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| 101. |  | Title: Jewel of the desert: Japanese American internment at Topaz  Author: Taylor, Sandra C Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Californian and Western History | Asian American Studies | American Studies Publisher's Description: In the spring of 1942, under the guise of "military necessity," the U.S. government evacuated 110,000 Japanese Americans from their homes on the West Coast. About 7,000 people from the San Francisco Bay Area - the vast majority of whom were American citizens - were moved to an assembly center at Tan . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 102. |  | Title: Critical crossings: the New York intellectuals in postwar America Author: Jumonville, Neil Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | Autobiographies and Biographies | Sociology | Politics | American Studies Publisher's Description: The period immediately following the Second World War was a time, observed Randall Jarrell, when many American writers looked to the art of criticism as the representative act of the intellectual. Rethinking this interval in our culture, Neil Jumonville focuses on the group of writers and thinkers w . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 103. |  | Title: This land is our land: immigrants and power in Miami Author: Stepick, Alex Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: American Studies | Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | Politics | Sociology | Urban Studies | Immigration Publisher's Description: For those opposed to immigration, Miami is a nightmare. Miami is the de facto capital of Latin America; it is a city where immigrants dominate, Spanish is ubiquitous, and Denny's is an ethnic restaurant. Are Miami's immigrants representative of a trend that is undermining American culture and identi . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 104. |  | Title: Technology as freedom: the New Deal and the electrical modernization of the American home Author: Tobey, Ronald C Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | American Studies | Technology and Society | United States History Publisher's Description: Before 1930, the domestic market for electrical appliances was segmented, but New Deal policies and programs created a true mass market, reshaping the electrical and housing markets and guiding them toward mandated social goals. The New Deal identified electrical refrigeration as a key technology to . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 105. |  | Title: For the hell of it: the life and times of Abbie Hoffman Author: Raskin, Jonah 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: American Studies | United States History | Politics | Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: As cultural revolutionary, media celebrity, Yippie, lost soul, and tragic suicide, Abbie Hoffman embodied the contradictions of his era. In this riveting new biography, Jonah Raskin draws on his own twenty-year relationship with Hoffman; hundreds of interviews with friends, family members, and forme . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 106. |  | Title: Visions of charity: volunteer workers and moral community Author: Allahyari, Rebecca Anne 1963- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Sociology | American Studies | Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | Religion | Ethics | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: In the United States, public talk about charity for the poor is highly moralistic, even in our era of welfare reform. But how do we understand the actual experience of caring for the poor? This study looks at the front lines of volunteer involvement with the poor and homeless to assess what voluntee . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 107. |  | Title: Residues of justice: literature, law, philosophy Author: Dimock, Wai-chee 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | American Studies | Law | Philosophy Publisher's Description: In this arresting book, Wai Chee Dimock takes on the philosophical tradition from Kant to Rawls, challenging its conception of justice as foundational, self-evident, and all-encompassing. The idea of justice is based on the premise that the world can be resolved into commensurate terms: punishment e . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 108. |  | Title: Rara!: vodou, power, and performance in Haiti and its diaspora Author: McAlister, Elizabeth A Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Religion | Cultural Anthropology | African American Studies | American Studies | Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: Rara is a vibrant annual street festival in Haiti, when followers of the Afro-Creole religion called Vodou march loudly into public space to take an active role in politics. Working deftly with highly original ethnographic material, Elizabeth McAlister shows how Rara bands harness the power of Vodou . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 109. |  | Title: Acting naturally: Mark Twain in the culture of performance Author: Knoper, Randall K 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature | American Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Twain | American Studies Publisher's Description: The phenomenon of performance is central to Mark Twain's writing and persona. But Twain's performative aspects have usually been dismissed as theatrical and discounted as lowbrow burlesque. Randall Knoper takes Twain's theatricality seriously and shows how Twain's work both echoes and engages the so . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 110. |  | Title: American literary realism and the failed promise of contract Author: Thomas, Brook Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature | American Literature | American Studies | Law | United States History Publisher's Description: In law, the late nineteenth century is often called the Age of Contract; in literature, the Age of Realism. Brook Thomas's new book brings contract and realism together to offer groundbreaking insights into both while exploring the social and cultural crises that accompanied America's transition fro . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 111. |  | Title: Crossing the border: encounters between homeless people and outreach workers Author: Rowe, Michael 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Sociology | Anthropology | Psychology | American Studies | Urban Studies | Social Problems | Anthropology Publisher's Description: The relationship between the homeless and the social service community marks a border where the disenfranchised meet the mainstream of society. Crossing the Border , the first book-length study of outreach work to the mentally ill homeless, uses ethnographic tools to examine encounters at this borde . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 112. |  | Title: The velvet glove: paternalism and conflict in gender, class, and race relations Author: Jackman, Mary R Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Sociology | Social Problems | American Studies | Ethnic Studies | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: This landmark study analyzes and compares the ideologies that develop among unequal social groups. Mary Jackman employs a unique national survey to investigate all three of the most prominent relations of inequality in the United States: gender, class, and race. Where other scholars have emphasized . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 113. |  | Title: American homo: community and perversity Author: Escoffier, Jeffrey Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Gender Studies | Sociology | American Studies | GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies Publisher's Description: Jeffrey Escoffier traces the emergence of a gay and lesbian political identity over the last four decades in this wide-ranging collection of his most influential essays. Situating the development of gay and lesbian communities in a broad sweep of recent American history, Escoffier examines how an ur . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 114. |  | Title: Dangerous intimacy: the untold story of Mark Twain's final years Author: Lystra, Karen Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Literature | Autobiographies and Biographies | Twain | American Literature | American Studies Publisher's Description: The last phase of Mark Twain's life is sadly familiar: Crippled by losses and tragedies, America's greatest humorist sank into a deep and bitter depression. It is also wrong. This book recovers Twain's final years as they really were - lived in the shadow of deception and prejudice, but also in the . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 115. |  | Title: Khmer American: identity and moral education in a diasporic community Author: Smith-Hefner, Nancy Joan Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Ethnic Studies | Southeast Asia | American Studies | Education | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: In the early 1980s, tens of thousands of Cambodian refugees fled their war-torn country to take up residence in the United States, where they quickly became one of the most troubled and least studied immigrant groups. This book is the story of that passage, and of the efforts of Khmer Americans to r . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 116. |  | Title: The "new woman" revised: painting and gender politics on fourteenth street Author: Todd, Ellen Wiley Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Art | Art History | United States History | Women's Studies | American Studies Publisher's Description: In the years between the world wars, Manhattan's Fourteenth Street-Union Square district became a center for commercial, cultural, and political activities, and hence a sensitive barometer of the dramatic social changes of the period. It was here that four urban realist painters - Kenneth Hayes Mill . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 117. |  | Title: Illness and culture in the postmodern age Author: Morris, David B Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Sociology | Philosophy | Medicine | Technology and Society | Anthropology | American Studies Publisher's Description: We become ill in ways our parents and grandparents did not, with diseases unheard of and treatments undreamed of by them. Illness has changed in the postmodern era - roughly the period since World War II - as dramatically as technology, transportation, and the texture of everyday life. Exploring the . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 118. |  | Title: The morning after: sexual politics at the end of the Cold War Author: Enloe, Cynthia H 1938- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Gender Studies | GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies | American Studies | Sociology | Politics Publisher's Description: Cynthia Enloe's riveting new book looks at the end of the Cold War and places women at the center of international politics. Focusing on the relationship between the politics of sexuality and the politics of militarism, Enloe charts the changing definitions of gender roles, sexuality, and militarism . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 119. |  | Title: The wars we took to Vietnam: cultural conflict and storytelling Author: Bates, Milton J Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: American Studies | United States History | Popular Culture | American Literature Publisher's Description: What Americans refer to as the Vietnam War embraces much more than the conflict with North Vietnam. Milton J. Bates considers the other conflicts that Americans brought to that war: the divisions stemming from differences in race, class, sex, generation, and frontier ideology. In exploring the rich . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 120. |  | Title: Letters and autobiographical writings Author: Mills, C. Wright (Charles Wright) 1916-1962 Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: American Studies | Anthropology | Sociology | Literature | United States History | Letters Publisher's Description: One of the leading public intellectuals of twentieth-century America and a pioneering and brilliant social scientist, C. Wright Mills left a legacy of interdisciplinary and hard-hitting work including two books that changed the way many people viewed their lives and the structure of power in the Uni . . . [more] Similar Items |