Let Me Live

Angelo Herndon

• Paperback | Engels | Class: Culture
• Let Me Live tells the remarkable story of Angelo Herndon, a coal miner who worked as a labor organizer in Alabama and Georgia in the 1930s. Herndon le... Lees meer

Dialectical Imaginaries

• Paperback | Engels | Class: Culture
• Dialectical Imaginaries brings together essays that analyze the effects of class conflict and capitalist ideology on contemporary works of U.S. Latino... Lees meer

Commerce in Color

James C. Davis

• Hardcover | Class: Culture
• Examines consumer culture and race in the United States from 1893-1933 as they were manifested in advertising, literary texts, mass culture, and the p... Lees meer

You Work Tomorrow

• Hardcover | Class: Culture
• An anthology of American labor poetry of the Great Depression. This work provides a glimpse into the remarkable but largely forgotten poems published ... Lees meer

Clothed in Meaning

Sylvia Jenkins Cook

• Hardcover | Engels | Class: Culture
• The rise of both the empire of cotton and the empire of fashion in the nineteenth century brought new opportunities for sartorial self-expression to m... Lees meer

Black America in the Shadow of the Sixties

Clarence Lang

• Paperback | Engels | Class: Culture
• The 1960s, including the black social movements of the period, are an obstacle to understanding the current conditions of African Americans, argues Cl... Lees meer

American Socialist Triptych

Mark Van Wienen

• Hardcover | Engels | Class: Culture
• "A meticulously researched, highly informed, carefully argued, and very accessible account of American socialism, socialists, and socialistic thinking... Lees meer

The Poverty Law Canon

Ezra Rosser, Marie Failinger

• Paperback | Engels | Class: Culture
• The Poverty Law Canon takes readers into the lives of the clients and lawyers who brought critical poverty law cases in the United States. These cases... Lees meer

The Half-Life of Deindustrialization

Sherry Lee Linkon

• Paperback | Engels | Class: Culture
• Starting in the late 1970s, tens of thousands of American industrial workers lost jobs in factories and mines. Deindustrialization had dramatic effect... Lees meer

The Wire

• Paperback | Engels | Class: Culture
• Few other television series have received as much academic, media, and fan celebration as The Wire , which has been called the best dramatic series ev... Lees meer

The Poverty Law Canon

Ezra Rosser, Marie Failinger

• Hardcover | Engels | Class: Culture
• The Poverty Law Canon takes readers into the lives of the clients and lawyers who brought critical poverty law cases in the United States. These cases... Lees meer

Hog Butchers, Beggars, and Busboys

John Marsh

• Paperback | Engels | Class: Culture
• "Impressive--Marsh successfully rewrites the founding moment of American Modernist poetry." ---Mark Van Wienen, Northern Illinois University "Cogently... Lees meer

Dreams for Dead Bodies

Miriam Michelle Robinson

• Hardcover | Engels | Class: Culture
• Dreams for Dead Bodies: Blackness, Labor, and the Corpus of American Detective Fiction offers new arguments about the origins of detective fiction in ... Lees meer

The Syntax of Class

Amy Schrager Lang

• Paperback | Engels | Class: Culture
• Lacking a native language for expressing class differences, American writers in the wake of the European revolutions of 1848 struggled to find social ... Lees meer

Anti-Imperialist Modernism

Benjamin Balthaser

• Hardcover | Engels | Class: Culture
• Anti-Imperialist Modernism excavates how U.S. cross-border, multi-ethnic anti-imperialist movements at mid-century shaped what we understand as cultur... Lees meer