Cultural Criticism

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

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

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