Books

Universes without Us: Posthuman Cosmologies in American Literature Universes without Us Posthuman Cosmologies in American Literature Matthew A. Taylor 2013 Fall
Reimagining posthumanism through the work of canonical American writers
Unlearning the City: Infrastructure in a New Optical Field 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
Unraveling: Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age Unraveling Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer 2020 Fall
Developing a cybernetic model of subjectivity and personhood that honors disability experiences to reconceptualize the category of the human
Unraveling the Garment Industry: Transnational Organizing and Women’s Work Unraveling the Garment Industry Transnational Organizing and Women’s Work Ethel C. Brooks 2007 Spring
The consequences—both positive and negative—of consumer boycotts of sweatshop labor.
Unruly Practices: Power, Discourse, and Gender in Contemporary Social Theory Unruly Practices Power, Discourse, and Gender in Contemporary Social Theory Nancy Fraser 1989 Fall
Fraser breaks new ground methodologically by integrating the heretofore divergent insights of poststructuralism, critical social theory, feminist theory, and pragmatism to form a new critical theory of late-capitalist political culture. “A wonderfully rich and insightful collection of well-integrated essays on important current thinkers and social movements.”
Unsettling Choice: Race, Rights, and the Partitioning of Public Education Unsettling Choice Race, Rights, and the Partitioning of Public Education Ujju Aggarwal 2023 Fall
How the Great Recession revealed a system of school choice built on crisis, precarity, and exclusion
Unstable Frontiers: Technomedicine and the Cultural Politics of “Curing” AIDS Unstable Frontiers Technomedicine and the Cultural Politics of “Curing” AIDS John Nguyet Erni 1994 Fall
John Erni gives a hopeful view of how we might challenge the way scientists, healers, and the mass media look at the task of treating AIDS.
Untimely Beggar: Poverty and Power from Baudelaire to Benjamin Untimely Beggar Poverty and Power from Baudelaire to Benjamin Patrick Greaney 2007 Fall
Locating literary and socioeconomic poverty at the heart of European modernity
Unwilling Germans?: The Goldhagen Debate Unwilling Germans? The Goldhagen Debate Robert R. Shandley, Editor 1998 Spring
A comprehensive overview of the controversy surrounding Hitler’s Willing Executioners.
Up Against the Sprawl: Public Policy and the Making of Southern California Up Against the Sprawl Public Policy and the Making of Southern California Jennifer Wolch, Manuel Pastor Jr. and Peter Dreier, Editors 2004 Spring
Los Angeles's experience in managing urban growth and change
Up in the Rocky Mountains: Writing the Swedish Immigrant Experience Up in the Rocky Mountains Writing the Swedish Immigrant Experience Jennifer Eastman Attebery 2007 Spring
How Swedish immigrants became Westerners and Americans, as shown through their letters home
Up North Up North Sam Cook 2003 Spring
Memorable descriptions of the Northern seasons—now in paperback!
Uproarious: How Feminists and Other Subversive Comics Speak Truth Uproarious How Feminists and Other Subversive Comics Speak Truth Cynthia Willett and Julie Willett 2019 Fall
A radical new approach to humor, where traditional targets become its agents
Urban Design Urban Design Alex Krieger and William S. Saunders, Editors 2008 Fall
Highlights key issues in contemporary urban design through a discussion of its origins, current state, and future
Urban Encounters Urban Encounters Helen Liggett 2003 Spring
In words and photographs, reimagining the city as lived space
Urban Exile: Collected Writings of Harry Gamboa Jr. Urban Exile Collected Writings of Harry Gamboa Jr. Harry Gamboa Jr. Chon A. Noriega, Editor 1998 Fall
An essential overview of the work of a pioneering figure of multimedia and conceptual art.
Urban Imaginaries: Locating the Modern City Urban Imaginaries Locating the Modern City Alev Çınar and Thomas Bender, Editors 2007 Spring
New global perspectives on urban life
Urban Nightmares: The Media, the Right, and the Moral Panic over the City Urban Nightmares The Media, the Right, and the Moral Panic over the City Steve Macek 2006 Spring
A hard-hitting look at the role of right-wing ideologues and the mass media in demonizing urban America
Urban Planning Today: A Harvard Design Magazine Reader Urban Planning Today A Harvard Design Magazine Reader William S. Saunders, Editor 2006 Spring
A provocative and practical consideration of what works, and what does not, in American urban planning
Urban Policy in the Time of Obama Urban Policy in the Time of Obama James DeFilippis, Editor 2016 Fall
How presidential policies have served—or failed to serve—America’s cities