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The tenth edition of this go-to text offers critical discussion of contemporary Russian politics and its fundamental principles. It covers established topics such as executive leadership, parties,...

Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp chronicle and theorize two decades of immersion in New York City's wide-ranging disability worlds as parents, activists, anthropologists, and disability studies scholars...

Christina Cecelia Davidson explores the extraordinary and complicated life and career of H. C. C. Astwood, who was a preacher, politician, and the first Black man named US consul to the Dominican...

In Doom Patterns, Maia Gil'Ad? takes up speculative fiction as a site for theorizing Latinx identity across national and ethnic borders and shows the vital role of historical trauma in its formation...

In Doom Patterns, Maia Gil'Ad? takes up speculative fiction as a site for theorizing Latinx identity across national and ethnic borders and shows the vital role of historical trauma in its formation...

This book explores ways of appreciating eating, with the authors using lessons from their first language, even when writing in English--thus mixing us and them.Author: Annemarie MolPublisher: Duke...

In Emergent Genders, Michelle H. S. Ho traces the genders manifesting alongside Japanese popular culture in Akihabara, an area in Tokyo renowned for the fandom and consumption of anime, manga, and...

In Emergent Genders, Michelle H. S. Ho traces the genders manifesting alongside Japanese popular culture in Akihabara, an area in Tokyo renowned for the fandom and consumption of anime, manga, and...

Since the 1600s, travelers, scientists, and doctors have claimed that "hermaphroditism" and intersex are disproportionately common among black South Africans. In Envisioning African Intersex Amanda...

Orrin H. Pilkey and his coauthors offer concrete suggestions for how to respond to the threats posed by global climate change that involve adapting to a hotter world through technological...

Peter Adey examines the politics, aesthetics, and practice of evacuating people and animals from harm during emergencies, showing how it reveals, reinforces, and relies on structures of power.Author:...

Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús examines the emergence of "excited delirium syndrome" in the 1980s, a fabricated medical diagnosis used to justify and erase police violence against Black and Brown...

In 1980, Charles Wetli---a Miami-based medical examiner and self-proclaimed "cult expert" of Afro-Caribbean religions---identified what he called "excited delirium syndrome." Soon, medical examiners...

In this innovative collaborative ethnography of Italian-Chinese ventures in the fashion industry, Lisa Rofel and Sylvia J. Yanagisako offer a new methodology for studying transnational capitalism...

Fantasies of Nina SimoneAuthor: Jordan Alexander SteinPublisher: Duke University PressPublication Date: Sep 27, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: HardcoverISBN-10:...

From popular films like Greta Gerwig's Barbie (2023) to Chantal Akerman's avant-garde classic Jeanne Dielman (1975), feminist cinema can provoke discomfort. Ambivalence, stasis, horror, cringe--these...

From popular films like Greta Gerwig's Barbie (2023) to Chantal Akerman's avant-garde classic Jeanne Dielman (1975), feminist cinema can provoke discomfort. Ambivalence, stasis, horror, cringe--these...

Fire Dreams is a social movement ethnography of Women With A Vision, a New Orleans-based Black feminist collective that has fought for racial justice, reproductive justice, abolition feminism, and...

Petra R. Rivera-Rideau analyzes how Zumba Fitness--an exercise program that draws from Latin music and dance--creates and sells a vision of Latinness that's tropical, hypersexual, and party-loving...

The second annual Alchemy Lecture brought together five artists, thinkers, and writers who proposed new ways of being and discussed radical visions for the future. Five Manifestos for the Beautiful...

The second annual Alchemy Lecture brought together five artists, thinkers, and writers who proposed new ways of being and discussed radical visions for the future. Five Manifestos for the Beautiful...

In For Emplacement, Mario Blaser proposes a new lens for contending with the momentous challenges facing the world, from anthropogenic climate change to rampant socioeconomic inequalities to the rise...

In For Emplacement, Mario Blaser proposes a new lens for contending with the momentous challenges facing the world, from anthropogenic climate change to rampant socioeconomic inequalities to the rise...

In Fractal Repair, Matthew Chin investigates queerness in Jamaica from early colonial occupation to the present, critically responding to the island's global reputation for extreme homophobia and...

Of all the musical developments of rock in the 1960s, one in particular fundamentally changed the music's structure and listening experience: the incorporation of extended improvisation into live...

In Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence, Tithi Bhattacharya maps the role that Bengali ghosts and ghost stories played in constituting the modern Indian nation, and the religious ideas seeded therein,...

In Haunting Biology Emma Kowal recounts the troubled history of Western biological studies of Indigenous Australians and asks how we now might see contemporary genomics, especially that conducted by...

"Hold tight. The way to go mad without losing your mind is sometimes unruly." So begins La Marr Jurelle Bruce's urgent provocation and poignant meditation on madness in black radical art. Bruce...

Trans people have always lived in the cracks of institutions--and the university is no exception. In How We Make Each Other, Perry Zurn tells the stories of how trans people make and live their lives...

Trans people have always lived in the cracks of institutions--and the university is no exception. In How We Make Each Other, Perry Zurn tells the stories of how trans people make and live their lives...