American Studies – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 6

Orisanmi Burton

Tip of the Spear

"Orisanmi Burton takes narrative and analysis to another level. His scholarship comprehends resistance with a nuance that I have not seen delivered by most academics."--Joy James, author of In Pursuit of …

Robert S McPherson

Power, Prayers, and Protection

The San Juan River Navajos--residing in the vicinity of Aneth, Montezuma Creek, Bluff, and Tódahidíkáanii--have a fascinating history shaped, in part, by the water they lived near and the land they dep…

J T RoAne

Dark Agoras

A history of Black urban placemaking and politics in Philadelphia from the Great Migration to the era of Black Power In this book, author J.T. Roane shows how working-class Black communities cultivated t…

Héctor Tobar

Our Migrant Souls

A new book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer about the twenty-first-century Latino experience and identity. In Our Migrant Souls, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Héctor Tobar delivers a definitive a…

John M Glionna

No Friday Night Lights

John M. Glionna tells the story of eight-man football at McDermitt High School on the Fort McDermitt Indian Reservation located on the Nevada-Oregon border.

Molinaro

Origins of Crow Agencies in Montana

" We do not know how to commence farming, but we are all willing to try ."--Crow leader Iron Bull On May 7, 1868, the Treaty of Fort Laramie forever altered the Crow way of life, defining reservation boun…

Holly Miowak Guise

Alaska Native Resilience

"Iänupiaq scholar Holly Guise explores the relationship between Alaska Natives and the US military during World War II, especially the ways in which Alaska Natives engaged with colonial projects to serve …

Carla Thomas

Sweet Sweetheart: The American Studios Sessions

Marc Dollinger

Black Power, Jewish Politics

"Black Power, Jewish Politics expands with this revised edition that includes the controversial new preface, an additional chapter connecting the book's themes to the national reckoning on race, and a for…

Pacharee Sudhinaraset

Worlds at the End

"This book mobilizes a women of color feminist reading practice to examine the role of Los Angeles's infrastructure in literary works by Indigenous, Black, Asian American, and Latinx writers for whom the …

Tomás Ybarra-Frausto

Amalia Mesa-Bains

"Explores the life and career of Amalia Mesa-Bains, the internationally recognized Chicana artist, cultural theorist, curator, arts educator, and community organizer. The author relates the artist's life …

Tomás Ybarra-Frausto

Amalia Mesa-Bains

"Explores the life and career of Amalia Mesa-Bains, the internationally recognized Chicana artist, cultural theorist, curator, arts educator, and community organizer. The author relates the artist's life …

Tomás Q Morín

Where Are You from

In this touching and personal collection of letters to his young son, Tomás Q. Morín meditates on love, the body, and the future his son will have to face.

Pacharee Sudhinaraset

Worlds at the End

"This book mobilizes a women of color feminist reading practice to examine the role of Los Angeles's infrastructure in literary works by Indigenous, Black, Asian American, and Latinx writers for whom the …

Eddie Otchere

Spirit Behind the Lens

The collected photographic works of Eddie Otchere, Britain's foremost chronicler of Black youth culture. Spirit Behind the Lens takes the reader into the visual world of one of hip-hop’s most enigmatic p…

Juliana Pache

Black Crossword

Groundbreaking new book based on the popular site blackcrossword.com featuring over 100 original puzzles inspired by the Diaspora and covering history, popular culture, trailblazers, literature, and polit…

Imani Perry

Black in Blues

A surprising and beautiful meditation on the color blue--and its fascinating role in Black history and culture--from National Book Award winner Imani Perry Throughout history, the concept of Blackness ha…

Tony Platt

The Scandal of Cal

Now in paperback: "A profound alternative institutional history, one that sees the long arm of institutional racism implicated everywhere." (Publishers Weekly) "This is a land acknowledgment." --Ruth Wils…

Joshua Javier Guzmán

Dissatisfactions

"Dissatisfactions examines Chicano/Latino stylized dissatisfactions with both the US nation-state and the activism responding to systemic state violence within a very contentious post-1968 Los Angeles"--