American Studies: Recent submissions
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Race and the Working Class Past in the United States: Multiple Identities and the Future of Labor History.
(Cambridge University Press, 1993-12) -
The Pursuit of Whiteness: Property, Terror and Expansion, 1790-1860.
(University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999-12) -
Freedom Breaks
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Firing the Canon: Multiple Insularities in Jazz Criticism
(University of Kansas, 2014-05-31)Whereas many jazz scholars focus on jazz criticism's construction and implications of a single, or insular, jazz canon, this dissertation argues that what many jazz critics do is precisely the opposite. These critics disrupt ... -
Digital Loa and Faith You Can Taste: Hoodoo in the American Imagination
(University of Kansas, 2014-05-31)Utilizing popular culture mediums and artifacts, this dissertation examines the ways in which the American imaginary plasticizes the faith of Hoodoo and continually strips it of its religious, historic, and cultural impacts. ... -
The New York Yankees as an American Cultural Icon, 1940-1970
(University of Kansas, 2014-05-31)The New York Yankees baseball club, arguably the United States' most successful and well-known sports franchise, have acquired many cultural connotations over the years, meanings transcending the immediate world of on-field ... -
Swing: From Time to Torque (Dance Floor Democracy at the Hollywood Canteen)
(The MIT Press, 2013-10-08)The Hollywood Canteen (1942–1945) was the most famous of the USO and USO-like patriotic nightclubs where civilian hostesses jitterbugged with enlisted men of the Allied Nations during World War II. It is also the subject ... -
CRAFTING A NEW SELF IN DIASPORA: A STUDY OF THE 1.5 GENERATION OF VIETNAMESE AMERICANS
(University of Kansas, 2013-12-31)This dissertation is a study on the identity construction process of members of the 1.5 generation of Vietnamese Americans by examining their personal narratives. With a focus on strategies used by informants when crafting ... -
Weird Bodily Noises: Improvising Race, Gender, and Jazz History
(University of Kansas, 2013-08-31)This dissertation explores avant-garde jazz in Kansas City in the late 20th and early 21st centuries to find out how they both reproduce and complicate narratives of jazz history and norms of race and gender. Working in a ... -
Senses of Taste: Duncan Hines and American Gastronomy, 1931-1962
(University of Kansas, 2013-08-31)Duncan Hines was the first national restaurant critic in American history and a significant tastemaker in popular culture. This dissertation is an accounting of how senses of taste were formed in the middle of the twentieth ... -
The look of the fair : Kansas county fairscapes, 1854-1994
(University of Kansas, 1996) -
Race, Place, and Family: Narratives of the Civil Rights Movement in Brownsville, Tennessee, and the Nation
(University of Kansas, 2011-12-31)This dissertation examines the Civil Rights Movement through the experiences of primarily two African American families with roots in Brownsville, Tennessee. This study, based on archival research and oral histories, ... -
Kansas Grows the Best Wheat and the Best Race Women: Black Women's Club Movement in Kansas 1900-30
(University of Kansas, 2011-12-31)The rise of club women in the late-nineteenth and early twentieth-centuries challenged established definitions of true womanhood, redefined leadership roles in Black communities, and questioned the complexities of economic ... -
Afterword: O'Brien and America
(University of Texas at Brownsville, the State University of New York-Oneonta, and Claflin University, 1991) -
Sweet Science
(University of Texas at Brownsville, the State University of New York-Oneonta, and Claflin University, 1991) -
Wimpy. Zing
(University of Texas at Brownsville, the State University of New York-Oneonta, and Claflin University, 1994) -
THE "DEAR DIANE" LETTERS AND THE ENCOUNTER OF CHINESE YOUNG WOMEN IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICA
(University of Kansas, 2012-08-31)Abstract Focusing on the "Dear Diane" advice letters, both the English and Chinese texts, this dissertation explores a group of young Chinese immigrant women as they encounter American culture as Chinese Americans were ... -
Sheepdogs and Barbed Wire: An Environmental History of Grazing on the High Plains
(University of Kansas, 2010-05-31)An environmental history of High Plains grazing that focused on transhumant sheepherding of New Mexico, watershed cattle ranching of the open range, and barbed-wire stock-farming of the privatized plains--all systems of ... -
In Praise of Diversity
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979) -
Performing Lena: Race, Representation, and the Postwar Autobiographical Performances of Lena Horne
(University of Kansas, 2012-05-31)As a hypervisible black woman, whose overdetermined image was evoked by blacks and whites to represent racialized political interests on both sides of the color line throughout the long civil rights era, singer–actress ...