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1. 

Acting Jewish (2005)
Negotiating Ethnicity on the American Stage and Screen
Henry Bial

Paper     978-0-472-06908-8     $22.95S     Available

 
 

2. 

Adoption in America (2002)
Historical Perspectives
E. Wayne Carp, Editor

Paper     978-0-472-03054-5     $27.95S     Available

 
 

3. 

The Airplane in American Culture (2003)
Dominick A. Pisano, Editor

Cloth     978-0-472-09833-0     $80.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-06833-3     $25.95T     Available

 
 

4. 

America at Risk (2009)
Threats to Liberal Self-Government in an Age of Uncertainty
Robert Faulkner and Susan Shell, Editors

Cloth     978-0-472-11668-3     $35.00T     Available
Ebook Formats     978-0-472-02253-3          Available

 
 

5. 

America Beyond Black and White (2007)
How Immigrants and Fusions Are Helping Us Overcome the Racial Divide
Ronald Fernandez

Cloth     978-0-472-11609-6     $29.95S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-03320-1     $22.95T     Available
Ebook Formats     978-0-472-02175-8          Available

 
 

6. 

An American Girl, and Her Four Years in a Boys' College (2006)
Olive San Louie Anderson

Cloth     978-0-472-09916-0     $75.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-06916-3     $25.95S     Available

 
 

7. 

American Jewish Identity Politics (2008)
Deborah Dash Moore, editor

Cloth     978-0-472-11648-5     $85.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-03288-4     $28.95S     Available

 
 

8. 

The American Poet at the Movies (1994)
A Critical History
Laurence Goldstein

Paper     978-0-472-08318-3     $26.95S     Available

 
 

9. 

American Prophet (2005)
The Life and Work of Carey McWilliams
Peter Richardson

Cloth     978-0-472-11524-2     $35.00S     Available

 
 

10. 

The American Stravinsky
The Style and Aesthetics of Copland's New American Music, the Early Works, 1921-1938
Gayle Murchison

Cloth     978-0-472-09984-9     $80.00S     Forthcoming

 
 

11. 

The Americanist (2007)
Daniel Aaron

Cloth     978-0-472-11577-8     $24.95S     Available

 
 

12. 

An Angle of Vision (2009)
Women Writers on Their Poor and Working-Class Roots
Edited by Lorraine M. López

Cloth     978-0-472-07078-7     $60.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-05078-9     $22.95T     Available

 
 

13. 

Arthur Miller's America (2005)
Theater and Culture in a Time of Change
Enoch Brater, Editor

Paper     978-0-472-03155-9     $27.95S     Available

 
 

14. 

Asian American X (2004)
An Intersection of Twenty-First Century Asian American Voices
Arar Han and John Y. Hsu, Editors

Paper     978-0-472-06874-6     $21.95S     Available

 
 

15. 

Boogaloo (2005)
The Quintessence of American Popular Music
Arthur Kempton

Paper     978-0-472-03087-3     $19.95T     Available

 
 

16. 

Bulldaggers, Pansies, and Chocolate Babies
Performance, Race, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance
James F. Wilson

Cloth     978-0-472-11725-3     $49.50S     Forthcoming

 
 

17. 

Cast Out (2006)
Queer Lives in Theater
Edited by Robin Bernstein

Cloth     978-0-472-09933-7     $70.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-06933-0     $23.95T     Available

 
 

18. 

A Change Is Gonna Come (2006)
Music, Race & the Soul of America
Revised Edition
Craig Werner

Paper     978-0-472-03147-4     $24.95S     Available

 
 

19. 

Chic Ironic Bitterness (2007)
R. Jay Magill, Jr.

Cloth     978-0-472-11621-8     $25.95T     Available

 
 

20. 

Chicano Novels and the Politics of Form (2008)
Race, Class, and Reification
Marcial González

Cloth     978-0-472-07045-9     $75.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-05045-1     $29.95S     Available

 
 

21. 

Civic Engagement in the Wake of Katrina (2009)
Amy Koritz and George J. Sanchez, editors

Cloth     978-0-472-11698-0     $80.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-03352-2     $32.50S     Available

 
 

22. 

Commerce in Color (2007)
Race, Consumer Culture, and American Literature, 1893-1933
James C. Davis

Cloth     978-0-472-09987-0     $70.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-06987-3     $26.95S     Available

 
 

23. 

Companions for the Passage (2005)
Stories of the Intimate Privilege of Accompanying the Dying
Marjorie Ryerson

Paper     978-0-472-03078-1     $15.00T     Available

 
 

24. 

Counterculture Kaleidoscope (2008)
Musical and Cultural Perspectives on Late Sixties San Francisco
Nadya Zimmerman

Cloth     978-0-472-11558-7     $26.95T     Available

 
 

25. 

Cross Purposes (2009)
Pierce v. Society of Sisters and the Struggle over Compulsory Public Education
Paula Abrams

Cloth     978-0-472-11700-0     $65.00S     Available

 
 

26. 

The Cultural Politics of Slam Poetry (2009)
Race, Identity, and the Performance of Popular Verse in America
Susan B. A. Somers-Willett

Cloth     978-0-472-07059-6     $65.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-05059-8     $22.95S     Available

 
 

27. 

Culture Wars and Enduring American Dilemmas
Irene Taviss Thomson

Cloth     978-0-472-07088-6     $65.00S     Forthcoming
Paper     978-0-472-05088-8     $24.95T     Forthcoming

 
 

28. 

Devils and Rebels (2008)
The Making of Hawthorne's Damned Politics
Larry J. Reynolds

Cloth     978-0-472-11669-0     $60.00S     Available

 
 

29. 

Discovering Addiction (2007)
The Science and Politics of Substance Abuse Research
Nancy D. Campbell

Cloth     978-0-472-11610-2     $60.00S     Available

 
 

30. 

Distinction and Denial (2007)
Race, Nation, and the Critical Construction of the African American Artist, 1920-40
Mary Ann Calo

Cloth     978-0-472-11468-9     $79.50S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-03230-3     $35.00S     Available

 
 

31. 

Don't Deny My Name (2008)
Words and Music and the Black Intellectual Tradition
Lorenzo Thomas

Cloth     978-0-472-09892-7     $75.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-06892-0     $22.95T     Available

 
 

32. 

Ed Bullins (2006)
Twelve Plays and Selected Writings
Ed Bullins

Cloth     978-0-472-11407-8     $80.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-03182-5     $27.95S     Available

 
 

33. 

Ellery's Protest (2007)
How One Young Man Defied Tradition and Sparked the Battle over School Prayer
Stephen D. Solomon

Cloth     978-0-472-10837-4     $29.95S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-03345-4     $24.95T     Available

 
 

34. 

Ellington Uptown (2009)
Duke Ellington, James P. Johnson, and the Birth of Concert Jazz
John Howland

Cloth     978-0-472-11605-8     $75.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-03316-4     $28.95T     Available

 
 

35. 

Embodying Black Experience
Stillness, Critical Memory, and the Black Body
Harvey Young

Cloth     978-0-472-07111-1     $80.00S     Forthcoming
Paper     978-0-472-05111-3     $29.95S     Forthcoming

 
 

36. 

Envisioning Asia
On Location, Travel, and the Cinematic Geography of U.S. Orientalism
Jeanette Roan

Cloth     978-0-472-07083-1     $70.00S     Forthcoming
Paper     978-0-472-05083-3     $26.95S     Forthcoming

 
 

37. 

Faith in the City (2007)
Preaching Radical Social Change in Detroit
Angela D. Dillard

Cloth     978-0-472-11462-7     $80.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-03207-5     $25.95T     Available

 
 

38. 

The Future of Class in History (2007)
What's Left of the Social?
Geoff Eley and Keith Nield

Cloth     978-0-472-09964-1     $75.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-06964-4     $26.95S     Available

 
 

39. 

Gates of Freedom (2004)
Voltairine de Cleyre and the Revolution of the Mind
Eugenia C. DeLamotte

Cloth     978-0-472-09867-5     $80.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-06867-8     $25.95S     Available

 
 

40. 

Guns, Democracy, and the Insurrectionist Idea (2009)
Joshua Horwitz and Casey Anderson

Cloth     978-0-472-11572-3     $65.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-03370-6     $26.95T     Available
Ebook Formats     978-0-472-02199-4          Available

 
 

41. 

Harlem Calling (2005)
The Collected Stories of George Wylie Henderson
George Wylie Henderson

Cloth     978-0-472-11520-4     $60.00S     Available

 
 

42. 

Hazel Scott (2008)
The Pioneering Journey of a Jazz Pianist, from Café Society to Hollywood to HUAC
Karen Chilton

Cloth     978-0-472-11567-9     $29.95T     Available

 
 

43. 

Heartless Immensity (2006)
Literature, Culture, and Geography in Antebellum America
Anne Baker

Cloth     978-0-472-11570-9     $70.00S     Available

 
 

44. 

Highbrow/Lowdown (2009)
Theater, Jazz, and the Making of the New Middle Class
David Savran

Cloth     978-0-472-11692-8     $35.00T     Available

 
 

45. 

I Don't Sound Like Nobody
Remaking Music in 1950s America
Albin J. Zak III

Cloth     978-0-472-11637-9     $29.95T     Forthcoming

 
 

46. 

I Want to Be Ready
Improvised Dance as a Practice of Freedom
Danielle Goldman

Cloth     978-0-472-07084-8     $60.00S     Forthcoming
Paper     978-0-472-05084-0     $24.95S     Forthcoming

 
 

47. 

It (2007)
Joseph Roach

Paper     978-0-472-06936-1     $19.95T     Available

 
 

48. 

Jackie Ormes (2008)
The First African American Woman Cartoonist
Nancy Goldstein

Cloth     978-0-472-11624-9     $35.00T     Available

 
 

49. 

Jewish in America (2004)
Sara Blair and Jonathan Freedman, Editors

Cloth     978-0-472-09880-4     $80.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-06880-7     $26.95S     Available

 
 

50. 

Jews and Gentiles in Early America (2005)
1654-1800
William Pencak

Cloth     978-0-472-11454-2     $29.95S     Available

 
 

51. 

Lennie Tristano (2007)
His Life in Music
Eunmi Shim

Cloth     978-0-472-11346-0     $32.50T     Available

 
 

52. 

Let Me Live (2007)
Angelo Herndon

Paper     978-0-472-03199-3     $26.95S     Available

 
 

53. 

Lines of Activity (2000)
Performance, Historiography, Hull-House Domesticity
Shannon Jackson

Paper     978-0-472-08791-4     $29.95S     Available

 
 

54. 

Mammy (2008)
A Century of Race, Gender, and Southern Memory
Kimberly Wallace-Sanders

Cloth     978-0-472-11614-0     $40.00T     Available
Paper     978-0-472-03401-7     $25.95T     Available

 
 

55. 

Mark One or More (2006)
Civil Rights in Multiracial America
Kim M. Williams

Paper     978-0-472-03280-8     $24.95S     Available

 
 

56. 

Material Witness (2005)
The Selected Letters of Fairfield Porter
Ted Leigh, Editor

Cloth     978-0-472-10976-0     $35.00S     Available

 
 

57. 

Michael Moore
Filmmaker, Newsmaker, Cultural Icon
Matthew H. Bernstein, Editor

Cloth     978-0-472-07103-6     $75.00S     Forthcoming
Paper     978-0-472-05103-8     $26.95S     Forthcoming

 
 

58. 

Mirage (2007)
Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S.
Cynthia Barnett

Paper     978-0-472-03303-4     $18.95T     Available
Ebook Formats     978-0-472-02145-1          Available

 
 

59. 

Moisture of the Earth (2009)
Mary Robinson, Civil Rights and Textile Union Activist
Fran Leeper Buss, Editor

Cloth     978-0-472-09587-2     $60.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-06587-5     $22.95S     Available

 
 

60. 

Mr. Democrat (2006)
Jim Farley, the New Deal and the Making of Modern American Politics
Daniel Scroop

Cloth     978-0-472-09930-6     $29.95S     Available
Ebook Formats     978-0-472-02150-5          Available

 
 

61. 

My Body Politic (2005)
A Memoir
Simi Linton

Cloth     978-0-472-11539-6     $25.95S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-03236-5     $20.95S     Available

 
 

62. 

Natural Acts (2009)
Gender, Race, and Rusticity in Country Music
Pamela Fox

Cloth     978-0-472-07068-8     $70.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-05068-0     $26.95S     Available

 
 

63. 

New Orleans Style and the Writing of American Jazz History (2009)
Bruce Boyd Raeburn

Cloth     978-0-472-11675-1     $70.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-03321-8     $26.95S     Available

 
 

64. 

Newcomers, Outsiders, and Insiders
Immigrants and American Racial Politics in the Early Twenty-first Century
Ronald Schmidt Sr., Yvette M. Alex-Assensoh, Andrew L. Aoki, and Rodney E. Hero

Cloth     978-0-472-11703-1     $70.00S     Forthcoming
Paper     978-0-472-03376-8     $24.95S     Forthcoming

 
 

65. 

No Boundaries (2009)
Transnational Latino Gangs and American Law Enforcement
Tom Diaz

Cloth     978-0-472-11629-4     $26.95T     Available
Ebook Formats     978-0-472-02198-7          Available

 
 

66. 

No Safe Spaces
Re-casting Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in American Theater
Angela C. Pao

Cloth     978-0-472-07121-0     $80.00S     Forthcoming
Paper     978-0-472-05121-2     $29.95S     Forthcoming

 
 

67. 

Old Roots, New Routes (2008)
The Cultural Politics of Alt.Country Music
Pamela Fox and Barbara Ching, editors

Cloth     978-0-472-07053-4     $70.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-05053-6     $26.95T     Available

 
 

68. 

Ólöf the Eskimo Lady
A Biography of an Icelandic Dwarf in America
Inga Dóra Björnsdóttir

Cloth     978-0-472-11726-0     $29.95T     Forthcoming

 
 

69. 

On SF (2005)
Thomas M. Disch

Cloth     978-0-472-09896-5     $75.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-06896-8     $24.95T     Available

 
 

70. 

Outside the Lines (2005)
Talking with Contemporary Gay Poets
Christopher Hennessy

Cloth     978-0-472-09873-6     $64.50S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-06873-9     $19.95T     Available

 
 

71. 

The Past as Present in the Drama of August Wilson (2004)
Harry J. Elam, Jr.

Cloth     978-0-472-11368-2     $75.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-03163-4     $26.95S     Available
Ebook Formats     978-0-472-02184-0          Available

 
 

72. 

Performing America (1999)
Cultural Nationalism in American Theater
Jeffrey D. Mason and J. Ellen Gainor, Editors

Paper     978-0-472-08792-1     $35.00S     Available
Ebook Formats     978-0-472-02220-5          Available

 
 

73. 

Performing Conquest (2009)
Five Centuries of Theater, History, and Identity in Tlaxcala, Mexico
Patricia A. Ybarra

Cloth     978-0-472-11679-9     $65.00S     Available

 
 

74. 

The Problem of the Color[blind]
Racial Transgression and Black Performance
Brandi Wilkins Catanese

Cloth     978-0-472-07126-5     $75.00S     Forthcoming
Paper     978-0-472-05126-7     $28.95S     Forthcoming

 
 

75. 

Punishing Schools (2009)
Fear and Citizenship in American Public Education
William Lyons and Julie Drew

Ebook Formats     978-0-472-02174-1          Available

 
 

76. 

Queering Mestizaje (2006)
Transculturation and Performance
Alicia Arrizón

Cloth     978-0-472-09955-9     $75.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-06955-2     $32.50S     Available

 
 

77. 

Racial Union (2008)
Law, Intimacy, and the White State in Alabama, 1865-1954
Julie Novkov

Cloth     978-0-472-09885-9     $85.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-06885-2     $28.95S     Available
Ebook Formats     978-0-472-02287-8          Available

 
 

78. 

Risk Culture
Performance and Danger in Early America
Joseph Fichtelberg

Cloth     978-0-472-07094-7     $70.00S     Forthcoming
Paper     978-0-472-05094-9     $28.95S     Forthcoming

 
 

79. 

The San Francisco Mime Troupe Reader (2005)
Susan Vaneta Mason, Editor

Cloth     978-0-472-09842-2     $75.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-06842-5     $21.95S     Available

 
 

80. 

Schoolbook Nation (2003)
Conflicts over American History Textbooks from the Civil War to the Present
Joseph Moreau

Paper     978-0-472-03053-8     $27.95S     Available

 
 

81. 

Seeing the Big Picture, Revised Edition (2006)
A Cinematic Approach to Understanding Cultures in America
Revised Edition
Ellen Summerfield and Sandra Lee

Paper     978-0-472-03167-2     $28.50S     Available

 
 

82. 

Skin Deep, Spirit Strong (2002)
The Black Female Body in American Culture
Kimberly Wallace-Sanders, Editor

Paper     978-0-472-06707-7     $32.50T     Available

 
 

83. 

Slaves to Fashion (2004)
Poverty and Abuse in the New Sweatshops
Robert J. S. Ross

Paper     978-0-472-03022-4     $21.95S     Available

 
 

84. 

Soul Music
The Spiritual Roots of Pop from Plato to Motown
Joel Rudinow

Cloth     978-0-472-07108-1     $75.00S     Forthcoming
Paper     978-0-472-05108-3     $28.95S     Forthcoming

 
 

85. 

The Stamp of Class (2005)
Reflections on Poetry and Social Class
Gary Lenhart

Cloth     978-0-472-09917-7     $65.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-06917-0     $19.95T     Available
Ebook Formats     978-0-472-02152-9          Available

 
 

86. 

Stone Tower (2008)
The Political Theater of Arthur Miller
Jeffrey D. Mason

Cloth     978-0-472-11650-8     $54.50S     Available

 
 

87. 

Stories as Equipment for Living (2007)
Last Talks and Tales of Barbara Myerhoff
Barbara Myerhoff

Cloth     978-0-472-09970-2     $70.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-06970-5     $26.95S     Available

 
 

88. 

A Story Teller's Story (2005)
The tale of an American writer's journey through his own imaginative world and through the world of facts, with many of his experiences and impressions among other writers--told in many notes--in four books--and an Epilogue
Sherwood Anderson

Paper     978-0-472-03083-5     $18.95T     Available

 
 

89. 

Striving to Save
Creating Policies for Financial Security of Low-Income Families
Margaret Sherrard Sherraden and Amanda Moore McBride

Cloth     978-0-472-11712-3     $60.00S     Forthcoming

 
 

90. 

Student Bodies (2007)
The Influence of Student Health Services in American Society and Medicine
Heather Munro Prescott

Cloth     978-0-472-11608-9     $60.00S     Available

 
 

91. 

The Syntax of Class (2006)
Writing Inequality in Nineteenth-Century America
Amy Schrager Lang

Paper     978-0-472-03181-8     $22.95S     Available

 
 

92. 

Taking It to the Streets (1997)
The Social Protest Theater of Luis Valdez and Amiri Baraka
Harry J. Elam, Jr.

Cloth     978-0-472-10793-3     $70.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-08768-6     $23.95S     Available

 
 

93. 

The President Electric (2009)
Ronald Reagan and the Politics of Performance
Timothy Raphael

Cloth     978-0-472-07073-2     $65.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-05073-4     $26.95S     Available

 
 

94. 

The Unraveling Archive (2007)
Essays on Sylvia Plath
Edited by Anita Helle

Cloth     978-0-472-09927-6     $75.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-06927-9     $24.95T     Available

 
 

95. 

The Theater Will Rock (2006)
A History of the Rock Musical, from Hair to Hedwig
Elizabeth L. Wollman

Cloth     978-0-472-11576-1     $29.95T     Available
Paper     978-0-472-03402-4     $22.95T     Available

 
 

96. 

These Days of Large Things (2007)
The Culture of Size in America, 1865-1930
Michael Tavel Clarke

Cloth     978-0-472-09962-7     $75.00S     Available

 
 

97. 

To Shake Their Guns in the Tyrant's Face (2009)
Libertarian Political Violence and the Origins of the Militia Movement
Robert H. Churchill

Cloth     978-0-472-11682-9     $35.00T     Available

 
 

98. 

Transcribing Class and Gender (2009)
Masculinity and Femininity in Nineteenth-Century Courts and Offices
Carole Srole

Cloth     978-0-472-07055-8     $75.00S     Forthcoming

 
 

99. 

TV Land--Detroit (2006)
Gordon Castelnero

Paper     978-0-472-03124-5     $22.95T     Available

 
 

100. 

The U.S. Army Stability Operations Field Manual (2009)
U.S. Army Field Manual No. 3-07
The United States Army

Paper     978-0-472-03390-4     $15.00T     Available

 
 

101. 

Utopia in Performance (2005)
Finding Hope at the Theater
Jill Dolan

Cloth     978-0-472-09907-8     $75.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-06907-1     $25.95S     Available

 
 

102. 

Vanishing Moments (2006)
Class and American Literature
Eric Schocket

Cloth     978-0-472-11569-3     $85.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-03187-0     $35.00S     Available

 
 

103. 

Workin' on the Chain Gang (2006)
Shaking Off the Dead Hand of History
Walter Mosley

Paper     978-0-472-03198-6     $14.95S     Available

 
 
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