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  • In the American imagination no figure is more central to national identity and... In the American imagination no figure is more central to national identity and the nation s origin story than the cowboy. Yet the Americans and Europeans who settled the U.S. West learned virtually everything they knew about ranching from the... more
  • In the American imagination no figure is more central to national identity and... In the American imagination no figure is more central to national identity and the nation s origin story than the cowboy. Yet the Americans and Europeans who settled the U.S. West learned virtually everything they knew about ranching from the... more
  • In the American imagination no figure is more central to national identity and... In the American imagination no figure is more central to national identity and the nation s origin story than the cowboy. Yet the Americans and Europeans who settled the U.S. West learned virtually everything they knew about ranching from the... more
  • In the American imagination no figure is more central to national identity and... In the American imagination no figure is more central to national identity and the nation s origin story than the cowboy. Yet the Americans and Europeans who settled the U.S. West learned virtually everything they knew about ranching from the... more
  • In the American imagination no figure is more central to national identity and... In the American imagination no figure is more central to national identity and the nation s origin story than the cowboy. Yet the Americans and Europeans who settled the U.S. West learned virtually everything they knew about ranching from the... more
  • In June 1943 the city of Los Angeles was wrenched apart by the worst rioting i... In June 1943 the city of Los Angeles was wrenched apart by the worst rioting it had seen to that point in the twentieth century. Incited by sensational newspaper stories and the growing public hysteria over allegations of widespread Mexican American... more
  • There are few places where mobility has shaped identity as widely as the Ameri... There are few places where mobility has shaped identity as widely as the American West but some locations and populations sit at its major crossroads maintaining control over place and mobility labor and race. In Collisions at the Crossroads... more
  • This book focusses on gender and race and their representation in American SF ... This book focusses on gender and race and their representation in American SF from the 19C to the present and in forms including literature and film. It explores how SF provides a rich medium for both the preservation of and challenges to dominant... more
  • From the Wild West shows of the nineteenth century to the popular movie Wester... From the Wild West shows of the nineteenth century to the popular movie Westerns of the twentieth century one view of an idealized and mythical West has been promulgated. Elyssa Ford suggests that we look beyond these cowboy clichés to complicate... more
  • As students navigate learning and begin to establish a sense of self local sur... As students navigate learning and begin to establish a sense of self local surroundings can have a major influence on the range of choices they make about who they are and who they want to be. This book investigates how various constructions of... more
  • Race and Identity in Hemingway s Fiction explores how Hemingway negotiates rac... Race and Identity in Hemingway s Fiction explores how Hemingway negotiates race as a defining element of American identity. His interest in race and racial identity emerged in his writing and his personal life through attention to skin color... more
  • In African American Girls and the Construction of Identity Sheila Walker close... In African American Girls and the Construction of Identity Sheila Walker closely examines socioeconomic class and explores the way it shapes how African American girls experience race and gender in the process of their identity formation. While all... more
  • Issues of identity have always been central to the American musical in all its... Issues of identity have always been central to the American musical in all its guises. Who appears in musicals who or what they are meant to represent and how over time those representations have been understood and interpreted provide the very... more
  • Remapping Asian American History discusses new frameworks such as transnationa... Remapping Asian American History discusses new frameworks such as transnationalism the political contexts of international migrations and a multipolar approach to the study of contemporary U.S. race relations. Collectively the essays in this volume... more
  • Duana Fullwiley has penned an intimate chronicle of laboratory life in the gen... Duana Fullwiley has penned an intimate chronicle of laboratory life in the genomic age. She presents many of the influential scientists at the forefront of genetics who have redefined how we practice medicine and law and understand ancestry in an... more
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