Table of Contents
Articles
Politics and Environment: An Editorial Note on Pop-Cultural Discourse
Ted Bain
Editor, The Mid-Atlantic Almanack
Affirmation and Opposition in Popular Culture: An Introduction
Denys P. Leighton
The Men Who Make the Guns: Comic Strips, War Profiteers, and the Munitions Industry, 1924-1945
Durahn Taylor
Pace University, Pleasantville, New York
Sambo: The Black Image in Contemporary Japan
Michael Washington
Northern Kentucky University
“To Preserve the Constitution yet Lose the Republic”: Conspiracy, Paranoia, and the Specter of Impeachment in American Culture
Marc R. Sykes
Rutgers University
“ ‘Ain’t That America”: Examining Reaganism and MTV
Andrea Deacon
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
An Observer’s Journal: Polho, Chiapas, Mexico, July 1999
Carol Sullivan
Director, Two Rivers Project
“Nature versus Nurture” and the Role of Geography in Shaping Popular Culture: An Introduction
Deborah A. Silverman
Staff writer, SUNY Buffalo
Creating Beautiful Scenery: Wilderness Trails and the Canonization of American Landscapes
Gene McQuillan
Kingsborough Community College
Queens College
Viewing the Roadside through Robert Callahan’s Westerns
Keith A. Sculle
University of Illinois at Springfield
Space, Time, and Popular Culture: Native American Indian Intertribal Powwows
Ann M. Axtmann
Gallatin School at New York University
Eccentric New Orleans: A Synergy of Culture and Geography
Benton Jay Kornins
Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey