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Exiles at Home
Shirley Elizabeth Thompson
New Orleans has always captured our imagination as an exotic city in its racial ambiguity and pursuit of les bons temps. In tracing the experiences of creoles of color, Thompson illuminates the role ordinary Americans played in shaping an understanding of identity and belonging.
Hardcover February 2009
Unmaking the Public University
Christopher Newfield
Unmaking the Public University is the story of how conservatives have maligned and restructured public universities in a campaign to end public education’s democratizing influence on American society.
Hardcover May 2008