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Korea Letters in the William Elliot Griffis Collection
An Annotated Selection
Destroy Them Gradually
Displacement as Atrocity
Designing Gardens with Flora of the American East, Revised and Expanded
Culinary Colonialism, Caribbean Cookbooks, and Recipes for National Independence
The Politics of Potential
Global Health and Gendered Futures in South Africa
Strictly Observant
Amish and Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Women Negotiating Media
Reflections on the Pandemic
COVID and Social Crises in the Year Everything Changed
Reflections on the Pandemic
COVID and Social Crises in the Year Everything Changed
Happy Days
Images of the Pre-Sixties Past in Seventies America
Forbes Burnham
The Life and Times of the Comrade Leader
Checkbook Zionism
Philanthropy and Power in the Israel-Diaspora Relationship
Being Human
Political Modernity and Hospitality in Kurdistan-Iraq
Transpacific Cartographies
Narrating the Contemporary Chinese Diaspora in the United States
There She Goes Again
Gender, Power, and Knowledge in Contemporary Film and Television Franchises
The Farm & Wilderness Summer Camps
Progressive Ideals in the Twentieth Century
Not Alone
LGB Teachers Organizations from 1970 to 1985
China and the Internet
Using New Media for Development and Social Change
Between Care and Criminality
Marriage, Citizenship, and Family in Australian Social Welfare
When Cowboys Come Home
Veterans, Authenticity, and Manhood in Post–World War II America
Watching While Black Rebooted!
The Television and Digitality of Black Audiences
Watching While Black Rebooted!
The Television and Digitality of Black Audiences
Trailer Park America
Reimagining Working-Class Communities
The Best Place
Addiction, Intervention, and Living and Dying Young in Vancouver
Suffering Sappho!
Lesbian Camp in American Popular Culture
Self-Alteration
How People Change Themselves across Cultures
Scratchin' and Survivin'
Hustle Economics and the Black Sitcoms of Tandem Productions
Providing a critical history of Tandem Productions, the company behind nearly all the hit Black sitcoms of the 1970s, including Good Times, The Jeffersons, Sanford and Son, and Diff’rent Strokes, Adrien Sebro explores how their sitcom plots paralleled what was happening behind the scenes, as talented African-Americans devised strategies to gain creative agency and fair financial compensation.