American Studies

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

Troubling the Family The Promise of Personhood and the Rise of Multiracialism Habiba Ibrahim 2012 Fall

Discovers the roots of multiracialism in the feminist movement

Trans-Indigenous Methodologies for Global Native Literary Studies Chadwick Allen 2012 Fall

Uncovering the wealth of Indigenous self-representation through juxtaposition of genres, cultures, histories, and geographies

Land of 10,000 Loves A History of Queer Minnesota Stewart Van Cleve 2012 Fall

A groundbreaking, comprehensively illustrated portrait of queer history in Minnesota

Inhuman Citizenship Traumatic Enjoyment and Asian American Literature Juliana Chang 2012 Fall

Explores the complicated relationships between those who suffer and their tormenters

Pragmatist Politics Making the Case for Liberal Democracy John McGowan 2012 Fall

A refreshingly liberal account of the possibilities for American democracy

Black Star, Crescent Moon The Muslim International and Black Freedom beyond America Sohail Daulatzai 2012 Fall

Tracing the interactions between the Black radical imagination and the Muslim Third World from the 1950s to the present

Imperfect Unions Staging Miscegenation in U.S. Drama and Fiction Diana Rebekkah Paulin 2012 Spring

Highlights the interplay of race, literature, and nation-building in U.S. history

No More Nice Girls Countercultural Essays Ellen Willis 2012 Fall

Insightful, persuasive essays on feminism and identity politics

Beginning to See the Light Sex, Hope, and Rock-and-Roll Ellen Willis 2012 Fall

Ellen Willis traces the development of rock-and-roll and the legacy of the ’60s and ’70s

Driven from New Orleans How Nonprofits Betray Public Housing and Promote Privatization John Arena 2012 Fall

How public housing advocates in New Orleans became active supporters of privatization

The Poetry of the Possible Spontaneity, Modernism, and the Multitude Joel Nickels 2012 Spring

The abstractions of modernism reimagined as figurations of collective self-organization

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