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| 141. |  | Title: Immigration and the political economy of home: West Indian Brooklyn and American Indian Minneapolis, 1945-1992  Author: Buff, Rachel 1961- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Ethnic Studies | American Studies | Native American Studies | Native American Ethnicity | United States History Publisher's Description: Rachel Buff's innovative study of festivals in two American communities launches a substantive inquiry into the nature of citizenship, race, and social power. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork as well as archival research, Buff compares American Indian powwows in Minneapolis with the West Indian Ame . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 142. |  | Title: Building a better race: gender, sexuality, and eugenics from the turn of the century to the baby boom Author: Kline, Wendy 1968- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | United States History | Gender Studies | American Studies | History and Philosophy of Science Publisher's Description: Wendy Kline's lucid cultural history of eugenics in America emphasizes the movement's central, continuing interaction with popular notions of gender and morality. Kline shows how eugenics could seem a viable solution to problems of moral disorder and sexuality, especially female sexuality, during th . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 143. |  | Title: Buddha is hiding: refugees, citizenship, the new America Author: Ong, Aihwa Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology | American Studies | Asian American Studies | Gender Studies | Urban Studies | Sociology | Immigration Publisher's Description: Fleeing the murderous Pol Pot regime, Cambodian refugees arrive in America as at once the victims and the heroes of America's misadventures in Southeast Asia; and their encounters with American citizenship are contradictory as well. Service providers, bureaucrats, and employers exhort them to be sel . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 144. |  | Title: Gimme some truth: the John Lennon FBI files Author: Wiener, Jon Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: American Studies | Politics | Sociology | Social Problems | Music | Social Theory | Cultural Anthropology | Law Publisher's Description: When FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover reported to the Nixon White House in 1972 about the Bureau's surveillance of John Lennon, he began by explaining that Lennon was a "former member of the Beatles singing group." When a copy of this letter arrived in response to Jon Wiener's 1981 Freedom of Informatio . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 145. |  | Title: Empire and revolution: the Americans in Mexico since the Civil War Author: Hart, John M. (John Mason) 1935- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History | Latin American History | United States History | American Studies | Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: The deep relationship between the United States and Mexico has had repercussions felt around the world. This sweeping and unprecedented chronicle of the economic and social connections between the two nations opens a new window onto history from the Civil War to today and brilliantly illuminates the . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 146. |  | Title: Caught in the middle: Korean merchants in America's multiethnic cities Author: Min, Pyong Gap 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Sociology | Ethnic Studies | Urban Studies | American Studies | California and the West | Social Problems Publisher's Description: In this unflinching exploration of one of the most politically charged topics of our time, Pyong Gap Min investigates the racial dynamics that exist between Korean merchants, the African American community, and white society in general. Focusing on hostility toward Korean merchants in New York and L . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 147. |  | Title: Japanese American celebration and conflict: a history of ethnic identity and festival, 1934-1990 Author: Kurashige, Lon 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History | American Studies | Asian American Studies | Californian and Western History | Immigration Publisher's Description: Do racial minorities in the United States assimilate to American values and institutions, or do they retain ethnic ties and cultures? In exploring the Japanese American experience, Lon Kurashige recasts this tangled debate by examining what assimilation and ethnic retention have meant to a particula . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 148. |  | Title: Thrown among strangers: the making of Mexican culture in Frontier California Author: Monroy, Douglas Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | Californian and Western History | Chicano Studies | American Studies | Native American Ethnicity Similar Items |
| 149. |  | Title: What is this thing called jazz?: African American musicians as artists, critics, and activists Author: Porter, Eric (Eric C.) Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Music | History | United States History | American Studies | African American Studies | American Music | Contemporary Music | Jazz Publisher's Description: Despite the plethora of writing about jazz, little attention has been paid to what musicians themselves wrote and said about their practice. An implicit division of labor has emerged where, for the most part, black artists invent and play music while white writers provide the commentary. Eric Porter . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 150. |  | Title: Roads to Rome: the antebellum Protestant encounter with Catholicism Author: Franchot, Jenny 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | American Literature | American Studies | United States History | Christianity Publisher's Description: The mixture of hostility and fascination with which native-born Protestants viewed the "foreign" practices of the "immigrant" church is the focus of Jenny Franchot's cultural, literary, and religious history of Protestant attitudes toward Roman Catholicism in nineteenth-century America.Franchot anal . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 151. |  | Title: Good with their hands: boxers, bluesmen, and other characters from the Rust Belt Author: Rotella, Carlo 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History | American Studies | Sociology | Literature | Labor Studies | Urban Studies | Ethnic Studies | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: This eloquent, streetwise book is a paean to America's Rust Belt and a compelling exploration of four milieus caught up in a great transformation of city life. With loving attention to detail and a fine sense of historical context, Carlo Rotella explores women's boxing in Erie, Pennsylvania; Buddy G . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 152. |  | Title: Loss: the politics of mourning Author: Eng, David L 1967- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Literature | American Studies | History | Philosophy | Ethnic Studies | Gender Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Immigration Publisher's Description: Taking stock of a century of pervasive loss - of warfare, disease, and political strife - this eloquent book opens a new view on both the past and the future by considering "what is lost" in terms of "what remains." Such a perspective, these essays suggest, engages and reanimates history. Plumbing t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 153. |  | Title: Insider/outsider: American Jews and multiculturalism Author: Biale, David 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Jewish Studies | American Studies | Popular Culture | Judaism | Gender Studies | United States History | Literature Publisher's Description: Twelve distinguished historians, political theorists, and literary critics present new perspectives on multiculturalism in this important collection. Central to the essays (all but one is appearing in print for the first time) is the question of how the Jewish experience can challenge the convention . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 154. |  | Title: The erotic Whitman Author: Pollak, Vivian R Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Literature | American Studies | Gender Studies | American Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: In this provocative analysis of Whitman's exemplary quest for happiness, Vivian Pollak skillfully explores the intimate relationships that contributed to his portrayal of masculinity in crisis. She maintains that in representing himself as a characteristic nineteenth-century American and in proposin . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 155. |  | Title: Touching liberty: abolition, feminism, and the politics of the body Author: Sánchez-Eppler, Karen Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Women's Studies | United States History | American Studies Publisher's Description: In this striking study of the pre-Civil War literary imagination, Karen Sánchez-Eppler charts how bodily difference came to be recognized as a central problem for both political and literary expression. Her readings of sentimental anti-slavery fiction, slave narratives, and the lyric poetry of Walt . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 156. |  | Title: Mind games: American culture and the birth of psychotherapy Author: Caplan, Eric 1962- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | United States History | American Studies | Science | History and Philosophy of Science Publisher's Description: Eric Caplan's fascinating exploration of Victorian culture in the United States shatters the myth of Freud's seminal role in the creation of American psychotherapy. Resurrecting the long-buried "prehistory" of American mental therapeutics, Mind Games tells the remarkable story of how a widely assort . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 157. |  | Title: The activist's handbook: a primer for the 1990s and beyond Author: Shaw, Randy 1956- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Politics | Sociology | California and the West | Urban Studies | American Studies | Public Policy Publisher's Description: The Activist's Handbook is a hard-hitting guide to winning social change in the 1990s. Randy Shaw, attorney and longtime activist for urban issues, shows how positive change can still be accomplished despite an increasingly grim political order, if activists employ the strategies set forth in this d . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 158. |  | Title: The poetics of rock: cutting tracks, making records Author: Zak, Albin Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Music | Popular Music | American Music | Musicology | Contemporary Music | American Studies | Media Studies | Popular Music Publisher's Description: After a hundred years of recording, the process of making records is still mysterious to most people who listen to them. Records hold a fundamental place in the dynamics of modern musical life, but what do they represent? Are they documents? Snapshots? Artworks? Fetishes? Commodities? Conveniences? . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 159. |  | Title: No there there: race, class, and political community in Oakland Author: Rhomberg, Chris 1959- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Sociology | Anthropology | American Studies | Labor Studies | Politics | Ethnic Studies | Urban Studies Publisher's Description: Challenged by Ku Klux Klan action in the '20s, labor protests culminating in a general strike in the '40s, and the rise of the civil rights and black power struggles of the '60s, Oakland, California, seems to encapsulate in one city the broad and varied sweep of urban social movements in twentieth-c . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 160. |  | Title: Selected letters Author: Olson, Charles 1910-1970 Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Literature | Poetry | Autobiographies and Biographies | American Literature | American Studies | Letters Publisher's Description: For Charles Olson, letters were not only a daily means of communication with friends but were at the same time a vehicle for exploratory thought. In fact, many of Olson's finest works, including Projective Verse and the Maximus Poems, were formulated as letters. Olson's letters are important to an u . . . [more] Similar Items |