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by Christopher Douglas
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

As an anthropology student studying with Franz Boas, Zora Neale Hurston recorded African American folklore in rural central Florida, studied hoodoo in New Orleans and voodoo in Haiti, talked with the last ex-slave to survive the Middle Passage, and collected music from Jamaica. Her ethnographic work...
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Louise Erdrich

Tracks, The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse, The Plague of Doves

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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011

Leading scholars critically explore three leading novels by Louise Erdrich, one of the most important and popular Native American writers working today. Louise Erdrich has shaped the possibilities for Native American, women's and popular fiction in the United States during the late twentieth century....
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Native American History

A Chronology of a Culture's Vast Achievements and Their Links to World Events

by Judith Nies
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012

A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY: A CHRONOLOGICAL ACCOUNT OF ITS PLACE ON THE WORLD STAGE. Native American History is a breakthrough reference guide, the first book of its kind to recognize and explore the rich, unfolding experiences of the indigenous American peoples as they evolved against...
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Fugitive Science

Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture

by Britt Rusert
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017

Honorable Mention, 2019 MLA Prize for a First Book Sole Finalist Mention for the 2018 Lora Romero First Book Prize, presented by the American Studies Association Exposes the influential work of a group of black artists to confront and refute scientific racism. Traversing the archives...
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Immigrant Acts

On Asian American Cultural Politics

by Lisa Lowe
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 1996

In Immigrant Acts, Lisa Lowe argues that understanding Asian immigration to the United States is fundamental to understanding the racialized economic and political foundations of the nation. Lowe discusses the contradictions whereby Asians have been included in the workplaces and markets of the U.S....
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Hoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos

Conceptions of the African American West

by Michael K. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014

Hoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos undertakes an interdisciplinary exploration of the African American West through close readings of texts from a variety of media. This approach allows for both an in-depth analysis of individual texts and a discussion of material often left out or underrepresented...
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Imagining Sovereignty

Self-Determination in American Indian Law and Literature

by David J. Carlson
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016

“Sovereignty” is perhaps the most ubiquitous term in American Indian writing today—but its meaning and function are anything but universally understood. This is as it should be, David J. Carlson suggests, for a concept frequently at the center of various—and often competing—claims to authority....
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by Andrew Hebard
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012

During the Progressive Era, the United States regularly suspended its own laws to regulate racialized populations. Judges and administrators relied on the rhetoric of sovereignty to justify such legal practices, while in American popular culture, sovereignty helped authors coin tropes that have become...
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by David Lehman, Major Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2019

The 2019 edition of The Best American Poetry—“one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world” (Academy of American Poets)—now guest edited by Major Jackson, award-winning poet and poetry editor of the Harvard Review. Since 1988, The Best American Poetry has been the leading anthology...
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Hoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos

Conceptions of the African American West

by Michael K. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014

Hoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos undertakes an interdisciplinary exploration of the African American West through close readings of texts from a variety of media. This approach allows for both an in-depth analysis of individual texts and a discussion of material often left out or underrepresented...
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Morocco Bound

Disorienting America’s Maghreb, from Casablanca to the Marrakech Express

by Donald E. Pease, Brian Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2005

Until attention shifted to the Middle East in the early 1970s, Americans turned most often toward the Maghreb—Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and the Sahara—for their understanding of “the Arab.” In Morocco Bound, Brian T. Edwards examines American representations of the Maghreb during three pivotal...
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Is Marriage for White People?

How the African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone

by Ralph Richard Banks
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011

A distinguished Stanford law professor examines the steep decline in marriage rates among the African American middle class, and offers a paradoxical-nearly incendiary-solution. Black women are three times as likely as white women to never marry. That sobering statistic reflects a broader reality:...
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Groping toward Democracy

African American Social Welfare Reform in St. Louis, 1910-1949

by Priscilla A. Dowden-White
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011

Decades before the 1960s, social reformers began planting the seeds for the Modern Civil Rights era. During the period spanning World Wars I and II, St. Louis, Missouri, was home to a dynamic group of African American social welfare reformers. The city’s history and culture were shaped both by those...
Cover of Mountain Man: John Colter, the Lewis & Clark Expedition, and the Call of the American West (American Grit)
by David Weston Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017

The extraordinary life of Lewis & Clark’s right-hand man In 1804, John Colter set out with Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on the first U.S. expedition to traverse the North American continent. During the twenty-eight month ordeal, Colter served as a hunter and scout, and honed his...
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