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Miller Oberman's new collection of poetry, Impossible Things, offers an intimate account of fatherhood, loss, grief, and family.Author: Miller ObermanPublisher: Duke University PressPublication Date:...

Offering an intimate account of intergenerational grief, Miller Oberman's new collection of poetry, Impossible Things, explores his experiences as both a transgender child and father. Oberman weaves...

Lisa Messeri offers an ethnographic exploration of a contemporary community of Los Angeles-based storytellers, media artists, and tech innovators formed around virtual reality, believing that it...

Charles L. Briggs examines and challenges the long-standing foundational concepts in the communication of health care to work toward more just and equitable medical futures.Author: Charles L...

The legacies of borders are far-reaching for Indigenous Peoples. This collection offers new ways of understanding borders by departing from statist approaches to territoriality. Bringing together the...

In Laboratory Epistemologies: A Hands-On Perspective, Jenny Boulboull? examines the significance of hands-on experiences in contemporary life sciences laboratories. Addressing the relationship...

In 1980, Y-Dang Troeung and her family were among the last of the 60,000 refugees from Cambodia that Canada agreed to admit. Their landing was widely documented in newspapers, with photographs of the...

Jennifer R. Nájera explores the intersections of education and activism among undocumented college students, showing how they build political consciousness and learn to become leaders.Author:...

In Learning to Lead, Jennifer R. N?jera explores the intersections of education and activism among undocumented students at the University of California, Riverside. Taking an expansive view of...

Offering a poetic-theoretical inquiry into the entwinement of study and mourning, Sandra Ruiz proposes "brown study" as key for understanding how Brownness fundamentally harbors loss, mourning, and...

As China has evolved into an industrial powerhouse over the past two decades, a new class of workers has developed: the dagongmei, or working girls. The dagongmei are women in their late teens and...

In Made in NuYoRico, Marisol Negr?n tells the cultural history of salsa, tracing the music's Nuyorican meanings over a fifty-year period that begins with the establishment of Fania Records in 1964...

Timothy D. Taylor theorizes music's economic and noneconomic forms of value to examine how people's conceptions of value inform and shape their production and consumption of music.Author: Timothy D...

In Men at Home, Gyanendra Pandey offers a detailed exploration of men's comportment and conduct in the home and the implications of their ambiguous commitment to this critical part of their lives...

In Men at Home, Gyanendra Pandey offers a detailed exploration of men's comportment and conduct in the home and the implications of their ambiguous commitment to this critical part of their lives...

Jess Whatcott traces the link between US detention systems and early twentieth-century eugenicist ideology, demonstrating how the legacy of those ideas continues to shape incarceration today.Author:...

Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman examines how contemporary avant-garde black art and writing by Wangechi Mutu, Marci Blackman, Alexandria Smith, Colson Whitehead, Toni Morrison, Harmony Holiday, and Essex...

In Millennial Style, Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman looks at recent experiments in black expressive culture that begin in the place of ruin. By ruin, Abdur-Rahman means the political terror and social...

Sora Y. Han offers a poetic and radical work of legal theory and criticism that works at the confluence of Korean and Black anticolonial thought and freedom struggles to articulate new visions of...

Reconceptualizing the relationship between race and Islam in the United States, No God but Man theorizes race as an epistemology using the FBI's post-9/11 Most Wanted Terrorist list and its posters...

Reconceptualizing the relationship between race and Islam in the United States, No God but Man theorizes race as an epistemology using the FBI's post-9/11 Most Wanted Terrorist list and its posters...

Nonhuman Witnessing : War, Data, and Ecology After the End of the WorldAuthor: Michael RichardsonPublisher: Duke University PressPublication Date: Feb 09, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage:...

Although Puerto Rican artists have always been central figures in contemporary American and international art worlds, they have largely gone unrecognized and been excluded from art history canons...

Although Puerto Rican artists have always been central figures in contemporary American and international art worlds, they have largely gone unrecognized and been excluded from art history canons...

On Addiction : Insights from History, Ethnography, and Critical TheoryAuthor: Darin WeinbergPublisher: Duke University PressPublication Date: Sep 27, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage:...

Lawrence Grossberg introduces the major theories that have animated contemporary Western theory, from those of Kant, Marx, and Heidegger to Foucault, Deleuze, and Hall, explaining their key concepts...

Danica Savonick traces the largely untold story of the teaching experience of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich at the City University of New York (CUNY) in the late...

During the years between the Civil War and World War II, police in New York City struggled with how to control a diverse metropolis. In Police and the Empire City Matthew Guariglia tells the history...

The contributors to Porous Becomings draw on the work of French philosopher of science Michel Serres (1930-2019) to show how it opens new pathways for anthropological knowledge.Author: Andreas...

Elizabeth W. Williams traces the genealogy of a narrative about the primitive normativity of African sexuality that British colonial authorities in Kenya used to justify their control over African...