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The Seeds We Planted: Portraits of a Native Hawaiian Charter School The Seeds We Planted Portraits of a Native Hawaiian Charter School Noelani Goodyear-Kaʻōpua 2013 Spring
Reveals the paradoxes of teaching indigenous knowledge within institutions built to marginalize and displace it
Each Hour Redeem: Time and Justice in African American Literature Each Hour Redeem Time and Justice in African American Literature Daylanne K. English 2013 Spring
A major reinterpretation of African American literature through its tropes of time
Middlebrow Queer: Christopher Isherwood in America Middlebrow Queer Christopher Isherwood in America Jaime Harker 2013 Spring
How Christopher Isherwood reinvented himself as an American writer through gay print culture of the postwar United States
Making Art Panamerican: Cultural Policy and the Cold War Making Art Panamerican Cultural Policy and the Cold War Claire F. Fox 2013 Spring
A compelling study of cultural policy in the Americas
The Cinema and Its Shadow: Race and Technology in Early Cinema The Cinema and Its Shadow Race and Technology in Early Cinema Alice Maurice 2013 Spring
How race shaped the fundamental formal and technological means of the cinema
Little White Houses: How the Postwar Home Constructed Race in America Little White Houses How the Postwar Home Constructed Race in America Dianne Harris 2012 Fall
How the ordinary American house contributed to definitions of middle-class whiteness and an exclusionary housing market in the postwar era
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