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Authentic Indians
Episodes of Encounter from the Late-Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2005
In this innovative history, Paige Raibmon examines the political ramifications of ideas about “real Indians.” Focusing on the Northwest Coast in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, she describes how government officials, missionaries, anthropologists, reformers, settlers, and tourists...
Architecture at the End of the Earth
Photographing the Russian North
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
Carpeted in boreal forests, dotted with lakes, cut by rivers, and straddling the Arctic Circle, the region surrounding the White Sea, which is known as the Russian North, is sparsely populated and immensely isolated. It is also the home to architectural marvels, as many of the original wooden and...
Me and My House
James Baldwin's Last Decade in France
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
The last sixteen years of James Baldwin's life (1971–87) unfolded in a village in the South of France, in a sprawling house nicknamed “Chez Baldwin.” In Me and My House Magdalena J. Zaborowska employs Baldwin’s home space as a lens through which to expand his biography and explore the politics...
South of Pico
African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Named a Best Art Book of 2017 by the New York Times and Artforum
In South of Pico Kellie Jones explores how the artists in Los Angeles's black communities during the 1960s and 1970s created a vibrant, productive, and engaged activist arts scene in the face of structural racism. Emphasizing...
Avant-Garde Fascism
The Mobilization of Myth, Art, and Culture in France, 1909–1939
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2007
Investigating the central role that theories of the visual arts and creativity played in the development of fascism in France, Mark Antliff examines the aesthetic dimension of fascist myth-making within the history of the avant-garde. Between 1909 and 1939, a surprising array of modernists were implicated...
by Charles W. Chesnutt
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 1993
Born on the eve of the Civil War, Charles W. Chesnutt grew up in Fayetteville, North Carolina, a county seat of four or five thousand people, a once-bustling commercial center slipping into postwar decline. Poor, black, and determined to outstrip his modest beginnings and forlorn surroundings, Chesnutt...
Tours of Vietnam
War, Travel Guides, and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
In Tours of Vietnam, Scott Laderman demonstrates how tourist literature has shaped Americans’ understanding of Vietnam and projections of United States power since the mid-twentieth century. Laderman analyzes portrayals of Vietnam’s land, history, culture, economy, and people in travel narratives,...
Bringing the Empire Back Home
France in the Global Age
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2004
Thirty years ago, an international antiglobalization movement was born in the grazing lands of France’s Larzac plateau. In the 1970s, Larzac farmers were joined by others from around the world in their efforts to prevent the expansion of a local military base: by ecologists, religious pacifists,...
A Nation of Realtors®
A Cultural History of the Twentieth-Century American Middle Class
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2005
How is it that in the twentieth century virtually all Americans came to think of themselves as “middle class”? In this cultural history of real estate brokerage, Jeffrey M. Hornstein argues that the rise of the Realtors as dealers in both domestic space and the ideology of home ownership provides...
The Life and Political Economy of Lauchlin Currie
New Dealer, Presidential Advisor, and Development Economist
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 1990
Lauchlin Currie’s contribution to monetary theory and policies during the New Deal and in the postwar period when he became one of the most important economic advisors to several presidents of Colombia is the subject of this biography. Currie was a major economic advisor to president Franklin D....
Circular Breathing
The Cultural Politics of Jazz in Britain
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2005
In Circular Breathing, George McKay, a leading chronicler of British countercultures, uncovers the often surprising ways that jazz has accompanied social change during a period of rapid transformation in Great Britain. Examining jazz from the founding of George Webb’s Dixielanders in 1943 through...
Prophets of the Hood
Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2004
At once the most lucrative, popular, and culturally oppositional musical force in the United States, hip hop demands the kind of interpretation Imani Perry provides here: criticism engaged with this vibrant musical form on its own terms. A scholar and a fan, Perry considers the art, politics, and...
Singing for the Dead
The Politics of Indigenous Revival in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Singing for the Dead chronicles ethnic revival in Oaxaca, Mexico, where new forms of singing and writing in the local Mazatec indigenous language are producing powerful, transformative political effects. Paja Faudree argues for the inclusion of singing as a necessary component in the polarized debates...
River of Tears
Country Music, Memory, and Modernity in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2009
River of Tears is the first ethnography of Brazilian country music, one of the most popular genres in Brazil yet least-known outside it. Beginning in the mid-1980s, commercial musical duos practicing música sertaneja reached beyond their home in Brazil’s central-southern region to become national...