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Recent American Studies Book Publication: Criminal Genius in African American and US Literature, 1793–1845 by Erin Forbes How did creative genius develop in tandem with the criminalization of Blackness in the early United States?
Workers of All Colors Unite: Race and the Origins of American Socialism, by Lorenzo Costaguta.
Josephine McCarty had many identities. But in Albany, New York, she was known as "Dr. Emma Burleigh," the abortionist of Howard Street.
University Of Minnesota Press Examining the racial underpinnings of food, microbial medicine, and disgust in America.
On Wednesday 26 June, the Department of American Studies at the University of Innsbruck presents a livestreamed discussion and Q&A event to launch new books by Dr. Michael Docherty (The Recursive Frontier: Race, Space, and the Literary Imagination of Los Angeles) and Dr. Ben Robbins (Faulkner's Hollywood Novels: Women Between Page and Screen)
How international oil companies navigated the local, segregated landscape of north Louisiana in the first decades of the twentieth century.
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