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76. Cover image for 'Haunted City'
Three Centuries of Racial Impersonation in Philadelphia
Christian DuComb
Traces the deep roots of Philadelphia’s annual Mummers Parade and the city’s history of blackface masking and other forms of racial impersonation
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2017 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Haunted City"
77. Cover image for 'Charles Ludlam Lives!'
Charles Busch, Bradford Louryk, Taylor Mac, and the Queer Legacy of the Ridiculous Theatrical Company
Sean F. Edgecomb
Explores the enduring queer legacy of playwright, actor, and director Charles Ludlam
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2017 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Charles Ludlam Lives!"
Audio Download 2021 Available View Purchasing Options for Audio Download, "Charles Ludlam Lives!"
77. Cover image for 'Charles Ludlam Lives!'
Charles Busch, Bradford Louryk, Taylor Mac, and the Queer Legacy of the Ridiculous Theatrical Company
Sean F. Edgecomb
Explores the enduring queer legacy of playwright, actor, and director Charles Ludlam

 
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2017 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Charles Ludlam Lives!"
Audio Download 2021 Available View Purchasing Options for Audio Download, "Charles Ludlam Lives!"
78. Cover image for 'I Hear a Symphony'
Motown and Crossover R&B
Andrew Flory
Investigates how the music of Motown Records functioned as the center of the company’s creative and economic impact worldwide
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2017 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "I Hear a Symphony"
79. Cover image for 'Middle Class Union'
Organizing the ‘Consuming Public’ in Post-World War I America
Mark W. Robbins
Examines the birth of the American middle class as white-collar workers used their growing consumer identity to organize politically
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2017 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Middle Class Union"
80. Cover image for 'Showing Off, Showing Up'
Studies of Hype, Heightened Performance, and Cultural Power
Laurie Frederik, Kim Marra, and Catherine Schuler, Editors
Examines acts of showing—from dog shows to striptease—to understand and theorize instances of heightened performance in everyday life as well as on the stage
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2017 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Showing Off, Showing Up"
81. Cover image for 'Hideous Characters and Beautiful Pagans'
Performing Jewish Identity on the Antebellum American Stage
Heather S. Nathans
Shows how the earliest representations of Jewish characters on American stages mirrored treatment of Jewish Americans outside the playhouse
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Ebook 2017 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Hideous Characters and Beautiful Pagans"
82. Cover image for 'Body Parts of Empire'
Visual Abjection, Filipino Images, and the American Archive
Nerissa Balce
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Ebook 2016 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Body Parts of Empire"
83. Cover image for 'The Drama of the American Short Story, 1800-1865'
Michael J. Collins
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Ebook 2016 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Drama of the American Short Story, 1800-1865"
84. Cover image for 'Hazel Scott'
The Pioneering Journey of a Jazz Pianist, from Café Society to Hollywood to HUAC
Karen Chilton
The first biography of an important but overlooked African American pianist, singer, actor, and civil-rights advocate
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Ebook 2017 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Hazel Scott"
85. Cover image for 'The Resonance of Unseen Things'
Poetics, Power, Captivity, and UFOs in the American Uncanny
Susan Lepselter
An interdisciplinary study of how conspiracy theories and stories persist and resonate among different Americans
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Web 2016 Open Access Available Read Online
86. Cover image for 'Dreams for Dead Bodies'
Blackness, Labor, and the Corpus of American Detective Fiction
M. Michelle Robinson
Explores U.S. detective fiction's deep engagement with the shifting dynamics of race and labor in America
 
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Web 2016 Open Access Available Read Online
87. Cover image for 'Memories of the Revolution'
The First Ten Years of the WOW Café Theater
Holly Hughes, Carmelita Tropicana, and Jill Dolan, Editors
Scripts, interviews, photos, and critical commentary documenting the riotous beginnings of this long-lived experimental theater space for women
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2015 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Memories of the Revolution"
88. Cover image for 'Subversions of the American Century'
Filipino Literature in Spanish and the Transpacific Transformation of the United States
Adam Lifshey
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Ebook 2015 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Subversions of the American Century"
89. Cover image for 'Reading for the Planet'
Toward a Geomethodology
Christian Moraru
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2015 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Reading for the Planet"
Audio Download 2021 Available View Purchasing Options for Audio Download, "Reading for the Planet"
89. Cover image for 'Reading for the Planet'
Toward a Geomethodology
Christian Moraru
A critical methodology for dealing with planetarism’s aesthetic and philosophical projections

Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2015 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Reading for the Planet"
Audio Download 2021 Available View Purchasing Options for Audio Download, "Reading for the Planet"
90. Cover image for 'Playing God'
The Bible on the Broadway Stage
Henry Bial
A fascinating look at how the Bible has inspired Broadway plays and musicals, from Ben-Hur to Jesus Christ Superstar
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2015 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Playing God"
91. Cover image for 'Emotional Reinventions'
Realist-Era Representations Beyond Sympathy
Melanie V. Dawson
A historically informed approach to realist-era American fiction, engaging with contemporary affect theory, evolutionary theory, studies of realism, and studies of affect in American literature
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2015 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Emotional Reinventions"
92. Cover image for 'Latin Numbers'
Playing Latino in Twentieth-Century U.S. Popular Performance
Brian Eugenio Herrera
From the conga line to West Side Story to Ricky Martin, how popular performance prompted American audiences to view Latinos as a distinct (and distinctly non-white) ethnic group
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2015 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Latin Numbers"
93. Cover image for 'Black America in the Shadow of the Sixties'
Notes on the Civil Rights Movement, Neoliberalism, and Politics
Clarence Lang
 A spirited argument for moving beyond the legacy of the Civil Rights era to best understand the current situation of African Americans
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2015 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Black America in the Shadow of the Sixties"
Audio Download 2021 Available View Purchasing Options for Audio Download, "Black America in the Shadow of the Sixties"
93. Cover image for 'Black America in the Shadow of the Sixties'
Notes on the Civil Rights Movement, Neoliberalism, and Politics
Clarence Lang
A spirited argument for moving beyond the legacy of the Civil Rights era to best understand the current situation of African Americans
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2015 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Black America in the Shadow of the Sixties"
Audio Download 2021 Available View Purchasing Options for Audio Download, "Black America in the Shadow of the Sixties"
94. Cover image for 'From Property to Family'
American Dog Rescue and the Discourse of Compassion
Andrei S. Markovits and Katherine N. Crosby
A detailed look into the cultural history and cultural impact of dog rescue in the United States
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2014 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "From Property to Family"
95. Cover image for 'American Lobotomy'
A Rhetorical History
Jenell Johnson
Tracing how the meanings of a barbaric surgical procedure emerged, accrued, and transformed within medicine and public culture in the U.S.
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2015 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "American Lobotomy"
Audio Download 2021 Available View Purchasing Options for Audio Download, "American Lobotomy"
95. Cover image for 'American Lobotomy'
A Rhetorical History
Jenell Johnson
Tracing how the meanings of a barbaric surgical procedure emerged, accrued, and transformed within medicine and public culture in the U.S.
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2015 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "American Lobotomy"
Audio Download 2021 Available View Purchasing Options for Audio Download, "American Lobotomy"
96. Cover image for 'My Body Politic'
A Memoir
Simi Linton
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Ebook 2015 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "My Body Politic"
Audio Download Available View Purchasing Options for Audio Download, "My Body Politic"
96. Cover image for 'My Body Politic'
A Memoir
Simi Linton
An irreverent memoir of one woman's personal and political journey from 1960s counterculture to disability activism
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2015 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "My Body Politic"
Audio Download Available View Purchasing Options for Audio Download, "My Body Politic"
97. Cover image for 'Coloring Whiteness'
Acts of Critique in Black Performance
Faedra Chatard Carpenter
Reading representations of whiteness by contemporary African American performers and artists
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2014 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Coloring Whiteness"
98. Cover image for 'The Glass City'
Toledo and The Industry That Built It
Barbara L. Floyd
The story of Toledo glass—past, present, and future
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2014 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Glass City"
99. Cover image for 'The Captive Stage'
Performance and the Proslavery Imagination of the Antebellum North
Douglas A. Jones, Jr.
A revealing exploration of Northern proslavery sentiment during the period before the Civil War
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2014 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Captive Stage"
100. Cover image for 'Dean Worcester's Fantasy Islands'
Photography, Film, and the Colonial Philippines
Mark Rice
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2014 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Dean Worcester's Fantasy Islands"
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Our EPUB and PDFs may be read using free Adobe Digital Editions software. Digital Editions is available for PC, Mac, major mobile platforms, and many e-reader devices. Visit the Adobe Digital Editions Supported Ebook Devices page for a complete list of e-reader devices that are compatible with the software and their FAQ page for other questions about the software.

Available Ebook reading systems vary widely in their support for accessibility features. For EPUB, visit EPUB Test for accessibility support information for specific platforms. Contact us if you have a question about the best reading system for your needs at umpress.accessibility@umich.edu.

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