American Studies

Death beyond Disavowal The Impossible Politics of Difference Grace Kyungwon Hong 2015 Fall

Women of color feminism should have a voice in all discussions of contemporary neoliberalism

Barnstorming the Prairies How Aerial Vision Shaped the Midwest Jason Weems 2015 Fall

How flight led to a new view of the Midwest, making it the center of the nation in more ways than one

Peace Corps Fantasies How Development Shaped the Global Sixties Molly Geidel 2015 Fall

How the 1960s Peace Corps’ gendered modernization ideology shaped social movements across the Americas

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

Measuring Manhood Race and the Science of Masculinity, 1830–1934 Melissa N. Stein 2015 Fall

A major new history of scientific racism in the United States

Coin-Operated Americans Rebooting Boyhood at the Video Game Arcade Carly A. Kocurek 2015 Fall

How and why video gaming culture became the domain of young men and boys

Martin Heidegger Saved My Life Grant Farred 2015 Fall

Could there be a bigger paradox than the black man using Martin Heidegger to repel the white woman's racism?

Wastelanding Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country Traci Brynne Voyles 2015 Spring

What is “wasteland,” and who gets to decide?

Making Suburbia New Histories of Everyday America John Archer, Paul J. P. Sandul and Katherine Solomonson, Editors 2015 Spring

Illustrates the astonishing complexity of American suburbia

A Peculiar Imbalance The Fall and Rise of Racial Equality in Minnesota, 1837–1869 William D. Green 2015 Spring

The untold story of what it meant to be a black member of early Minnesota society

Already Doing It Intellectual Disability and Sexual Agency Michael Gill 2015 Spring

Exploring and exposing efforts to restrict the sexuality of intellectually disabled people

Life Support Biocapital and the New History of Outsourced Labor Kalindi Vora 2015 Spring

How global capitalism has turned human beings into a new form of biocapital

Zoo Renewal White Flight and the Animal Ghetto Lisa Uddin 2015 Spring

Race, urban life, and the postwar revitalization of American zoos

Imagine the Sound Experimental African American Literature after Civil Rights Carter Mathes 2015 Spring

Examines the use of sound in the works of African American writers during the post–Civil Rights era

The Poitier Effect Racial Melodrama and Fantasies of Reconciliation Sharon Willis 2015 Spring

Sidney Poitier as an icon of the civil rights era, signifying racial reconciliation without threat to the white status quo

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 Dennis Childs 2015 Spring

A sweeping cultural history of U.S. prison slavery

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 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 Aaron Jaffe 2014 Fall

That rare modernist book: erudite, innovative, thought provoking, and playful

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