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  • - The Rise and Fall of Chicago's First Black-Owned Theater
    av Thomas Bauman
    626

    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.

  • - Filipino and Puerto Rican Laborers in Hawai'i
    av JoAnna Poblete
    273 - 626

    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.

  • - Early Christian Monotheism in Its Jewish Context
    av James F. McGrath
    326

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

  • - Gamblers, Point Shavers, and Game Fixers in College Football and Basketball
    av Albert J. Figone
    233

    Discusses College sports' ignominious history of game fixing

  • - Edna Phillips and the Philadelphia Orchestra
    av Mary Sue Welsh
    326 - 419

    Breaking the gender barrier inside a world-class orchestra

  • - Clinton Jencks and Mexican-American Unionism in the American Southwest
    av James J. Lorence
    626

    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.

  • - The Radical Art of Fred Ho
     
    1 212,-

    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.

  • - Interracial Organizing and Labor Radicalism
    av Lisa Phillips
    573,-

    Organizing the "unorganizable"

  • - Selected Writings
    av Ernesto Galarza
    333 - 1 427,-

    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.

  • - WSM and the Making of Music City
    av Craig Havighurst
    299,-

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

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    313

    An interdisciplinary compendium of worldwide animal rights issues

  • - How Filipino Exiles Helped Topple a Dictator
    av Jose V. Fuentecilla
    233 - 1 212,-

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

  • av Rob White
    242

    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.

  • av David G. Whiteis
    273 - 1 372,-

    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.

  • - Digital Methods and Literary History
    av Matthew L. Jockers
    352 - 1 337,-

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

  • - The Radical Art of Fred Ho
     
    326

    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.

  • - Brown Voice and Racial Performance in American Television and Film
    av Shilpa S. Dave
    274 - 1 212,-

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

  • - Modernism, Regionalism, and American Popular Song
    av Edward P. Comentale
    326 - 1 212,-

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

  • av Annette Insdorf
    242

    The first complete study of the protean filmmaker

  • - A Cultural History of the Accordion in America
    av Marion Jacobson
    338

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

  • - Reinventing Film Music
    av John Caps
    220 - 326

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

  • - Larry and Guyo Tajiri and Japanese American Journalism in the World War II Era
    av Larry S Tajiri
    680,-

    Discusses the power of the press in Japanese American history

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    - Expanding the Diaspora
     
    1 212,-

    Expands and enrichs African diaspora history in the Americas

  • - Labor's Southern Prophets in New Deal America
    av Erik S. Gellman & Jarod Roll
    339

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

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    - Race, Rap, and the Performance of Masculinity
    av Miles White
    260

    Negotiating identity in hip-hop culture

  • - The Music Life of J.D. Crowe
    av Marty Godbey
    228,-

    A musical biography of one of bluegrass's true pioneers

  • - Free and Slave Labor along the Mason-Dixon Line, 1790-1860
    av Max L. Grivno
    299 - 1 212,-

    The transformation of slavery and free labour in the Upper South

  • - African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890-1930
    av Koritha Mitchell
    326 - 1 212,-

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

  • - Toward and Algorithmic Criticism
    av Stephen Ramsay
    286 - 1 212,-

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

  • av Simone de Beauvoir
    273 - 1 372,-

    A landmark collection of Beauvoir's literary writings

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