Critical American Studies
This series examines recent trends in American studies. Fundamental questions about history, culture, social structure, race, gender, sexuality, and citizenship now challenge and motivate work in this discipline and also connect and integrate it with other areas of study. Books in the series analyze and critique the forces (including mass migration, global economy, apparent weaknesses of the nation-state, and ongoing ethnic antagonisms) that compel this field to reevaluate how culture produces individual and collective identities.
Books in this Series
Debating the End of History
Why the global marketplace doesn’t—and can’t—provide the utopian world it promises
Samurai among Panthers
The first biography of Asian American activist and Black Panther Party member Richard Aoki
Triangulations
How Latino autobiographical texts reconfigure identity in opposition to familiar notions of self
Mythohistorical Interventions
The importance of myth, symbol, and image in the Chicano movement and beyond
Ends of Empire
A bold examination of how the U.S. Cold War in Asia impacted the formation of Asian America
The New American Exceptionalism
Exposes the fantasies that shaped U.S. identity between the end of the cold war and the global war on terror
Chains of Babylon
Traces for the first time the rise of the radically antiracist and antiwar Asian American movement
Cannibal Democracy
Cannibalism as a metaphor for racial assimilation in the United States, the Caribbean, and Brazil
American Tropics
How America’s image of the Philippines reflects the U.S. inability to see its own imperialism
Mangos, Chiles, and Truckers
Examines the effects of global capital on both sides of the U.S.–Mexico border
Heartbeat of Struggle
The first biography of a courageous and inspiring champion of freedom and equality
Singlejack Solidarity
The writings of the lifelong activist and worker’s advocate collected here for the first time
The Colonizing Trick
An illuminating look at the concepts of race, nation, and equality in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America
Aberrations in Black
A hard-hitting look at the regulation of sexual difference and its role in circumscribing African American culture
Death of a Nation
A trenchant examination of epic shifts in American thought by a major scholar in the field.
Not the Triumph but the Struggle
A sweeping look at black athletes through the lens of the black power protests at the Mexico City Olympics—now in paperback!
The Culture Concept
Examines the prehistory of the American struggle to address cultural difference.
The New American Studies
A clarion call for a more theoretically and politically informed approach to American Studies
American Studies in a Moment of Danger
A forthright look at the future of the discipline in the wake of immense social changes.
Distant Wars Visible
Mapping the fraught space between empathy and spectacle in the witnessing of military conflict
Urban Triage
Assesses fictional representations of racial conflict, cooperation, and complicity amid the urban crisis of the 1980s
Reinventing Citizenship
A study of race, welfare, and citizenship in the United States and Japan during the 1960s and 1970s
Peace Corps Fantasies
How the 1960s Peace Corps’ gendered modernization ideology shaped social movements across the Americas