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The Inner Life of Race : Souls, Bodies, and the History of Racial PowerAuthor: Leerom MedovoiPublisher: Duke University PressPublication Date: Sep 13, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage:...

Brooke Larson traces the struggle over Indigenous education in Bolivia in the twentieth century, examining the transformation of the rural "alphabet school" from an instrument of the civilizing state...

Celine Parreñas Shimizu examines early twenty-first-century cinematic representations of Asian and Asian American children, showing how films allow viewers the opportunity to understand the demands...

Anaïs Maurer foregrounds Pacific literature as a key archive for surviving and thriving in an environment in which Indigenous inhabitants have been bombarded with the equivalent of one Hiroshima bomb...

Katherine Brewer Ball argues that escape is a key site for exploring American conceptions of freedom and constraint, showing how Black and queer escape are forms of radical practice.Author: Katherine...

Eunsong Kim traces how racial capitalism and colonialism situated the rise of US museum collections and conceptual art forms.Author: Eunsong KimPublisher: Duke University PressPublication Date: Aug...

Mark Rifkin explores how the construction of family as a white liberal institution of race-making drives US settler-colonial violence.Author: Mark RifkinPublisher: Duke University PressPublication...

Jacob Blanc offers a new interpretation of the legendary Prestes Column rebellion, in which a band of rebel officers and soldiers marched 15,000 miles through the vast interior regions of Brazil...

Mimi Thi Nguyen explores the relationship between the concept of beauty and narratives of crisis and catastrophe to show how the possibility of beauty can remake social arrangements and political...

Richard Klein tells the millennia-spanning history of the city of Arles, France, from the perspective of the limestone eminence upon which it sits, showing how the city has always had a spirit that...

In The Second Battle for Africa, Erik S. McDuffie establishes the importance of the US Midwest to twentieth-century global Black history, internationalism, and radicalism. McDuffie shows how cities...

In The Second Battle for Africa, Erik S. McDuffie establishes the importance of the US Midwest to twentieth-century global Black history, internationalism, and radicalism. McDuffie shows how cities...

The Story of What Is Broken Is Whole collects for the first time fifty years of writing by Puerto Rican Jewish feminist and radical thinker Aurora Levins Morales. Combining well-known excerpts from...

Doyle D. Calhoun charts a long history of suicidal resistance to French colonialism and postcolonialism through African and Afro-Caribbean literature, film, and oral histories.Author: Doyle D...

Enrique Dussel provides a groundbreaking combination of Marxology, theology, and ethical theory, showing that Marx unveils the theology of capitalism in his critique of commodity fetishization...

In The Time beneath the Concrete, Nasser Abourahme argues that settler colonialism is always as much an attempt to conquer time as it is to conquer land. Taking as his primary object Palestinian...

In The Time beneath the Concrete, Nasser Abourahme argues that settler colonialism is always as much an attempt to conquer time as it is to conquer land. Taking as his primary object Palestinian...

The Trauma Mantras : A Memoir in Prose PoemsAuthor: Adrie KusserowPublisher: Duke University PressPublication Date: Jan 09, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: HardcoverISBN-10:...

In this revised and expanded second edition of Third World Studies, Gary Y. Okihiro considers the methods and theories that might inform the field of Third World studies, further articulating its...

La rutina diaria nos mantiene dormidos y alejados de nuestra propia exitencia. Una vez que descubrimos cuales son los factores externos que dominan nuestras vidas podemos asumir las riendas de eso...

Tomorrowing collects twenty years of Terry Bisson's "This Month in History" columns for the science fiction magazine Locus, in which he imagines memorable events, each set in a totally different,...

In 1981, David Bowie and Queen both happened to be in Switzerland: They met and made "Under Pressure." Recorded on a lark, the song broke the path for subsequent pop anthems. In Under Pressure, Max...

Rachel H. Brown explores the overlooked labor of migrant workers in Israel's eldercare industry, showing that live-in eldercare in Palestine/Israel is an often invisible area where settler...

In Unsustainable Empire Dean Itsuji Saranillio offers a bold challenge to conventional understandings of Hawai'i's admission as a U.S. state. Hawai'i statehood is popularly remembered as a civil...

In Violence Work Micol Seigel offers a new theorization of the quintessential incarnation of state power: the police. Foregrounding the interdependence of policing, the state, and global capital,...

Drawing on the history and ethnography of the trans communal life in Istanbul, Asli Zengin traces how trans people in Turkey creatively negotiate and resist everyday cisheteronormative violence...

Kency Cornejo traces the emergence of new artistic strategies for Indigenous feminist resistance in the wake of torture, disappearance, killings, and US-funded civil wars in Central America.Author:...

Waiting for the Cool Moon : Anti-Imperialist Struggles in the Heart of Japan's EmpireAuthor: Wendy MatsumuraPublisher: Duke University PressPublication Date: Jan 30, 2024Number of Pages: NA...

Susan Stryker is a foundational figure in trans studies. When Monsters Speak showcases the development of Stryker's writing from the 1990s to the present. It combines canonical pieces, such as "My...