American category: 24906 books
100 Questions, 500 Nations: A Guide to Native America
Covering tribes, treaties, sovereignty, casinos, reservations, Indian health, education, religion, culture and tribal membership
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
*100 Questions, 500 Nations: A Guide to Native America* is by the Native American Journalists Association as part of the Michigan State University School of Journalism series in cultural competence.
This guide has sections on tribes, reservations, sovereignty, treaties, federal...
by Susan McWilliams Barndt
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
Americans love road trips. They love to go on road trips. They love to read about road trips. They love to watch road trip stories unfold on television and film. Road trip stories are a consistent feature of the American landscape, a central part of American mythology, and an important piece of the...
by Steven C. Tracy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Hot Music, Ragmentation, and the Bluing of American Literature is a multidisciplinary exploration of the ways that African American “hot” music—minstrelsy, ragtime, jazz, and especially blues—emerged into the American cultural mainstream in the nineteenth century and ultimately dominated both...
Was Huck Black?
Mark Twain and African-American Voices
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 1994
Published in 1884, Huck Finn has become one of the most widely taught novels in American curricula. But where did Huckleberry Finn come from, and what made it so distinctive? Shelley Fisher Fishkin suggests that in Huckleberry Finn, more than in any other work, Mark Twain let African-American voices,...
What Makes That Black?
The African American Aesthetic in American Expressive Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
A New Book on American Culture
What Makes That Black? The African American Aesthetic in American Expressive Culture details the definition, structure, function, consciousness, history, application, and spirit of the African American Aesthetic and how that spirit manifests as a foundation in the...
Unnamable
The Ends of Asian American Art
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Redraws the contours of Asian American art, attempting to free it from a categorization that stifles more than it reveals.
Charting its historical conditions and the expansive contexts of its emergence, Susette Min challenges the notion of Asian American art as a site of reconciliation or as...
African American Community Practice Models
Historical and Contemporary Responses
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
African American Community Practice Models shows you what you can “see” and “learn” when people of African American descent are put in the center of community analysis and change. This text celebrates African American experiences and challenges you to understand the black experience from the...
American Socialist Triptych
The Literary-Political Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Upton Sinclair, and W. E. B. Du Bois
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011
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 socialism over a fifty--year period and asserts the vitality of socialism in modern American literature...
African American Fraternities and Sororities
The Legacy and the Vision
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2005
African American Fraternities and Sororities: The Legacy and the Vision explores the rich past and bright future of the nine Black Greek-Letter organizations that make up the National Pan-Hellenic Council. In the long tradition of African American benevolent and secret societies, intercollegiate African...
The African American Child, Second Edition
Development and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Praise for the First Edition:
"This book argues convincingly that children's cultural differences need to be recognized for any accurate understanding of their development. Pointing out the need for additional and more effectively designed research, Harris and Graham provide a valuable...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Contributions by Hena Ahmad, Linda Pierce Allen, Mary J. Henderson Couzelis, Sarah Park Dahlen, Lan Dong, Tomo Hattori, Jennifer Ho, Ymitri Mathison, Leah Milne, Joy Takako Taylor, and Traise Yamamoto
Often referred to as the model minority, Asian American children and adolescents feel pressured...
American Audacity
Literary Essays North and South
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
One of the foremost critics in contemporary American letters, Christopher Benfey has long been known for his brilliant and incisive essays. Appearing in such publications as the New York Review of Books, the New Republic, and the Times Literary Supplement, Benfey's writings have helped us reimagine...
by Ned Stuckey-French
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
In modern culture, the essay is often considered an old-fashioned, unoriginal form of literary styling. The word essay brings to mind the uninspired five-paragraph theme taught in schools around the country or the antiquated, Edwardian meanderings of English gentlemen rattling on about art and old...
American Indians
Stereotypes & Realities
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
American Indians: Stereotypes & Realities provides an informative and engaging Indian perspective on common misconceptions concerning American Indians which afflict public and even academic circles to this very day. Written in a highly accessible stereotype/reality format, it includes numerous...