Matthew F. Delmont is Associate Professor of History at Arizona State University, teaching courses on popular culture, media studies, urban studies, and the histories of race and ethnicity in the United States. He is author of The Nicest Kids in Town: American Bandstand, Rock 'n' Roll, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in 1950s Philadelphia (University of California Press, 2012). His current research project on television coverage of busing for school desegregation is under contract with the University of California Press.
A Journal about Real and Imagined Spaces and Places of the US South and their Global Connections