Cultural Criticism
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Tracking Modernity India’s Railway and the Culture of Mobility Marian Aguiar 2011 Spring
- The ubiquitous railway as a symbol of the tensions of Indian modernity
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Nakagami, Japan Buraku and the Writing of Ethnicity Anne McKnight 2011 Spring
- How Japan's most canonical postwar writer brought that country's largest social minority into the mainstream
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Japanese Counterculture The Antiestablishment Art of Terayama Shūji Steven C. Ridgely 2010 Fall
- Explores the significant impact of this countercultural figure of postwar Japan
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Posthegemony Political Theory and Latin America Jon Beasley-Murray 2010 Fall
- A challenging new work of cultural and political theory rethinks the concept of hegemony
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Lusophone Africa Beyond Independence Fernando Arenas 2010 Fall
- Situates the cultures of Portuguese-speaking Africa within the postcolonial global era
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The Way of Kinship An Anthology of Native Siberian Literature Alexander Vaschenko and Claude Clayton Smith, Editors 2010 Fall
- Prose, poetry, and drama from Siberia—the first anthology of its kind in English
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Service Economies Militarism, Sex Work, and Migrant Labor in South Korea Jin-kyung Lee 2010 Fall
- A compelling alternative narrative of the modern ‘miracle’ of South Korea
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The Common Pot The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast Lisa Brooks 2008 Fall
- Illuminates the significance of writing to colonial-era Native American resistance
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Couture and Consensus Fashion and Politics in Postcolonial Argentina Regina A. Root 2010 Spring
- The intersection of fashion and politics in nineteenth-century Argentina
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X-Marks Native Signatures of Assent Scott Richard Lyons 2010 Spring
- A provocative and deeply personal exploration of contemporary Indian identity, nationalism, and modernity
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The Mishomis Book The Voice of the Ojibway Edward Benton-Banai 2010 Fall
- For young readers, the collected wisdom and traditions of Ojibway elders
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Queer Ricans Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes 2009 Spring
- Seeing the diversity in Puerto Rico’s gay and lesbian communities in the United States
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The Reification of Desire Toward a Queer Marxism Kevin Floyd 2009 Spring
- A new theoretical approach to the relationship between Marxism and queer studies
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Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong Paul Chaat Smith 2009 Spring
- Forceful and eloquent essays on the American Indian in culture and history
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A Call for Heresy Why Dissent Is Vital to Islam and America Anouar Majid 2009 Spring
- Confronting the fundamentalism that afflicts both Islam and the United States through traditions of dissent