Learning From Globalization-Era Las Vegas

From: Southern Quarterly | Date: October 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

OSCAR GOODMAN, a former lawyer to such mob clients as Meyer Lansky and Anthony Spilotro and current mayor of Las Vegas has said of his city, "Las Vegas is either the most unreal place in the world or the most real place." Trite as the statement is, maybe because it is so trite, the mayor's description captures one of the many paradoxes of Las Vegas.

Considering these paradoxes in the context of this collection, the most important one centers on the legitimacy of seeing Las Vegas as the South. But what I posit here is Las Vegas as a focal point of a new kind of South-one that embodies the ...

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