At a Tex-Mex restaurant in a Minneapolis suburb, customers send Christmas and Hanukkah cards to the restaurant, bring in home-baked treats for the staff, and attend the annual employee party. One customer ...

James Lyons is senior lecturer in film at the University of Exeter. He is author of Selling Seattle: Representing Contemporary Urban America and coeditor (with John Plunkett) of Multimedia Histories: ...

Liam O. Purdon is professor of English at Doane College. His work has been published in Studies in Philology, Philological Quarterly, Medievalia et Humanistica, Papers on Language and Literature, English ...

Paul Williams is teaching fellow in English at the University of Exeter. His work has been published in the European Journal of American Culture, Science Fiction Studies, Journal of Transatlantic Studies ...

Joel Nathan Rosen is associate professor of sociology at Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He is author of The Erosion of the American Sporting Ethos: Shifting Attitudes Toward Competition and ...

Chris Goertzen is author of Fiddling for Norway: Revival and Identity; Southern Fiddlers and Fiddle Contests; Made in Mexico: Tradition, Tourism, and Political Ferment in Oaxaca; George P. Knauff's “Virginia ...

David C. Ogden is associate professor of communication at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He is coeditor of Fame to Infamy: Race, Sport, and the Fall from Grace; A Locker Room of Her Own: Celebrity, ...

Omar H. Ali is associate professor of African American history at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. A graduate of the London School of Economics and Political Science, he received his Ph.D. ...

Robin D. G. Kelley, Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in US History, UCLA, is author or editor of numerous books including Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary ...