Cultural Criticism

Dancing Indigenous Worlds Choreographies of Relation Jacqueline Shea Murphy 2022 Fall

The vital role of dance in enacting the embodied experiences of Indigenous peoples

Native Agency Indians in the Bureau of Indian Affairs Valerie Lambert 2022 Fall

What happens when American Indians take over an institution designed to eliminate them?

Queer Silence On Disability and Rhetorical Absence J. Logan Smilges 2022 Fall

Championing the liberatory potential of silence to address the fraught disability politics of queerness

The School-Prison Trust Sabina Vaught, Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy and Jeremiah Chin 2022 Fall

Considers colonial school–prison systems in relation to the self-determination of Native communities, nations, and peoples

The Life Worth Living Disability, Pain, and Morality Joel Michael Reynolds 2022 Spring

A philosophical challenge to the ableist conflation of disability and pain

Side Affects On Being Trans and Feeling Bad Hil Malatino 2022 Spring

How the “bad feelings” of trans experience inform trans survival and flourishing

Allotment Stories Indigenous Land Relations under Settler Siege Daniel Heath Justice and Jean M. O’Brien, Editors 2021 Fall

More than two dozen essays of Indigenous resistance to the privatization and allotment of Indigenous lands

Cosplay The Fictional Mode of Existence Frenchy Lunning 2022 Spring

An exploration of cosplay and its relationship with the realms of its global fandom, performance, and the modes of fictional existence

Earthworks Rising Mound Building in Native Literature and Arts Chadwick Allen 2022 Spring

A necessary reexamination of Indigenous mounds, demonstrating their sustained vitality and vibrant futurity by centering Native voices

Insecurity Richard Grusin, Editor 2022 Spring

Investigating insecurity as the predominant logic of life in the present moment

Talkin’ Up to the White Woman Indigenous Women and Feminism Aileen Moreton-Robinson 2021 Fall

A twentieth-anniversary edition of this tour de force in feminism and Indigenous studies, now with a new preface

Remembering Our Intimacies Moʻolelo, Aloha ʻĀina, and Ea Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio 2021 Fall

Recovering Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) relationality and belonging in the land, memory, and body of Native Hawai’i

Written by the Body Gender Expansiveness and Indigenous Non-Cis Masculinities Lisa Tatonetti 2021 Fall

Examining the expansive nature of Indigenous gender representations in history, literature, and film

Le Maya Q’atzij/Our Maya Word Poetics of Resistance in Guatemala Emil’ Keme 2021 Spring

Bringing to the fore the voices of Maya authors and what their poetry tells us about resistance, sovereignty, trauma, and regeneration

Virtue Hoarders The Case against the Professional Managerial Class Catherine Liu 2021 Spring

A denunciation of the credentialed elite class that serves capitalism while insisting on its own progressive heroism

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