Focusing on a period of American history marked by a sharp division between Anglo-Americans (''Americans'') and non-Anglo European immigrants (''foreigners''), Orm Øverland examines the creation and dissemination of ''homemaking myths'': stories that weave immigrants into the basic fabric of America by linking them to the pivotal events and ideas ......
Sure to make you think twice before responding to the next telephone sales call you receive, this volume explores why telephone boiler rooms and other scams thrive and how fraudulent techniques and deception migrate to and from conventional businesses. The Boiler Room and Other Telephone Sales Scams is grounded in the nine years Robert Stevenson ......
Shipwrecked sailors, samurai seeking a material and sometimes spiritual education, and laborers seeking to better their economic situation: these early Japanese travelers to the West occupy a little-known corner of Asian American studies. Pacific Pioneers profiles the first Japanese who resided in the United States or the Kingdom of Hawaii for a ......
Scholars from a wide array of disciplines describe and debate postcolonialism as it applies to America in this authoritative and timely collection. Investigating topics such as law and public policy, immigration and tourism, narratives and discourses, race relations, and virtual communities, Postcolonial America clarifies and challenges prevailing ......
At the dawn of the twenty-first century, all of us consider ourselves to be citizens of something-but of what? Nation-states? Regions? Ethnic groups? Corporations?An accomplished set of meditations by one of Europe's leading Americanists, Them and Us is a rich comparative study of European and American cultural traditions and their influence on ......
Liberating Theologies in the Slave Narrative Tradition
In this subtle and illuminating study, Kimberly Rae Connor surveys examples of contemporary literature, drama, art, and music that extend the literary tradition of African-American slave narratives. Revealing the powerful creative links between this tradition and liberation theology's search for grace, she shows how these artworks profess a ......
Treating Old Testament stories as the product of an oral traditional world, A Prelude to Biblical Folklore sets biblical narrative in a broad cross-cultural context and reveals much about the richness and complexity of the ancient Israelite civilization that produced it.Using a unique combination of biblical scholarship and folklore methodology, ......
Five centuries before the Pilgrims landed in Massachusetts, indigenous North Americans had already built a vast urban center on the banks of the Mississippi River where East St. Louis is today. This is the story of North America's largest archaeological site, told through the lives, personalities, and conflicts of the men and women who excavated ......
African-American Migrants, Community, and Working-Class Activism in Cleveland, 1915-45
Langston Hughes called it ''a great dark tide from the South'': the unprecedented influx of blacks into Cleveland that gave the city the nickname ''Alabama North.'' In this remarkable study, Kimberley Phillips reveals the breadth of working-class black experiences and activities in Cleveland and the extent to which these were shaped by traditions ......
