Las Vegas

This research project examines immigrant rights activism in Las Vegas, Nevada and asks: 1. How did Las Vegas activists engage in spatial resistance through their involvement in the immigrant rights movement beginning in 2006? 2. What organizing methods and/or tactics did they ut…

This dissertation examines how historical events and representation of those events relative to the wider historical context have allowed the media, opinion setters, and the ordinary public to use the names of San Francisco, California, Birmingham, Alabama and Las Vegas, Nevada …

Las Vegas is one of the least understood famous places in the world. Outsiders seldom recognize that hundreds of thousands of people make their home there. In the minds of these residents, however, Las Vegas has a multifaceted personality. Using an ethnographic approach, I devel…