American Cultures and Global Contexts Center

eScholarship stats: Breakdown by Item for March through June, 2024

Item	Title	Total requests	Download	View-only	%Dnld
2bc4k55r	Chop Suey as Imagined Authentic Chinese Food: The Culinary Identity of Chinese Restaurants in the United States	708	248	460	35.0%
64j8t6p0	Excerpt from <em>Dead Stars: American and Philippine Literary Perspectives on the American Colonization of the Philippines</em>	705	39	666	5.5%
3943t6p3	Twain's Rhetoric of Irony in 'the War-Prayer'	511	123	388	24.1%
5sb9d392	Owning the Revolution: Race, Revolution, and Politics from Havana to Miami, 1959–1963	410	273	137	66.6%
9jk269dd	Hasty Departures: The Evacuation of American Citizens from Europe at the Outbreak of World War II	401	32	369	8.0%
38356082	Zora’s Politics: A Brief Introduction	364	22	342	6.0%
2qt9w2hh	From the End of History to Nostalgia: <em>The Manchurian Candidate</em>, Then and Now	347	60	287	17.3%
4k3816ts	Black Atlantic Currents: Mati Diop’s Atlantique and the Field of Transnational American Studies	338	116	222	34.3%
3x8054pt	Consider the Coconut: Scientific Agriculture and the Racialization of Risk in the American Colonial Philippines	321	80	241	24.9%
5v99h98b	Archipelagic Thinking: The Insular, the Archipelago, and the Borderwaters – A Conversation	318	33	285	10.4%
28q3p1nv	Emerging from the Shadows: The Visual Arts and Asian American History	306	210	96	68.6%
8qn312mm	Anticolonial Anti-Intervention: Puerto Rican Independentismo and the US ‘Anti-Intervention’ Left in Reagan-era Boston	306	8	298	2.6%
2bz2s32r	"Demonic Grounds: Sylvia Wynter," excerpt from Demonic Grounds (2006)	288	130	158	45.1%
0s11w0xw	The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire	276	216	60	78.3%
5ps5x93q	The Pacific Proving Grounds and the Proliferation of Settler Environmentalism	265	83	182	31.3%
7188527q	TGI Fridays In Kandahar: Fast Food, Military Contracting, and Intimacies of Force in the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars	244	12	232	4.9%
64v9w7r9	From Baldwin’s Paris to Benjamin’s: The Architectonics of Race and Sexuality in <em>Giovanni’s Room</em>	235	214	21	91.1%
361824dg	The Banality of American Empire: The Curious Case of Guam, USA	226	58	168	25.7%
19c9k0br	Dismantling Bellicose Identities: Strategic Language Games in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s <em>DICTEE</em>	225	171	54	76.0%
30m769ph	Imperial Revisionism: US Historians of Latin America and the Spanish Colonial Empire (ca. 1915–1945)	218	165	53	75.7%
4v0239nj	Hygiene, Whiteness and Immigration: Upton Sinclair and the “Jungle” of the American Health Care System	199	56	143	28.1%
2bf4k8zq	A Transnational Tale of Teenage Terror: <em>The Blackboard Jungle</em> in Global Perspective	197	129	68	65.5%
8fz4t188	Colonial Photography Across Empires and Islands	179	96	83	53.6%
82m5j3f5	A Trans<em>national</em> Native American Studies? Why Not Studies That Are Trans-<em>Indigenous</em>?	176	59	117	33.5%
7082m41v	The Making of the American Calorie and the Metabolic Metrics of Empire	173	55	118	31.8%
1ks1v1vj	The Politics of Transnational Memory in Amy Tan’s <em>The Joy Luck Club</em>	170	48	122	28.2%
8787c124	Mental Illness as Cultural Narrative: Dementia, Im/migrant Experience and InterAmerican Entanglements in David Chariandy’s Soucouyant	170	47	123	27.6%
3x68h6kb	Interzone’s a Riot: William S. Burroughs and Writing the Moroccan Revolution	169	13	156	7.7%
57k5g5pc	Introduction: Transnational Nuclear Imperialisms	166	95	71	57.2%
16v4g0b1	“Speaking German Like Nobody’s Business”: Anna May Wong, Walter Benjamin, and the Possibilities of Asian American Cosmopolitanism	162	75	87	46.3%
70z6w502	‘We’d rather eat rocks’: Contesting the Thirty Meter Telescope in a Struggle over Science and Sovereignty in Hawai‘i	162	25	137	15.4%
0sn66459	The Nevada Movement: A Model of Trans-Indigenous Antinuclear Solidarity	161	43	118	26.7%
2jf9d1b9	Dylan	160	24	136	15.0%
88h0r2fn	The Ever-Changin' Times and Myth of Bob Dylan	157	52	105	33.1%
6ks7d3fv	Regular Revolutions: Feminist Travels in Julia Alvarez's <em>How the García Girls Lost Their Accents</em> and <em>In the Time of the Butterflies</em>	152	42	110	27.6%
0pn2w8cs	Looking In, Looking Out: The Chinese-Caribbean Diaspora through Literature—Meiling Jin, Patricia Powell, Jan Lowe Shinebourne	149	43	106	28.9%
6jn4d3fn	Authenticity and Autofiction: John Updike’s “The Bulgarian Poetess”	149	47	102	31.5%
2k72p3w7	Journeys to Others and Lessons of Self: Carlos Castaneda in <em>Camposcape</em>	148	3	145	2.0%
98t70856	Migration in Times of Pandemic: Mark Twain’s “3,000 Years Among the Microbes” and the Prospect of Planetary Health	146	35	111	24.0%
50x8g24g	Restructuring Respectability, Gender, and Power: Aida Overton Walker Performs a Black Feminist Resistance	143	31	112	21.7%
1r45m1dq	Feminist Novels in a "Non-Feminist" Age: Pearl S. Buck on Asian and American Women	142	39	103	27.5%
7pw6k038	The Aesthetics of Remembering 9/11: Towards a Transnational Typology of Memorials	141	64	77	45.4%
8n70b1b6	Techno-Orientalism with Chinese Characteristics: Maureen F. McHugh’s <em>China Mountain Zhang</em>	141	14	127	9.9%
53c6c1kp	Redefining the American in Asian American Studies: Transnationalism, Diaspora, and Representation	140	5	135	3.6%
47f1c8tc	Why the Negro Won’t Buy Communism (1951)	139	60	79	43.2%
4sj7h85v	Introduction from Uncle Tom's Cabins: The Transnational History of America's Most Mutable Book (2018)	139	9	130	6.5%
78w3x553	The Curious Case of Sick Keesar: Tracing the Roots of South Asian Presence in the Early Republic	139	25	114	18.0%
1j69v7rf	"Exploring Japanese-Mexican Relations in Los Angeles and the US-Mexico Borderlands" from Transborder Los Angeles	138	33	105	23.9%
0wp587sj	Tricontinental Routes of Solidarity: Stokely Carmichael in Cuba	134	28	106	20.9%
15k9x17f	Nothing Synthetic about It: Translating Bob Dylan’s Domestic and International Civil Wars	130	42	88	32.3%

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