Wanda Rushing
Biographic Data
| ID | 4177709 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wanda Rushing |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wanda |
| FAMILY NAME | Rushing |
| SIGNATURE | RUSHING W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Memphis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Sunbelt
The sunbelt phenomenon resulted from a massive post‐World War II migration of people from the Northeast and Midwest to emerging metropolitan areas in the South and Southwest. As of 2015, all of the 11 large metropolitan areas in the United States with the greatest population gains are located in the sunbelt. These areas include four cities in Texas – Houston, Dallas, Austin, and San Antonio – and two in Florida – Tampa and Orlando. The emergence …
Race, Place, and Memory
In Race, Place, and Memory Margaret M. Mulrooney adopts Manning Marable's dictum that fostering a “historically-grounded conversation” about race and racialization processes is central to understanding America's past (p. 7). Mulrooney's case study of Wilmington, North Carolina, also sheds light on the difficulties of pursuing these conversations. The city's celebratory narrative of good race relations in a progressive city belies its heritage of …
School Segregation and Its Discontents
Few policies have affected American society as deeply as those related to the landmark 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision, Brown v. Board of Education. Now, 60 years later, segregation persists along race and class divisions. This case study analysis of a merger that took place between 2010 and 2013 in Memphis and Shelby County, Tennessee, one of the most politically contentious ones undertaken in the post–civil rights era, reveals a great deal abo…
No Place for a Feminist
Perceptions of the American South as being no place for a feminist continue to affect and inform decisions about research and activism in the region. By taking a closer look at Memphis and the American South, and by questioning longstanding assumptions, stereotypes, and omissions about the region, we create additional opportunities for further discussion about the complexities of feminism, intersectionality, and place. I challenge two common assu…
Behind a bicycling boom
Drawing on theories of place, new political cultures, and idio-cultural perceptions, this paper examines the case of recent place character change in Memphis, Tennessee. Since 2009, a burgeoning bicycling culture has taken root in the city alongside a massive increase in bicycling infrastructure. We analyse how these changes are paralleled by shifts in governance emphasising amenity-based urbanism that favours themes of creative class-centred eco…
Weâ re Going to Graceland
We’re Going to Graceland
Memphis, located on the east bank of the Mississippi River in the far southwestern corner of Tennessee, is often described as the home of the blues and the birthplace of rock and roll. Variations of the music of the Mississippi Delta and the Mid-South, first performed by rural migrants on Beale Street, in juke joints, bars, and Pentecostal churches, then pressed into vinyl, became global popular music through record sales, radio broadcasts, and j…
Cold War Dixie
Journal Article Cold War Dixie: Militarization and Modernization in the American South Get access Kari Frederickson. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2013. xii, 226 pp. Cloth, $69.95. Paper, $24.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 1, June 2014, Page 324, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau304 Published: 01 June 2014
Looking South
Mary E. Frederickson’s Looking South includes a range of source materials, as well as oral histories, in its insightful analysis of southern dissent and labor resistance. Grouped into four sections, the book’s eight essays chronicle waves of industrialization and deindustrialization and worker resistance to the human costs of those waves. Part 1, “Claiming Freedom,” looks at African American battles for social and economic space in the aftermath …
Race, Space, and Riots in Chicago ‐ By Janet L. Abu‐Lughod
Memphis and the Paradox of Place
This is a biography of the city of Elvis Presley, Isaac Hayes, Stax Records, and FedEx. Celebrated as the home of the blues and the birthplace of rock and roll, Memphis, Tennessee, is where Elvis Presley, B.B. King, Johnny Cash, and other musical legends got their starts. It is also a place of conflict and tragedy - the site of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1968 assassination - and a city typically marginalized by scholars and underestimated by its ow…
Memphis and the Paradox of Place
Celebrated as the home of the blues and the birthplace of rock and roll, Memphis, Tennessee, is where Elvis Presley, B. B. King, Johnny Cash, and other musical legends got their starts. It is also a place of conflict and tragedy—the site of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1968 assassination—and a city typically marginalized by scholars and underestimated by its own residents. Using this iconic southern city as a case study, this book explores the signif…
Globalization and the Paradoxes of Place
At present, globalization research on complex technological and financial processes takes priority over studies of place and locality. A few cities, namely those described as “Global Cities,” receive special attention as centers of “command and control.” But most studies overlook less “essential” places and ignore the impact of local places on globalization processes. This research explains how tensions between global processes and local practice…
Across the Pond
This study began with the observations of author Tracy Collins, a British citizen then residing in the United States, who saw many differences between Britons and Americans in leisure time, work expectations, and community life. Conversations between Collins and American co-author Wanda Rushing, and our readings of historical and contemporary comparisons of life in the two countries, led to this project. This study allowed us to conduct a compara…
Sin, Sex, and Segregation
This article investigates the paradoxical processes of social control and social change within the institution of public education in the US South, early in the twentieth century. Through historical sociological analysis, it reveals how New South leaders used the 'dividing practices' of 'sin, sex, and segregation' to disenfranchise African-American males, to win support for segregated public schools, to segregate public higher education by race a…
Social Class, Poverty, and Education
1. Poverty, Ethnicity and Achievement in American Schools: Bruce J. Biddle 2. First Person Plural: Education as Public Property: Peter W. Cookson Jr 3. Poverty, Welfare Reform, and Children's Achievement: Greg J. Duncan and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn 4. Linking Bordieu's Concept of Capital to the Broader Field: The Case of Family-School Relationships: Annette Lareau 5. Defensive Network Orientations as Internalized Oppression: How Schools Mediate the Inf…
Inequality and Education Reform
The persistence of race, class, gender, and regional inequality in US education poses many challenges for policy-makers and scholars. Investigations of school crises, as presently constructed, tend to treat the problems and paradoxes of inequality as exceptions to the American democratic system, instead of seeing them as contradictions within the system. This research suggests an alternative theoretical framework to study inequality and education…
Inequality and Education Reform
Inequality and Education Reform
Rural Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities
The name of the Clinton Administration's Rural Empowerment Zone and Enterprise Community Program uses powerful political symbols—empowerment and community—to evoke the spirit of revitalization in distressed communities. This study assesses the program's chances for success. It reviews the legislation, program goals, and selection process; constructs a statistical profile of the 33 rural EZ/EC communities; and discusses the history of rural econom…
Cold War Racial Politics and Global Impression Management
The USA emerged from the Second World War as the dominant economic and political power in a world-system undergoing vast political and economic reorganization. US government efforts to expand the nation's role in international affairs paralleled Southern states' economic development attempts. This article employs the methodology of historical sociology and offers a new historical narrative on US segregation policy decisions relying on the example…
Essence and existence in Allan Houser's Modernism
Memphis and the Paradox of Place
Celebrated as the home of the blues and the birthplace of rock and roll, Memphis, Tennessee, is where Elvis Presley, B. B. King, Johnny Cash, and other musical legends got their starts. It is also a place of conflict and tragedy—the site of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1968 assassination—and a city typically marginalized by scholars and underestimated by its own residents. Using this iconic southern city as a case study, this book explores the signif…
School Segregation and Its Discontents
Few policies have affected American society as deeply as those related to the landmark 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision, Brown v. Board of Education. Now, 60 years later, segregation persists along race and class divisions. This case study analysis of a merger that took place between 2010 and 2013 in Memphis and Shelby County, Tennessee, one of the most politically contentious ones undertaken in the post–civil rights era, reveals a great deal abo…
Behind a bicycling boom
Drawing on theories of place, new political cultures, and idio-cultural perceptions, this paper examines the case of recent place character change in Memphis, Tennessee. Since 2009, a burgeoning bicycling culture has taken root in the city alongside a massive increase in bicycling infrastructure. We analyse how these changes are paralleled by shifts in governance emphasising amenity-based urbanism that favours themes of creative class-centred eco…
Globalization and the Paradoxes of Place
At present, globalization research on complex technological and financial processes takes priority over studies of place and locality. A few cities, namely those described as “Global Cities,” receive special attention as centers of “command and control.” But most studies overlook less “essential” places and ignore the impact of local places on globalization processes. This research explains how tensions between global processes and local practice…
Rural Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities
The name of the Clinton Administration's Rural Empowerment Zone and Enterprise Community Program uses powerful political symbols—empowerment and community—to evoke the spirit of revitalization in distressed communities. This study assesses the program's chances for success. It reviews the legislation, program goals, and selection process; constructs a statistical profile of the 33 rural EZ/EC communities; and discusses the history of rural econom…
No Place for a Feminist
Perceptions of the American South as being no place for a feminist continue to affect and inform decisions about research and activism in the region. By taking a closer look at Memphis and the American South, and by questioning longstanding assumptions, stereotypes, and omissions about the region, we create additional opportunities for further discussion about the complexities of feminism, intersectionality, and place. I challenge two common assu…
Inequality and Education Reform
The persistence of race, class, gender, and regional inequality in US education poses many challenges for policy-makers and scholars. Investigations of school crises, as presently constructed, tend to treat the problems and paradoxes of inequality as exceptions to the American democratic system, instead of seeing them as contradictions within the system. This research suggests an alternative theoretical framework to study inequality and education…
Race, Place, and Memory
In Race, Place, and Memory Margaret M. Mulrooney adopts Manning Marable's dictum that fostering a “historically-grounded conversation” about race and racialization processes is central to understanding America's past (p. 7). Mulrooney's case study of Wilmington, North Carolina, also sheds light on the difficulties of pursuing these conversations. The city's celebratory narrative of good race relations in a progressive city belies its heritage of …
Sin, Sex, and Segregation
This article investigates the paradoxical processes of social control and social change within the institution of public education in the US South, early in the twentieth century. Through historical sociological analysis, it reveals how New South leaders used the 'dividing practices' of 'sin, sex, and segregation' to disenfranchise African-American males, to win support for segregated public schools, to segregate public higher education by race a…
Cold War Racial Politics and Global Impression Management
The USA emerged from the Second World War as the dominant economic and political power in a world-system undergoing vast political and economic reorganization. US government efforts to expand the nation's role in international affairs paralleled Southern states' economic development attempts. This article employs the methodology of historical sociology and offers a new historical narrative on US segregation policy decisions relying on the example…
Essence and existence in Allan Houser's Modernism
Rural Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities
The name of the Clinton Administration's Rural Empowerment Zone and Enterprise Community Program uses powerful political symbols—empowerment and community—to evoke the spirit of revitalization in distressed communities. This study assesses the program's chances for success. It reviews the legislation, program goals, and selection process; constructs a statistical profile of the 33 rural EZ/EC communities; and discusses the history of rural econom…
Cold War Racial Politics and Global Impression Management
The USA emerged from the Second World War as the dominant economic and political power in a world-system undergoing vast political and economic reorganization. US government efforts to expand the nation's role in international affairs paralleled Southern states' economic development attempts. This article employs the methodology of historical sociology and offers a new historical narrative on US segregation policy decisions relying on the example…
Inequality and Education Reform
The persistence of race, class, gender, and regional inequality in US education poses many challenges for policy-makers and scholars. Investigations of school crises, as presently constructed, tend to treat the problems and paradoxes of inequality as exceptions to the American democratic system, instead of seeing them as contradictions within the system. This research suggests an alternative theoretical framework to study inequality and education…
Inequality and Education Reform
Inequality and Education Reform
Sin, Sex, and Segregation
This article investigates the paradoxical processes of social control and social change within the institution of public education in the US South, early in the twentieth century. Through historical sociological analysis, it reveals how New South leaders used the 'dividing practices' of 'sin, sex, and segregation' to disenfranchise African-American males, to win support for segregated public schools, to segregate public higher education by race a…
Social Class, Poverty, and Education
1. Poverty, Ethnicity and Achievement in American Schools: Bruce J. Biddle 2. First Person Plural: Education as Public Property: Peter W. Cookson Jr 3. Poverty, Welfare Reform, and Children's Achievement: Greg J. Duncan and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn 4. Linking Bordieu's Concept of Capital to the Broader Field: The Case of Family-School Relationships: Annette Lareau 5. Defensive Network Orientations as Internalized Oppression: How Schools Mediate the Inf…
Across the Pond
This study began with the observations of author Tracy Collins, a British citizen then residing in the United States, who saw many differences between Britons and Americans in leisure time, work expectations, and community life. Conversations between Collins and American co-author Wanda Rushing, and our readings of historical and contemporary comparisons of life in the two countries, led to this project. This study allowed us to conduct a compara…
Globalization and the Paradoxes of Place
At present, globalization research on complex technological and financial processes takes priority over studies of place and locality. A few cities, namely those described as “Global Cities,” receive special attention as centers of “command and control.” But most studies overlook less “essential” places and ignore the impact of local places on globalization processes. This research explains how tensions between global processes and local practice…
Race, Space, and Riots in Chicago ‐ By Janet L. Abu‐Lughod
Memphis and the Paradox of Place
This is a biography of the city of Elvis Presley, Isaac Hayes, Stax Records, and FedEx. Celebrated as the home of the blues and the birthplace of rock and roll, Memphis, Tennessee, is where Elvis Presley, B.B. King, Johnny Cash, and other musical legends got their starts. It is also a place of conflict and tragedy - the site of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1968 assassination - and a city typically marginalized by scholars and underestimated by its ow…
Memphis and the Paradox of Place
Celebrated as the home of the blues and the birthplace of rock and roll, Memphis, Tennessee, is where Elvis Presley, B. B. King, Johnny Cash, and other musical legends got their starts. It is also a place of conflict and tragedy—the site of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1968 assassination—and a city typically marginalized by scholars and underestimated by its own residents. Using this iconic southern city as a case study, this book explores the signif…
Looking South
Mary E. Frederickson’s Looking South includes a range of source materials, as well as oral histories, in its insightful analysis of southern dissent and labor resistance. Grouped into four sections, the book’s eight essays chronicle waves of industrialization and deindustrialization and worker resistance to the human costs of those waves. Part 1, “Claiming Freedom,” looks at African American battles for social and economic space in the aftermath …
Weâ re Going to Graceland
We’re Going to Graceland
Memphis, located on the east bank of the Mississippi River in the far southwestern corner of Tennessee, is often described as the home of the blues and the birthplace of rock and roll. Variations of the music of the Mississippi Delta and the Mid-South, first performed by rural migrants on Beale Street, in juke joints, bars, and Pentecostal churches, then pressed into vinyl, became global popular music through record sales, radio broadcasts, and j…
Cold War Dixie
Journal Article Cold War Dixie: Militarization and Modernization in the American South Get access Kari Frederickson. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2013. xii, 226 pp. Cloth, $69.95. Paper, $24.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 1, June 2014, Page 324, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau304 Published: 01 June 2014
Behind a bicycling boom
Drawing on theories of place, new political cultures, and idio-cultural perceptions, this paper examines the case of recent place character change in Memphis, Tennessee. Since 2009, a burgeoning bicycling culture has taken root in the city alongside a massive increase in bicycling infrastructure. We analyse how these changes are paralleled by shifts in governance emphasising amenity-based urbanism that favours themes of creative class-centred eco…
School Segregation and Its Discontents
Few policies have affected American society as deeply as those related to the landmark 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision, Brown v. Board of Education. Now, 60 years later, segregation persists along race and class divisions. This case study analysis of a merger that took place between 2010 and 2013 in Memphis and Shelby County, Tennessee, one of the most politically contentious ones undertaken in the post–civil rights era, reveals a great deal abo…
No Place for a Feminist
Perceptions of the American South as being no place for a feminist continue to affect and inform decisions about research and activism in the region. By taking a closer look at Memphis and the American South, and by questioning longstanding assumptions, stereotypes, and omissions about the region, we create additional opportunities for further discussion about the complexities of feminism, intersectionality, and place. I challenge two common assu…
Sunbelt
The sunbelt phenomenon resulted from a massive post‐World War II migration of people from the Northeast and Midwest to emerging metropolitan areas in the South and Southwest. As of 2015, all of the 11 large metropolitan areas in the United States with the greatest population gains are located in the sunbelt. These areas include four cities in Texas – Houston, Dallas, Austin, and San Antonio – and two in Florida – Tampa and Orlando. The emergence …
Race, Place, and Memory
In Race, Place, and Memory Margaret M. Mulrooney adopts Manning Marable's dictum that fostering a “historically-grounded conversation” about race and racialization processes is central to understanding America's past (p. 7). Mulrooney's case study of Wilmington, North Carolina, also sheds light on the difficulties of pursuing these conversations. The city's celebratory narrative of good race relations in a progressive city belies its heritage of …
Sociology (18 works) · Political science (15 works) · Law (13 works) · Economics (9 works) · History (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Memphis (6 works)