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  • Stable Views

    Stories and Voices from the Thoroughbred Racetrack

    by Ellen E. McHale ...
    Series series Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World Series
    Stable Views offers an inside look at the thoroughbred racing industry through the words and perspectives of those who labor within its stables. In more than fourteen years of field research, Ellen E. McHale has traveled throughout the Eastern Seaboard, Kentucky, and Louisiana to gather oral narratives from those most intimately involved with racing: the stable workers, exercise riders, and horse ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • New York State Folklife Reader

    Diverse Voices

    Edited by Elizabeth Tucker, Ellen E. McHale ...
    New York and its folklore scholars hold an important place in the history of the discipline. In New York dialogue between folklore researchers in the academy and those working in the public arena has been highly productive. In this volume, the works of New York's academic and public folklorists are presented together.Unlike some folklore anthologies, New York State Folklife Reader does not follow ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • New York State Folklife Reader

    Diverse Voices

    Edited by Elizabeth Tucker, Ellen McHale ...
    New York and its folklore scholars hold an important place in the history of the discipline. In New York dialogue between folklore researchers in the academy and those working in the public arena has been highly productive. In this volume, the works of New York's academic and public folklorists are presented together.Unlike some folklore anthologies, New York State Folklife Reader does not follow ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

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  • Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?

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    by Jesse McCarthy ...
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  • A Writer's Life

    The Margaret Laurence Lectures

    by The Writers' Trust of Canada ...
    For anyone who loves great literature -- or aspires to write it -- this is an essential collection, full of insight, wisdom, humour, and candour from Canada's most important and beloved literary figures.For the past twenty-five years, the Writers' Trust of Canada's annual lecture series, the Margaret Laurence Memorial Lecture, has invited some of Canada's most prominent authors to discuss the ... Read more

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  • The Best American Poetry 2013

    by David Lehman ...
    Series series The Best American Poetry series
    Beloved and inventive poet Denise Duhamel selects the poems for the 2013 edition of The Best American Poetry, “a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title” (Chicago Tribune).Over the last twenty-five years, the Best American Poetry series has become an annual rite of autumn, eagerly awaited and hotly debated: “an essential purchase” (The Washington Post). This year, guest editor Denise D. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • American Cultural History

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Eric Avila ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The iconic images of Uncle Sam and Marilyn Monroe, or the "fireside chats" of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the oratory of Martin Luther King, Jr.: these are the words, images, and sounds that populate American cultural history. From the Boston Tea Party to the Dodgers, from the blues to Andy Warhol, dime novels to Disneyland, the history of American culture tells us how previous generations of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • The Women Who Made New York

    by Julie Scelfo ...
    An illuminating, elegant history of New York City, told through the stories of the women who made it the most exciting and influential metropolis in the worldRead any history of New York City and you will read about men. You will read about men who were political leaders and men who were activists and cultural tastemakers. These men have been lauded for generations for creating the most exciting ... Read more

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  • African American Studies

    The Discipline and Its Dimensions

    by Nathaniel Norment, Jr. ...
    Series Book 110 - Black Studies and Critical Thinking
    African American Studies: The Discipline and Its Dimensions is a comprehensive resource book that recounts the development of the discipline of African American Studies and provides a basic reference source for sixteen areas of knowledge of the discipline: anthropology, art, dance, economics, education, film, history, literature, music, philosophy, psychology, religion, sociology, political ... Read more

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  • Black Cultural Traffic

    Crossroads in Global Performance and Popular Culture

    Edited by Kennell Jackson, Harry Justin Elam Jr. ...
    "A shrewdly designed, generously expansive, timely contribution to our understanding of how 'black' expression continues to define and defy the contours of global (post)modernity. The essays argue persuasively for a transnational ethos binding disparate African and diasporic enactments, and together provide a robust conversation about the nature, history, future, and even possibility of 'blackness ... Read more

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  • After Canaan

    Essays on Race, Writing, and Region

    by Wayde Compton ...
    "Compton pushes us to look beneath the surface—past those comforting tales of nationhood and racial solidarity—to the more nebulous and ever-shifting truth. This is a brilliant and original work that should be mandatory reading for any student of race and history."—Danzy Senna, author of CaucasiaAfter Canaan, the first nonfiction book by acclaimed African Canadian poet Wayde Compton, repositions ... Read more

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