"A rare exploration of the racial and class politics of architecture, Little White Houses examines how postwar media representations associated the ordinary single-family house with middle-class whites to the exclusion of others, creating a powerful and invidious cultural iconography that continues... More Info

Traditional debates concerning racially hierarchical societies have tended to focus on the experience of being black. White Women, Race Matters breaks with this tradition by focusing on the particular ecperiences of white women in a racially hierarchical society. By considering the ways in which... More Info

A pioneering look at same-sex desire in Japanese modernist writing.  More Info

Reveals how liberal democracy and free-market economics reproduce the inequalities of apartheid in Cape Town, South Africa.  More Info

The first of its kind and a powerful challenge to customary views of gender and sexuality in the life and literature of Mexico, this book traces literary representations of masculinity in Mexico from independence in 1810 to the 1960s, and shows how these intersect with the constructions of nation... More Info

From the New Yorker's inimitable first pop music critic comes this pioneering collection of essays by a conscientious writer whose political realm is both radical and rational, and whose prime preoccupations are with rock 'n' roll, sexuality, and above all, freedom. Here Ellen Willis assuredly... More Info

Gregg Lambert demonstrates that since the publication of Proust and Signs in 1964 Gilles Deleuze's search for a new means of philosophical expression became a central theme of all of his oeuvre, including those written with psychoanalyst Félix Guattari.  More Info

Wholesome, fun recipes to cook with the seasons?from renowned Twin Cities chef Jenny Breen.  More Info

Addresses the phenomenon of sleep and sleeplessness in the United States, tracing the influence of medicine and industrial capitalism on the sleeping habits of Americans from the 19th century to the present  More Info

How temporary migration programs haunt the lives of families long after they have reunited  More Info

Examines how strategies within social movements develop and work  More Info

Shows how Lefebvre’s theory of space developed out of direct engagement with architecture, urbanism, and urban sociology.  More Info

An alternate history of xenophobia and how we must overcome it together  More Info

Robert A. Williams Jr. boldly exposes the ongoing legal force of the racist language directed at Indians in American society. Fueled by well-known negative racial stereotypes of Indian savagery and cultural inferiority, this language, Williams contends, has functioned “like a loaded weapon” in... More Info

Enlightenment thinkers such as Rousseau and Montesquieu are best known for their humanist theories and liberating influence on Western civilization. But as renowned French intellectual Louis Sala-Molins shows, Enlightenment discourses and scholars were also complicit in the Atlantic slave trade,... More Info

An extraordinary life story that encompasses the fight for African American freedom throughout the twentieth century  More Info

How queer Native writers use the erotics of lived experience to challenge both federal and tribal notions of “Indianness”  More Info

The first biography of Asian American activist and Black Panther Party member Richard Aoki  More Info

Looking beyond the closet at the lives and works of renowned queer public figures  More Info

A master class in organic farming, a lesson in entrepreneurship, a love story, and a legal thriller  More Info

As exemplary representatives of a form of critical feminism, the writings of Judith Butler, Katherine Hayles, and Donna Haraway offer entry into the great crises of contemporary society, politics, and culture. Butler leads readers to rethink the boundaries of the human in a time of perpetual war.... More Info

Does following the money create security or undermine it?  More Info

Throughout our history, Americans have been simultaneously inspired and seduced by the American presidency and concerned about the misuse of presidential power—from the time of Lincoln, Wilson, and FDR to Nixon, Reagan, and George W. Bush—as a grave threat to the United States. In Bad for... More Info

Essays regarding prejudice and inhumanity, by a gay Jamaican American.  More Info

A bold rethinking of urban political ecology  More Info