Kathy Newman

Carnegie Mellon University | CMU · Department of English

Will the revolution be televised? Or will it simply be turned into a commercially successful radical documentary, of the sort distributed by companies like Bullfrog Films and the History Channel? Over the last ten years, scholars (such as Nick Couldry and James Curran, authors of Contesting Media Power) who study the relationship between media and...

Toward the end of Paddy Chayefsky's 1953 television version of Marty, the title character, a thirty-six-year-old Italian-American butcher who still lives with his mother in a large, run-down house in the Bronx, suggests that they move to a "nice little apartment." His mother is outraged: "I don't sell this house, I tell you that. This is my husband...

Technology and Culture 47.3 (2006) 655-656 In 1930, John Brinkley decided to run for governor of Kansas. Brinkley, a quack doctor famous for his reproductive treatments, also owned and operated KFKB (Kansas First, Kansas Best), a popular and profitable radio station. His gubernatorial campaign failed when 56,000 of the votes cast for him were disqu...

Labor Studies Journal 29.4 (2005) 124-125 For the last thirty years the labor movement in America has been accused of having lost its radicalism, or, worse still, its sense of humor. Michael Moore has done a lot to change this perception, but so have two less celebrated humorist/cartoonists: Gary Huck and Mike Konopacki. In their most recent volume...

American Quarterly 56.1 (2004) 213-221 In early March 2003, just before the start of the (second) U.S. war on Iraq, a sixty-one-year-old lawyer, Stephen Downs, and his thirty-one-year-old son, Roger Downs, went to the Crossgates Mall in a suburb of Albany, New York, to have some T-shirts made that expressed their views on the impending conflict. At...

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In the early twentieth century, as city councils throughout the South began passing Jim Crow segregation laws, African Americans began organizing streetcar boycotts. These boycotts, aimed at the racist new laws which required African Americans to sit in the back of the streetcar, were organized in more than twenty-five southern cities, and some las...

A junior faculty member reflects on the dilemma of that professional position, noting that its anxieties fall into two categories: "Is this all there is?" and "What if we lose it?" She examines problems with, and prohibitions against, speaking one's mind in that position, sees solutions as being institutional or individual, and examines how concern...

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: American Quarterly 51.3 (1999) 709-717 Desegregating the Dollar: African American Consumerism in the Twentieth Century. By Robert E. Weems. New York: New York University Press, 1998. x + 195 pages. $45.00 (cloth). $18.95 (paper). A Living Wage: American Workers and the Making of Con...