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This fresh and fascinating exploration of Ebony's political, social, and historical content illuminates the intellectual role of the iconic magazine and its contribution to African American scholarship. The magazine's status as a consumer publication helped to mediate its representation of African American identity in both past and present.

The first-ever study of Mexican-descent Catholicism in the city, this title illuminates a previously unexplored facet of the urban past and provides present-day lessons for American communities undergoing ethnic integration and succession.

A critical assessment of collective memories, small world stories, and other allegories of everyday life

An enriching, interpretive mode that focuses on the transnational connections between subjects of African descent as the central pole for investigation. This journey of radical new process invites readers to see creations by artists of African descent as legible within the context of African diasporic historical and cultural debates.

Draws on current philosophy, literary history, and political events to confront the grim fact that divested boys become terrifying men.

Captures the story of the beloved American music - Bluegrass. This work includes an introduction that describes and traces the development of the music from its origins in Anglo-American folk tradition, overlaid with African American influences, to the popularity of Ralph Stanley, Alison Krauss, and the "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" soundtrack.

Investigates the notion of ethnic identity as it relates to Scandinavian Americans and political affiliations in Wisconsin, from 1890-1914. The author explains the change by looking at several important Scandinavian-American institutions, including the church, mutual aid fraternities, the temperance movement, and the Scandinavian-language press.

While it is rare for a poet to become a cultural icon, Julia de Burgos has evoked feelings of bonding and identification in Puerto Ricans and Latinos in the United States for over half a century. In this book, the author examines Julia de Burgos' development as a writer, her experience of migration, and her legacy in New York City.

Details Black women as liberal reformers, from suffrage to civil rights

Includes essays that use close readings of speeches, letters, historical archives, diaries, and memoirs of policymakers and newly available FBI files to confront much-neglected questions related to race and foreign relations in the United States.

The most complete record ever assembled of the landmark Lincoln-Douglas debates, published on their 150th anniversary

Charts the evolution of black consciousness on predominately white American campuses during the critical period between the mid-1960s and mid-1970s, with the Black student movement at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign serving as an illuminating microcosm of similar movements across the country.

Reconceptualises the orphanage as day care

Reveals a spiritual middle way, an approach native to the long-standing traditions in which faith and doubt are interwoven in constructive and dynamic ways.

An intimate biography of honky-tonk great Faron Young

In How Free Can the Press Be? Randall P. Bezanson explores contradictions embedded in understanding press freedom in America by discussing nine of the most pivotal and provocative First Amendment cases in U.S. judicial history.

Crucial insights into effective ethnographic research

Presents the racism, history and unique drive behind the changing roles of Latin baseball players.

Gathers the uncollected work on Lincoln by Benjamin P Thomas, regarded as the greatest Lincoln historian of his generation. This diverse collection is enhanced by an introduction by Michael Burlingame, himself a leading biographer of Lincoln, who provides a portrait of Thomas and his circuitous path toward writing history.

Departing from simple observations of the people and setting around him-- neighbors, friends, and lovers in New York City--Stephen Cramer's Shiva's Drum explores personal and familial relationships set to the rhythms of jazz in an urban landscape. Though comfortable at the edge, these poems deal with reality and move forward by transforming pain into beauty.

A book to celebrate the life and writing of one of the Southern leaders of the middle twentieth century, Don West (1906-1992). It provides a comprehensive collection of his poetry, spanning five decades of his literary career.