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Jun. 30 | 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize
Nominations for the 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize for Outstanding Contributions to American Studies due
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Franz, Kathleen. "Narrating Automobility: Travelers, Tinkerers, and Technological Authority in the Twentieth Century," Department of American Civilization, Brown University, May 1999.
In the tradition of Leo Mark and John Kasson, this dissertation explores the links among technology, public space, and cultural authority. In the early twentieth century, as the telephone and the radio built the new space known as the Ether, the automobile reconfigured the existing public arena of the open road. The mechanical know-how needed to operate the new machine mediated power relations among communities of drivers—between men and women and between whites and blacks. Beginning in 1910, automobility promised American travelers (New Women, middle-class African Americans, and white-collar tinkerers) greater spatial autonomy and control over the machine. This dissertation demonstrates, however, that cultural hierarchies based on gender, race, and technical expertise, were quickly inscribed upon the new machine limiting access to both the open road and to technical know-how.
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