Makes the surprising claim that identity politics can facilitate rather than undermine worker solidarity.

Connects Merleau-Ponty’s thought to themes and issues central to continental philosophy today.

Explores the relationship between disciplinarity and contemporary ethics of scholarship about the Holocaust.

Examines Jean-Paul Sartre’s antiracist politics and his contributions to critical race theories, postcolonialism, and Africana existentialism.

Demonstrates the many devastating and interrelated threats that punitive policies like “zero tolerance” pose to youth, schooling, and democracy.

Questions whether current theories and pedagogies of alterity have allowed us truly to engage the Other.

Encourages a deep reading of a selection of essential Spanish films.

A provocative retelling of the story of political corruption in the modern period.

Argues that Herman Melville’s later work anticipates the resurgence of an American exceptionalist ethos underpinning the U. S.-led global “war on terror. ”

Examines the body in literature and science in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Europe.

Uncovers the queer nature of heterosexuality on film.

A celebration of childhood pick-up games.

Engages critically with historical and contemporary representations of the medicalized human body.

Explores the universal longing for home, illuminated through the essays, poetry, and fiction of forty Jewish women writers from around the world.

Pinpoints the limits of many current globalization theories in challenging racial oppression, and argues instead for local and situated strategies for resisting racism and imperialism.

Scholars engage the ideas and legacy of Cary Nelson in conversations about the corporate university, teaching, poetry, and activism.

From explorers’ accounts to boys’ adventure fiction, how Arctic exploration served as a metaphor for nation-building and empire in nineteenth-century Britain.

Provocative exploration of a new concept of “joy” within psychoanalytic and cultural studies.

Traces the rhetorical work of the gene in scientific and nonscientific discourse throughout the twentieth century.

Ecocritical takes on popular film.

Considers the effects of the browning of America on philosophical debates over race, racism, and social justice.

Essays explore the broad cultural impact of Oprah’s Book Club.

Essays explore a wide range of contemporary feminist mothering practices.

Collection of scholarly essays on the wildly popular Comedy Central show.

A critical look at the Olympics in the postbribery, post-9/11 era, particularly at consequences for host cities and so-called “Olympic education” for schoolchildren.