Matt Delmont
Biographic Data
| ID | 802820 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matt Delmont |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matt |
| FAMILY NAME | Delmont |
| SIGNATURE | DELMONT M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Scripps College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Digital Projects Introduction
Digital Projects Introduction Lauren Tilton (bio), Amy E. Earhart (bio), Matt Delmont (bio), Susan Garfinkel (bio), Jesse P. Karlsberg (bio), and Angel David Nieves (bio) Although the scholarly essay is a central form through which we analyze digital humanities work, we strongly believe that digital projects are equally important representations of the broad range of work at the intersection of American studies and digital humanities. Academics h…
Forum Introduction
Forum Introduction Lauren Tilton (bio), Amy E. Earhart (bio), Matt Delmont (bio), Susan Garfinkel (bio), Jesse P. Karlsberg (bio), and Angel David Nieves (bio) Scholarship at the intersection of two capacious modes of inquiry—American studies and digital humanities—results in a range of opportunities and challenges. Methodological experimentation enables distinctive avenues of research but can be difficult to access and support. Forms of knowledg…
Buses from nowhere: Television and anti-busing activism in 1970s urban America
‘Busing’, in which students were transported by school buses to achieve court-ordered or voluntary school desegregation, became one of the nation's most controversial civil rights issues in the decades after Brown vs. Board of Education (1954). Focusing on Florida Governor Claude Kirk and Pontiac housewife activist Irene McCabe, this essay examines how busing opponents turned the conventions of television news – its emphasis on newsworthy events …
It's Been Beautiful: Soul! and Black Power Television
Journal Article It's Been Beautiful: Soul! and Black Power Television Get access By Gayle Wald. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2015. x, 278 pp. Cloth, $89.95. Paper, $24.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 4, March 2016, Pages 1266–1267, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav731 Published: 01 March 2016
Miserable Women on Television”: Irene McCabe, Television News, and Antibusing Politics
This essay examines how housewife and political activist Irene McCabe drew national television news coverage to protests against busing for school desegregation. While thousands of parents across the nation raised their voices against busing, none received the same level of national television attention as McCabe and her Pontiac, Michigan – based antibusing organization, the National Action Group. In a protest that was more than simply an example…
Thomas L. Bynum. Naacp Youth and the Fight for Black Freedom, 1936–1965
Thomas L. Bynum's book examines the youth councils and college chapters of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), moving from the formal organization of NAACP youth activities under Juanita Jackson in the late 1930s through the sit-in movement of the 1960s. Bynum describes how “youth chapters staged antilynching demonstrations, campaigned for equal educational and employment opportunities, challenged discriminatio…
Sonic Visions: Popular Music on Television: Sonic Visions
Drone Encounters: Noor Behram, Omer Fast, and Visual Critiques of Drone Warfare
Drone Encounters: Noor Behram, Omer Fast, and Visual Critiques of Drone Warfare Matt Delmont (bio) 5000 feet’s the best. I love it when we’re sitting at 5000 feet. You have more description, plus at 5000 feet I mean, I can tell you what kind of shoes you’re wearing from a mile away. I can tell you what kind of clothes a person is wearing, if they have a beard, their hair color and everything else. There are very clear cameras on board. We have th…
Introduction: Visual Culture and the War on Terror
Introduction: Visual Culture and the War on Terror Matt Delmont (bio) [The war on terror] is different than the Gulf War was, in the sense that it may never end. At least, not in our lifetime. —Former vice president Dick Cheney, quoted in Washington Post, October 21, 2001 This American Quarterly forum explores the continuing centrality of visual culture to the war on terror. As the war on terror creeps through its second decade, the war is both o…
“They’ll Be Rockin’ on Bandstand, in Philadelphia, PA”: Dick Clark, Georgie Woods, and the Value of Rock 'n’ Roll: “They’ll Be Rockin’ on Bandstand, in Philadelphia, PA”
Making Philadelphia Safe for “WFIL-adelphia”: Television, Housing, and Defensive Localism in Postwar Philadelphia
This article examines television and housing as sites of struggle over segregation in postwar Philadelphia. WFIL-TV, which was part of Walter Annenberg’s media empire, broadcast to a four state region it called “WFIL-adelphia,” and emphasized the station’s ability to help advertisers reach millions of these regional consumers in parts of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland. At the same time, however, the racial tensions around WFIL’s …
The Color of the West
The Color of the West Matt Delmont (bio) Making the San Fernando Valley: Rural Landscapes, Urban Development, and White Privilege. By Laura Barraclough. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2011. 316 pages. $69.95 (cloth). $24.95 (paper). Bridges of Reform: Interracial Civil Rights Activism in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles. By Shana Bernstein. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. 368 pages. $99.00 (cloth). $24.95 (paper). The Color of America…
California Polyphony: Ethnic Voices, Musical Crossroads by Yang, Mina
Youth of Color and the City
Youth of Color and the City Matt Delmont (bio) Mean Streets: Chicago Youths and the Everyday Struggle for Empowerment in the Multiracial City, 1908–1969. By Andrew Diamond. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. 416 pages. $60.00 (cloth). $24.95 (paper). The Power of the Zoot: Youth Culture and Resistance during World War II. By Luis Alvarez. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. 336 pages. $34.95 (cloth). $21.95 (paper). Missi…
Drone Encounters: Noor Behram, Omer Fast, and Visual Critiques of Drone Warfare
Drone Encounters: Noor Behram, Omer Fast, and Visual Critiques of Drone Warfare Matt Delmont (bio) 5000 feet’s the best. I love it when we’re sitting at 5000 feet. You have more description, plus at 5000 feet I mean, I can tell you what kind of shoes you’re wearing from a mile away. I can tell you what kind of clothes a person is wearing, if they have a beard, their hair color and everything else. There are very clear cameras on board. We have th…
Introduction: Visual Culture and the War on Terror
Introduction: Visual Culture and the War on Terror Matt Delmont (bio) [The war on terror] is different than the Gulf War was, in the sense that it may never end. At least, not in our lifetime. —Former vice president Dick Cheney, quoted in Washington Post, October 21, 2001 This American Quarterly forum explores the continuing centrality of visual culture to the war on terror. As the war on terror creeps through its second decade, the war is both o…
It's Been Beautiful: Soul! and Black Power Television
Journal Article It's Been Beautiful: Soul! and Black Power Television Get access By Gayle Wald. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2015. x, 278 pp. Cloth, $89.95. Paper, $24.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 4, March 2016, Pages 1266–1267, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav731 Published: 01 March 2016
California Polyphony: Ethnic Voices, Musical Crossroads by Yang, Mina
Youth of Color and the City
Youth of Color and the City Matt Delmont (bio) Mean Streets: Chicago Youths and the Everyday Struggle for Empowerment in the Multiracial City, 1908–1969. By Andrew Diamond. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. 416 pages. $60.00 (cloth). $24.95 (paper). The Power of the Zoot: Youth Culture and Resistance during World War II. By Luis Alvarez. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. 336 pages. $34.95 (cloth). $21.95 (paper). Missi…
The Color of the West
The Color of the West Matt Delmont (bio) Making the San Fernando Valley: Rural Landscapes, Urban Development, and White Privilege. By Laura Barraclough. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2011. 316 pages. $69.95 (cloth). $24.95 (paper). Bridges of Reform: Interracial Civil Rights Activism in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles. By Shana Bernstein. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. 368 pages. $99.00 (cloth). $24.95 (paper). The Color of America…
“They’ll Be Rockin’ on Bandstand, in Philadelphia, PA”: Dick Clark, Georgie Woods, and the Value of Rock 'n’ Roll: “They’ll Be Rockin’ on Bandstand, in Philadelphia, PA”
Making Philadelphia Safe for “WFIL-adelphia”: Television, Housing, and Defensive Localism in Postwar Philadelphia
This article examines television and housing as sites of struggle over segregation in postwar Philadelphia. WFIL-TV, which was part of Walter Annenberg’s media empire, broadcast to a four state region it called “WFIL-adelphia,” and emphasized the station’s ability to help advertisers reach millions of these regional consumers in parts of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland. At the same time, however, the racial tensions around WFIL’s …
Sonic Visions: Popular Music on Television: Sonic Visions
Drone Encounters: Noor Behram, Omer Fast, and Visual Critiques of Drone Warfare
Drone Encounters: Noor Behram, Omer Fast, and Visual Critiques of Drone Warfare Matt Delmont (bio) 5000 feet’s the best. I love it when we’re sitting at 5000 feet. You have more description, plus at 5000 feet I mean, I can tell you what kind of shoes you’re wearing from a mile away. I can tell you what kind of clothes a person is wearing, if they have a beard, their hair color and everything else. There are very clear cameras on board. We have th…
Introduction: Visual Culture and the War on Terror
Introduction: Visual Culture and the War on Terror Matt Delmont (bio) [The war on terror] is different than the Gulf War was, in the sense that it may never end. At least, not in our lifetime. —Former vice president Dick Cheney, quoted in Washington Post, October 21, 2001 This American Quarterly forum explores the continuing centrality of visual culture to the war on terror. As the war on terror creeps through its second decade, the war is both o…
Miserable Women on Television”: Irene McCabe, Television News, and Antibusing Politics
This essay examines how housewife and political activist Irene McCabe drew national television news coverage to protests against busing for school desegregation. While thousands of parents across the nation raised their voices against busing, none received the same level of national television attention as McCabe and her Pontiac, Michigan – based antibusing organization, the National Action Group. In a protest that was more than simply an example…
Thomas L. Bynum. Naacp Youth and the Fight for Black Freedom, 1936–1965
Thomas L. Bynum's book examines the youth councils and college chapters of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), moving from the formal organization of NAACP youth activities under Juanita Jackson in the late 1930s through the sit-in movement of the 1960s. Bynum describes how “youth chapters staged antilynching demonstrations, campaigned for equal educational and employment opportunities, challenged discriminatio…
Buses from nowhere: Television and anti-busing activism in 1970s urban America
‘Busing’, in which students were transported by school buses to achieve court-ordered or voluntary school desegregation, became one of the nation's most controversial civil rights issues in the decades after Brown vs. Board of Education (1954). Focusing on Florida Governor Claude Kirk and Pontiac housewife activist Irene McCabe, this essay examines how busing opponents turned the conventions of television news – its emphasis on newsworthy events …
It's Been Beautiful: Soul! and Black Power Television
Journal Article It's Been Beautiful: Soul! and Black Power Television Get access By Gayle Wald. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2015. x, 278 pp. Cloth, $89.95. Paper, $24.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 4, March 2016, Pages 1266–1267, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav731 Published: 01 March 2016
Digital Projects Introduction
Digital Projects Introduction Lauren Tilton (bio), Amy E. Earhart (bio), Matt Delmont (bio), Susan Garfinkel (bio), Jesse P. Karlsberg (bio), and Angel David Nieves (bio) Although the scholarly essay is a central form through which we analyze digital humanities work, we strongly believe that digital projects are equally important representations of the broad range of work at the intersection of American studies and digital humanities. Academics h…
Forum Introduction
Forum Introduction Lauren Tilton (bio), Amy E. Earhart (bio), Matt Delmont (bio), Susan Garfinkel (bio), Jesse P. Karlsberg (bio), and Angel David Nieves (bio) Scholarship at the intersection of two capacious modes of inquiry—American studies and digital humanities—results in a range of opportunities and challenges. Methodological experimentation enables distinctive avenues of research but can be difficult to access and support. Forms of knowledg…
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