American Studies

A definitive, bilingual selection of poetry, essays, and letters by one of Puerto Rico’s most beloved poets.

The first study of the Fort Worth Narcotic Farm, an institution that played a critical role in fusing the War on Drugs, mass incarceration, and public health in the American West.

A history of American Western genre comics and how they interacted with contemporaneous political and popular culture.

A close look at the lives of working musicians who aren't the center of their stage.

A multiracial history of civil rights coalitions beyond the farm worker movement in twentieth-century Bakersfield, California.

How Latina/o/x gang literature and film represent women and gay gang members' challenges to gendered, sexual, racial, and class oppression.

How mid-century television anthologies reflected and shaped US values and identities.

More than 100 powerful images by noted photographer Russell Lee that document the working conditions and lives of coal mining communities in the postwar United States; publication coincides with an exhibition at the National Archives in Washington, DC.

A collection of essays that provides advice and strategies for BIPOC scholars on how to survive, thrive, and resist in academic institutions.

The grassroots queer activism and legal challenges that led to a landmark Supreme Court decision in favor of gay and lesbian equality.