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Fashioning the Nineteenth Century: Habits of Being 3 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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