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151. Cover image for 'Devils and Rebels'
The Making of Hawthorne's Damned Politics
Larry J. Reynolds
Was Nathaniel Hawthorne a racist? A compelling second look at a canonical American author
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The Making of Hawthorne's Damned Politics
Larry J. Reynolds
Was Nathaniel Hawthorne a racist? A compelling second look at a canonical American author
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152. 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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152. 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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153. Cover image for 'Highbrow/Lowdown'
Theater, Jazz, and the Making of the New Middle Class
David Savran

The culture clash that permanently changed American theater

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Stillness, Critical Memory, and the Black Body
Harvey Young
How the history of the diasporic black body in American art, athleticism, and performance resonates in daily life
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154. Cover image for 'Embodying Black Experience'
Stillness, Critical Memory, and the Black Body
Harvey Young
How the history of the diasporic black body in American art, athleticism, and performance resonates in daily life
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154. Cover image for 'Embodying Black Experience'
Stillness, Critical Memory, and the Black Body
Harvey Young
How the history of the diasporic black body in American art, athleticism, and performance resonates in daily life
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155. Cover image for 'Risk Culture'
Performance and Danger in Early America
Joseph Fichtelberg
Close textual analysis explores the culture of risk in our country's early days
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155. Cover image for 'Risk Culture'
Performance and Danger in Early America
Joseph Fichtelberg
Close textual analysis explores the culture of risk in our country's early days
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Performance and Danger in Early America
Joseph Fichtelberg

Close textual analysis explores the culture of risk in our country's early days

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156. Cover image for 'Envisioning Asia'
On Location, Travel, and the Cinematic Geography of U.S. Orientalism
Jeanette Roan
Film provides a window into American culture and its attitudes toward Asia of the first half of the 20th century
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156. Cover image for 'Envisioning Asia'
On Location, Travel, and the Cinematic Geography of U.S. Orientalism
Jeanette Roan
Film provides a window into American culture and its attitudes toward Asia of the first half of the 20th century
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156. Cover image for 'Envisioning Asia'
On Location, Travel, and the Cinematic Geography of U.S. Orientalism
Jeanette Roan
Film provides a window into American culture and its attitudes toward Asia of the first half of the 20th century
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157. Cover image for 'I Want to Be Ready'
Improvised Dance as a Practice of Freedom
Danielle Goldman

A conceptual framework for understanding the development of improvised dance in late 20th-century America

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157. Cover image for 'I Want to Be Ready'
Improvised Dance as a Practice of Freedom
Danielle Goldman

A conceptual framework for understanding the development of improvised dance in late 20th-century America

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157. Cover image for 'I Want to be Ready'
Improvised Dance as a Practice of Freedom
Danielle Goldman

A conceptual framework for understanding the development of improvised dance in late 20th-century America

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A Biography of an Icelandic Dwarf in America
Inga Dóra Björnsdóttir
The story of an Icelandic dwarf who made a living in 19th-century America posing as an Eskimo
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159. Cover image for 'Striving to Save'
Creating Policies for Financial Security of Low-Income Families
Margaret Sherrard Sherraden and Amanda Moore McBride

The struggles of low-income families trying to build savings accounts

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Creating Policies for Financial Security of Low-Income Families
Margaret Sherrard Sherraden and Amanda Moore McBride
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160. Cover image for 'Culture Wars and Enduring American Dilemmas'
Irene Taviss Thomson
Research showing America's politics may be more based on personal choice than party or cultural divisions
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160. Cover image for 'Culture Wars and Enduring American Dilemmas'
Irene Taviss Thomson
Research showing America's politics may be more based on personal choice than party or cultural divisions
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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

How has the arrival of new racial and ethnic groups affected the political gains of long-standing minorities in the United States?

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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
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162. Cover image for 'Mammy'
A Century of Race, Gender, and Southern Memory
Kimberly Wallace-Sanders
A revealing exploration of the origins and meanings of the mammy figure
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163. Cover image for 'The Theater Will Rock'
A History of the Rock Musical, from Hair to Hedwig
Elizabeth L. Wollman

Chronicles the rock musical's artistic and financial blockbusters—and bombs—from 1960 to the present

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163. Cover image for 'The Theater Will Rock'
A History of the Rock Musical, from Hair to Hedwig
Elizabeth L. Wollman

Chronicles the rock musical's artistic and financial blockbusters---and bombs---from 1960 to the present

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164. Cover image for 'Cross Purposes'
Pierce v. Society of Sisters and the Struggle over Compulsory Public Education
Paula Abrams

Do parents have the right to determine how their children should be educated?

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Pierce v. Society of Sisters and the Struggle over Compulsory Public Education
Paula Abrams
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165. Cover image for 'The President Electric'
Ronald Reagan and the Politics of Performance
Timothy Raphael

How Reagan's immersion in an electronic media culture of performance shaped his political career

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Ronald Reagan and the Politics of Performance

How Reagan's immersion in an electronic media culture of performance shaped his political career

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166. Cover image for 'An Angle of Vision'
Women Writers on Their Poor and Working-Class Roots
Lorraine M. López

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

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Women Writers on Their Poor and Working-Class Roots
Edited by Lorraine M. López

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

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167. Cover image for 'Natural Acts'
Gender, Race, and Rusticity in Country Music
Pamela Fox

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

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Gender, Race, and Rusticity in Country Music
Pamela Fox

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

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168. Cover image for 'Civic Engagement in the Wake of Katrina'
Amy Koritz and George J. Sanchez, editors
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168. Cover image for 'Civic Engagement in the Wake of Katrina'
Amy Koritz and George J. Sanchez, editors
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168. Cover image for 'Civic Engagement in the Wake of Katrina'
Amy Koritz and George J. Sanchez, editors
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Class Politics and Black Freedom Struggle in St. Louis, 1936-75
Clarence Lang

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

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169. Cover image for 'Grassroots at the Gateway'
Class Politics and Black Freedom Struggle in St. Louis, 1936-75
Clarence Lang

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

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170. Cover image for 'Performing Conquest'
Five Centuries of Theater, History, and Identity in Tlaxcala, Mexico
Patricia A. Ybarra

An unprecedented reading of Mexican history through the lens of performance

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171. Cover image for 'The Cultural Politics of Slam Poetry'
Race, Identity, and the Performance of Popular Verse in America
Susan B. A. Somers-Willett

How do slam poets and their audiences reflect the politics of difference?

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171. Cover image for 'The Cultural Politics of Slam Poetry'
Race, Identity, and the Performance of Popular Verse in America
Susan B. A. Somers-Willett

How do slam poets and their audiences reflect the politics of difference?

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171. Cover image for 'The Cultural Politics of Slam Poetry'
Race, Identity, and the Performance of Popular Verse in America
Susan B. A. Somers-Willett

How do slam poets and their audiences reflect the politics of difference?

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172. Cover image for 'Guns, Democracy, and the Insurrectionist Idea'
Joshua Horwitz and Casey Anderson

Does the gun lobby threaten the democratic institutions safeguarding individual liberty in America?

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Joshua Horwitz and Casey Anderson

Does the gun lobby threaten the democratic institutions safeguarding individual liberty in America?

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173. Cover image for 'Moisture of the Earth'
Mary Robinson, Civil Rights and Textile Union Activist
Fran Leeper Buss, Editor

A voice from the margins that refuses to be silenced

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173. Cover image for 'Moisture of the Earth'
Mary Robinson, Civil Rights and Textile Union Activist
Fran Leeper Buss, Editor

A voice from the margins that refuses to be silenced

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174. Cover image for 'Great Lakes Indian Accommodation and Resistance during the Early Reservation Years, 1850-1900'
Edmund Jefferson Danziger, Jr.

The story of how Great Lakes Indians survived the early reservation years

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Duke Ellington, James P. Johnson, and the Birth of Concert Jazz
John Howland

Explores a little-discussed yet truly hybrid American musical tradition lost between the canons of authentic jazz and classical music

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