American Studies

Backwater Blues The Mississippi Flood of 1927 in the African American Imagination Richard M. Mizelle Jr. 2014 Fall

A broad examination of the flood that, prior to Hurricane Katrina in 2005, was the most influential environmental disaster in American history

Oil Culture Ross Barrett and Daniel Worden, Editors 2014 Fall

The cultural life of oil—from aesthetics and politics to economy and ecology

Abolitionist Geographies Martha Schoolman 2014 Fall

The geographic claims and spatial contradictions of abolitionist literature, from British West Indian Emancipation to the U.S. Civil War

Chicago Hustle and Flow Gangs, Gangsta Rap, and Social Class Geoff Harkness 2014 Fall

Explores the symbiotic relationship between gangsta rap and Chicago street gangs

Total Liberation The Power and Promise of Animal Rights and the Radical Earth Movement David Naguib Pellow 2014 Fall

All oppression is linked: radical environmental and animal liberation movements in the struggle for social justice

Debt to Society Accounting for Life under Capitalism Miranda Joseph 2014 Fall

Reveals how credit, debt, and accounting shape and influence our lives

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