American Studies
New York's Great Lost Ballparks
Tells the story of New York's playing grounds, teams, and ballparks of yesteryear.
Replanting Cultures
Provides a theoretical and practical guide to community-engaged scholarship with Indigenous peoples in the United States and Canada.
Nietzsche in Hollywood
Argues that Nietzsche’s idea of the Übermensch was a central concern of filmmakers in the 1920s and 1930s.
Stories, Streets, and Saints
A time capsule of a classic Italian American neighborhood, told in the voices of its inhabitants.
A Postcolonial Relationship
Offers an Asian immigrant perspective on US racial relations and explores the unique situations and challenges facing Asian immigrants in the United States.
Christianity and Politics in Tribal India
Chronicles the astonishing and counterintuitive spread of Christianity among a group of previously isolated tribes in a remote and hilly part of Northeastern India.
Mayalogue
Offers a strong critique of traditional anthropological studies from an Indigenous and postcolonial perspective.
Whiteness at the End of the World
Examines the ways in which post-apocalyptic films express white racial anxiety.
No Jurisdiction
A deeply personal study of post-9/11 film that exposes how genre can frame the shifting meanings of the War on Terror and its impact on American law and culture.
Signs of Distinction
Fifty-one unique New York towns with great stories to tell, from L. Frank Baum's and Jello's hometowns to the birthplace of the Women's Rights Movement.
Through the Periscope
Offers a wider approach to Italian American culture, one that stresses both its material, urban components and the creativity of its formal literary codes.
The White Indians of Mexican Cinema
Examines the filmic representation of Whiteness as Indigeneity and its role in mediating racial politics in Mexico.
Holocaust Consciousness and Cold War Violence in Latin America
Examines how community leaders, writers, and political activists facing state repression in Latin America have drawn on and debated the validity of Holocaust terms to describe human rights atrocities in their own countries.
Sharkey
The incredible, true story of the twentieth century's greatest performing sea lion and the man who trained him.
Engaging Italy
Traces literary and social connections among three American women navigating the changing political landscape of 1860s and '70s Italy.
The Hard Sell of Paradise
Traces the complex and contradictory representations of Hawai’i in popular film and television programs from the 1930s to the 1970s.
Race and the Suburbs in American Film
Explores how suburban space and the body are racialized in American film.
"Our Relations…the Mixed Bloods"
Articulates the relationships between kinship, racial ideology, mixed blood treaty provisions, and landscape transformation in the Great Lakes region.
Sensitive Negotiations
Examines how Indigenous figures used British Romantic poetry in their interactions with settler governments and publics.
Dutch and Indigenous Communities in Seventeenth-Century Northeastern North America
Examines the significant impact of Dutch traders and settlers on the early history of Northeastern North America, and their relationships with its Indigenous peoples.
More Than Our Pain
Covering rage and grief, as well as joy and fatigue, examines how Black Lives Matter activists, and the artists inspired by them, have mobilized for social justice.
The Godfather and Sicily
Offers a distinctive interpretation of The Godfather as a novel and film sequence.
This Bridge Called My Back, Fortieth Anniversary Edition
Fortieth anniversary edition of the foundational text of women of color feminism.
Native Foodways
Explores the interplay of religion and food in Native American cultures.
Open Borders
Offers a dialogue about the future of the nature of the human, technology, metaphysical foundations, globalization, and social and political oppression.
The World of Agha Shahid Ali
Critical essays on the transnational Kashmiri-American poet.
Enduring Critical Poses
A celebration of Anishinaabe intellectual tradition.
Media-Ready Feminism and Everyday Sexism
Unique empirically grounded analysis of how audiences negotiate sexism and feminism across media, from popular television shows to dating apps.
Sense of Origins
Studies the relationship between young Italian Americans and their Italian cultural and historical heritage.
Changed Forever, Volume II
The second volume of the first in-depth study of a range of literature written by Native Americans who attended government-run boarding schools.
Intersecting Diasporas
Examines literary expressions of allyship between Italian America and other diasporic communities in modern and contemporary US fiction.
Higher Education for Democracy
Uses a cross-national comparison of Los Angeles, New Delhi, and Hong Kong to develop strategies universities should employ to strengthen democracy and resist fascism.
Funny How?
Uses comedy skits, from Monty Python to Key and Peele, to probe how humor works.
A Postcolonial Leadership
Explores the possibilities and challenges of Asian immigrant Christian leadership in the United States.
Ceremony Men
Rethinks the role of Indigenous and non-Indigenous interactions in the production of ethnographic museum collections.
Letters from Hollywood
Engaging essays on a wide spectrum of Hollywood directors and the films they created.
Varieties of American Sufism
Participant-observation-based studies that explore a range of Sufi movements operating across the contemporary American religious landscape.
DIY on the Lower East Side
Engaging look at Lower East Side writers and artists in the wake of the 1975 New York fiscal crisis.
Freedom in Laughter
Analyzes the dynamic period in which Dick Gregory and Bill Cosby moved African American professional stand-up comedy from the chitlin’ circuit to the mainstream.
The Autobiography of a Language
Explores the links between language, cultural identity, and creativity through the works of Emanuel Carnevali, one of the first Italian American authors to attain literary recognition.
The Great War in Hollywood Memory, 1918-1939
Assesses how America's film industry remembered World War I during the interwar period.
Reconciling Nature
Reveals how classic American novels embodied the tensions embedded in American views of the natural world from the Centennial until the end of the Second World War.
The State of Race
An innovative comparative study of the role of racial stereotypes in expressing state power under globalization.
Authorized Agents
Examines the relation between Indian diplomacy and nineteenth-century Native American literature.
Fearless
Biography of the early years of A. Bartlett Giamatti, who would become Yale University’s first non-Anglo-Saxon Protestant president and commissioner of Major League Baseball.
Restless Spirits
A collection of plays by American Indian playwright William S. Yellow Robe Jr.
Rumble and Crash
Analyzes six films as allegories of capitalism’s precarious state in the early twenty-first century.
Facing toward the Dawn
Examines the history of the Italian anarchist movement in New London, Connecticut.
From El Dorado to Lost Horizons
Investigates how musicals, war films, sex comedies, and Westerns dealt with contentious issues during a time of change in Hollywood.
When I Am Italian
Can a person born outside of Italy be considered Italian?
Affectual Erasure
Comprehensive examination of how Indigenous peoples have been represented in Argentine film.
Recovering Lost Footprints, Volume 2
Analyzes contemporary Yucatecan and Chiapanecan Maya narratives.
Congress and Diaspora Politics
Studies the impact of lobbying efforts by domestic ethnic groups and foreign governments on US policymaking.
You Who Enter Here
A beautifully rendered, brutally realistic Native American gang novel.
Multicultural Poetics
Argues that multiculturalism and hybridity are key components of the nation’s poetry and its culture.
Changed Forever, Volume I
The first in-depth study of a range of literature written by Native Americans who attended government-run boarding schools.
Our War Paint Is Writers' Ink
Explores a little-known history of exchange between Anishinaabe and American writers, showing how literature has long been an important venue for debates over settler colonial policy and indigenous rights.
Angry Rain
Reveals the development of Maurice Kenny’s growing artistic consciousness, while attesting to both the beauty and brutality of the world in which he lived.
Race, Nation, and Refuge
Explores the role of rhetoric and the racial classification of Asian American immigrants in the early twentieth century.
College Bound
Argues that first- and second-generation Jewish American writers had an ambivalent relationship with educational success.
The Specter of the Indian
Explores the significance of Indian control spirits as a dominating force in nineteenth-century American Spiritualism.
Recovering Lost Footprints, Volume 1
Analyzes contemporary Maya narratives.
Hip Hop Beats, Indigenous Rhymes
Argues that Indigenous hip hop is the latest and newest assertion of Indigenous sovereignty throughout Indigenous North America.
We Have Not Stopped Trembling Yet
A father’s personal and intimate account of his Filipino and Alaska Native family’s experiences, and his search for how to help his children overcome the effects of historical and contemporary oppression.
Passionate Detachments
Investigates the cultural value of film violence.
A Clan Mother's Call
Addresses the importance of Haudenosaunee women in the rebuilding of the Iroquois nation.
Gestures of Love
Examines movie romance in light of our emotional bond to the actors and characters on screen.
The World, the Text, and the Indian
Advances critical conversations in Native American literary studies by situating its subject in global, transnational, and modernizing contexts.
México's Nobodies
Analyzes cultural materials that grapple with gender and blackness to revise traditional interpretations of Mexicanness.
Trendy Fascism
Explores how white supremacist groups use popular music and culture to teach hate and promote violence.
Race Still Matters
Essays debunking the notion that contemporary America is a colorblind society.
Historicizing Post-Discourses
Examines how postfeminism and postracialism intersect to perpetuate systemic injustice in the United States.
Beyond Memory
Uncovers an overlooked aspect of the Italian American experience.
From Italy to the North End
Documents the arc of the Italian American immigrant experience on both sides of the Atlantic.
Integral Conflict
Explores conflict through the lens of Integral Theory and provides a case study where Integral conflict resolution techniques are highlighted.
Invented Lives, Imagined Communities
How Hollywood biopics both showcase and modify various notions of what it means to be an American.
From Wounded Knee to Checkpoint Charlie
A historical analysis of the transatlantic relations of the American Indian radical sovereignty movement of the late Cold War.
Figures of Memory
Explores how the USHMM and other museums and memorials both displace and disturb the memories that they are trying to commemorate.
Native American Nationalism and Nation Re-building
Presents an interdisciplinary analysis of the recent developments of Native American nationalism and nationhood in the United States and Canada.
Race, Ethnicity, and Place in a Changing America, Third Edition
Uses both historical and contemporary case studies to examine how race and ethnicity affect the places we live, work, and visit. .
Oklahomo
Uses the state of Oklahoma as a case study for how US conservatives have attempted to unqueer America since the 1950’s.
The Heart and the Island
Makes the case for a distinctly Sicilian American literature.
Community Self-Determination
Examines the educational programs American Indians developed to preserve their cultural and ethnic identity, improve their livelihood, and serve the needs of their youth in Chicago.
New World Dharma
Interviews and profiles of spiritual and cultural figures influenced by Buddhism.
The Sitcom Reader, Second Edition
Updated version of an engaging overview of the television situation comedy.
Seeking Alice
A haunting story of the disintegration of an American and Italian family caught in Europe during World War II.
Hartford's Ann Plato and the Native Borders of Identity
Upholds Ann Plato as a noteworthy nineteenth-century writer, while reexamining her life and writing from an American Indian perspective.
Buddhism beyond Borders
Explores facets of North American Buddhism while taking into account the impact of globalization and increasing interconnectivity.
Once an Engineer
A funny, tragic, garlicky chronicle of growing up on the wrong side of the tracks in Central New York.
Delicious December
Food and history combine in this exploration of the Dutch influence on American holiday traditions. Includes more than one hundred easy-to-make holiday recipes.
Beyond Two Worlds
Examines the origins, efficacy, legacy, and consequences of envisioning both Native and non-Native “worlds.”
The Testimonial Uncanny
Examines how colonial and postcolonial violence is understood and conceptualized through Indigenous storytelling.
The Worlds of the Seventeenth-Century Hudson Valley
Essays by eleven prominent scholars provide the latest insights into the seventeenth-century history of the Hudson Valley and its environs.
American Dolorologies
Offers a critical history of the role of pain, suffering, and compassion in democratic culture.
A Longhouse Fragmented
Tells the social history of the Iroquois people of Ohio during the buildup to removal.
Repositioning Race
Examines the progress of and obstacles faced by African Americans in twenty-first-century America.
A Pedagogy of Witnessing
Explores the curating of “difficult knowledge” through the exhibition of lynching photographs in contemporary museums.
L Is for Lion
A 1960s Bronx tomboy learns how to survive her brutal but humorous Italian family and all the rest that life throws her. The harder you hit the pavement, the higher you fly.
Listening to Ourselves
Contemporary African philosophy in indigenous African languages and English translation.
The Transatlantic Gaze
Tracks the influence of Italian cinema on American film from the postwar period to the present.