Spring 2024 - American Studies
Early Jazz
A concise history of early jazz, from its major innovators to its unrecognized heroes.
Folklore Matters
Celebrates over a half-century of the work of one of America's greatest folklorists.
The Biggest Thing in Show Business
A freewheeling, nonlinear exploration of the performing duo and their decade-long collaboration from 1946 to 1956.
Utopian Imaginings
Challenges readers to use utopian thinking and practice to counter the conditions of the present and create an alternative future.
The Recursive Frontier
Shows how the myth of the American frontier persists as an ever-present, oppressive set of ideas about space, mobility, and race in the mid-twentieth-century literature of Los Angeles.
The Serpent's Plumes
Draws on Nahua concepts to explore Nahua literary production and contributions to cultural activism from the 1980s to the present.
Hopelessly Alien
An in-depth sociological investigation of "hope" as it applies to the Italian immigrant experience in the blue-collar suburb of Chicago Heights between 1910 and 1950.
The Algonquin Round Table
The facts and legends of New York's famed artistic hub told by one of its key participants.
The Historic Woodstock Art Colony
Explores the remarkable range of artists who have worked in Woodstock, New York for over a century.
Crossing Digital Fronteras
Demonstrates the liberatory potential of Latinx Digital Humanities at Hispanic-Serving Institutions and in Latinx Studies classrooms.