Cultural Criticism

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

The Erotics of Sovereignty Queer Native Writing in the Era of Self-Determination Mark Rifkin 2012 Spring

How queer Native writers use the erotics of lived experience to challenge both federal and tribal notions of “Indianness”

Once Were Pacific Māori Connections to Oceania Alice Te Punga Somerville 2012 Spring

Explores the relationship between indigeneity and migration among Māori and Pacific peoples

Collecting Mexico Museums, Monuments, and the Creation of National Identity Shelley E. Garrigan 2012 Spring

Considers how public collections on display form powerful ideas of nationalism

We Are All Moors Ending Centuries of Crusades against Muslims and Other Minorities Anouar Majid 2012 Spring

An alternate history of xenophobia and how we must overcome it together

A Chosen People, a Promised Land Mormonism and Race in Hawai’i Hokulani K. Aikau 2012 Spring

How Native Hawaiians’ experience of Mormonism intersects with their cultural and ethnic identities and traditions

Women Adrift The Literature of Japan’s Imperial Body Noriko J. Horiguchi 2011 Fall

How women figured in the expansion of the national body of the Japanese empire

The New Asian City Three-Dimensional Fictions of Space and Urban Form Jini Kim Watson 2011 Fall

Cultural productions reveal a darker side to development in emblematic Asian Tiger cities

Mysore Modern Rethinking the Region under Princely Rule Janaki Nair 2011 Fall

Rethinking modernity in colonial and postcolonial Indian history

Spaces between Us Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization Scott Morgensen 2011 Fall

Explores the intimate relationship of non-Native and Native sexual politics in the United States

The Transit of Empire Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism Jodi A. Byrd 2011 Fall

Examines how “Indianness” has propagated U.S. conceptions of empire

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