Book interviews tagged Race
GIANTS: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln
- ISBN: 978 0 446 58009 0
- featured in: Douglass’s and Lincoln’s intertwined story of change and self-making is the nation’s storyDecember 5, 2008
Hotter Than That: The Trumpet, Jazz, and American Culture
- ISBN: 978 0 571 21199 9
- featured in: The trumpet as a force in people’s livesDecember 26, 2008
Adam’s Ancestors: Race, Religion and the Politics of Human Origins
- ISBN: 978 0 8018 8813 7
- featured in: On genesis myths, genetics myths, and the persistent dialogue between science and religion over human beginnings and identityFebruary 6, 2009
Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics
- ISBN: 978 0 262 53306 5 pb
- featured in: Freedom makes control possible, necessary, and never enoughMarch 17, 2009
Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War
- ISBN: 978 0 231 14896 2 hb
- featured in: On Russia, with an open mind
July 10, 2009
Mysteries of Sex: Tracing Women and Men Through American History
- ISBN: 978 0 8078 5945 2
- featured in: Remain vigilant about the continuing mysteries of sexJuly 29, 2009
Slumming: Sexual and Racial Encounters in American Nightlife, 1885-1940
- ISBN: 978 0226322438
- featured in: Mapping the relationship between racial formation and sexual classification in the United StatesAugust 5, 2009
On Tarzan
- ISBN: 978 0820332055
- featured in: Wanting to see if the pursuit of dilettantism and trivia can be intellectually fruitfulAugust 10, 2009
Frantic Panoramas: American Literature and Mass Culture, 1870-1920
- ISBN: 978 0812241747
- featured in: A kind of prehistory of our own media-saturated cultureAugust 31, 2009
Hip-Hop Revolution: The Culture and Politics of Rap
- ISBN: 978 0 7006 1547 6 hb
- featured in: Laypeople will be surprised by the very diversity of the hip-hop communitySeptember 30, 2009
Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity
- ISBN: 978 0822345855
- featured in: How black people, once slaves to fashion, have made fashion their slaveOctober 16, 2009
A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese Confinement in North America
- ISBN: 978 0231129220
- featured in: A North American—not just American—history of Japanese confinementNovember 6, 2009
Knut Hamsun: The Dark Side of Literary Brilliance
- ISBN: 978-0295989457 (hb)
- featured in: The mix of brilliant art and repugnant politics compelled me to write this bookDecember 23, 2009
Youth in a Suspect Society: Democracy or Disposability?
- ISBN: 978 0230613294
- featured in: On the related crisis of youth and democracy
January 8, 2010
Italy in Early American Cinema: Race, Landscape, and the Picturesque
- ISBN: 978 0253221285 pb
- featured in: The aesthetic of racial difference on the cusp of modernityMarch 24, 2010
Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture
- ISBN: 978 0393066753
- featured in: The Disco 1970s were, in fact, the combustible yearsMarch 29, 2010
Morality's Muddy Waters: Ethical Quandaries in Modern America
- ISBN: 978 0812242270
- featured in: Might too much empathy lead to disasters just as too little empathy does?May 3, 2010
Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre
- ISBN: 978 0 465 00921 3
- featured in: We must reject extreme political rhetoric
June 7, 2010
