Meaning of Coney Island as a symbol of social transformations in the United States at the turn of the century.

Drawing on Kasson’s Amusing the Million, write a five-page paper on the meaning of Coney Island as a symbol of social transformations in the United States at the turn of the century. Kasson suggests that there was a major cultural upheaval during the late nineteenth-century. Genteel Victorian culture continued to pervade many aspects of American life, but working class culture was increasingly expressed in preferences for leisure activities. In your essay explore how Kasson uses different public pastimes to explore changes in American society of the time. How does culture reflect the economic and social organization of a people.