A Renegade History of the United States

by Thaddeus Russell

  Lott, Eric. Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

  Miller, Kerby A. Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.

  Miller, Wilbur R. Cops and Bobbies: Police Authority in New York and London, 1830–1870. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977.

  O’Sullivan, Patrick, ed. The Creative Migrant. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994.

  Quinlin, Michael P. Irish Boston. Guilford, Conn.: Globe Pequot Press, 2004.

  Roediger, David R. The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class. New York: Verso, 1991.

  ———. Towards the Abolition of Whiteness: Essays on Race, Politics, and Working Class History. New York: Verso, 1994.

  ———. Working Toward Whiteness: How America’s Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs. New York: Basic Books, 2005.

  Rowland, Thomas J. “Irish American Catholics and the Quest for Respectability in the Coming of the Great War, 1900–1917.” Journal of American Ethnic History 15 (1996): 3–31.

  Schneider, Eric C. In the Web of Class: Delinquents and Reformers in Boston, 1810s–1930s. New York: New York University Press, 1992.

  Shaw, Richard. Dagger John: The Unquiet Life and Times of Archbishop John Hughes of New York. New York: Paulist Press, 1977.

  Tomko, Linda J. Dancing Class: Gender, Ethnicity, and Social Divides in American Dance, 1890–1920. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999.

  Way, Peter. Common Labour: Workers and the Digging of North American Canals, 1780–1860. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

  Williams, W. H. A. ’Twas Only an Irishman’s Dream: The Image of Ireland and the Irish in American Popular Song Lyrics, 1800–1920. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996.

  CHAPTER 7

  Abernathy, Arthur Talmage. The Jew a Negro: Being a Study of the Jewish Ancestry from an Impartial Standpoint. Moravian Falls, N.C.: Dixie Publishing, 1910.

  Blady, Ken. The Jewish Boxers Hall of Fame. New York: Shapolsky Publishers, 1988.

  Blee, Kathleen M. Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.

  Bodner, Allen. When Boxing Was a Jewish Sport. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1997.

  Daniels, Roger and Otis L. Graham. Debating American Immigration, 1882–Present. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2001.

  Davis, Mac. From Moses to Einstein: They All Are Jews. New York: Jordan Publishing Co., 1937.

  Diner, Hasia R. In the Almost Promised Land: American Jews and Blacks, 1915–1935. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.

  Dinnerstein, Leonard. Antisemitism in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

  Erenberg, Lewis A. Steppin’ Out: New York City Nightlife and the Transformation of American Culture, 1890–1930. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984.

  ———. Swingin’ The Dream: Big Band Jazz and The Rebirth of American Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.

  Ferris, Marcie Cohen and Mark I. Greenberg, eds. Jewish Roots in Southern Soil: A New History. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2006.

  Ford, Henry. The International Jew: The World’s Foremost Problem, Vol. 1–4. Dearborn, Mich.: The Dearborn Publishing Co., 1920–1922.

  Gabler, Neal. An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood. New York: Crown Publishers, 1988.

  Gerstle, Gary. American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001.

  Gertzman, Jay A. Bookleggers and Smuthounds: The Trade in Erotica, 1920–1940. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.

  Goldstein, Eric L. The Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race, and American Identity. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006.

  Gurock, Jeffrey S. Judaism’s Encounter with American Sports. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005.

  ———. When Harlem Was Jewish. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979.

  Levine, Peter. Ellis Island to Ebbets Field: Sport and the American Jewish Experience. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

  MacLean, Nancy. Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

  Melnick, Jeffrey Paul. A Right to Sing the Blues: African Americans, Jews, and American Popular Song. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999.

  Mezzrow, Mezz. Really the Blues. New York: Random House, 1946.

  Riess, Steven A., ed. Sports and the American Jew. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1998.

  Rogin, Michael Paul. Blackface, White Noise: Jewish Immigrants in the Hollywood Melting Pot. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.

  Rogoff, Leonard. “Is the Jew White?: The Racial Place of the Southern Jew.” American Jewish History 85, no. 3 (1997): 195–230.

  Sachar, Howard Morley. A History of the Jews in America. New York: Knopf, 1992.

  Saleski, Gdal. Famous Musicians of a Wandering Race. New York: Bloch Publishing Company, 1927.

  Slobin, Mark. Tenement Songs: The Popular Music of the Jewish Immigrants. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1982.

  Sollors, Werner. Beyond Ethnicity: Consent and Descent in American Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.

  Suisman, David. Selling Sounds: The Commercial Revolution in American Music. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2009.

  Vaillant, Derek. Sounds of Reform: Progressivism and Music in Chicago, 1873–1935. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.

  Zangwill, Israel. The Melting-Pot: Drama in Four Acts. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1909.

  Zurawik, David. The Jews of Prime Time. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2003.

  CHAPTER 8

  Boulard, Garry. Just a Gigolo: The Life and Times of Louis Prima. Lafayette, La.: Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1989.

  Brandfon, Robert L. Cotton Kingdom of the New South: A History of the Yazoo Mississippi Delta from Reconstruction to the Twentieth Century. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1967.

  Brunn, H. O. The Story of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band. New York: Da Capo Press, 1977.

  Carr, Ian, Digby Fairweather, and Brian Priestley. The Rough Guide to Jazz. New York: Rough Guides, 2004.

  D’Acierno, Pellegrino, ed. The Italian American Heritage: A Companion to Literature and Arts. New York: Garland Publishing, 1999.

  De Stefano, George. An Offer We Can’t Refuse: The Mafia in the Mind of America. New York: Faber and Faber, 2006.

  Erenberg, Lewis A. Swingin’ The Dream: Big Band Jazz and The Rebirth of American Culture. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1984.

  Ewen, David. Men of Popular Music. Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1944.

  Fikentscher, Kai. “You Better Work!”: Underground Dance Music in New York City. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 2000.

  Foerster, Robert F. The Italian Emigration of Our Times. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1919.

  Grant, Madison. The Passing of the Great Race; or, The Racial Basis of European History. New York: C. Scribner’s Sons, 1921.

  Greene, Victor. A Passion for Polka: Old-Time Ethnic Music in America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.

  Guglielmo, Jennifer and Salvatore Salerno. Are Italians White? How Race Is Made in America. New York: Routledge, 2003.

  Guglielmo, Thomas A. White on Arrival: Italians, Race, Color, and Power in Chicago, 1890–1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

  Higham, John. Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860–1925. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1955.

  LaGumina, Salvatore. The Humble and the Heroic: Wartime Italian Americans. Youngstown, OH: Cambria Press, 2006.

  ———. WOP: A Documentary History of Anti-
Italian Discrimination in the United States. San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1973.

  Light, Alan, ed. The Vibe History of Hip Hop. New York: Three Rivers Press, 1999.

  Lawrence, Tim. Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970–1979. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003.

  Luconi, Stefano. From Paesani to White Ethnics: The Italian Experience in Philadelphia. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001.

  Martin, Linda and Kerry Segrave. Anti-rock: The Opposition to Rock ‘n’ Roll. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1988.

  McCracken, Allison. “‘God’s Gift to Us Girls’: Crooning, Gender, and the Re-Creation of American Popular Song, 1928–1933.” American Music 17, no. 4 (1999): 365–395.

  Morris, Ronald L. Wait Until Dark: Jazz and the Underworld, 1880–1940. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1980.

  Mustazza, Leonard, ed. Frank Sinatra and Popular Culture: Essays on an American Icon. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1998.

  Nakamura, Julia Volpelletto. “The Italian American Contribution to Jazz.” Italian Americana 8 (1986): 23.

  Orsi, Robert A. The Madonna of 115th Street: Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, 1880–1950. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985.

  Pugliese, Stanislao G., ed. Frank Sinatra: History, Identity, and Italian American Culture. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

  Roediger, David R. Colored White: Transcending the Racial Past. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

  Ross, Edward Alsworth. The Old World in the New: The Significance of Past and Present Immigration to the American People. New York: The Century Co., 1914.

  Shapiro, Peter. Turn the Beat Around: The Secret History of Disco. New York: Faber and Faber, 2005.

  Spiro, Jonathan Peter. Defending the Master Race: Conservation, Eugenics, and the Legacy of Madison Grant. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2009.

  Sudhalter, Richard M. Lost Chords: White Musicians and Their Contribution to Jazz, 1915–1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

  Summers, Anthony and Robbyn Swan. Sinatra: The Life. New York: Knopf, 2005.

  Sweeney, Arthur. “Mental Tests for Immigrants.” The North American Review 215 (1922): 600–612.

  Ward, Brian. Just My Soul Responding: Rhythm and Blues, Black Consciousness, and Race Relations. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

  Ward, Geoffrey C. Jazz: A History of America’s Music. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000.

  Warne, Frank Julian. The Tide of Immigration. New York: D. Appleton, 1916.

  CHAPTER 9

  Beecher, Henry Ward. Lectures to Young Men on Industry and Idleness. New York: Fowlers and Wells, 1848.

  Blaszczyk, Regina Lee. Imagining Consumers: Design and Innovation from Wedgwood to Corning. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.

  Carnegie, Andrew. “Wealth.” North American Review 148.39 (1889).

  Chapin, Robert Coit. The Standard of Living Among Workingmen’s Families in New York City. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1909.

  Chernow, Ron. Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. New York: Random House, 1998.

  Converse, Jean M. Survey Research in the United States: Roots and Emergence 1890–1960. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2009.

  Dubofsky, Melvyn and Warren Van Tine, eds., Labor Leaders in America. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987.

  Enstad, Nan. Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure: Working Women, Popular Culture, and Labor Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.

  Erenberg, Lewis A. Steppin’ Out: New York City Nightlife and the Transformation of American Culture, 1890–1930. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1984.

  Ewen, Stuart. Captains of Consciousness: Advertising and the Social Roots of Consumer Culture. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976.

  Horowitz, Daniel. The Morality of Spending: Attitudes Toward the Consumer Society in America, 1875–1940. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985.

  Kann, Mark E. On the Man Question: Gender and Civic Virtue in America. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991.

  Kasson, John F. Amusing the Millions: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century. New York: Hill and Wang, 1976.

  LaSelle, Mary A. The Young Woman Worker. Boston: Pilgrim Press, 1914.

  Lebergott, Stanley. Pursuing Happiness: American Consumers in the Twentieth Century. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993.

  Nye, David E. Technology Matters: Questions to Live With. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2006.

  Patten, Simon Nelson. Product and Climax. New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1909.

  Peiss, Kathy. Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986.

  Phelan, Rev. J. J. Motion Pictures as a Phase of Commercial Amusement in Toledo, Ohio. Toledo: Little Book Press, 1919.

  Richardson, Bertha June. The Woman Who Spends: A Study of Her Economic Function. Boston: Whitcomb & Barrows, 1904.

  Rodgers, Daniel T. The Work Ethic in Industrial America, 1850–1920. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978.

  Salvatore, Nick. Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1982.

  Stein, Leon and Philip Taft, eds. Workers Speak: Self Portraits. New York: Arno, 1971.

  Veblen, Thorstein. The Theory of the Leisure Class. New York: Dover Publications, 1994.

  Wald, Lillian D. The House on Henry Street. New York: H. Holt and Co., 1915.

  Wayland, Francis. The Elements of Political Economy. New York: Leavitt, Lord & Company, 1837.

  Weber, Max. The Protestant Ethic and the “Spirit” of Capitalism. New York: Penguin Books, 2002.

  CHAPTER 10

  Bowser, Eileen. The Transformation of Cinema, 1907–1915. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.

  Burbank, Jeff. License to Steal: Nevada’s Gaming Control System in the Megaresort Era. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2000.

  Carter, David. Stonewall: The Riots that Sparked the Gay Revolution. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2004.

  Charyn, Jerome. Gangsters and Gold Diggers: Old New York, The Jazz Age, and the Birth of Broadway. New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2003.

  Chilton, John and Max Jones. Louis: The Louis Armstrong Story, 1900–1971. New York: Da Capo Press, 1988.

  De Stefano, George. An Offer We Can’t Refuse: The Mafia in the Mind of America. New York: Faber and Faber, 2006.

  Doherty, Thomas Patrick. Precode Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930–1934. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.

  Duberman, Martin B. Stonewall. New York, N.Y.: Dutton, 1993.

  Eisenbach, David. Gay Power: An American Revolution. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2006.

  Fried, Albert. The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Gangster in America. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1980.

  Gabler, Neal. An Empire of their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood. New York: Anchor, 1989.

  Hampton, Benjamin Bowles. A History of the Movies. New York: Covici, Friede, 1931.

  Jacobs, Lewis. The Rise of the American Film: A Critical History. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1939.

  Joselit, Jenna Weissman. Our Gang: Jewish Crime and the New York Jewish Community, 1900–1940. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983.

  Keller, Morton. Regulating a New Society: Public Policy and Social Change in America, 1900–1933. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994.

  Kobler, John. Capone: The Life and World of Al Capone. New York: Da Capo Press, 2003.

  May, Lary. The Big Tomorrow: Hollywood and the Politics of the American Way. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.

  McCracken, Robert D. Las Vegas: The Great American Playground. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1997.

  Miller, Nathan. New World Coming: The 1920s and the Making of Modern America. New York: Scribner, 2003.

  Moehring, Eu
gene P. Resort City in the Sunbelt: Las Vegas, 1930–1970. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1989.

  Morris, Ronald L. Wait Until Dark: Jazz and the Underworld, 1880–1940. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1980.

  Newton, Michael. Mr. Mob: The Life and Crimes of Moe Dalitz. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 2009.

  Peretti, Burton W. The Creation of Jazz: Music, Race, and Culture in Urban America. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994.

  Pietrusza, David. Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius who Fixed the 1919 World Series. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2003.

  Raab, Selwyn. Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America’s Most Powerful Mafia Empires. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2005.

  Ramsaye, Terry. A Million and One Nights: A History of the Motion Picture. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1926.

  Rockaway, Robert A. But He Was Good to His Mother: The Lives and Crimes of Jewish Gangsters. Jerusalem: Gefen Publishing House, 2000.

  Shapiro, Nat and Nat Hentoff. Hear Me Talkin’ to Ya: The Story of Jazz as Told by the Men who Made It. New York: Dover Publications, 1966.

  Sklar, Robert. Movie-Made America: A Social History of American Movies. New York: Random House, 1975.

  Slide, Anthony. Early American Cinema. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1994.

  CHAPTER 11

  Cogdell, Christina. Eugenic Design: Streamlining America in the 1930s. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.

  Diggins, John P. Mussolini and Italy: The View from America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1972.

  Erens, Patricia. The Jew in American Cinema. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984.

  Gabler, Neal. An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood. New York: Crown Publishers, 1988.

  Garraty, John A. “The New Deal, National Socialism, and the Great Depression.” The American Historical Review 78.4 (1973): 907–944.

  Jacobs, Lea. The Wages of Sin: Censorship and the Fallen Woman Film, 1928–1942. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.

  Johnson, Hugh Samuel. The Blue Eagle from Egg to Earth. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1935.

  Kevles, Daniel J. In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity. New York: Knopf, 1985.