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Arise!
Global Radicalism in the Era of the Mexican Revolution
Inbunden, 2022
271 kr
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An international history of radical movements and their convergences during the Mexican Revolution The Mexican Revolution was a global event that catalyzed international radicals in unexpected sites and struggles. Tracing the paths of figures like Black American artist Elizabeth Catlett, Indian …
Eugenic Nation
Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America
Häftad, 2015
271 kr
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First edition, Winner of the Arthur J. Viseltear Prize, American Public Health Association With an emphasis on the American West, Eugenic Nation explores the long and unsettled history of eugenics in the United States. This expanded second edition includes shocking details demonstrating that …
Border Matters
Remapping American Cultural Studies
Häftad, 1997
322 kr
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Border Matters locates the study of Chicano culture in a broad social context. Jose Saldivar examines issues of representation and expression in a diverse, exciting assortment of texts--corridos, novels, poems, short stories, punk and hip-hop music, ethnography, paintings, performance, art, and …
White Scourge
Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture
Av Neil Foley
Häftad, 1999
412 kr
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In a book that fundamentally challenges our understanding of race in the United States, Neil Foley unravels the complex history of ethnicity in the cotton culture of central Texas. This engrossing narrative, spanning the period from the Civil War through the collapse of tenant farming in the early …
Aztlan and Viet Nam
Chicano and Chicana Experiences of the War
Häftad, 1999
443 kr
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Showcasing over sixty short stories, poems, speeches, and articles, "Aztlan and Viet Nam" is the first anthology of Mexican American writings about the U.S. war in Southeast Asia. The words are startlingly frank, moving, and immensely powerful, as they call to our attention an important and …
Immigration and the Political Economy of Home
West Indian Brooklyn and American Indian Minneapolis, 1945-1992
Av Rachel Buff
Häftad, 2001
368 kr
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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 …
Contagious Divides
Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown
Av Nayan Shah
Häftad, 2001
412 kr
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Contagious Divides charts the dynamic transformation of representations of Chinese immigrants from medical menace in the nineteenth century to model citizen in the mid-twentieth century. Examining the cultural politics of public health and Chinese immigration in San Francisco, this book looks at …
Indians in the Making
Ethnic Relations and Indian Identities around Puget Sound
Häftad, 2000
456 kr
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In the Puget Sound region of Washington state, indigenous people and their descendants have a long history of interaction with settlers and their descendants. "Indians in the Making" offers the first comprehensive account of these interactions, from contact with traders of the 1820s to the Indian …
Japanese American Celebration and Conflict
A History of Ethnic Identity and Festival, 1934-1990
Häftad, 2002
412 kr
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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 …
American Sensations
Class, Empire, and the Production of Popular Culture
Häftad, 2002
525 kr
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This innovative cultural history investigates an intriguing, thrilling, and often lurid assortment of sensational literature that was extremely popular in the United States in 1848--including dime novels, cheap story paper literature, and journalism for working-class Americans. Shelley Streeby …
Reproducing Empire
Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico
Av Laura Briggs
Häftad, 2003
382 kr
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Original and compelling, Laura Briggs' "Reproducing Empire" shows how, for both Puerto Ricans and North Americans, ideologies of sexuality, reproduction, and gender have shaped relations between the island and the mainland. From science to public policy, the 'culture of poverty' to overpopulation, …
Boyle Heights
How a Los Angeles Neighborhood Became the Future of American Democracy
Inbunden, 2021
271 kr
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The radical history of a dynamic, multiracial American neighborhood.“When I think of the future of the United States, and the history that matters in this country, I often think of Boyle Heights.”—George J. SánchezThe vision for America’s cross-cultural future lies beyond the multicultural myth of …
meXicana Encounters
The Making of Social Identities on the Borderlands
Häftad, 2003
443 kr
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"MeXicana Encounters" charts the dynamic and contradictory representation of Mexicanas and Chicanas in culture. Rosa Linda Fregoso's deft analysis of the cultural practices and symbolic forms that shape social identities takes her across a wide and varied terrain. Among the subjects she considers …
Colored White
Transcending the Racial Past
Häftad, 2003
288 kr
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David R. Roediger's powerful book argues that in its political workings, its distribution of advantages, and its unspoken assumptions, the United States is a 'still white' nation. Race is decidedly not over. The critical portraits of contemporary icons that lead off the book - Rush Limbaugh, Bill …
Cultural Moves
African Americans and the Politics of Representation
Av Herman Gray
Häftad, 2005
443 kr
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Herman Gray takes a sweeping look at black popular culture over the past decade to explore culture's role in the push for black political power and social recognition. In a series of linked essays, he finds that black artists, scholars, musicians, and others have been instrumental in reconfiguring …
Golden Gulag
Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
Häftad, 2007
254 kr
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Since 1980, the number of people in U.S. prisons has increased more than 450%. Despite a crime rate that has been falling steadily for decades, California has led the way in this explosion, with what a state analyst called 'the biggest prison building project in the history of the world'. "Golden …
Audiotopia
Music, Race, and America
Av Josh Kun
Häftad, 2005
306 kr
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Ranging from Los Angeles to Havana to the Bronx to the U.S.-Mexico border and from klezmer to hip hop to Latin rock, this groundbreaking book injects popular music into contemporary debates over American identity. Josh Kun insists that America is not a single chorus of many voices folded into one, …
Epic Encounters
Culture, Media, and U.S. Interests in the Middle East since1945
Häftad, 2005
315 kr
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"Epic Encounters" examines how popular culture has shaped the ways Americans define their 'interests' in the Middle East. In this innovative book - now brought up-to-date to include 9/11 and the Iraq war - Melani McAlister argues that U.S. foreign policy, while grounded in material and military …
Black, Brown, Yellow, and Left
Radical Activism in Los Angeles
Av Laura Pulido
Häftad, 2006
392 kr
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Laura Pulido traces the roots of third world radicalism in Southern California during the 1960s and 1970s in this accessible, wonderfully illustrated comparative study. Focusing on the Black Panther Party, El Centro de Accion Social y Autonomo (CASA), and East Wind, a Japanese American collective, …
Fit to Be Citizens?
Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939
Häftad, 2006
456 kr
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Meticulously researched and beautifully written, "Fit to Be Citizens?" demonstrates how both science and public health shaped the meaning of race in the early twentieth century. Through a careful examination of the experiences of Mexican, Japanese, and Chinese immigrants in Los Angeles, Natalia …
Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight
Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles
Av Eric Avila
Häftad, 2006
382 kr
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Los Angeles pulsed with economic vitality and demographic growth in the decades following World War II. This vividly detailed cultural history of L.A. from 1940 to 1970 traces the rise of a new suburban consciousness adopted by a generation of migrants who abandoned older American cities for …
Proud to Be an Okie
Cultural Politics, Country Music, and Migration to Southern California
Häftad, 2007
315 kr
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"Proud to Be an Okie" brings to life the influential country music scene that flourished in and around Los Angeles from the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s to the early 1970s. The first work to fully illuminate the political and cultural aspects of this intriguing story, the book takes us from …
Emancipation Betrayed
The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence in Florida from Reconstruction to the Bloody Election of 1920
Av Paul Ortiz
Häftad, 2006
382 kr
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In this penetrating examination of African American politics and culture, Paul Ortiz throws a powerful light on the struggle of black Floridians to create the first statewide civil rights movement against Jim Crow. Concentrating on the period between the end of slavery and the election of 1920, …
Playing America's Game
Baseball, Latinos, and the Color Line
Häftad, 2007
271 kr
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Although largely ignored by historians of both baseball in general and the Negro leagues in particular, Latinos have been a significant presence in organized baseball from the beginning. In this benchmark study on Latinos and professional baseball from the 1880s to the present, Adrian Burgos tells …
In Sight of America
Photography and the Development of U.S. Immigration Policy
Häftad, 2009
456 kr
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When restrictive immigration laws were introduced in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, they involved new requirements for photographing and documenting immigrants--regulations for visually inspecting race and health. This work is the first to take a comprehensive look at the …
Between Arab and White
Race and Ethnicity in the Early Syrian American Diaspora
Häftad, 2009
306 kr
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This multifaceted study of Syrian immigration to the United States places Syrians - and Arabs more generally - at the center of discussions about race and racial formation from which they have long been marginalized. "Between Arab and White" focuses on the first wave of Arab immigration and …
Guantanamo
A Working-Class History between Empire and Revolution
Häftad, 2008
315 kr
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Guantanamo has become a symbol of what has gone wrong in the War on Terror. Yet Guantanamo is more than a U.S. naval base and prison in Cuba, it is a town, and our military occupation there has required more than soldiers and sailors - it has required workers. This revealing history of the women …
Mean Streets
Chicago Youths and the Everyday Struggle for Empowerment in the Multiracial City, 1908-1969
Häftad, 2009
382 kr
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"Mean Streets" focuses on the streets, parks, schools, and commercial venues of Chicago from the era of the 1919 race riot to the civil rights battles of the 1960s to cast a new light on street gangs and to place youths at the center of the twentieth-century American experience. Andrew J. Diamond …
Migra!
A History of the U.S. Border Patrol
Inbunden, 2010
818 kr
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This is the untold history of the United States Border Patrol from its beginnings in 1924 as a small peripheral outfit to its emergence as a large professional police force. To tell this story, Kelly Lytle Hernandez dug through a gold mine of lost and unseen records stored in garages, closets, an …
Power of the Zoot
Youth Culture and Resistance during World War II
Av Luis Alvarez
Häftad, 2009
382 kr
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Flamboyant zoot suit culture, with its ties to fashion, jazz and swing music, jitterbug and Lindy Hop dancing, unique patterns of speech, and even risque experimentation with gender and sexuality, captivated the country's youth in the 1940s. "The Power of the Zoot" is the first book to give …
