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Jacques Rivette

Mary M. Wiles

Obama, Clinton, Palin

Making History in Election 2008

Edited by Liette Gidlow

Gender Meets Genre in Postwar Cinemas

Edited by Christine Gledhill

Before the Curse

The Chicago Cubs' Glory Years, 1870-1945

Edited by Randy Roberts and Carson Cunningham

The War of 1812

A Forgotten Conflict

Donald R. Hickey

Reading Machines

Toward an Algorithmic Criticism

Stephen Ramsay

Global Masculinities and Manhood

Edited by Ronald L. Jackson II and Murali Balaji

From Jim Crow to Jay-Z

Race, Rap, and the Performance of Masculinity

Miles White

Combating Mountaintop Removal

New Directions in the Fight against Big Coal

Bryan T. McNeil

Caribbean and Atlantic Diaspora Dance

Igniting Citizenship

Yvonne Daniel

Black Internationalist Feminism

Women Writers of the Black Left, 1945-1995

Cheryl Higashida

Writers of the Black Chicago Renaissance

Edited by Steven C. Tracy

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Events Calendar

Drid Williams at Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN Sat, 28 Jan 2012 15:00:00 CST — Presentation
Immanuel Ness at Barnard College, New York, NY Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:00:00 CST — Lecture
Tess Chakkalakal at the Boston University School of Law, Boston, MA Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:30:00 CST — Lecture
Sue Fawn Chung at the Chinese American Museum of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:00:00 CST — Book Signing
Hands on the Freedom Plow editor and contributors at the Harvard Book Store, Cambridge, MA Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:00:00 CST — Lecture/Signing
Tess Chakkalakal at the University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:00:00 CST — Lecture
Simine Short at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center, Reno NV Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:00:00 CST — Lecture/Signing
Gillum Ferguson at the Putnam County Historical Society, Hennepin, IL Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:30:00 CST — Presentation
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