American Studies
- Filipinos Represent DJs, Racial Authenticity, and the Hip-hop Nation Antonio T. Tiongson Jr. 2013 Fall
- What does it mean when Filipino youth lay claim to an art form associated with African Americans?
- Pedestrian Modern Shopping and American Architecture, 1925–1956 David Smiley 2013 Spring
- How the design of stores and shopping centers shaped modern architecture in the United States
- Ariel’s Ecology Plantations, Personhood, and Colonialism in the American Tropics Monique Allewaert 2013 Spring
- Rethinking the boundaries between humans and nonhumans in early America
- The Marrying Kind? Debating Same-Sex Marriage within the Lesbian and Gay Movement Mary Bernstein and Verta Taylor, Editors 2013 Spring
- A look inside the lesbian and gay movement’s disagreements over same-sex marriage
- Designing the Creative Child Playthings and Places in Midcentury America Amy F. Ogata 2013 Spring
- The construction of the “creative child” as Cold War America’s best hope for the future
- Radiance from Halcyon A Utopian Experiment in Religion and Science Paul Eli Ivey 2013 Spring
- A revealing history of a surprisingly influential and inventive theosophical utopian community
- Midnight at the Barrelhouse The Johnny Otis Story George Lipsitz 2013 Spring
- The first biography of music legend and civil rights activist Johnny Otis
- Mark My Words Native Women Mapping Our Nations Mishuana Goeman 2013 Spring
- Examining the role of twentieth-century Native women’s literature in remapping settler geographies
- The Seeds We Planted Portraits of a Native Hawaiian Charter School Noelani Goodyear-Kaʻōpua 2013 Spring
- Reveals the paradoxes of teaching indigenous knowledge within institutions built to marginalize and displace it
- Each Hour Redeem Time and Justice in African American Literature Daylanne K. English 2013 Spring
- A major reinterpretation of African American literature through its tropes of time
- Middlebrow Queer Christopher Isherwood in America Jaime Harker 2013 Spring
- How Christopher Isherwood reinvented himself as an American writer through gay print culture of the postwar United States
- Making Art Panamerican Cultural Policy and the Cold War Claire F. Fox 2013 Spring
- A compelling study of cultural policy in the Americas
- The Cinema and Its Shadow Race and Technology in Early Cinema Alice Maurice 2013 Spring
- How race shaped the fundamental formal and technological means of the cinema
- Little White Houses How the Postwar Home Constructed Race in America Dianne Harris 2012 Fall
- How the ordinary American house contributed to definitions of middle-class whiteness and an exclusionary housing market in the postwar era
- Tender Comrades A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist Patrick McGilligan and Paul Buhle 2012 Fall
- The definitive portrait of Hollywood’s dark high noon
- The Reorder of Things The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference Roderick A. Ferguson 2012 Fall
- A critical account of how academia and global capital appropriated the revolutionary fervor of the 1960s and 1970s
- Antebellum at Sea Maritime Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century America Jason Berger 2012 Fall
- How the intersection of antebellum imagination and contemporary theories of fantasy challenges American literary history
- Debating the End of History The Marketplace, Utopia, and the Fragmentation of Intellectual Life David W. Noble 2012 Fall
- Why the global marketplace doesn’t—and can’t—provide the utopian world it promises
- Love in Vain A Vision of Robert Johnson Alan Greenberg 2012 Fall
- The classic, deeply researched study and mythological telling of the life, legend, and enduring mystery of Robert Johnson
- The Red Land to the South American Indian Writers and Indigenous Mexico James H. Cox 2012 Fall
- Recovers an entire era as a major period in American Indian writing