American Cultures and Global Contexts Center
Parent: Department of English
eScholarship stats: Breakdown by Item for July through October, 2026
| 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 | 2,633 | 350 | 2,283 | 13.3% |
| 68d207jg | International Clientele, from Dressing Up: The Women Who influenced French Fashion | 920 | 616 | 304 | 67.0% |
| 38356082 | Zora’s Politics: A Brief Introduction | 803 | 214 | 589 | 26.7% |
| 2bz2s32r | "Demonic Grounds: Sylvia Wynter," excerpt from Demonic Grounds (2006) | 789 | 165 | 624 | 20.9% |
| 47f1c8tc | Why the Negro Won’t Buy Communism (1951) | 670 | 357 | 313 | 53.3% |
| 33d5v6p1 | From the “Island Of Garbage” to Dark Maga: The Resurgence of a Masculinist Alt-Right in the 2024 Election? | 649 | 270 | 379 | 41.6% |
| 0647844d | The ABCs of Chinese Pop: Wang Leehom and the Marketing of a Global Chinese Celebrity | 622 | 186 | 436 | 29.9% |
| 5sb9d392 | Owning the Revolution: Race, Revolution, and Politics from Havana to Miami, 1959–1963 | 618 | 266 | 352 | 43.0% |
| 3km2v5dc | Introduction to The Chinese and the Iron Road | 610 | 364 | 246 | 59.7% |
| 7188527q | TGI Fridays In Kandahar: Fast Food, Military Contracting, and Intimacies of Force in the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars | 596 | 91 | 505 | 15.3% |
| 09h5b6m1 | Reception, Circulation, Desire: Liv Ullmann and the Transnational Journeys of a Scandinavian Actress | 572 | 89 | 483 | 15.6% |
| 6g08h8vs | From Radiation Effects to Consanguineous Marriages: American Geneticists and Colonial Science in the Atomic Age | 571 | 155 | 416 | 27.1% |
| 8n70b1b6 | Techno-Orientalism with Chinese Characteristics: Maureen F. McHugh’s <em>China Mountain Zhang</em> | 560 | 76 | 484 | 13.6% |
| 9jk269dd | Hasty Departures: The Evacuation of American Citizens from Europe at the Outbreak of World War II | 551 | 68 | 483 | 12.3% |
| 0pn2w8cs | Looking In, Looking Out: The Chinese-Caribbean Diaspora through Literature—Meiling Jin, Patricia Powell, Jan Lowe Shinebourne | 545 | 226 | 319 | 41.5% |
| 64j8t6p0 | Excerpt from <em>Dead Stars: American and Philippine Literary Perspectives on the American Colonization of the Philippines</em> | 539 | 122 | 417 | 22.6% |
| 82m5j3f5 | A Trans <em>national</em> Native American Studies? Why Not Studies That Are Trans- <em>Indigenous</em> ? | 520 | 94 | 426 | 18.1% |
| 0wp587sj | Tricontinental Routes of Solidarity: Stokely Carmichael in Cuba | 517 | 97 | 420 | 18.8% |
| 6k40j7q7 | Translation Processes and Cultural Critique in My Annotated Chinese Translation of Huckleberry Finn | 512 | 316 | 196 | 61.7% |
| 3x8054pt | Consider the Coconut: Scientific Agriculture and the Racialization of Risk in the American Colonial Philippines | 502 | 148 | 354 | 29.5% |
| 1j6535gv | Excerpt from Sing and Sing On: Sentinel Musicians and the Making of the Ethiopian American Diaspora | 495 | 418 | 77 | 84.4% |
| 5mn177gq | Transpacific Exceptionalism: The Making of Japan-US Militarist Interimperiality | 484 | 201 | 283 | 41.5% |
| 3kq8c3g3 | The Transnational Viking: The Role of the Viking in Sweden, the United States, and Swedish America | 463 | 106 | 357 | 22.9% |
| 2pm9g4q2 | The Afro-American | 462 | 148 | 314 | 32.0% |
| 2md6f6fr | Bilingual Humor, Authentic Aunties, and the Transnational Vernacular at Gezi Park | 458 | 332 | 126 | 72.5% |
| 6c81k3t1 | Kookie Thoughts: Imagining the United States Pavilion at Expo 67 (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bubble) | 446 | 83 | 363 | 18.6% |
| 78w3x553 | The Curious Case of Sick Keesar: Tracing the Roots of South Asian Presence in the Early Republic | 446 | 72 | 374 | 16.1% |
| 1mf6j8kf | Benjamin Rush's Travels Towards Peace | 444 | 330 | 114 | 74.3% |
| 0p22m4tb | Beyond K's Specter: Chang-rae Lee’s <em>A Gesture Life</em> , Comfort Women Testimonies, and Asian American Transnational Aesthetics | 440 | 75 | 365 | 17.0% |
| 5ps5x93q | The Pacific Proving Grounds and the Proliferation of Settler Environmentalism | 435 | 138 | 297 | 31.7% |
| 6mh4z71j | A Sea of Stars? Towards an Astropelagic Reading of Outer Space with Jacques Lacan and Hannah Arendt | 434 | 109 | 325 | 25.1% |
| 0jg5d00j | Birdseye’s Frosted Possession: Processing, Storing, and Transmitting the Gift of Inuit Thermocultural Knowledge, | 432 | 97 | 335 | 22.5% |
| 3x68h6kb | Interzone’s a Riot: William S. Burroughs and Writing the Moroccan Revolution | 432 | 53 | 379 | 12.3% |
| 4k3816ts | Black Atlantic Currents: Mati Diop’s Atlantique and the Field of Transnational American Studies | 432 | 104 | 328 | 24.1% |
| 0dt8v3mq | From “False” Neutrality to “True” Socialism: US “Sweden-bashing” during the Later Palme Years, 1973–1986 | 429 | 82 | 347 | 19.1% |
| 8v3242dj | Franco/Spanish Entanglements in Florida and the Circumatlantic | 425 | 126 | 299 | 29.6% |
| 2bf4k8zq | A Transnational Tale of Teenage Terror: <em>The Blackboard Jungle</em> in Global Perspective | 406 | 146 | 260 | 36.0% |
| 16v4g0b1 | “Speaking German Like Nobody’s Business”: Anna May Wong, Walter Benjamin, and the Possibilities of Asian American Cosmopolitanism | 394 | 126 | 268 | 32.0% |
| 92m7b409 | The Making of a Hemispheric Intellectual-Statesman: Leo S. Rowe in Argentina (1906–1919) | 393 | 107 | 286 | 27.2% |
| 6308x270 | Uncovering a Cover: Marketing Swedish Crime Fiction in a Transnational Context | 387 | 80 | 307 | 20.7% |
| 28q3p1nv | Emerging from the Shadows: The Visual Arts and Asian American History | 382 | 246 | 136 | 64.4% |
| 30m769ph | Imperial Revisionism: US Historians of Latin America and the Spanish Colonial Empire (ca. 1915–1945) | 382 | 76 | 306 | 19.9% |
| 2b9067vd | Let Us Remember <em>Fengliu</em> instead of Miseries: <em>Dayou</em> Poems and Chinese Diaspora | 381 | 90 | 291 | 23.6% |
| 7pw6k038 | The Aesthetics of Remembering 9/11: Towards a Transnational Typology of Memorials | 380 | 140 | 240 | 36.8% |
| 7082m41v | The Making of the American Calorie and the Metabolic Metrics of Empire | 375 | 135 | 240 | 36.0% |
| 78k1r8vc | Excerpt from <em>Zoot Suit: The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style</em> | 373 | 107 | 266 | 28.7% |
| 5vn092kk | Linguistic Marginalities: Becoming American without Learning English | 366 | 81 | 285 | 22.1% |
| 50k6k78p | Dancing in the Diaspora: Cultural Long-Distance Nationalism and the Staging of Chineseness by San Francisco’s Chinese Folk Dance Association | 358 | 105 | 253 | 29.3% |
| 50x8g24g | Restructuring Respectability, Gender, and Power: Aida Overton Walker Performs a Black Feminist Resistance | 357 | 87 | 270 | 24.4% |
| 7js418zn | Chapter Two from <em> Global Families: A History of Asian International Adoption in America <em> </em> </em> | 354 | 115 | 239 | 32.5% |
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