American Studies

Reinventing Citizenship Black Los Angeles, Korean Kawasaki, and Community Participation Kazuyo Tsuchiya 2014 Spring

A study of race, welfare, and citizenship in the United States and Japan during the 1960s and 1970s

The Imperial University Academic Repression and Scholarly Dissent Piya Chatterjee and Sunaina Maira, Editors 2014 Spring

From the front lines of the war on academic freedom, linking the policing of knowledge to the relationship between universities, militarism, and neoliberalism

Health Rights Are Civil Rights Peace and Justice Activism in Los Angeles, 1963–1978 Jenna M. Loyd 2014 Spring

How demands for dignified medical care and healthy living conditions brought together social justice advocates

Eugenic Feminism Reproductive Nationalism in the United States and India Asha Nadkarni 2014 Spring

This surprising examination uncovers the eugenic impulse in a nation’s desire for “founding mothers”

Eating Fire My Life as a Lesbian Avenger Kelly Cogswell 2014 Spring

An outsider American recounts two decades of radical lesbian life in this urgent, ferociously funny memoir

Precarious Prescriptions Contested Histories of Race and Health in North America Laurie B. Green, John Mckiernan-González and Martin Summers, Editors 2014 Spring

Explores the complex relations between the institutions and ideologies of health and people of color in America

From Orphan to Adoptee U.S. Empire and Genealogies of Korean Adoption SooJin Pate 2014 Spring

Korean adoption as the sine qua non of U.S. neocolonialism in South Korea

Nobody Is Supposed to Know Black Sexuality on the Down Low C. Riley Snorton 2014 Spring

How the “down low” media phenomenon reinforces troubling representations of black sexuality

In Motion, At Rest The Event of the Athletic Body Grant Farred 2014 Spring

A penetrating new analysis of “the event” from a surprising source: sport

Humanitarian Violence The U.S. Deployment of Diversity Neda Atanasoski 2013 Fall

Exploring the transition from the old imperialism based on race to the new imperialism based on diversity

The Changs Next Door to the Díazes Remapping Race in Suburban California Wendy Cheng 2013 Fall

The multiracial suburb, offering a glimpse into America’s future

Consoling Ghosts Stories of Medicine and Mourning from Southeast Asians in Exile Jean M. Langford 2013 Fall

The ghosts—and varying ideas about death, dying, and the aftereffects of violence—emerging from the stories of emigrants from Laos and Cambodia

The Freak-garde Extraordinary Bodies and Revolutionary Art in America Robin Blyn 2013 Fall

Why and how the freak show inspires some of the most revolutionary experiments in American art in the twentieth century

Virtual Modernism Writing and Technology in the Progressive Era Katherine Biers 2013 Fall

A fascinating analysis of the relationship between modernist writers and the popular culture they so often claimed to reject

Model Immigrants and Undesirable Aliens The Cost of Immigration Reform in the 1990s Christina Gerken 2013 Fall

Reveals how watershed 1990s legislation foregrounded neoliberal ideals while disguising racial fears

Academic Profiling Latinos, Asian Americans, and the Achievement Gap Gilda L. Ochoa 2013 Fall

The achievement gap as it is actually experienced by Latino and Asian American students in one California high school

Digital State The Story of Minnesota's Computing Industry Thomas J. Misa 2013 Fall

The rise of Minnesota computing after World War II—the country’s first fully realized hotbed of computer technology

Harriman vs. Hill Wall Street’s Great Railroad War Larry Haeg 2013 Fall

The two most powerful men in the nation’s dominant industry battle for control of the Northern Pacific Railway, forever changing the landscape of American business