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1. The Harlem Renaissance in the American West

   The New Negro's Western Experience

   Edited by Cary D Wintz, Bruce Glasrud

   Series: New Directions in American History

   The Harlem Renaissance, an exciting period in the social and cultural history of the US, has over the past few decades re-established itself as a watershed moment in African American history. However, many of the African American communities outside the urban center of Harlem that participated in...

   Published September 18th 2011 by Routledge
2. Entering the Picture

   Judy Chicago, The Fresno Feminist Art Program, and the Collective Visions of Women Artists

   Edited by Jill Fields

   Series: New Directions in American History

   In 1970, Judy Chicago and fifteen students founded the groundbreaking Feminist Art Program (FAP) at Fresno State. Drawing upon the consciousness-raising techniques of the women's liberation movement, they created shocking new art forms depicting female experiences. Collaborative work and...

   Published September 13th 2011 by Routledge
3. Transgender Migrations

   The Bodies, Borders, and Politics of Transition

   Edited by Trystan Cotten

   Series: New Directions in American History

   Transgender Migrations brings together a top-notch collection of emerging and established scholars to examine the way that the term "migration" can be used not only to look at the way trans bodies migrate from one gender to the (an?) other, but the way that trans people migrate in the larger...

   Published July 19th 2011 by Routledge
4. Breaking the Wave: Women, Their Organizations, and Feminism, 1945–1985

   Edited by Kathleen A. Laughlin, Jacqueline Castledine

   Series: New Directions in American History

   Breaking the Wave is the first anthology of original essays by both younger and established scholars that takes a long view of feminist activism by systematically examining the dynamics of movement persistence during moments of reaction and backlash. Ranging from the "civic feminism" of white...

   Published September 20th 2010 by Routledge
5. Natural Protest

   Essays on the History of American Environmentalism

   Edited by Michael Egan, Jeff Crane

   Series: New Directions in American History

   From Jamestown to 9/11, concerns about the landscape, husbanding of natural resources, and the health of our environment have been important to the American way of life. Natural Protest is the first collection of original essays to offer a cohesive social and political examination of environmental...

   Published November 27th 2008 by Routledge
6. Science and Empire in the Atlantic World

   Edited by James Delbourgo, Nicholas Dew

   Series: New Directions in American History

   Science and Empire in the Atlantic World is the first book in the growing field of Atlantic Studies to examine the production of scientific knowledge in the Atlantic world from a comparative and international perspective. Rather than focusing on a specific scientific field or single national...

   Published October 25th 2007 by Routledge