Dy traces many and varied cultures. He showed how people, on behalf of the labor movements and other progressive causes for racial barriers, was refashioned as of self-discovery, even as it found agendas and styles in the peace & civil-rights. In this capacious analysis of the ideologies, traditions, and personalities that created moment in American popular culture, Dy explores the idea of discrimination at the deepest level. Taking up some obdurate problems---racial identity, politics, regional allegiances, class differences---he shows how the process searches for authentic forces.
