Adam Mack
Biographic Data
| ID | 3673267 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam Mack |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam |
| FAMILY NAME | Mack |
| SIGNATURE | MACK A |
| AFFILIATIONS | School of the Art Institute of Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Nature's Laboratory
Journal Article Nature's Laboratory: Environmental Thought and Labor Radicalism in Chicago, 1886–1937 Get access Nature's Laboratory: Environmental Thought and Labor Radicalism in Chicago, 1886–1937. By Elizabeth Grennan Browning. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022. xii, 265 pp. $49.95.) Adam Mack Adam Mack School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scho…
Shane Hamilton. Supermarket USA
In Supermarket USA: Food and Power in the Cold War Farms Race, Shane Hamilton explores how policymakers and propagandists used agricultural productivity as a weapon in a Cold War “Farms Race” with the Soviet Union. Unlike the better-known arms race, the Farms Race made cornfields battlegrounds and supermarkets cudgels to beat the Soviets with images of overflowing shopping carts as expressions of American “freedom.” Supermarket USA introduces a n…
Selma to Saigon
Selma to Saigon focuses on the debate over American involvement in the Vietnam War among civil rights leaders during the presidency of Lyndon Johnson (LBJ). Daniel S. Lucks frames his book around t
The Politics of Good Taste
This essay explores how the American natural foods supermarket chain, Whole Foods Markets, designed stores to highlight the sensory pleasures of food. Whole Foods Markets constituted a new development in the sensory history of food retailing because it fused gustatory pleasure with a politics of conventionally liberal causes including sustainable farming, environmental stewardship, and the humane treatment of farm animals. Whole Foods Markets als…
Speaking of Tomatoes”
This essay analyzes the efforts of supermarket companies, between the late 1930s and early 19650s, to create a multilayered sensory aesthetic for their stores. Grocery retailers sought to excite suburban shoppers’ five senses to exploit what they saw as a feminine longing for erotic excitement intensified by lives circumscribed by postwar domestic norms of “sexual containment.” The sensorial approach to supermarketing revolved around the suggesti…
Food Is Love
No “Illusion of Separation”
As a student activist and member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, James L. Bevel played a leading role in the civil rights movement. After the passage of the landmark federal civil rights legislation of 1964–65, Bevel promoted a new set of goals for the freedom struggle including ending United States involvement in the Vietnam War. Bevel's objections to the war grew from the belief, shared by other African–American leaders, that A…
Speaking of Tomatoes”
This essay analyzes the efforts of supermarket companies, between the late 1930s and early 19650s, to create a multilayered sensory aesthetic for their stores. Grocery retailers sought to excite suburban shoppers’ five senses to exploit what they saw as a feminine longing for erotic excitement intensified by lives circumscribed by postwar domestic norms of “sexual containment.” The sensorial approach to supermarketing revolved around the suggesti…
Nature's Laboratory
Journal Article Nature's Laboratory: Environmental Thought and Labor Radicalism in Chicago, 1886–1937 Get access Nature's Laboratory: Environmental Thought and Labor Radicalism in Chicago, 1886–1937. By Elizabeth Grennan Browning. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022. xii, 265 pp. $49.95.) Adam Mack Adam Mack School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scho…
The Politics of Good Taste
This essay explores how the American natural foods supermarket chain, Whole Foods Markets, designed stores to highlight the sensory pleasures of food. Whole Foods Markets constituted a new development in the sensory history of food retailing because it fused gustatory pleasure with a politics of conventionally liberal causes including sustainable farming, environmental stewardship, and the humane treatment of farm animals. Whole Foods Markets als…
No “Illusion of Separation”
As a student activist and member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, James L. Bevel played a leading role in the civil rights movement. After the passage of the landmark federal civil rights legislation of 1964–65, Bevel promoted a new set of goals for the freedom struggle including ending United States involvement in the Vietnam War. Bevel's objections to the war grew from the belief, shared by other African–American leaders, that A…
Food Is Love
Speaking of Tomatoes”
This essay analyzes the efforts of supermarket companies, between the late 1930s and early 19650s, to create a multilayered sensory aesthetic for their stores. Grocery retailers sought to excite suburban shoppers’ five senses to exploit what they saw as a feminine longing for erotic excitement intensified by lives circumscribed by postwar domestic norms of “sexual containment.” The sensorial approach to supermarketing revolved around the suggesti…
The Politics of Good Taste
This essay explores how the American natural foods supermarket chain, Whole Foods Markets, designed stores to highlight the sensory pleasures of food. Whole Foods Markets constituted a new development in the sensory history of food retailing because it fused gustatory pleasure with a politics of conventionally liberal causes including sustainable farming, environmental stewardship, and the humane treatment of farm animals. Whole Foods Markets als…
Selma to Saigon
Selma to Saigon focuses on the debate over American involvement in the Vietnam War among civil rights leaders during the presidency of Lyndon Johnson (LBJ). Daniel S. Lucks frames his book around t
Shane Hamilton. Supermarket USA
In Supermarket USA: Food and Power in the Cold War Farms Race, Shane Hamilton explores how policymakers and propagandists used agricultural productivity as a weapon in a Cold War “Farms Race” with the Soviet Union. Unlike the better-known arms race, the Farms Race made cornfields battlegrounds and supermarkets cudgels to beat the Soviets with images of overflowing shopping carts as expressions of American “freedom.” Supermarket USA introduces a n…
Nature's Laboratory
Journal Article Nature's Laboratory: Environmental Thought and Labor Radicalism in Chicago, 1886–1937 Get access Nature's Laboratory: Environmental Thought and Labor Radicalism in Chicago, 1886–1937. By Elizabeth Grennan Browning. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022. xii, 265 pp. $49.95.) Adam Mack Adam Mack School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scho…
Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Business (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (3 works) · American History and Culture (2 works) · Civil rights (2 works)