History
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Black Star, Crescent Moon The Muslim International and Black Freedom beyond America Sohail Daulatzai 2012 Fall
- Tracing the interactions between the Black radical imagination and the Muslim Third World from the 1950s to the present
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Mighty Fitz The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald Michael Schumacher 2012 Fall
- A moving account of the legendary Great Lakes shipwreck
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Scream from the Shadows The Women’s Liberation Movement in Japan Setsu Shigematsu 2012 Spring
- The first sustained analysis of the Japanese women’s liberation movement of the ’70s, with its lessons for contemporary politics
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Playing Dirty Sexuality and Waste in Early Modern Comedy Will Stockton 2011 Spring
- The repression of desire uncovered in the production of scatological comedy
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Who Speaks for Margaret Garner? Mark Reinhardt 2010 Fall
- A fascinating documentary history of the fugitive slave case that captivated the nation—and inspired Toni Morrison’s acclaimed novel Beloved.
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A Black Soldier’s Story The Narrative of Ricardo Batrell and the Cuban War of Independence Ricardo Batrell 2010 Fall
- The autobiographical account of an Afro-Cuban soldier who fought in the Cuban War of Independence—available in English for the first time
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Citizen, Invert, Queer Lesbianism and War in Early Twentieth-Century Britain Deborah Cohler 2010 Spring
- How the Great War changed British understandings of lesbianism
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Firsting and Lasting Writing Indians out of Existence in New England Jean M. O’Brien 2010 Spring
- Tracing the origins of the persistent myth of the vanishing Indian
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The Spiv and the Architect Unruly Life in Postwar London Richard Hornsey 2010 Spring
- Explores how London’s queer culture was influenced by postwar efforts to create model citizens
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Racine From Ancient Myth to Tragic Modernity Mitchell Greenberg 2009 Fall
- Seeing Racine’s tragic oeuvre as a rewriting of the evolving legacy of the Oedipus legend
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Chains of Babylon The Rise of Asian America Daryl J. Maeda 2009 Fall
- Traces for the first time the rise of the radically antiracist and antiwar Asian American movement
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Codes of Misconduct Regulating Prostitution in Late Colonial Bombay Ashwini Tambe 2009 Spring
- How laws fostered sexual commerce in Bombay
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Essaying Shakespeare Karen Newman 2009 Spring
- A pioneering scholar of Shakespeare and early modern letters provides an overview of work in the field
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Moorings Portuguese Expansion and the Writing of Africa Josiah Blackmore 2008 Fall
- How Africa was perceived in the early modern imaginary
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Barbarous Play Race on the English Renaissance Stage Lara Bovilsky 2008 Spring
- Identifies the parallels between early modern and present-day conceptions of race