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The Rift
V. Y. Mudimbe
1993 Fall
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This work of fiction explores textuality, writing, solitude and death in the context of contemporary African life, and at the same time examines the constitution and materiality of African subjectivity.
“Offers an intricate, subtle, and richly allusive meditation on a singular, very specifically demarcated, ‘postcolonial condition’: that of the France-educated, masculine (but ambiguously sexualized) African intellectual, Ahmed Nara.” --Neil Lazarus, Brown University
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The Right to Be Cold
One Woman’s Fight to Protect the Arctic and Save the Planet from Climate Change
Sheila Watt-Cloutier
2018 Spring
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A “courageous and revelatory memoir” (Naomi Klein) chronicling the life of the leading Indigenous climate change, cultural, and human rights advocate
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The Right to Be Out
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in America’s Public Schools, Second Edition
Stuart Biegel
2018 Fall
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An updated edition of this measured, practical, and timely guide to LGBT rights and issues for educators and school officials
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The Right to Play Oneself
Looking Back on Documentary Film
Thomas Waugh
2011 Spring
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Discussions of “committed” documentary by a “committed” historian of film
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The Rigoberta Menchú Controversy
Arturo Arias, Editor
2001 Spring
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A balanced appraisal of the bitter debate surrounding the autobiography of Guatemala’s 1992 Nobel Peace Prize recipient.
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The Rise of Fashion
A Reader
Daniel Leonhard Purdy, Editor
2004 Fall
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A remarkable anthology of key writings that parallels the history of fashion with modern life
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The Rise of Jonas Olsen
A Norwegian Immigrant’s Saga
Johannes B. Wist
2005 Fall
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A novel of one man’s trials and ambiguous triumphs as a newcomer to America
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The Rise of the Ku Klux Klan
Right-Wing Movements and National Politics
Rory McVeigh
2009 Spring
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Rediscovering the Ku Klux Klan as a national movement in the 1920s
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The River Is in Us
Fighting Toxics in a Mohawk Community
Elizabeth Hoover
2017 Fall
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The riveting story of the Mohawk community that fought back against the contamination of its lands
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The River We Have Wrought
A History of the Upper Mississippi
John O. Anfinson
2005 Spring
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The sweeping history of how the upper Mississippi has been changed by human intervention
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The Road Back to Sweetgrass
A Novel
Linda LeGarde Grover
2016 Spring
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A powerful debut novel of love, hardship, and family bonds on an American Indian reservation—from the author of the award-winning short story collection The Dance Boots
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The Road to Botany Bay
An Exploration of Landscape and History
Paul Carter
2010 Spring
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Critiques the founding myth of Australia
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The Robotic Imaginary
The Human and the Price of Dehumanized Labor
Jennifer Rhee
2018 Fall
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Tracing the connections between human-like robots and AI at the site of dehumanization and exploited labor
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The Rocks Will Echo Our Sorrow
The Forced Displacement of the Northern Sámi
Elin Anna Labba
2023 Fall
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The deep and personal story—told through history, poetry, and images—of the forced displacement of the Sámi people from their homeland in northern Norway and Sweden and its reverberations today
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The Rule of Logistics
Walmart and the Architecture of Fulfillment
Jesse LeCavalier
2016 Spring
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How the world’s largest retailer is redefining architecture by organizing flows of merchandise and information across space and time
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The Ruptures of American Capital
Women of Color Feminism and the Culture of Immigrant Labor
Grace Kyungwon Hong
2006 Spring
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An incisive and far-reaching account of how race and gender reveal the fissures of capitalist society
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The Sacred Era
A Novel
Yoshio Aramaki
2017 Spring
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A brilliant work of speculative fiction, blending science and metaphysics, by a Japanese master of the 1970s New Wave
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The Salvager
The Life of Captain Tom Reid on the Great Lakes
Mary Frances Doner
2017 Spring
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“The dramatic story of great disasters and of the gambles that are the life and blood of the salvage business.” —The New York Times
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The Savage Anomaly
The Power of Spinoza’s Metaphysics and Politics
Antonio Negri
2000 Spring
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A fresh take on this critical philosopher.
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The Scar of Visibility
Medical Performances and Contemporary Art
Petra Kuppers
2006 Fall
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Grapples with the limits of medicine and the mysteries of human bodies in contemporary art and culture