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Tender Comrades: A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist Tender Comrades A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist Patrick McGilligan and Paul Buhle 2012 Fall
The definitive portrait of Hollywood’s dark high noon
The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference The Reorder of Things The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference Roderick A. Ferguson 2012 Fall
A critical account of how academia and global capital appropriated the revolutionary fervor of the 1960s and 1970s
Antebellum at Sea: Maritime Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century America Antebellum at Sea Maritime Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century America Jason Berger 2012 Fall
How the intersection of antebellum imagination and contemporary theories of fantasy challenges American literary history
Debating the End of History: The Marketplace, Utopia, and the Fragmentation of Intellectual Life Debating the End of History The Marketplace, Utopia, and the Fragmentation of Intellectual Life David W. Noble 2012 Fall
Why the global marketplace doesn’t—and can’t—provide the utopian world it promises
Love in Vain: A Vision of Robert Johnson Love in Vain A Vision of Robert Johnson Alan Greenberg 2012 Fall
The classic, deeply researched study and mythological telling of the life, legend, and enduring mystery of Robert Johnson
The Red Land to the South: American Indian Writers and Indigenous Mexico The Red Land to the South American Indian Writers and Indigenous Mexico James H. Cox 2012 Fall
Recovers an entire era as a major period in American Indian writing
War, Genocide, and Justice: Cambodian American Memory Work War, Genocide, and Justice Cambodian American Memory Work Cathy J. Schlund-Vials 2012 Fall
Examining Cambodian American cultural production as memory work
Those About Him Remained Silent: The Battle over W. E. B. Du Bois Those About Him Remained Silent The Battle over W. E. B. Du Bois Amy Bass 2012 Fall
Uncovers racism and red-baiting in the dynamic between the cold war and civil rights
Troubling the Family: The Promise of Personhood and the Rise of Multiracialism Troubling the Family The Promise of Personhood and the Rise of Multiracialism Habiba Ibrahim 2012 Fall
Discovers the roots of multiracialism in the feminist movement
Trans-Indigenous: Methodologies for Global Native Literary Studies Trans-Indigenous Methodologies for Global Native Literary Studies Chadwick Allen 2012 Fall
Uncovering the wealth of Indigenous self-representation through juxtaposition of genres, cultures, histories, and geographies
Land of 10,000 Loves: A History of Queer Minnesota Land of 10,000 Loves A History of Queer Minnesota Stewart Van Cleve 2012 Fall
A groundbreaking, comprehensively illustrated portrait of queer history in Minnesota
Inhuman Citizenship: Traumatic Enjoyment and Asian American Literature Inhuman Citizenship Traumatic Enjoyment and Asian American Literature Juliana Chang 2012 Fall
Explores the complicated relationships between those who suffer and their tormenters
Pragmatist Politics: Making the Case for Liberal Democracy Pragmatist Politics Making the Case for Liberal Democracy John McGowan 2012 Fall
A refreshingly liberal account of the possibilities for American democracy
Black Star, Crescent Moon: The Muslim International and Black Freedom beyond America Black Star, Crescent Moon The Muslim International and Black Freedom beyond America Sohail Daulatzai 2012 Fall
Tracing the interactions between the Black radical imagination and the Muslim Third World from the 1950s to the present
Imperfect Unions: Staging Miscegenation in U.S. Drama and Fiction Imperfect Unions Staging Miscegenation in U.S. Drama and Fiction Diana Rebekkah Paulin 2012 Spring
Highlights the interplay of race, literature, and nation-building in U.S. history
No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays No More Nice Girls Countercultural Essays Ellen Willis 2012 Fall
Insightful, persuasive essays on feminism and identity politics
Beginning to See the Light: Sex, Hope, and Rock-and-Roll Beginning to See the Light Sex, Hope, and Rock-and-Roll Ellen Willis 2012 Fall
Ellen Willis traces the development of rock-and-roll and the legacy of the ’60s and ’70s
Driven from New Orleans: How Nonprofits Betray Public Housing and Promote Privatization Driven from New Orleans How Nonprofits Betray Public Housing and Promote Privatization John Arena 2012 Fall
How public housing advocates in New Orleans became active supporters of privatization
The Poetry of the Possible: Spontaneity, Modernism, and the Multitude The Poetry of the Possible Spontaneity, Modernism, and the Multitude Joel Nickels 2012 Spring
The abstractions of modernism reimagined as figurations of collective self-organization
Dissonant Divas in Chicana Music: The Limits of La Onda Dissonant Divas in Chicana Music The Limits of La Onda Deborah R. Vargas 2012 Spring
Explores the resounding musical performances of Mexican American women such as Chelo Silva, Eva Ybarra, Eva Garza, and Selena within Tejano/Chicano music