Paula C. Austin, Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC: Navigating the Politics of Everyday Life. New York: New York University Press, 2019. Pp. 208. $89.00 (cloth); $26.00 (paper).

2021 ◽  
Vol 106 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-154
Author(s):  
Brandi Thompson Summers
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Jim Crow ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
New York University

scholarly journals Book Reviews

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-221
Author(s):  
Aaron Raphael Ponce ◽  
Jaime García-Iglesias ◽  
Elisa Padilla ◽  
Kirwan McHarry
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
New York University

Anti-Gender Campaigns in Europe: Mobilizing against Equality, Roman Kuhar and David Paternotte (eds) (2017) London: Rowman and Littlefield International, 302 pp., ISBN 978-1-78348-999-2, h/bk, $132.00; ISBN 978-1-78660-000-4, p/bk, $41.95Many Splendored Things: Thinking Sex and Play, Susanna Paasonen (2018) London: Goldsmiths Press, 208 pp., ISBN 978-1-90689-782-6, h/bk, $30.00RuPaul’s Drag Race and the Shifting Visibility of Drag Culture, Niall Brennan and David Gudelunas (eds) (2017) Cham: Springer Nature and Palgrave Macmillan, 309 pp., ISBN 978-3-31950-617-3, h/bk, $109.00; ISBN 978-3-31984-444-2, p/bk, $34.99Struggling for Ordinary: Media and Transgender Belonging in Everyday Life, Andre Cavalcante (2018) New York: New York University Press, 221 pp., ISBN 978-1-47988-130-7, h/bk, $89.00; ISBN 978-1-47984-131-8, p/bk, $27.00

A Politics of the Ordinary. By Thomas L. Dumm. New York: New York University Press, 1999. 240p. $55.00 cloth, $18.50 paper.

2002 ◽  
Vol 96 (1) ◽  
pp. 175-176
Author(s):  
Fred M. Frohock
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Democratic Politics ◽  
New York University ◽  
Main Claim ◽  
Ordinary Life ◽  
Political Events ◽  
Reciprocal Influences ◽  
Two Bodies

Exploring the ordinary is a reasonable and fun way to get through the day. Thomas Dumm takes the exploration along a cart path toward democratic politics, dramatizing the intersections and reciprocal influences of everyday life and political events and the forces of conformity and normalcy that shackle the ordinary. The working technique is juxtaposition, the kind of display that one finds in the store windows of, well, ordinary life in towns and cities. The pantheon of familiar figures and texts includes Emerson, Thoreau, Nixon, Disney, alien depictions, Lowi, Wolin, Cavell, the King's Two Bodies, Baudrillard, and many more, all offered as showcase for the book's main claim that the ordinary is the primary source of the democratic imagination.

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