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.

Analyzes six films as allegories of capitalism’s precarious state in the early twenty-first century.

Examines the history of the Italian anarchist movement in New London, Connecticut.

Investigates how musicals, war films, sex comedies, and Westerns dealt with contentious issues during a time of change in Hollywood.

Can a person born outside of Italy be considered Italian?

Comprehensive examination of how Indigenous peoples have been represented in Argentine film.

Studies the impact of lobbying efforts by domestic ethnic groups and foreign governments on US policymaking.

Analyzes contemporary Yucatecan and Chiapanecan Maya narratives.

A beautifully rendered, brutally realistic Native American gang novel.

Macro-level study of the South Atlantic throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries demonstrating how Brazil’s emergence was built on the longest and most intense slave trade of the modern era.

The first in-depth study of a range of literature written by Native Americans who attended government-run boarding schools.

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.

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

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.

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

Explores the significance of Indian control spirits as a dominating force in nineteenth-century American Spiritualism.

Explores the role of rhetoric and the racial classification of Asian American immigrants in the early twentieth century.

Analyzes contemporary Maya narratives.

Argues that Indigenous hip hop is the latest and newest assertion of Indigenous sovereignty throughout Indigenous North America.

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.

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.

Examines movie romance in light of our emotional bond to the actors and characters on screen.

Investigates the cultural value of film violence.

Addresses the importance of Haudenosaunee women in the rebuilding of the Iroquois nation.

Analyzes cultural materials that grapple with gender and blackness to revise traditional interpretations of Mexicanness.