The 1960s, including the black social movements of the period, are an obstacle to understanding the current conditions of African Americans, argues Clarence Lang. While Americans celebrate the current
The author examines how literature by American authors from the 1830s to the 1930s used the analytical strategies and tools of the classical detective fiction genre while dismissing its formulaic natu
In Moisture of the Earth, Mary Robinson recounts her journey from picking cotton in rural Alabama to becoming an outspoken community leader and labor activist. The daughter of sharecroppers, Robinson
In Moisture of the Earth, Mary Robinson recounts her journey from picking cotton in rural Alabama to becoming an outspoken community leader and labor activist. The daughter of sharecroppers, Robinson
The 1960s, including the black social movements of the period, are an obstacle to understanding the current conditions of African Americans, argues Clarence Lang. While Americans celebrate the current
The Poverty Law Canon takes readers into the lives of clients and lawyers who brought critical poverty law cases in the United States. These cases involved attempts to establish the right to basic nec
"'All I gotta do is act naturally,' Buck Owens sang, and Pamela Fox knows where the acting comes in. From early hillbilly acts to alt.country, Natural Acts lays bare, with wide-ranging scholarship and
"A meticulously researched, highly informed, carefully argued, and very accessible account of American socialism, socialists, and socialistic thinking, from the late nineteenth century through the 196
"Impressive—Marsh successfully rewrites the founding moment of American Modernist poetry."---Mark Van Wienen, Northern Illinois University "Cogently argued, instructive, and sensitive, Marsh’s revisio
Commerce in Color explores the juncture of consumer culture and race by examining advertising, literary texts, mass culture, and public events in the United States from 1893 to 1933. James C. Davis ta
Few other television series have received as much academic, media, and fan celebration as The Wire, which has been called the best dramatic series ever created. The show depicts the conflict between B
Lang (English, Syracuse U.) explores the literary expression of the crisis of social classification that occupied public discourse in the mid-19th century. The text focuses on a group of novels writte
American Socialist Triptych: The Literary-Political Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Upton Sinclair, and W. E. B. Du Bois explores the contributions of three writers to the development of American so
Dividing Lines is one of the most extensive studies of class in nineteenth-century African American literature. Clear and engaging, this book unveils how black fiction writers represented the uneasy r
Dirty Work sheds light on the complex relationships between women employers and their household help in the early 20th century through their representations in literature, including women’s maga
The field of Mexican American fiction has exploded since the 1990s, yet there has been relatively little critical assessment of this burgeoning area in American literature. Chicano Novels and the Poli
Starting in the late 1970s, tens of thousands of American industrial workers lost jobs in factories and mines. Deindustrialization had dramatic effects on those workers and their communities, but its
The Poverty Law Canon takes readers into the lives of clients and lawyers who brought critical poverty law cases in the United States. These cases involved attempts to establish the right to basic nec
