American Studies

 

Chicano Novels and the Politics of Form
Race, Class, and Reification
by Marcial González

 

Hazel Scott
The Pioneering Journey of a Jazz Pianist, from Café Society to Hollywood to HUAC
by Karen Chilton

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Mammy
A Century of Race, Gender, and Southern Memory
by Kimberly Wallace-Sanders

 

Old Roots, New Routes
The Cultural Politics of Alt.Country Music
edited by
Pamela Fox and
Barbara Ching

 

Philadelphia Freedom
Memoir of a Civil Rights Lawyer
by David Kairys

 

Stages of Conflict
A Critical Anthology of Latin American Theater and Performance
edited by
Diana Taylor
and Sarah J. Townsend

 

Stone Tower
The Political Theater of Arthur Miller
by Jeffrey D. Mason

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Counterculture Kaleidoscope
Musical and Cultural Perspectives on Late Sixties San Francisco
by Nadya Zimmerman

Commerce in Color
Race, Consumer Culture, and American Literature, 1893-1933
by James C. Davis

Deployed
How Reservists Bear the Burden of Iraq
by Michael Musheno
and Susan M. Ross

Distinction and Denial
Race, Nation, and the Critical Construction of the African American Artist, 1920-40
by Mary Ann Calo

Don't Deny My Name
Words and Music and the Black Intellectual Tradition
by Lorenzo Thomas
edited and with an introduction by
Aldon Lynn Nielsen

Heartless Immensity
Literature, Culture, and Geography in Antebellum America
by Anne Baker

Jackie Ormes
The First African American Woman Cartoonist
by Nancy Goldstein

You Work Tomorrow
An Anthology of American Labor Poetry, 1929-41
edited by John Marsh

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Black Cultural Traffic
Crossroads in Global Performance and Popular Culture
edited by
Harry J. Elam, Jr.
and Kennell Jackson

Forged under the Sun/Forjada bajo el sol
The Life of Maria Elena Lucas
edited and with an introduction by
Fran Leeper Buss

My Body Politic
A Memoir
by Simi Linton

Performing Glam Rock
Gender and Theatricality in Popular Music
by Philip Auslander

Playing Underground
A Critical History of the 1960s Off-Off Broadway Movement
by Stephen J. Bottoms

Queering Mestizaje
Transculturation and Performance
by Alicia Arrizón

Skin Deep, Spirit Strong
The Black Female Body in American Culture
edited by Kimberly Wallace-Sanders

Vanishing Moments
Class and American Literature
edited by Eric Schocket

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Avant-Garde Performance and the Limits of Criticism
Approaching the Living Theatre, Happenings/Fluxus, and the Black Arts Movement
by Mike Sell

Honorable Mention: 2004-05 Joe A. Callaway Prize for the Best Book in Drama and Theatre

The Darker Side of the Renaissance
Literacy, Territoriality, & Colonization, 2nd Edition
by Walter Mignolo

Winner of the Modern Language Association's Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize

Jews and Gentiles in Early America
1654-1800
by William Pencak

Runner-up: Jewish Book Council's 2005 National Jewish Book Award in the American Jewish History category

Playing Underground
A Critical History of the 1960s Off-Off-Broadway Movement
by Stephen J. Bottoms

Honorable Mention for the Barnard Hewitt Award from the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR)

Queering Mestizaje
Transculturation and Performance
by Alicia Arrizón

Co-winner of the 2007 Modern Language Association Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies

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