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America singing: The mediation of identity politics in "American Idol"
Performing gender, enacting community: Women, whiteness, and belief in contemporary public demonstrations
Unmasking the myths of democracy in the United States: Narratives of minority race and rights in twentieth century literature and jurisprudence
Improvisation and the making of American literary modernism
The sonic inscription of identity: Music, race, and nostalgia in advertising
Remembering the cruelest month: The network, labor, and haunting of memories of Columbine
Painting the "American Historical Epic": Thomas Hart Benton and race, 1919--1936
Atlanta 'now': Race, history, and place in Atlanta's heritage tourist industry
From Zbaszyn to Manila: The Holocaust odyssey of Joseph Cysner and the Philippine rescue of refugee Jews
"Funny Asians": Comedy and humor in Asian American literature, film, and popular culture
The anticolonial front: Cold War imperialism and the struggle against global white supremacy, 1945-1960
Global Moments: Spectatorship, Violence and the Urban in Contemporary Fiction
Cowboys, gangsters, and beatniks: Alienation in dramas of the American West, 1906-1960
Sowing the seeds of victory: National wartime gardening programs in the United States during World War I
When Vigilance Fails and Fear Prevails: The Dismantling of America's Democracy
Loving Touch: Therapeutic Massage, the Socialization of the Body, and the Healing of US Culture
Confronting Islamophobia: Civil Rights Advocacy in the United States
"Incorrigibly and Invincibly Bachelor": The Unmarried Man and the Isolation of Individualism in Mid-Twentieth-Century U.S. Fiction
"All the Derelicts of the Seas": Port Culture and Narrative Potentiality in U.S. Literature