can anyne recommend good recent essays or work on midwestern culture?
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Re: us regional cultures?
Fri, January 27, 2006 - 8:51 AMI know that they were back in Muncie, Indiana doing another hometown study sometime last year...but I don't have any more info than that at the moment.
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Fri, January 27, 2006 - 2:19 PMcontested lives by faye ginsburg is a good account of the abortion debate in the context of fargo north dakota. it's guided by its focus on abortion but it's really about fargo.
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Re: us regional cultures?
Mon, April 10, 2006 - 4:58 PMBack in college I took a copper country history course which goes over a remote area of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. We looked at Larry Lankton's Cradle to Grave which looks at some of the groups that moved for mining. We also looked at some essays on the Native American influence of the area, as well as the large Scandinavian area. I can't remember the specifics... But we had an external reading of "History of Finns in MIchigan" by Holmio and Ryynanen.
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Re: us regional cultures?
Mon, April 10, 2006 - 5:00 PMHehe...I didn't know you took a course from Larry Lankton. I know his son fairly well---we met at the University of Michigan. -
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Mon, April 10, 2006 - 5:11 PMCrazy! He was one of the lead faculty at tech so I had to take a few classes with him since I was a social science major :-) crazy and small world! -
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Mon, April 10, 2006 - 7:59 PM"Prairyerth" by William Least-Moon. I never read it, but the cover mentioned 'thick description', so maybe there's something there. It's about Kansas. -
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Re: us regional cultures?
Mon, April 17, 2006 - 6:11 AMThanks all. I have since found some historical fiction about kansas city I may check out. the longer I stay here thankfully, the more people I meet. I am intereste din how this hyper segregated, right wing, born again suburban sprawl machine got going and what the more suble cultural norms are, I have live din new england, the south, the west coast and the mid atlantic. there is something different here that is hard to put your finger on and most of the white people I try to talk to about it seem clueless or defensive.
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