Library Guides/ American Studies

New Books (December 2023)

Energizing Neoliberalism

Wellum, Caleb. Energizing Neoliberalism: The 1970s Energy Crisis and the Making of Modern America. Energy Humanities. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023.

Child of the Dark

Jesus, Carolina Maria de. Child of the Dark: The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus. Translated by David St. Clair. Signet Classics. New York: New American Library, 2003.

Searching for Africa in Brazil

Capone, Stefania. Searching for Africa in Brazil: Power and Tradition in Candomble. Durham: Duke University Press, 2010.

Born in Blood and Fire (4th Edition)

Chasteen, John Charles. Born in Blood & Fire: A Concise History of Latin America. Fourth edition. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.

Born in Blood and Fire: Latin American Voices (2nd Edition)

Chasteen, John Charles. Born in Blood and Fire: Latin American Voices. Second edition. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2011.

Migration and Creation in Aztec and Maya Literature

Bricker, Victoria Reifler. Migration and Creation in Aztec and Maya Literature. Indigenous Cultures of Latin America Series, 2. New York: Peter Lang, 2023.

The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual

Cruse, Harold. The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: A Historical Analysis of the Failure of Black Leadership. New York Review Books Classics. New York: New York Review Books, 2005. Originally published in 1967.

Jesmyn Ward

Harrison, Sheri-Marie, Arin Keeble, and Maria Elena Torres-Quevedo, eds. Jesmyn Ward: New Critical Essays. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023.

New Books (November 2023)

Ain't I an Anthropologist

Freeman Marshall, Jennifer L. Ain't I an Anthropologist: Zora Neale Hurston, Beyond the Literary Icon. New Black Studies. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2023.

A Daughter of the Samurai

Sugimoto, Etsu Inagaki. A Daughter of the Samurai. Foreword by Janice P Nimura, introduction by Christopher Morley. Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing, 2023.

The Unwinding (ebook)

Packer, George. The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America. London: Faber and Faber, 2013.

The Second Coming of the KKK

Gordon, Linda. The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition. New York, NY: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2018.

The Evolving Presidency (6th Edition)

Nelson, Michael, ed. The Evolving Presidency: Landmark Documents. Sixth edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: CQ Press, 2019.

Eli and the Octopus

García Matt. Eli and the Octopus: The CEO Who Tried to Reform One of the World's Most Notorious Corporations. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2023.

The Rediscovery of America

Blackhawk, Ned. The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History. The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2023.

New Books (October 2023)

Oil, Wheat and Wobblies

Sellars, Nigel Anthony. Oil, Wheat & Wobblies: The Industrial Workers of the World in Oklahoma, 1905-1930. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998.

Woman

Faderman, Lillian. Woman: The American History of an Idea. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022.

New Books (September 2023)

New Daughters of Africa

Busby, Margaret, ed. New Daughters of Africa. Oxford: Myriad Editions, 2019.

Daughters of Africa

Busby, Margaret, ed. Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient Egyptian to the Present. New York: Pantheon Books, 1992.

Terms of Exchange

Merkel, Ian. Terms of Exchange: Brazilian Intellectuals and the French Social Sciences. The Life of Ideas. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022.

Up in the Air (DVD)

Jason Reitman, director. Up in the Air (DVD). Paramount Home Entertainment, 2010.

The Great Gatsby

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. Edited by James L. W West. Introduction by Jesmyn Ward, and foreword by Eleanor Anne Lanahan. New York: Scribner, 2020.

Fight of the Century

Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, eds. Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases. New York: Avid Reader Press, 2020.

The Anthropocene and the Undead

Bacon, Simon, ed. The Anthropocene and the Undead: Cultural Anxieties in the Contemporary Popular Imagination. Lexington Books Horror Studies. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2022.

Dawn

Butler, Octavia E. Dawn. Book One of the Xenogenesis Trilogy. New York: Aspect, 1997.

Ecotopia

Callenbach, Ernest. Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston. 40th Anniversary Epistle Edition. Second ed. Berkeley, California: Banyan Tree Books in association with Heyday Books, 2014.

New Books (August 2023)

The Fire This Time

Ward, Jesmyn. The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race. London: Bloomsbury, 2018.

Shoot an Iraqi

Bilal, Wafaa, and Kari Lydersen. Shoot an Iraqi: Art, Life and Resistance Under the Gun. New York: City Lights, 2013.

Migrant Futures

Bahng, Aimee. Migrant Futures: Decolonizing Speculation in Financial Times. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018.

Insurgent Aesthetics

Kapadia, Ronak K. Insurgent Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War. Art History Publication Initiative. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019.

New Books (July 2023)

King: A Life

Eig, Jonathan. King: A Life. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.

Mute Compulsion

Mau, Søren. Mute Compulsion: A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital. La Vergne: Verso, 2023.

Supervision

Hamacher, Sophie, and Jessica Hankey, eds. Supervision: On Motherhood and Surveillance. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2023.

Voor elkaar met elkaar

Beuker, Chris. Voor elkaar met elkaar: Black Lives Matter. Soesterberg: Uitgeverij Aspekt, 2022.

New Books (June 2023)

The Declassification Engine

Connelly, Matthew. The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals About America's Top Secrets. New York: Pantheon Books, 2023.

Pretend We're Dead

Newitz, Annalee. Pretend We're Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture. E-Duke Books Scholarly Collection. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006.

Art-Horror

Gmelch, Adrian. Art-Horror: Die Filme von Ari Aster und Robert Eggers. Marburg: Büchner Verlag, 2022.

Cancel Wars

Ben-Porath, Sigal R. Cancel Wars: How Universities Can Foster Free Speech, Promote Inclusion, and Renew Democracy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023.

If Then

Lepore, Jill. If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future. New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2021.

New Books (May 2023)

Original Meanings (Ebook)

Rakove, Jack N. Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution. History (Booknotes). New York: A.A. Knopf, 1996.

The Blood of Emmett Till

Tyson, Timothy B. The Blood of Emmett Till. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017.

Adventure Capitalism

Craib, Raymond B. Adventure Capitalism: A History of Libertarian Exit, from the Era of Decolonization to the Digital Age. Spectre. Oakland: PM Press, 2022.

New Books (April 2023)

Selected Letters of Langston Hughes

Selected Letters of Langston Hughes. Edited by Arnold Rampersad and David E Roessel. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.

Trumping the Media

Albrecht, Michael Mario. Trumping the Media: Politics and Democracy in the Post-Truth Era. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.

American Mass Incarceration and Post-Network Quality Television

Flamand, Lee A. American Mass Incarceration and Post-Network Quality Television: Captivating Aspirations. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2022.

The Case against the Supreme Court

Chemerinsky, Erwin. The Case against the Supreme Court. New York: Penguin Books, 2015.

The Penguin Guide to the United States Constitution

Beeman, Richard R. The Penguin Guide to the United States Constitution: A Fully Annotated Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution and Amendments, and Selections from the Federalist Papers. New York: Penguin Group, 2010.

A Machine That Would Go of Itself

Kammen, Michael. A Machine That Would Go of Itself: The Constitution in American Culture. London: Taylor and Francis, 2017.

The South

Reed Jr, Adolph. The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives. La Vergne: Verso, 2022.

New Books (March 2023)

The Blackademic Life

Porter, Lavelle. The Blackademic Life: Academic Fiction, Higher Education, and the Black Intellectual. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2020.

Essential Essays (2 volumes)

Hall, Stuart. Essential Essays. Edited by David Morley. 2 volumes. Stuart Hall: Selected Writings. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019.

Complete Writings and Selected Correspondence of John Dickinson (2 Volumes)

Jane E Calvert, Christopher F Minty, and Nathan Kozuskanich, eds. The Complete Writings and Selected Correspondence of John Dickinson. 2 volumes. Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 2020.

New Books (January-February 2023)

Literary Mathematics

Gavin, Michael. Literary Mathematics: Quantitative Theory for Textual Studies. Stanford Text Technologies Series Redwood City: Stanford University Press, 2022.

The Making of Global Capitalism (ebook)

Panitch, Leo, and Sam Gindin. The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire. London: Verso, 2013.

Building the American Republic, Volume 1: A Narrative History to 1877

Watson, Harry L, Building the American Republic, Volume 1: A Narrative History to 1877. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018.

Building the American Republic, Volume 2: A Narrative History from 1877

Jane Elizabeth Dailey. Building the American Republic, Volume 2: A narrative history from 1877. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018.

Abyss

Hastings, Max. Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962. London: William Collins, 2022.

It's Not Free Speech

Bérubé Michael, and Jennifer Ruth. It's Not Free Speech: Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022.

Final Report of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol

Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol. Final Report of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol. Report / 117th Congress, 2d Session, House of Representatives, 117-663. Washington: U.S. Government Publishing Office, 2022.