Norma Rae Phenomenon - Aimee Loiselle

Presentations / April 30, 2014

2014 April: “The Norma Rae Phenomenon: Crystal Lee Sutton Becomes a Pop Icon,” New England Historical Association Conference, Springfield College

“The Norma Rae Phenomenon: Crystal Lee Sutton Becomes a Pop Icon” New England Historical Association Conference, Springfield College, Springfield, MA, April 2014

Presentations / April 30, 2013

2013 Nov: “The Norma Rae Phenomenon: Southern Textile Workers as Raw Material for a Pop Icon,” Film & History Conference

I presented my paper, “The Norma Rae Phenomenon: Southern Textile Workers as Raw Material for a Pop Culture Icon,” on November 23 in Madison, Wisconsin. It traces the extraction of the simplified Norma Rae icon from the substantive network of collective resistance to the exploitation in…