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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
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
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
Ellen Willis
Nona Willis Aronowitz, Editor
2014 Spring
From pioneering rock music critic Ellen Willis, iconoclastic essays on politics and culture
More Than Shelter
Activism and Community in San Francisco Public Housing
Amy L. Howard
2014 Spring
Public housing projects in San Francisco reveal the power of community action
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
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