Class : Culture (Series)

Class : Culture is designed to lend energy and direction to the growing body of work addressing the impact of class on the framing and formation of U.S. and global culture. It takes its impetus from the urgent attention, within the American academy and outside it, to ever-increasing disparities of wealth and their cultural effects in what has been called the new Gilded Age.
Class : Culture seeks books that offer new paradigms for considering what class is and how class "works" in U.S. culture. The series foregrounds work that advances our understanding of class differences, the lived experience of class, and especially, the inscription of these in the arts and letters, their ramifications in visual and social history, and their structuring of political economy across time and region.

Series Editors
Amy Schrager Lang, Professor Emerita, Syracuse University
Bill V. Mullen, Professor Emeritus, Purdue University

Series Editorial Board
Nicholas Bromell
Nan Enstad
Amy Gluckman
Leslie Harris
Cora Kaplan
Louis Mendoza
Jonathan Prude
Steven Ross
Cecelia Tichi
Alan Wald
Lisa Yun
Janet Zandy

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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

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

Strike for the Common Good

Fighting for the Future of Public Education

Edited by Rebecca Kolins Givan & Amy Schrager Lang
Subjects: American Studies, Education
Series: Class : Culture

Teachers, students, parents, and scholars collectively tell the story of the current wave of teachers’ strikes in the U.S.

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

Dialectical Imaginaries

Materialist Approaches to U.S. Latino/a Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism

Edited by Marcial Gonzalez & Carlos Gallego
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory, Latinx Studies, American Studies, American Literature
Series: Class : Culture

Gathers materialist readings that provide productive new insights on Latino/a literature in the neoliberal era

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

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

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 Wire

Race, Class, and Genre

Edited by Liam Kennedy & Stephen Shapiro
Subjects: American Studies, African American Studies, Class Studies, Media Studies, T.V. & Radio, Urban Studies
Series: Class : Culture

Wide-ranging perspectives on "the best dramatic series ever created"

American Socialist Triptych

The Literary-Political Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Upton Sinclair, and W. E. B. Du Bois

By Mark Van Wienen
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, American Studies, African American Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Class Studies
Series: Class : Culture

A closer look at three American writers sheds new light on the evolution of socialist thought in the U.S.

Hog Butchers, Beggars, and Busboys

Poverty, Labor, and the Making of Modern American Poetry

By John Marsh
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Modern Literature, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Class Studies
Series: Class : Culture

A new reading of 20th-century poets and their subject matter sheds new light on the development of American literary modernism

Michael Moore

Filmmaker, Newsmaker, Cultural Icon

Edited by Matthew Bernstein
Subjects: Media Studies, Cinema Studies, American Studies, Cultural Studies, Class Studies
Series: Class : Culture

Indispensable perspectives on America's top documentary filmmaker and political commentator

Grassroots at the Gateway

Class Politics and Black Freedom Struggle in St. Louis, 1936-75

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

Offers a new conceptualization of black workingclass participation in the civil rights movement

Commerce in Color

Race, Consumer Culture, and American Literature, 1893-1933

By James C. Davis
Subjects: American Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, African American Studies, Class Studies
Series: Class : Culture

Examines the critical role that race played in the birth of U.S. consumer culture 

Vanishing Moments

Class and American Literature

By Eric Schocket
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, American Studies, Class Studies
Series: Class : Culture

Explores how the effects of class permeated American culture in nearly a century of literary writing

Transcribing Class and Gender

Masculinity and Femininity in Nineteenth-Century Courts and Offices

By Carole Srole
Subjects: History, American History, Class Studies, Gender Studies, American Studies
Series: Class : Culture

Examines the historical roots of clerical work and the role that class and gender played in determining professional status

An Angle of Vision

Women Writers on Their Poor and Working-Class Roots

Edited by Lorraine Lopez
Subjects: Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Class Studies, American Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Memoir, Latinx Studies
Series: Class : Culture

Uncommon perspectives by prominent women writers on class, money, family, and home

Natural Acts

Gender, Race, and Rusticity in Country Music

By Pamela Fox
Subjects: American Studies, Music, Ethnomusicology, Class Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature
Series: Class : Culture

Hillbilly, honky-tonk, Nashville glitz, or alt.country: what makes music authentically country?

Moisture of the Earth

Mary Robinson, Civil Rights and Textile Union Activist

Edited by Fran Leeper Buss
Subjects: Gender Studies, Women's Studies, American Studies, Class Studies, History, Labor History, African American Studies
Series: Class : Culture

A voice from the margins that refuses to be silenced

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