Stigma cities
Subtitle: the reputation and history of Birmingham, San Francisco, and Las Vegas
By: Jonathan Foster
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780806160719
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Cities and towns; Stigma (Social psychology); History
Other titles: Reputation and history of Birmingham, San Francisco, and Las Vegas
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-261) and index.
Table of contents: title: Imagining place; title: Not always a pariah : Birmingham's journey from Magic City to Bombingham; title: Remembering Bombingham : race and anxiety in post-civil rights movement Birmingham; title: Never quite American : the deviantly exotic reputation of San Francisco, 1776-1969; title: Battlefield by the bay : San Francisco's emergence, trials, and acceptance as America's gay mecca; title: Sinning in the desert : the origins and development of America's Sin City; title: Mainstream currents : Las Vegas and respectability at the turn the of the twenty-first century; title: Stigma and cities.