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…