Cultural Criticism
- Primitive America The Ideology of Capitalist Democracy Paul Smith 2007 Spring
- An urgent examination of the deep cultural roots of America’s response to 9/11
- Alienhood Citizenship, Exile, and the Logic of Difference Katarzyna Marciniak 2006 Spring
- A timely and critical understanding of transnational culture
- The Impure Imagination Toward a Critical Hybridity in Latin American Writing Joshua Lund 2006 Spring
- Challenges conventional thinking about the widely accepted concept of cultural hybridity
- Playing with Fire Feminist Thought and Activism through Seven Lives in India Sangtin Writers Collective and Richa Nagar 2006 Spring
- Understanding the labor and politics of NGOs through the lives of seven Indian women
- Shanghai and the Edges of Empires Meng Yue 2005 Fall
- A highly innovative investigation into Shanghai’s rise from peripheral port to urban center
- Our Fire Survives the Storm A Cherokee Literary History Daniel Heath Justice 2005 Fall
- Asserts the strength and diversity of Cherokee identity through its rich literary tradition
- Bear Island The War at Sugar Point Gerald Vizenor 2006 Spring
- An award-winning Native American writer recounts the “last Indian war” in verse
- Abiding by Sri Lanka On Peace, Place, and Postcolonality Qadri Ismail 2005 Fall
- A provocative account of Sri Lankan politics and representative democracies in general
- Hybrid Cultures Strategies for Entering and Leaving Modernity Nestor Garcia Canclini 2005 Spring
- Examines the threats to Latin American cultural identity in a global marketplace—now with a new introduction!
- Cuban Palimpsests José Quiroga 2005 Fall
- Traces how Cuba’s revolutionary past and uncertain future collide with post–Cold War realities
- Like a Loaded Weapon The Rehnquist Court, Indian Rights, and the Legal History of Racism in America Robert A. Williams, Jr. 2005 Fall
- Exposes the U.S. Supreme Court’s history of racism against American Indians
- The People and the Word Reading Native Nonfiction Robert Warrior 2005 Fall
- Reveals the history and impact of Native American nonfiction writing
- The Backcountry and the City Colonization and Conflict in Early America Edward White 2005 Fall
- Calls for the rural electrification of early American studies
- Blush Faces of Shame Elspeth Probyn 2005 Spring
- Exposes shame as a valuable emotion essential to our humanity
- Filth Dirt, Digust, and Modern Life William A. Cohen and Ryan Johnson, Editors 2004 Fall
- What waste reveals about the culture that creates it