American Studies
Race and the Suburbs in American Film
Explores how suburban space and the body are racialized in American film.
This Bridge Called My Back, Fortieth Anniversary Edition
Fortieth anniversary edition of the foundational text of women of color feminism.
Meander
Draws on the author's own experiences as a watershed planner, teacher, and activist to tell the story of the Great Lakes region's experiment in restoring a complicated natural system of flowing water.
The World of Agha Shahid Ali
Critical essays on the transnational Kashmiri-American poet.
Sense of Origins
Studies the relationship between young Italian Americans and their Italian cultural and historical heritage.
Changed Forever, Volume II
The second volume of the first in-depth study of a range of literature written by Native Americans who attended government-run boarding schools.
Media-Ready Feminism and Everyday Sexism
Unique empirically grounded analysis of how audiences negotiate sexism and feminism across media, from popular television shows to dating apps.
Native Foodways
Explores the interplay of religion and food in Native American cultures.
Intersecting Diasporas
Examines literary expressions of allyship between Italian America and other diasporic communities in modern and contemporary US fiction.
Open Borders
Offers a dialogue about the future of the nature of the human, technology, metaphysical foundations, globalization, and social and political oppression.
Enduring Critical Poses
A celebration of Anishinaabe intellectual tradition.
Higher Education for Democracy
Uses a cross-national comparison of Los Angeles, New Delhi, and Hong Kong to develop strategies universities should employ to strengthen democracy and resist fascism.
Queer Freedom : Black Sovereignty
Evocative, innovative ethnography of spiritual practices and forms of queer, black, and indigenous life in the Dominican Republic.
Varieties of American Sufism
Participant-observation-based studies that explore a range of Sufi movements operating across the contemporary American religious landscape.
Freedom in Laughter
Analyzes the dynamic period in which Dick Gregory and Bill Cosby moved African American professional stand-up comedy from the chitlin’ circuit to the mainstream.
Ceremony Men
Rethinks the role of Indigenous and non-Indigenous interactions in the production of ethnographic museum collections.
Funny How?
Uses comedy skits, from Monty Python to Key and Peele, to probe how humor works.
A Postcolonial Leadership
Explores the possibilities and challenges of Asian immigrant Christian leadership in the United States.
Letters from Hollywood
Engaging essays on a wide spectrum of Hollywood directors and the films they created.
The Autobiography of a Language
Explores the links between language, cultural identity, and creativity through the works of Emanuel Carnevali, one of the first Italian American authors to attain literary recognition.
Reconciling Nature
Reveals how classic American novels embodied the tensions embedded in American views of the natural world from the Centennial until the end of the Second World War.
Authorized Agents
Examines the relation between Indian diplomacy and nineteenth-century Native American literature.
The State of Race
An innovative comparative study of the role of racial stereotypes in expressing state power under globalization.
The Great War in Hollywood Memory, 1918-1939
Assesses how America's film industry remembered World War I during the interwar period.
Restless Spirits
A collection of plays by American Indian playwright William S. Yellow Robe Jr.