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ACT, 304 activism, ix; and billboards, 171, 173, 180, 183–84 Adams, Samuel Hopkins, 101 Adorno, Theodor, 8–10, 18, 21 AdultDex, 235 advertising: medicine shows, 91–113; outdoor, 171–98; and shopping, 203, 216–17; television , 118 African Americans: civic leaders, 259–62; Robert Duncanson, 288, 289; Freedom Center, 297; as funeral directors, 250–52, 255–62; history of, 58, 298; public identity of, 249–50, 251, 258; and shopping, 200–201; Tulsa Race Riots, 54, 58–60, 63, 66 agency, xiv, 6, 16 alcohol, and patent medicines, 101, 103 Alfred P. Murrah Building, 53 Ambrose, Stephen, 71, 72, 78, 80, 87 American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 228–30, 236, 237 American history, 52, 298; denial in, 58; sites, 58, 63; on television, 119–28. See also museums; World War II American Medical Association, 104 American studies, x–xi Anderson, Benedict, 275, 277 Appiah, Kwame Anthony, 311–12 Arendt, Hannah, ix, xi, xiv, 5, 6, 64 Aristotle, 6, 305 band of brothers, 70; book about, 71, 72, 78, 80, 87. See also World War II Barrie, Dennis, 293–95 Barthes, Roland, 119 Bartok, Milton, 98 Bartov, Omer, 73 Bataille, Georges, 275, 279 Baudrillard, Jean, 141, 150 Beers, David, 240 Belafonte, Harry, 298 Belzec, Poland, memorial, 53 Beneath the Veil, 126–28 Bentham, Jeremy, 146, 147 Berlant, Lauren, 17–18, 19, 22, 123–25 billboards, 171–98 Binion, Benny, 226 Blackburn, Bob, 53, 55 Blair, Tony, 2 Bok, Edward, 101, 102, 104 Boorstin, Daniel, 106, 209–10 bourgeois public, 11, 16. See also Habermas, Jürgen; public sphere Boyte, Harry C., xi Bradley, James, 72 Bradley, Mamie, 261 brand names, 211–14 Brokaw, Tom, 71, 72, 78, 80, 87 Brown, Helen Gurley, 233 Bursten, Jonathan, 140–41 Bush, George W., 2, 124, 126, 128, 140, 141 Bush, Laura, 299, 300 Butler, Judith, 167 Cameron, James, 61 CDA (Communications Decency Act), 144, 150, 154–67 celebrity, and citizenship, 128–32 Certeau, Michel de, 119, 276, 295 Chauncey, George, 23 Cheyenne, Oklahoma, 54 Cheyenne Heritage Trail, 57 children, and cyberporn, 147, 152–53 Chunovic, Louis, 119 Cincinnati, Ohio: Cincinnati Art Museum, 277, 280–85; Contemporary Arts Center, 277, 289–96; Freedom Center, 273, 275, 277, 278, 296–302; identity of, 278, 281, 284, 299; National History Museum, 277, 278–80; Over-the-Rhine, 298–99; Taft Museum, 277, 285–89 Index Cincinnati Art Museum, 277, 280–85 Citizens for Community Values, 293, 295 citizenship, 3, 9; vs. denizenship, 265–67; and shopping, 202–3 civic activism, ix; and billboards, 171, 173, 180, 183–84 civic assembly, in Los Angeles, 31, 37, 45–46 civic engagement, xi, xiii, xvi, 2, 73, 303; at the Freedom Center, 297; at memorials, 54 civic life: and commerce, 48, 49; decline of, 244; and funeral directors, 261; renewal, 64, 303; repressed, 291 civil disorder, 40 civil rights movement, and funeral directors, 259–62 classical liberalism, 5–7, 9, 11 Clinton, Bill, 2 Coats, Daniel, 156 collective identity, xii, 274 collective unconscious, 296 Colored Embalmer, The, 257 COMDEX, 234, 235 commerce: as a civic activity, 48, 49, 309; and culture, 38; and public space, 198, 223 commercialization, 305; of death practices, 255; in television, 116 commercial space, as public, 239, 307, 308 common good, 9, 49 communication, 22. See also media, mass Communications Decency Act (CDA), 144, 150, 154–67 communicative action, 5, 10–11 communities of interest, 241–42 consumer culture, xii, 307–9; after 9/11, 116; and shopping, 201–2; and television, 116, 118. See also commerce; consumers; shopping Consumer Electronics Show, 234 consumers: and advertising, 197; citizens as, 9; equality of, 209–11; and fraud, 105–12; and medicine shows, 100, 104; mobile, 171; after 9/11, 115; women, 179, 191, 207 consumption, 305; and civic engagement, 48; and public culture, 214–18 Contemporary Arts Center, 277, 289–96 COPA (Child Online Protection Act), 150, 154, 156, 161, 165 Cornelius, W. R., 254 corporate culture, 91 Costco, 217 counterpublic, 15, 16, 17, 22, 23, 47 Craighead, Sarah, 53 Crew, Spencer, 275 Crunden, Robert Morse, 222 cultural communities, 3 cultural deconstruction, 275 cultural education, and memorials, 58, 63 cultural influence, of U.S., 267 cultural transformation, 302 culture: inequality of, 305; recognition of, 266; shared, xiii; transforming identity, 273–74 Curran, James, 138 Curriden, Mark, 62, 63 Custer, George Armstrong, 55–56 cyberporn, 143–68 Dalzell, Stewart, 158–59 Dayan, Daniel, 139 death practices: funeral directors, 255–56; history of, 251–52, 255 Deloria, Philip, 110 Deloria, Vine, 268 Demaris, Ovid, 233 democracy, xii...

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