The American Literatures Initiative

American Hybrid Poetics: Gender, Mass Culture, and Form by Amy Moorman Robbins

American Hybrid Poetics: Gender, Mass Culture, and Form

The American Literatures Initiative

Amy Moorman Robbins

188 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction gender literary informative reflective relaxing medium-paced
When Sex Changed: Birth Control Politics and Literature Between the World Wars by Layne Parish Craig

When Sex Changed: Birth Control Politics and Literature Between the World Wars

The American Literatures Initiative

Layne Parish Craig

220 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction gender literary informative reflective medium-paced
Writing the Ghetto: Class, Authorship, and the Asian American Ethnic Enclave by Yoonmee Chang

Writing the Ghetto: Class, Authorship, and the Asian American Ethnic Enclave

The American Literatures Initiative

Yoonmee Chang

208 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction literary politics race informative reflective medium-paced
Unbecoming Americans: Writing Race and Nation from the Shadows of Citizenship, 1945-1960 by Joseph Keith

Unbecoming Americans: Writing Race and Nation from the Shadows of Citizenship, 1945-1960

The American Literatures Initiative

Joseph Keith

240 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history literary race challenging reflective medium-paced
The Autobiography of Citizenship: Assimilation and Resistance in U.S. Education by Tova Cooper

The Autobiography of Citizenship: Assimilation and Resistance in U.S. Education

The American Literatures Initiative

Tova Cooper

280 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction education history informative reflective medium-paced
Main Street and Empire: The Fictional Small Town in the Age of Globalization by Ryan Poll

Main Street and Empire: The Fictional Small Town in the Age of Globalization

The American Literatures Initiative

Ryan Poll

238 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history literary challenging reflective slow-paced
Abandoning the Black Hero: Sympathy and Privacy in the Postwar African American White-Life Novel by John C. Charles

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

The American Literatures Initiative

John C. Charles

280 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction literary race reflective medium-paced
Loyal Subjects: Bonds of Nation, Race, and Allegiance in Nineteenth-Century America by Elizabeth DuQuette

Loyal Subjects: Bonds of Nation, Race, and Allegiance in Nineteenth-Century America

The American Literatures Initiative

Elizabeth DuQuette

288 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history literary race informative medium-paced
The Romance of Race: Incest, Miscegenation, and Multiculturalism in the United States, 1880-1930 by Jolie A. Sheffer

The Romance of Race: Incest, Miscegenation, and Multiculturalism in the United States, 1880-1930

The American Literatures Initiative

Jolie A. Sheffer

248 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history race informative reflective medium-paced
Transatlantic Spectacles of Race: The Tragic Mulatta and the Tragic Muse by Kimberly Snyder Manganelli

Transatlantic Spectacles of Race: The Tragic Mulatta and the Tragic Muse

The American Literatures Initiative

Kimberly Snyder Manganelli

256 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction literary race challenging informative reflective medium-paced