American Studies
- The American Isherwood James J. Berg and Chris Freeman, Editors 2014 Fall
- Shines a critical spotlight on the American life of the famed author
- Savage Preservation The Ethnographic Origins of Modern Media Technology Brian Hochman 2014 Fall
- How ethnographic encounters shaped audiovisual media in late nineteenth and early twentieth century America
- Civil Rights Childhood Picturing Liberation in African American Photobooks Katharine Capshaw 2014 Fall
- The unexpected and evocative role of children’s photographic books in cultural transformation and social change
- Distant Wars Visible The Ambivalence of Witnessing Wendy Kozol 2014 Fall
- Mapping the fraught space between empathy and spectacle in the witnessing of military conflict
- Under Bright Lights Gay Manila and the Global Scene Bobby Benedicto 2014 Fall
- Reassessing gay globalization as seen and lived by third world gay men of means
- Backwater Blues The Mississippi Flood of 1927 in the African American Imagination Richard M. Mizelle Jr. 2014 Fall
- A broad examination of the flood that, prior to Hurricane Katrina in 2005, was the most influential environmental disaster in American history
- Oil Culture Ross Barrett and Daniel Worden, Editors 2014 Fall
- The cultural life of oil—from aesthetics and politics to economy and ecology
- Abolitionist Geographies Martha Schoolman 2014 Fall
- The geographic claims and spatial contradictions of abolitionist literature, from British West Indian Emancipation to the U.S. Civil War
- Chicago Hustle and Flow Gangs, Gangsta Rap, and Social Class Geoff Harkness 2014 Fall
- Explores the symbiotic relationship between gangsta rap and Chicago street gangs
- Total Liberation The Power and Promise of Animal Rights and the Radical Earth Movement David Naguib Pellow 2014 Fall
- All oppression is linked: radical environmental and animal liberation movements in the struggle for social justice
- Debt to Society Accounting for Life under Capitalism Miranda Joseph 2014 Fall
- Reveals how credit, debt, and accounting shape and influence our lives
- Celebrity and Power Fame in Contemporary Culture P. David Marshall 2014 Fall
- A foundational media studies text—now with a new introduction
- Settler Common Sense Queerness and Everyday Colonialism in the American Renaissance Mark Rifkin 2014 Spring
- Tracing the unacknowledged effects of colonialism in the canon of nineteenth-century American literature
- The Folklore of the Freeway Race and Revolt in the Modernist City Eric Avila 2014 Spring
- How urban minority communities devastated by the construction of the interstate highway reclaimed their place through cultural expression
- The Essential Ellen Willis Ellen Willis Nona Willis Aronowitz, Editor 2014 Spring
- From pioneering rock music critic Ellen Willis, iconoclastic essays on politics and culture
- More Than Shelter Activism and Community in San Francisco Public Housing Amy L. Howard 2014 Spring
- Public housing projects in San Francisco reveal the power of community action
- Reinventing Citizenship Black Los Angeles, Korean Kawasaki, and Community Participation Kazuyo Tsuchiya 2014 Spring
- A study of race, welfare, and citizenship in the United States and Japan during the 1960s and 1970s
- The Imperial University Academic Repression and Scholarly Dissent Piya Chatterjee and Sunaina Maira, Editors 2014 Spring
- From the front lines of the war on academic freedom, linking the policing of knowledge to the relationship between universities, militarism, and neoliberalism
- Health Rights Are Civil Rights Peace and Justice Activism in Los Angeles, 1963–1978 Jenna M. Loyd 2014 Spring
- How demands for dignified medical care and healthy living conditions brought together social justice advocates
- Eugenic Feminism Reproductive Nationalism in the United States and India Asha Nadkarni 2014 Spring
- This surprising examination uncovers the eugenic impulse in a nation’s desire for “founding mothers”