Cultural Criticism
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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
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Mysore Modern Rethinking the Region under Princely Rule Janaki Nair 2011 Fall
- Rethinking modernity in colonial and postcolonial Indian history
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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
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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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European Others Queering Ethnicity in Postnational Europe Fatima El-Tayeb 2011 Fall
- Considers the complications of race, religion, sexuality, and gender in Europeanizing from below
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Accessorizing the Body Habits of Being I Cristina Giorcelli and Paula Rabinowitz, Editors 2011 Spring
- What the smallest detail of dress reveals about gender, sexuality, race, politics, and aesthetics
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The Copyright Thing Doesn’t Work Here Adinkra and Kente Cloth and Intellectual Property in Ghana Boatema Boateng 2011 Spring
- The intersection of Western intellectual property law and traditional knowledge in Africa