American Studies
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Midnight at the Barrelhouse The Johnny Otis Story George Lipsitz 2013 Spring
- The first biography of music legend and civil rights activist Johnny Otis
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Making Art Panamerican Cultural Policy and the Cold War Claire F. Fox 2013 Spring
- A compelling study of cultural policy in the Americas
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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
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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
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Tender Comrades A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist Patrick McGilligan and Paul Buhle 2012 Fall
- The definitive portrait of Hollywood’s dark high noon
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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War, Genocide, and Justice Cambodian American Memory Work Cathy J. Schlund-Vials 2012 Fall
- Examining Cambodian American cultural production as memory work
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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