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Our gang : a racial history of the little rascals / by Lee, Julia Sun-Joo, 1976-

Subjects: “…Our Gang films History and criticism.…”
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Youth gangs in literature by Johnson, Claudia Durst, 1938-

Table of Contents: “…Outlaw gangs in an outlaw society : Borges' "The dread redeemer Lazarus Morell" and Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- The Irish immigrant : Asbury's Gangs of New York -- The draft riots : Baker's Paradise Alley -- Borges' "Monk Eastman, purveyor of iniquities" -- A heritage of guns : McMurtry's Anything for Billy -- The 1920s in Chicago : Farrell's Studs Lonigan -- Jewish gangs in Brownsville, 1944/45 : Shulman's The Amboy Dukes -- 1940s in Harlem : Wright's Rite of passage -- Nazis and gangs : Golding's The lord of the flies -- A girl gang in the 1950s : Oates' Foxfire -- The 1960s : S.E. …”
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Other renaissances a new approach to world literature /

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Chicago hustle and flow : gangs, gangsta rap, and social class / by Harkness, Geoffrey Victor

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West Side story : cultural perspectives on an American musical / by Wells, Elizabeth Anne, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…: West Side story and the Hispanic -- "I and Velma ain't dumb" : the women of West Side story -- "A boy like that" : the gangs of West Side story -- From the West Side to the East Side : reception and revision -- "Finale" -- Appendix A: Lyrics to select songs -- Appendix B: Chronology -- Appendix C: Cast and crew of various productions, including award nominations and wins.…”
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Old-time music and dance community and folk revival / by Bealle, John

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : conjuring history -- An apocryphal story -- Old-time music revival -- Banjo pedagogy -- Back to the land -- The green house -- The old-time community -- The jukebox -- The orange sheet -- Anne's a bride tonight -- Opening up -- Gardening and dumpstering -- The Bean King -- The Indiana contra dancers' lament -- The Gang of Four -- Easy Street -- Dance camps -- The sovereign self -- Bloomington Quarry Morris -- May Day -- Dare to be square -- The Shuffle Creek Cloggers -- The old library -- Sugar Hill -- Young audiences -- Little Bloomington -- Eight miles from town -- The piano controversy -- The book -- Collection time! …”
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Literature and the environment

Table of Contents: “…Cohen -- Gary snyder, turtle island (1974) / George Hart -- Edward Abbey, The monkey wrench gang (1975) / David Fenimore -- Ursula K. Le Guin, The earthsea trilogy (1977) / Susan Palwick -- Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony (1977) / Scott Slovic -- Barry Lopez, Arctic dreams (1986) / Jen Hill -- Terry Tempest Williams, Refuge (1991) / Cheryll Glotfelty -- Denise Levertov, The life around us (1997) / George Hart.…”
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Nightmares of the lettered city : banditry and literature in Latin America, 1816-1929 / by Dabove, Juan Pablo

Table of Contents: “…El periquillo sarniento : banditry as the non plus ultra -- Facundo : banditry and the state as nomadic war machine -- El chacho : banditry and allegories of legitimation -- O cabelleira : cangaceiros, sacarocracy, and the invention of a national tradition -- El zarco : banditry and foundational allegories for the nation-state -- Criminology : banditry as the wound of history -- Astucia : banditry and insurgent utopia -- Zárate : banditry, nation, and the experience of the limits -- Martín Fierro : banditry and the frontiers of the voice -- Juan Moreira : the gaucho malo as unpopular hero -- Alma gaucha : the gaucho outlaw and the leviathan -- Los bandidos de Ría Frío : banditry, the criminal state, and the critique of Porfirian illusions -- Os sertões : original banditry and the crimes of nations -- La guerra gaucha : bandit and founding father in the epic of the nation-state -- Los de abajo : the feast, the bandit gang, the bola (revolution and its metaphors) -- Cesarismo democrático : banditry and the necessary gendarme (the shadow of the Caudillo I) -- Doña Bárbara : banditry and the illusions of modernity (the shadow of the Caudillo II).…”
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Postcolonial green environmental politics & world narratives /

Table of Contents: “…Arundhati Roy: environment and uneven form / Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee; Jungle tide, devouring reef: (post)colonial anxiety and ecocritique in Sri Lankan literature / Sharae Deckard; Fragments of Shangri-La: "eco-Tibet" and its global circuits / Gang Yue; Diggers, strangers, and broken men: environmental prophecy and the commodifcation of nature in Keri Hulme's The bone people / Laura Wright -- Africa. …”
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