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Focusing on institutional history, this book explores the Pekin Theater's philosophy of hiring only African American staff, its embrace of multi-racial upper class audiences, and its ready assumption of roles as diverse as community center, social club, and fundraising instrument.

Using plantation documents, missionary records, government documents, and oral histories, this book analyzes how the workers interacted with Hawaiian government structures and businesses, how US policies for colonial workers differed from those for citizens or foreigners, and how policies aided corporate and imperial interests.

A provocative reexamination of the shared monotheistic views of Jews and Christians in New Testament times

Discusses College sports' ignominious history of game fixing

Breaking the gender barrier inside a world-class orchestra

Highlights Clinton Jencks's dramatic influence on the history of labour culture in the American Southwest through a lifetime devoted to progress and change for the social good.

Explores the life, work, and persona of saxophonist Fred Ho, an unabashedly revolutionary artist whose illuminating and daring work redefines the relationship between art and politics.

Organizing the "unorganizable"

Gathers Ernesto Galarza's key writings, reflecting a constructive concern for the working class in the face of America's growing influence over Mexico's economic system.

Documents country music station WSM's profound effect on the character and self-image of Nashville.

An interdisciplinary compendium of worldwide animal rights issues

Describes how Filipino exiles and immigrants in the United States played a crucial role in overthrowing the dictatorship of former president Ferdinand Marcos.

Rob White's highly readable book, which includes a major new interview with Todd Haynes, is the first comprehensive study of the director's work.

Highlights some of Southern Soul's most popular and important entertainers and provides first-hand accounts from the clubs, show lounges, festivals, and other local venues where these performers work.

Introduces readers to large-scale literary computing and the revolutionary potential of macroanalysis.

Explores the life, work, and persona of saxophonist Fred Ho, an unabashedly revolutionary artist whose illuminating and daring work redefines the relationship between art and politics.

Focuses on the representations and stereotypes of South Asian characters in American film and television.

Rewrites the history of early twentieth-century pop music in modernist terms.

The first complete study of the protean filmmaker

Everything you wanted to know about accordions in America--but were afraid to ask

Details the musical life of a superstar of film scoring, from The Pink Panther to "Moon River"

Discusses the power of the press in Japanese American history

Expands and enrichs African diaspora history in the Americas

How two southern ministers preached and practiced a vision of a more democratic America

Negotiating identity in hip-hop culture

A musical biography of one of bluegrass's true pioneers

The transformation of slavery and free labour in the Upper South

The first full-length critical study of lynching plays in American culture

Rethinking digital literary criticism by situating computational work within the broader context of the humanities

A landmark collection of Beauvoir's literary writings