Art Redding
Biographic Data
| ID | 3681352 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Art Redding |
| GIVEN NAMES | Art |
| FAMILY NAME | Redding |
| SIGNATURE | REDDING A |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Eisenhower Blues
This article considers cross-racial encounters as well as racial mimicry and masquerade in works from the 1940s and 1950s, arguing that thrillers and other works of popular culture prove fertile ground for tracking the intersections of race and masculinity. Popular cultural texts of the period present a surprisingly uniform and articulate resistance to the consolidation of consensus culture. Pulp and paperback fiction reflect a crisis of assimila…
Robert Bothwell, Your Country, My Country
Robert Bothwell, Your Country, My Country: A Unified History of the United States and Canada Oxford University Press, 2015. 420 pp. Art Redding, York University We Canadians might have cause to feel slighted by the current President of the United States. Why don’t we merit a wall? Our border is undoubtedly as “insecure” as that with Mexico. After all, as Robert Bothwell reminds us, Canada, like Mexico, has “since 1999 . . . been regarded as a pot…
Introduction – Geographies of Promise and Betrayal
In various ways, the essays published in this special issue of the Canadian Review of American Studies testify to the perils, potentials, and necessities of “aestheticizing” the rapidly shifting social topographies of the United States. The concentration of immigrant and rural populations in cities during the latter half of the nineteenth century, for example, demanded the development of new practices and perceptions of affect and place, new soma…
Introduction – Géographies de la promesse et de la trahison
A Floating Population
In both Canada and the US, Niagara Falls was famous from early on as a tourist and honeymoon destination. With the rapid settlement of the ‘northwest’ occasioned by the building of canals and railroads, the region also became a centre of commerce, transit, and industry in the years before the Civil War. The Niagara corridor held an important position on the Underground Railroad, as fugitive slaves moved up into Canada (and back). After the failed…
The Eisenhower Blues
This article considers cross-racial encounters as well as racial mimicry and masquerade in works from the 1940s and 1950s, arguing that thrillers and other works of popular culture prove fertile ground for tracking the intersections of race and masculinity. Popular cultural texts of the period present a surprisingly uniform and articulate resistance to the consolidation of consensus culture. Pulp and paperback fiction reflect a crisis of assimila…
Introduction – Geographies of Promise and Betrayal
In various ways, the essays published in this special issue of the Canadian Review of American Studies testify to the perils, potentials, and necessities of “aestheticizing” the rapidly shifting social topographies of the United States. The concentration of immigrant and rural populations in cities during the latter half of the nineteenth century, for example, demanded the development of new practices and perceptions of affect and place, new soma…
Introduction – Géographies de la promesse et de la trahison
A Floating Population
In both Canada and the US, Niagara Falls was famous from early on as a tourist and honeymoon destination. With the rapid settlement of the ‘northwest’ occasioned by the building of canals and railroads, the region also became a centre of commerce, transit, and industry in the years before the Civil War. The Niagara corridor held an important position on the Underground Railroad, as fugitive slaves moved up into Canada (and back). After the failed…
Robert Bothwell, Your Country, My Country
Robert Bothwell, Your Country, My Country: A Unified History of the United States and Canada Oxford University Press, 2015. 420 pp. Art Redding, York University We Canadians might have cause to feel slighted by the current President of the United States. Why don’t we merit a wall? Our border is undoubtedly as “insecure” as that with Mexico. After all, as Robert Bothwell reminds us, Canada, like Mexico, has “since 1999 . . . been regarded as a pot…
The Eisenhower Blues
This article considers cross-racial encounters as well as racial mimicry and masquerade in works from the 1940s and 1950s, arguing that thrillers and other works of popular culture prove fertile ground for tracking the intersections of race and masculinity. Popular cultural texts of the period present a surprisingly uniform and articulate resistance to the consolidation of consensus culture. Pulp and paperback fiction reflect a crisis of assimila…
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