American Studies – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 7

Imani Perry

Black in Blues

A surprising and beautiful meditation on the color blue--and its fascinating role in Black history and culture--from National Book Award winner Imani Perry Throughout history, the concept of Blackness ha…

Sakina M Hughes

Music, Muscle, and Masterful Arts

Before the heyday of the Chitlin Circuit and the Harlem Renaissance, African American performing artists and creative entrepreneurs--sometimes called Black Bohemians--seized their limited freedoms and gai…

Tony Platt

The Scandal of Cal

Now in paperback: "A profound alternative institutional history, one that sees the long arm of institutional racism implicated everywhere." (Publishers Weekly) "This is a land acknowledgment." --Ruth Wils…

Carla Thomas

Sweet Sweetheart: The American Studios Sessions

Tim Madigan

The Burning

Includes an All-New Afterword. An unflinching account of America's most horrific racial massacre, The Burning is essential reading as America finally comes to terms with its racial past. When first publ…

Brandon Shimoda

The Afterlife Is Letting Go

"A memoiristic travelogue that illuminates the enduring legacy of the mass incarceration of Japanese immigrants and Japanese Americans during World War II"--

Joshua Javier Guzmán

Dissatisfactions

"Dissatisfactions examines Chicano/Latino stylized dissatisfactions with both the US nation-state and the activism responding to systemic state violence within a very contentious post-1968 Los Angeles"--

Paola Ramos

Defectors

"An award-winning journalist's deeply reported exploration of how race, identity, and political trauma have influenced the rise in far-right sentiment among Latinos, and how this group can shape American …

Darcie A Macmahon, William H Marquardt

The Calusa and Their Legacy

Rich with photographs and colorful drawings, this history of south Florida's Calusa people presents a vivid picture of the natural environment and teeming estuaries along Florida's coasts that sustained t…

Lisa B Y Calvente

Moving Blackness

Moving Blackness explores the centrality of circulation within the framework of western modernity and the racially structured regulations of mobility. Storytelling emerges as the primary mode through whic…

Lisa B Y Calvente

Moving Blackness

Moving Blackness explores the centrality of circulation within the framework of western modernity and the racially structured regulations of mobility. Storytelling emerges as the primary mode through whic…

Pamela Chen, Samantha Blossom

The Mandarin Tree

"Attract good fortune and joy to every aspect of your life by using ancient, Far Eastern magic in a modernized way, no matter your background or experience level"--

Sonia C Gomez

Picture Bride, War Bride

"Picture Bride, War Bride: The Role of Marriage in Shaping Japanese America examines how the institution of marriage created pockets of legal and social inclusion for Japanese women in the United States d…

Prithi Kanakamedala

Brooklynites

"Brooklyn has a distinct story in the history of social justice. Explore the rich history of New York City's second largest borough, and the thriving nineteenth-century free Black community that once call…

Phil Tajitsu Nash

Our Place in History

A long overdue counternarrative to the story of Asian Americans as passive participants in the American story Interest in Asian American issues and the place of Asian Americans in U.S. history has surged…

Daryl Joji Maeda

Like Water

Highlights Bruce Lee's influence beyond martial arts and film An Asian and Asian American icon of unimaginable stature and influence, Bruce Lee revolutionized the martial arts by combining influences dra…

Joseph N Cooper

Black Sporting Resistance

In this text, the Black Sporting Resistance Framework (BSRF) is introduced to examine how resistance actions in and through sport have contributed to the advancement of local and global racial justice eff…

Joseph N Cooper

Black Sporting Resistance

In this text, the Black Sporting Resistance Framework (BSRF) is introduced to examine how resistance actions in and through sport have contributed to the advancement of local and global racial justice eff…

Max Felker-Kantor

Dare to Say No

"With a signature 'DARE to keep kids off drugs' slogan and iconic t-shirts, DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) was the most popular drug education program of the 1980s and 1990s. But behind the cultur…