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Shipping Out

Race, Performance, and Labor at Sea

By Anita Gonzalez
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Dance, American Studies, Class Studies

How race, performance, and labor interconnect on Caribbean cruise ships through the lens of a destination lecturer

Pleasure Grounds of Death

The Rural Cemetery in Nineteenth-Century America

By Joy M. Giguere
Subjects: American Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, History, American History, Cultural Studies, Class Studies

Revealing how landscapes dedicated to the perpetual care of the dead mirrored the transformations and conflicts of the nineteenth century in American society

Stephanie Dinkins

On Love & Data

By Srimoyee Mitra
Subjects: Media Studies, New Media, American Studies, Class Studies, Michigan and the Great Lakes, Art and Culture, Urban Studies

Art’s power to challenge inequities and build inclusive dialogues

Fourth Revolution and the Bottom Four Billion

Making Technologies Work for the Poor

By Nir Kshetri
Subjects: Economics, Development, Class Studies, Cultural Studies

Advanced technology for the Bottom Four Billion

Living Labor

Fiction, Film, and Precarious Work

By Joseph B. Entin
Subjects: American Studies, Class Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature
Series: Class : Culture

Examines new narratives about work and workers in the age of transnational migration and precarious labor

Architectures of Hope

Infrastructural Citizenship and Class Mobility in Brazil's Public Housing

By Moisés Kopper
Subjects: Political Science, Urban Politics, Latin American Studies, Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Class Studies

On the eve of the 2008 financial crisis, Brazil implemented its largest-ever public housing program, the Minha Casa Minha Vida

Architectures of Hope

Infrastructural Citizenship and Class Mobility in Brazil’s Public Housing

By Moisés Kopper
Subjects: Political Science, Urban Politics, Latin American Studies, Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Class Studies

On the eve of the 2008 financial crisis, Brazil implemented its largest-ever public housing program, the Minha Casa Minha Vida

Staged Readings

Contesting Class in Popular American Theater and Literature, 1835-75

By Michael D'Alessandro
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, American Literature, American Studies, Class Studies

How popular culture helped to create class in nineteenth-century America

Working Backstage

A Cultural History and Ethnography of Technical Theater Labor

By Christin Essin
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Class Studies, American Studies

Places backstage workers in the spotlight to acknowledge their essential roles in creating Broadway magic

Sit-Down

The General Motors Strike of 1936-1937

With a New Foreword by Kim Moody

By Sidney Fine
Subjects: History, American History, Class Studies, American Studies, Michigan and the Great Lakes, History
Series: Class : Culture

Studies the most significant American labor conflict of the 20th century

The Dangerous Class

The Concept of the Lumpenproletariat

By Clyde Barrow
Subjects: Political Science, Political Theory, Political Economy, Economics, Economic Theory, Class Studies

The lumpenstate dystopia of the Trump/Brexit era

Clothed in Meaning

Literature, Labor, and Cotton in Nineteenth-Century America

By Sylvia Jenkins Cook
Subjects: Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature, American Studies, African American Studies, Class Studies
Series: Class : Culture

Textured readings of the literary expression of workers in the era of big cotton

Of Vagabonds and Fellow Travelers

African Diaspora Literary Culture and the Cultural Cold War

By Cedric Tolliver
Subjects: American Studies, Class Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, African Studies, African American Studies, Diaspora Studies
Series: Class : Culture

Yields new insights by connecting Cold War counter-hegemonic writings in English and French by intellectuals of the African diaspora
 

Dirty Work

Domestic Service in Progressive-Era Women’s Fiction

By Ann Mattis
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Class Studies, American Studies
Series: Class : Culture

What representations of domestic service in literature reveal about various Progressive Era cultural narratives

The Harvest of American Racism

The Political Meaning of Violence in the Summer of 1967

Edited by Robert Shellow
Subjects: American Studies, History, American History, African American Studies, Class Studies, Sociology, Political Science, Political History

In print for the first time--the document that the Kerner Commission did not want to see released

The Half-Life of Deindustrialization

Working-Class Writing about Economic Restructuring

By Sherry Lee Linkon
Subjects: American Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Cultural Studies, Class Studies
Series: Class : Culture

Examines how contemporary American working- class literature reveals the long- term effects of deindustrialization on individuals and communities

Memory, Meaning, and Resistance

Reflecting on Oral History and Women at the Margins

By Fran Leeper Buss
Subjects: Gender Studies, Women's Studies, American Studies, Class Studies, African American Studies, History, Labor History, Race and Ethnicity

A pioneering oral historian analyzes recurring themes in the lives of poor and working-class women
 

Middle Class Union

Organizing the ‘Consuming Public’ in Post-World War I America

By Mark W. Robbins
Subjects: History, American History, American Studies, Class Studies
Series: Class : Culture

Examines the birth of the American middle class as white-collar workers used their growing consumer identity to organize politically

The Poverty Law Canon

Exploring the Major Cases

By Ezra Rosser & Marie Failinger
Subjects: Law, Law and Society, Class Studies, Political Science, Public Policy, History, American History
Series: Class : Culture

Engaging narratives that move beyond the final opinions of the Supreme Court to reveal the people and stories behind key poverty-law cases of the last 50 years

How the Workers Became Muslims

Immigration, Culture, and Hegemonic Transformation in Europe

By Ferruh Yilmaz
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Class Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Islamic Studies

An exploration of immigration, and how European far right groups attract seemingly left populations by emphasizing culture over economics
 

Dreams for Dead Bodies

Blackness, Labor, and the Corpus of American Detective Fiction

By Miriam Michelle Robinson
Subjects: American Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, African American Studies, Class Studies, 19th Century Literature
Series: Class : Culture

Explores U.S. detective fiction's deep engagement with the shifting dynamics of race and labor in America
 

Anti-Imperialist Modernism

Race and Transnational Radical Culture from the Great Depression to the Cold War

By Benjamin Balthaser
Subjects: American Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Class Studies, History
Series: Class : Culture

A unique excavation of how U.S. cross-border, anti-imperialist movements shaped cultural modernism

Black America in the Shadow of the Sixties

Notes on the Civil Rights Movement, Neoliberalism, and Politics

By Clarence Lang
Subjects: American Studies, African American Studies, History, African American History, Class Studies, Literary Studies
Series: Class : Culture

A spirited argument for moving beyond the legacy of the Civil Rights era to best understand the current situation of African Americans

Dividing Lines

Class Anxiety and Postbellum Black Fiction

By Andreá N. Williams
Subjects: African American Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, American Studies, Class Studies
Series: Class : Culture

Provides fresh insights on the intersection of race and class in black fiction from the 1880s to 1900s

The Unreal Estate Guide to Detroit

By Andrew Herscher
Subjects: American Studies, Art, Architecture, Class Studies, Cultural Studies, Michigan and the Great Lakes, Art and Culture, Urban Studies

A guide to the emergence of alternative urban cultures in the wake of Detroit's economic decline

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