American Cultures and Global Contexts Center

Parent: Department of English

eScholarship stats: Breakdown by Item for July through October, 2026

ItemTitleTotal requestsDownloadView-only%Dnld
2bc4k55rChop Suey as Imagined Authentic Chinese Food: The Culinary Identity of Chinese Restaurants in the United States2,6333502,28313.3%
68d207jgInternational Clientele, from Dressing Up: The Women Who influenced French Fashion92061630467.0%
38356082Zora’s Politics: A Brief Introduction80321458926.7%
2bz2s32r"Demonic Grounds: Sylvia Wynter," excerpt from Demonic Grounds (2006)78916562420.9%
47f1c8tcWhy the Negro Won’t Buy Communism (1951)67035731353.3%
33d5v6p1From the “Island Of Garbage” to Dark Maga: The Resurgence of a Masculinist Alt-Right in the 2024 Election? 64927037941.6%
0647844dThe ABCs of Chinese Pop: Wang Leehom and the Marketing of a Global Chinese Celebrity62218643629.9%
5sb9d392Owning the Revolution: Race, Revolution, and Politics from Havana to Miami, 1959–196361826635243.0%
3km2v5dcIntroduction to The Chinese and the Iron Road61036424659.7%
7188527qTGI Fridays In Kandahar: Fast Food, Military Contracting, and Intimacies of Force in the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars5969150515.3%
09h5b6m1Reception, Circulation, Desire: Liv Ullmann and the Transnational Journeys of a Scandinavian Actress5728948315.6%
6g08h8vsFrom Radiation Effects to Consanguineous Marriages: American Geneticists and Colonial Science in the Atomic Age57115541627.1%
8n70b1b6Techno-Orientalism with Chinese Characteristics: Maureen F. McHugh’s <em>China Mountain Zhang</em>5607648413.6%
9jk269ddHasty Departures: The Evacuation of American Citizens from Europe at the Outbreak of World War II5516848312.3%
0pn2w8csLooking In, Looking Out: The Chinese-Caribbean Diaspora through Literature—Meiling Jin, Patricia Powell, Jan Lowe Shinebourne54522631941.5%
64j8t6p0Excerpt from <em>Dead Stars: American and Philippine Literary Perspectives on the American Colonization of the Philippines</em>53912241722.6%
82m5j3f5A Trans <em>national</em> Native American Studies? Why Not Studies That Are Trans- <em>Indigenous</em> ?5209442618.1%
0wp587sjTricontinental Routes of Solidarity: Stokely Carmichael in Cuba5179742018.8%
6k40j7q7Translation Processes and Cultural Critique in My Annotated Chinese Translation of Huckleberry Finn51231619661.7%
3x8054ptConsider the Coconut: Scientific Agriculture and the Racialization of Risk in the American Colonial Philippines50214835429.5%
1j6535gvExcerpt from Sing and Sing On: Sentinel Musicians and the Making of the Ethiopian American Diaspora4954187784.4%
5mn177gqTranspacific Exceptionalism: The Making of Japan-US Militarist Interimperiality48420128341.5%
3kq8c3g3The Transnational Viking: The Role of the Viking in Sweden, the United States, and Swedish America46310635722.9%
2pm9g4q2The Afro-American46214831432.0%
2md6f6frBilingual Humor, Authentic Aunties, and the Transnational Vernacular at Gezi Park45833212672.5%
6c81k3t1Kookie Thoughts: Imagining the United States Pavilion at Expo 67 (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bubble)4468336318.6%
78w3x553The Curious Case of Sick Keesar: Tracing the Roots of South Asian Presence in the Early Republic4467237416.1%
1mf6j8kfBenjamin Rush's Travels Towards Peace44433011474.3%
0p22m4tbBeyond K's Specter: Chang-rae Lee’s <em>A Gesture Life</em> , Comfort Women Testimonies, and Asian American Transnational Aesthetics4407536517.0%
5ps5x93qThe Pacific Proving Grounds and the Proliferation of Settler Environmentalism43513829731.7%
6mh4z71jA Sea of Stars? Towards an Astropelagic Reading of Outer Space with Jacques Lacan and Hannah Arendt43410932525.1%
0jg5d00jBirdseye’s Frosted Possession: Processing, Storing, and Transmitting the Gift of Inuit Thermocultural Knowledge,4329733522.5%
3x68h6kbInterzone’s a Riot: William S. Burroughs and Writing the Moroccan Revolution4325337912.3%
4k3816tsBlack Atlantic Currents: Mati Diop’s Atlantique and the Field of Transnational American Studies43210432824.1%
0dt8v3mqFrom “False” Neutrality to “True” Socialism: US “Sweden-bashing” during the Later Palme Years, 1973–19864298234719.1%
8v3242djFranco/Spanish Entanglements in Florida and the Circumatlantic42512629929.6%
2bf4k8zqA Transnational Tale of Teenage Terror: <em>The Blackboard Jungle</em> in Global Perspective40614626036.0%
16v4g0b1“Speaking German Like Nobody’s Business”: Anna May Wong, Walter Benjamin, and the Possibilities of Asian American Cosmopolitanism39412626832.0%
92m7b409The Making of a Hemispheric Intellectual-Statesman: Leo S. Rowe in Argentina (1906–1919)39310728627.2%
6308x270Uncovering a Cover: Marketing Swedish Crime Fiction in a Transnational Context3878030720.7%
28q3p1nvEmerging from the Shadows: The Visual Arts and Asian American History38224613664.4%
30m769phImperial Revisionism: US Historians of Latin America and the Spanish Colonial Empire (ca. 1915–1945)3827630619.9%
2b9067vdLet Us Remember <em>Fengliu</em> instead of Miseries: <em>Dayou</em> Poems and Chinese Diaspora3819029123.6%
7pw6k038The Aesthetics of Remembering 9/11: Towards a Transnational Typology of Memorials38014024036.8%
7082m41vThe Making of the American Calorie and the Metabolic Metrics of Empire37513524036.0%
78k1r8vcExcerpt from <em>Zoot Suit: The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style</em>37310726628.7%
5vn092kkLinguistic Marginalities: Becoming American without Learning English3668128522.1%
50k6k78pDancing in the Diaspora: Cultural Long-Distance Nationalism and the Staging of Chineseness by San Francisco’s Chinese Folk Dance Association35810525329.3%
50x8g24gRestructuring Respectability, Gender, and Power: Aida Overton Walker Performs a Black Feminist Resistance3578727024.4%
7js418znChapter Two from <em> Global Families: A History of Asian International Adoption in America <em> </em> </em>35411523932.5%

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