Our spring sale is on! Use promo code SPRING24 at checkout to save 50% on any order!

American Studies

Showing 1 to 12 of 12 results.

Transformismo

Performing Trans/Queer Cuba

By M. Myrta Leslie Santana
Subjects: Music, Ethnomusicology, Theater and Performance, Latinx Studies, Gender Studies, Gay and Lesbian Studies, American Studies

How drag performance transforms the social landscape of Cuba and illuminates the island’s racial, sexual, and economic inequalities

Geographies of Relation

Diasporas and Borderlands in the Americas

By Theresa Delgadillo
Subjects: Latinx Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory, 20th Century Literature, Latin American Studies, American Studies, Theater and Performance, Poetry and Poetry Criticism

How diaspora and borderlands subjects from across the Americas have represented and performed their interrelationship

Nuyorican Feminist Performance

From the Café to Hip Hop Theater

By Patricia Herrera
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Latinx Studies, Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Studies

Recovers and celebrates the contributions of women artists to the history of this iconic performance venue

Dialectical Imaginaries

Materialist Approaches to U.S. Latino/a Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism

Edited by Marcial Gonzalez & Carlos Gallego
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory, Latinx Studies, American Studies, American Literature
Series: Class : Culture

Gathers materialist readings that provide productive new insights on Latino/a literature in the neoliberal era

Freak Performances

Dissidence in Latin American Theater

By Analola Santana
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Disability Studies, American Studies, Latin American Studies, Literary Studies, Latinx Studies

Explores how theater artists challenge the legacy of colonialism in Latin America through performance

Latin Numbers

Playing Latino in Twentieth-Century U.S. Popular Performance

By Brian Eugenio Herrera
Subjects: American Studies, Theater and Performance, Latinx Studies, Media Studies, Dance

From the conga line to West Side Story to Ricky Martin, how popular performance prompted American audiences to view Latinos as a distinct (and distinctly non-white) ethnic group

Performing Queer Latinidad

Dance, Sexuality, Politics

By Ramon H. Rivera-Servera
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies, Latinx Studies, Sexuality Studies, Cultural Studies, Dance
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

The place of performance in unifying an urban LGBT population of diverse Latin American descent

An Angle of Vision

Women Writers on Their Poor and Working-Class Roots

Edited by Lorraine Lopez
Subjects: Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Class Studies, American Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Memoir, Latinx Studies
Series: Class : Culture

Uncommon perspectives by prominent women writers on class, money, family, and home

Chicano Novels and the Politics of Form

Race, Class, and Reification

By Marcial Gonzalez
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Latinx Studies, Class Studies, American Studies
Series: Class : Culture

Explores the relationship between race and class and between politics and literary form in major works of Chicano literature over the last hundred years

Queering Mestizaje

Transculturation and Performance

By Alicia Arrizon
Subjects: American Studies, Theater and Performance, Sexuality Studies, Latinx Studies
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

Rethinking mestizaje and how it functions as an epistemology of colonialism in diverse sites from Aztlán to Manila, and across a range of cultural materials

The Color of Privilege

Three Blasphemies on Race and Feminism

By Aida Hurtado
Subjects: Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Psychology, African American Studies, American Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Latinx Studies

Sheds new light on women's differing responses to feminism according to factors of ethnicity and race

Taking It to the Streets

The Social Protest Theater of Luis Valdez and Amiri Baraka

By Harry Justin Elam
Subjects: Theater and Performance, African American Studies, Latinx Studies, American Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

An original and valuable assessment of American political theater in the 1960s and 1970s

© 2024, Regents of the University of MichiganBuilt with the U-M Library Design SystemLibrary Privacy StatementThis site is ReaderBound