Argues that multiculturalism and hybridity are key components of the nation’s poetry and its culture.

Argues that first- and second-generation Jewish American writers had an ambivalent relationship with educational success.

How a small family company in the Finger Lakes became one of the most important wine producers in the United States, only to be taken down by corporate greed and mismanagement.

Investigates the cultural value of film violence.

Explores how white supremacist groups use popular music and culture to teach hate and promote violence.

Examines how postfeminism and postracialism intersect to perpetuate systemic injustice in the United States.

Documents the arc of the Italian American immigrant experience on both sides of the Atlantic.

Investigates the rise and fall of US American lesbian cultural institutions since the 1970s.

How Hollywood biopics both showcase and modify various notions of what it means to be an American.

Explores how the USHMM and other museums and memorials both displace and disturb the memories that they are trying to commemorate.

Uses both historical and contemporary case studies to examine how race and ethnicity affect the places we live, work, and visit. .

Updated version of an engaging overview of the television situation comedy.

Explores facets of North American Buddhism while taking into account the impact of globalization and increasing interconnectivity.

Offers a critical history of the role of pain, suffering, and compassion in democratic culture.

Explores the curating of “difficult knowledge” through the exhibition of lynching photographs in contemporary museums.

A transformative look at a popular instrument and a hidden chapter of American history.

Traces the route, history, and geography of US 20, America’s longest road.

Argues that homophobia will not be eradicated in the United States until religion is ended.

Traces the historical dimensions of Native North American drama using a critical perspective.

Offers nearly forty years of interdisciplinary scholarship on the Hudson River Valley’s role in the American Revolution.

A fascinating look at the lives, culture, and religious and ritual observance of three generations of Iranian Jewish women in the United States.

Brilliant study of the effects of colonialism on the physical, mental, and spiritual health of Native Hawaiians, and their efforts to decolonize through healing and remembering.

Geographical perspectives on the changing patterns of race and ethnicity in the United States.

Offers important new perspectives on the African Diaspora in North America.

An interdisciplinary look Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA), the first historically Black sorority.