Böcker i New Americanists-serien

Examines constructions of racial identity through the exploration of passing narratives including forties jazz musician Mezz Mezzrow's memoir Really the Blues

Examines the key role that the spatial construct (embodied by the Monroe Doctrine) of the western hemisphere played in enabling and effacing U.S. empire.

Explores the writings of Marcus Garvey, Claude McKay and C.L.R. James and argues that these black transnationals articulated a novel conception of black identity that reconfigures the meaning of American nationality

Elizabeth Maddock Dillon explores how new publics were convened and contested around the riotous theatre scenes of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world, from England to the Caribbean to the early United States. In the process, she develops a capacious account of performance, aesthetics, and modernity.