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  1. Peace Corps Fantasies

    Peace Corps Fantasies

    How Development Shaped the Global Sixties

    By Molly Geidel

    Series Critical American Studies

    University of Minnesota Press

    To tens of thousands of volunteers in its first decade, the Peace Corps was "the toughest job you'll ever love."In the United States' popular imagination to this day, it is a symbol of selfless altruism and the most successful... Learn More
    Published: 15th September 2015
    Hardback | £87.00
    Paperback | £23.99
  2. Distant Wars Visible

    Distant Wars Visible

    The Ambivalence of Witnessing

    By Wendy Kozol

    Series Critical American Studies

    University of Minnesota Press

    In our wired world, visual images of military conflict and political strife are ubiquitous. Far less obvious, far more elusive, is how we see such images, how witnessing military violence and suffering affects us. Distant Wars... Learn More
    Published: 1st November 2014
    Hardback | £56.00
    Paperback | £17.99
  3. Reinventing Citizenship

    Reinventing Citizenship

    Black Los Angeles, Korean Kawasaki, and Community Participation

    By Kazuyo Tsuchiya

    Series Critical American Studies

    University of Minnesota Press

    In the 1960s and 1970s, the United States and Japan went through massive welfare expansions that sparked debates about citizenship. At the heart of these disputes stood African Americans and Koreans. Reinventing Citizenship offers... Learn More
    Published: 15th April 2014
    Paperback | £19.99
  4. Debating the End of History

    Debating the End of History

    The Marketplace, Utopia, and the Fragmentation of Intellectual Life

    By David W. Noble

    Series Critical American Studies

    University of Minnesota Press

    Why do modern people assume that there will be perpetual economic growth? Because, David W. Noble tells us in this provocative study of cultural criticism, such a utopian conviction is the necessary foundation for bourgeois culture.... Learn More
    Published: 23rd October 2012
    Hardback | £62.00
    Paperback | £19.99
  5. Samurai among Panthers

    Samurai among Panthers

    Richard Aoki on Race, Resistance, and a Paradoxical Life

    By Diane C. Fujino

    Series Critical American Studies

    University of Minnesota Press

    An iconic figure of the Asian American movement, Richard Aoki (1938–2009) was also, as the most prominent non-Black member of the Black Panther Party, a key architect of Afro-Asian solidarity in the 1960s and '70s. His life... Learn More
    Published: 2nd May 2012
    Paperback | £19.99
  6. Triangulations

    Triangulations

    Narrative Strategies for Navigating Latino Identity

    By David J. Vazquez

    Series Critical American Studies

    University of Minnesota Press

    Just as mariners use triangulation, mapping an imaginary triangle between two known positions and an unknown location, so, David J. Vázquez contends, Latino authors in late twentieth-century America employ the coordinates of... Learn More
    Published: 1st September 2011
    Hardback | £62.00
    Paperback | £19.99
  7. American Pietàs

    American Pietàs

    Visions of Race, Death, and the Maternal

    By Ruby C. Tapia

    Series Critical American Studies

    University of Minnesota Press

    In American Pietàs, Ruby C. Tapia reveals how visual representations of racialized motherhood shape and reflect national citizenship. By means of a sustained engagement with Roland Barthes's suturing of race, death, and the maternal... Learn More
    Published: 20th April 2011
    Hardback | £56.00
    Paperback | £17.99
  8. Mythohistorical Interventions

    Mythohistorical Interventions

    The Chicano Movement and Its Legacies

    By Lee Bebout

    Series Critical American Studies

    University of Minnesota Press

    Mythohistorical Interventions explores how myth and history impacted the social struggle of the Chicano movement and the postmovement years. Drawing on archival materials and political speeches as well as music and protest poetry,... Learn More
    Published: 6th April 2011
    Hardback | £62.00
    Paperback | £19.99
  9. Ends of Empire

    Ends of Empire

    Asian American Critique and the Cold War

    By Jodi Kim

    Series Critical American Studies

    University of Minnesota Press

    Ends of Empire examines Asian American cultural production and its challenge to the dominant understanding of American imperialism, Cold War dynamics, and race and gender formation. Jodi Kim demonstrates the degree to which Asian... Learn More
    Published: 26th March 2010
    Hardback | £62.00
    Paperback | £19.99
  10. The New American Exceptionalism

    The New American Exceptionalism

    By Donald E. Pease

    Series Critical American Studies

    University of Minnesota Press

    For a half century following the end of World War II, the seemingly permanent cold war provided the United States with an organizing logic that governed nearly every aspect of American society and culture, giving rise to an unwavering... Learn More
    Published: 31st October 2009
    Hardback | £56.00
    Paperback | £17.99
  11. Chains of Babylon

    Chains of Babylon

    The Rise of Asian America

    By Daryl J. Maeda

    Series Critical American Studies

    University of Minnesota Press

    In Chains of Babylon, Daryl J. Maeda presents a cultural history of Asian American activism in the late 1960s and early 1970s, showing how the movement created the category of "Asian American" to join Asians of many... Learn More
    Published: 20th October 2009
    Paperback | £15.99
  12. Cannibal Democracy

    Cannibal Democracy

    Race and Representation in the Literature of the Americas

    By Zita Nunes

    Series Critical American Studies

    University of Minnesota Press

    Zita Nunes argues that the prevailing narratives of identity formation throughout the Americas share a dependence on metaphors of incorporation and, often, of cannibalism. From the position of the incorporating body, the construction... Learn More
    Published: 12th September 2008
    Hardback | £56.00
    Paperback | £17.99
  13. Next to the Color Line

    Next to the Color Line

    Gender, Sexuality, and W. E. B. Du Bois

    Edited by Susan Gillman and Alys Weinbaum

    Series Critical American Studies

    University of Minnesota Press

    Although W. E. B. Du Bois did not often pursue the connections between the “Negro question” that defined so much of his intellectual life and the “woman question” that engaged writers and feminist activists... Learn More
    Published: 8th March 2007
    Paperback | £20.99
  14. Catching Hell In The City Of Angels

    Catching Hell In The City Of Angels

    Life And Meanings Of Blackness In South Central Los Angeles

    By João H. Costa Vargas

    Series Critical American Studies

    University of Minnesota Press

    Since the 1980s, Los Angeles has become the most racially and economically divided city in the United States. In the poorest parts of South Central Los Angeles, buildings in disrepair—the legacy of racial unrest. Moving beyond... Learn More
    Published: 26th August 2006
    Hardback | £50.00
    Paperback | £15.99
  15. Mestizaje

    Mestizaje

    Critical Uses of Race in Chicano Culture

    By Rafael Perez-Torres

    Series Critical American Studies

    University of Minnesota Press

    Focusing on the often unrecognized role race plays in expressions of Chicano culture, Mestizaje is a provocative exploration of the volatility and mutability of racial identities. In this important moment in Chicano studies, Rafael... Learn More
    Published: 21st April 2006
    Paperback | £15.99
  16. At Home in Diaspora

    At Home in Diaspora

    Black International Writing

    By Wendy Walters

    Series Critical American Studies

    University of Minnesota Press

    Although he never lived in Harlem, Chester Himes commented that he experienced “a sort of pure homesickness” while creating the Harlem-set detective novels from his self-imposed exile in Paris. Through writing, Himes... Learn More
    Published: 10th July 2005
    Paperback | £17.99
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Conferences and Events

British Association for American Studies Annual Conference

25th - 27th April 2019

University of Sussex