American Anthropological Association 2022
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The Politics of Annihilation A Genealogy of Genocide Benjamin Meiches 2019 Spring
- How did a powerful concept in international justice evolve into an inequitable response to mass suffering?
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Metaphysical Experiments Physics and the Invention of the Universe Bjørn Ekeberg 2019 Spring
- An engaging critique of the science and metaphysics behind our understanding of the universe
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Dead Labor Toward a Political Economy of Premature Death James Tyner 2019 Spring
- A groundbreaking consideration of death from capitalism, from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century
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Cyberwar and Revolution Digital Subterfuge in Global Capitalism Nick Dyer-Witheford and Svitlana Matviyenko 2019 Spring
- Uncovering the class conflicts, geopolitical dynamics, and aggressive capitalism propelling the militarization of the internet
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The Technique of Thought Nancy, Laruelle, Malabou, and Stiegler after Naturalism Ian James 2019 Spring
- Interrogating the work of four contemporary French philosophers to rethink philosophy’s relationship to science and science’s relationship to reality
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Bad Film Histories Ethnography and the Early Archive Katherine Groo 2019 Spring
- A daring, deep investigation into ethnographic cinema that challenges standard ways of writing film history and breaks important new ground in understanding archives
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The Fourth World An Indian Reality George Manuel and Michael Posluns 2018 Fall
- A foundational work of radical anticolonialism, back in print
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Machine Thomas Pringle, Gertrud Koch and Bernard Stiegler 2019 Spring
- On the social consequences of machines
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Unapologetic Beauty Joanna Frueh 2019 Spring
- A startlingly powerful collaboration reimagines female beauty
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Markets Armin Beverungen, Philip Mirowski, Edward Nik-Khah and Jens Schröter 2019 Spring
- A media theory of markets
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Communication Paula Bialski, Finn Brunton and Mercedes Bunz 2019 Spring
- On contemporary communication in its various human and nonhuman forms
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The Art of Protest Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Present, Second Edition T. V. Reed 2019 Spring
- A second edition of the classic introduction to arts in social movements, fully updated and now including Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, and new digital and social media forms of cultural resistance
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Bodies of Information Intersectional Feminism and Digital Humanities Elizabeth Losh and Jacqueline Wernimont, Editors 2018 Fall
- A wide-ranging, interconnected anthology presents a diversity of feminist contributions to digital humanities
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DIA-LOGOS Ramon Llull's Method of Thought and Artistic Practice Amador Vega, Peter Weibel and Siegfried Zielinski, Editors 2018 Fall
- The life and work of the outstanding Catalan-Majorcan philosopher, logician, and mystic Ramon Llull continues to fascinate thinkers, artists, and scholars worldwide
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Toward a Living Architecture? Complexism and Biology in Generative Design Christina Cogdell 2018 Fall
- A bold and unprecedented look at a cutting-edge movement in architecture
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Dialogues on the Human Ape Laurent Dubreuil and Sue Savage-Rumbaugh 2018 Fall
- A primatologist and a humanist together explore the meaning of being a “human animal”
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Thursdays and Every Other Sunday Off A Domestic Rap by Verta Mae Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor 2018 Fall
- Observations from the lives of African American domestic workers—back in print
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None of This Is Normal The Fiction of Jeff VanderMeer Benjamin J. Robertson 2018 Fall
- How the otherworldly worlds created by the author of the Southern Reach Trilogy speak to—and even affect—our own
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Gringolandia Lifestyle Migration under Late Capitalism Matthew Hayes 2018 Fall
- A telling look at today’s “reverse” migration of white, middle-class expats from north to south, through the lens of one South American city
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The Swindle of Innovative Educational Finance Kenneth J. Saltman 2018 Fall
- How “innovative” finance schemes skim public wealth while hijacking public governance
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Breathtaking Asthma Care in a Time of Climate Change Alison Kenner 2018 Fall
- People around the world are struggling to breathe. How do we care for asthma across environments that are increasingly unbreathable?
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A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None Kathryn Yusoff 2019 Spring
- Rewriting the “origin stories” of the Anthropocene
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Internet Daemons Digital Communications Possessed Fenwick McKelvey 2018 Fall
- A complete history and theory of internet daemons brings these little-known—but very consequential—programs into the spotlight
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Bad Environmentalism Irony and Irreverence in the Ecological Age Nicole Seymour 2018 Fall
- Traces a tradition of ironic and irreverent environmentalism, asking us to rethink the movement’s reputation for gloom and doom
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The Alphonso Lingis Reader Alphonso Lingis Tom Sparrow, Editor 2018 Fall
- A selection of the writings of Alphonso Lingis, showcasing a unique blend of travelogue, cultural anthropology, and philosophy
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Histories of the Transgender Child Julian Gill-Peterson 2018 Fall
- A groundbreaking twentieth-century history of transgender children
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Conversations in Maine A New Edition Grace Lee Boggs, James Boggs, Freddy Paine and Lyman Paine 2018 Fall
- Meditations on activism following the turbulent 1960s—back in print
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Herlands Exploring the Women’s Land Movement in the United States Keridwen N. Luis 2018 Fall
- How women-only communities provide spaces for new forms of culture, sociality, gender, and sexuality
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Biology in the Grid Graphic Design and the Envisioning of Life Phillip Thurtle 2018 Fall
- How grids paved the way for our biological understanding of organisms
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The Robotic Imaginary The Human and the Price of Dehumanized Labor Jennifer Rhee 2018 Fall
- Tracing the connections between human-like robots and AI at the site of dehumanization and exploited labor
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Disconnect Facebook’s Affective Bonds Tero Karppi 2018 Fall
- An urgent examination of the threat posed to social media by user disconnection, and the measures websites will take to prevent it
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Elements of a Philosophy of Technology On the Evolutionary History of Culture Ernst Kapp 2018 Fall
- The first philosophy of technology, constructing humans as technological and technology as an underpinning of all culture
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Pattern Discrimination Clemens Apprich, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Florian Cramer and Hito Steyerl 2019 Spring
- How do “human” prejudices reemerge in algorithmic cultures allegedly devised to be blind to them?
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Heidegger Phenomenology, Ecology, Politics Michael Marder 2018 Fall
- Understanding the political and ecological implications of Heidegger’s work without ignoring his noxious public engagements
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99 Theses on the Revaluation of Value A Postcapitalist Manifesto Brian Massumi 2018 Fall
- A speculative exploration of value, emphasizing practical experimentation in its future forms
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Survival of the Fireflies Georges Didi-Huberman 2018 Fall
- Seeking out the minor lights of friendship in a time of fascism
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The Denial of Antiblackness Multiracial Redemption and Black Suffering João H. Costa Vargas 2018 Fall
- An incisive new look at the black diaspora, examining the true roots of antiblackness and its destructive effects on all of society
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Black Boys Apart Racial Uplift and Respectability in All-Male Public Schools Freeden Blume Oeur 2018 Fall
- How neoliberalism and the politics of respectability are transforming African American manhood
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Gay, Inc. The Nonprofitization of Queer Politics Myrl Beam 2018 Fall
- A bold and provocative look at how the nonprofit sphere’s expansion has helped—and hindered—the LGBT cause
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Food Justice Now! Deepening the Roots of Social Struggle Joshua Sbicca 2018 Fall
- A rallying cry to link the food justice movement to broader social justice debates
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The Neocolonialism of the Global Village Ginger Nolan 2018 Fall
- Uncovering a vast maze of realities in the media theories of Marshall McLuhan
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Speaking of Indigenous Politics Conversations with Activists, Scholars, and Tribal Leaders J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Editor 2018 Spring
- “A lesson in how to practice recognizing the fundamental truth that every inch of the Americas is Indigenous territory.” —Robert Warrior, from the Foreword
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Neurotechnology and the End of Finitude Michael Haworth 2018 Spring
- A bold philosophical investigation into technology and the limits of the human
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Into the Extreme U.S. Environmental Systems and Politics beyond Earth Valerie Olson 2018 Spring
- The first book-length, in-depth ethnography of U.S. human spaceflight
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Power and Progress on the Prairie Governing People on Rosebud Reservation Thomas Biolsi 2018 Spring
- A critical exploration of how modernity and progress were imposed on the people and land of rural South Dakota
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With Stones in Our Hands Writings on Muslims, Racism, and Empire Sohail Daulatzai and Junaid Rana, Editors 2018 Spring
- Bringing together scholars and activists, With Stones in Our Hands confronts the rampant anti-Muslim racism and imperialism across the globe today
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Wild Child Intensive Parenting and Posthumanist Ethics Naomi Morgenstern 2018 Spring
- Exploring how the figure of the “wild child” in contemporary fiction grapples with contemporary cultural anxieties about reproductive ethics and the future of humanity
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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
- 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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Renew Orleans? Globalized Development and Worker Resistance after Katrina Aaron Schneider 2018 Spring
- Urban development after disaster, the fading of black political clout, and the onset of gentrification
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The User Unconscious On Affect, Media, and Measure Patricia Ticineto Clough 2018 Spring
- Wide-ranging essays and experimental prose forcefully demonstrate how digital media and computational technologies have redefined what it is to be human
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Globalized Authoritarianism Megaprojects, Slums, and Class Relations in Urban Morocco Koenraad Bogaert 2018 Spring
- A rich investigation into Morocco’s urban politics
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After Extinction Richard Grusin, Editor 2018 Spring
- A multidisciplinary exploration of extinction and what comes next
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The End of Man A Feminist Counterapocalypse Joanna Zylinska 2018 Spring
- Debugging the Anthropocene’s insistence on apocalyptic tropes
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Carving Out the Commons Tenant Organizing and Housing Cooperatives in Washington, D.C. Amanda Huron 2018 Spring
- An investigation of the practice of “commoning” in urban housing and its necessity for challenging economic injustice in our rapidly gentrifying cities
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Governance Feminism: An Introduction An Introduction Janet Halley, Prabha Kotiswaran, Rachel Rebouché and Hila Shamir 2018 Spring
- Describing and assessing feminist inroads into the state
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The Undocumented Everyday Migrant Lives and the Politics of Visibility Rebecca M. Schreiber 2018 Spring
- Examining how undocumented migrants are using film, video, and other documentary media to challenge surveillance, detention, and deportation
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The Anime Ecology A Genealogy of Television, Animation, and Game Media Thomas Lamarre 2018 Spring
- A major work destined to change how scholars and students look at television and animation
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Archaeologies of Touch Interfacing with Haptics from Electricity to Computing David Parisi 2018 Spring
- A material history of haptics technology that raises new questions about the relationship between touch and media
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Playing with Feelings Video Games and Affect 2018 Spring
- How gaming intersects with systems like history, bodies, and code
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The Anti-Black City Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil Jaime Amparo Alves 2018 Spring
- An important new ethnographic study of São Paulo’s favelas reveals the widespread use of race-based police repression in Brazil
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Youth Media Matters Participatory Cultures and Literacies in Education Korina M. Jocson 2017 Fall
- How young people making media have potential to shape pedagogy, raise social awareness, and promote creative self-expression
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Arranging Marriage Conjugal Agency in the South Asian Diaspora Marian Aguiar 2018 Spring
- The first critical analysis of contemporary arranged marriage among South Asians in a global context
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Callous Objects Designs against the Homeless Robert Rosenberger 2018 Spring
- Uncovering injustices built into our everyday surroundings
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Black on Both Sides A Racial History of Trans Identity C. Riley Snorton 2017 Fall
- Uncovering the overlapping histories of blackness and trans identity from the nineteenth century to the present day
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Fictionalizing Anthropology Encounters and Fabulations at the Edges of the Human Stuart McLean 2017 Fall
- On anthropology, creativity, and becoming other
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Building Access Universal Design and the Politics of Disability Aimi Hamraie 2017 Fall
- Rich with archival images, the first critical history of the Universal Design movement
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Code and Clay, Data and Dirt Five Thousand Years of Urban Media Shannon Mattern 2017 Fall
- A breathtaking tour through thousands of years of urban life and its attendant technologies, rewriting the history of our cities
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Being Together in Place Indigenous Coexistence in a More Than Human World Soren C. Larsen and Jay T. Johnson 2017 Fall
- How place summons Native and non-Native people into dialogue to take up the challenging work of coexistence with each other and the nonhuman world
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When the Hills Are Gone Frac Sand Mining and the Struggle for Community Thomas W. Pearson 2017 Fall
- An overlooked part of fracking’s environmental impact becomes a window into the activists and industrial interests fighting for the future of energy production—and the fate of rural communities
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The Construction of Equality Syriac Immigration and the Swedish City Jennifer Mack 2017 Fall
- A compelling case study that traces the transformation of a Swedish city by an active and engaged immigrant community
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Aspirational Fascism The Struggle for Multifaceted Democracy under Trumpism William E. Connolly 2017 Fall
- Coming to terms with a new period of uncertainty when it is still replete with possibilities
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Zombie Theory A Reader Sarah Juliet Lauro, Editor 2017 Fall
- An interdisciplinary collection of the best international scholarship on zombies as the embodiment of anxieties, critiques, and desires
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Ready Player Two Women Gamers and Designed Identity Shira Chess 2017 Fall
- A timely look at the implicit biases in video games as they construct and define feminine identity
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Care of the Species Races of Corn and the Science of Plant Biodiversity John Hartigan Jr. 2017 Fall
- Darwin meets Foucault in this engrossing ethnography of plants, race, and biodiversity
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UW Struggle When a State Attacks Its University Chuck Rybak 2018 Spring
- A Wisconsin story that serves as a national warning
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Shareveillance The Dangers of Openly Sharing and Covertly Collecting Data Clare Birchall 2018 Spring
- Cracking open the politics of transparency and secrecy
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Transhumanism Evolutionary Futurism and the Human Technologies of Utopia Andrew Pilsch 2017 Fall
- Exploring the rich history and utopian potential of transhumanism’s belief that humanity is on the cusp of radical evolutionary transformation
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Inheriting Possibility Social Reproduction and Quantification in Education Ezekiel J. Dixon-Román 2017 Fall
- Outstanding Book Award from the American Educational Research Association: From the SAT to social mobility statistics, examining quantitative measurements of human learning and development while rethinking their possibilities
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The Microbial State Global Thriving and the Body Politic Stefanie R. Fishel 2017 Fall
- An innovative exploration of the metaphorical power of bodies on global politics and the potential for the planet’s future
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Grounded Authority The Algonquins of Barriere Lake against the State Shiri Pasternak 2017 Spring
- A rare, in-depth critique of federal land claims policy in Canada
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A Third University Is Possible la paperson 2017 Spring
- Uncovering the decolonizing ghost in the colonizing machine
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Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Heather Anne Swanson, Elaine Gan and Nils Bubandt, Editors 2017 Spring
- Can humans and other species continue to inhabit the earth together?
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Metagaming Playing, Competing, Spectating, Cheating, Trading, Making, and Breaking Videogames Stephanie Boluk and Patrick LeMieux 2017 Spring
- A playful and provocative call to stop playing videogames and begin making metagames
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Queer Game Studies Bonnie Ruberg and Adrienne Shaw, Editors 2017 Spring
- A landmark anthology opens video game studies to queer culture
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Matters of Care Speculative Ethics in More Than Human Worlds María Puig de la Bellacasa 2017 Spring
- Challenging the view that caring is only human
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Juárez Girls Rising Transformative Education in Times of Dystopia Claudia G. Cervantes-Soon 2017 Spring
- Through the voices of high school girls in Ciudad Juárez, understanding how education can promote self-empowerment and resistance against injustice and violence
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Curated Decay Heritage beyond Saving Caitlin DeSilvey 2017 Spring
- A bold new approach to heritage conservation that embraces change and accommodates decay
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Compulsory Education and the Dispossession of Youth in a Prison School Sabina E. Vaught 2017 Spring
- A groundbreaking look at America’s public education system through the lens of prison schooling
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Against Purity Living Ethically in Compromised Times Alexis Shotwell 2016 Fall
- Why contamination and compromise might be a starting point for doing something, instead of a reason to give up
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Downed by Friendly Fire Black Girls, White Girls, and Suburban Schooling Signithia Fordham 2016 Fall
- Rehabilitating the meaning of gender-specific violence
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First Strike Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles Damien M. Sojoyner 2016 Fall
- Challenging perceptions of schooling and prison through the lens of America’s most populous state
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Exposed Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times Stacy Alaimo 2016 Fall
- A bold call to approach environmentalism from the inside out
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The Slumbering Masses Sleep, Medicine, and Modern American Life Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer 2016 Fall
- An eye-opening look at why a “good night’s sleep” might be anything but
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The Uberfication of the University Gary Hall 2016 Fall
- The contemporary university’s implications for the future organization of labor
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Holidays in the Danger Zone Entanglements of War and Tourism Debbie Lisle 2016 Fall
- A timely and uniquely historical look at how war turns soldiers, and all of us, into tourists
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The World and All the Things upon It Native Hawaiian Geographies of Exploration David A. Chang 2016 Spring
- Centering indigenous perspectives on the age of exploration
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What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions? Vinciane Despret 2016 Spring
- A provocative challenge to the marginalization of “humanlike” aspects of animal life
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Blood Sugar Racial Pharmacology and Food Justice in Black America Anthony Ryan Hatch 2016 Spring
- How contemporary biomedicine has shaped race and racism as America’s health disparities increase
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Manifestly Haraway Donna J. Haraway 2016 Spring
- Breaking down the binaries: two manifestos and a conversation on dogs and cyborgs, the implosion of technology, and human and nonhuman beings
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Last Project Standing Civics and Sympathy in Post-Welfare Chicago Catherine Fennell 2015 Fall
- How the aftermath of public housing became an education in the rights and duties of belonging to the city
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Tongzhi Living Men Attracted to Men in Postsocialist China Tiantian Zheng 2015 Fall
- A revealing study of men attracted to men trying to create community in a modern Chinese city
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The Value of Homelessness Managing Surplus Life in the United States Craig Willse 2015 Fall
- How social welfare and social science came to reinforce, not combat, racialized housing insecurity