New Books in American Studies
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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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Tamara Venit-Shelton, "Herbs and Roots: A Histo...
69 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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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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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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Nemata Blyden, "African Americans and Africa: a...
“What is Africa to me?”, African-American writer Countee Cullen asked in "Color."
54 min
4437
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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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Joel Thiessen and Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme, "None...
In recent decades, the number of Americans and Canadians who identify has nonreligious has risen considerably..
59 min
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Jennifer Mercieca, "Demagogue for President: Th...
Mercieca describes the Trump campaign’s expert use of the common demagogic rhetorical techniques...
51 min
4448
Thomas A. Discenna, "Discourses of Denial: The ...
Discenna paints a compelling picture of “the denial of academic labor” happening across public and private institutions...
59 min
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Manuel Barcia, "The Yellow Demon of Fever: Figh...
Barcia offers a striking rendition of the diseases that swept through the illegal slave trade Atlantic World...
43 min
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Richard Lachmann, "First Class Passengers on a ...
Lachmann argues that while imperial expansion can deliver more resources to their centers, they can also create dynamics of elite conflict...
68 min