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Class Studies

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Living Labor

Fiction, Film, and Precarious Work

By Joseph B. Entin
Subjects: American Studies, Class Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature
Series: Class : Culture

Examines new narratives about work and workers in the age of transnational migration and precarious labor

Staged Readings

Contesting Class in Popular American Theater and Literature, 1835-75

By Michael D'Alessandro
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, American Literature, American Studies, Class Studies

How popular culture helped to create class in nineteenth-century America

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
 

Dirty Work

Domestic Service in Progressive-Era Women’s Fiction

By Ann Mattis
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Class Studies, American Studies
Series: Class : Culture

What representations of domestic service in literature reveal about various Progressive Era cultural narratives

The Half-Life of Deindustrialization

Working-Class Writing about Economic Restructuring

By Sherry Lee Linkon
Subjects: American Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Cultural Studies, Class Studies
Series: Class : Culture

Examines how contemporary American working- class literature reveals the long- term effects of deindustrialization on individuals and communities

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
 

Anti-Imperialist Modernism

Race and Transnational Radical Culture from the Great Depression to the Cold War

By Benjamin Balthaser
Subjects: American Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Class Studies, History
Series: Class : Culture

A unique excavation of how U.S. cross-border, anti-imperialist movements shaped cultural modernism

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

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.

Hog Butchers, Beggars, and Busboys

Poverty, Labor, and the Making of Modern American Poetry

By John Marsh
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Modern Literature, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Class Studies
Series: Class : Culture

A new reading of 20th-century poets and their subject matter sheds new light on the development of American literary modernism

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 

Vanishing Moments

Class and American Literature

By Eric Schocket
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, American Studies, Class Studies
Series: Class : Culture

Explores how the effects of class permeated American culture in nearly a century of literary writing

An Angle of Vision

Women Writers on Their Poor and Working-Class Roots

Edited by Lorraine Lopez
Subjects: Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Class Studies, American Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Memoir, Latinx Studies
Series: Class : Culture

Uncommon perspectives by prominent women writers on class, money, family, and home

Natural Acts

Gender, Race, and Rusticity in Country Music

By Pamela Fox
Subjects: American Studies, Music, Ethnomusicology, Class Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature
Series: Class : Culture

Hillbilly, honky-tonk, Nashville glitz, or alt.country: what makes music authentically country?

The Stamp of Class

Reflections on Poetry and Social Class

By Gary Lenhart
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Cultural Studies, American Literature, American Studies, Class Studies

Thoughtfully investigates the important yet little-heralded topic of the effect of class on the poet's life and work

Chicano Novels and the Politics of Form

Race, Class, and Reification

By Marcial Gonzalez
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Latinx Studies, Class Studies, American Studies
Series: Class : Culture

Explores the relationship between race and class and between politics and literary form in major works of Chicano literature over the last hundred years

You Work Tomorrow

An Anthology of American Labor Poetry, 1929-41

Edited by John Marsh
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Literature, History, Labor History, Class Studies
Series: Class : Culture

The first-ever anthology of American labor poetry of the Great Depression

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

The Syntax of Class

Writing Inequality in Nineteenth-Century America

By Amy Schrager Lang
Subjects: American Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, 19th Century Literature, Class Studies
Series: Class : Culture

Explores the literary expression of the crisis of social class in the U.S. throughout the second half of the nineteenth century

The Bread of Time

Toward an Autobiography

By Philip Levine
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Literature, Class Studies
Series: Poets on Poetry

An extraordinary memoir from one of our most celebrated poets

Class, Critics, and Shakespeare

Bottom Lines on the Culture Wars

By Sharon Kay O'Dair
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, 16th and 17th Century Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Class Studies

A challenging critique of academic culture and its blindspots

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