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House, but No Garden Apartment Living in Bombay’s Suburbs, 1898–1964 Nikhil Rao 2012 Fall

The emergence of apartment living in the suburbs in mid-twentieth-century Bombay

Little White Houses How the Postwar Home Constructed Race in America Dianne Harris 2012 Fall

How the ordinary American house contributed to definitions of middle-class whiteness and an exclusionary housing market in the postwar era

Resolutions 3 Global Networks of Video Ming-Yuen S. Ma and Erika Suderburg, Editors 2012 Fall

Examines the ever-morphing state of video’s deployment in art, culture, and society

Capital Fictions The Literature of Latin America’s Export Age Ericka Beckman 2012 Fall

How literature interpreted Latin America’s first major period of capitalist expansion

Digital Memory and the Archive Wolfgang Ernst Jussi Parikka, Editor 2012 Fall

Explores how media infrastructure, not content, shapes contemporary digital culture

Unlearning the City Infrastructure in a New Optical Field Swati Chattopadhyay 2012 Fall

A new way to describe the city—through the lens of popular culture and street life

Body Drift Butler, Hayles, Haraway Arthur Kroker 2012 Fall

Brings three major feminist theorists into critical dialogue for the first time

The Primitive, the Aesthetic, and the Savage An Enlightenment Problematic Tony C. Brown 2012 Fall

How the exotic constitutes Enlightenment aesthetic theory

Mechademia 7 Lines of Sight Frenchy Lunning, Editor 2012 Fall

Tracing the impact of anime and manga’s radical break with Cartesian perspective

Archaeology of Minnesota The Prehistory of the Upper Mississippi River Region Guy Gibbon 2012 Fall

A precontact history of Minnesota that reveals the relevance of archaeology to our understanding of the world today

Twelve Views from the Distance Mutsuo Takahashi 2012 Fall

An incandescent memoir of a boy’s coming of age in wartime Japan

Poems of a Penisist Mutsuo Takahashi 2012 Fall

A collection of homoerotic poetry by one of Japan’s most prominent poets

The Slumbering Masses Sleep, Medicine, and Modern American Life Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer 2012 Fall

An eye-opening look at why a “good night’s sleep” might be anything but

The Red Land to the South American Indian Writers and Indigenous Mexico James H. Cox 2012 Fall

Recovers an entire era as a major period in American Indian writing

Troubling the Family The Promise of Personhood and the Rise of Multiracialism Habiba Ibrahim 2012 Fall

Discovers the roots of multiracialism in the feminist movement

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