Identify and explain the significance of FIVE of the following terms or texts

Part I                      Identifications (10 points each; 50 points total)

Drawing upon insights and evidence derived from the lectures, discussions, readings, media presentations, and/or your own knowledge about American culture, identify and explain the significance of FIVE of the following terms or texts. Each item is worth a maximum of 10 points.

• Culture
• Ideology
• Myth
• “What to the Slave is the 4^thof July?”
• Gender as Performance
• Racial Formation
• Class
• Disability
• Democratization of Leisure
• World’s Columbia Exposition (1893)

The best answers will use specific references to course texts (including author, title, & page numbers) to situate the terms in a specific intellectual and/or historical context. Why is the term important to an analysis of American Culture? What does it tell us about the social values and relations of a particular period of the American past? If the term refers to a text, how does that text illustrate features of the “toolkit” we have been assembling (how does it demonstrate the work of ideology, for example? How does it illustrate common sense understandings of disability in the US? Etc.)? I am looking for analysis here—do not just tell me everything you know about a term; be selective and tell me which aspects of the item are most important and why they matter to the study of American culture.

• COURSE TEXTBOOKS: John F. Kasson, Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century(Hill and Wang, 1978) 978-0809001330
• Joseph Cummins, Anything for a Vote: Dirty Tricks, Cheap Shots, and October Surprises in U.S. Presidential Campaigns(Quirk Books, 2015) 978-1594748325