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Note for Distance Learners
If you are on a satellite campus or taking classes online, you have the same access to library resources as students on the Alva campus. That includes books in our print collection, which we can deliver by mail or courier. See the Interlibrary Loan page for details:
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Suggested eBooks
The following is a selection from our catalog.
American Studies in Black and White by ISBN: 9780585193595Publication Date:The twelve essays presented here are a representative sample of the pioneering work Sydney Kaplan has produced in the fields of American and black studies. Selected from over fifty published pieces, the essays reflect Kaplan’s lifelong passion to demonstrate the centrality of the African-American experience to our national experience, to show that an understanding of black history is indispensable to an understanding of American history.
Critical and Comparative Perspectives on American Studies by ISBN: 9781443898034Publication Date:This volume explores the convergences and divergences of American studies today and, more specifically, investigates how this discipline might be approached. Drawing on a wide range of perspectives, the essays brought together here address concerns related to the role and capacity of American studies in the early 21st century, amidst alarming circumstances of environmental, economic, and educational degradation in a world characterized by a transnational flux of people, money, and cultures.
The Lonely Crowd by ISBN: 9780300174144Publication Date:The Lonely Crowd is considered by many to be the most influential book of the twentieth century. Its now-classic analysis of the new middle class in terms of inner-directed and other-directed social character opened exciting new dimensions in our understanding of the psychological, political, and economic problems that confront the individual in contemporary American society.
The Myths that Made America: An Introduction to American Studies by ISBN: 9781322079165Publication Date:This essential introduction to American studies examines the core foundational myths upon which the nation is based and which still determine discussions of U.S.-American identities today.
Post-Nationalist American Studies by ISBN: 9780520925267Publication Date:Post-Nationalist American Studies seeks to revise the cultural nationalism and celebratory American exceptionalism that tended to dominate American studies in the Cold War era. The goal of the book’s contributors is a less insular, more trans-national, comparative approach to American Studies, one that questions dominant American myths rather than canonizes them.
