American mobilities : geographies of class race and gender in US culture Reading white trash : class race and mobility in Faulkner and Le Sueur Incorporation and embodiment : gender race and space in Hurst and Himes Whos got the car keys : geographic economic and social mobility in the magic kingdom of Los Angeles Black audience westerns : race nation and mobility in the 1930s Space class city : imagined geographies of Maud Martha Home on the range : space nation and mobility in The searchers American Mobilities investigates representations of mobility social economic geographic in American film and literature during the Depression WWII and the early Cold War. With an emphasis on the dual meaning of domestic  referring to both the family home and the nation this study traces the important trope of mobility that runs through the American century. Juxtaposing canonical fiction with popular and low budget independent films with Classical Hollywood Leyda brings the analytic tools of American cultural and literary studies to bear on an eclectic array of primary texts as she builds a case for the significance of mobility in the study of the United States. Back cover