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Jade Sasser
Climate anxiety and the kid question : deciding whether to have children in an uncertain future
"Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question looks at how environmental emotions influence whether, when, and why people today decide to become parents -- or...
On Infertile Ground Population Control and Women's Rights in the Era of Climate Change
A critique of population control narratives reproduced by international development actors in the 21st century Since the turn of the millennium, Ameri...
Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question: Deciding Whether to Have Children in an Uncertain Future
The first book-length exploration of climate-driven reproductive anxiety that places race and social justice at the center. Eco-anxiety. Climate guilt...
Malthus's specter and the anthropocene
Hegemonic narratives and practices around environmental change, even when coming from concerned and seemingly progressive fronts, often contribute to...
Catherine Gudis
Public culture : diversity, democracy, and community in the United States
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...
Pushed around: Material culture, dispossession, and the American shopping cart
This chapter analyzes the shopping cart from different historical moments and perspectives: as a marker of mass consumer culture; icon of homelessness...
Historians and the Obligation to Bear Witness: The Case for Expert Testimony and Testimonios
The Frontal Sinus: Surgical Approaches and Controversies
"This book will be a valuable resource for novice surgeons approaching one of the most challenging anatomical subsites, since it provides a stepwise a...
The effect of tranexamic acid during childbirth on maternal mortality: an epidemiological modelling and cost-effectiveness study
Tranexamic acid reduces life-threatening bleeding after childbirth. We aimed to identify the settings where tranexamic acid cost-effectively reduces m...
“She Has a Monument Far More Enduring Than Any Artificial Record” : Representations of Early Nineteenth-Century d/Deaf Women in the Historical Record, the Archive, and Public Memory
In 1817, the Connecticut Asylum for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons was founded in Hartford, Connecticut, marking the advent of...
VISUALIZING DISTRIBUTION
In 1925, Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover announced with pride that
since the end of the Great War America’s ability to make quality goods had
rea...
Reading image, viewing text
A report on the exhibition 'Mixing Messages: Graphic Design in Contemporary Culture', an exhibition of recent US graphic design, held at the Cooper-He...
“The First Thing Every Negro Girl Does”: Black Beauty Culture, Racial Politics, and the Construction of Modern Black Womanhood, 1905–1925
Adina Stewart, mother of international labor leader Maida Springer Kemp, known best for her work with the International Ladies Garment Worker’s Union...
"A Separate and Distinct Tribal Entity : " The Resilience of the Modoc Nation of Oklahoma
From January to June 1873, a band of Modoc Natives fought the United States Army in the Lava Beds of Northern California over control of their homelan...
BEFORE THE CAR
As industrial America grew, so did advertising outdoors. Handbills and broadsides for farm machinery, auctions, runaway slaves, stagecoach schedules,...
Art and Commerce: The Challenge of Modernist Advertising Photography
In his 1939 essay “Avant-Garde and Kitsch,” now a landmark in the history of American modernism, Clement Greenberg lamented the paradox in which artis...
CONCLUSION: THE ROAD AHEAD
While Lady Bird Johnson waxed poetic about the power of the birds and the
trees, James Rosenquist and Andy Warhol were taking lessons they had
learned...
Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape
Ahlgren reviews Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape by Catherine Gudis.
Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape
First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Catherine Gudis is an assistant professor at the University...
WHEN SEPARATE SPHERES COLLIDE
Women of the middle and upper classes had been vocal opponents of billboards for some time before the proliferation of the automobile. Around the
turn...
Cultures of commerce: representation and American business culture, 1877-1960
44-1021 HM791 2005-56289 CIP Cultures of commerce: representation and American business culture, 1877-1960, ed. by Elspeth H. Brown, Catherine Gudis,...
The Sentimental Work of Play: Manhood and the American Toy Industry, 1900–1930
In 1919, a writer in the trade journal Playthings recalled the lengths to which the “American toy man” once had to go to “disguise or hide the fact” t...
Broadcasting Seeds on the American Landscape
Prior to the nineteenth century, whatever planting was done by Americans (first colonists and then citizens) originated with seeds that were saved fro...
Review Essay: Producing the North American Metropolitan Landscape: ROBERT D. BULLARD, GLENN S. JOHNSON, AND ANGEL O. TORRES, eds., Sprawl City: Race, Politics, and Planning in Atlanta. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2000, pp. xiii, 236, tables, notes,...
Several books are analyzed, including the following: Robert D. Bullard, Glenn S. Johnson and Angel O. Torres' Sprawl City: Race, Politics, and Plannin...
Buyways: billboards, automobiles, and the American landscape [by] Catherine Gudis [book review]
Publ. in 2004.
MODERN ART AND ADVERTISING
The question of effectiveness remained troublesome, even to an industry that
embraced the social sciences and sought to apply its techniques to busine...
Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape
Gudis, Catherine. Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape. Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group. (Cultural Spaces). 2004. c.304p. il...
The Independiente "Mexican School": Pedagogies of Race, Place, and Citizenship in Riverside, Ca., 1918-1933
The following study is an examination of how racialized forms of citizenship were produced and reinforced pedagogically as part of placemaking efforts...
The Metropolitan Life Tower: Architecture and Ideology in the Life Insurance Enterprise
Fiancial institutions, among them life insurance companies, are prominent builders and owners of skyscrapers. These institutions are known for their c...
Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape. By Catherine Gudis. New York: Routledge, 2004. viii+333 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Paper $22.00
INTRODUCTION
To entrepreneurs, real-estate developers, city boosters, nature enthusiasts,
and even urban and regional planners, cars and highways were opening up t...
“We Don’t Mention the United States:” The Cultural Politics of Historical Interpretation Within the Settler State of Hawai’i at Puʻukoholā Heiau and ‘Iolani Palace
Through analyses of two foundational sites of the Hawaiian Kingdom—Puʻukoholā Heiau and ‘Iolani Palace—this dissertation offers an alternative interpr...
Ray Johnson : correspondences
In 1995, the resolutely reclusive Ray Johnson reemerged into the spotlight when he died in a mysterious and spectacular way, leading to the discovery...
The road to consumption: Outdoor advertising and the American cultural landscape, 1917-1965
In the first decades of the twentieth century, the American landscape changed dramatically with the availability of automobiles, the construction of h...
THE STRIP
A constellation of factors, including the activities of the outdoor advertising
industry, laid the groundwork for the commercial strip of the postwar...
Ray Johnson: correspondences
Catalogue to an exhibition of collages, mail art, and performance art pieces by the American artist Ray Johnson (1927-95). In their introductory texts...
PRODUCING MOBILE AUDIENCES AND CORRIDORS OF CONSUMPTION
Salesmen for poster advertising explained that the appeal of the poster was
its outdoors setting, where nature “puts people in a friendly, cheerful, o...
THE KIDS' READING ROOM; 'Touring Wilshire Boulevard'; Part 2: The story so far: Mrs. Kelly's class is taking a bus tour down Wilshire Boulevard to learn about the history and architecture of the Los Angeles area: HOME EDITION
The class returned to the bus and the driver carefully steered into the traffic of Wilshire Boulevard. Cars, city buses, tow trucks, delivery vans and...
Opinion: Kevin de León's plan to rename Pershing Square is not the way to honor Black Angelenos
Radical Roots : Public History and a Tradition of Social Justice Activism
While all history has the potential to be political, public history is uniquely so: public historians engage in historical inquiry outside the bubble...
Jitneys, Buses, and Public Transportation in Twentieth Century Los Angeles
This project uncovers the role of buses and their riders in shaping Los Angeles urban history in two crucial moments. First, while the private automob...
Forgotten Graves and Bulldozed Enclaves : A Case Study of San Fernando’s Pico Court, 1920s-1960s
San Fernando’s Pico Court, a citrus work camp formerly situated in present-day Mission Hills in the San Fernando Valley (the Valley), existed near the...
A NATION ON WHEELS
In the densely populated cities of the late nineteenth century, outdoor advertisers had found ample audiences of pedestrians, carriages, and trolleys...
Radical Roots: Public History and a Tradition of Social Justice Activism
While all history has the potential to be political, public history is uniquely so: public historians engage in historical inquiry outside the bubble...
The Constituency Isn’t Digital: Rethinking Engagement in Digital Cultural Heritage
This thesis seeks to explore shifting paradigms in digital collections work in the twenty-first century. It puts into conversation different models of...
History and Material Culture: A Student's Guide to Approaching Alternative Sources
Sources are the raw material of History, but whereas the written word has traditionally been seen as the principal source, historians have now recogni...
THE CONSOLIDATION AND GROWTH OF NATIONAL ADVERTISING
Though national advertising campaigns began in the nineteenth century, the
advertising boom really came with the twentieth. It accompanied such phenom...
Los Angeles and the 1984 Olympic Games: Cultural Commodification, Corporate Sponsorship, and the Cold War
ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION Los Angeles and the 1984 Olympic Games: Cultural Commodification, Corporate Sponsorship, and the Cold WarbyJosh R. Lieser...
Carleton Watkins, Thomas Hill, and Frederick Law Olmsted : An Artist Focused Approach to Establishing an Understanding of the Burgeoning National Park System
Abstract not required for MA - Art History Thesis
THE PASTORAL VIEW
Could one justify protecting areas in Illinois, Nebraska, and Oklahoma as easily as California’s redwood forests or Hawaii’s tropical foliage and beac...
Forgotten Graves and Bulldozed Enclaves: A Case Study of San Fernando’s Pico Court, 1920s-1960s
San Fernando’s Pico Court, a citrus work camp formerly situated in present-day Mission Hills in the San Fernando Valley (the Valley), existed near the...
Architectures of Seduction: Intimate Apparel Trade Shows and Retail Department Design, 1920–1940
In September 1921, Corsets & Lingerie, one of the nation’s leading trade journals, reported to its wholesale and retail industry readers— manufacturer...
Deconstructing Racial Hierarchies and Moving Beyond Binaries : Introducing the Racial Sphere Model
ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION Deconstructing Racial Hierarchies and Moving Beyond Binaries: Introducing the Racial Sphere Model by Carol Kwang Park...
I Thought California Would Be Different: Defining California through Visual Culture
The meaning of California has been framed, sometimes literally, by its visual culture. In visual culture lie the roots of many of the most commonly co...
TRAFFIC AND TRADE: “BUYING POWER IN MOTION”
In 1924, traffic expert Miller McClintock began to wonder whether automobiles had changed markets permanently. “Stores that were once remote may
now b...
Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape
Foster reviews Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape by Catherine Gudis.
Shaping Commemorative Imaginaries: The Case for Old Town Sacramento
This thesis explores the construction of the Old Sacramento Historic District during the post-war period. As a case study, this thesis explores how th...
The Popular Front and the Corporate Appropriation of Modernism
During the 1930s and 1940s, artists and designers in the United States with leftist political sympathies embarked upon a range of ambitious cultural i...
Multimethodological Approach to Japanese American History in the San Gabriel Valley
This research focuses on the San Gabriel Valley (SGV), a region located east of Los Angeles County where there was once a growing community of Japanes...
The Billboard War: Gender, Commerce, and Public Space
As the urban environment decentralized in the 1920s and 1930s with the adoption of the car as a routine part of American life, the highway became more...
THE CULTURE OF MOBILITY
The newly expanding highways were the logical place for outdoor advertising to develop since, as one industry commentator put it, the job of outdoor
a...
Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles and the American Landscape/America's Auto Age: Signatures of Landscape and Place
Zelinsky reviews Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles and American Landscape by Catherine Gudis and America's Auto Age: Signatures of Landscape and Place...
From Delinquents to Street Terrorists: L.A.'s War on Black and Chicanx Youth, 1945-1965
The history of policing and criminalization of young Black and Chicanx Angelinos from 1945 to 1965 reveals a central node in the development of L.A.’s...
Cultures of commerce : representation and American business culture, 1877-1960 / edited by Elspeth H. Brown, Catherine Gudis, and Marina Moskowitz
Catherine Gudis. Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape. (Cultural Spaces.) New York: Routledge. 2005. Pp. viii, 333. $22.00
THE BILLBOARD WAR
Both the warring women, named “scenic sisters” by scornful outdoor advertisers, and their billboard “brethren” (also called “boys” and oftentimes
“bar...
Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape
Nunnally reviews Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape by Catherine Gudis.
Prison reform dissected in panel
Sexton, UC Riverside associate professor of history Catherine Gudis, former lawyer turned community activist Kevin Michael Key, Proposition 47 impleme...
Ayn Rand and the Politics of Property
It wasn’t too long ago that Ayn Rand, despite her enormous and ongoing popularity, was all but invisible in the criticism and history of twentieth-cen...
Rationalizing Consumption: Lejaren à Hiller and the Origins of American Advertising Photography, 1913–1924
By the second decade of the twentieth century, the rationalization of the American economy threatened to founder, not on the shoals of production or d...
Driving consumption
Contribution to a "History and Technology" forum on Cotten Seiler's "Republic of Drivers: A Cultural History of Automobility in America" (2008). Quest...