Cultural Criticism

Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask Anishinaabe Botanical Teachings Mary Siisip Geniusz 2015 Spring

The first complete resource for the practical use of plants in the Anishinaabe culture and the stories that surround them

Already Doing It Intellectual Disability and Sexual Agency Michael Gill 2015 Spring

Exploring and exposing efforts to restrict the sexuality of intellectually disabled people

The Queerness of Native American Literature Lisa Tatonetti 2014 Fall

A comprehensive view of Indigenous queer literature since Stonewall

The Way Things Go An Essay on the Matter of Second Modernism Aaron Jaffe 2014 Fall

That rare modernist book: erudite, innovative, thought provoking, and playful

Red Skin, White Masks Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition Glen Sean Coulthard 2014 Fall

Fundamentally questions prevailing ideas of settler colonialization and Indigenous resistance

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

Voices of Fire Reweaving the Literary Lei of Pele and Hiʻiaka kuʻualoha hoʻomanawanui 2014 Spring

Restoring the literature of Pele and Hi‘iaka to its rightful place in Native culture and identity

Fashioning the Nineteenth Century Habits of Being 3 Cristina Giorcelli and Paula Rabinowitz, Editors 2014 Spring

How fashion in nineteenth-century art, literature, and life came to define—and defy—class

Loving Animals Toward a New Animal Advocacy Kathy Rudy 2013 Fall

Improving the lives of animals through emotional connection and empathy

Dispatches from the Arab Spring Understanding the New Middle East Paul Amar and Vijay Prashad, Editors 2013 Fall

An urgent and engaged exploration of the revolutionary wave sweeping across North Africa and the Middle East

Survival Schools The American Indian Movement and Community Education in the Twin Cities Julie L. Davis 2013 Spring

The first history of two alternative schools founded by AIM in the Twin Cities in 1972—and their role in revitalizing Native culture and community

Mark My Words Native Women Mapping Our Nations Mishuana Goeman 2013 Spring

Examining the role of twentieth-century Native women’s literature in remapping settler geographies

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

Hikikomori Adolescence without End Saito Tamaki 2013 Spring

A best-selling work of Japanese psychology that brought attention to the widespread problem of acute social withdrawal

Exchanging Clothes Habits of Being 2 Cristina Giorcelli and Paula Rabinowitz, Editors 2012 Spring

How garments—signaling and altering identity—circulate through culture and the economy

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