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We Are All Moors
Ending Centuries of Crusades against Muslims and Other Minorities
Anouar Majid
2012 Spring
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An alternate history of xenophobia and how we must overcome it together
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Alien Phenomenology, or What It’s Like to Be a Thing
Ian Bogost
2012 Spring
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A bold new metaphysics that explores how all things—from atoms to green chiles, cotton to computers—interact with, perceive, and experience one another
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Growing Roses in Cold Climates
Revised and Updated Edition
Richard Hass, Jerry Olson and John Whitman
2012 Spring
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Racial Democracy and the Black Metropolis
Housing Policy in Postwar Chicago
Preston H. Smith II
2012 Spring
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How a black elite fighting racial discrimination reinforced class inequality in postwar America
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Corn Palaces and Butter Queens
A History of Crop Art and Dairy Sculpture
Pamela H. Simpson
2012 Spring
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A celebration of corn palaces, crop art, and butter sculpture from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
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The Modern Architectural Landscape
Caroline Constant
2012 Spring
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Examines the overlooked contributions of modern architects to landscape design
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Collecting Mexico
Museums, Monuments, and the Creation of National Identity
Shelley E. Garrigan
2012 Spring
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Considers how public collections on display form powerful ideas of nationalism
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Opacity and the Closet
Queer Tactics in Foucault, Barthes, and Warhol
Nicholas de Villiers
2012 Spring
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Looking beyond the closet at the lives and works of renowned queer public figures
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On the Run in Siberia
Rane Willerslev
2012 Spring
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A hair-raising tale of idealism, political corruption, shamanism, and survival in the Siberian wilderness
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Native Orchids of Minnesota
Welby R. Smith
2012 Spring
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An updated and revised edition of the only comprehensive guide to Minnesota orchids, with four new species, two new varieties, new maps, and new illustrations.
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Observation Points
The Visual Poetics of National Parks
Thomas Patin, Editor
2012 Spring
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A new understanding of visual rhetoric offers unique insights into issues of representation and identity
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Guy Vernon
A Novelette in Verse
John Townsend Trowbridge
William Logan, Editor
2012 Spring
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A lost classic of American literature—a narrative of race and sexual intrigue in antebellum America—rediscovered
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Once Were Pacific
Māori Connections to Oceania
Alice Te Punga Somerville
2012 Spring
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Explores the relationship between indigeneity and migration among Māori and Pacific peoples
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The Erotics of Sovereignty
Queer Native Writing in the Era of Self-Determination
Mark Rifkin
2012 Spring
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How queer Native writers use the erotics of lived experience to challenge both federal and tribal notions of “Indianness”
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Dissonant Divas in Chicana Music
The Limits of La Onda
Deborah R. Vargas
2012 Spring
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Explores the resounding musical performances of Mexican American women such as Chelo Silva, Eva Ybarra, Eva Garza, and Selena within Tejano/Chicano music
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HumAnimal
Race, Law, Language
Kalpana Rahita Seshadri
2012 Spring
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Power and counterpower in the space of silence
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The Poetry of the Possible
Spontaneity, Modernism, and the Multitude
Joel Nickels
2012 Spring
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The abstractions of modernism reimagined as figurations of collective self-organization
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Exchanging Clothes
Habits of Being 2
Cristina Giorcelli and Paula Rabinowitz, Editors
2012 Spring
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How garments—signaling and altering identity—circulate through culture and the economy
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The Mestizo State
Reading Race in Modern Mexico
Joshua Lund
2012 Spring
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The wide-ranging relations between race and cultural production in modern Mexico
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Strategies for Social Change
Gregory M. Maney, Rachel V. Kutz-Flamenbaum, Deana A. Rohlinger and Jeff Goodwin, Editors
2012 Spring
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Examines how strategies within social movements develop and work
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Rafael Ferrer
Deborah Cullen
2012 Spring
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The first major account of the celebrated Puerto Rican artist
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Imperfect Unions
Staging Miscegenation in U.S. Drama and Fiction
Diana Rebekkah Paulin
2012 Spring
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Highlights the interplay of race, literature, and nation-building in U.S. history
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Struggling Giants
City-Region Governance in London, New York, Paris, and Tokyo
Paul Kantor, Christian Lefevre, Asato Saito, H. V. Savitch and Andy Thornley
2012 Spring
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The struggle for governability in the world’s four leading global city-regions
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South Africa and the Dream of Love to Come
Queer Sexuality and the Struggle for Freedom
Brenna Munro
2012 Spring
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Uncovers the story of how the politics of queer sexuality have played out in the struggle for multiracial democracy in South Africa