far less attention is paid to a revealing place-marketing strategy that papers over race politics. Businesses in gentrifying neighborhoods appeal to their customers’ sense of nostalgia for a vanished way of life, while eliding racial injustices prevalent in the times they evoke. The pr…
Rousing the Nation: Radical Culture in Depression America
Journal Article Rousing the Nation: Radical Culture in Depression America. By Laura Browder. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998. x, 217 pp. $29.95, ISBN 1-55849-125-2.) Get access Colette A. Hyman Colette A. Hyman Winona State University, Winona, Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 288–289, https://doi.org/10.2307/256751…
Slippery Characters: Ethnic Impersonators and American Identities
In the 1920s, black janitor Sylvester Long reinvented himself as Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance, and Elizabeth Stern, the native-born daughter of a German Lutheran and a Welsh Baptist, authored the immigrant's narrative I Am a Woman--and a Jew; in the 1990s, Asa Carter, George Wallace's former speechwriter, produced the fake Cherokee autobiography, The Education of Little Tree . While striking, these examples of what Laura Browder calls ethnic im…
Sheep Hill Memories, Carver Dreams: Creating a Living Newspaper Today
In November 2000, the living newspaper drama Sheep Hill Memories, Carver Dreams premiered to packed houses at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in Richmond. This documentary play concerns the history and survival of Carver, a historically African- American working-class community bordering VCU which was being threatened by the university’s planned expansion. Performed by a Carver-based theater group with a twenty-seven-year history, in colla…
Dystopian Romance: True Crime and the Female Reader
Deracialized Nostalgia, reracialized community, and truncated gentrification: Capital and cultural flows in Richmond, Virginia and Durban, South Africa
Gentrification literature often focuses on frictions between gentrifiers (often white) and those being displaced by the process (often low-income people of color). Far less attention is paid to a revealing place-marketing strategy that papers over race politics. Businesses in gentrifying neighborhoods appeal to their customers’ sense of nostalgia for a vanished way of life, while eliding racial injustices prevalent in the times they evoke. The pr…
The Drunkometer and the Birth of Chemical Citizenship: How the Original Breathalyzer Reconfigured the Relationship between the State and the Body
Tens of millions of Americans are subject to drug and alcohol tests each year. How did this biochemical surveillance become so routine and normalized? This article examines the historical emergence, contestation, and gradual acceptance of the first biochemical surveillance technology, the drunkometer—the predecessor of the breathalyzer—which analyzed blood alcohol content in the breath. In the 1930s, public concerns over drunk driving grew alongs…
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