Cultural Criticism
- Consumers and Citizens Globalization and Multicultural Conflicts Nestor Garcia Canclini 2001 Spring
- An essential analysis of the ways consumerism and globalization intersect with political power.
- Mothering without a Compass White Mother’s Love, Black Son’s Courage Becky W. Thompson 2000 Fall
- A lively meditation on creating a multiracial family.
- Victorian Afterlife Postmodern Culture Rewrites the Nineteenth Century John Kucich and Dianne F. Sadoff, Editors 2000 Fall
- A foundational look at contemporary uses of the Victorian and the presence of the past in postmodern culture.
- What Is Africa’s Problem? Yoweri K. Museveni Elizabeth Kanyogonya, Editor 2000 Spring
- The president of Uganda addresses key questions about Africa’s future.
- French Resistance The French-American Culture Wars Jean-Philippe Mathy 2000 Spring
- An original look at the intellectual issues that divide—and unite—these two republics.
- Acting Out in Groups Laurence A. Rickels, Editor 1999 Fall
- Examines outrageous public behavior and what it can tell us about cultural and political change.
- Red on Red Native American Literary Separatism Craig S. Womack and Hans Aarsleff 1999 Fall
- An entertaining and enlightening proposal for a new way to read Native American literature.
- Black Body Women, Colonialism, and Space Radhika Mohanram 1999 Fall
- Asserts the centrality of space to racial identity.
- The Vampire Lectures Laurence A. Rickels 1999 Fall
- A wild and wide-ranging “psycho-history” of the vampire.
- With Other Eyes Looking at Race and Gender in Visual Culture Lisa Bloom, Editor 1999 Fall
- Challenges the politics of gender and race underlying the practice of art history.
- Latin Americanism Román de la Campa 1999 Spring
- Analyzes the way North American academics have constructed Latin America.
- After Exile Writing the Latin American Diaspora Amy K. Kaminsky 1999 Spring
- Considers the effect of exile on contemporary South American writers.
- Nomadic Identities The Performance of Citizenship May Joseph 1999 Spring
- A look at citizenship through the lens of performance.
- SportCult Randy Martin and Toby Miller, Editors 1999 Spring
- New approaches to the cultural politics of sport.
- Performing Hybridity May Joseph and Jennifer Natalya Fink, Editors 1998 Fall
- A kaleidoscopic consideration of transnational culture and performance