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Publications
Cross Cultural Harlem: Reimagining Race and Place
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Sandhya Shukla
Columbia University Press (2024)
In the Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning
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Grace Elizabeth Hale
Little, Brown and Company (2023)
Toni Morrison: Imagining Freedom
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Lawrie Balfour
Oxford University Press (2023)
Colonial Racial Capitalism
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Lisa Marie Cacho
Duke University Press (2022)
Paradoxes of Nostalgia: Cold War Triumphalism and Global Disorder since 1989
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Penny Von Eschen
Duke University Press (2022)
The Latino Continuum and the Nineteenth-Century Americas: Literature, Translation, and Historiography
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Carmen Lamas
Oxford University Press (2021)
Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture
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Grace Elizabeth Hale
University of North Carolina Press (2020)
Just Around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination
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Jack Hamilton
Harvard University Press (2016)
The Rise of Liberal Religion: Book Culture and American Spirituality in the Twentieth Century
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Matthew S. Hedstrom
Oxford University Press (2015)
The Unsettlement of America Translation, Interpretation, and the Story of Don Luis de Velasco, 1560-1945
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Anna Brickhouse
Oxford University Press (2014)
Imperial Blues: Geographies of Race and Sex in Jazz Age New York
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Fiona Ngô
Duke University Press (2014)
Social Death: Racialized Rightlessness and the Criminalization of the Unprotected
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Lisa Marie Cacho
NYU Press (2012)
Shantytown, USA: Forgotten Landscapes of the Working Poor
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Lisa Goff
Harvard University Press (2012)
Democracy's Reconstruction: Thinking Politically with W.E.B. Du Bois
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Lawrie Balfour
Oxford University Press (2011)
The Oriental Obscene: Violence and Racial Fantasies in the Vietnam Era
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Sylvia Chong
Duke University Press (2011)
American Pietàs: Visions of Race, Death, and the Maternal
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Ruby C. Tapia
University of Minnesota Press (2011)
Segregating Sound: Inventing Folk and Pop Music in the Age of Jim Crow
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Karl Hagstrom Miller
Duke University Press (2010)
Our South: Geographic Fantasy and the Rise of National Literature
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Jennifer Greeson
Harvard University Press (2010)
A Nation of Outsiders: How the White Middle Class Fell in Love with Rebellion in Postwar America
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Grace Elizabeth Hale
Oxford University Press (2010)
Imagining our Americas: Toward a Transnational Frame
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Sandhya Shukla
Duke University Press (2007)
Transamerican Literary Relations and the Nineteenth-Century Public Sphere
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Anna Brickhouse
Cambridge University Press (2005)
Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War
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Penny Von Eschen
Harvard University Press (2004)
India Abroad: Diasporic Cultures of Postwar America and England
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Sandhya Shukla
Princeton University Press (2003)
The Evidence of Things Not Said: James Baldwin and the Promise of American Democracy
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Lawrie Balfour
Cornell University Press (2001)
Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1980-1940
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Grace Elizabeth Hale
Penguin Random House (1998)
Race against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937–1957
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Penny Von Eschen
Cornell University Press (1997)
How Police Abuse the Charge of Resisting Arrest
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Lisa Marie Cacho
Boston Review
