In the United States today many people are as likely to identify
themselves by their ethnicity or region as by their nationality. In
this country with its diversity and inequalities, can there be a
shared public culture? Is there an unbridgeable gap between
cultural variety and civic unity, or can public forms of expression
provide an opportunity for Americans to come together as a
people?In "Public Culture: Diversity, Democracy, and Community in
the United States," an interdisciplinary group of scholars
addresses these questions while considering the state of American
public culture over the past one hundred years. From medicine shows
to the Internet, from the Los Angeles Plaza to the Las Vegas Strip,
from the commemoration of the Oklahoma City bombing to television
programming after 9/11, public sights and scenes provide ways to
negotiate new forms of belonging in a diverse, postmodern
community. By analyzing these cultural phenomena, the essays in
this volume reveal how mass media, consumerism, increased
privatization of space, and growing political polarization have
transformed public culture and the very notion of the American
public.Focusing on four central themes--public action, public
image, public space, and public identity--and approaching shared
culture from a range of disciplines--including mass communication,
history, sociology, urban studies, ethnic studies, and cultural
studies--"Public Culture" offers refreshing perspectives on a
subject of perennial significance.
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