American Studies
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The Undocumented Everyday Migrant Lives and the Politics of Visibility Rebecca M. Schreiber 2018 Spring
- Examining how undocumented migrants are using film, video, and other documentary media to challenge surveillance, detention, and deportation
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The Toxic Meritocracy of Video Games Why Gaming Culture Is the Worst Christopher Paul 2018 Spring
- An avid gamer and sharp media critic explains meritocracy’s negative contribution to video game culture—and what can be done about it
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The Modernist Corpse Posthumanism and the Posthumous Erin E. Edwards 2018 Spring
- An unconventional take on the corpse challenges traditional conceptions of who—and what—counts as human while offering bold insights into the modernist project
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Historic Capital Preservation, Race, and Real Estate in Washington, D.C. Cameron Logan 2017 Fall
- A chronicle of historic preservation’s profound impact on Washington, D.C., highlighting the major changes urban revitalization has made on American cities
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Black on Both Sides A Racial History of Trans Identity C. Riley Snorton 2017 Fall
- Uncovering the overlapping histories of blackness and trans identity from the nineteenth century to the present day
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The River Is in Us Fighting Toxics in a Mohawk Community Elizabeth Hoover 2017 Fall
- The riveting story of the Mohawk community that fought back against the contamination of its lands
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When the Hills Are Gone Frac Sand Mining and the Struggle for Community Thomas W. Pearson 2017 Fall
- An overlooked part of fracking’s environmental impact becomes a window into the activists and industrial interests fighting for the future of energy production—and the fate of rural communities
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Writing Human Rights The Political Imaginaries of Writers of Color Crystal Parikh 2017 Fall
- Reading works by American writers of color through the lens of human rights
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Lewd Looks American Sexploitation Cinema in the 1960s Elena Gorfinkel 2017 Fall
- The untold story of the American sexploitation film—a major development in screen sex in the decade before “porno chic”
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Stomping the Blues Albert Murray 2017 Fall
- The 40th anniversary edition of a landmark study of blues and jazz by one of America’s premier essayists and novelists
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UW Struggle When a State Attacks Its University Chuck Rybak 2018 Spring
- A Wisconsin story that serves as a national warning
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Fats Waller Maurice Waller and Anthony Calabrese 2017 Fall
- The exuberant life and times of a jazz giant with an unmatched zest for life and music
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A Shadow over Palestine The Imperial Life of Race in America Keith P. Feldman 2017 Fall
- How Israel and Palestine shaped the post–World War II politics of race in the United States
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Subprime Health Debt and Race in U.S. Medicine Nadine Ehlers and Leslie R. Hinkson, Editors 2017 Fall
- Moving beyond discussions of racial genomics, an interdisciplinary exploration of race-based medicine
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Voices of Rondo Oral Histories of Saint Paul’s Historic Black Community 2017 Fall
- A look at the historic Rondo neighborhood of Saint Paul through the eyes of thirty-three former residents—back in print
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A Third University Is Possible la paperson 2017 Spring
- Uncovering the decolonizing ghost in the colonizing machine
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Who Writes for Black Children? African American Children’s Literature before 1900 Katharine Capshaw and Anna Mae Duane, Editors 2017 Spring
- Innovative essays that challenge us to imagine African American children’s literature during the slavery and reconstruction eras
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So Famous and So Gay The Fabulous Potency of Truman Capote and Gertrude Stein Jeff Solomon 2017 Spring
- How and why, in a time of homophobia and closeted homosexuality, did two openly gay writers become mass-market celebrities?
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White Birch, Red Hawthorn A Memoir Nora Murphy 2017 Spring
- A personal investigation into the multigenerational cost of immigration and genocide in the American heartland
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Sexography Sex Work in Documentary Nicholas de Villiers 2017 Spring
- A bold challenge to rethink the ways we view sex work and documentary film