@article{1480070,
      recid = {1480070},
      author = {Rubin, Rachel Lee,  and Melnick, Jeffrey, },
      title = {Immigration and American Popular Culture : An Introduction  /},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      abstract = {How does a 'national' popular culture form and grow over  time in a nation comprised of immigrants? How have  immigrants used popular culture in America, and how has it  used them?Immigration and American Popular Culture looks at  the relationship between American immigrants and the  popular culture industry in the twentieth century. Through  a series of case studies, Rachel Rubin and Jeffrey Melnick  uncover how specific trends in popular culture-such as  portrayals of European immigrants as gangsters in 1930s  cinema, the zoot suits of the 1940s, the influence of  Jamaican Americans on rap in the 1970s, and cyberpunk and  Asian American zines in the1990s-have their roots in the  complex socio-political nature of immigration in  America.Supplemented by a timeline of key events and  extensive suggestions for further reading, Immigration and  American Popular Culture offers at once a unique history of  twentieth century U.S. immigration and an essential  introduction to the major approaches to the study of  popular culture. Melnick and Rubin go further to  demonstrate how completely and complexly the processes of  immigration and cultural production have been intertwined,  and how we cannot understand one without the other.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1480070},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814769089.001.0001},
}