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| Evelyn Alsultany, Broken: The Failed Promise of Muslim Inclusion, 2022 (NYU Press) | Lanita Jacobs, To Be Real: Truth and Racial Authenticity in African American Standup Comedy, 2022 (Oxford University Press) | Natalia Molina, A Place at the Nayarit How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community, 2022 (University of California Press) |
Leland T. Saito, Building Downtown Los Angeles The Politics of Race and Place in Urban America, 2022 (Stanford University Press) |
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| Nayan Shah, Refusal to Eat: A Century of Prison Hunger Strikes, 2022 (University of California Press) | John Carlos Rowe, Our Henry James in Fiction, Film, and Popular Culture, 2022 (Routledge) | Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo & Manuel Pastor, South Central Dreams Finding Home and Building Community in South L.A., 2021 (NYU Press) |
Shawn McDaniel, Centenary Subjects: Race, Reason, and Rupture in the Americas, 2021 (Vanderbilt University Press) |
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| George J. Sanchez, Boyle Heights: How a Los Angeles Neighborhood Became the Future of American Democracy, 2021 (University of California Press) | Chris Benner & Manuel Pastor, Solidarity Economics: Why Mutuality and Movements Matter, 2021 (Polity) | Amelia Jones, In-Between Subjects: A Critical Genealogy of Queer Performance, 2020 (Routledge) |
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| Lydie Moudileno, Etienne Achille, Charles Forsdick, Postcolonial Realms of Memory: Sites and Symbols in Modern France, 2020 (Liverpool University Press) | Sarah M. A. Gualtieri, Arab Routes: Pathways to Syrian California, 2019 (Stanford University Press) | Karen Tongson, Why Karen Carpenter Matters, 2019 (Univ of Texas Press) | Natalia Molina (Editor), Daniel Martinez HoSang (Editor), Ramón A. Gutiérrez (Editor), Relational Formations of Race: Theory, Method, and Practice, 2019 (UC Press) |
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| Dorinne Kondo, Worldmaking: Race, Performance, and the Work of Creativity, 2019 (Duke Univ. Press) | Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives, 2018 (Abrams) | Juan De Lara, Inland Shift: Race, Space, and Capital in Southern California, 2018 (University of California Press) | Manuel Pastor, State of Resistance: What California’s Dizzying Descent and Remarkable Resurgence Mean for America’s Future, 2018 (The New Press) |
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| Adrian De Leon, Rouge Poetry, 2018 (Mawenzi House) | Viet Thanh Nguyen. The Refugees, 2017 (Grove Press) | Viet Thanh Nguyen, Flashpoints for Asian American Studies, 2017 (Fordham University Press) | Dana Johnson, In the Not Quite Dark, 2016 (Counterpoint Press) |
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| Viet Thanh Nguyen. Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War, 2016 (Harvard University Press) | Chris Benner & Manuel Pastor. Equity, Growth, and Community: What the Nation Can Learn From America’s Metro Areas, 2015 (California, University of California Press) | Janet Hoskins & Viet Thanh Nguyen. Transpacific Studies: Framing an Emerging Field, 2015 (University of Hawaii Press) | Viet Thanh Nguyen. The Sympathizer, 2015 (Grove/Atlantic) |
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| Josh Kun, To Live and Dine in L.A.: Menus and the Making of the Modern City, 2015 (Angel City Press) | Evelyn Alsultany (Editor), Rabab Abdulhadi (Editor), Nadine Naber (Editor), Arab and Arab American Feminisms: Gender Violence, and Belonging, 2015 (Syracuse Univ Press) | Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo. Paradise Transplanted: Migration and the Making of California Gardens, 2014 (University of California Press) | Robeson Taj Frazier. The East Is Black: Cold War China in the Black Radical Imagination, 2014 (Duke University Press Books) |
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| Laura Isabel Serna. Making Cinelandia: American Films and Mexican Film Culture before the Golden Age, 2014 (Duke University Press Books) | Natalia Molina, How Race is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts, 2014 (UC Press) | Josh Kun and Laura Pulido(editors). Black and Brown in Los Angeles: Beyond Conflict and Coalition, 2013 (University of California Press) | Edwin C. Hill JR. Black Soundscapes White Stages: The Meaning of Francophone Sound in the Black Atlantic, 2013 (Johns Hopkins University Press) |
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| Sarah Banet-Weiser. Authentic TM:the Politics of Ambivalence in a Brand Culture. 2012 (NYU Press) | Manuel Pastor, Just Growth: Inclusion and Prosperity in America’s Metropolitan Regions, 2012 (Routledge) | Amelia Jones. Seeing Differently: A History and Theory of Identification and the Visual Arts, 2012 (Routledge) | Jody Aguis Vallejo. Barrios To Burbs: The Making of the Mexican American Middle Class, 2012 (Stanford University Press) |
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| Felix Gutierrez, Racism, Sexism, and the Media: Multicultural Issues Into the New Communications Age, 2012 (SAGE Publications) | Dana Johnson, Elsewhere, California, 2012 (Singapore Books) | Nayan Shah, Stranger Intimacy: Contesting Race, Sexuality and the Law in the North American West, 2012 (University of California Press) | Sherman Jackson, Sufism for Non-Sufis?: Ibn ‘Ata’ Allah al-Sakandari’s Taj al-‘Arus, 2012 (Oxford Univ Press USA) |
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George Sanchez, Beyond Alliances: The Jewish Role in Reshaping the Racial Landscape of Southern California, 2012 (Purdue University Press) |
Oneka LaBennett (Editor), Daniel HoSang (Editor), Laura Pulido (Editor), Racial Formation in the Twenty-First Century, September 2012 (UC Press) |
Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race and Representation after 9/11, August 2012 (NYU Press) |
Oneka LaBennett, She’s Mad Real: Popular Culture and West Indian Girls in Brooklyn, 2011 (NYU Press) |
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| John Carlos Rowe. Afterlives of Modernism: Liberalism, Transnationalism, and Political Critique, 2011 (Dartmouth) | Karen Tongson. Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries, 2011 (New York University) | John Carlos Rowe (Editor), Winfried Fluck (Editor), Donald E. Pease (Editor), Re-Framing the Transnational Turn in American Studies (Re-Mapping the Transnational: A Dartmouth Series in American Studies), 2011 (Dartmouth) | Evelyn Alsultany (Editor), Ella Schohat (Editor), Between the Middle East and the Americas: The Cultural Politics of Diaspora, 2010 (Univ of Michigan Press) |
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| Judith Fossett, Illuminated Darkness: Slavery and Its Shadow in the Long Nineteenth Century, 2010(The University of North Carolina Press) | Alice Echols. Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture, 2010 (W. W. Norton & Co.) | Manuel Pastor, Uncommon Common Ground: Race and America’s Future, 2010 (W. W. Norton & Company) | Amelia Jones, The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader, 2010 (Routledge) |
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| Peter C. Mancall, Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson, 2010 (Basic Books) | John Carlos Rowe (editor), A Concise Companion to American Studies (Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies), 2010 (Wiley-Blackwell) | Sarah Gualtieri, Between Arab and White: Race and Ethnicity in the Early Syrian American Diaspora, 2009 (Univ of California Press) | Dorinne Kondo, Crafting Selves: Power, Gender, and Discourses of Identity in a Japanese Workplace, 2009 (University of Chicago Press) |
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| Sherman Jackson, Islam and the Problem of Black Suffering, 2009 (Oxford University Press) | George Sanchez, Civic Engagement in the Wake of Katrina, 2009 (University of Michigan Press) | María Elena Martínez, Genealogical Fictions: Limpieza de Sangre, Religion, and Gender in Colonial Mexico, 2008 (Stanford University Press) | Todd Boyd, Young, Black, Rich, and Famous: The Rise of the NBA, the Hip Hop Invasion, and the Transformation of American Culture, 2008 (Bison Books) |
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| Sarah Banet-Weiser, Kids Rule! Nickelodeon and Consumer Citizenship, 2007 (Duke University Press) | Lydie Moudileno, Padres Postcoloniales, 2007 (Karthala) | Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Domestica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence, 2007 (University of California Press) | Francille Rusan Wilson. The Segregated Scholars: Black Social Scientists and the Creation of Black Labor Studies, 1890-1950, 2006 (Univ of Virginia Press) |
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| Lanita Jacobs-Huey. From the Kitchen to the Parlor: Language and Becoming in African American Women’s Hair Care, 2006 (Oxford University Press) | Natalia Molina, Fit to Be Citizens? : Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939, 2006 (UC Press) | John Carlos Rowe, The New American Studies, 2005, (University of Minnesota Press) | Sherman Jackson, Islam and the Blackamerican: Looking Toward the Third Resurrection, 2005 (Oxford University Press) |
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| David Román. Performance in America: Contemporary U.S. Culture and the Performing Arts, 2005 (Duke University) | Josh Kun, Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America, 2005 (Univ. of California Press) | Viet Thanh Nguyen. Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America (Race & American Culture), 2002 (Oxford University Press) | Sherman Jackson, On the Boundaries of Theological Tolerance in Islam: Abū Ḥāmid Al-Ghāzalīʼs Fayṣal Al-Tafriqa Bayna Al-Islam Wa Al-zandaqa, 2002 (Oxford Univ Press) |
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| Alice Echols. Shaky Ground: The Sixties and Its Aftershocks, 2002 (Columbia University) | Dana Johnson, Break Any Woman Down: Stories, 2001 (Anchor Books) | Nayan Shah, Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco’s Chinatown, 2001 (Univ. California Press) | Philip J. Ethington, The Public City: The Political Construction of Urban Life in San Francisco, 1850-1900, 2001 (University of California Press) |
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| John Carlos Rowe. Post-Nationalist American Studies, 2000 (University of California) | John Carlos Rowe. Literary Culture and U.S. Imperialism: From the Revolution to World War II, 2000 (Oxford University Press) | Alice Echols, Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin, 2000 (Henry Holt and Company) | Sarah Banet-Weiser. The Most Beautiful Girl in the World, 1999 (University of California Press) |
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| David Roman, Acts of Intervention Performance, Gay Culture, and AIDS, 1998 (Indiana University Press) |
Dorinne Kondo, About Face Performing Race in Fashion and Theater, 1997 (Routledge) |
Todd Edward Boyd, Am I Black Enough for You?: Popular Culture from the ‘Hood and Beyond, 1997 (Indiana University Press) | George J. Sanchez, Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945, 1995 (Oxford University Press) |
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