A father’s personal and intimate account of his Filipino and Alaska Native family’s experiences, and his search for how to help his children overcome the effects of historical and contemporary oppression.

How a small family company in the Finger Lakes became one of the most important wine producers in the United States, only to be taken down by corporate greed and mismanagement.

Examines movie romance in light of our emotional bond to the actors and characters on screen.

Investigates the cultural value of film violence.

Surveys how reunification in 1990 impacted historical scholarship in the former East Germany.

Advances critical conversations in Native American literary studies by situating its subject in global, transnational, and modernizing contexts.

Explores issues related to race and religion in Lovecraft criticism.

English-language translations of traditional plays from the marionette puppet theater of Northern China.

Argues that post-Katrina New Orleans is a key site for exploring competing narratives of American decline and renewal at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Draws on theology and queer theory to argue for the power of humiliating pleasures in a culture oriented very strongly to denying any enjoyment that is not about success.

Assesses the limits and possibilities of humanism for engaging with issues of pressing political and cultural concern.

Presents a major new interpretation of the Ashcan School of Art, arguing that these artists made the working class city at the turn of the century a subject for beautiful art.

Explores how white supremacist groups use popular music and culture to teach hate and promote violence.

A story of self, braided to a story of American culture.

Chronicles the conflict between religious and secular forces in Israel.

Examines how postfeminism and postracialism intersect to perpetuate systemic injustice in the United States.

Analyzes the theme of self-sacrifice in Puerto Rican literature through psychoanalytic theory.

Contends that the narrative and aesthetic qualities of the documentary genre enable new understandings of animals and animal/human relationships.

Essays on one of Fichte's best known and most controversial works.

Examines literary responses to the impact of economic and technological globalization in Latin America.

Considers how our ideas about mathematics shape our individual and cultural relationship to the field.

Addresses ways that cultural imaginaries point toward alternative urban futures.

Investigates the rise and fall of US American lesbian cultural institutions since the 1970s.

A bracing critique of human rights law and activism from the perspective of the Global South.

Combines psychoanalysis, queer theory, masculinity studies, and cultural studies to explore contemporary manhood in film.