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The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South

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Juliatempleton:

{{Infobox book
| name = The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South

| author = John T. Edge
| publisher = Penguin Press
| pub_date = 2017
| pages = 370
| isbn = 9781594206559
| image = [[File: ThePotlikkerPapers.jpg|200px|alt=Cover]]
}}
As the Director of the Southern Foodways Alliance, John T. Edge is an expert on Southern food, culture, and its history. In ''Potlikker Papers'', he writes a history of the modern South by looking at its people, its places, and their relationship to Southern food. Edge argues that the South and its foodways are inextricably linked and when looked at as a piece together one can trace the history of politics and the social history of the South. The purpose of this book, as he states in his Introduction is "to apprehend how Southerners have fed themselves and others gains us a necessary glimpse of remarkable lives, a kitchen-eye view of the revolutions and evolutions that have shaped the region." With the shaping of the region and the development of a regional "shared culinary language," comes new meaning in the history of the South and its place in the larger narrative of the nation and poses the possibility of finding new meaning out of food in the present (11).

He starts with the Civil Rights Movement and ends with the 2010s. He traces the history of the South and food in five sections: the Freedom Struggles (1950s-1970s), the Rise of the Folk (1970s-1980s), Gentrification (1980s-1990s), New Respect (1990s-2010s) and Future Tenses (the 2010s forward). By breaking it up in this chronological way, the Potlikker Papers has a cohesive story of change and continuity of the South. By beginning in the 1950s examining the change that the Civil Rights Movement brought to the South and the resistance to the change of the many white Southerners and ending with the changing demographics and cultural fluidity of the current South, the book shows how food can act as a lens through which we can examine race, class, place, and identity in the ever-changing South.

He begins his book in Freedom Struggles, by discussing the role of food in a segregated South and more specifically how food, restaurants, and home kitchens served as the stage for the Civil Rights Movement. This section of the book focuses on the role that African-American women, like Georgia Gilmore, played in fueling the Civil Rights Movement by opening her kitchen and serving food to those leaders, among them Martin Luther King Jr. The legacy of enslavement is palpable in the South, as Edge leads the reader to understand what role Southern food had in a segregated and hostile South and the deep connection that Southern cooking had in the African-American experience. The role of restaurants in the Civil Rights Movement is also discussed, as sit-ins at lunch counters across the South made national news and students put their bodies on the line, while the kitchens refused to serve them.

The book next looks at the hippie, commune movement and the proto-farm-to-table movement. Edge contrasts this with the rise of the fast food industry, the commoditization of Southern food by white entrepreneurs like Colonel Sanders. The book next discusses the embrace of the folkiness of the down-home Southern culture in the form of Jimmy Carter. With the election of Jimmy Carter to the White House, Edge says that “America had finally called the South to the table (144).” This is the weakest section of the book, as it is not as tight as the other sections of the book and his points do not come through as clearly as in other sections. Additionally, the historical narrative flounders a bit throughout the story but doesn’t make an impression in this section as well as it does in some of the others.

Contrastly, the chapters on the gentrification of Southern food and culture are particularly interesting, as Edge traces the story of how these traditional Southern dishes have long been appropriated by white people for their own gain. By looking at the democratization of food and the way that culture flows across regions and states through our food, Edge connects the changing foodscape to the changing perceptions of the South. The South was seen as no longer a backwoods, backward culture, but as a rich place with good food, good people and interesting history.

In the next section, New Respect, Edge introduces some of the change-makers in Southern cuisine, Sean Brock, Emeril Lagasse, and Sam Jones, who all influenced the way that Southern food became seen as artisanal and with it so did the South. In this section, he weaves in the complicated history of race, gentrification, and appropriation that is reflected not just in high-priced Southern restaurants, but in the changes happening across the South in neighborhoods across the region.

He traces the food history of the modern South as a way to examine the resiliency of the African-American people, the contradictions of the modern South, and the cross-cultural sharing of foods and traditions that is a part of the Southern experience today. He is quick to point out that the South is still struggling to come to terms with its complicated history with race and appropriation of the foodways of Native Americans and enslaved Africans whose legacy of cooking has undeniably influenced Southern cuisine of today.

He ends the book, in Future Tenses, by speaking about the current state of the South, as he addresses some of the political reckonings that have happened and needs to happen across the region. With the fall of a white culinary institution like Paula Deen comes the rise of a new age of African-American cooks and culinary historians, like Michael Twitty who are reclaiming the history of Southern cooks and the plantation era South. Edge sees a need to reframe the history of the South as a place that has always been full of diversity of thought and people. It is not the starchy white plantation era region that so often dominated the historical and pop cultural narrative, but was always populated by enslaved people making their own cultures and food, which can now be tasted in the most expensive restaurants in the region. The appropriation and sharing of this food in the region seem to be used a way to discuss larger historical contexts around race relations in the South and the history of appropriation and commoditization of black culture by white people. Edge does argue that the South is increasingly more diverse with the increased numbers of immigrants, who are bringing with them their own foods and cultures. But is still plagued by its racist past and complicated future.

He talks about his teenage son, who is growing up in a different South. A South that is for all people, not just for the white Confederates. In Edge’s mind, the South of today is growing and changing for the good, but cannot be separated from its complicated history with race and prejudice. The fusion of cultures, which is seen throughout restaurants throughout the South points to a new form of Southern, where anyone can be Southern. The South is still deciding who it wants to be, who is welcome and what a true Southerner looks like, but through the sharing of food at a table, John Edge seems to think that we are closer to that goal than ever before.

As a book about food and culture and a people’s history, ''Potlikker Papers'' does a good job of weaving in narratives and broad themes of Southern history, while connecting it to today’s current climate, however, it is not a scholarly look at Southern history, nor does it pretend to be one. While the author does a good enough job of addressing the historical framework, it is by no means expansive or in depth, but instead looks at all the ways that food has influenced the South and how this region has evolved and changed along with its food. Where it flounders in some places, it soars in others. It records a history of food evolution in the South and its various intersections of race, class, identity, and immigration as it relates to the history of the South and the current issues the region faces today.
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Juliatempleton:

The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South

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{{Infobox book
| name = The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South

| author = John T. Edge
| publisher = Penguin Press
| pub_date = 2017
| pages = 370
| isbn = 9781594206559
| image = [[File: ThePotlikkerPapers.jpg|200px|alt=Cover]]
}}

[[Category:Twentieth Century United States]]

[[Category:Wikify]]
[[Category:Book Summaries]]
[[Category:John T. Edge]]

Twentieth Century United States

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Juliatempleton:

==Book Summaries==
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Our Separate Ways

2017-10-05T02:28:53Z

Juliatempleton:

{{Infobox book
| name = Our Separate Ways: Women and the Black Freedom Movement in Durham, North Carolina
| author = Christina Greene
| publisher = University of North Carolina Press
| pub_date = 2005
| pages = 366
| isbn = 978-0807856000
| image = [[File:Our Separate Ways.jpg|200px|alt=cover]]
}}

In ''Our Separate Ways'', Christina Greene places the focus of the Civil Rights Movement in Durham, North Carolina on the women who played an instrumental part in organizing, galvanizing and leading the movement. Greene makes several key arguments throughout her book. She argues that women, particularly low-income women of color, got involved in their neighborhoods and local communities in the 1940’s and 50’s, which gave them the momentum and inertia to continue the fight in the 1960’s. She also argues that both black and white women were present during the black freedom movement and occasionally were able to bridge the divide and work together on issues that were important to them, like school desegregation. And while racism obviously was the largest component in the Civil Rights Movement, Greene also argues that sexism and class conflict were not absent during the black freedom movement and that poor black women suffered the most under racism, sexism, and classism.

Greene structures her book chronologically, as she tracks the black freedom movement in Durham from the 1940’s to the 1960’s. After WWII, African Americans realized that the country had “little intention of allowing them to claim the democratic freedoms” that they had fought a war over (218). As a result of this, black people were galvanized to fight against injustice and white supremacy of the Jim Crow south. Groups like the NAACP and SCLC were formed, but women were largely disregarded. However, in spite of not being listened to by the big organizations, women across Durham began to put in place grassroots efforts to fight Jim Crow in their communities.

During the 1950’s there was an insurgence of youth activism, young people were joining the NAACP en masse and were more militant and daring than the older establishment black community. They staged sit-ins and protests of segregated shops downtown. Many young women were given the tools to fight injustice at the DeShazor Beauty School. Not only did beauty parlors give a space for black women to meet and talk, it also advocated for black freedom. Greene outlines a few of these types of institutions and meeting places as ways that blacks, particularly those who were young, could meet and organize, away from the prying eyes of the white community and in an environment that was safe and comfortable for them. It was these “every day” spaces that helped build a network of community activism and grassroots organization during the 1950’s that would help bolster the African American community in Durham for the fight in the 1960’s.

Greene spends a portion of her book outlining the ways that poor, African American women used their marginalized position to organize and fight within their communities. Neighborhood federations like United Organizations for Community Improvement were formed as a citywide all-black organization whose primary membership consisted of low-income women. These women, while not only fighting racism and Jim Crow, were also focused on fighting poverty and housing inequality that affected black women more substantially than any other group. Greene argues that these women were instrumental in the black freedom movement, because they were able to organize their communities and because they were the most marginalized they had less to lose than the more middle-class, established black community. They played a crucial role in the Civil Rights Movement, while also battling sexism and class issues even among their fellow black freedom fighters.

Not only were women key participants in the Civil Rights Movement but that they ultimately helped to guide the issues that would come to the forefront of the movement. Black women, and specifically poor women were fighting for economic justice and equality, housing equity, and school desegregation, all of which would become key issues in the 1960’s for the Civil Rights Movement. Not only were women important in building up a grassroots effort and organizing their neighborhoods, they were also active participants in the movement and were responsible for bringing many of the key issues like economic justice to the Civil Rights Movement. They helped shape the issues from the bottom up, as poor black women were the backbone of the movement. What poor women fought for became what the Civil Rights Movement fought for in the 1960's.

Another part of Greene’s argument focused on the interracial cooperation between women that was present and was sometimes effective, if not still riddled with racism and classism. Greene argues that many poor white women were willing to work together with the poor black women because they shared the same needs and desires for their families. Poor women of both races joined together to fight housing inequity and fight for better resources for themselves and their neighborhoods. They were not coming together to form some utopia of racial equality, prejudice and racism was still very much present, but were rather coming together for convenience and necessity, but Greene argues that even though their design was not to form an interracial movement, interracial cooperation existed and that was no small thing during the 1950’s and 60’s.

Not only were low-income women coming together to form grassroots infrastructure in their neighborhood, but middle-class and established women were also forming interracial connections and coalitions. The Women-in-Action (WIA), formed by Elna Spaulding who was a prominent member of the African-American community, was made up of both black and white women whose main objective was to fight violence, particularly racial violence, in their community. Most members were middle-class and middle-aged, but the club did boast a biracial membership. Because WIA was primarily made up of middle-class women, they did not always understand the plight of the poor woman, again reinforcing Greene’s point that classism was present throughout the Civil Rights Movement. The WIA was primarily neutral on big issues, like the city-wide boycott of white businesses, but they did speak out in favor of school desegregation and were on the front lines helping to enact legislation and many of the white women were sending their children to primarily black schools to spearhead the desegregation.

Christina Greene writes a book that is both well-written and engaging. It tells new stories about a side of the Civil Rights Movement that has not had as much focus on it. While her book is in a long list of literature and research on this era in American history, Christina Greene takes a fresh look at not only the important role women, both black and white, poor and wealthy, played in this crucial time for black freedom, but she also highlights the internal problems that were present during the Civil Rights Era. The argument that sexism was present in the Civil Rights Movement is a recent one. Christina Greene shines much needed clarity on the issue of sexism that was present even among marginalized black men. Greene also brings up the presence of classism in the fight for freedom and outlines the terrible position that black, poor women were given. By putting the spotlight on these women, Greene shows how much work behind the scenes was taking place and the crucial grassroots efforts these women were doing that would ultimately sustain the Civil Rights Movement as it moved into the 1960’s. Without the help of the black women, Christina Greene argues that the Civil Rights would not have been as successful as it was.

''Our Separate Ways'' focuses on one individual city in the south, Durham North Carolina, which has been called the “capital of the black middle class.” Although this book only focuses on women in this particular city and on the black freedom movement in Durham, Christina Greene would argue that this is a story that could be seen across the South during the Civil Rights Movement and “is not unlike that of countless towns and cities, especially in the Upper South” (5). Because of her scope of focus, the book is well contained and neatly laid out. It very clearly chronicles the rise of women in the black freedom movement from the 1940’s up to the 1960’s. Ultimately, the decision to focus on one city is a good one, as it allows Greene to trace women’s role in the black freedom movement across decades and allows the reader to see the rise of protest and organization in these communities in Durham. By taking a closer look at one city, Greene rolls back the curtain on the black freedom movement in Durham and gives a clear argument for the importance of women in their communities and in their role as protestors.

By telling this story, Christina Greene fills the gaps in the history of the Civil Rights Movement. The role women played in the movement had been silenced for too long. Christina Greene gives women a voice in their own story. This new look at the participation of women in the black freedom movement in Durham gives historians new ways to understand protest, racial and class politics and the overall leadership during the 1960’s. Their overwhelming resiliency played a big part in why the Civil Rights Movement was successful and why it was such a groundbreaking moment in American History. These women battled on many fronts, fighting racism, sexism, classism, while also raising families and building up grassroots efforts and organizations that would fight Jim Crow and inequality in their communities. Black men were the faces of the movement, the ones behind the podium, but women, particularly poor women, were present at the pickets, at the sit-ins, and in the jail cells.
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{{Infobox book
| name = Our Separate Ways: Women and the Black Freedom Movement in Durham, North Carolina
| author = Christina Greene
| publisher = University of North Carolina Press
| pub_date = 2005
| pages = 366
| isbn = 978-0807856000
| image = [[File:Our Separate Ways.jpg|200px|alt=cover]]
}}

In Our Separate Ways, Christina Greene places the focus of the Civil Rights Movement in Durham, North Carolina on the women who played an instrumental part in organizing, galvanizing and leading the movement. Greene makes several key arguments throughout her book. She argues that women, particularly low-income women of color, got involved in their neighborhoods and local communities in the 1940’s and 50’s, which gave them the momentum and inertia to continue the fight in the 1960’s. She also argues that both black and white women were present during the black freedom movement and occasionally were able to bridge the divide and work together on issues that were important to them, like school desegregation. And while racism obviously was the largest component in the Civil Rights Movement, Greene also argues that sexism and class conflict were not absent during the black freedom movement and that poor black women suffered the most under racism, sexism, and classism.

Greene structures her book chronologically, as she tracks the black freedom movement in Durham from the 1940’s to the 1960’s. After WWII, African Americans realized that the country had “little intention of allowing them to claim the democratic freedoms” that they had fought a war over (218). As a result of this, black people were galvanized to fight against injustice and white supremacy of the Jim Crow south. Groups like the NAACP and SCLC were formed, but women were largely disregarded. However, in spite of not being listened to by the big organizations, women across Durham began to put in place grassroots efforts to fight Jim Crow in their communities.

During the 1950’s there was an insurgence of youth activism, young people were joining the NAACP en masse and were more militant and daring than the older establishment black community. They staged sit-ins and protests of segregated shops downtown. Many young women were given the tools to fight injustice at the DeShazor Beauty School. Not only did beauty parlors give a space for black women to meet and talk, it also advocated for black freedom. Greene outlines a few of these types of institutions and meeting places as ways that blacks, particularly those who were young, could meet and organize, away from the prying eyes of the white community and in an environment that was safe and comfortable for them. It was these “every day” spaces that helped build a network of community activism and grassroots organization during the 1950’s that would help bolster the African American community in Durham for the fight in the 1960’s.

Greene spends a portion of her book outlining the ways that poor, African American women used their marginalized position to organize and fight within their communities. Neighborhood federations like United Organizations for Community Improvement were formed as a citywide all-black organization whose primary membership consisted of low-income women. These women, while not only fighting racism and Jim Crow, were also focused on fighting poverty and housing inequality that affected black women more substantially than any other group. Greene argues that these women were instrumental in the black freedom movement, because they were able to organize their communities and because they were the most marginalized they had less to lose than the more middle-class, established black community. They played a crucial role in the Civil Rights Movement, while also battling sexism and class issues even among their fellow black freedom fighters.

Not only were women key participants in the Civil Rights Movement but that they ultimately helped to guide the issues that would come to the forefront of the movement. Black women, and specifically poor women were fighting for economic justice and equality, housing equity, and school desegregation, all of which would become key issues in the 1960’s for the Civil Rights Movement. Not only were women important in building up a grassroots effort and organizing their neighborhoods, they were also active participants in the movement and were responsible for bringing many of the key issues like economic justice to the Civil Rights Movement. They helped shape the issues from the bottom up, as poor black women were the backbone of the movement. What poor women fought for became what the Civil Rights Movement fought for in the 1960's.

Another part of Greene’s argument focused on the interracial cooperation between women that was present and was sometimes effective, if not still riddled with racism and classism. Greene argues that many poor white women were willing to work together with the poor black women because they shared the same needs and desires for their families. Poor women of both races joined together to fight housing inequity and fight for better resources for themselves and their neighborhoods. They were not coming together to form some utopia of racial equality, prejudice and racism was still very much present, but were rather coming together for convenience and necessity, but Greene argues that even though their design was not to form an interracial movement, interracial cooperation existed and that was no small thing during the 1950’s and 60’s.

Not only were low-income women coming together to form grassroots infrastructure in their neighborhood, but middle-class and established women were also forming interracial connections and coalitions. The Women-in-Action (WIA), formed by Elna Spaulding who was a prominent member of the African-American community, was made up of both black and white women whose main objective was to fight violence, particularly racial violence, in their community. Most members were middle-class and middle-aged, but the club did boast a biracial membership. Because WIA was primarily made up of middle-class women, they did not always understand the plight of the poor woman, again reinforcing Greene’s point that classism was present throughout the Civil Rights Movement. The WIA was primarily neutral on big issues, like the city-wide boycott of white businesses, but they did speak out in favor of school desegregation and were on the front lines helping to enact legislation and many of the white women were sending their children to primarily black schools to spearhead the desegregation.

Christina Greene writes a book that is both well-written and engaging. It tells new stories about a side of the Civil Rights Movement that has not had as much focus on it. While her book is in a long list of literature and research on this era in American history, Christina Greene takes a fresh look at not only the important role women, both black and white, poor and wealthy, played in this crucial time for black freedom, but she also highlights the internal problems that were present during the Civil Rights Era. The argument that sexism was present in the Civil Rights Movement is a recent one. Christina Greene shines much needed clarity on the issue of sexism that was present even among marginalized black men. Greene also brings up the presence of classism in the fight for freedom and outlines the terrible position that black, poor women were given. By putting the spotlight on these women, Greene shows how much work behind the scenes was taking place and the crucial grassroots efforts these women were doing that would ultimately sustain the Civil Rights Movement as it moved into the 1960’s. Without the help of the black women, Christina Greene argues that the Civil Rights would not have been as successful as it was.

Our Separate Ways focuses on one individual city in the south, Durham North Carolina, which has been called the “capital of the black middle class.” Although this book only focuses on women in this particular city and on the black freedom movement in Durham, Christina Greene would argue that this is a story that could be seen across the South during the Civil Rights Movement and “is not unlike that of countless towns and cities, especially in the Upper South” (5). Because of her scope of focus, the book is well contained and neatly laid out. It very clearly chronicles the rise of women in the black freedom movement from the 1940’s up to the 1960’s. Ultimately, the decision to focus on one city is a good one, as it allows Greene to trace women’s role in the black freedom movement across decades and allows the reader to see the rise of protest and organization in these communities in Durham. By taking a closer look at one city, Greene rolls back the curtain on the black freedom movement in Durham and gives a clear argument for the importance of women in their communities and in their role as protestors.

By telling this story, Christina Greene fills the gaps in the history of the Civil Rights Movement. The role women played in the movement had been silenced for too long. Christina Greene gives women a voice in their own story. This new look at the participation of women in the black freedom movement in Durham gives historians new ways to understand protest, racial and class politics and the overall leadership during the 1960’s. Their overwhelming resiliency played a big part in why the Civil Rights Movement was successful and why it was such a groundbreaking moment in American History. These women battled on many fronts, fighting racism, sexism, classism, while also raising families and building up grassroots efforts and organizations that would fight Jim Crow and inequality in their communities. Black men were the faces of the movement, the ones behind the podium, but women, particularly poor women, were present at the pickets, at the sit-ins, and in the jail cells.

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==Book Summaries==
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* Luis Alvarez. [[The Power of the Zoot|The Power of the Zoot: Youth Culture and Resistance during World War II]] (2008).
* Karen Anderson. [[Wartime Women|Wartime Women: Sex Roles, Family Relations, and the Status of Women During World War II]] (1981).
* Michael Aronson. [[Nickelodeon City|Nickelodeon City: Pittsburgh at the Movies, 1905-1929]] (2008).
* Eric Avila. [[Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight|Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles]] (2004).
* Beth Bailey. [[America’s Army|America’s Army: Making the All-Volunteer Force]] (2009).
* Beth Bailey & David Farber. [[The First Strange Place|The First Strange Place: The Alchemy of Race and Sex in World War II Hawaii]] (1992).
* Beth Bailey. [[From Front Porch to Back Seat|From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth-Century America]] (1989).
* Mark Brilliant. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2012/11/29/californication-race-ethnicity-and-unity-in-twentieth-century-california/ Californication: Race, Ethnicity, and Unity in Twentieth Century California] (2012).
* Amy Bridges. [[Morning Glories]] (1999).
* Laura Briggs. [[Reproducing Empire|Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico]] (2002).
* Alan Brinkley. [[Voices of Protest|Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, & the Great Depression]] (1983).
* Charlotte Brooks. [[Alien Neighbors, Foreign Friends|Alien Neighbors, Foreign Friends: Asian Americans, Housing, and the Transformation of Urban California]] (2009).
* William Fitzhugh Brundage. [[The Southern Past|The Southern Past: a Clash of Race and Memory]] (2005).
* Catherine Fisher Collins. [[The Imprisonment of African American Women| The Imprisonment of African American Women: Causes, Conditions, and Future Implications]] (1997).
* Robert Caro. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2011/08/12/dog-days-classics-robert-caros-controversial-portrait-of-robert-moses-and-new-york/ The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York](1974)
* Shawn Clements. [[Deaf in America|Deaf in America: Voices from a Culture]](1988).
* Adam Cohen and Elizabeth Taylor. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2011/08/18/dog-days-classics-political-boss-and-midwestern-pharaoh-richard-j-daleys-chicago-legacy/ American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley - His Battle for the Nation and Chicago] (2001)
* Lizabeth Cohen. [[A Consumers’ Republic|A Consumers’ Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America]] (2003).
* Lizabeth Cohen. [[Making a New Deal|Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939]] (2008).
* Stephanie Coontz. [[The Way We Never Were|The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap]] (1992).
* Nancy F. Cott. [[Public Vows|Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation]] (2002).
* Pete Daniel, [[Lost Revolutions|Lost Revolutions: The South in the 1950s]] (2000)
* Mike Davis. [[City of Quartz|City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles]] (2006).
* Mike Davis & Michael Sprinker. [[Magical Urbanism|Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the US Big City]] (2001).
* Michael J. Dear. [[The Postmodern Urban Condition]] (2001).
* Robert C. Donnelly. [[Dark Rose]] (2011).
* Steven Erie. [[Globalizing L.A.|Globalizing L.A.: Trade, Infrastructure, and Regional Development]] (2004).
* Steven P. Erie. [[Beyond Chinatown|Beyond Chinatown: The Metropolitan Water District, Growth, and the Environment in Southern California]] (2006).
* Elizabeth Ewen. [[Immigrant Women in the Land of Dollars]] (1985).
* Dannelly Farrow. [[Dixie's Daughters]] (2003).
* Barbara Ferman. [[Challenging the Growth Machine|Challenging the Growth Machine: Neighborhood Politics in Chicago and Pittsburgh]] (1996).
* Marcie Ferris and Mark Greenberg. [[Jewish Roots in Southern Soil|Jewish Roots in Southern Soil: A New History]] (2006).
* John M. Findlay. [[Magic Lands|Magic Lands: Western Cityscapes and American Culture After 1940]] (1993).
* Christina Greene. [[Our Separate Ways|Our Separate Ways: Women and the Black Freedom Movement in Durham, North Carolina]] (2005).
* Steven Gregory. [[Black Corona|Black Corona: Race and the Politics of Place in an Urban Community]] (1999).
* Jason Hackworth. [[The Neoliberal City|The Neoliberal City: Governance, Ideology, and Development in American Urbanism]] (2006).
* William Ivy Hair. [[Carnival of Fury|Carnival of Fury: Robert Charles and the New Orleans Race Riot of 1900]] (2008).
* Tona J. Hangen. [[Redeeming the Dial|Redeeming the Dial: Radio, Religion, and Popular Culture in America]] (2013).
* Andrew Hartman. [[A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars]] (2015)
* Chester W. Hartman. [[Yerba Buena|Yerba Buena: land grab and community resistance in San Francisco,]] (1974).
* Georgina Hickey. [[Hope and Danger in the New South City|Hope and Danger in the New South City: Working-Class Women and Urban Development in Atlanta, 1890-1940]] (2005).
* Richard Hofstadter. [[The American Political Tradition|The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made it]] (1989).
* Daniel Horowitz. [[Betty Friedan and the Making of “The Feminine Mystique”|Betty Friedan and the Making of “The Feminine Mystique”: The American Left, the Cold War, and Modern Feminism]] (2000).
* John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle. [[Lots of Parking|Lots of Parking: Land Use in a Car Culture]] (2004).
* Daniel Martinez HoSang. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2011/10/06/erasing-race-whiteness-california-and-the-colorblind-bind/ Racial Propositions: Ballot Initiatives and the Making of Postwar California](2010)
* Jonathan Hughes (Editor)& Simon Sadler (Editor).[[Non-Plan|Non-Plan: Essays on Freedom, Participation and Change in Modern Architecture and Urbanism]] (2000).
* Daniel Hurewitz. [[Bohemian Los Angeles|Bohemian Los Angeles: and the Making of Modern Politics]] (2007).
* Marilynn S. Johnson. [[The Second Gold Rush|The Second Gold Rush: Oakland and the East Bay in World War II]] (1994).
* Sharon Foster Jones. [[Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Avenue: A History]] (2012)
* Tony Judt. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2011/01/24/neoliberalisms-license-to-ill/ Ill Fares the Land] (2011).
* Lucy Kaylin. [[For the Love of God | For the Love of God: The Faith and Future of the American Nun]] (2000)
* Larry D. Kramer. [[The People Themselves: Popular Constitutionalism and Judicial Review]] (2004).
* Joel Kotkin. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2011/03/23/americas-ace-in-the-hole-is-of-course-its-awesomeness/ The Next Hundred Million:America in 2050] (2010)
* Kevin M. Kruse. [[White Flight|White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism]] (2007).
* Matthew D. Lassiter. [[The Silent Majority|The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South]] (2007).
*Gary L. Lehring. [[Officially Gay|The Political Construction of Sexuality by the U. S. Military]] (2003).
* William R. Leach. [[Land of Desire|Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture]] (1994).
* Michael F. Logan. [[Fighting Sprawl and City Hall|Fighting Sprawl and City Hall: Resistance to Urban Growth in the Southwest]] (1995).
* Fredrik Logevall. [[Choosing War|Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam]] (1999).
* Roger W. Lotchin. [[Fortress California, 1910-1961|Fortress California, 1910-1961: From Warfare to Welfare]] (2002).
* Lisa Lowe. [[Immigrant Acts|Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics]] (1996).
* Robert S. Lynd & Helen Merrell Lynd. [[Middletown|Middletown: A Study in Modern American Culture]] (1959).
* Catherine Lutz. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2012/05/26/3187/ Homefront: A Military City and the American 20th Century] (2001).
* Nancy MacLean. [[Freedom Is Not Enough|Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace]] (2008).
* Isaac Martin. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2011/05/04/stalking-the-tax-man-the-pervasive-influence-of-the-property-tax-revolt/ The Permanent Tax Revolt: How Property Tax Transformed America] (2008).
* Douglas Massey & Nancy Denton. [[American Apartheid|American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass]] (1993).
* Elaine Tyler May. [[America and The Pill|America and The Pill: A History of Promise, Peril, and Liberation]] (2010).
* Carol Lynn McKibben. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2012/05/26/3187/ Racial Beachhead: Diversity and Democracy in a Military Town] (2012).
* Lisa McGirr. [[Suburban Warriors|Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right]] (2002).
* James Miller. [[Flowers in the Dustbin|Flowers in the Dustbin: The Rise of Rock and Roll, 1947-1977]] (2000).
* Glen M. Mimura. [[Ghostlife of the Third Cinema|Ghostlife of Third Cinema: Asian American Film and Video]] (2009).
* John Hull Mollenkopf. [[The Contested City]] (1983).
* Maggi M. Morehouse. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2013/02/11/double-victory-from-wwii-to-the-avf-african-americans-and-the-u-s-military/ Fighting in the Jim Crow Army: Black Man and Women Remember World War II] (2000).
* Edward P. Morgan. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2013/01/14/a-mediating-mess-how-american-post-wwii-media-undermined-democracy/ What Really Happened to the Sixties: How Mass Media Culture Failed American Democracy] (2011)
* Charles Moskos Jr. and John Sibley Butler. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2013/02/11/double-victory-from-wwii-to-the-avf-african-americans-and-the-u-s-military/ All That We Can Be: Black Leadership and Racial Integration the Army Way] (1996).
* Andrew H. Myers. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2012/05/26/3187/ Black, White, and Olive Drab: Racial Integration at Fort Jackson, South Carolina and the Civil Rights Movement] (2006).
* Armando Navarro. [[The Cristal Experiment|The Cristal Experiment: A Chicano Struggle for Community Control]] (1998).
* Becky M. Nicolaides. [[My Blue Heaven|My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920-1965]] (2002).
* Anthony M. Petro. [[After the Wrath of God: AIDS, Sexuality, and American Religion]] (2015).
* Margaret Pugh O’Mara. [[Cities of Knowledge|Cities of Knowledge: Cold War Science and the Search for the Next Silicon Valley]] (2004).
* Gilbert Osofsky. [[Harlem|Harlem: The Making of a Ghetto : Negro New York, 1890-1930]] (1996).
* Rick Perlstein. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2011/09/15/essence-precedes-existence-the-problem-of-identity-politics-in-hurewitzs-bohemian-la/ Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America](2009).
* Patrick Phillips. [[Blood at the Root|Blood at the Root: Racial Cleansing in America]] (2016).
* Rebecca Jo Plant. [[Mom|Mom: The Transformation of Motherhood in Modern America]] (2012).
* Brenda Gayle Plummer. [[Window on Freedom|Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988]] (2003).
* Jerald E. Podair. [[The Strike that Changed New York|The Strike that Changed New York: Blacks, Whites, and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Crisis]] (2002).
* Doris Marie Provine. [[Unequal Under Law|Unequal Under Law: Race in the War on Drugs]] (2007).
* Daniel T. Rodgers. [[Contested Truths|Contested Truths: Keywords in American Politics Since Independence]] (1998).
* David Roediger. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2012/08/30/dog-days-classics-the-wages-of-whiteness-and-the-white-people-who-love-them/ The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class] (1991).
* Adam Rome. [[The Bulldozer in the Countryside|The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism]] (2001).
* Richard Ronald. [[The Ideology of Home Ownership|The Ideology of Home Ownership: Homeowner Societies and the Role of Housing]] (2008).
* Jake Rosenfeld. [[What Unions No Longer Do]] (2014).
* Peter Henry Rossi & Robert A. Dentler. [[The Politics of Urban Renewal|The Politics of Urban Renewal: The Chicago Findings]] (1981).
* Sheila Rowbotham [[Dreamers of a New Day|Dreamers of a New Day: Women Who Invented the Twentieth Century]] (2010).
* Mike Royko. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2011/08/18/dog-days-classics-political-boss-and-midwestern-pharaoh-richard-j-daleys-chicago-legacy/ Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago] (1971)
* Roger Sanjek. [[The Future of Us All|The Future of Us All: Race and Neighborhood Politics in New York City]] (1998).
* Jennifer Scanlon. [[Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown, the Woman Behind Cosmopolitan Magazine]] (2009).
* Bruce Schulman & Bruce J. Schulman. [[The Seventies|The Seventies: The Great Shift In American Culture, Society, And Politics]] (2002).
* Joel Schwartz. [[The New York Approach|The New York Approach: Robert Moses, Urban Liberals, and Redevelopment of the Inner City]] (1993).
*Gary S. Selby [[Martin Luther King and the Rhetoric of Freedom: The Exodus Narrative in America's Struggle for Civil Rights]] (2008)
* Josh Sides. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2012/11/20/making-san-francisco-josh-sides-erotic-city/ Erotic City: Sexual Revolutions and the Making of Modern San Francisco] (2009).
* Nayan Shah. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2012/03/07/intimate-citizenship-the-influence-of-marriage-sexuality-and-transience-on-national-membership/Stranger Intimacy:Contesting Race, Sexuality and Law in the American Northwest] (2012).
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