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

Distant Wars Visible

Wendy Kozol

• Paperback | Engels | Critical American Studies
• In our wired world, visual images of military conflict and political strife are ubiquitous. Far less obvious, far more elusive, is how we see such ima... Lees meer

Catching Hell In The City Of Angels

Joao H. Costa Vargas

• Hardcover | Critical American Studies
• Examines the ways in which economic and social changes in the twentieth century have affected the black community, and conveys the experiences that bi... Lees meer

The Colonizing Trick

David Kazanjian

• Paperback | 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

Those Without a Country

Michael Miller Topp

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical American Studies
• In the first book-length history of the Italian American syndicalist movement--the Italian Socialist Federation--Michael Miller Topp presents a new wa... Lees meer

Culture Concept

Michael A Elliott

• Paperback | Engels | Critical American Studies
• Examines the prehistory of the American struggle to address cultural difference. "Culture" is a term we commonly use to explain the differences in our... 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

Singlejack Solidarity

Stan Weir

• Paperback | Engels | Critical American Studies
• Written throughout Stan Weir's decades as a blue-collar worker and labour educator, 'Singlejack Solidarity' offers a rare look at modern life and soci... Lees meer

Urban Triage

James Kyung-Jin Lee

• Paperback | Engels | Critical American Studies
• Assesses fictional representations of racial conflict, cooperation, and complicity amid the urban crisis of the 1980s In the 1980s, America witnessed ... 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

Singlejack Solidarity

Stan Weir

• Hardcover | Critical American Studies
• Bleu-collar intellectual and activist publisher, Stan Weir devoted his life to the advocacy of his fellow workers. Weir was both a thoughtful observer... Lees meer

Peace Corps Fantasies

Molly Geidel

• Paperback | 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

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

Reinventing Citizenship

Kazuyo Tsuchiya

• Paperback | Engels | Critical American Studies
• In the 1960s and 1970s, the United States and Japan went through massive welfare expansions that sparked debates about citizenship. At the heart of th... Lees meer

American Studies in a Moment of Danger

George Lipsitz

• Paperback | Engels | Critical American Studies
• A forthright look at the future of the discipline in the wake of immense social changes. What becomes of "national knowledge" in our age of globalizat... Lees meer

Triangulations

David J Vázquez

• Paperback | Engels | Critical American Studies
• Just as mariners use triangulation, mapping an imaginary triangle between two known positions and an unknown location, so, David J. Vázquez contends, ... 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

Ends of Empire

Jodi Kim

• Hardcover | Critical American Studies
• Ends of Empire examines Asian American cultural production and its challenge to the dominant understanding of American imperialism, Cold War dynamics,... 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

Those Without a Country

Michael Miller Topp

• Paperback | Engels | Critical American Studies
• In the first book-length history of the Italian American syndicalist movement--the Italian Socialist Federation--Michael Miller Topp presents a new wa... Lees meer

American Pietas

Ruby C. Tapia

• Hardcover | Critical American Studies
• What visual tropes of race, death, and motherhood tell us about citizenship. 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

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

New American Studies

John Carlos Rowe

• Paperback | Engels | Critical American Studies
• A clarion call for a more theoretically and politically informed approach to American Studies John Carlos Rowe, a leading American Studies scholar, ha... Lees meer