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Physics of Blackness: Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology Physics of Blackness Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology Michelle M. Wright 2015 Spring
Reveals how assumptions we make about time and space inhibit more inclusive definitions of Blackness
Slaves of the State: Black Incarceration from the Chain Gang to the Penitentiary Slaves of the State Black Incarceration from the Chain Gang to the Penitentiary Dennis Childs 2015 Spring
A sweeping cultural history of U.S. prison slavery
Impossible Heights: Skyscrapers, Flight, and the Master Builder Impossible Heights Skyscrapers, Flight, and the Master Builder Adnan Morshed 2014 Fall
A rich exploration of the influence of skyscrapers, airplanes, and aerial vision on interwar American visual culture
Building Zion: The Material World of Mormon Settlement Building Zion The Material World of Mormon Settlement Thomas Carter 2014 Fall
What the built environment shows us about the complex and evolving nature of nineteenth-century Mormon social and religious life
The Way Things Go: An Essay on the Matter of Second Modernism The Way Things Go An Essay on the Matter of Second Modernism Aaron Jaffe 2014 Fall
That rare modernist book: erudite, innovative, thought provoking, and playful
The American Isherwood The American Isherwood James J. Berg and Chris Freeman, Editors 2014 Fall
Shines a critical spotlight on the American life of the famed author
Savage Preservation: The Ethnographic Origins of Modern Media Technology Savage Preservation The Ethnographic Origins of Modern Media Technology Brian Hochman 2014 Fall
How ethnographic encounters shaped audiovisual media in late nineteenth and early twentieth century America
Civil Rights Childhood: Picturing Liberation in African American Photobooks Civil Rights Childhood Picturing Liberation in African American Photobooks Katharine Capshaw 2014 Fall
The unexpected and evocative role of children’s photographic books in cultural transformation and social change
Distant Wars Visible: The Ambivalence of Witnessing Distant Wars Visible The Ambivalence of Witnessing Wendy Kozol 2014 Fall
Mapping the fraught space between empathy and spectacle in the witnessing of military conflict
Under Bright Lights: Gay Manila and the Global Scene Under Bright Lights Gay Manila and the Global Scene Bobby Benedicto 2014 Fall
Reassessing gay globalization as seen and lived by third world gay men of means
Backwater Blues: The Mississippi Flood of 1927 in the African American Imagination Backwater Blues The Mississippi Flood of 1927 in the African American Imagination Richard M. Mizelle Jr. 2014 Fall
A broad examination of the flood that, prior to Hurricane Katrina in 2005, was the most influential environmental disaster in American history
Oil Culture Oil Culture Ross Barrett and Daniel Worden, Editors 2014 Fall
The cultural life of oil—from aesthetics and politics to economy and ecology
Abolitionist Geographies Abolitionist Geographies Martha Schoolman 2014 Fall
The geographic claims and spatial contradictions of abolitionist literature, from British West Indian Emancipation to the U.S. Civil War
Chicago Hustle and Flow: Gangs, Gangsta Rap, and Social Class Chicago Hustle and Flow Gangs, Gangsta Rap, and Social Class Geoff Harkness 2014 Fall
Explores the symbiotic relationship between gangsta rap and Chicago street gangs
Total Liberation: The Power and Promise of Animal Rights and the Radical Earth Movement Total Liberation The Power and Promise of Animal Rights and the Radical Earth Movement David Naguib Pellow 2014 Fall
All oppression is linked: radical environmental and animal liberation movements in the struggle for social justice
Debt to Society: Accounting for Life under Capitalism Debt to Society Accounting for Life under Capitalism Miranda Joseph 2014 Fall
Reveals how credit, debt, and accounting shape and influence our lives
Celebrity and Power: Fame in Contemporary Culture Celebrity and Power Fame in Contemporary Culture P. David Marshall 2014 Fall
A foundational media studies text—now with a new introduction
Settler Common Sense: Queerness and Everyday Colonialism in the American Renaissance Settler Common Sense Queerness and Everyday Colonialism in the American Renaissance Mark Rifkin 2014 Spring
Tracing the unacknowledged effects of colonialism in the canon of nineteenth-century American literature
The Folklore of the Freeway: Race and Revolt in the Modernist City The Folklore of the Freeway Race and Revolt in the Modernist City Eric Avila 2014 Spring
How urban minority communities devastated by the construction of the interstate highway reclaimed their place through cultural expression
The Essential Ellen Willis The Essential Ellen Willis Ellen Willis Nona Willis Aronowitz, Editor 2014 Spring
From pioneering rock music critic Ellen Willis, iconoclastic essays on politics and culture