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4 Saints in 3 Acts: A Snapshot of the American Avant-Garde in the 1930s
Patricia Allmer and John Sears
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Four Saints in Three Acts was a major avant-garde phenomenon of the 1930s, an experimental opera...
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The Solace of Water
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After the loss of her young son, Carver, an African-American preacher’s wife named Delilah Evans...
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Kosher USA: How Coke Became Kosher and Other Tales of Modern Food
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Kosher USA follows the fascinating journey of kosher food through the modern industrial food system....
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Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films
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This classic iconic study of black images in American motion pictures has been updated and revised,...
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American Prison
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In 2014, Shane Bauer was hired for 9Ù an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private...
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Tango: The Art History of Love
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In this generously illustrated book, world- renowned Yale art historian Robert Farris Thompson gives...
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The Half Has Never Been Told
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Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution--the nation's original sin, perhaps, but...
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The Color of Law
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In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading...
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No Way but This: In Search of Paul Robeson
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Film star. Icon. Agitator. Martyr. Paul Robeson was a brilliant student and champion athlete who...
Justice Leah Ward Sears: Seizing Serendipity
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This is the first full biography of Justice Leah Ward Sears. In 1992 Sears became the first woman...