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Highlights the gendered quality of the immigration process in the US, drawing on Census data and interviews

Explores ideas of race and culture through the lens of contemporary media and cultural commentary

An analysis of Asian American literature exploring second generation Asian American Women's sense of anger despite largely unremarkable upbringings

Shows how intercultural interactions between Europeans and indigenous people influenced military choices and strategic action. Ranging from the Muscovites on the western steppe to the French and English in North America, it analyzes how diplomatic and military systems were designed to accommodate the demands and expectations of local peoples.

Investigates whether tough punishments for sex offenders in America are undermining public safety

Challenges the believe that West Indian American girls are but assert agency in defining race through strategic consumption of popular culture

A reinterpretation of the early years of Marxist socialism in France.

A political history of African American literature

Investigates how effective good media coverage for American activists is during political campaigns

The first broad comparative examination of progressive religious activism in the United States

An exploration of the American Constitution in action through the lens of the American university

A journey deep into the underworld of graffiti artists

Explores globalized ideas of gendered constructions and contradictions though the transnational media

An exploration of the cultural legacy left by African slaves in the Caribbean and Latin America

Explores the ways that American writing between roughly 1850 and 1930 concerned itself, often intensely, with the racial implications of architectural space primarily, but not exclusively, through domestic architecture.

Addresses the impact of methamphetamine and, more generally, the war on drugs, on everyday life in the United States

An ethnographic investigation into the lives of street outreach workers and the homeless of New York City

A historical examination of the social culture of body image

An in-depth look at how aspirations are developed in public schools in Silicon Valley through emphasis of the region's success-driven culture and economic insecurities

An exploration of how the integration of immigrants affects subsequent generations in developed countries

An exploration of how the integration of immigrants affects subsequent generations in developed countries

An analysis of how notions of practice can inhibit urban legal service lawyers and their clients' pursuit of justice in the American legal system

An ethnographical examination of self harm in teenagers

Provides the first history of the origins of the Christian film industry

Considers the conditions of early America which shaped and were shaped by ideals of masculinity

Examines the historical and theoretical assumptions that have underpinned the discussion of capital punishment in the United States

New York is the oldest continually occupied city in America, with hundreds of place names offering a guide to the city's history. This book traces the origins of the names of Manhattan's streets, avenues, parks and corners, from it's life as a Dutch trading port to a modern, multicultural city.

Argues that health is a concept, a norm, and a set of bodily practices whose ideological work is often rendered invisible by the assumption that it is a monolithic, universal good

Argues that health is a concept, a norm, and a set of bodily practices whose ideological work is often rendered invisible by the assumption that it is a monolithic, universal good

Although what happens in the toilet usually stays in the toilet, this brilliant, revelatory, and often funny book aims to bring it all out into the open, proving that profound and meaningful history can be made even in the can