American Studies

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

Why We Left Untold Stories and Songs of America's First Immigrants Brooks 2013 Spring

The myth-busting truth behind early English immigration to North America as told through traditional folk ballads

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

Memory of Trees A Daughter’s Story of a Family Farm Gayla Marty 2013 Spring

An evocative memoir of life on a dairy farm in Minnesota’s St. Croix Valley

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

War, Genocide, and Justice Cambodian American Memory Work Cathy J. Schlund-Vials 2012 Fall

Examining Cambodian American cultural production as memory work

Those About Him Remained Silent The Battle over W. E. B. Du Bois Amy Bass 2012 Fall

Uncovers racism and red-baiting in the dynamic between the cold war and civil rights

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