Death of a Nation

David W Noble

• Paperback | Engels | Critical American Studies
• A trenchant examination of epic shifts in American thought by a major scholar in the field. In the 1940s, American thought experienced a cataclysmic p... Lees meer

The New American Exceptionalism

Donald E Pease

• Paperback | Engels | Critical American Studies
• For a half century following the end of World War II, the seemingly permanent cold war provided the United States with an organizing logic that govern... Lees meer

At Home in Diaspora

Wendy Walters

• Paperback | Engels | Critical American Studies
• Although he never lived in Harlem, Chester Himes commented that he experienced "a sort of pure homesickness" while creating the Harlem-set detective n... Lees meer

Mestizaje

Rafael Perez-Torres

• Paperback | Engels | Critical American Studies
• Focusing on the often unrecognized role race plays in expressions of Chicano culture, Mestizaje is a provocative exploration of the volatility and mut... Lees meer

Peace Corps Fantasies

Molly Geidel

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical American Studies
• To tens of thousands of volunteers in its first decade, the Peace Corps was "the toughest job you'll ever love." In the United States' popular imagina... Lees meer

Catching Hell in the City of Angels

João H Costa Vargas

• Paperback | Engels | Critical American Studies
• Since the 1980s, Los Angeles has become the most racially and economically divided city in the United States. In the poorest parts of South Central Lo... Lees meer

Heartbeat of Struggle

Diane C Fujino

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical American Studies
• On February 12, 1965, in the Audubon Ballroom, Yuri Kochiyama cradled Malcolm X in her arms as he died, but her role as a public servant and activist ... Lees meer

Aberrations in Black

Roderick A Ferguson

• Paperback | Engels | Critical American Studies
• A hard-hitting look at the regulation of sexual difference and its role in circumscribing African American culture The sociology of race relations in ... Lees meer

Cannibal Democracy

Zita Nunes

• Paperback | Engels | Critical American Studies
• Zita Nunes argues that the prevailing narratives of identity formation throughout the Americas share a dependence on metaphors of incorporation and, o... Lees meer

Chains of Babylon

Daryl J Maeda

• Paperback | Engels | Critical American Studies
• In Chains of Babylon , Daryl J. Maeda presents a cultural history of Asian American activism in the late 1960s and early 1970s, showing how the moveme... Lees meer

American Tropics

Allan Punzalan Isaac

• Paperback | Engels | Critical American Studies
• In 1997, when the New York Times described Filipino American serial killer Andrew Cunanan as appearing "to be everywhere and nowhere," Allan Punzalan ... Lees meer

Next to the Color Line

• Paperback | Engels | Critical American Studies
• Although W. E. B. Du Bois did not often pursue the connections between the "Negro question" that defined so much of his intellectual life and the "wom... Lees meer

Heartbeat of Struggle

Diane C Fujino

• Paperback | Engels | Critical American Studies
• On February 12, 1965, in the Audubon Ballroom, Yuri Kochiyama cradled Malcolm X in her arms as he died, but her role as a public servant and activist ... Lees meer

Samurai among Panthers

Diane C. Fujino

• Hardcover | Critical American Studies
• The first biography of Asian American activist and Black Panther Party member Richard Aoki Lees meer

Colonizing Trick

David Kazanjian

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical American Studies
• An illuminating look at the concepts of race, nation, and equality in eighteenth-and nineteenth-century America, The idea that "all men are created eq... Lees meer

Mestizaje

Rafael Perez-Torres

• Hardcover | Critical American Studies
• Focusing on the role race plays in expressions of Chicano culture, this work is a provocative exploration of the volatility and mutability of racial i... Lees meer

Mythohistorical Interventions

Lee Bebout

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical American Studies
• Mythohistorical Interventions explores how myth and history impacted the social struggle of the Chicano movement and the postmovement years. Drawing o... Lees meer