Cultural Criticism

Hybrid Cultures Strategies for Entering and Leaving Modernity Nestor Garcia Canclini 2005 Spring

Examines the threats to Latin American cultural identity in a global marketplace—now with a new introduction!

Cuban Palimpsests José Quiroga 2005 Fall

Traces how Cuba’s revolutionary past and uncertain future collide with post–Cold War realities

Like a Loaded Weapon The Rehnquist Court, Indian Rights, and the Legal History of Racism in America Robert A. Williams, Jr. 2005 Fall

Exposes the U.S. Supreme Court’s history of racism against American Indians

The People and the Word Reading Native Nonfiction Robert Warrior 2005 Fall

Reveals the history and impact of Native American nonfiction writing

The Backcountry and the City Colonization and Conflict in Early America Edward White 2005 Fall

Calls for the rural electrification of early American studies

Blush Faces of Shame Elspeth Probyn 2005 Spring

Exposes shame as a valuable emotion essential to our humanity

Filth Dirt, Digust, and Modern Life William A. Cohen and Ryan Johnson, Editors 2004 Fall

What waste reveals about the culture that creates it

Cultural Residues Chile in Transition Nelly Richard 2004 Fall

Reveals the cultural substrata of the transition from Chilean dictatorship

Transatlantic Topographies Islands, Highlands, Jungles Ileana Rodriguez 2004 Fall

Explores the construction of the Americas by and through European eyes

The Aesthetics of Self-Invention Oscar Wilde to David Bowie Shelton Waldrep 2004 Spring

Traces the influence of Oscar Wilde as the precursor of twentieth-century artists of self-performance

Carnival Theater Uruguay’s Popular Performers and National Culture Gustavo Remedi 2003 Fall

Offers a new model for interpreting popular national culture through Uruguay’s carnival theater troupes

Free Trade in the Bermuda Triangle . . . and Other Tales of Counterglobalization Brett Neilson 2003 Fall

An alternative approach to mapping the world offers a new way to contest capitalism and globalization

Native Intelligence Aesthetics, Politics, and Postcolonial Literature Deepika Bahri 2003 Fall

A compelling reclamation of the place of aesthetics in postcolonial literature

“Am I That Name?” Feminism and the Category of “Women” in History Denise Riley 2003 Spring

A new edition of a classic work on the history of feminism

Undoing Empire Race and Nation in the Mulatto Caribbean José F. Buscaglia-Salgado 2003 Spring

A revelatory account that places mulatto experience at the center of Caribbean history

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