Dreaming Suburbia: Detroit and the Production of Postwar Space and Culture (African American Life) 0814332285, 9780814332283

Dreaming Suburbia: Detroit and the Production of Postwar Space and Culture (African American Life) 0814332285, 9780814332283

Dreaming Suburbia is a cultural and historical interpretation of the political economy of postwar American suburbanizati

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Dreaming Blackness: Black Nationalism and African American Public Opinion 9780814768457

Black Nationalism is one of the oldest and most enduring ideological constructs developed by African Americans to make s

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Abandoning the Black Hero: Sympathy and Privacy in the Postwar African American White-Life Novel 9780813554341

Abandoning the Black Hero is the first book to examine the postwar African American white-life novel—novels with white p

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Bobweaving Detroit: The Selected Poems of Murray Jackson (African American Life) 0814331947, 9780814331941

Bobweaving Detroit is Murray Jackson's final collection of poems. Dr. Jackson, a highly respected educator, politic

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Westernwear: Postwar American Fashion and Culture 9781350147669, 9781350147676, 9781350147690, 9781350147652

During the prosperous, forward-thinking era after the Second World War, a growing number of men, women, and children acr

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Soundscapes of Liberation: African American Music in Postwar France 9781478021995

Celeste Day Moore traces the popularity of African American music in postwar France to outline how it came to signify bo

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American Dreaming: Immigrant Life on the Margins 9780691225166, 0691037833, 0691037825

American Dreaming chronicles in rich detail the struggles of immigrants who have fled troubled homelands in search of a

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Remaking Respectability: African American Women in Interwar Detroit 1469611007, 9781469611006

In the early decades of the twentieth century, tens of thousands of African Americans arrived at Detroit's Michigan

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Visual Habits: Nuns, Feminism, And American Postwar Popular Culture 9781442683112

From The Nun's Story to The Flying Nun to The Singing Nun, nuns were a major presence in the mainstream media. Sull

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The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit 9781400819294, 9780691011011, 9780691058887

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