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African American Studies

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Clothed in Meaning

Literature, Labor, and Cotton in Nineteenth-Century America

By Sylvia Jenkins Cook
Subjects: Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature, American Studies, African American Studies, Class Studies
Series: Class : Culture

Textured readings of the literary expression of workers in the era of big cotton

Of Vagabonds and Fellow Travelers

African Diaspora Literary Culture and the Cultural Cold War

By Cedric Tolliver
Subjects: American Studies, Class Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, African Studies, African American Studies, Diaspora Studies
Series: Class : Culture

Yields new insights by connecting Cold War counter-hegemonic writings in English and French by intellectuals of the African diaspora
 

Dreams for Dead Bodies

Blackness, Labor, and the Corpus of American Detective Fiction

By Miriam Michelle Robinson
Subjects: American Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, African American Studies, Class Studies, 19th Century Literature
Series: Class : Culture

Explores U.S. detective fiction's deep engagement with the shifting dynamics of race and labor in America
 

Black America in the Shadow of the Sixties

Notes on the Civil Rights Movement, Neoliberalism, and Politics

By Clarence Lang
Subjects: American Studies, African American Studies, History, African American History, Class Studies, Literary Studies
Series: Class : Culture

A spirited argument for moving beyond the legacy of the Civil Rights era to best understand the current situation of African Americans

Dividing Lines

Class Anxiety and Postbellum Black Fiction

By Andreá N. Williams
Subjects: African American Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, American Studies, Class Studies
Series: Class : Culture

Provides fresh insights on the intersection of race and class in black fiction from the 1880s to 1900s

The Wire

Race, Class, and Genre

Edited by Liam Kennedy & Stephen Shapiro
Subjects: American Studies, African American Studies, Class Studies, Media Studies, T.V. & Radio, Urban Studies
Series: Class : Culture

Wide-ranging perspectives on "the best dramatic series ever created"

American Socialist Triptych

The Literary-Political Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Upton Sinclair, and W. E. B. Du Bois

By Mark Van Wienen
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, American Studies, African American Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Class Studies
Series: Class : Culture

A closer look at three American writers sheds new light on the evolution of socialist thought in the U.S.

Grassroots at the Gateway

Class Politics and Black Freedom Struggle in St. Louis, 1936-75

By Clarence Lang
Subjects: History, American History, African American Studies, Class Studies, Political Science, American Studies
Series: Class : Culture

Offers a new conceptualization of black workingclass participation in the civil rights movement

Commerce in Color

Race, Consumer Culture, and American Literature, 1893-1933

By James C. Davis
Subjects: American Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, African American Studies, Class Studies
Series: Class : Culture

Examines the critical role that race played in the birth of U.S. consumer culture 

Moisture of the Earth

Mary Robinson, Civil Rights and Textile Union Activist

Edited by Fran Leeper Buss
Subjects: Gender Studies, Women's Studies, American Studies, Class Studies, History, Labor History, African American Studies
Series: Class : Culture

A voice from the margins that refuses to be silenced

Let Me Live

By Angelo Herndon
Introduction by Marlon Ross
Subjects: African American Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, American Studies, History, Labor History, Class Studies
Series: Class : Culture

The passionate prison autobiography of Angelo Herndon, Communist union organizer of the 1930s

Workin' on the Chain Gang

Shaking Off the Dead Hand of History

By Walter Mosley
Subjects: African American Studies, American Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Class Studies
Series: Class : Culture

A passionate examination of the social and economic injustices that continue to shackle the American people

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