American Studies - A Monograph Series – alle Bücher, CDs und LPs, Seite 3

Sheree Scarborough
Southwest Virginia Civil Rights Leader Nannie Berger Hairston

Nannie Berger Hairston was born in West Virginia in 1921, half a century after the end of the Civil War. She attended segregated schools, graduated, married and started a family. When Nannie's husband, Jo…

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Joy Schulz
Daily Life in Colonial Hawai'i

Discover the textures of everyday life in colonial Hawai'i-from missionary households and sugar plantations to hula schools and military bases-through the eyes of the people who lived it.Daily Life in Col…

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Justin Randolph
Mississippi Law

"In the segregated American South, policing was war. Ungovernable police discretion came to the backroads and cattle pastures of America's rural countryside as ideas of race, property, and belonging …

lieferbar ab 21.10.2025.

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Irvin Ibargüen
Caught in the Current

"Migration between the United States and Mexico is often compared to the river that runs along the border: a 'flow' of immigrants, a 'flood' of documented and undocumented workers, a 'dam' that has b…

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Lina-Maria Murillo
Fighting for Control

The first birth control clinic in El Paso, Texas, opened in 1937. Since then, Mexican-origin women living in the border cities of El Paso and Ciudad Juarez have confronted various interest groups determin…

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Carlos Bulosan
America Is in the Heart

First published in 1943, this classic memoir by well-known Filipino poet Carlos Bulosan describes his boyhood in the Philippines, his voyage to America, and his years of hardship and despair as an itinera…

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Roberto E Villarreal
Yo Soy

Yo Soyis a memoir of Roberto E. Villarreal's life struggle for social justice and equality and a reclamation of his ancestry, language, and culture, forbidden by the Texas state school policies during his…

lieferbar ab 15.11.2025.

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Hannah Durkin
The Survivors of the Clotilda

NAMED A TOP BOOK OF 2024 BY AMAZON AND WASHINGTON POST"Hannah Durkin lets the enslaved speak for themselves, and they tell a story not only of unimaginable suffering but also of courage and survival.…

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Norma E Cantú
Fiestas in Laredo

This book celebrates the many types of fiestas found in the border community of Laredo, Texas. Told from an insider's perspective and blending memoir, ethnography, and a folkloristic analysis, the author …

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Kylie M Smith
Jim Crow in the Asylum

There is a complicated history of racism and psychiatric healthcare in the Deep South states of Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. The asylums of the Jim Crow era employed African American men and women; …

lieferbar ab 13.1.2026.

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Kelli Y Nakamura
Legacies of Incarceration

Legacies of Incarceration provides a holistic view of the incarceration experience of Hawaiʻi's Japanese by exploring the factors that shaped the circumstances of confinement on each island before, during…

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Robert D Bland
Requiem for Reconstruction

The promise of Reconstruction sparked a transformative era in American history as free and newly emancipated Black Americans sought to redefine their place in a nation still grappling with the legacy of s…

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Kelli Y Nakamura
Legacies of Incarceration

Legacies of Incarceration provides a holistic view of the incarceration experience of Hawaiʻi's Japanese by exploring the factors that shaped the circumstances of confinement on each island before, during…

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Alfredo E Cárdenas
Duval County Tejanos

Showcases Tejanos engaged in community life: they organized politically, cultivated land, and promoted agriculture, livestock raising, the local economy, churches, schools, patriotic celebrations, and soc…

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Augustus Wood
Class Warfare in Black Atlanta

"Between 1966 and 2015, the city of Atlanta was transformed. Black politicians ascended to the top of the power structure for the first time thanks to newly enfranchised Black working-class voters. T…

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Thad Williamson, Julian M Hayter, Amy L Howard
The Making of Twenty-First-Century Richmond

"Richmond, Virginia, took center stage globally in the summer of 2020 as an epicenter of antiracist protests in the wake of the police murder of George Floyd. In a period of just a few weeks, overwhe…

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Benjamin E Frey
Rising Above

Rising Above examines the process of language shift and revitalization among the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina.

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Andrea Maria McComb Sanchez
Of Corn and Catholicism

Andrea McComb Sanchez examines the development of the patron saint feast days among Eastern Pueblo Indians of New Mexico from the seventeenth century to the late nineteenth century.

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Hanna Garth
Food Justice Undone

Breaks open the privilege and promise of food justice to envision a radical liberatory future.Food justice activists have worked to increase access to healthy food in low-income communities of color acros…

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Andrew Lawler
A Perfect Frenzy

"From the nationally bestselling author of The Secret Token, the largely untold story of rebellion in Virginia that will forever change one's understanding of the American Revolution. As the American…

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