Considers the past, present, and future of interdisciplinary fields motivated by concerns for social justice.

Explores how Cuban Americans negotiate bicultural identities through cultural production.

Fascinating stories of ordinary people in the Middle Colonies who remained loyal to the Crown.

Philosophical exploration of Jamaica Kincaid’s entire literary oeuvre.

Provides an alternative history of nutrition in the U.S. that focuses on the power of scientific language.

Explores John Quincy Adams’s oratorical work in support of government-funded science.

Examines the liberating power of speech and its influence on generations of Italian American writers.

Explores the arrested development of American culture.

Traces a lineage of pro-feminist black men to two early radical proponents of female equality.

A comprehensive cultural and historical portrait of Italian American identities in Boston’s North End.

Looks at the connections between Thoreau’s Walden and the work that influenced it, the Bhagavad-Gita.

Examines the relationship of civic discourse to built environments through a case study of the Cabrini Green urban revitalization project in Chicago.

Argues that Herman Melville’s later work anticipates the resurgence of an American exceptionalist ethos underpinning the U. S.-led global “war on terror. ”

Presents the perspectives of contemporary college students on their lives and educations.

Tells the story of Poughkeepsie’s transformation from small city to urban region.

Compelling stories and striking photographs illustrate the challenges and highlights of Latino/a life in Portland, Maine.

Pinpoints the limits of many current globalization theories in challenging racial oppression, and argues instead for local and situated strategies for resisting racism and imperialism.

The paradoxes of the American decadent movement in the 1890s and 1920s.

Scholars engage the ideas and legacy of Cary Nelson in conversations about the corporate university, teaching, poetry, and activism.

Ecocritical takes on popular film.

Essays explore the broad cultural impact of Oprah’s Book Club.

Essays explore a wide range of contemporary feminist mothering practices.

Collection of scholarly essays on the wildly popular Comedy Central show.

Interview-based study of contemporary African American feminist men.

Explores the cultural significance of the metrosexual in sports.