Cultural Criticism

The World and All the Things upon It Native Hawaiian Geographies of Exploration David A. Chang 2016 Spring

Centering indigenous perspectives on the age of exploration

Extravagances Habits of Being 4 Cristina Giorcelli and Paula Rabinowitz, Editors 2015 Spring

From the ordinary to the extravagant, clothes can truly “make the man” (and woman)

Roots of Our Renewal Ethnobotany and Cherokee Environmental Governance Clint Carroll 2015 Spring

Highlights the complexities for indigenous Americans of governing a state while caring for the environment

Wastelanding Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country Traci Brynne Voyles 2015 Spring

What is “wasteland,” and who gets to decide?

The White Possessive Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty Aileen Moreton-Robinson 2015 Spring

How whiteness operationalizes race to colonize and displace Indigenous sovereignty

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

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

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

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

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