American category: 24906 books
Staging Faith
Religion and African American Theater from the Harlem Renaissance to World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
In the years between the Harlem Renaissance and World War II, African American playwrights gave birth to a vital black theater movement in the U.S. It was a movement overwhelmingly concerned with the role of religion in black identity. In a time of profound social transformation fueled by a massive...
Out of Sight
The Rise of African American Popular Music, 1889–1895
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2009
A landmark study, based on thousands of music-related references mined by the authors from a variety of contemporaneous sources, especially African American community newspapers, Out of Sight examines musical personalities, issues, and events in context. It confronts the inescapable marketplace concessions...
The Jim Dilemma
Reading Race in Huckleberry Finn
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1998
Especially in academia, controversy rages over the merits or evils of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, in particular its portrayal of Jim, the runaway slave. Opponents disrupt classes and carry picket signs, objecting with strong emotion that Jim is no fit model for African-American youth...
Confluence Narratives
Ethnicity, History, and Nation-Making in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Confluence Narratives: Ethnicity, History and Nation-Making in the Americas explores how a collection of contemporary novels calls attention to the impact of ethnicity on national identities in the Americas. These historical narratives portray the cultural encounters—the conflicts and alliances,...
by Martín Espada
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2004
"An astonishing collection of political poetry at its finest."—The Progressive, Favorite Books of 2004
Alabanza is a twenty-year collection charting the emergence of Martín Espada as the preeminent Latino lyric voice of his generation. "Alabanza" means "praise"...
by Carrie Tirado Bramen
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
The cliché of the Ugly American—loud, vulgar, materialistic, chauvinistic—still expresses what people around the world dislike about their Yankee counterparts. Carrie Tirado Bramen recovers the history of a different national archetype—the nice American—which has been central to ideas of American identity since the nineteenth century.
After Redemption
Jim Crow and the Transformation of African American Religion in the Delta, 1875-1915
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2007
After Redemption fills in a missing chapter in the history of African American life after freedom. It takes on the widely overlooked period between the end of Reconstruction and World War I to examine the sacred world of ex-slaves and their descendants living in the region more densely settled than...
The Empire Abroad and the Empire at Home
African American Literature and the Era of Overseas Expansion
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In The Empire Abroad and the Empire at Home, John Cullen Gruesser establishes that African American writers at the turn of the twentieth century responded extensively and idiosyncratically to overseas expansion and its implications for domestic race relations. He contends that the work of these writers...
Identity Politics of Difference
The Mixed-Race American Indian Experience
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
In Identity Politics of Difference, author Michelle R. Montgomery uses a multidisciplinary approach to examine questions of identity construction and multiracialism through the experiences of mixed-race Native American students at a tribal school in New Mexico. She explores the multiple ways in which...
by Cody Marrs
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
American literature in the nineteenth century is often divided into two asymmetrical halves, neatly separated by the Civil War. In Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Long Civil War, Cody Marrs argues that the war is a far more elastic boundary for literary history than has frequently been...
The Black Experience in America
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
In the fall of 1968, the University of Texas at Austin sponsored a series of public lectures delivered by outstanding students of the black past in an effort to clarify the role of the African American in America's history. This volume of essays by eight of the ten participants makes the lectures available...
'If You Knew the Conditions'
A Chronicle of the Indian Medical Service and American Indian Health Care, 1908-1955
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2010
After their sequestering on reservations across the West, American Indians suffered from appalling rates of disease and morbidity. While the United States Indian Service (Bureau of Indian Affairs) provided some services prior to 1908, it was not until then that the Indian Medical Service was established...
Choosing the Jesus Way
American Indian Pentecostals and the Fight for the Indigenous Principle
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Choosing the Jesus Way uncovers the history and religious experiences of the first American Indian converts to Pentecostalism. Focusing on the Assemblies of God denomination, the story begins in 1918, when white missionaries fanned out from the South and Midwest to convert Native Americans in the...
Unscripted America
Indigenous Languages and the Origins of a Literary Nation
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
In 1664, French Jesuit Louis Nicolas arrived in Quebec. Upon first hearing Ojibwe, Nicolas observed that he had encountered the most barbaric language in the world--but after listening to and studying approximately fifteen Algonquian languages over a ten-year period, he wrote that he had "discovered...