Boston Ball is the story of how three ambitious young college basketball coaches learned their trade in Boston in the late seventies and early eighties in the shadow of the dynastic Celtics, and who in their various careers played a big role in reshaping their sport.
In Settler Aesthetics, Mishuana Goeman examines Terrence Malick’s film The New World (2005) and the Pocahontas narrative, analyzing the settler structures and regimes of power that sustain colonialism and empire.
Adam Raider examines the signature seasons of the Minnesota North Stars from the late 1970s, when the club was at its worst, to its two surprising runs to the Stanley Cup Finals.
Melissa Byrnes explores the ways local communities in the French suburbs reacted to the growing presence of North African migrants in the decades after World War II and the decolonization of Algeria.
Acetylene Torch Songs is a guidebook for writers who want their honesty, social engagement, and intimacy to reach beyond the page and transform the lives of readers with searing, indelible, and unquenchable words.
Brand Antarctica analyses advertisements and related cultural products to identify common framings that have emerged in representations of Antarctica from the late nineteenth century to the present.
Sharing Our Knowledge brings together Native elders, tradition bearers, educators, cultural activists, anthropologists, linguists, historians, and museum professionals to explore the culture, history, and language of the Tlingit people of southeast Alaska and their coastal neighbors.
Native Providence reveals stories of Native urban life in Providence, Rhode Island, shaped by the dynamics of colonialism, race, and class and not least by the survivance of people who today live among the ruins of modernity.
Coming of Age in Chicago combines scholarly essays and primary documents to explore the significance of the 1893 World’s Fair and the history of American anthropology.
Shape Shifters presents a wide-ranging array of essays that examine peoples of mixed racial identity across a broad swath of space and time to understand the fluid nature of racial identities.
Daniel J. Burge examines the belief in manifest destiny through the nineteenth century, focusing on contested moments in the United States’ continental expansion to show that the ideology was not wildly popular, nor did it typically succeed in unifying expansionists.