American Studies: New Titles http://www.press.umich.edu/rss/newAmerican.xml New American Studies Books en-us ump.webmaster@umich.edu The American Stravinsky: The Style and Aesthetics of Copland's New American Music, the Early Works, 1921-1938 | Gayle Murchison http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=105530 The first study to show Copland's style development from his early works through his first widely accessible ballet American Socialist Triptych: The Literary-Political Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Upton Sinclair, and W. E. B. Du Bois | Mark W. Van Wienen http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=3834737 A closer look at three American writers sheds new light on the evolution of socialist thought in the U.S. The Life and Work of Francis Willey Kelsey: Archaeology, Antiquity, and the Arts | by John Griffiths Pedley http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=1266159 If Indiana Jones had relied on trains . . . James Baldwin: America and Beyond | Edited by Cora Kaplan and Bill Schwarz http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=1168369 An interdisciplinary discussion of Baldwin by leading writers from several fields Imagining the Forest: Narratives of Michigan and the Upper Midwest | by John Knott http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=3678601 How the meaning of the forest developed in the Great Lakes The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry | by Howard Rambsy II http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=1798608 A closer look at the poets and publishers who made the Black Arts Movement such an enduring cultural enterprise Say Word!: Voices from Hip Hop Theater | An Anthology Edited and with an Introduction by Daniel Banks http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=322638 Compelling plays by leading Hip Hop artists writing in the language of today Right in Michigan's Grassroots: From the KKK to the Michigan Militia | by JoEllen McNergney Vinyard http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=269227 An unsettling look at the history of right-wing political movements in Michigan The Problem of the Color[blind]: Racial Transgression and the Politics of Black Performance | by Brandi Wilkins Catanese http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=368267 How the debate on colorblind versus multicultural casting sheds light on on larger sociopolitical questions The Reverend Billy Project: From Rehearsal Hall to Super Mall with the Church of Life After Shopping | by Savitri D and Bill Talen http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=175276 On the road with one of the nation's most celebrated political theater troupes Two Minds of a Western Poet | by Essays by David Mason http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=2001318 Meditations on the life of poetry by an award-winning poet Kin of Another Kind: Transracial Adoption in American Literature | by Cynthia Callahan http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=2516956 Rereads 20th-century American literature as it has portrayed adoption across racial lines, from Faulkner to Kingsolver No Safe Spaces: Re-casting Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in American Theater | by Angela C. Pao http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=1729062 Explores fifty years of non-traditional casting practices on the American stage and the questions of cultural identity that they have raised Michael Moore: Filmmaker, Newsmaker, Cultural Icon | by Matthew H. Bernstein, Editor http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=192221 Indispensable perspectives on America's top documentary filmmaker and political commentator I Don't Sound Like Nobody: Remaking Music in 1950s America | by Albin J. Zak III http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=295986 A definitive study of the most important decade in post-World War II popular music history Lady Dicks and Lesbian Brothers: Staging the Unimaginable at the WOW Cafe Theatre | by Kate Davy http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=192640 Parody, cross-dressing, zany comedy, and unbridled eroticism at a women's theater space in the East Village Embodying Black Experience: Stillness, Critical Memory, and the Black Body | by Harvey Young http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=235634 How the history of the diasporic black body in American art, athleticism, and performance resonates in daily life Risk Culture: Performance and Danger in Early America | by Joseph Fichtelberg http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=1459955 Close textual analysis explores the culture of risk in our country's early days Bulldaggers, Pansies, and Chocolate Babies: Performance, Race, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance | by James F. Wilson http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=1175684 The gay and lesbian presence in black entertainment in Harlem nightclubs, speakeasies, rent parties, and Broadway stages I Want to Be Ready: Improvised Dance as a Practice of Freedom | by Danielle Goldman http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=287881 A conceptual framework for understanding the development of improvised dance in late 20th-century America Envisioning Asia: On Location, Travel, and the Cinematic Geography of U.S. Orientalism | by Jeanette Roan http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=327161 Film provides a window into American culture and its attitudes toward Asia of the first half of the 20th century Olof the Eskimo Lady | by Inga Dora Bjornsdottir http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=362065 The story of an Icelandic dwarf who made a living in 19th-century America posing as an Eskimo Culture Wars and Enduring American Dilemmas | by Irene Taviss Thomson http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=1571326 Research showing America's politics may be more based on personal choice than party or cultural divisions Striving to Save | by Margaret Sherrard Sherraden and Amanda Moore McBride http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=231248 The struggles of low-income families trying to build savings accounts Newcomers, Outsiders, and Insiders: Immigrants and American Racial Politics in the Early Twenty-first Century | by Ronald Schmidt Sr., Yvette M. Alex-Assensoh, Andrew L. Aoki, and Rodney E. Hero http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=110371 How has the arrival of new racial and ethnic groups affected the political gains of long-standing minorities in the United States? Transcribing Class and Gender: Masculinity and Femininity in Nineteenth-Century Courts and Offices | by Carole Srole http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=232232 Examines the historical roots of clerical work and the role that class and gender played in determining professional status Cross Purposes: Pierce v. Society of Sisters and the Struggle over Compulsory Public Education | by Paula Abrams http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=192896 Do parents have the right to determine how their children should be educated? The President Electric: Ronald Reagan and the Politics of Performance | by Timothy Raphael http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=331702 How Reagan's immersion in an electronic media culture of performance shaped his political career An Angle of Vision: Women Writers on Their Poor and Working-Class Roots | Edited by Lorraine M. Lopez http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=329628 Uncommon perspectives by prominent women writers on class, money, family, and home Natural Acts: Gender, Race, and Rusticity in Country Music | by Pamela Fox http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=277898 Hillbilly, honky-tonk, Nashville glitz, or alt.country: what makes music authentically country? Civic Engagement in the Wake of Katrina | by Amy Koritz and George J. Sanchez, editors http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=923684 A collection of essays that documents the ways in which educational institutions and the arts community responded to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina. Parodies of Ownership: Hip-Hop Aesthetics and Intellectual Property Law | by Richard L. Schur http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=822512 An intriguing interdisciplinary examination of hip hop aesthetics. Performing Conquest: Five Centuries of Theater, History, and Identity in Tlaxcala, Mexico | by Patricia A. Ybarra http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=316831 An unprecedented reading of Mexican history through the lens of performance. No Boundaries: Transnational Latino Gangs and American Law Enforcement | by Tom Diaz http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=287594 An alarming report on Latino crime gangs and the efforts of U.S. law enforcement to contain them. Moisture of the Earth: Mary Robinson, Civil Rights and Textile Union Activist | Fran Leeper Buss, Editor http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=10549 A voice from the margins that refuses to be silenced. Guns, Democracy, and the Insurrectionist Idea | by Joshua Horwitz and Casey Anderson http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=180934 Does the gun lobby threaten the democratic institutions safeguarding individual liberty in America? Highbrow/Lowdown : Theater, Jazz, and the Making of the New Middle Class | by David Savran http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=338819 The culture clash that permanently changed American theater. The U.S. Army Stability Operations Field Manual : U.S. Army Field Manual No. 3-07 | by The United States Army http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=1308805 Field Manual 3-07, Stability Operations, represents a milestone in Army doctrine. Ellington Uptown : Duke Ellington, James P. Johnson, and the Birth of Concert Jazz | by John Howland http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=211239 Explores a little-discussed yet truly hybrid American musical tradition lost between the canons of authentic jazz and classical music. To Shake Their Guns in the Tyrant's Face : Libertarian Political Violence and the Origins of the Militia Movement | by Robert H. Churchill http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=327258 Did a long-standing and libertarian understanding of the American Revolution create the perfect climate for the militia movement in the United States? New Orleans Style and the Writing of American Jazz History | by Bruce Boyd Raeburn http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=176136 A fascinating and insightful study of the development of New Orleans jazz and its effect on jazz history. America at Risk: Threats to Liberal Self-Government in an Age of Uncertainty | edited by Robert Faulkner and Susan Shell http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=263002 A group of eminent thinkers and writers address the question, what are some of the greatest dangers facing America today? Old Roots, New Routes: The Cultural Politics of Alt.Country Music | edited by Pamela Fox and Barbara Ching http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=344030 An in-depth look at the influences, meaning, and identity of this contemporary music form. Devils and Rebels: The Making of Hawthorne's Damned Politics | by Larry J. Reynolds http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=163182 Was Nathaniel Hawthorne a racist? A compelling second look at a canonical American author. Stone Tower: The Political Theater of Arthur Miller | by Jeffrey D. Mason http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=309730 A revealing look at Arthur Miller's political sensibilities as evidenced in his dramatic works and other writings. Hazel Scott The Pioneering Journey of a Jazz Pianist, from Cafe Society to Hollywood to HUAC | by Karen Chilton http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=197245 The first biography of an important but overlooked African American pianist, singer, actor, and civil-rights advocate. American Jewish Identity Politics | edited by Deborah Dash Moore http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=273452 Explores changes among American Jews in their self-understanding during the last half of the 20th century. Mammy: A Century of Race, Gender, and Southern Memory | by Kimberly Wallace-Sanders http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=170676 A revealing exploration of the origins and meanings of the mammy figure. Counterculture Kaleidoscope: Musical and Cultural Perspectives on Late Sixties San Francisco | by Nadya Zimmerman http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=192464 A bold reconsideration of the meaning of 1960s San Francisco counterculture. 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 http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=91773 Reflections on the relationships between black American intellectuals and African American musical traditions from blues to hip hop. Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S. | by Cynthia Barnett http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=187043 NEW IN PAPER! Can we save our greatest natural resource before it disappears forever? Distrusting Democrats: Outcomes of Participatory Constitution Making | by Devra C. Moehler http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=203954 Does participation lead citizens of new democracies to invest or disinvest in democracy? Mark One or More: Civil Rights in Multiracial America | by Kim M. Williams http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=17441 NEW IN PAPER! The little-known story of the struggle to include a multiracial category on the U.S. census, and the profound changes it wrought in the American political landscape. Racial Union: Law, Intimacy, and the White State in Alabama, 1865-1954 | by Julie Novkov http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=89977 A stunning exploration of America's attitudes on interracial marriage. Jackie Ormes: The First African American Woman Cartoonist | by Nancy Goldstein http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=150236 A richly illustrated biography of a pioneering woman artist and the characters she created. The Price of Racial Reconciliation | by Ronald W. Walters http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=135227 Presents the conceptual difficulties involved in the project of racial reconciliation by a comparative analysis of South African Truth and Reconciliation and the demand for Reparations in the United States.