Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Books
University of Texas Press Razabilly
Book SynopsisAn engrossing deep dive into the sights, sounds, and sensibilities of the Latina/o Rockabilly scene in Los Angeles, its ties to working-class communities, and its dissemination through the post-NAFTA global landscape.Trade ReviewRazabilly chronicles the rise of rockabilly among La Raza (a 20th century term for Spanish-speaking communities), offering a fascinating cultural history without reducing the story to any misleadingly simple arguments…[a] nuanced study. * The Current *Razabilly is a noteworthy study among newer interdisciplinary works on the making and remaking of Los Angeles. It dexterously examines how Chicanas/os and Latinas/os within this music scene experienced, survived, and even thrived during the convoluted 2000s...Most significantly, Centino shows how during a time when the threats to disempower and demonize them increased, Chicanas/os and Latinas/os drew from their collective cultural memories to assert their rights to space and place in Los Angeles—for their own leisure, for a good time, and to seek a better life. * California History *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Terminology Introduction Chapter 1. From London to East Los: A Cultural History of the International Rockabilly Scene Chapter 2. C’mon Baby, Let the Good Times Roll! Sites of Leisure and Memory in the Formation of the Chicana/o and Latina/o Rockabilly Scene of Greater Los Angeles Chapter 3. Fashioning Razabilly Bodies: Embodied Style and Stance in the Chicana/o and Latina/o Rockabilly Scene of Greater Los Angeles Chapter 4: Your Roots Are Showing: Tracing Genealogies and Building Cultural Memory through the Malleable Canon of the Greater Los Angeles Rockabilly Scene Epilogue Appendix. Research Sites Notes Bibliography
£73.95
University of Texas Press No Color Is My Kind
Book SynopsisIn 1959, a Black man named Eldrewey Stearns was beaten by Houston police after being stopped for a traffic violation. He was not the first to suffer such brutality, but the incident sparked Stearns's conscience and six months later he was leading the first sit-in west of the Mississippi River. No Color Is My Kind, first published in 1997, introduced readers to Stearns, including his work as a civil rights leader and lawyer in Houston's desegregation movement between 1959 and 1963. This remarkable and important history, however, was nearly lost to bipolar affective disorder. Stearns was a fifty-two-year-old patient in a Galveston psychiatric hospital when Thomas Cole first met him in 1984. Over the course of a decade, Cole and Stearns slowly recovered the details of Stearns's life before his slide into mental illness, writing a story that is more relevant today than ever. In this new edition, Cole fills in the gaps between the late 1990s and now, providing an update on the progress ofTable of Contents Preface to the New Edition Introduction Part One. Leader at Last 1. Launching a Movement 2. Blackout in Houston 3. Railroads, Baseball, and the Color Line 4. “I Was Going Places” Part Two. A Boy from Galveston and San Augustine 5. Uphome 6. Rabbit Returns 7. Driving Mr. Gus Part Three. Wandering and Return 8. “They Got Me, But They Can’t Forget Me”: A Mad Odyssey 9. Drew and Me: Recovering Separate Selves Appendix: Interview Sources Acknowledgments Notes References Index
£23.39
University of Texas Press Selling Black Brazil
Book SynopsisThis book explores visual portrayals of blackness in Brazil to reveal the integral role of visual culture in crafting race and nation across Latin America.Trade Review[Selling Black Brazil] is a fundamental critique of the utilization of Blackness in Bahia...The book exposes how tourism, the arts, and elite politicians think about Blackness, and by extension how limited this mode of thinking is. Romo shows how elites can move to capture cultural policies and instrumentalize them according to their interests. * NACLA *Elegantly written, lavishly illustrated, and cogently argued...Selling Black Brazil challenges historians of twentieth-century Salvador, Brazil’s 'Black Rome,' to think more carefully about how that construction of the city came into being in the 1940s and 1950s and about the limits and exclusions deeply embedded in this portrayal of Blackness as central to Salvador’s culture. * H-LatAm *With a compelling and clear prose, Romo’s study is a welcome addition to the literature about Afro-Brazilian art...Reevaluating the relationship of Black identity and Brazilian modernism, [Selling Black Brazil pushes] us to rethink how we teach and study nationalism, race, and art in Brazil. * Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture *[Romo] calls attention to the extent to which the story of tourism's visual culture is not only a Brazilian story but an American one, and she makes occasional and evocative references to similar stories elsewhere, such as Peru and Mexico, where tourism imagery helped conflate each nation with its 'native' elements. In Selling Black Brazil, Romo has provided important touchstones for such comparative work. More important, she has deepened our knowledge of both the emergence of Brazilian tourism, which is still, surprisingly, very little studied, and the process of invention that transformed Salvador into Black Rome. * Hispanic American Historical Review *Table of ContentsPreface Glossary Introduction: Race, Identity, and Visual Culture in the Americas Chapter 1. Precedents and Backdrops: Racial Types and Modern Ports Chapter 2. Colonial Churches and the Rise of the Quintessential Black City: Modernism, Travel, and the Pathbreaking Guide of Jorge Amado Chapter 3. Pierre Verger and the Construction of a Black Folk, 1946–1951 Chapter 4. Festive Streets: Carybé and Bahian Modernism Chapter 5. “Human and Picturesque”: Consolidation in the Bahian Tourist Guides of the 1950s Chapter 6. All Roads Lead to Black Rome: How the Religion of “Secrets” Became a Tourist Attraction Epilogue Acknowledgments Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
£31.50
University of Texas Press No Color Is My Kind
Book SynopsisIn 1959, a Black man named Eldrewey Stearns was beaten by Houston police after being stopped for a traffic violation. He was not the first to suffer such brutality, but the incident sparked Stearns's conscience and six months later he was leading the first sit-in west of the Mississippi River. No Color Is My Kind, first published in 1997, introduced readers to Stearns, including his work as a civil rights leader and lawyer in Houston's desegregation movement between 1959 and 1963. This remarkable and important history, however, was nearly lost to bipolar affective disorder. Stearns was a fifty-two-year-old patient in a Galveston psychiatric hospital when Thomas Cole first met him in 1984. Over the course of a decade, Cole and Stearns slowly recovered the details of Stearns's life before his slide into mental illness, writing a story that is more relevant today than ever. In this new edition, Cole fills in the gaps between the late 1990s and now, providing an update on the progress ofTable of Contents Preface to the New Edition Introduction Part One. Leader at Last 1. Launching a Movement 2. Blackout in Houston 3. Railroads, Baseball, and the Color Line 4. “I Was Going Places” Part Two. A Boy from Galveston and San Augustine 5. Uphome 6. Rabbit Returns 7. Driving Mr. Gus Part Three. Wandering and Return 8. “They Got Me, But They Can’t Forget Me”: A Mad Odyssey 9. Drew and Me: Recovering Separate Selves Appendix: Interview Sources Acknowledgments Notes References Index
£78.30
University of Texas Press Barbara Jordan
Book SynopsisA collection of stirring speeches by former U.S. Congresswoman Barbara Jordan that speaks to issues—ethics in government, civil liberties, and democratic values—still under intense debate in the twenty-first century.Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Biography of Barbara Jordan, with Student Comments My Personal Introduction of Barbara Jordan Erosion of Civil Liberties: Commencement Speech, Howard University, May 11, 1974 The National Political Stage Rising to the Occasion: The Constitutional Basis for Impeachment, U.S. House Judiciary Committee Impeachment Hearings, July 25, 1974 Center Stage: Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, July 12, 1976 The Spotlight after Congress: Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, July 13, 1992 Barbara Jordan's Take on Three Twenty-First-Century Political Issues Confirmation of Supreme Court Justices: Testimony in Opposition to the Nomination of Robert Bork, September 17, 1987 Immigration Reform: Congressional Testimony as Chair of the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform, March 29, 1995 Religious Faith and Politics: Prayer at the National Prayer Breakfast, February 2, 1978; Address at the National Prayer Breakfast, February 2, 1984 The Sylvanus Thayer Award Unswerving Dedication to Principle: 1995 Sylvanus Thayer Award Citation, West Point, October 5; Barbara Jordan's Thayer Award Acceptance Epilogue: Remarks of Bill Moyers at the Memorial Service for Barbara Jordan, University of Texas at Austin, January 28, 1996 Notes
£18.99
University of Texas Press Conjured Bodies
Book SynopsisThis study argues that powerful authorities and institutions exploit the ambiguity of Latinidad in ways that obscure inequalities in the United States.
£62.90
University of Texas Press Conjured Bodies Queer Racialization in
Book SynopsisIs Latinidad a racial or an ethnic designation? Both? Neither? The increasing recognition of diversity within Latinx communities and the well-known story of shifting census designations have cast doubt on the idea that Latinidad is a race, akin to white or Black. And the mainstream media constantly cover the browning of the United States, as though the racial character of Latinidad were self-evident. Many scholars have argued that the uncertainty surrounding Latinidad is emancipatory: by queering race-by upsetting assumptions about categories of human difference-Latinidad destabilizes the architecture of oppression. But Laura Grappo is less sanguine. She draws on case studies including the San Antonio Four (Latinas who were wrongfully accused of child sex abuse); the football star Aaron Hernandez's incarceration and suicide; Lorena Bobbitt, the headline-grabbing Ecuadorian domestic-abuse survivor; and controversies over the racial identities of public Latinx figures to show how mediaTrade Review[Conjured Bodies] provides an accessible and significant exploration of the construct of race in the U.S. Grappo’s book provides an insightful and engaging discussion of the importance of understanding both the value and danger of malleability...Grappo’s book provides thought provoking and gripping arguments about the possible consequences, harms, and issues of conjured identities, images, and bodies that is well positioned in current explorations of intersectionality...a necessary read for any serious student and scholar of Latinidad. * Ethnic and Racial Studies *Conjured Bodies expands the understanding of the politics of race and sexuality within Latinidad—the notion of a shared Latin American identity—by introducing readers to the concepts of Latinx ambiguity and queer racialization...Conjured Bodies is a vital addition to mainstream media research within Latinx studies, media studies, queer studies, and critical ethnic studies…Highly recommended. * CHOICE *Conjured Bodies is an impactful study that opens conversations on spectrality and racial categorizations, allowing scholars in Latinx studies, gender studies, LGBTQ+ studies, media studies, carceral studies, and hauntology to build on the author’s interdisciplinary research. * Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction. “The browning of America”: Conjured Bodies and Queer Racialization Chapter 1. “This could be Satanic-related”: Fantasies of Innocence and Criminalization in the Case of the San Antonio Four Chapter 2. “A life is worth more than a penis”: Lorena (Gallo) Bobbitt and the Domestication of Abuse Chapter 3. “A troubled, battered mind”: The Queer Lives and Deaths of Aaron Hernandez, 1989–2017 Chapter 4. “Who’s going to tell Sammy Sosa he is Afro-Latino?”: Transraciality and Panethnic Latinx Authenticity Conclusion. “Feeling brown”: Conjuring Latinidad, Here and Now Notes Bibliography Index
£19.19
University of Texas Press Mario Barradas and Son Jarocho
Book SynopsisThe regional and transnational impact of the Son Jarocho musical tradition.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Mario Barradas’s Life in Music (Mario Barradas) Chapter 2. Musical Reflections on Mario Barradas and Son Jarocho (Francisco González) Chapter 3. Son Jarocho’s Indigenous Expressivity across Geographies (Yolanda Broyles-González) Chapter 4. Mario Barradas and Mexican Cinema (Rafael Figueroa Hernández) Mario Barradas Discography (Rafael Figueroa Hernández) About the Authors Index
£21.59
University of Texas Press Mario Barradas and Son Jarocho
Book SynopsisThe regional and transnational impact of the Son Jarocho musical tradition.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Mario Barradas’s Life in Music (Mario Barradas) Chapter 2. Musical Reflections on Mario Barradas and Son Jarocho (Francisco González) Chapter 3. Son Jarocho’s Indigenous Expressivity across Geographies (Yolanda Broyles-González) Chapter 4. Mario Barradas and Mexican Cinema (Rafael Figueroa Hernández) Mario Barradas Discography (Rafael Figueroa Hernández) About the Authors Index
£62.90
University of Texas Press Visible Borders Invisible Economies
Book Synopsis2023 Outstanding Book Award, National Association for Ethnic Studies A thorough examination of the political and economic exploitation of Latinx subjects, migrants, and workers through the lens of Latinx literature, photography, and film. Globalization in the United States can seem paradoxical: free trade coincides with fortification of the southern border, while immigration is reimagined as a national-security threat. US politics turn aggressively against Latinx migrants and subjects even as post-NAFTA markets become thoroughly reliant on migrant and racialized workers. But in fact, there is no incongruity here. Rather, anti-immigrant politics reflect a strategy whereby capital uses specialized forms of violence to create a reserve army of the living, laboring dead. Visible Borders, Invisible Economies turns to Latinx literature, photography, and films that render this unseen scheme shockingly vivid. Works such as Valeria Luiselli’Trade ReviewUlibarri offers a model for reading other Latinx literature in the context of rising immigrant detentions . . . The interplay of border visibility and economic invisibility reveals a politically charged truth about the disposability of immigrant life hidden within the auspices of border/national security. Further, these truths are visible in the imagined world of art be it prose, photography, or film. * Latin@ Literatures *Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Imagination in the Age of National Security and Market Neoliberalization Part I. Documenting the Living Dead Chapter 1. Games of Enterprise and Security in Luis Urrea, Valeria Luiselli, and Karla Cornejo Villavicencio Chapter 2. Documenting the US-Mexico Border: Photography, Movement, and Paradox Chapter 3. Latinx Realisms: The Cinematic Borderworlds of Josefina López, David Riker, and Alex Rivera Part II. Imagining the Living Dead Chapter 4. Markets of Resurrection: Cat Ghosts, Aztec Zombies, and the Living Dead Economy Chapter 5. Speculative Governances of the Dead: The Underclass, Underworld, and Undercommons Coda: Dreaming of Deportation, or, When Everything “Goes South” Notes Bibliography Index
£78.30
University of Texas Press Siblings of Soil
Book SynopsisAfter revolutionary cooperation between Dominican and Haitian majorities produced independence across Hispaniola, Dominican elites crafted negative myths about this era that contributed to anti-Haitianism.Trade ReviewYingling’s Siblings of Soil is a history of the Haitian Revolution and its aftermath that focuses on the militaristic, religious, and kinship ties between Haitians and the Spanish side of the island. Grounded in astonishing archival research that spans Europe, the Caribbean, the United States, and Australia, Siblings of Soil demonstrates how African descendants across Hispaniola collaborated across time to ultimately unify the island under Haiti in 1822. This contribution centers the whole island in the broader historical literature on the Age of Revolutions. It moreover is a poignant reminder of a bygone era of cooperation in the forging of an independent, anti-slavery, and anti-colonial Black state. The Isis Duarte Book Prize committee commends Siblings of Soil for its extraordinary research and timely innovation. * Isis Duarte Prize Committee, Haiti/ Dominican Republic section of the Latin American Studies Association *Yingling . . . masterfully [argues] that the Dominican Republic did not gain independence from but rather separated itself from Haiti. He also provides pertinent examples of Dominican influence on Haiti in its early years and of collaborative efforts between the two 'siblings.' . . Importantly, Yingling locates Santo Domingo in the historiography of the Age of Revolutions. Haiti, at least, has received more recognition in this era given the significance of the Haitian Revolution. . . This well-researched book incorporates archival material from Haiti, the Dominican Republic, France, Spain, Cuba, and Vatican City. . . Highly recommended. * CHOICE *Siblings of Soil successfully delineates the importance of an archivally grounded understanding of the history of the island and is a notable contribution to the historiographical effort, expanding how we under‐stand the revolutionary age to have been lived. * H-Net Reviews (H-Caribbean) *[Siblings of Soil] is a welcome contribution to a range of historiographies, and it sheds light on a too-often overlooked part of the Age of Revolutions . . . Yingling has produced a significant work that belongs in the libraries of scholars on both sides of the Atlantic. * H-Net Reviews (H-Slavery) *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: The Entire Island Has One Family Chapter 1: Race and Place in Eighteenth-Century Hispaniola Chapter 2: Following a Revolutionary Fuse, 1789–1791 Chapter 3: Belief, Blasphemy, and the Black Auxiliaries, 1792–1794 Chapter 4: Many Enemies Within, 1795–1798 Chapter 5: French Failures, 1799–1807 Chapter 6: Cross-Island Collaboration and Conspiracies, 1808–1818 Chapter 7: The “Spanish Part of Haiti” and Unification, 1819–1822 Epilogue: Becoming Dominican in Haiti Archives Consulted Notes Index
£31.50
University of Texas Press Undocumented Motherhood Conversations on Love
Book SynopsisClaudia Garcia crossed the border because her toddler, Natalia, could not hear. Leaving behind everything she knew in Mexico, Claudia recounts the terror of migrating alone with her toddler and the incredible challenges she faced advocating for her daughter's health in the United States. When she arrived in Texas, Claudia discovered that being undocumented would mean more than just an immigration status--it would be a way of living, of mothering, and of being discarded by even those institutions we count on to care. Elizabeth Farfan-Santos spent five years with Claudia. As she listened to Claudia's experiences, she recalled her own mother's story, another life molded by migration, the US-Mexico border, and the quest for a healthy future on either side. Witnessing Claudia's struggles with doctors and teachers, we see how the education and medical systems enforce undocumented status and perpetuate disability. At one point, in the midst of advocating for her daughter, Claudia suddenly f
£62.90
University of Texas Press Migrant Feelings Migrant Knowledge
Book SynopsisThe digital storytelling project Humanizing Deportation invites migrants to present their own stories in the world’s largest and most diverse archive of its kind. Since 2017, more than 300 community storytellers have created their own audiovisual testimonial narratives, sharing their personal experiences of migration and repatriation. With Migrant Feelings, Migrant Knowledge, the project’s coordinator, Robert Irwin, and other team members introduce the project’s innovative participatory methodology, drawing out key issues regarding the human consequences of contemporary migration control regimes, as well as insights from migrants whose world-making endeavors may challenge what we think we know about migration.In recent decades, migrants in North America have been treated with unprecedented harshness. Migrant Feelings, Migrant Knowledge outlines this recent history, revealing stories both of grave injustice and of seemingly unsurmountable obstacTable of Contents Acknowledgments Sometimes (Sonia Guiñansaca) Part I. Problems, Approaches, Methods Chapter 1. The Humanizing Deportation Project: Building a Community Archive of Migrant Feelings, Migrant Knowledge (Robert McKee Irwin) Chapter 2. Approaches and Methods: Migrant Epistemologies through Digital Storytelling (Robert McKee Irwin, Ana Luisa Calvillo Vázquez, and Yairamaren Román Maldonado) Part II. Issues Chapter 3. Motherhood, Spaces, and Care in the Digital Narratives of Humanizing Deportation (Maricruz Castro Ricalde) Chapter 4. Deported Childhood Arrivals “from the Famous Estados Unidos” DREAMing in Tijuana (Lizbeth De La Cruz Santana) Chapter 5. Deportation and Military Discipline on the Last Battlefield of Tijuana (Kyle Proehl and Guillermo Alonso Meneses) Part III. Migrant Epistemologies Chapter 6. Family Unity and Practices of Care: Deportation’s Effects on the Soul (María José Gutiérrez) Chapter 7. Infrapolitics and Deportation: Everyday Resistance from Digital Storytelling (Ana Luisa Calvillo Vázquez) Chapter 8. Beyond Social Death: New Migrant Ontologies (Brooke Kipling) Chapter 9. The Migrant Knowledge of a Caravanero (Robert McKee Irwin) Epilogue: Reclaiming Our Voices, Stories, and Knowledge (Nancy Landa) Works Cited Notes on Contributors Index
£62.90
University of Texas Press Migrant Feelings Migrant Knowledge
Book SynopsisThe digital storytelling project Humanizing Deportation invites migrants to present their own stories in the world’s largest and most diverse archive of its kind. Since 2017, more than 300 community storytellers have created their own audiovisual testimonial narratives, sharing their personal experiences of migration and repatriation. With Migrant Feelings, Migrant Knowledge, the project’s coordinator, Robert Irwin, and other team members introduce the project’s innovative participatory methodology, drawing out key issues regarding the human consequences of contemporary migration control regimes, as well as insights from migrants whose world-making endeavors may challenge what we think we know about migration.In recent decades, migrants in North America have been treated with unprecedented harshness. Migrant Feelings, Migrant Knowledge outlines this recent history, revealing stories both of grave injustice and of seemingly unsurmountable obstacTable of Contents Acknowledgments Sometimes (Sonia Guiñansaca) Part I. Problems, Approaches, Methods Chapter 1. The Humanizing Deportation Project: Building a Community Archive of Migrant Feelings, Migrant Knowledge (Robert McKee Irwin) Chapter 2. Approaches and Methods: Migrant Epistemologies through Digital Storytelling (Robert McKee Irwin, Ana Luisa Calvillo Vázquez, and Yairamaren Román Maldonado) Part II. Issues Chapter 3. Motherhood, Spaces, and Care in the Digital Narratives of Humanizing Deportation (Maricruz Castro Ricalde) Chapter 4. Deported Childhood Arrivals “from the Famous Estados Unidos” DREAMing in Tijuana (Lizbeth De La Cruz Santana) Chapter 5. Deportation and Military Discipline on the Last Battlefield of Tijuana (Kyle Proehl and Guillermo Alonso Meneses) Part III. Migrant Epistemologies Chapter 6. Family Unity and Practices of Care: Deportation’s Effects on the Soul (María José Gutiérrez) Chapter 7. Infrapolitics and Deportation: Everyday Resistance from Digital Storytelling (Ana Luisa Calvillo Vázquez) Chapter 8. Beyond Social Death: New Migrant Ontologies (Brooke Kipling) Chapter 9. The Migrant Knowledge of a Caravanero (Robert McKee Irwin) Epilogue: Reclaiming Our Voices, Stories, and Knowledge (Nancy Landa) Works Cited Notes on Contributors Index
£21.59
University of Texas Press Visible Borders Invisible Economies
Book Synopsis2023 Outstanding Book Award, National Association for Ethnic Studies A thorough examination of the political and economic exploitation of Latinx subjects, migrants, and workers through the lens of Latinx literature, photography, and film. Globalization in the United States can seem paradoxical: free trade coincides with fortification of the southern border, while immigration is reimagined as a national-security threat. US politics turn aggressively against Latinx migrants and subjects even as post-NAFTA markets become thoroughly reliant on migrant and racialized workers. But in fact, there is no incongruity here. Rather, anti-immigrant politics reflect a strategy whereby capital uses specialized forms of violence to create a reserve army of the living, laboring dead. Visible Borders, Invisible Economies turns to Latinx literature, photography, and films that render this unseen scheme shockingly vivid. Works such as Valeria Luiselli’Trade ReviewUlibarri offers a model for reading other Latinx literature in the context of rising immigrant detentions . . . The interplay of border visibility and economic invisibility reveals a politically charged truth about the disposability of immigrant life hidden within the auspices of border/national security. Further, these truths are visible in the imagined world of art be it prose, photography, or film. * Latin@ Literatures *Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Imagination in the Age of National Security and Market Neoliberalization Part I. Documenting the Living Dead Chapter 1. Games of Enterprise and Security in Luis Urrea, Valeria Luiselli, and Karla Cornejo Villavicencio Chapter 2. Documenting the US-Mexico Border: Photography, Movement, and Paradox Chapter 3. Latinx Realisms: The Cinematic Borderworlds of Josefina López, David Riker, and Alex Rivera Part II. Imagining the Living Dead Chapter 4. Markets of Resurrection: Cat Ghosts, Aztec Zombies, and the Living Dead Economy Chapter 5. Speculative Governances of the Dead: The Underclass, Underworld, and Undercommons Coda: Dreaming of Deportation, or, When Everything “Goes South” Notes Bibliography Index
£20.99
University of Texas Press Emergent Quilombos
Book SynopsisHow disenfranchised Black Brazilians use hip-hop to reinvigorate the Black radical tradition.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Racial Conditions Chapter 2. Hip-Hop Aquilombamento Chapter 3. Black Spaces of Culture Chapter 4. Intimacy Chapter 5. Artifice Chapter 6. Mediating Quilombo Politics Chapter 7. Real Women Coda: A Diasporic Love Letter Notes Reference List Index
£71.10
University of Texas Press Narcomedia
Book SynopsisExploring representations of Latinx people from Scarface to Narcos, this book examines how pop culture has framed Latin America as the villain in America’s long and ineffectual War on Drugs. If there is an enemy in the War on Drugs, it is people of color. That is the lesson of forty years of cultural production in the United States. Popular culture, from Scarface and Miami Vice to Narcos and Better Call Saul, has continually positioned Latinos as an alien people who threaten the US body politic with drugs. Jason Ruiz explores the creation and endurance of this trope, its effects on Latin Americans and Latinx people, and its role in the cultural politics of the War on Drugs. Even as the focus of drug anxiety has shifted over the years from cocaine to crack and from methamphetamines to opioids, and even as significant strides have been made in representational politics in many areas of pop culture, Latinx people remain an unshakeTable of Contents Introduction Chapter 1. “Say Goodnight to the Bad Guy”: South Florida, Cocaine, and the Many Faces of Scarface Chapter 2. Miami Vices: Whiteness and Otherness in Representing the Criminalized City Chapter 3. “The Most Alive Dead Man in the World”: Plotting the Death of Pablo Escobar Chapter 4. Dancing toward Revenge: Queer Representation and What It Means to Be Seen in Narcomedia Chapter 5. Dark Matters: Breaking Bad and the Suburban Crime Drama Chapter 6. Bad Hombres: Narcomedia at the US-Mexico Border Chapter 7. From Public Enemy to Global Media Commodity: Pablo Escobar Transformed Epilogue. “It’s Time for a White Man to Leave the Building”: Centering Latinidad in Narcomedia Acknowledgments Notes Selected Filmography Bibliography Index
£67.15
University of Texas Press Black Feminist Constellations
Book SynopsisA collection of essays, interviews, and conversations by and between scholars, activists, and artists from Latin America and the Caribbean that paints a portrait of Black women's experiences across the region.Table of Contents The Sacred Word of Women: A Performance (Elizandra Souza; translation by Christen A. Smith) Palavra Sagrada de Mulher: Uma Performance (Elizandra Souza) Toward a Dialogic Transnational Black Feminism: An Introduction (Christen Smith and Lorraine Leu) Part I. Radical Movements: Caring for Life Oriki to Sueli (Elizandra Souza; translation by Luana Moreira Reis) 1. A Feminism So Complex and So Radical (Sueli Carneiro; translation and introduction by Christen A. Smith) 2. Black Women’s Intellectual Contributions to the Americas: Perspectives from the Global South (Sueli Carneiro; translation and editing by Lorraine Leu) 3. Is It Time to Say Goodbye to “Feminism”? (Florencia Gomes; translation by Daisy E. Guzman Nuñez) 4. Black Feminist(s) Work in Argentina (Florencia Gomes and Prisca Gayles; introduction, interview, and translation by Prisca Gayles) 5. Intimate Poetics: World-Making through Cuidado de la Vida (Care of Life) in and beyond the Borders of Colombia (Sofía Garzón and Yineth Balanta Mina; introduction by Alysia Mann Carey; translation by Keturah Nichols ) 6. Black Women’s Epistemological Contributions: Afro-Mexican Women in the Twenty-First Century (Itza Amanda Varela Huerta; translation and editing by Daisy E. Guzman Nuñez) 7. Black Women’s Struggle in Mexico: Anti-racism, Community Organization, and Reparation Politics (A conversation between Rosa María Castro Salinas, Itza Amanda Varela Huerta, and Meztli Yoalli Rodríguez Aguilera; introduction by Meztli Yoalli Rodríguez Aguilera; translation and editing by Daisy E. Guzman Nuñez and Alida Perrine) 8. Beyond Words: Fugitive Embodiments, Creative Praxis, and Trans-Intellectual Genealogies for Black Life (A conversation between Dora Santana and Michaela Machicote; introduction by Michaela Machicote) Part II. Radical Roots: Genealogies of Thought 9. A Genealogy of Black Left Feminist Claims (Carole Boyce Davies) 10. How Will We Organize to Live? Andaiye’s Radical Praxis (D. Alissa Trotz) 11. From the Archives: CAFRA Conversations--Audre Lorde and Andaiye 12. A Brief Introduction to the Life and Work of Sylvia Wynter: Early Life and Work(s) (Bedour Alagraa) 13. The Life and Work of Sylvia Wynter in the Americas (A conversation between Carole Boyce Davies, Bedour Alagraa, and Yomaira Figueroa) 14. Visualizing Blackness in Brazil (Rosana Paulino with Lorraine Leu; translation by Lorraine Leu) 15. Settlement: Rosana Paulino and Black Women’s Insubordinate Geohistories (Lorraine Leu) 16. Diasporic Memories: Black Women Writers’ Lived Experiences and Ancestralities (Elizandra Souza; translation by Christen A. Smith) Coda. Whirlwind Women/Mulheres redemoinhos (Elizandra Souza; translation by Luana Moreira Reis) Acknowledgments Editors, Contributors, and Translators Index
£62.90
Duke University Press Technicolored
Book SynopsisFrom early sitcoms such as I Love Lucy to contemporary prime-time dramas like Scandal and How to Get Away with Murder, African Americans on television have too often been asked to portray tired stereotypes of blacks as villains, vixens, victims, and disposable minorities. In Technicolored black feminist critic Ann duCille combines cultural critique with personal reflections on growing up with the new medium of TV to examine how televisual representations of African Americans have changed over the last sixty years. Whether explaining how watching Shirley Temple led her to question her own self-worth or how televisual representation functions as a form of racial profiling, duCille traces the real-life social and political repercussions of the portrayal and presence of African Americans on television. Neither a conventional memoir nor a traditional media study, Technicolored offers one lifelong television watcher''s careful, personal, and timely anaTrade Review"Ann duCille offers an eloquent analysis of the relationship between representations of people of color and their absence in television from the 1950s to the present. She skillfully blends her comprehensive, historically grounded research with personal memories and her present connection to television. . . . Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty." -- K. Sorensen * Choice *"In her book Technicolored, Ann duCille deftly blends memoir and television criticism to create an important critical intervention into the study of race and media." -- Jacqueline Johnson * Film Quarterly *"Technicolored is a beautifully written and deeply engaging text that makes media criticism available in multiple registers. Media critics, Black Studies scholars, those interested in literary experiments that bridge memoir and theory, and all students of culture will learn considerably from duCille’s achievement." -- Michael Litwack * The Black Scholar *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Black and White and Technicolored: Channeling the TV Life 1 1. What's in a Game? Quiz Shows and the "Prism of Race" 22 2. "Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear": Stigmatic Blackness and the Rise of Technicolored TV 52 3. The Shirley Temple of My Familiar: Take Two 83 4. Interracial Loving: Sexless in the Suburbs of the 1960s 112 5. "A Credit to My Race": Acting Black and Black Acting from Julia to Scandal 134 6. A Clear and Present Absence: Perry Mason and the Case of the Missing "Minorities" 159 7. "Soaploitation": Getting Away with Murder in Primetime 183 8. The Punch and Judge Judy Shows: Really Real TV and the Dangers of a Day in Court 209 9. The Autumn of His Discontent: Bill Cosby, Fatherhood, and the Politics of Palatability 232 10. The "Thug Default": Why Racial Representation Still Matters 261 Epilogue. Final Spin: "That's Not My Food" 285 Notes 289 Bibliography 311 Index 325
£112.20
Duke University Press Black Feminism Reimagined
Book SynopsisJennifer C. Nash reframes black feminism's engagement with intersectionality, contending that black feminists should let go of their possession and policing of the concept in order to better unleash black feminist theory's visionary and world-making possibilities.Trade Review"What Nash does in Black Feminism Reimagined is new, brave, and important." -- Chelsea Johnson * Women's Review of Books *"This book brings charged feminist issues, anxieties, and negative affects to the surface for the field of women’s studies to confront making for a challenging yet necessary read." -- Tiffany Lethabo King * Feminist Formations *"This is a book that generates messy feelings, that forges counterintuitive intimacies, that asks and answers difficult questions about a field that is still too often denied a brief— at least in the US academy— as a crucial site of intellectual motility, critical inquiry, and capacious knowledge production." -- Shoniqua Roach * Syndicate *"Black Feminism Reimagined is an invitation to explore the radical openness of Black feminism and the diversity of its potential expressions." -- James Bliss * Syndicate *"[This] book has created a moment in the academy that calls us to practice radical honesty. [Its] honesty about the affect and feelings that Black feminism— and particularly intersectionality— produce in the academy is a rare and refreshing break from the norms of bourgeois pretense and protocols of politesse." -- Tiffany King * Syndicate *"Black Feminism Reimagined invites us to think about which sites of black feminism have been emphasized and which have been foreclosed in its multi-decade tarrying with the academy." -- Amber Musser * Syndicate *"Nash provides an important new examination of intersectionality and Black feminism, one that will shape women’s studies and feminist theory well into the future. Challenging yet enlightening, this book is sharp and nuanced and necessary. It’s your end-of-year #RequiredReading." -- Karla Strand * Ms. *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Feeling Black Feminism 1 1. A Love Letter from a Critic, or Notes on the Intersectionality Wars 33 2. The Politics of Reading 59 3. Surrender 81 4. Love in the Time of Death 111 Coda: Some of Us are Tired 133 Notes 139 Bibliography 157 Index 165
£70.55
Duke University Press Technicolored
Book SynopsisFrom early sitcoms such as I Love Lucy to contemporary prime-time dramas like Scandal and How to Get Away with Murder, African Americans on television have too often been asked to portray tired stereotypes of blacks as villains, vixens, victims, and disposable minorities. In Technicolored black feminist critic Ann duCille combines cultural critique with personal reflections on growing up with the new medium of TV to examine how televisual representations of African Americans have changed over the last sixty years. Whether explaining how watching Shirley Temple led her to question her own self-worth or how televisual representation functions as a form of racial profiling, duCille traces the real-life social and political repercussions of the portrayal and presence of African Americans on television. Neither a conventional memoir nor a traditional media study, Technicolored offers one lifelong television watcher's careful, personal, and timely analysis of how television continues to shape notions of race in the American imagination.Trade Review"Ann duCille offers an eloquent analysis of the relationship between representations of people of color and their absence in television from the 1950s to the present. She skillfully blends her comprehensive, historically grounded research with personal memories and her present connection to television. . . . Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty." -- K. Sorensen * Choice *"In her book Technicolored, Ann duCille deftly blends memoir and television criticism to create an important critical intervention into the study of race and media." -- Jacqueline Johnson * Film Quarterly *"Technicolored is a beautifully written and deeply engaging text that makes media criticism available in multiple registers. Media critics, Black Studies scholars, those interested in literary experiments that bridge memoir and theory, and all students of culture will learn considerably from duCille’s achievement." -- Michael Litwack * The Black Scholar *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Black and White and Technicolored: Channeling the TV Life 1 1. What's in a Game? Quiz Shows and the "Prism of Race" 22 2. "Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear": Stigmatic Blackness and the Rise of Technicolored TV 52 3. The Shirley Temple of My Familiar: Take Two 83 4. Interracial Loving: Sexless in the Suburbs of the 1960s 112 5. "A Credit to My Race": Acting Black and Black Acting from Julia to Scandal 134 6. A Clear and Present Absence: Perry Mason and the Case of the Missing "Minorities" 159 7. "Soaploitation": Getting Away with Murder in Primetime 183 8. The Punch and Judge Judy Shows: Really Real TV and the Dangers of a Day in Court 209 9. The Autumn of His Discontent: Bill Cosby, Fatherhood, and the Politics of Palatability 232 10. The "Thug Default": Why Racial Representation Still Matters 261 Epilogue. Final Spin: "That's Not My Food" 285 Notes 289 Bibliography 311 Index 325
£27.90
Duke University Press AFRICOBRA
Book SynopsisPainter, photographer, and cofounder of AFRICOBRA Wadsworth A. Jarrell tells the definitive history of the group’s creation, history, and artistic and political principles and the ways it captured the rhythmic dynamism of black culture and social life to create uplifting art for all black people.Trade Review“What an amazing testimony from a founding member of one of the most important artists' collectives of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries! Kudos to Wadsworth A. Jarrell for his thoroughly engaging and art historically significant memoir.” -- Richard J. Powell, John Spencer Bassett Distinguished Professor of Art & Art History, Duke University“The principles and philosophy of the collective AFRICOBRA in many ways defined the parameters of art making for politically conscious African American artists during the era of Black power. Who can forget their stunning manifesto that emphasized standards such as coolade color, shine, free symmetry, and mimesis at midpoint?! Now Wadsworth A. Jarrell‘s new book brings us a first-person account of this group and period from an artist who was there from the start. Beautifully illustrated, it offers a fresh perspective and significant references, and it serves as an important sourcebook for late twentieth-century practice. As the study of art moves beyond a New York--centric approach, histories coming out of major centers like Chicago are especially important. AFRICOBRA joins a growing body of literature on art making outside New York; it will allow a plethora of new chronicles to be written.” -- Kellie Jones, Columbia University"AFRICOBRA is a timely book as part of a movement that remains current as many art organizations are assessing their complicity in the suppression and appropriation of Black voices. This book will be of interest to scholars of African American art history and American art history in general." -- Laura Haynes * ARLIS/NA *"Lavishly illustrated with images of works by the Jarrells and AfriCOBRA colleagues including his wife, Donaldson, Jones-Hogu, and Nelson Stevens, the book describes the formation of the collective and its first three major exhibitions." -- Steven Litt * The Plain Dealer *“AFRICOBRA is a necessary source for the study of the Black Arts Movement.... Across poetics, analytical prose, art, and archive, Jarrell argues for revisionist readings that challenge standing interpretations of AFRICOBRA as well as the contemporary collective, AFRICOBRA Now.” -- Melanee C. Harvey * CAA Reviews *Table of ContentsIllustrations x Black Art and the Black Aesthetic xv AFRICOBRA: Principles and Philosophy xvii Foreword / Richard Allen May III xxi Acknowledgments xxv Introduction 1 Black in Chicago 19 Genesis 41 The Wall of Respect 49 The Inception 75 A Visual Art Proposal 91 First Cobra Exhibition 109 Recruitment 119 AFRICOBRA I 129 AFRICOBRA II 171 AFRICOBRA III 209 Postscript / Edmund Barry Gaither 241 Exhibitions 247 Reviews and Media Interviews 249 AFRICOBRA in Art Collections 251 AFRICOBRA in Books 253 Notes 255 Artist Biographies 263 Index 271
£22.79
Duke University Press Vexy Thing
Book SynopsisImani Perry recenters patriarchy to contemporary discussions of feminism through a social and literary analysis of cultural artifactsranging from nineteenth-century slavery court cases and historical vignettes to literature and contemporary artfrom the Enlightenment to the present.Trade Review"Vexy Thing recontextualizes feminism and patriarchy in an era when both terms have been systemically emptied by market forces; she reminds us that the patriarch is an institutional concept and reminds us of its insidiousness in our everyday life through a devastatingly sharp historical critique, necessarily centering black women as the locus of her conversation." -- Julianne Escobedo Shepherd * Jezebel *"Using historical examples, narrative vignettes, and meditative interludes, Perry pushes the conventions of academic writing in part to advocate for feminism as critical reading practice rather than doctrine. . . . [She] invite[s] the reader to consider patriarchy not as a parallel structure repeating itself across cultures but rather an iterative and changeable force constituted through its interactions with race, empire, geographic location, and other intersections. Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates and above." -- S. L. Vandermeade * Choice *"Perry presents a feminist reading praxis that examines history, theory and academic scholarship to provide the basis for understanding how patriarchy informs our individual and collective selves. This book should be on the shelf of any graduate student working in the fields of feminist scholarship and critical race theory." -- Katelan Dunn * LSE Review of Books *"What is patriarchy? This question is at the heart of Vexy Thing, but Perry does more than define patriarchy. She names it, identifies it, locates its global reach, examines its historical construction, and explores its present-day impact. Vexy Thing does a lot and in a good way. It is a capacious work of black feminist theory that works through patriarchy’s violence to imagine personhood, livability, and a more just world." -- Annette Joseph-Gabriel * Public Books *"Vexy Thing is a sophisticated mapping of patriarchy from the Enlightenment to the present." -- Natasha Behl * Politics & Gender *"Vexy Thing is an immense scholarly undertaking, reviewing theory and research spanning multiple disciplines. It is also a call for the reader—students, scholars, theorists, activists—to challenge the patriarchal doctrines built into our own lives and to bring the voices of those on the margins to the center." -- Wendy M. Christensen * Ethnic and Racial Studies *“This is the sort of book that initially draws you in with its witty title and beautiful cover (despite attempts not to judge a book…). I soon found myself recommending it to everyone I met even before I had even reached the end. Its breadth and scope [are] breathtaking. It spirals out in all directions and the content encompasses film, literature, historical documents, philosophy and policy…. I would argue that reading this book is as good a start as any for developing a new feminist praxis.” -- Rosie Buckland * Women's Studies International Forum *"Vexy Thing is not just a timely history lesson. In this text we are shown how to read as liberation feminists who take seriously the task of tracing patriarchy as a foundational architecture of gender domination, while imagining and enacting the possibilities of engendered freedom. Through the stylistic strategies of vignette, story, description, theorization, and analysis, Perry forces us to shift our praxis and to ‘read through the layers of gender forms of domination’…. [W]hen reading Vexy Thing, one would do well to give herself ample time and room to delight in the experience." -- LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant * Journal of American History *"Vexy Thing is a groundbreaking work of Black feminist scholarship. Both generously worldbuilding and rigorously deconstructive, it offers a challenging vision of liberation that will be of value to scholars, students, and activists alike, a vital text for anyone seeking creative, critical, and always personal tools for getting out from under the hold of patriarchy's racial logics." -- Matty Hemming * Criticism *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Seafaring, Sovereignty, and the Self: Of Patriarchy and the Conditions of Modernity 14 2. Producing Personhood: The Rise of Capitalism and the Western Subject 42 Interlude 1. How Did We Get Here? Nobody's Supposed to Be Here 86 3. In the Ether: Neoliberalism and Entrepreneurial Woman 98 4. Simulacra Child: Hypermedia and the Mediated Subject 129 5. Sticks Broken at the River: The Security State and the Violence of Manhood 151 Interlude 2. Returning to the Witches 171 6. Unmaking the Territory and Remapping the Landscape 177 7. The Utterance of My Name: Invitation and the Disorder of Desire 199 8. The Vicar of Liberation 226 Notes 255 Bibliography 273 Index 283
£75.65
Duke University Press Unsustainable Empire
Book SynopsisIn a bold challenge to conventional understandings of Hawai‘i’s admission as a U.S. state. Dean Saranillio tracks the disparate stories different groups tell about Hawaiian statehood by returning to historical flashpoints ranging from the turn of the century until shortly after 1959.Trade Review"[Unsustainable Empire is] a very powerful book with which to teach about what it means to work across social movements." -- Jaskiran Dhillon * Edge Effects *"Unsustainable Empire adds to scholarship on American nation-building, settler colonialism, statehood histories, and public relations politics and propaganda. The book should be a welcome addition to introductory-level history courses that deal with American empire or history and memory." -- Julie Hawks * Journal of American Culture *"[Unsustainable Empire] is instructive for its truly intersectional analysis of white and Asian settler colonialisms, U.S. imperialism, and heteropatriarchy, as well as many exciting passages on Hawai‘i's militant labor movement.… The book is an urgent call to expose the web of lies that empire is built on so we can build truly sustainable futures that respect Indigenous values, land, and leadership." -- Kim Compoc * Native American and Indigenous Studies *"Perhaps Saranillio’s most significant contribution is his rigorous theoretical analysis of settler colonialism and capitalism. . . . The most hopeful aspects of Saranillio’s work are the alternative futures made possible by a fuller understanding of Hawai‘i’s complex history. Such messaging is both necessarily encouraging and eminently useful for intellectuals employing decolonial methodologies—particularly those in settler-colonial contexts—and all those who seek a decolonized Hawai‘i." -- Shannon Pomaika‘i Hennessey * The Contemporary Pacific *Table of ContentsPreface. "Statehood Sucks" ix Acknowledgments xxi Introduction. Colliding Futures of Hawai‘i Statehood 1 1. A Future Wish: Hawai‘i at the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition 31 2. The Courage to Speak: Disrupting Haole Hegemony at the 1937 Congressional Statehood Hearings 67 3. "Something Indefinable Would Be Lost": The Unruly Kamokila and Go for Broke! 99 4. The Propaganda of Occupation: Statehood and the Cold War 131 5. Alternative Futures beyond the Settler State 171 Conclusion. Scenes of Resurgence: Slow Violence and Slow Resistance 197 Notes 211 Bibliography 245 Index 267
£75.65
Duke University Press Trans Exploits
Book SynopsisIn Trans Exploits Jian Neo Chen explores the cultural practices created by trans and gender-nonconforming artists and activists of color. They argue for a radical rethinking of the policies and technologies of racial gendering and assimilative social programming that have divided LGBT communities and communities of color along the lines of gender, sexuality, class, immigration status, and ability. Focusing on performance, film/video, literature, digital media, and other forms of cultural expression and activism that track the displaced emergences of trans people of color, Chen highlights the complex and varied responses by trans communities to their social dispossession. Through these responses, trans of color cultural workers such as performance artist Yozmit, writer Janet Mock, and organizer Jennicet Gutierrez challenge dominating perceptions and institutions that kill, confine, police, and discipline trans people.Trade Review“Trans Exploits is a valuable meditation on unsettling and redefining the relationship between trans of color culture and technologies of representation. . . . This text charts numerous points of entry for any reader interested in the converging histories of US expansion, dispossession, and detention.” -- Christopher Joseph Lee * TSQ *“The biggest strength of Trans Exploits lies in Chen’s deft ability to unite such a range of examples. It is testament to the book’s methodological intervention: trans exploits might thus be seen as a term to capture the different creative and strategic responses to racialized and gendered forms of power, surveillance, and regulation.” -- V Varun Chaudhry * GLQ *“Chen deploys trans of color as always in flux, as in relation with others, as a praxis of solidarity, and as refusal of all colonial and capitalist logics. . . . Remarkably, as Chen navigates the vast temporal and spatial frames, without conflating one context/community into another, they carefully historicize and contextualize each contemporary artist and their trans embodiments.” -- Nishant Upadhyay * American Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Racial Trans Technologies 1 1. Cultures: Performing Racial Trans Senses 30 2. Networks: TRANScoding Biogenetics and Orgasm in the Transnational Digital Economy 59 3. Memory: The Times and Territories of Trans Women of Color Becoming 75 4. Movement: Trans and Gender Nonconforming Digital Activisms and U.S. Transnational Empire 101 Conclusion. Trans Voice in the House 135 Notes 149 References 157 Index 173
£86.70
Duke University Press The Difference Aesthetics Makes On the
Book SynopsisExamining the work of writers and artists including Carrie Mae Weems, Langston Hughes, Toni Morrison, and Allan deSouza, Kandice Chuh advocates for what she calls “illiberal humanism” as a way to counter the Eurocentric liberal humanism that perpetuates structures of social inequality.Trade Review“Chuh provides a lucid, polemical, and extraordinarily persuasive proposal for reconceiving the humanities.... It is difficult to come away from The Difference Aesthetics Makes without feeling that it makes an exceptional contribution to cultural studies in particular and to the humanities at large.” -- Kiron Ward * Journal of American Studies *“In The Difference Aesthetics Makes, Kandice Chuh provides a fresh answer to an old question: What if losing the humanities as many have known them does not constitute a crisis? What if, after all, this so-called crisis affords an opportunity for the humanities to be remade?” -- Michele Speitz * Journal Of British Studies *Table of ContentsPreface xi Introduction. The Difference Aesthetics Makes 1 1. Knowledge under Cover 26 2. Pedagogies of Liberal Humanism 51 3. Making Sense Otherwise 74 4. Mis/Taken Universals 89 Conclusion. On the Humanities "After Man" 122 Postscript 126 Notes 131 Bibliography 159 Index 175
£70.55
Duke University Press Jezebel Unhinged
Book SynopsisIn Jezebel Unhinged Tamura Lomax traces the historical and contemporary use of the jezebel trope in the black church and in black popular culture, showing how it disciplines black women and girls and preserves gender hierarchy, black patriarchy, and heteronormativity in black families, communities, cultures, and institutions.Trade Review"An amazing pick for book clubs, reading discussion groups, or faith study groups, Jezebel Unhinged offers a fresh, exciting perspective on blackness, black female bodies, African American culture, and contemporary Christian teachings." -- Claire Foster * Foreword Reviews *"A book for black women who want freedom." -- Mariam Williams * Women's Review of Books *"Jezebel Unhinged is an insightful text that not only bridges the gap between Black feminist studies, Black pop culture studies, and womanist thought in religion, but also brings fresh and innovative analyses to longstanding discourses about black womanhood." -- Ahmad Greene-Hayes * Reading Religion *"Lomax has written a thoughtful, passionate piece, one deeply concerned about the well-being of black women and girls and, by extension, the well-being of a larger social fabric." -- Nan Kathy Lin * Studies in Religion *“Jezebel Unhinged is an exciting and provocative scholarly work. … For those interested in a thorough and systematic study of black women and girls and their relationship with the Black Church and black popular culture, this book is one that must be read.” -- Angela M. Nelson * Asian Journal of Social Science *“A passionate, closely argued, energetically written and illuminating text….” -- John Clammer * Ethnic and Racial Studies *“The arrow of Dr. Lomax’s words bullseyed into my soul…. Lomax brilliantly argues for critical black feminist religious engagement with how Black womanhood and girlhood are constructed and disseminated in connection with Black religion and Black popular culture. She focuses on the Black Church as a physical and psychic site of particular interest because it holds messy grey spaces outside of the social binaries we’ve been conditioned to accept.” -- B. J. McDaniel * The Lion and the Unicorn *Table of ContentsProlegomenon. "Hoeism or Whatever": Black Girls and the Sable Letter "B" vii Acknowledgments xix Introduction. "A Thousand Details, Anecdotes, Stories": Mining the Discourse on Black Womanhood 1 1. Black Venus and Jezebel Sluts: Writing Race, Sex, and Gender in Religion and Culture 13 2. "These Hos Ain't Loyal": White Perversions, Black Possessions 34 3. Theologizing Jezebel: Womanist Central Criticism, a Divine Intervention 59 4. "Changing the Letter": Toward a Black Feminist Study of Religion 82 5. The Black Church, the Black Lady, and Jezebel: The Cultural Production of Feminine-ism 108 6. Whose "Woman" Is This?: Reading Bishop T. D. Jakes's Woman, Thou Art Loosed! 130 7. Tyler Perry's New Revival: Black Sexual Politics, Black Popular Religion, and an American Icon 169 Epilogue. Dangerous Machinations: Black Feminists Taught Us 201 Notes 211 Bibliography 243 Index 251
£76.50
Duke University Press Vexy Thing
Book SynopsisImani Perry recenters patriarchy to contemporary discussions of feminism through a social and literary analysis of cultural artifactsranging from nineteenth-century slavery court cases and historical vignettes to literature and contemporary artfrom the Enlightenment to the present.Trade Review"Vexy Thing recontextualizes feminism and patriarchy in an era when both terms have been systemically emptied by market forces; she reminds us that the patriarch is an institutional concept and reminds us of its insidiousness in our everyday life through a devastatingly sharp historical critique, necessarily centering black women as the locus of her conversation." -- Julianne Escobedo Shepherd * Jezebel *"Using historical examples, narrative vignettes, and meditative interludes, Perry pushes the conventions of academic writing in part to advocate for feminism as critical reading practice rather than doctrine. . . . [She] invite[s] the reader to consider patriarchy not as a parallel structure repeating itself across cultures but rather an iterative and changeable force constituted through its interactions with race, empire, geographic location, and other intersections. Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates and above." -- S. L. Vandermeade * Choice *"Perry presents a feminist reading praxis that examines history, theory and academic scholarship to provide the basis for understanding how patriarchy informs our individual and collective selves. This book should be on the shelf of any graduate student working in the fields of feminist scholarship and critical race theory." -- Katelan Dunn * LSE Review of Books *"What is patriarchy? This question is at the heart of Vexy Thing, but Perry does more than define patriarchy. She names it, identifies it, locates its global reach, examines its historical construction, and explores its present-day impact. Vexy Thing does a lot and in a good way. It is a capacious work of black feminist theory that works through patriarchy’s violence to imagine personhood, livability, and a more just world." -- Annette Joseph-Gabriel * Public Books *"Vexy Thing is a sophisticated mapping of patriarchy from the Enlightenment to the present." -- Natasha Behl * Politics & Gender *"Vexy Thing is an immense scholarly undertaking, reviewing theory and research spanning multiple disciplines. It is also a call for the reader—students, scholars, theorists, activists—to challenge the patriarchal doctrines built into our own lives and to bring the voices of those on the margins to the center." -- Wendy M. Christensen * Ethnic and Racial Studies *“This is the sort of book that initially draws you in with its witty title and beautiful cover (despite attempts not to judge a book…). I soon found myself recommending it to everyone I met even before I had even reached the end. Its breadth and scope [are] breathtaking. It spirals out in all directions and the content encompasses film, literature, historical documents, philosophy and policy…. I would argue that reading this book is as good a start as any for developing a new feminist praxis.” -- Rosie Buckland * Women's Studies International Forum *"Vexy Thing is not just a timely history lesson. In this text we are shown how to read as liberation feminists who take seriously the task of tracing patriarchy as a foundational architecture of gender domination, while imagining and enacting the possibilities of engendered freedom. Through the stylistic strategies of vignette, story, description, theorization, and analysis, Perry forces us to shift our praxis and to ‘read through the layers of gender forms of domination’…. [W]hen reading Vexy Thing, one would do well to give herself ample time and room to delight in the experience." -- LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant * Journal of American History *"Vexy Thing is a groundbreaking work of Black feminist scholarship. Both generously worldbuilding and rigorously deconstructive, it offers a challenging vision of liberation that will be of value to scholars, students, and activists alike, a vital text for anyone seeking creative, critical, and always personal tools for getting out from under the hold of patriarchy's racial logics." -- Matty Hemming * Criticism *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Seafaring, Sovereignty, and the Self: Of Patriarchy and the Conditions of Modernity 14 2. Producing Personhood: The Rise of Capitalism and the Western Subject 42 Interlude 1. How Did We Get Here? Nobody's Supposed to Be Here 86 3. In the Ether: Neoliberalism and Entrepreneurial Woman 98 4. Simulacra Child: Hypermedia and the Mediated Subject 129 5. Sticks Broken at the River: The Security State and the Violence of Manhood 151 Interlude 2. Returning to the Witches 171 6. Unmaking the Territory and Remapping the Landscape 177 7. The Utterance of My Name: Invitation and the Disorder of Desire 199 8. The Vicar of Liberation 226 Notes 255 Bibliography 273 Index 283
£20.69
Duke University Press Unsustainable Empire
Book SynopsisIn a bold challenge to conventional understandings of Hawai‘i’s admission as a U.S. state. Dean Saranillio tracks the disparate stories different groups tell about Hawaiian statehood by returning to historical flashpoints ranging from the turn of the century until shortly after 1959.Trade Review"[Unsustainable Empire is] a very powerful book with which to teach about what it means to work across social movements." -- Jaskiran Dhillon * Edge Effects *"Unsustainable Empire adds to scholarship on American nation-building, settler colonialism, statehood histories, and public relations politics and propaganda. The book should be a welcome addition to introductory-level history courses that deal with American empire or history and memory." -- Julie Hawks * Journal of American Culture *"[Unsustainable Empire] is instructive for its truly intersectional analysis of white and Asian settler colonialisms, U.S. imperialism, and heteropatriarchy, as well as many exciting passages on Hawai‘i's militant labor movement.… The book is an urgent call to expose the web of lies that empire is built on so we can build truly sustainable futures that respect Indigenous values, land, and leadership." -- Kim Compoc * Native American and Indigenous Studies *"Perhaps Saranillio’s most significant contribution is his rigorous theoretical analysis of settler colonialism and capitalism. . . . The most hopeful aspects of Saranillio’s work are the alternative futures made possible by a fuller understanding of Hawai‘i’s complex history. Such messaging is both necessarily encouraging and eminently useful for intellectuals employing decolonial methodologies—particularly those in settler-colonial contexts—and all those who seek a decolonized Hawai‘i." -- Shannon Pomaika‘i Hennessey * The Contemporary Pacific *Table of ContentsPreface. "Statehood Sucks" ix Acknowledgments xxi Introduction. Colliding Futures of Hawai‘i Statehood 1 1. A Future Wish: Hawai‘i at the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition 31 2. The Courage to Speak: Disrupting Haole Hegemony at the 1937 Congressional Statehood Hearings 67 3. "Something Indefinable Would Be Lost": The Unruly Kamokila and Go for Broke! 99 4. The Propaganda of Occupation: Statehood and the Cold War 131 5. Alternative Futures beyond the Settler State 171 Conclusion. Scenes of Resurgence: Slow Violence and Slow Resistance 197 Notes 211 Bibliography 245 Index 267
£20.69
Duke University Press Trans Exploits
Book SynopsisIn Trans Exploits Jian Neo Chen explores the cultural practices created by trans and gender-nonconforming artists and activists of color. They argue for a radical rethinking of the policies and technologies of racial gendering and assimilative social programming that have divided LGBT communities and communities of color along the lines of gender, sexuality, class, immigration status, and ability. Focusing on performance, film/video, literature, digital media, and other forms of cultural expression and activism that track the displaced emergences of trans people of color, Chen highlights the complex and varied responses by trans communities to their social dispossession. Through these responses, trans of color cultural workers such as performance artist Yozmit, writer Janet Mock, and organizer Jennicet Gutierrez challenge dominating perceptions and institutions that kill, confine, police, and discipline trans people.Trade Review“Trans Exploits is a valuable meditation on unsettling and redefining the relationship between trans of color culture and technologies of representation. . . . This text charts numerous points of entry for any reader interested in the converging histories of US expansion, dispossession, and detention.” -- Christopher Joseph Lee * TSQ *“The biggest strength of Trans Exploits lies in Chen’s deft ability to unite such a range of examples. It is testament to the book’s methodological intervention: trans exploits might thus be seen as a term to capture the different creative and strategic responses to racialized and gendered forms of power, surveillance, and regulation.” -- V Varun Chaudhry * GLQ *“Chen deploys trans of color as always in flux, as in relation with others, as a praxis of solidarity, and as refusal of all colonial and capitalist logics. . . . Remarkably, as Chen navigates the vast temporal and spatial frames, without conflating one context/community into another, they carefully historicize and contextualize each contemporary artist and their trans embodiments.” -- Nishant Upadhyay * American Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Racial Trans Technologies 1 1. Cultures: Performing Racial Trans Senses 30 2. Networks: TRANScoding Biogenetics and Orgasm in the Transnational Digital Economy 59 3. Memory: The Times and Territories of Trans Women of Color Becoming 75 4. Movement: Trans and Gender Nonconforming Digital Activisms and U.S. Transnational Empire 101 Conclusion. Trans Voice in the House 135 Notes 149 References 157 Index 173
£22.79
Duke University Press The Difference Aesthetics Makes
Book SynopsisIn The Difference Aesthetics Makes cultural critic Kandice Chuh asks what the humanities might be and do if organized around what she calls “illiberal humanism” instead of around the Western European tradition of liberal humanism that undergirds the humanities in their received form. Recognizing that the liberal humanities contribute to the reproduction of the subjugation that accompanies liberalism''s definition of the human, Chuh argues that instead of defending the humanities, as has been widely called for in recent years, we should radically remake them. Chuh proposes that the work of artists and writers like Lan Samantha Chang, Carrie Mae Weems, Langston Hughes, Leslie Marmon Silko, Allan deSouza, Monique Truong, and othersbringsto bear ways of being and knowing that delegitimize liberal humanism in favor of more robust, capacious, and worldly senses of the human and the humanities. Chuh presents the aesthetics of illiberal humanism as vital to the creationTrade Review“Chuh provides a lucid, polemical, and extraordinarily persuasive proposal for reconceiving the humanities.... It is difficult to come away from The Difference Aesthetics Makes without feeling that it makes an exceptional contribution to cultural studies in particular and to the humanities at large.” -- Kiron Ward * Journal of American Studies *“In The Difference Aesthetics Makes, Kandice Chuh provides a fresh answer to an old question: What if losing the humanities as many have known them does not constitute a crisis? What if, after all, this so-called crisis affords an opportunity for the humanities to be remade?” -- Michele Speitz * Journal Of British Studies *Table of ContentsPreface xi Introduction. The Difference Aesthetics Makes 1 1. Knowledge under Cover 26 2. Pedagogies of Liberal Humanism 51 3. Making Sense Otherwise 74 4. Mis/Taken Universals 89 Conclusion. On the Humanities "After Man" 122 Postscript 126 Notes 131 Bibliography 159 Index 175
£18.99
Duke University Press The Global South
Book SynopsisThis special issue of Radical History Review offers a range of perspectives on the intellectual formation of the global South. Spanning time periods and objects of study across the global South, the essays develop new theoretical frameworks for thinking about geography, inequality, and subjectivity. Contributors investigate the construction of gender and racial formation in the global South and also explore what is politically and theoretically at stake in considering under-studied places like Guyana, or peripheries like Melanesia. One essay considers how encounters between spaces in the global South, specifically between Lebanon and West Africa, help to refocus attention from the preoccupations of northern nations with their former colonies to the frictions of decolonization. Several articles focus on the role of popular culture in regard to the geopolitical formation of the global South, with topics ranging from film to music to the career of Muhammad Ali. Contributors: Afro-Asian
£10.99
Duke University Press Mobile Subjects
Book SynopsisThe first famous transgender person in the United States, Christine Jorgensen, traveled to Denmark for gender reassignment surgery in 1952. Jorgensen became famous during the ascent of postwar dreams about the possibilities for technology to transform humanity and the world. In Mobile Subjects Aren Z. Aizura examines transgender narratives within global health and tourism economies from 1952 to the present. Drawing on an archive of trans memoirs and documentaries as well as ethnographic fieldwork with trans people obtaining gender reassignment surgery in Thailand, Aizura maps the uneven use of medical protocols to show how national and regional health care systems and labor economies contribute to and limit transnational mobility. Aizura positions transgender travel as a form of biomedical tourism, examining how understandings of race, gender, and aesthetics shape global cosmetic surgery cultures and how economic and racially stratified marketing and care work create the idTrade Review"Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty and professionals." -- N. B. Rosenthal * Choice *"Destabilizing formulaic transnational mobility stories that rely on an epic departure-and-return script, Aizura offers a powerful challenge to consider the wild movements of minor mobilities and the potentiality of staying in place." -- Emmanuel David * TSQ *"[This] book evokes a pondering of how Transgender Studies as a field will move itself forward. Aizura’s own urging to give a voice to transgender people who straddle the margins of privileged trans-normativity reiterates the field’s mission of breaking new paths for inclusivity, intersectionality, and independence from myopic visions of what being transgender means today." -- Muriel Vernon * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"Mobile Subjects is intentional and thoughtful in its application of interdisciplinary research. . . . Through his multi-method and intersectional approach, Aizura brings forth a conversation that simultaneously accounts for the impact of gender, race, and class on seeking out and obtaining gender reassignment technologies, as well as the varying policies, practices, and vernacular inherent to transnational study." -- Jacob Barry * Journal of Critical Race Inquiry *“Mobile Subjects provides new insights relevant and challenging for those interested in a range of topics and methodologies. This is a required read for our times...." -- Lars Olav Aaberg * newbooks.asia *“... [S]cholars in a wide range of fields will find this book useful.... Mobile Subjects exemplifies what can be done when trans studies is integrated with science, technology, and society studies, and more ‘traditional’ gender studies theories, such as queer theory, transnational feminisms, and Marxist theory.” -- K.S. Shindle * Catalyst *“Mobile Subjects is a complex, wide-ranging, and powerfully provocative exploration of how gender reassignment has been and continues to be shaped by physical and metaphorical tropes of movement....” -- Isaac Gagné * American Ethnologist *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Provincializing Trans 1 Part I 1. The Persistence of Trans Travel Narratives 29 2. On Location: Transsexual Autobiographies, Whiteness, and Travel 59 3. Documentary and the Metronormative Trans Migration Plot 03 Part II Interlude 135 4. Gender Reassignment and Transnational Entrepreneurialisms of the Self 137 5. The Romance of the Amazing Scalpel: Race, Labor, and Affect in Thai Gender Reassignment Clinics 174 Epilogue: Visions of Trans Worlding 207 Notes 221 Bibliography 245 Index 269
£98.60
Duke University Press Racial Melancholia Racial Dissociation
Book SynopsisIn Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation critic David L. Eng and psychotherapist Shinhee Han draw on case histories from the mid-1990s to the present to explore the social and psychic predicaments of Asian American young adults from Generation X to Generation Y. Combining critical race theory with several strands of psychoanalytic thought, they develop the concepts of racial melancholia and racial dissociation to investigate changing processes of loss associated with immigration, displacement, diaspora, and assimilation. These case studies of first- and second-generation Asian Americans deal with a range of difficulties, from depression, suicide, and the politics of coming out to broader issues of the model minority stereotype, transnational adoption, parachute children, colorblind discourses in the United States, and the rise of Asia under globalization. Throughout, Eng and Han link psychoanalysis to larger structural and historical phenomena, illuminating how the studyTrade Review"Intentionally answering the call for interdisciplinary scholarship, this innovative work will be valuable for clinicians as well as scholars of race. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals." -- J. deGuzman * Choice *"One of the most striking aspects of Eng and Han’s book is the relative ease with which it toggles back and forth between psychoanalytic case studies of people in various stages of suffering and characters in novels who were created to embody themes of beauty and triumph, suffering and fracture. . . . There’s a power in being able to recognize our struggles as the result of paradoxes we live within rather than seeing them as purely private failings. It’s a step toward imagining lives that we might be the authors of, with endings that we write ourselves." -- Hua Hsu * The New Yorker *"Accessibly written and powerfully argued, Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation is an excellent resource for any scholar thinking about race and psychoanalysis and, specifically, who are thinking critically about the use of psychoanalytic paradigms like mourning, loss, melancholia, infantile development, reparation, or transitional objects in relation to questions of the lived experiences of racial oppression." -- Christopher Bennett * Journal of Critical Race Inquiry *"Eng and Han—a literature professor and a psychotherapist, respectively—demonstrate how to understand the entanglements of history, culture, and psychoanalysis for Asian Americans. . . . This is an unusual social justice project, for it imagines a collective politics that is grounded in the intimate—and highly individualized—work of therapeutic repair." -- Amy R. Wong * Public Books *“Eng and Han’s work provides a critical vocabulary for articulating the slippery and insidious ways multicultural violence operates in the contemporary era.... Eng and Han contribute an invaluable perspective on Asian Americans’ racial and psychic processes that will be of interest to scholars across disciplines....” -- Corinne Mitsuye Sugino * Journal of Asian American Studies *Table of ContentsPreface vii Introduction: The History of the (Racial) Subject and the Subject of (Racial) History 1 Part I: Racial Melancholia 1. Racial Melancholia: Model Minorities, Depression, and Suicide 33 2. Desegregating Love: Transnational Adoption, Racial Reparation, and Racial Transnational Objects 66 Part II. Racial Dissociation 3. Racial Dissociation: Parachute Children and Psychic Nowhere 101 4. (Gay) Panic Attack: Coming Out in a Colorblind Age 141 Epilogue 174 Notes 181 Bibliography 203 Index 213
£72.25
Duke University Press Captivating Technology
Book SynopsisThe contributors to Captivating Technology examine how carceral technologies such as electronic ankle monitors and predictive-policing algorithms are being deployed to classify and coerce specific populations and whether these innovations can be appropriated and reimagined for more liberatory ends.Trade Review"The book comes at a timely moment, contributing to pressing contemporary conversations about predictive algorithms, bias in AI, new modes of surveillance, and the myriad ways our increasingly technologically mediated lives are experienced unequally along lines of race, class, and gender. . . . Captivating Technology offers a meaningful contribution to public and scholarly discussions of technological (in)justice." -- Naomi Zucker * Somatosphere *"Benjamin presents a rich and original contribution to critical studies of race and technoscience." -- Clara Hick * Ethnic and Racial Studies *“Captivating Technology is a powerful and deeply creative text that excavates suppressed histories just as much as it works towards building new futures.” -- Susila Gurusami * Surveillance & Society *“Captivating Technology...is an excellent collection that is compelling both in rich individual chapters and in the synthetic whole.... One of the strengths of this collective volume is its deliberate use of literary technologies.” -- Vivette García-Deister and Anne Pollock * BioSocieties *“[Captivating Technology] is an ideal in action; unfettered by carceral imaginations, scholars can invent different worlds that replace—and not merely, through reform, extend—the discriminatory societies we have made together.” -- David Theodore * Technology and Culture *Table of ContentsForeword / Troy Duster xi Acknowledgments / Ruha Benjamin xv Part I. Carceral Techniques from Plantation to Prison 1. Naturalizing Coercion: The Tuskegee Experiments and the Laboratory Life of the Plantation / Britt Rusert 25 2. Consumed by Disease: Medical Archives, Latino Fictions, and Carceral Health Imaginaries / Christopher Perreira 50 3. Billions Served: Prison Food Regimes, Nutritional Punishment, and Gastronomical Resistance / Anthony Ryan Hatch 67 4. Shadows of War, Traces of Policing: The Weaponization of Space and the Sensible Preemption / Andrea Miller 85 5. This Is Not Minority Report: Predictive Policing and Population Racism / R. Joshua Scannell 107 Part II. Surveillance Systems from Facebook to Fast Fashion 6. Racialized Surveillance in the Digital Service Economy / Winifred Poster 133 7. Digital Character in "The Scored Society": FICO, Social Networks, and the Competing Measurements of Creditworthimess / Tamara K. Nopper 170 8. Deception by Design: Digital Skin, Racial Matter, and the New Policing of Child Sexual Exploitation / Mitali Thakor 188 9. Employing the Carceral Imaginary: An Ethnography of Worker Surveillance in the Retail Industry / Madison Van Oort 209 Part III. Retooling Liberation from Abolitionists to Afrofuturists 10. Anti-Racist Technoscience: A Generative Tradition / Ron Eglash 227 11. Techo-Vernacular Creativity and Innovation across the African Diaspora and Global South / Nettrice R. Gaskins 252 12. Making Skin Visible through Liberatory Design / Lorna Roth 275 13. Scratch a Theory, You Find a Biography: A Conversation with Troy Duster 308 14. Reimagining Race, Resistance, and Technoscience: A Conversation with Dorothy Roberts 328 Bibliography 349 Contributors 389 Index 393
£80.75
Duke University Press Latinx Lives in Hemsipheric Context
Book SynopsisThis special issue investigates the intersections among Latinx, Chicanx, ethnic, and hemispheric American Studies, mapping the history of Latinx and Latin American literary and cultural production as it has circulated through the United States and the Americas. The issue comprisesoriginal archival research on Latinx print culture, modernismo, and land grabs, as well as short position pieces on the relevance of Latinx both asa term and as a field category for historical scholarship, representational politics, and critical intervention. Taken as a whole, the issue interrogates how Latinx literary, cultural, and scholarly productions circulate across the Americas in the same ways as the lives and bodies of Latinx peoples have moved, migrated, or mobilized throughout history. Contributors: Elise Bartosik-Vélez, Ralph Bauer, Rachel Conrad Bracken, Anna Brickhouse, John Alba Cutler, Kenya C. Dworkin y Méndez, Joshua Javier Guzmán, Anita Huizar-Hernández, Kelley Kreitz, Rodrigo Lazo, Maris
£16.14
Duke University Press Decolonizing Ethnography
Book SynopsisThe coauthors of Decolonizing Ethnography integrate ethnography with activist work in a New Jersey center for undocumented workers, showing how anthropology can function as a vehicle for activism and as a tool for marginalized people to theorize their own experiences.Trade Review"[Decolonizing Ethnography] offers an innovative way in which ethnography, practiced by the people who have been traditionally positioned as the ethnographic research objects, can be a powerful tool of self-empowerment, public advocacy, and personal transformation." -- Kheira Arrouche * LSE Review of Books *"Decolonizing Ethnography does not just critique colonialist academic practices, it seeks to do something different. ... Accessibly written, interesting, and effectively argued, [this book] will appeal to a wide range of readers interested in issues of migration, activism, ethnography, and knowledge production. ... Perhaps most importantly, Decolonizing Ethnography is a call to anthropology to reconsider its purpose and expand its relevance with research practices that redress the politicized nature of anthropological research and of the social worlds in which our research takes place." -- Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz * Anthropological Quarterly *"This work demonstrates specifically an exemplary form of ethnographic writing not necessarily as a model to follow, but as an encouragement and license to expand the direction of critical and reflexive thought that has been ascendant in American ethnographic research for the past 30 years. There are many lively 'moves' in expressing the vitality of this collaboration, none more powerful and exciting than the concluding script of activist theater. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." -- G. E. Marcus * Choice *"For occupational science as a field of study increasingly concerned with highlighting the daily experiences of Global South and marginalised groups, this book should be a valuable inspiration and guide. As a Eurocentric discipline, we have a way to go in decolonising theory production and the means by which we do so. This text may inspire us to continue on the path of liberation for our discipline and the communities with whom we study and collaborate." -- Juman Simaan * Journal of Occupational Science *“Decolonizing Ethnography provides an excellent background on engaged scholarship and a roadmap for how one team overcame hierarchies to collaborate across difference. It is an excellent tool for training students to design community-embedded research and will be useful for a range of syllabi (it’s already on mine!). The book also offers the rare chance to see undocumented worker-activists as scholars and authors, and that itself is a gift.” -- Abigail Andrews * Ethnic and Racial Studies *“As a collaboration, this book both advocates for and puts into practice data gathering and reporting techniques that continue to stand in opposition to anthropology’s standard modes of research. The book’s clarity of writing, its resolute tone had this reviewer conduct some soul-searching about her own position vis-à-vis the decolonial challenge.” -- Nora Haenn * Anthropos *“[Decolonizing Ethnography] is encouraging us to open our minds, addressing the colonial impact in academia, to decolonize and liberate ourselves from intellectual and academic colonization. This is a call for anthropologists to empower others to speak for themselves....” -- Hussein Masimbi and Paula Uimonen * Anthropology Book Forum *“[Decolonizing Ethnography] discusses how to use anthropological knowledge to advance the causes of undocumented migrants in the United States. . . . [It] take[s] the bold step of centralizing migrants’ stories, dilemmas, and choices, and . . . reminds us that each story is unique with endings that are impossible to know.” -- Ana Hontanilla * Latin American Research Review *“[Decolonizing Ethnography] presents a wonderful examination of the development of a research project through partnership. . . . In an ethnographic analysis that is a cut way above most contemporary anthropology, [the book’s] four participants share their hopes and problems in joint project planning, implementation, writing, and publishing.” -- Thomas M. Wilson * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of Contents"broken poem" ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 1. Colonial Anthropology and Its Alternatives 17 2. Journeys toward Decolonizing 38 3. Reflections on Fieldwork in New Jersey 59 4. Undocumented Activist Theory and a Decolonial Methodology 78 5. Undocumented Theater: Writing and Resistance 101 Conclusion 136 Notes 149 References 161 Index 179
£70.55
Duke University Press Insurgent Aesthetics
Book SynopsisRonak K. Kapadia examines multimedia visual art by artists from societies besieged by the US war on terror, showing how their art offers queer feminist critiques of US global warfare that forge new aesthetic and social alliances with which to sustain critical opposition to the global war machine.Trade Review“At its core, Insurgent Aesthetics reminds us that war and security are—despite the modern ideologies that would declare otherwise—fundamentally racialized social practices that seek to manage their violence in everyday life through controlling what can be felt and known. By looking at the ways diasporic communities interfere with sovereign and statist logics that conserve the knowledge of loss for the national community alone, this exquisitely written book powerfully argues for the insurgent abilities of culture to interrupt, deform, and repopulate our felt and known worlds in ways that force a reckoning and connection with the racialized death and detritus that US security at once creates and tries to disappear.” -- Chandan Reddy, author of * Freedom with Violence: Race, Sexuality, and the U.S. State *“With its sharp interrogation of US warfare, settler colonialism, and racial capitalism, Insurgent Aesthetics introduces ‘queer calculus’ as an analytic that focuses on the racial violences of US empire and its forever war. By attending to the sensuous, and to the creative praxis and interventions of Arab, Muslim, and South Asian diasporic artists, Insurgent Aesthetics is a powerful, queer feminist study of life under US empire. Importantly, Ronak K. Kapadia demonstrates how insurgent strategies of solidarity and rebellion can trouble empire's methodologies and move us toward freedom.” -- Simone Browne, author of * Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness *“ Insurgent Aesthetics is a theoretically-rich piece of cultural studies. … The book offers a powerful reading of art inspired by, and produced during, the post-9/11 era of US military aggression and colonization.” -- Brian Donovan * Ethnic and Racial Studies *“There is much to be learned from Kapadia, whose ambitious monograph traffics between a profound appreciation for the ramifications of US imperialism, an eye for congruencies between divergent strains of comparative ethnic studies, and an enthusiasm for the critical talents of minoritarian cultural production.” -- Eric Vazquez * Lateral *"Fascinating and innovative.... Kapadia’s book is beautifully constructed not only intellectually in the breadth and depth of its analyses but also physically: it is richly illustrated with many of the artistic works that he discusses, a number in full-colour plates.... What is perhaps most important about the book is its insistence that art does not only offer critical perspectives on surveillance and securitization but also brings out the extent to which surveillance practices are themselves inextricably grounded in visual and aesthetic practices." -- Robert Heynen * Surveillance & Society *"Insurgent Aesthetics’s argument about the violence of visuality and the capacity of artists to rethink the aesthetics of warfare track through the entire book; however, each chapter and all the art objects feel fresh and different from the previous. The arguments are sustained also by the inclusion of many colour images from each artist discussed. The book belongs in visual, art, media and performance studies classrooms, as much as in social science contexts studying globalisation, war and imperialism." -- Kareem Khubchandani * Bioscope *"Insurgent Aesthetics is a dazzling contribution to a number of fields. . . . It is a model of scholarly composition, depth and breadth, grace and nuance. It would also be a welcome model for students and scholars across the humanities for its organization, style, substance, analysis, and beauty. But more importantly, Kapadia’s queer calculus is a methodology that can help ensure we don’t become numb from the gas that now governs so much of the world and shows us that our tears may lead to some, new unknown place of collective freedom for all." -- Stephen Dillon * Cultural Studies *“Kapadia has done profound justice to the cultural workers that he features—and his book is a welcome contribution to knowledge production and a living example of what true intersectional scholarship looks like.... Insurgent Aesthetics is itself aesthetically breathtakingly beautiful as a text—and insurgent.” -- Sa'ed Atshan * Arab Studies Quarterly *“As Kapadia points out, many of the artists whose works he explores do not have the kind of mainstream recognition they should have in the international art world. [H]is careful reading of the artists’ works is a model for how an art critic can (and should) write about works by artists with complex genealogies.” -- Alpesh Kantilal Patel * GLQ *"The immensely generative and imaginative work by Ronak Kapadia in Insurgent Aesthetics is of great value for those working within and at the inter- sections of numerous fields; artists of colour will particularly benefit from Kapadia’s expansive readings and theories of contemporary conceptual, performance, and visual art by an essential set of Arab, Muslim, and South Asian diasporic artists and cultural workers." -- Balbir Singh * Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Sensuous Affiliations: Security, Terror, and the Queer Calculus of the Forever War 1 1. Up in the Air: US Aerial Power and the Visual Life of Empire in the Drone Age 44 2. On the Skin: Drone Warfare, Collateral Damage, and the Human Terrain 76 3. Empire's Innards: Conjuring "Warm Data" in the Archives of US Global Military Detention 103 4. Palestine(s) in the Sky: Visionary Aesthetics and Queer Cosmic Utopias from the Frontiers of US Empire 151 Epilogue. Scaling Empire: Insurgent Aesthetics n the Wilds of Imperial Decline 187 Notes 203 Bibliography 271 Index 321
£75.65
Duke University Press Decolonizing Ethnography
Book SynopsisIn August2011, ethnographers Carolina Alonso Bejarano and Daniel M. Goldstein began a research project on undocumented immigration in the United States by volunteering at a center for migrant workers in New Jersey. Two years later, Lucia López Juárez and Mirian A. Mijangos García—two local immigrant workers from Latin America—joined Alonso Bejarano and Goldstein as research assistants and quickly became equal partners for whom ethnographic practice was inseparable from activism. In Decolonizing Ethnography the four coauthors offer a methodological and theoretical reassessment of social science research, showing how it can function as a vehicle for activism and as a tool for marginalized people to theorize their lives. Tacking between personal narratives, ethnographic field notes, an original bilingual play about workers'' rights, and examinations of anthropology as a discipline, the coauthors show how the participation of Mijangos Garc&iacutTrade Review"[Decolonizing Ethnography] offers an innovative way in which ethnography, practiced by the people who have been traditionally positioned as the ethnographic research objects, can be a powerful tool of self-empowerment, public advocacy, and personal transformation." -- Kheira Arrouche * LSE Review of Books *"Decolonizing Ethnography does not just critique colonialist academic practices, it seeks to do something different. ... Accessibly written, interesting, and effectively argued, [this book] will appeal to a wide range of readers interested in issues of migration, activism, ethnography, and knowledge production. ... Perhaps most importantly, Decolonizing Ethnography is a call to anthropology to reconsider its purpose and expand its relevance with research practices that redress the politicized nature of anthropological research and of the social worlds in which our research takes place." -- Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz * Anthropological Quarterly *"This work demonstrates specifically an exemplary form of ethnographic writing not necessarily as a model to follow, but as an encouragement and license to expand the direction of critical and reflexive thought that has been ascendant in American ethnographic research for the past 30 years. There are many lively 'moves' in expressing the vitality of this collaboration, none more powerful and exciting than the concluding script of activist theater. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." -- G. E. Marcus * Choice *"For occupational science as a field of study increasingly concerned with highlighting the daily experiences of Global South and marginalised groups, this book should be a valuable inspiration and guide. As a Eurocentric discipline, we have a way to go in decolonising theory production and the means by which we do so. This text may inspire us to continue on the path of liberation for our discipline and the communities with whom we study and collaborate." -- Juman Simaan * Journal of Occupational Science *“Decolonizing Ethnography provides an excellent background on engaged scholarship and a roadmap for how one team overcame hierarchies to collaborate across difference. It is an excellent tool for training students to design community-embedded research and will be useful for a range of syllabi (it’s already on mine!). The book also offers the rare chance to see undocumented worker-activists as scholars and authors, and that itself is a gift.” -- Abigail Andrews * Ethnic and Racial Studies *“As a collaboration, this book both advocates for and puts into practice data gathering and reporting techniques that continue to stand in opposition to anthropology’s standard modes of research. The book’s clarity of writing, its resolute tone had this reviewer conduct some soul-searching about her own position vis-à-vis the decolonial challenge.” -- Nora Haenn * Anthropos *“[Decolonizing Ethnography] is encouraging us to open our minds, addressing the colonial impact in academia, to decolonize and liberate ourselves from intellectual and academic colonization. This is a call for anthropologists to empower others to speak for themselves....” -- Hussein Masimbi and Paula Uimonen * Anthropology Book Forum *“[Decolonizing Ethnography] discusses how to use anthropological knowledge to advance the causes of undocumented migrants in the United States. . . . [It] take[s] the bold step of centralizing migrants’ stories, dilemmas, and choices, and . . . reminds us that each story is unique with endings that are impossible to know.” -- Ana Hontanilla * Latin American Research Review *“[Decolonizing Ethnography] presents a wonderful examination of the development of a research project through partnership. . . . In an ethnographic analysis that is a cut way above most contemporary anthropology, [the book’s] four participants share their hopes and problems in joint project planning, implementation, writing, and publishing.” -- Thomas M. Wilson * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of Contents"broken poem" ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 1. Colonial Anthropology and Its Alternatives 17 2. Journeys toward Decolonizing 38 3. Reflections on Fieldwork in New Jersey 59 4. Undocumented Activist Theory and a Decolonial Methodology 78 5. Undocumented Theater: Writing and Resistance 101 Conclusion 136 Notes 149 References 161 Index 179
£18.99
Duke University Press Insurgent Aesthetics Security and the Queer Life
Book SynopsisRonak K. Kapadia examines multimedia visual art by artists from societies besieged by the US war on terror, showing how their art offers queer feminist critiques of US global warfare that forge new aesthetic and social alliances with which to sustain critical opposition to the global war machine.Trade Review“At its core, Insurgent Aesthetics reminds us that war and security are—despite the modern ideologies that would declare otherwise—fundamentally racialized social practices that seek to manage their violence in everyday life through controlling what can be felt and known. By looking at the ways diasporic communities interfere with sovereign and statist logics that conserve the knowledge of loss for the national community alone, this exquisitely written book powerfully argues for the insurgent abilities of culture to interrupt, deform, and repopulate our felt and known worlds in ways that force a reckoning and connection with the racialized death and detritus that US security at once creates and tries to disappear.” -- Chandan Reddy, author of * Freedom with Violence: Race, Sexuality, and the U.S. State *“With its sharp interrogation of US warfare, settler colonialism, and racial capitalism, Insurgent Aesthetics introduces ‘queer calculus’ as an analytic that focuses on the racial violences of US empire and its forever war. By attending to the sensuous, and to the creative praxis and interventions of Arab, Muslim, and South Asian diasporic artists, Insurgent Aesthetics is a powerful, queer feminist study of life under US empire. Importantly, Ronak K. Kapadia demonstrates how insurgent strategies of solidarity and rebellion can trouble empire's methodologies and move us toward freedom.” -- Simone Browne, author of * Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness *“ Insurgent Aesthetics is a theoretically-rich piece of cultural studies. … The book offers a powerful reading of art inspired by, and produced during, the post-9/11 era of US military aggression and colonization.” -- Brian Donovan * Ethnic and Racial Studies *“There is much to be learned from Kapadia, whose ambitious monograph traffics between a profound appreciation for the ramifications of US imperialism, an eye for congruencies between divergent strains of comparative ethnic studies, and an enthusiasm for the critical talents of minoritarian cultural production.” -- Eric Vazquez * Lateral *"Fascinating and innovative.... Kapadia’s book is beautifully constructed not only intellectually in the breadth and depth of its analyses but also physically: it is richly illustrated with many of the artistic works that he discusses, a number in full-colour plates.... What is perhaps most important about the book is its insistence that art does not only offer critical perspectives on surveillance and securitization but also brings out the extent to which surveillance practices are themselves inextricably grounded in visual and aesthetic practices." -- Robert Heynen * Surveillance & Society *"Insurgent Aesthetics’s argument about the violence of visuality and the capacity of artists to rethink the aesthetics of warfare track through the entire book; however, each chapter and all the art objects feel fresh and different from the previous. The arguments are sustained also by the inclusion of many colour images from each artist discussed. The book belongs in visual, art, media and performance studies classrooms, as much as in social science contexts studying globalisation, war and imperialism." -- Kareem Khubchandani * Bioscope *"Insurgent Aesthetics is a dazzling contribution to a number of fields. . . . It is a model of scholarly composition, depth and breadth, grace and nuance. It would also be a welcome model for students and scholars across the humanities for its organization, style, substance, analysis, and beauty. But more importantly, Kapadia’s queer calculus is a methodology that can help ensure we don’t become numb from the gas that now governs so much of the world and shows us that our tears may lead to some, new unknown place of collective freedom for all." -- Stephen Dillon * Cultural Studies *“Kapadia has done profound justice to the cultural workers that he features—and his book is a welcome contribution to knowledge production and a living example of what true intersectional scholarship looks like.... Insurgent Aesthetics is itself aesthetically breathtakingly beautiful as a text—and insurgent.” -- Sa'ed Atshan * Arab Studies Quarterly *“As Kapadia points out, many of the artists whose works he explores do not have the kind of mainstream recognition they should have in the international art world. [H]is careful reading of the artists’ works is a model for how an art critic can (and should) write about works by artists with complex genealogies.” -- Alpesh Kantilal Patel * GLQ *"The immensely generative and imaginative work by Ronak Kapadia in Insurgent Aesthetics is of great value for those working within and at the inter- sections of numerous fields; artists of colour will particularly benefit from Kapadia’s expansive readings and theories of contemporary conceptual, performance, and visual art by an essential set of Arab, Muslim, and South Asian diasporic artists and cultural workers." -- Balbir Singh * Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Sensuous Affiliations: Security, Terror, and the Queer Calculus of the Forever War 1 1. Up in the Air: US Aerial Power and the Visual Life of Empire in the Drone Age 44 2. On the Skin: Drone Warfare, Collateral Damage, and the Human Terrain 76 3. Empire's Innards: Conjuring "Warm Data" in the Archives of US Global Military Detention 103 4. Palestine(s) in the Sky: Visionary Aesthetics and Queer Cosmic Utopias from the Frontiers of US Empire 151 Epilogue. Scaling Empire: Insurgent Aesthetics n the Wilds of Imperial Decline 187 Notes 203 Bibliography 271 Index 321
£21.59
Duke University Press Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film
Book SynopsisThe contributors to Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film examine the place and role of race in educational films, home movies, industry and government films, anthropological films, church films, and other forms of noncommercial filmmaking throughout the twentieth century.Trade Review“Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film illuminates what is hidden right in front of us. Like cable or YouTube today, nontheatrical films have left evidence of a broader expression beyond commercial films and examining them through the lens of race gives us a peek into a less homogenous and more realistic world. This collection of essays reminds us to reclaim this space as culturally valuable and, in a sense, take the power back by shifting perspective to explore an overlooked reality, not a marginal one.” -- Shola Lynch, Curator, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of The New York Public Library“This collection of essays—with its range of topics and archival discoveries—is essential reading for anyone committed to, or even remotely interested in, the study of cinema. Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film uncovers buried treasures that are part of the long-standing tradition of moving image storytelling—a tradition that did not always aspire to mainstream Hollywood recognition, but succeeded alongside it.” -- Rhea L. Combs, Curator of Photography and Film and Director of the Center for African American Media Arts, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture"Brimming with sharp insights and archival discoveries, this valuable book opens up a world unknown to most and offers a look at American society in the 20th century, far from the artificial gloss of Hollywood cinema." -- W. W. Dixon * Choice *“An informative collection of works, the volume deftly illustrates the breadth, reach, and influence of nontheatrical films that centre race and ethnicity. As a bonus, a rich collection of videos discussed in the book is available for use in classrooms, particularly for instructors of film or race and ethnic studies who desire to use movies to explore specific themes…. Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film serves as a handy reference for scholars, researchers, and students and as a helpful reminder of the hidden gems showcased outside the theatre.” -- Maryann Mamie Erigha * Ethnic and Racial Studies *“Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film not only...opens up a number of exciting avenues for future research, but also provides readers with the concrete steps, tools and materials needed to continue this work. I hope that this volume will serve as a productive starting point for many future studies.” -- Carolyn Condon Jacobs * Screen *Table of ContentsNote on the Companion Website ix Foreword. Giving Voice, Taking Voice: Nonwhite and Nontheatrical / Jacqueline Najuma Stewart xi Acknowledgments xxv Introduction / Allyson Nadia Field and Marsha Gordon 1 1. "A Vanishing Race"? The Native American Films of J. K. Nixon / Caitlin McGrath 29 2. "Regardless of Race, Color, or Creed": Filming the Henry Street Settlement Visiting Nurse Service, 1924–1933 / Tanya Goldman 51 3. "I'll See You in Church": Local Films in African American Communities, 1924–1962 / Martin L. Johnson 71 4. The Politics of Vanishing Celluloid: Fort Rupert (1951) and the Kwakwaka'wakw in American Ethnographic Film / Colin Williamson 92 5. Red Star/Black Star: The Early Career of Film Editor Hortense "Tee" Beveridge, 1948–1968 / Walter Forsberg 112 6. Charles and Ray Eames's Day of the Dead (1957): Mexican Folk Art, Educational Film and Chicana/o Art / Colin Gunkel 136 7. Ever-Widening Horizons? The National Urban League and the Pathologization of Blackness in A Morning for Jimmy (1960) / Michelle Kelley 157 8. "A Touch of the Orient": Negotiating Japanese American Identity in The Challenge (1957) / Todd Kushigemachi and Dino Everett 175 9. "I Have My Choice": Behind Every Good Man (1967) and the Black Queer Subject in American Nontheatrical Film / Noah Tsika 194 10. Televising Watts: Joe Saltzman's Black on Black (1968) on KNXT / Joshua Glick 217 11. "A New Sense of Black Awareness"? Navigating Expectations in The Black Cop (1969) / Travis L. Wagner and Mark Garrett Cooper 236 12. "Don't Be a Segregationist: Program Films for Everyone": The New York Public Library's Film Library and Youth Film Workshops / Elena Rossi-Snook and Lauren Tilton 253 13. Teenage Moviemaking in the Lower East Side: The Rivington Street Film Club, 1966–1974 / Noelle Griffis 271 14. Ro-Revus Talks about Race: South Carolina Malnutrition and Parasite Films, 1968–1975 / Dan Streible 290 15. Government-Sponsored Film and Latinidad: Voice of La Raza (1973) / Laura Isabel Serna 313 16. An Aesthetics of Multiculturalism: Asian American Assimilation and the Learning Corporation of America's Many Americans Series (1970–1982) / Nadine Chan 333 17. "The Right Kind of Family": Memories to Light and the Home Movie as Racialized Technology / Crystal Mun-Hye Baik 353 18. Black Home Movies: Time to Represent / Jasmyn R. Castro 372 Selected Bibliography 392 Contributors 401 Index 403
£112.20
Duke University Press Fictions of Land and Flesh
Book SynopsisMark Rifkin turns to black and indigenous speculative fiction to show how it offers a site to better understand black and indigenous political movements' differing orientations in ways that can foster forms of mutual engagement and cooperation without subsuming them into a single political framework in the name of solidarity.Trade Review“Fictions of Land and Flesh considers the points at which Black and Indigenous studies might relate across histories and struggles. It does so with an eye toward the necessity of that engagement and the danger of conflating the urgencies that constitute those histories and struggles. With characteristic brilliance and creativity, Mark Rifkin turns to Black and Indigenous futurist work as a way to produce that difficult but necessary dialogue.” -- Roderick A. Ferguson, author of * One-Dimensional Queer *“Anchored in the contemporary movements of #NoDAPL and Black Lives Matter, Fictions of Land and Flesh is a welcome and expert guide to thinking through the resonances and impasses that attend Black and Indigenous articulations of justice. Essential reading in American studies.” -- Beth H. Piatote, author of * Domestic Subjects: Gender, Citizenship, and Law in Native American Literature *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. On the Impasse 15 2. Fungible Becoming 73 3. Carceral Space and Fugitive Motion 117 4. The Maroon Matrix 168 Coda: Diplomacy in the Undercommons 220 Notes 233 Bibliography 287 Index 313
£98.60
Duke University Press Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film
Book SynopsisThe contributors to Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film examine the place and role of race in educational films, home movies, industry and government films, anthropological films, church films, and other forms of noncommercial filmmaking throughout the twentieth century.Trade Review“Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film illuminates what is hidden right in front of us. Like cable or YouTube today, nontheatrical films have left evidence of a broader expression beyond commercial films and examining them through the lens of race gives us a peek into a less homogenous and more realistic world. This collection of essays reminds us to reclaim this space as culturally valuable and, in a sense, take the power back by shifting perspective to explore an overlooked reality, not a marginal one.” -- Shola Lynch, Curator, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of The New York Public Library“This collection of essays—with its range of topics and archival discoveries—is essential reading for anyone committed to, or even remotely interested in, the study of cinema. Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film uncovers buried treasures that are part of the long-standing tradition of moving image storytelling—a tradition that did not always aspire to mainstream Hollywood recognition, but succeeded alongside it.” -- Rhea L. Combs, Curator of Photography and Film and Director of the Center for African American Media Arts, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture"Brimming with sharp insights and archival discoveries, this valuable book opens up a world unknown to most and offers a look at American society in the 20th century, far from the artificial gloss of Hollywood cinema." -- W. W. Dixon * Choice *“An informative collection of works, the volume deftly illustrates the breadth, reach, and influence of nontheatrical films that centre race and ethnicity. As a bonus, a rich collection of videos discussed in the book is available for use in classrooms, particularly for instructors of film or race and ethnic studies who desire to use movies to explore specific themes…. Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film serves as a handy reference for scholars, researchers, and students and as a helpful reminder of the hidden gems showcased outside the theatre.” -- Maryann Mamie Erigha * Ethnic and Racial Studies *“Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film not only...opens up a number of exciting avenues for future research, but also provides readers with the concrete steps, tools and materials needed to continue this work. I hope that this volume will serve as a productive starting point for many future studies.” -- Carolyn Condon Jacobs * Screen *Table of ContentsNote on the Companion Website ix Foreword. Giving Voice, Taking Voice: Nonwhite and Nontheatrical / Jacqueline Najuma Stewart xi Acknowledgments xxv Introduction / Allyson Nadia Field and Marsha Gordon 1 1. "A Vanishing Race"? The Native American Films of J. K. Nixon / Caitlin McGrath 29 2. "Regardless of Race, Color, or Creed": Filming the Henry Street Settlement Visiting Nurse Service, 1924–1933 / Tanya Goldman 51 3. "I'll See You in Church": Local Films in African American Communities, 1924–1962 / Martin L. Johnson 71 4. The Politics of Vanishing Celluloid: Fort Rupert (1951) and the Kwakwaka'wakw in American Ethnographic Film / Colin Williamson 92 5. Red Star/Black Star: The Early Career of Film Editor Hortense "Tee" Beveridge, 1948–1968 / Walter Forsberg 112 6. Charles and Ray Eames's Day of the Dead (1957): Mexican Folk Art, Educational Film and Chicana/o Art / Colin Gunkel 136 7. Ever-Widening Horizons? The National Urban League and the Pathologization of Blackness in A Morning for Jimmy (1960) / Michelle Kelley 157 8. "A Touch of the Orient": Negotiating Japanese American Identity in The Challenge (1957) / Todd Kushigemachi and Dino Everett 175 9. "I Have My Choice": Behind Every Good Man (1967) and the Black Queer Subject in American Nontheatrical Film / Noah Tsika 194 10. Televising Watts: Joe Saltzman's Black on Black (1968) on KNXT / Joshua Glick 217 11. "A New Sense of Black Awareness"? Navigating Expectations in The Black Cop (1969) / Travis L. Wagner and Mark Garrett Cooper 236 12. "Don't Be a Segregationist: Program Films for Everyone": The New York Public Library's Film Library and Youth Film Workshops / Elena Rossi-Snook and Lauren Tilton 253 13. Teenage Moviemaking in the Lower East Side: The Rivington Street Film Club, 1966–1974 / Noelle Griffis 271 14. Ro-Revus Talks about Race: South Carolina Malnutrition and Parasite Films, 1968–1975 / Dan Streible 290 15. Government-Sponsored Film and Latinidad: Voice of La Raza (1973) / Laura Isabel Serna 313 16. An Aesthetics of Multiculturalism: Asian American Assimilation and the Learning Corporation of America's Many Americans Series (1970–1982) / Nadine Chan 333 17. "The Right Kind of Family": Memories to Light and the Home Movie as Racialized Technology / Crystal Mun-Hye Baik 353 18. Black Home Movies: Time to Represent / Jasmyn R. Castro 372 Selected Bibliography 392 Contributors 401 Index 403
£27.90
Duke University Press Fictions of Land and Flesh
Book SynopsisMark Rifkin turns to black and indigenous speculative fiction to show how it offers a site to better understand black and indigenous political movements' differing orientations in ways that can foster forms of mutual engagement and cooperation without subsuming them into a single political framework in the name of solidarity.Trade Review“Fictions of Land and Flesh considers the points at which Black and Indigenous studies might relate across histories and struggles. It does so with an eye toward the necessity of that engagement and the danger of conflating the urgencies that constitute those histories and struggles. With characteristic brilliance and creativity, Mark Rifkin turns to Black and Indigenous futurist work as a way to produce that difficult but necessary dialogue.” -- Roderick A. Ferguson, author of * One-Dimensional Queer *“Anchored in the contemporary movements of #NoDAPL and Black Lives Matter, Fictions of Land and Flesh is a welcome and expert guide to thinking through the resonances and impasses that attend Black and Indigenous articulations of justice. Essential reading in American studies.” -- Beth H. Piatote, author of * Domestic Subjects: Gender, Citizenship, and Law in Native American Literature *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. On the Impasse 15 2. Fungible Becoming 73 3. Carceral Space and Fugitive Motion 117 4. The Maroon Matrix 168 Coda: Diplomacy in the Undercommons 220 Notes 233 Bibliography 287 Index 313
£25.19
Duke University Press The Black Shoals
Book SynopsisTiffany Lethabo King uses the shoalan offshore geologic formation that is neither land nor seaas metaphor, mode of critique, and methodology to theorize the encounter between Black studies and Native studies and its potential to create new epistemologies, forms of practice, and lines of critical inquiry.Trade Review"Tiffany Lethabo King's concept of the shoal breaks new ground for thinking through the relationships between Indigenous peoples and African Americans and genocide and slavery as well as how they have formed our contemporary politics. Her rigorous engagement with Black and Indigenous studies will create a better dialogue between the two fields." -- Mishauna Goeman, author of * Mark My Words: Native Women Mapping Our Nations *“In this innovative contribution to both Black and Native studies, Tiffany Lethabo King dares to think the simultaneously distinct yet edgeless relationship between Blackness and Indigeneity. It's the geological formation of the shoal—that zone just offshore, neither land (often reductively linked to the Native) nor sea (often reductively linked to the Black)—that allows King to pull off this ethical project. Indeed, The Black Shoals is Black ethics, where the ethical emerges as that distinct, ever-developing gathering of Black and Native life under shared conditions of settler terror.” -- J. Kameron Carter, Professor of Religious Studies, Indiana University“King’s scholarship represents a masterful mix of precision and sensitivity in describing the historical Native anti-blackness, as well as the historical cooperation between Africans and the European settlers King identifies as ‘conquistador humans,’ in dispossessing Natives of their land.” -- Darryl Barthé * Ethnic and Racial Studies *“King’s book is an important participant in a small but growing scholarly movement seeking to understand and unravel the logics of settler colonialism and conquest by breaking down scholarly silos between groups that frequently interacted and interact. Moreover, what King has so well begun can be built on by other scholars.” -- Laura Goldblatt * Lateral *“Tiffany King’s poetic and theoretically compelling text is both an invitation and disturbance, or a provocation to be unmoored, to be thrown into chaos and to place one’s feet at the shoal of something other than traditional (normative) notions of sovereignty, nation, and citizenship.” -- Shanya Cordis * GLQ *“A multivocal, wide-ranging, inter-disciplinary project, . . . Tiffany Lethabo King’s book is both timely and prescient. . . . For those who would like to explore Black and Indigenous thought, especially the conceptual and methodological overlaps between the two fields, this book is an exceptional primer.” -- Michael J. Kennedy * The Black Scholar *“The Black Shoals offers a rich analysis of how scholars, activists, and artists have contended with conquest, conquistador-settler epistemologies, and Black-Native relations. . . . King’s ‘shoal’ offers an analytic through which to theorize what ethical and sustained exchanges between Black studies and Native studies might look like.” -- Mary McNeil * Native American and Indigenous Studies *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xvii Introduction: The Black Shoals 1 1. Errant Grammars: Defacing the Ceremony 36 2. The Map (Settlement) and the Territory (The Incompleteness of Conquest) 74 3. At the Pores of the Plantation 111 4. Our Cherokee Uncles: Black and Native Erotics 141 5. A Ceremony for Sycorax 175 Epilogue: Of Water and Land 207 Notes 211 Bibliography 263 Index 277
£75.65
Duke University Press Are You Entertained
Book SynopsisIn this collection of essays, interviews, visual art, and artist statements on topics ranging from music and dance to Black Twitter and the NBA's dress code, the contributors consider what culture and Blackness mean in the twenty-first century's digital consumer economy.Trade Review“Are You Entertained? is a thoughtfully constructed collection of scholarly work on blackness and subjectivity and their constant tensions with popular culture and mass media. Simone C. Drake and Dwan K. Henderson do a superb job of weaving together these shards of insightful criticism and analysis into a tapestry of fascinating commentary by some of the most dynamic voices in the field.” -- John Jennings, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, University of California, Riverside"The book is a valuable contribution to the interdisciplinary field of African American studies as well as to literature and sociology and to the overall study of performance, culture, media, and Blackness. Recommended. General readers through faculty; professionals." -- T. N. Allen * Choice *“Are you Entertained? is an immensely generative model and guide for doing sharp and powerful work in Black studies. It makes a case for why Black cultural studies matter by pinpointing the liberatory potential of Black popular culture in and for our current lives.” -- Elliott H. Powell * Ethnic and Racial Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 I. Performing Blackness 1. "Mutts Like Me": Mixed-Race Jokes and Post-Racial Rejection in the Obama Era / Ralina L. Joseph 29 2. Black Radio: Robert Glasper, Esperanza Spalding, and Janelle Monáe / Emily J. Lordi 44 3. Camping and Vamping across Borders: Locating Cabaret Singers in the Black Cultural Spectrum / Vincent Stephens 58 4. The Art of Black Popular Culture / H. Ike Okafor-Newsum 77 5. Interview / Lisa B. Thompson 91 II. Politicizing Blackness 6. Refashioning Political Cartoons: Comics of Jackie Ormes 1938–1958 / Kelly Jo Fulkerson-Dikuua 101 7. Queer Kinship and Worldmaking in Black Queer Web Series: Drama Queenz and No Shade / Eric Darnell Pritchard 118 8. Styling and Profiling: Ballers, Blackness, and the Sartorial Politics of the NBA / David J. Leonard 134 9. Interview / Tracy Sharpley-Whiting 153 III. Owning Blackness 10. The Subaltern Is Signifyin(g): Black Twitter as a Site of Resistance / Sheneese Thompson 161 11. Authentic Black Cool?: Branding and Trademarks in Contemporary African American Culture / Richard Schur 175 12. Black Culture without Black People: Hip-Hop Dance beyond Appropriation Discourse / Imani Kai Johnson 191 13. At the Corner of Chaos and Divine: Black Ritual Theater, Performance, and Politics / Nina Angela Mercer 207 14. Interview / Mark Anthony Neal 229 IV. Loving Blackness 15. The Booty Don't Lie: Pleasure, Agency, and Resistance in Black Popular Dance / Takiyah Nur Amin 237 16. He Said Nothing: Sonic Space and the Production of Quietude in Barry Jenkins's Moonlight / Simone C. Drake 252 17. Black Women Readers and the Uses of Urban Fiction / Kinohi Nishikawa 268 18. Interview / Patricia Hill Collins 288 Contributors 301 Index 307
£98.60
Duke University Press Unreconciled
Book SynopsisAndrea Smith examines the racial reconciliation movement in Evangelical Christianity through a critical ethnic studies lens, evaluating the varying degrees to which Evangelical communities that were founded on white supremacy have attempted to address racism and become more inclusive.Trade Review“For women of color, in particular, who have been laboring to disrupt the racially and sexually oppressive policies and practices of evangelical organizations, Andrea Smith communicates ‘I see you.’ The way that she does this gives credence to the Sisyphean burden undertaken by women of color who are employing progressive intersectional frameworks in evangelical spaces. Smith manages to impart a sense of hope, demonstrating how the very presence of people of color within evangelical spaces can serve to destabilize white heterosexist patriarchal power.” -- Chanequa Walker-Barnes, author of * I Bring the Voices of My People: A Womanist Vision for Racial Reconciliation *“Offering the first cultural history of the evangelical racial justice movement that is subversively and gradually changing the face of politics in the United States, Andrea Smith argues that whiteness is the heart of the problem of American evangelicalism. Upon reading Unreconciled, scholars of religion and politics will need to rethink what they mean by evangelicals, racial reconciliation, and progressive politics. This brilliant book is a must-read for all thoughtful Americans.” -- Peter Goodwin Heltzel, author of * Jesus and Justice: Evangelicals, Race, and American Politics *"Unreconciled is an informative read for scholars of contemporary religion, critical ethnic studies, and evangelical theology alike. In light of the global Black Lives Matter movements of 2020 and the rising interest in conversations on race and religion, the book’s in-depth coverage of a wide variety of racial injustice and racial reconciliation ideologies and movements within contemporary Christian evangelicalism is both urgent and informative." -- Flora X. Tang * Religion and Gender *"Smith’s book pries both critical ethnic studies and Christian evangelicalism from their presumed positions within the academy and the hands of white conservatives, respectively. In doing so, Smith presents valuable theoretical critique where the academy does not usually look for it and further demonstrates the usefulness of a critical ethnic studies framework outside the academy and across political and religious contexts." -- Allie Arend * Religious Studies Review *
£90.25
Duke University Press Dub
Book SynopsisThe concluding volume in a poetic triptych, Alexis Pauline Gumbs's Dub: Finding Ceremony takes inspiration from theorist Sylvia Wynter, dub poetry, and ocean life to offer a catalog of possible methods for remembering, healing, listening, and living otherwise.Trade Review“Grounded in oríkì-like references to Sylvia Wynter’s oeuvre, Dub simultaneously contracts and expands to create a new form of proprioception, which allows us as a species, phantomed by the corrosive and lacerating actions of history, to locate ourselves in relation to other species, as well as within the time-space continuum of the yet to be, the now and the ‘past.’ Part prayer, oration, exhortation, commentary and story, Dub amplifies ancestral voices to become mythopoesis in the making.” -- M. NourbeSe Philip, author of * Zong! *“Offering a sweeping, thoughtful, and exquisite meditation on Sylvia Wynter's work, Alexis Pauline Gumbs's poetic engagement represents a new and unique way of encountering and paying homage to Black feminist theory and Black feminist theorists. A beautiful and graceful text, Dub will inspire readers to return to and to rethink Wynter's work and her place within African Diaspora studies, Caribbean studies, and Black feminist studies.” -- Lisa B. Thompson, author of * Single Black Female *"Breath is an important theme in Dub. As is gratitude in the face of environmental decline. Because our ancestors navigated so intimately through change, Gumbs sets out to prove, so can we. . . . [An] exquisitely rendered love letter. . . ." -- Ashia Ajani * Sierra *"People throw around terms like Genius and Magic frequently but if you open this book, flip to any passage, and don’t feel moved from your soul then I will assume that you don’t have one. 5 Stars aren't enough for this sacred text but it's all we got so . . . ." -- Adrien Julious * Authentically Adrien blog *"I am so grateful that Alexis Pauline Gumbs listens to Black women writers and scholars the way that she does. . . . Dub is a book of our now. As tends to be the case with the books that Gumbs summons, the timing of Dub is prescient. With our breathless global attention set to registering the various way a virus connects all life forms, I cannot think of a better time for a book that tarries with and makes ceremony with Sylvia Wynter." -- Tiffany Lethabo King * Antipode *"[G]round-breaking. . . . Gumbs’s trilogy embraces the lyric beauty in the acts of naming, remembering, and finding one’s way back to the source. . . . Reading Gumbs’s books feels like reading an archive that will someday, who knows maybe even someday soon, usher in an era of radical transformation." -- Kathryn Nuernberger * West Branch *“Both a gathering and a recovery, this last pivotal volume in a trilogy commits to a new poetics. . . . Dub wakes us concussively. Both wrenching and playful, it offers instructions (two sets of them), warnings, and its central bid to listen to the undrowned.” -- Susan McCabe * Los Angeles Review of Books *Table of ContentsA Note ix Request 1 Commitment 3 Instructions 5 Opening 7 Whale Chorus 15 Remembering 21 Nunánuk 34 Boda 40 Anguilla 47 Another Set of Instructions 66 Red August 74 Relation 92 Prophet 94 And 110 Skin 114 Losing it All 120 It's Your Father 126 Edict 145 Edgegrove 153 Unlearning Herself 163 Birth Chorus 177 Conditions 194 Jamaica 199 Blood Chorus 202 Shop 214 Orchard 220 Cycle 227 Saving the Planet 231 Staying 239 Letting Go 246 Acknowledgments 253 Notes 261 Crate Dig 273
£76.50
