New Books in American Studies
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Ali Michael, "Raising Race Questions: Whiteness...
In Raising Race Questions, Ali Michael worked with a group of white teachers to inquire about race and schooling...
69 min
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Dan Golding, "Star Wars after Lucas: A Critical...
Golding examines the current status of Star Wars, as well as the similarities and differences between the old and the new...
72 min
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David Courtwright, "The Age of Addiction: How B...
We are living in an age of addiction, from compulsive gaming and binge eating to pornography and opioid abuse...
41 min
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Karin Rosemblatt, "The Science and Politics of ...
Rosemblatt traces how U.S.- and Mexican-trained intellectuals, social and human scientists, and anthropologists applied their ethnographic field work on indigenous and Native American peoples on both sides of the Rio Grande to debates over race, national culture, and economic development...
51 min
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Carrie Baker, "Fighting the US Youth Sex Trade:...
Campaigns against prostitution of young people in the United States have surged and ebbed multiple times over the last fifty years...
61 min
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Fernando Orejuela and Stephanie Shonekan, "Blac...
Music has always been integral to the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States...
55 min
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Ernest McGowen III, "African Americans in White...
Relative wealth has given suburban African Americans employment opportunities and political resources--but not necessarily neighbors, coworkers, or elected officials who share their concerns....
21 min
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Peter Daou, "Digital Civil War: Confronting the...
Daou analyzes the daily political skirmishing that rages online, urges progressives to engage on the “digital battlefield.”
41 min
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Jeanne Theoharis, "The Strange Careers of the J...
The book looks at the history of institutionalized racism around the U.S., showing that laws, policies, and entitlements in every region of the country...
40 min
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Jack Wertheimer, "The New American Judaism: How...
Wertheimer argues that American Jews are indeed engaging with Judaism, albeit in unique and unorthodox ways...
60 min
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Susan Lepselter, "The Resonance of Unseen Thing...
Susan Lepselter asks what happens when we listen to “UFO talk” ethnographically, understanding it as a form of vernacular American poetics that must be made sense of within specific cultural and political contexts...
53 min
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Erin M. Kempker, "Big Sister: Feminism, Conserv...
The author examines how 1970s right-wing women activists in the state of Indiana combined earlier political conspiracy theories, Cold War anti-communism and anti-ERA sentiment to cast feminism as threat to American democracy, free enterprise, and the family.
51 min
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William Poole, "Milton and the Making of Paradi...
John Milton’s Paradise Lost (1667) is widely recognised as the greatest epic poem in the English language...
45 min
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Michael A. Cohen, "Clear and Present Safety: Th...
We are fed a steady stream of doom and gloom—terrorist attacks, erosion of democracy, robots taking our jobs...
35 min
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Joan Watts, "The Collected Letters of Alan Watt...
The second in a two-part interview about Alan Watts
55 min
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Michael J. Mazarr, "Leap of Faith: Hubris, Negl...
Michael J. Mazarr has written a history of the policy planning process leading up to the Iraq War in 2003...
82 min
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Eric T. Kasper and Quentin D. Vieregge, "The Un...
The U.S. Constitution is often depicted in popular films, teaching lessons about what this founding document means and what it requires...
64 min
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Jeffrey S. McDonald, "John Gerstner and the Ren...
One of the most important trends within evangelicalism over the last half-century has been a renewal of Reformed theology...
34 min
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Pang Yang Huei, "Strait Rituals: China, Taiwan,...
The Taiwan Strait Crises of 1954-55 and 1958 occurred at the height of the Cold War...
54 min
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Ann Gleig, "American Dharma: Buddhism Beyond Mo...
Gleig focuses on meditation-based convert Buddhist lineages in North America, and in particular she is interested in the generational changes underway in these groups...
86 min
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Nancy Tomes, "Remaking the American Patient" (U...
Nancy Tomes questions the popular--and largely unexamined--idea that in order to get good health care, people must learn to shop for it...
48 min
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Matthew Fox-Amato, "Exposing Slavery: Photograp...
In the mid-19th century, photographs became key tools in debates surrounding slavery...
49 min
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Anne Watts, "The Collected Letters of Alan Watt...
The first in a two part interview about Alan Watts.
66 min
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Kenneth I. Helphand, "Lawrence Halprin" (Librar...
49 min
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Tricia Bruce, "Parish and Place: Making Room fo...
What does a typical American Catholic parish look like?
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