New Books in American Studies
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Taylor Petrey, "Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality ...
A path-breaking work of religion and gender and sexuality, "Tabernacles of Clay" sets the agenda for a new generation of scholars interested in the recent Latter-day Saint past.
36 min
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Phil Harvey, "Welfare For The Rich" (Post Hill ...
"Welfare for the Rich" is the first book to describe and analyze the many ways that federal and state governments provide handouts to millionaires, billionaires, and the companies they own and run...
49 min
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Daniel Q. Gillion, "The Loud Minority: Why Prot...
Gillion analyses the connection between protests and the influence this public activism has on the voting electorate....
48 min
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Jay Timothy Dolmage, "Disabled Upon Arrival: Eu...
Dolmage links anti-immigration rhetoric to eugenics—the flawed “science” of controlling human population based on racist and ableist ideas about bodily values...
67 min
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Begüm Adalet, "Hotels and Highways: The Constru...
Turkey was both a model case of elite-led modernization and a laboratory for development projects that could then be exported to other societies....
73 min
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Erica Bauermeister, "House Lessons: Renovating ...
This memoir is about the power of home, and the transformative act of restoring one house in particular...
58 min
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Tamara Venit-Shelton, "Herbs and Roots: A Histo...
69 min
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Jon Wilkman, "Screening Reality: How Documentar...
Wilkman offers a a widescreen view of how American “truth” has been discovered, defined, projected, televised, and streamed,,,
68 min
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H. Moore and J. Tracy, "No Fascist USA!" (City ...
Hilary Moore and James Tracy recounts the stories of fearless organizers and activists who created an anti-racist social movement that fought against the normalization of white supremacy during the 1970s and 1980s...
66 min
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Scott Seider and Daren Graves, "Schooling for C...
Seider and Graves address how schools can help Black and Latinx youth to understand these racial disparities, resist the negative effects of racial injustice and challenge its root causes...
81 min
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Gilda R. Daniels, "Uncounted: The Crisis of Vot...
Are we asleep at the (common)wheel?
46 min
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Michele Wakin, "Hobo Jungle: A Homeless Communi...
Wakin offers an up-close exploration of the evolution that has taken place with unsheltered homelessness....
48 min
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Breanne Fahs, "Burn It Down: Feminist Manifesto...
Fahs has curated a comprehensive collection of feminist manifestos from the nineteenth century to today...
52 min
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Bharat Malkani, "Slavery and the Death Penalty:...
What is the connection between the movement for death penalty abolition and the anti-slavery movement?
29 min
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Nemata Blyden, "African Americans and Africa: a...
“What is Africa to me?”, African-American writer Countee Cullen asked in "Color."
54 min
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Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Mat...
Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...
117 min
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Dale Cockrell, "Everybody’s Doin’ It: Sex, Musi...
Where is American music?
58 min
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Deborah Dash Moore, "Jewish New York: The Remar...
"Jewish New York" reveals the multifaceted world of one of the city’s most important ethnic and religious groups...
43 min
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Pamela S. Nadell, "America’s Jewish Women: A Hi...
Nadell surveys varied experiences of Jewish women who made America their home. In elegant prose, she introduces readers to a fascinating cast of characters from the seventeenth century to the present day...
52 min
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Tyler Cowen, "Big Business: A Love Letter to an...
You mean big business is good, contributes to our general welfare, and is not generally guilty--with notable exceptions--of all of the charges made against it?
26 min
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Mary-Kate Lizotte, "Gender Differences in Publi...
LIzotte helps us to understand the concept of the gender gap in American politics and how this gap looks across a host of different policy areas....
47 min
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Carl Suddler, "Presumed Criminal: Black Youth a...
Suddler brings to light a much longer history of the policies and strategies that tethered the lives of black youths to the justice system indefinitely...
62 min
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Simon Bowmaker, "When the President Calls: Conv...
What is it like to sit in the Oval Office and discuss policy with the president?
21 min
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Viet Thanh Nguyen, "Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam ...
According to Viet Thanh Nguyen, all wars are fought twice: first on the field of battle, and then in the struggles over memory...
67 min
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Vanessa Cook, "Spiritual Socialists: Religion a...
Cook shows that there is a deep religious strain within the American Left despite contrary common perceptions...
50 min