Collisions at the Crossroads

Genevieve Carpio

• Hardcover | Engels | American Crossroads | nr. 53
• There are few places where mobility has shaped identity as widely as the American West, but some locations and populations sit at its major crossroads... Lees meer

Aztlan and Viet Nam

• Paperback | Engels | American Crossroads | nr. 4
• Showcasing over sixty short stories, poems, speeches, and articles, Aztlán and Viet Nam is the first anthology of Mexican American writings about the ... Lees meer

Boyle Heights

George J Sánchez

• Paperback | Engels | American Crossroads
• The radical history of a dynamic, multiracial American neighborhood. "When I think of the future of the United States, and the history that matters in... Lees meer

Contagious Divides

Nayan Shah

• Paperback | Engels | American Crossroads | nr. 7
• Contagious Divides charts the dynamic transformation of representations of Chinese immigrants from medical menace in the nineteenth century to model c... Lees meer

Collisions at the Crossroads

Genevieve Carpio

• Paperback | Engels | American Crossroads | nr. 53
• There are few places where mobility has shaped identity as widely as the American West, but some locations and populations sit at its major crossroads... Lees meer

Resisting Change in Suburbia

James Zarsadiaz

• Hardcover | Engels | American Crossroads
• 2023 Lawrence W. Levine Award Winner, Organization of American Historians Between the 1980s and the first decade of the twenty-first century, Asian Am... Lees meer

Ties That Bind

Tiya Miles

• Paperback | Engels | American Crossroads
• This beautifully written book, now in its second edition, tells the haunting saga of a quintessentially American family. In the late 1790s, Shoe Boots... Lees meer

An Archive of Skin, an Archive of Kin

Adria L Imada

• Hardcover | Engels | American Crossroads
• What was the longest and harshest medical quarantine in modern history, and how did people survive it? In Hawaiʻi beginning in 1866, men, women, and c... Lees meer

Audiotopia

Josh Kun

• Paperback | Engels | American Crossroads | nr. 18
• Ranging from Los Angeles to Havana to the Bronx to the U.S.-Mexico border and from klezmer to hip hop to Latin rock, this groundbreaking book injects ... Lees meer

Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight

Eric Avila

• Paperback | Engels | American Crossroads | nr. 13
• Los Angeles pulsed with economic vitality and demographic growth in the decades following World War II. This vividly detailed cultural history of L.A.... Lees meer

An Archive of Skin, an Archive of Kin

Adria L Imada

• Paperback | Engels | American Crossroads
• What was the longest and harshest medical quarantine in modern history, and how did people survive it? In Hawaiʻi beginning in 1866, men, women, and c... Lees meer

Fit to Be Citizens?

Natalia Molina

• Paperback | Engels | American Crossroads | nr. 20
• Meticulously researched and beautifully written, Fit to Be Citizens? demonstrates how both science and public health shaped the meaning of race in the... Lees meer

Soldiering Through Empire

Simeon Man

• Paperback | Engels | American Crossroads | nr. 48
• In the decades after World War II, tens of thousands of soldiers and civilian contractors across Asia and the Pacific found work through the U.S. mili... Lees meer

Flavors of Empire

Mark Padoongpatt

• Hardcover | Engels | American Crossroads | nr. 45
• With a uniquely balanced combination of salty, sweet, sour, and spicy flavors, Thai food burst onto Los Angeles's and America's culinary scene in the ... Lees meer

Indian Wars Everywhere

Stefan Aune

• Paperback | Engels | American Crossroads
• References to the Indian Wars, those conflicts that accompanied US continental expansion, suffuse American military history. From Black Hawk helicopte... Lees meer

Pacific Confluence

Christen T Sasaki

• Hardcover | Engels | American Crossroads
• The 1898 annexation of Hawaiʻi to the US is often framed as an inevitable step in American expansion--but it was never a foregone conclusion. By pairi... Lees meer

Emancipation Betrayed

Paul Ortiz

• Paperback | Engels | American Crossroads | nr. 16
• In this penetrating examination of African American politics and culture, Paul Ortiz throws a powerful light on the struggle of black Floridians to cr... Lees meer

Cultural Moves

Herman Gray

• Paperback | Engels | American Crossroads | nr. 15
• Herman Gray takes a sweeping look at black popular culture over the past decade to explore culture's role in the push for black political power and so... Lees meer

Indians in the Making

Alexandra Harmon

• Paperback | Engels | American Crossroads | nr. 3
• In the Puget Sound region of Washington state, indigenous peoples and their descendants have a long history of interaction with settlers and their des... Lees meer

Strategies of Segregation

David G García

• Hardcover | Engels | American Crossroads | nr. 47
• Strategies of Segregation unearths the ideological and structural architecture of enduring racial inequality within and beyond schools in Oxnard, Cali... Lees meer

Mexicana Encounters

Rosa Linda Fregoso

• Paperback | Engels | American Crossroads | nr. 12
• meXicana Encounters charts the dynamic and contradictory representation of Mexicanas and Chicanas in culture. Rosa Linda Fregoso's deft analysis of th... Lees meer

Indian Wars Everywhere

Stefan Aune

• Hardcover | Engels | American Crossroads
• References to the Indian Wars, those conflicts that accompanied US continental expansion, suffuse American military history. From Black Hawk helicopte... Lees meer

The Color Line and the Assembly Line

Elizabeth Esch

• Hardcover | Engels | American Crossroads | nr. 50
• The Color Line and the Assembly Line tells a new story of the impact of mass production on society. Global corporations based originally in the United... Lees meer

How Race Is Made in America

Natalia Molina

• Paperback | Engels | American Crossroads | nr. 38
• How Race Is Made in America examines Mexican Americans--from 1924, when American law drastically reduced immigration into the United States, to 1965, ... Lees meer