American Studies
Multicultural Poetics
Argues that multiculturalism and hybridity are key components of the nation’s poetry and its culture.
College Bound
Argues that first- and second-generation Jewish American writers had an ambivalent relationship with educational success.
Over a Barrel
How a small family company in the Finger Lakes became one of the most important wine producers in the United States, only to be taken down by corporate greed and mismanagement.
Passionate Detachments
Investigates the cultural value of film violence.
Trendy Fascism
Explores how white supremacist groups use popular music and culture to teach hate and promote violence.
Historicizing Post-Discourses
Examines how postfeminism and postracialism intersect to perpetuate systemic injustice in the United States.
From Italy to the North End
Documents the arc of the Italian American immigrant experience on both sides of the Atlantic.
The Disappearing L
Investigates the rise and fall of US American lesbian cultural institutions since the 1970s.
Invented Lives, Imagined Communities
How Hollywood biopics both showcase and modify various notions of what it means to be an American.
Figures of Memory
Explores how the USHMM and other museums and memorials both displace and disturb the memories that they are trying to commemorate.
Race, Ethnicity, and Place in a Changing America, Third Edition
Uses both historical and contemporary case studies to examine how race and ethnicity affect the places we live, work, and visit. .
The Sitcom Reader, Second Edition
Updated version of an engaging overview of the television situation comedy.
Buddhism beyond Borders
Explores facets of North American Buddhism while taking into account the impact of globalization and increasing interconnectivity.
American Dolorologies
Offers a critical history of the role of pain, suffering, and compassion in democratic culture.
A Pedagogy of Witnessing
Explores the curating of “difficult knowledge” through the exhibition of lynching photographs in contemporary museums.
The Guitar and the New World
A transformative look at a popular instrument and a hidden chapter of American history.
Twenty West
Traces the route, history, and geography of US 20, America’s longest road.
Slouching towards Gaytheism
Argues that homophobia will not be eradicated in the United States until religion is ended.
Indigenous North American Drama
Traces the historical dimensions of Native North American drama using a critical perspective.
Key to the Northern Country
Offers nearly forty years of interdisciplinary scholarship on the Hudson River Valley’s role in the American Revolution.
From the Shahs to Los Angeles
A fascinating look at the lives, culture, and religious and ritual observance of three generations of Iranian Jewish women in the United States.
Potent Mana
Brilliant study of the effects of colonialism on the physical, mental, and spiritual health of Native Hawaiians, and their efforts to decolonize through healing and remembering.
Multicultural Geographies
Geographical perspectives on the changing patterns of race and ethnicity in the United States.
The African Diaspora in the United States and Canada at the Dawn of the 21st Century
Offers important new perspectives on the African Diaspora in North America.
Disciplining Women
An interdisciplinary look Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA), the first historically Black sorority.