Cultural Criticism
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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
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Loving Animals Toward a New Animal Advocacy Kathy Rudy 2013 Fall
- Improving the lives of animals through emotional connection and empathy
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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”
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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