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Book SynopsisIn Another Aesthetics Is Possible Jennifer Ponce de León examines the roles that art can play in the collective labor of creating and defending another social reality. Focusing on artists and art collectives in Argentina, Mexico, and the United States, Ponce de León shows how experimental practices in the visual, literary, and performing arts have been influenced by and articulated with leftist movements and popular uprisings that have repudiated neoliberal capitalism and its violence. Whether enacting solidarity with Zapatista communities through an alternate reality game or using surrealist street theater to amplify the more radical strands of Argentina''s human rights movement, these artists fuse their praxis with forms of political mobilization from direct-action tactics to economic resistance. Advancing an innovative transnational and transdisciplinary framework of analysis, Ponce de León proposes a materialist understanding of art and politics that briTrade Review“One of the most significant areas of new research in socially engaged art concerns the ways in which this work both challenges existing aesthetic paradigms and calls upon us to develop new ones that can account for its unique complexity as both artistic practice and political praxis. Another Aesthetics Is Possible breaks new ground in this endeavor, offering a materialist concept of the aesthetic, rooted in Marxist theory and anticolonial resistance, along with nuanced readings of key projects developed in the Americas over the past two decades. Sure to be required reading for classes in activist and engaged art as well as postcolonial studies.” -- Grant H. Kester, coeditor of * Collective Situations: Readings in Contemporary Latin American Art, 1995–2010 *“Rather than thinking about art as a response to oppressive political moments, Jennifer Ponce de León points us to artistic practices that force us to read against the systems of domination that authoritarian regimes and liberal ideologies uphold. Another Aesthetics Is Possible makes a profound intervention in fields interested in the intersection of art and politics, serving as a model into the future for anyone interested in truly ameliorating social and economic circumstances for people across the Americas. Engaging and thoroughly provocative.” -- Laura G. Gutiérrez, author of * Performing Mexicanidad: Vendidas y Cabareteras on the Transnational Stage *"The role of criticism is to enable this impact, to keep the aesthetic practice alive for one, two, three generations afterwards so it persists as a resource for building another world. Another Aesthetics is Possible is an exemplary model of performing this role." -- Michael Dango * Lateral *"With Another Aesthetics is Possible, Ponce de León raises the bar for cultural critics, particularly those on the left, by arguing that they should register and study people’s innovative ways of resisting oppression within the framework of collectively lived experience rather than the fantasy of the narcissist individual." -- Fouad Mami * Cleveland Review of Books *"A vital intervention this book makes is to challenge the notion of the arts as an autonomous production separate from world-defining social struggles. . . . Another Aesthetics Is Possible, like the movements and artists it examines, contributes to the collective work of reorienting our aesthetic frameworks so that we can materialize a livable world beyond the demands of totalitarian neoliberalism." -- Josh Rios * Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture *"Ambitious and often riveting. . . . Thanks to this theoretical intervention, and buttressed by its thorough case studies, Another Aesthetics is an important contribution to scholarship exploring the relationship between art and capitalism, between aesthetics and politics, and between contemporary art and history." -- Niko Vicario * Hispanic Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Through an Anticolonial Looking Glass 29 2. Historiographers of the Invisible 80 3. Reframing Violence and Justice: Human Rights and Class Warfare 126 4. State Theater, Security, T/Errorism 192 Conclusion: Another Aesthetics—Another Politics—Is Possible 247 Notes 251 Bibliography 279 Index 303

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Book SynopsisNick Bromell examines how Frederick Douglass forged a distinctively black political philosophy out of his experiences as an enslaved and later nominally free man in ways that challenge Anglo-Continental traditions of political thought.Trade Review“The Powers of Dignity is an impressive, thorough, and detailed reconstruction of Frederick Douglass as political philosopher, and should immediately become a major reference text not just for Douglass scholarship but also for the broader project of retrieving and theorizing a distinct African American political tradition. Nick Bromell's book distinguishes itself by his impressive interdisciplinary ambition to bring together philosophy, literary studies, political theory, cognitive science, and new materialism. This is an exciting reconceptualization of the political cartography.” -- Charles W. Mills, author of * Black Rights/White Wrongs: The Critique of Racial Liberalism *“Nick Bromell writes beautifully, and he has an illuminating story to tell about Frederick Douglass's political imagination from the 1840s to the 1890s. As Bromell shows, Douglass's political thinking about race and democracy was constantly in flux, mediated by his experience in slavery and his commitment to the Black freedom struggle. This is an exemplary contribution to our understanding of one of the most important figures in American history.” -- Robert S. Levine, author of * The Lives of Frederick Douglass *"This is an important study at a time when critical race theory is being banned in states like Oklahoma and Texas. Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty." -- R. T. Prus * Choice *“The Powers of Dignity is exactly the kind of book our nation and era needs.... [It] is both an exciting contribution to the literature on Frederick Douglass and a sobering reminder that the roots of our democracy and the theorizing that accompanies it are ‘a site of endless struggle.’” -- Ange-Marie Hancock * Perspectives on Politics *“[The Powers of Dignity]—gracefully written, wide-ranging, and compelling—makes a laudable contribution to Douglass scholarship. Scholars in political theory, literature, African American studies, and related fields will benefit from Nick Bromell’s excellent monograph.” -- Nathan Pippenger * Review of Politics *“The Powers of Dignity is an ingenious, determined, and stimulating interpretation of a part of Frederick Douglass’s political philosophy. . . . I greatly admire Bromell’s book, particularly for its subtlety and originality.” -- Bernard R. Boxill * American Political Thought *“At once dialectical and venturesome, it reimagines the mind of Frederick Douglass on Douglass’s own exceptional terms. One hopes academic philosophy and US political thought take notice.” -- Maurice Wallace * American Literary History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. "The Thing Looked Absurd": The Black in Douglass's Political Philosophy 1 1. "To Become a Colored Man": Proposing Black Powers to the Black Public Sphere 17 2. "A Chapter of Political Philosophy Applicable to the American People": Human Nature, Human Dignity, Human Rights 38 3. "One Method for Expressing Opposite Emotions": Douglass's Fugitive Rhetoric 55 4. "Assault Compels Defense": Douglass on Black Emigration and Violence 82 5. "A Living Root, Not a Twig Broken Off": Douglass's Constitutionalism and the Paradox of Democracy's Foundations 101 6. "Somebody's Child": Awakening, Resistance, and Vulnerability in My Bondage and My Freedom 124 7. "Nothing Less Than a Radical Revolution": Douglass's Struggle for a Democracy without Race 159 8. "That Strange, Mysterious, and Indescribable": The Fugitive Legacy of Douglass's Political Thought 188 Notes 207 Bibliography 243 Index 263

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Book SynopsisBrandi Clay Brimmer analyzes the US pension system from the perspective of poor black women in the period before, during, and after the Civil War outlines the struggles of mothers, wives, and widows of black Union soldiers to claim rights in the face of unjust legislation.Trade Review“Brandi Clay Brimmer has written an amazing social history that transforms the study of poor black women’s quest for citizenship and recognition. Through finely grained research she revises our understanding of the racialized gendered state from the standpoint of poor women themselves. She advances how we think about the agency of newly emancipated women from after the Civil War into the late nineteenth century, in the process challenging existing interpretations about the origins of social assistance in the modern United States. This is historical research at its best.” -- Eileen Boris, author of * Making the Woman Worker: Precarious Labor and the Fight for Global Standards, 1919–2019 *“This compelling study of eastern North Carolina black women’s claims for Union widows’ pensions marshals methodologically complex evidence to make striking arguments on questions of racialized motherhood, the origins of the welfare state, class formation, and Reconstruction’s failures. Brandi Clay Brimmer recaptures in rich detail the lives of heretofore unknown women who tried and often failed to secure their full Fourteenth Amendment rights. This book is a timely contribution to current debates on the nation’s history of racial injustice and a poignant saga of promises made and promises broken.” -- Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Peter V. and C. Vann Woodward Professor Emerita, Yale University“Claiming Union Widowhood is a valuable addition to African American and legal historiography. It would teach well in courses on women’s history, labor history classes, and any course concerning emancipation.” -- Gretchen Long * Journal of Southern History *“Claiming Union Widowhood is an important contribution that speaks to several significant historiographical conversations. Historians interested in the long history of emancipation, the African American family, the Black military experience, and Civil War veterans would benefit from reading this excellent study. It sheds new light on the relationship between race, gender, and poverty in Reconstruction and afterward that should inspire future research.” -- David Silkenat * Labor *“Historians interested in how to think more expansively about where political thought happens and who produces it will find much value in Claiming Union Widowhood. . . . Brimmer’s deeply researched book offers readers a rich portrait of Black Union widowhood that will spark new questions for the broad read­ership it is sure to find.” -- Catherine A. Jones * Journal of the Civil War Era *“Claiming Union Widowhood makes an important contribution to understanding how working-class African American women leveraged local networks and an understanding of institutional processes as they interacted with government institutions in the post-Civil War nation. It powerfully shows, too, the limitations that black women met as they worked within the pension system and were forced to justify their relationships using definitions that had little relevance to their lives.” -- Melissa Milewski * Journal of Social History *“Tracing Black women’s fight to prove their status and wor­thiness as war widows, Brimmer’s study dem­onstrates the racial origins of the welfare state in the nineteenth century. . . . Brimmer’s impressive research illuminates the extent and significance of the pension network to New Bern’s Black community.” -- Carol Faulkner * Journal of American History *Table of ContentsCast of Principal Characters ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Part I. A People and a Place 1. Black Life and Labor in New Bern, North Carolina, 1850–1865 23 2. The Black Community in New Bern, 1865–1920 46 Part II. Encountering the State 3. Her Claim is Lawful and Just: Black Women's Petitions for Survivors' Benefits 77 4. Black Women, Claims Agents, and the Pension Network 101 5. Encounters with the State: Black Women and Special Examiners 123 6. Marriage and the Expansion of the Pension System in 1890 144 7. Black Women and Suspensions for "Open and Notorious Cohabitation" 163 8. The Personal Consequences of Union Widowhood 184 Conclusion 205 Notes 217 Bibliography 277 Index 299

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Book SynopsisChristopher Freeburg challenges the imperative to study black social life and slavery and its aftereffects through the lenses of freedom, agency, and domination and instead examines how enslaved Africans created meaning through spirituality, thought, and artistic creativity separate and alongside concerns about freedom.Trade Review“The boldness and ambition of Christopher Freeburg's Counterlife are apparent on every page. Freeburg challenges decades of work on U.S. slavery that highlights either slave resistance or white dominance, but often not more than that. As an alternative, Freeburg insists that we consider the many possibilities of both Black life during slavery and the ways that we now dare to imagine and reference that life.” -- Robert F. Reid-Pharr, author of * Archives of Flesh: African America, Spain, and Post-Humanist Critique *“Christopher Freeburg's theory of counterlife is the refreshing new grammar that breaks out of slavery studies' conscious and unconscious lapses into the binary of social death or social life. Counterlife adds crucial new dimensions to the study of the artistic representation of enslaved Africans. This bold, brilliant study teaches us how to stumble, with uncertainty and vulnerability, into the ever-expanding archive of slavery.” -- Margo Natalie Crawford, author of * Black Post-Blackness: The Black Arts Movement and Twenty-First-Century Aesthetics *“Counterlife is somewhat loosely defined. . . . The virtue of this more speculative approach is that it brings widely ranging works into dialogue with each other and takes seriously the ways in which writers might wish to write against moral and political expectations—not so much resisting slavery as resisting its dominant modes of representation.” -- Colin Harrison * Modern Language Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Slavery's Hereafter 1. Sambo's Cloak 2. Kaleidoscope Views 3. Sounds of Blackness 4. The Last Black Hero Coda: Chasing Ghosts Notes Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIn Experiments in Skin Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu examines the ongoing influence of the Vietnam War on contemporary ideas about race and beauty. Framing skin as the site around which these ideas have been formed, Tu foregrounds the histories of militarism in the production of US biomedical knowledge and commercial cosmetics. She uncovers the efforts of wartime scientists in the US Military Dermatology Research Program to alleviate the environmental and chemical risks to soldiers'' skin. These dermatologists sought relief for white soldiers while denying that African American soldiers and Vietnamese civilians were also vulnerable to harm. Their experiments led to the development of pharmaceutical cosmetics, now used by women in Ho Chi Minh City to tend to their skin, and to grapple with the damage caused by the war''s lingering toxicity. In showing how the US military laid the foundations for contemporary Vietnamese consumption of cosmetics and practices of beauty, Tu shows how the inteTrade Review“Experiments in Skin is a fully dazzling treatment of the aftermaths of the Vietnam War. Working expertly at the intersection of military history, chemical warfare, modern medical research, race, dermatology, beauty, and skin, Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu tells a fascinating and important story about how contemporary Vietnamese beauty culture has arisen from an ugly history of US militarism—the afterlife of warfare in its enduring marks on Vietnamese skin as well as military efforts to heal and even perfect soldiers' skin. Tu renders extraordinary insight into the tightly entwined histories of militarized technology and a rising beauty culture, giving name to whole new territories for analysis.” -- Matthew Frye Jacobson, William Robertson Coe Professor of American Studies and History, Yale University“Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu advances a theory of aesthetics and politics that is urgently relevant to contemporary postcolonial theorizations of colonial modernity and the resistance to it. By historicizing the emergence of dermatology in the context of American empire and war, Experiments in Skin embodies the best of cultural studies methodology and analysis.” -- Jennifer Terry, author of * Attachments to War: Biomedical Logics and Violence in Twenty-First-Century America *"Experiments in Skin has extensive, detailed notes, and the depth of Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu’s analysis is evident as she cites military archives, newspaper articles and her own on-site research. . . . It is written in a journalistic style, which makes it accessible to a wide audience who might wish to learn about the heavy topics presented." -- Bella Dalton-Fenkl * International Examiner *"Experiments in Skin is an ambitious and multifaceted account of the social afterlife of militarized medical science; its interdisciplinarity permits its author to draw insight from revealing juxtapositions. . . . Drawing together critical science studies with ethnography, Experiments in Skin contributes not only to medical anthropology and the history of medicine but also to a nascent critical research literature on beauty products and industries. Its chapters would make thought-provoking contributions to advanced undergraduate courses and graduate seminars in critical environmental studies, cultural studies, feminist studies, medical anthropology, postcolonial studies, science and technology studies, and Southeast Asian studies." -- Martha Lincoln * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"Experiments in Skin is a superb gift: beautifully written, intellectually expansive, accessible and engaging. One of the most admirable aspects of Experiments in Skin is its ambitious capacity: it covers a lot of intellectual ground, but does so in such a way that still maintains analytical depth and thoroughness. Tu’s capacity to balance both is enviable, and is a quality that makes this book such an engaging and enjoyable read." -- John Paul (JP) Catungal * Society and Space *"It is well beyond the scope of a short book review to do justice to Dr. Tu’s exacting empirical research, or her powerful and affecting prose. But what I want to emphasize in my comments here is how Experiments in Skin is a fundamentally geographical book. It is, at its core, a book about places, the people who inhabit them, and the connections between them." -- Wesley Attewell * Society and Space *"In this insightful—and indeed beautiful—book, Tu offers us a model of scholarly work that not only undertakes a rigorous examination of the archives of militarism and science, but also a theorization of the forms of life remaindered by war." -- Linda Luu * Society and Space *"Readers of all stripes will find much to appreciate and admire in this interdisciplinary historical project, as Tu provides the probing critical analysis and somatic language needed to tackle the deep entanglements of military racism, prison torture, and chemical warfare. Experiments in Skin is a book for anyone interested in what stories our skin have to tell, despite the endless technologies of maiming and the politics of denial. If our history is embodied, then our skin remembers well that living history, and it never lies about what cannot be denied or covered up." -- Long T. Bui * American Historical Review *"By conjoining the United States and Vietnam through their similar relationships with skin, Tu offers new ways to understand how military, medical, and commercial interests have shaped and influenced the ways Vietnamese women have sought to cure and relieve skin disorders. . . . In tracing the history of experiments in the skin, Tu powerfully articulates how Vietnamese women do not hold the same desires as the US military holds. . . ." -- Shani Tra & Sunshine Blanco * Journal of Asian American Studies *"In pursuing the ghostly traces of latent histories, Tu’s book theorizes the connections between surfaces of racialized, gendered, commercialized, militarized, and medicalized skin on multiple scales across the US and Vietnam, while being attentive to alternate logics of relationality and responsibility." -- Elizabeth Wijaya * Pacific Affairs *"By considering the scientific contributions and innovations of the Global South, Nguyen Tu disentangles social and medical theory from its purportedly Western origins and places it in a global context. Perhaps the question at hand is not just how dermatology’s beginnings concern women in contemporary Vietnam but also how this line of inquiry can be furthered in Vietnam studies." -- Allen L. Tran * Journal of Vietnamese Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Mysteries of the Visible 1 1. Skin Stories: Making Beauty in the Culture of Renovation 23 2. The Beautiful Life of Agent Orange 49 3. An Armor of Skin: Pacific Threats and the Dreams of Infinite Security 76 4. A Laboratory of Skin: Making Race in the Mekong Delta 104 5. Weak Skin, Strong Skin: The Work of Making Livable 134 Epilogue 161 Notes 165 Bibliography 201 Index 219

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Book SynopsisAntiblackness investigates the ways in which the dehumanization of Black people has been foundational to the establishment of modernity. Drawing on Black feminism, Afropessimism, and critical race theory, the book's contributors trace forms of antiblackness across time and space, from nineteenth-century slavery to the categorization of Latinx in the 2020 census, from South Africa and Palestine to the Chickasaw homelands, from the White House to convict lease camps, prisons, and schools. Among other topics, they examine the centrality of antiblackness in the introduction of Carolina rice to colonial India, the presence of Black people and Native Americans in the public discourse of precolonial Korea, and the practices of denial that obscure antiblackness in contemporary France. Throughout, the contributors demonstrate that any analysis of white supremacy---indeed, of the world---that does not contend with antiblackness is incomplete. Contributors. Mohan Ambikaipaker, Jodi A. Byrd, Iyko Day, Anthony Paul Farley, Crystal Marie Fleming, Sarah Haley, Tanya Katerí Hernández, Sarah Ihmoud, Joy James, Moon-Kie Jung, Jae Kyun Kim, Charles W. Mills, Dylan Rodríguez, Zach Sell, João H. Costa Vargas, Frank B. Wilderson III, Connie WunTrade Review“These essays arrive right on time, and with no apparent expiration date. Moon-Kie Jung and João H. Costa Vargas have assembled a collection that forcefully unravels, analyzes, and exposes how slavery and global antiblackness structure and produce meaning in the modern world. The essays theorize, analyze, and provide us field notes for understanding how and why antiblackness does not just underwrite the modern world but actively produces it in multiple modalities. After encountering these essays, any analysis that does not contend with antiblackness as central to modern life is an analysis blind to what exactly the modern means.” -- Rinaldo Walcott, author of * The Long Emancipation: Moving toward Black Freedom *“Moon-Kie Jung and João H. Costa Vargas have assembled an impressive cross section of thinkers who write from a host of methodological and philosophical positions and approaches and who work toward a necessary language to situate antiblackness in and beyond Black studies. The need for this project could not be more urgent.” -- Shana L. Redmond, author of * Everything Man: The Form and Function of Paul Robeson *"This book could be used in courses on Black studies, sociology, history, political science, and social justice studies. Alongside the text, which is incredibly relevant to the current sociopolitical moment, instructors might also have students view the film 13th (2016), which resonates most strongly with the theme of intentionally scaffolded racial injustice in the American criminal justice system in part 3 of Antiblackness. Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty; professionals." -- C. L. Lalonde * Choice *“Every educator, scholar, and researcher of antiblack violence and racism is encouraged to engage with Antiblackness. . . . Recognizing the framework of antiblackness can heighten awareness in understanding how the afterlife of global enslavement functions in our interconnected realities every single day.” -- Tiffany N. Peacock * Transforming Anthropology *“[Antiblackness] is an important tool that will allow readers to articulate the travesties done to Black people all over the world and combat the narrative that race has nothing to do with how our world has been structured. . . . Knowledge is power and this book will certainly educate anyone who is interested in portions of history that are often untold in the media and in educational institutions.” -- Jordannah Elizabeth * Amsterdam News *“Antiblackness . . . is highly recommended to students of African Studies, History, Religious Studies, Sociology, and Political Science. . . . Significantly, the book will be useful to teach students in high schools and universities to understand the long history of Anti-Blackness and how to combat such problems in our societies.” -- Kofi Johnson * International Social Science Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Antiblackness of the Social and the Human / João H. Costa Vargas and Moon-Kie Jung 1 Part I. Openings 1. The Illumination of Blackness / Charles W. Mills 17 2. Afropessimism and the Ruse of Analogy: Violence, Freedom Struggles, and the Death of Black Desire / Frank B. Wilderson III 37 3. Afro-feminism before Afropessimism: Meditations on Gender and Ontology / Iyko Day 60 4. Toward a General Theory of Antiblackness / Anthony Paul Farley 82 Part II. Groundings 5. Limited Growth: U.S. Settler Slavery, Colonial India, and Global Rice Markets in the Mid-Nineteenth Century / Zach Sell 107 6. Flesh Work and the Reproduction of Black Culpability / Sarah Haley 131 7. "Not to Be Slaves of Others": Antiblackness in Precolonial Korea / Jae Kyun Kim and Moon-Kie Jung 143 Part III. Captivities 8. "Mass Incarceration" as Misnomer: Chattel/Domestic War and the Problem of Narrativity / Dylan Rodríguez 171 9. Gendered Antiblackness and Police Violence in the Formations of British Political Liberalism / Mohan Ambikaipaker 198 10. Schools as Sites of Antiblack Violence: Black Girls and Policing in the Afterlife of Slavery / Connie Wun 224 11. Presidential Powers in the Captive Maternal Lives of Sally, Michelle, and Deborah / Joy James 244 Part IV. Unsettlings 12. On the Illegibility of French Antiblackness: Notes from an African American Critic / Crystal M. Fleming 263 13. Latino Antiblack Bias and the Census Categorization of Latinos: Race, Ethnicity, or Other? / Tanya Katerí Hernández 283 14. Born Palestinian, Born Black: Antiblackness and the Womb of Zionist Settler Colonialism / Sarah Ihmoud 297 15. Not Yet: Indigeneity, Antiblackness, and Anticolonial Liberation / Jodi A. Byrd 309 References 325 Contributors 369 Index 373

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Book SynopsisIn Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being, Kevin Quashie imagines a Black world in which one encounters Black being as it is rather than only as it exists in the shadow of anti-Black violence. As such, he makes a case for Black aliveness even in the face of the persistence of death in Black life and Black study. Centrally, Quashie theorizes aliveness through the aesthetics of poetry, reading poetic inhabitance in Black feminist literary texts by Lucille Clifton, Audre Lorde, June Jordan, Toni Morrison, and Evie Shockley, among others, showing how their philosophical and creative thinking constitutes worldmaking. This worldmaking conceptualizes Blackness as capacious, relational beyond the normative terms of recognition—Blackness as a condition of oneness. Reading for poetic aliveness, then, becomes a means of exploring Black being rather than nonbeing and animates the ethical question “how to be.” In this way, Quashie offers a Black feminist philosophy oTrade Review“Black studies is a spiritual discipline, one devoted to that dispersed and disseminated gathering of a nonexclusionary black world. Kevin Quashie has helped me think about this and has given me intellectual and theoretical tools and language for this. Black Aliveness is one of the most intellectually stimulating, illuminating, and spiritually moving books I’ve read in a very long time. Its impact will be immediate.” -- J. Kameron Carter, author of * Race: A Theological Account *“Decentering the focus on ‘social death’ in current black studies, Black Aliveness is the first book to push us to the next step when we start with the feeling of aliveness rather than with black death as a way of understanding black life. There is magical thinking and writing in this paradigm-shifting book.” -- Margo Natalie Crawford, author of * Black Post-Blackness: The Black Arts Movement and Twenty-First-Century Aesthetics *"I found great relief in Quashie's formulation of the concept of 'oneness,' which he insists is 'not akin to individualism.'… Quashie's book has shifted decades of denial, distancing, and suppression for me, not by rescuing the I, but by giving me one, the becoming, the relational.… In dealing with my ontological anxieties, I have dreamed of dissolution, a release into the elements of the universe of which we are all made. But even if we mingle with the stars we are still left with particles and forms of relation between these particles. What an aha! moment for me, reading Quashie…. How freeing and wonderful. To relate, to mingle, is not a dissolve, but a proliferation." -- Jayna Brown * Critical Inquiry *"This deeply poetic, rich book may be paradigm shifting. Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers." -- J. A. Kegley * Choice *"Kevin Quashie's book provides a blueprint for alternative methods of reading and studying Black life, Black worldmaking, and Black relationality." -- Daisy Guzman * E3W Review of Books *"Quashie's efforts are triumphant. . . . This work and its tender attention to that which constitutes humanity within these texts of aliveness would retain its magic regardless of the world, 'the episteme,' in which one finds it." -- Erin Tatz * Theory & Event *"One of the most significant contributions of the book as a whole is the quiet but insistent contention that poetry and poetics can do the work of social analysis. It is here, in Quashie’s attention to aesthetic choices and form, that we appreciate the value of Black Aliveness. . . . Quashie has written a field-shifting book that centers aesthetic paths to life in place of restraint in its treatment of Black being." -- Gershun Avilez * Genre *"Quashie’s Black Aliveness is not a blueprint or a definitive answer to his opening question. Rather, the book is more like a gesture and an invitation; it offers a path for studying Black life and world-making through aesthetics. Throughout, Quashie’s prose emulates the beauty, splendor, and energy of the writings that constitute the matrix for his reflections. The reader will appreciate how the author frequently pauses to consider the grandeur of an essay or the rhythm of a poem. Students of Black literature and aesthetics should also praise Quashie’s practice of sitting with Black texts as primary sources for critical thought and ethics." -- Joseph Winters * American Literary History *"Black Aliveness is an important intervention in a conversation that has come to dominate black studies in recent years, under a variety of different names: the question of the human, black ontology, the(im)possibility of black subjectivity, and afropessimism. . . . Quashie’s book offers a loving response to and reorientation of a field that has come to read blackness as synonymous with death, and antiblackness as constitutive of black life." -- Jennifer C. Nash * Cultural Critique *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Aliveness 1 1. Aliveness and Relation 15 2. Aliveness and Oneness 31 3. Aliveness and Aesthetics 57 4. Aliveness in Two Essays 83 5. Aliveness and Ethics 107 Conclusion. Again, Aliveness 141 Acknowledgments 155 Notes 157 Bibliography 219 Permissions 227 Index 229

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Book SynopsisVernadette Vicuña Gonzalez follows the life of Filipina vaudeville and film actress Isabel Rosario Cooper, who was the mistress of General Douglas MacArthur to explore the contours of empire as experienced on the scale of personal relationships.Trade Review“Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez crafts a gorgeous and meticulous portrait of one of the most intriguing women of the twentieth century, Isabel Rosario Cooper. Woven out of ghosts of texts and archival fractures and gaps, Empire's Mistress is a replete mystery tale, a feminist biography, a Hollywood story, an intimate study of Philippine-U.S. relations, and a masterful work of postcolonial noir. Above all, Empire's Mistress is a haunting, by which afterlives of empire address our contemporary dilemmas about how to articulate, frame, and center unspoken lives to tell history accurately. A deeply satisfying work of exhumation, Empire's Mistress makes complex history live, and I'm grateful for Gonzalez's unflinching, refractive, and always revelatory gaze on that history.” -- Gina Apostol, author of * Insurrecto *“Imaginatively tracing the life of Isabel Rosario Cooper in and through the elisions and silences of the archives, Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez makes a significant contribution to rethinking the process of archival research when it involves marginalized subjects whose existence appears sporadically in the historical accounts of others. A compelling read.” -- Vicente L. Rafael, author of * Motherless Tongues: The Insurgency of Language amid Wars of Translation *"Gonzalez’s book is part- excavation, part-celebration of Cooper, that puts the story of MacArthur and his mistress into a new context, and not necessarily in a sordid way. Gonzalez is mindful at all times that Cooper was a daughter of colonization. That is why you read this book, to see another small-scale, personal perspective of the U.S. Philippines relationship where colonial mentality is more than a massive headache." -- Emil Guillermo * Philippine Inquirer *“Empire’s Mistress is a dynamic text at the cutting edge of transdisciplinary research and will appeal to lay readers looking for a juicy noir tale and to scholars of women’s history, twentieth century US–Philippines political relations, and postcolonial and cultural studies. Gonzalez’s writing against the archival grain is a pleasure to read.” -- Thea Quiray Tagle * Philippine Studies *“Empire’s Mistress is a clever reflection of both the disjointed American imperial archive and the non-linear life Cooper had invented for herself. . . . Gonzalez not only engages in interdisciplinary analyses and methodologies to study the archive, but beautifully interweaves multiple genres—academic prose, poetry, playwriting, and art—to speculate a historical narrative that dances on the fine line between fiction and non-fiction.” -- Kristin Oberiano * Western Historical Quarterly *“[Gonzalez] insists on a speculative archival reading that allows Cooper to move from being the object of the possessive to a framing that makes her a different kind of subject . . . ultimately centering and valuing the intimate knowledges formed and passed between women who experience the violence of empire.” -- Rachel Yim * Women & Performance *“Gonzalez is . . . especially lively when she is highlighting her personal discovery of archival documents. . . . Her glimpses into early Manila and the colonial life of American soldiers who married Filipina women was fascinating, and the best-researched part of this tale.” -- Kirby Pringle * Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television *“Empire’s Mistress is a work of art—figuratively and literally—that unearths the engrossing life of Isabel Rosario Cooper. . . . It is an archetype of how archival research should be repurposed.” -- Luis Zuriel P. Domingo * Sojourn *“Vernadette Gonzalez’s Empire’s Mistress offers a welcome correction to the common practice of colonial subjects being written out of history. . . . It constitutes a fascinating account of a minor biography intersecting with a major biography and historical events as seen from the colonized periphery.” -- Delia Malia Konzett * Pacific Affairs *Table of ContentsArchival Detritus, Fabrications, Second Takes, and Other Provocations 1. This Is Not a Love Story 1 2. Death Certificate, Partial 13 3. A General and Unruly Wards 15 4. The Flower of Cathay, Excerpts 28 5. Misapprehensions 30 6. The Farm Boy and the Unbiddable Wife 32 7. The Delicate Moonbeam 48 8. "Dimples": Innocence (Colonial Kink) 49 9. Stage Presence 67 10. Letters Lost at Sea, Imagined, Excerpts 69 11. The New Filipina, Kissing 72 12. Gossip: Fiction and Nonfiction 86 13. "It Girl" Meets General 89 14. Recipe for the Douglas 93 15. The Washington Housewife, the Hollywood Hula Girl, and the Two Husbands: Reinventions 94 16. Out of Place 111 17. 1st Filipina Nurse, Geisha, Little Sergeant, Javanese Nurse, Uncredited 112 18. Lolita's Lines 127 19. Bit Parts: Racial Types, Ensemble 128 20. Caged Birds 149 21. For Future Archives, Apocrypha, and Fictions 160 22. Death Certificate, Entire 165 23. The Suicide 167 24. Last Review 170 Acknowledgments 173 Notes 177 Filmography (with Roles) 199 Bibliography 203 Index 215

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Book SynopsisThe Inheritance is anthropologist Elizabeth A. Povinelli's graphic memoir in which she explores her family's history and the events, traumas, and social structures that define our individual and collective pasts and futures.Trade Review“With the understanding of a scholar and the storytelling instincts of a novelist, Elizabeth A. Povinelli has brought a rare degree of scope and insight to the graphic memoir form. Relatively few illustrated works are so complex and insightful, so intricately concerned with families, nationalities, and politics. An extraordinary book.” -- Michael Cunningham, author of * The Hours *“A melancholy yet often darkly funny reflection on the intersections of biography, geography, kinship, and history, The Inheritance is a genuinely original work that made an impact on this reader and will leave a lasting mark on the field.” -- Naisargi N. Dave, author of * Queer Activism in India: A Story in the Anthropology of Ethics *"An inspired use of the graphic format to weave a narrative with a power beyond words alone." (Starred Review) * Kirkus Reviews *"This book is memoir, art, and anthropology, as it cleverly addresses the interplay between individual lives and collective experiences, thus inviting a more open and associative mode of interpretation than most academic monographs.… This text handles complex and contested social themes through sparing text and provocative imagery and as such is a unique contribution to the conversation on the legacies of European immigration to the United States." -- Caroline DeVane * Europe Now *"This is a fascinating study of family persona and their changing relationships, but it is not just an engaging family history. The book is also an analysis of the historical context, 'the patterns of violence, dislocation, racism and structural inequality' (p. xi) that shape US society." -- Louise Lamphere * Journal of Anthropological Research *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Preface xi Act I 1 Act II Papa The Vorburgers Gramma Act III Reading List

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Book SynopsisAnna Arabindan-Kesson examines how cotton became a subject for nineteenth-century art by tracing the symbolic and material correlations between cotton and Black people in British and American visual culture.Trade Review“Beautifully conceived, consummately researched, and effectively presented, Black Bodies, White Gold makes an important contribution to art history, African American and Black diaspora studies, American studies, and British Empire studies.” -- Lisa Lowe, author of * The Intimacies of Four Continents *“Anna Arabindan-Kesson's book offers an expansive visual accounting of cotton and its representations, from ‘negro cloth’ to contemporary art, that impressively charts the materiality, meaning, and memory of 'white gold' in the making of the Atlantic world and beyond. It is an exemplary model of African diasporic and globally oriented histories of art.” -- Krista Thompson, author of * Shine: The Visual Economy of Light in African Diasporic Aesthetic Practice *“Arabindan-Kesson’s book expands the analytic potential of previous art-historical studies that trace the representation of Blackness across the threshold after emancipation.... One of its most valuable contributions to the field of art history ... is its inventive recourse across time, folding contemporary art into a methodology that illuminates subaltern historical conditions otherwise excluded or redacted from the archive." -- C.C. McKee * Panorama *"This thoughtful, well-illustrated book offers a long-overdue, original, engaged approach to studies of the cotton economy in tandem with slavery. . . . Arabindan-Kesson initiates new ways of seeing and reading visual art toward revealing and facing difficult truths about persistent race discrimination and injustice. Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty." * Choice *"[Arabindan-Kesson's] beautifully written storytelling is not only highly engaging and compelling to read, but . . . also offer[s] an indispensable account of the ways in which racial capitalism and corporate imperialism have shaped and been shaped by visual culture.” -- Edwin Coomasaru * Oxford Art Journal *“Black Bodies, White Gold . . . is a tour de force in its seamlessly transnational approach, uniting of historic and contemporary artworks, and creative deployment of theoretical approaches for ethically attending to the absence and the violence of slavery’s archives. Arabindan-Kesson’s commitment to antiracist work consistently drives her analysis.” -- Jennifer Van Horn * Art Bulletin *“Black Bodies, White Gold is a thoughtful, rigorous meditation on materiality, meaning, and memory. . . . Arabindan-Kesson’s methodologically innovative emphasis on materiality, land, labor, and value has significant insights for environmental studies, showing how vision materially shapes the world.” -- Anita Girvan * The Goose *“With beautifully-printed images, Arabindan-Kesson’s well-researched text uses a variety of historical and contemporary examples to drill down into the often-shrouded history of the Black lives behind the journey of cotton. . . . Black Bodies, White Gold is highly relevant for studies in art history, African American art, African diaspora history, colonialism, and business and commerce.” -- Suzanne Sawyer * ARLIS/NA *“Black Bodies, White Gold carefully unpacks the material, representational, and historical complexities of cotton with impressive skill and knowledge, offering a compelling, original and expansive approach to art history, fit for the twenty-first century.” -- Sarah Thomas * Art History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Illustrations xv Introduction: Threads of Empire 1 1. Circuits of Cotton 29 2. Market Aesthetics: Color, Cloth, and Commerce 67 3. Of Vision and Value: Landscape and Labor after Slavery 121 4. Material Histories and Speculative Conditions 171 Coda: A Material with Memory 203 Notes 213 Bibliography 247 Index 285

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Book SynopsisRight Here, Right Now collects the powerful first-person stories of dozens of men who are living on death row in the United States, offering a glimpse into the lives of some of the most marginalized people in America.Trade Review"Everyone must read this book. To read the compelling stories in these pages is to feel the birth pangs of the fundamental changes that must come. These voices bear witness that criminal justice in America has become a nation's crime unto itself. We must measure our national stature and moral standing not by stock markets or church steeples but by the grace and humanity of the institutions that rebuild broken lives. Right Here, Right Now is the place to start." -- Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival and author of * The Third Reconstruction: Moral Mondays, Fusion Politics, and the Rise of a New Justice Movement *“Revelatory. Having spent twenty-five years advocating for comprehensive criminal justice reform and having spent time with many innocent people in maximum security prisons, I have often found more decency and compassion amongst the people inside the prison walls than without. These first-person stories serve to remind us of the humanity and common decency that we as a society all too often push aside in our rush to judgment and punishment.” -- Jason Flom, host of the podcast * Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom *"This powerful collection contains true stories from the dozens of men living on death row across the country. Some remembrances stretch back to childhood experiences of poverty and police misconduct, while other accounts pertain to life inside the carceral system, as the writers fight to hold on to their connections to the outside world. The events of 2020 underscored systematic inequality and the injustices of the justice system; here, these firsthand accounts form a moving, personal call to action." -- Sarah Edwards * IndyWeek *"Right Here, Right Now contains moving, first-person, anonymous accounts of men living on death row. . . . With the common refrain of death row being reserved for the worst of America’s criminals, Right Here, Right Now provokes uncomfortable questions about a judicial system that disproportionately incarcerates those who are 'descendants of enslaved peoples and other people of color, the vast majority poor, and too many mentally ill,' as articulated by acclaimed death row attorney Henderson Hill in the book’s foreword." -- Thomasi McDonald * Indy Week *"What is the worst thing you ever did? What drove you to do it? What would your life be like if you were defined only by that one thing? Those are some of the questions that came to mind as I read Right Here, Right Now: Life Stories from America’s Death Row, a collection of powerful and often wrenching first-person stories of more than 100 men sentenced to death. It’s an emotionally difficult read, but it’s more than worth the investment of time and heart." -- Steven Petrow * Washington Post *"Right Here, Right Now is much more than a death penalty critique. At its heart, the book is about the challenge that has always faced us humans: to see the beauty, dignity, and value in every single person, and to create a society around that. What would it mean to live in a culture that looks at convicted murderers and determinedly sees the humanity there? What would it take to become a society that genuinely serves the least among us before celebrating the achievers?" -- Amanda Abrams * Plough *"Poignant. . . . This volume packs a punch and gives a voice to those whose stories need to be fully heard. Libraries, especially those seeking to expand collections related to criminal justice and the politics surrounding issues of race and class, should purchase this title." -- Mattie Cook * Library Journal *“While there are different authors voicing their tales throughout, [Right Here, Right Now] reads as one strong voice. . . . This piece furthers our understanding of not only experiences when sentenced to death, but also the tenacity that a human can hold to still be able to grow, learn, and think deeply despite the conditions that they are living under." -- AM Purdy * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice *Table of ContentsForeword / Henderson Hill ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 About the Stories 9 I. The Part That Was Innocent (Early Childhood, Birth to Five Years Old) 1. Playing Solitary 17 2. Grandma Shot Bob 18 3. Ajar 19 4. Now Questions Asked 21 5. Downpour 22 6. Nigger Lover 24 7. Shelf Life 25 8. Not the Worst Fate 27 9. Car Ride 30 10. Momma's Boy 32 11. Good Habits 34 II. Boot Camp (Elementary School, Six to Ten Years Old) 12. It Was Reefer 39 13. Blistered 41 14. Ode to a Pretty Girl 43 15. U-Turn 45 16. The Monster 46 17. Don't Bring a Gun to a Knife Fight 47 18. Red, Half-White, and Blue 49 19. Badge of Honor 51 20. Boot Camp 52 21. Lesson Learned 54 22. Better Off Dead 56 23. Shake It Off 58 III. The Drama Was Live (Middle School, Eleven to Thirteen Years Old) 24. You Can Be Anything 63 25. Bootleg 65 26. Luxury 67 27. Cop 68 28. Man of the House 69 29. Trance 71 30. Tar Pit 73 31. Point Blank 75 32. Role Model 77 33. Elliot MF Jones 79 34. Suspension of Disbelief 81 IV. From Bad to Worse (Fourteen Years Old to Arrest) 35. A Wrap 85 36. JD 86 37. When We Were Young 88 38. Stinging Bee 90 39. Hands On 92 40. On My Own 94 41. Ain't Got No Name 96 42. Slap in the Face 98 43. Doing My Job 100 44. White Devil 102 45. Voices in the Dark 103 46. Finally 105 47. Crossing Over 107 V. Given the Circumstances 48. A Kind of Peace 113 49. Seeing the Light 116 50. Boy 119 51. The Quiet Room 122 52. Helpless 124 53. Just Like a Frog 127 54. The Source 129 55. I Heard You 131 56. Mercy on My Soul 133 57. Butterflies 135 58. After the Storm 137 VI. Worst of the Worst (Entering Death Row and Solitary) 59. What You Got? 141 60. Worst of the Worst 142 61. Nursing Home 144 62. Combat Readiness 143 63. The Hole 148 64. Peanut 150 65. Motel 6 152 66. All These Guys 155 67. Word is Bond 157 VII. You Are Not Here to Be Rehabilitated 68. The Raw 163 69. Firstborn 165 70. Valentine's Day 166 71. Time Lost 169 72. Hugs 171 73. I Knew What Was Coming 173 74. The Real Question 175 75. For My Heart Only 177 76. Guilty by Association 179 77. Pumping Iron 181 78. I Became Him 183 79. Definitely Christmas 185 80. Sidekick for Life 187 81. The Huggy Boys 190 82. Cellar Dwellers 192 83. Your Neighbor 195 84. Beyond the Wall 198 85. Ten Cents a Minute 201 86. You Can Do It 204 87. The Kind that Never Go Away 206 88. Making It Home 208 89. Someone Was Going to Die 211 90. Sugar Rush 214 VIII. Every Day's Worth Celebrating (Facing Execution) 91. Deal the Cards 219 92. Weighing the Cost 221 93. The Envelope 223 94. Final Hours 226 95. Cruel and Unusual 228 96. Black and Mild 229 97. Something Wasn't Right 231 98. Holy Week 234 99. Dawn 235 Afterword / Timothy B. Tyson 237 Resources for Deeper Connection 249

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Book SynopsisJennifer L. Morgan draws on the lived experiences of enslaved African women in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-centuries to reveal the contours of early modern notions of trade, race, and commodification in the Black Atlantic.Trade Review“Jennifer L. Morgan examines the transition to racialized slavery in the early modern Atlantic world with innovative research methods and original analysis. She brilliantly accounts for the emergence of an unholy alliance between a novel proficiency with numbers and the hierarchical classification of human difference, which helped to make kinship into a commodity. This is essential reading for anyone who wonders how Black humanity ceased to matter to some, and why centuries later we must still proclaim the worth of Black lives.” -- Vincent Brown, author of * Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War *“Jennifer L. Morgan makes an original, innovative, and creative intervention in the study of race and gender that establishes the groundwork necessary for revising our knowledge of the systems of trade and the commodification of peoples in the nineteenth century. Reckoning with Slavery is essential reading for anyone in the social sciences and the humanities who wants to understand the formation of the modern world. A major work.” -- Hazel V. Carby, author of * Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands *"Reckoning with Slavery challenges historians who have reckoned with slavery in the numerical sense without reckoning in the intellectual and moral sense with the subjectivity and intellectual work of enslaved people. . . . The threads of this rich and powerful work will generate new scholarship for years to come." -- Diana Paton * Black Perspectives *"There is much about this book that's deeply impressive. The depth and breadth of the research give a solidity to the argument that belies the difficult and fragmentary sources." -- Tim Lockley * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"One of the most illuminating aspects of Morgan’s work is how it invites us to reconsider the data we have about the slave trade. . . . Many of the stories of enslaved women might never be recovered, but Reckoning with Slavery shows how their stories might still be told by reading their silences creatively. The absence of women from the history of slave revolts, for instance, might not necessarily mean that they failed to participate in these uprisings or that they only participated in tiny, quotidian ways. It might also mean that their deeds were erased because women were so foundational to these uprisings that they inspired unease. Such a creative methodology paves the way for new, provocative historical narratives to be written." -- Li Qi Peh * Critical Inquiry *"As Black women lead worldwide movements to affirm the worth of Black lives in the face of white-supremacist violence today, Reckoning with Slavery illuminates some of the roots of this radical tradition of imagining Black futurity and making the world anew against the seemingly all-powerful forces of the state and the market." -- Eduarda Lira Araujo * E3W Review of Books *"Jennifer L. Morgan’s second book is one that will change the way scholars of slavery and the Black Atlantic think about the archives, enslaved women, and Black women’s theoretical and methodological offerings then and now. . . . It should become essential reading for academic audiences, college students, and any organization interested in reparations." -- Deirdre Cooper Owens * Studies in Romanticism *"[Reckoning with Slavery] sets a new bar for historians of the early modern era and of Western modernity. Morgan helps us see capitalism as racial capitalism, the radicalism of the Enlightenment as Black radicalism, and African women as central to both – and now that we see, there is no unseeing." -- Mariana L. R. Dantas * Journal of Early American History *"Morgan’s book will be welcomed by scholars who study the history of slavery and women’s history. She concentrates on women, their bodies, their experiences, their feelings, and their decisions. The book should be required reading in graduate courses on the history of slavery, economic history, the history of the body, and women’s history. Finally, it should be included in historical methodology classes due to its excellent incorporation of theory and its outstanding analysis of primary sources." -- Karol K. Weaver * H-Slavery, H-Net Reviews *"Reckoning with Slavery is a valuable addition to the studies of enslaved women, slavery, slavery and capitalism, and the violence of the archive. It is a wonderful example of the importance of centering the lives and experiences of enslaved women and their own understanding of the connections between kinship, slavery, and capitalism." -- Allison Madar * H-Early-America, H-Net Reviews *"For slavery’s early history, especially the role that gender, kinship, and capitalism played in the rise and perpetuation of human bondage throughout the Atlantic World, this is a book to be reckoned with, one that is sure to be required reading. I predict that it will remain that way for a long time to come." -- Eliga Gould * The Americas *"Through her whole career, Jennifer Morgan has blazed the trail for scholars seeking to understand the foundational dynamics of reproduction in the Atlantic World. In Reckoning with Slavery, she has crafted yet more theoretical considerations by which to comprehend the intersection of gender and capitalism, and this book will undoubtedly stimulate yet more rounds of discussion and debate. It is a text that will reach and impact many scholarly communities: those studying slavery, gender, family, the economy, and relations of power. It will also serve as a critical guide to face the new reality of reproduction in the United States going forward." -- Daniel Livesay * Journal of Family History *"Reckoning with Slavery is, simply put, a brilliant and important work. I am in awe of Morgan’s achievement." -- Carla Gardina Pestana * New West Indian Guide/Niewe West-Indische Gids *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction. Refusing Demography 1 1. Producing Numbers: Reckoning with the Sex Ratio in the Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1500–1700 29 2. "Unfit Subjects of Trade": Demographic Logics and Colonial Encounters 55 3. "To Their Great Commoditie": Numeracy and the Production of African Difference 110 4. Accounting for the "Most Excruciating Torment": Transatlantic Passages 141 5. "The Division of the Captives": Commerce and Kinship in the English Americas 170 6. "Treacherous Rogues": Locating Women in Resistance and Revolt 207 Conclusion. Madness 245 Bibliography 257 Index 283

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Book SynopsisIn Magical Habits Monica Huerta draws on her experiences growing up in her family''s Mexican restaurants and her life as a scholar of literature and culture to meditate on how relationships among self, place, race, and storytelling contend with both the afterlives of history and racial capitalism. Whether dwelling on mundane aspects of everyday life, such as the smell of old kitchen grease, or grappling with the thorny, unsatisfying question of authenticity, Huerta stages a dynamic conversation among genres, voices, and archives: personal and critical essays exist alongside a fairy tale; photographs and restaurant menus complement fictional monologues based on her family''s history. Developing a new mode of criticism through storytelling, Huerta takes readers through Cook County courtrooms, the Cristero Rebellion (in which her great-grandfather was martyred by the Mexican government), Japanese baths in San Francisco—and a little bit about Chaucer too. Ultimately, Huerta skTrade Review“Monica Huerta moves readers toward a habit of being captured by objects that mesh one's own singular and collective histories. We learn to breathe with them and to be dispossessed by them. This fantastic book enchanted me and taught me so much.” -- Lauren Berlant, author of * Cruel Optimism *“Magical Habits is as much a treasure trove as it is a book—full of surprises, glittering insights, lyrical vignettes, personal archives, political history, family lore, and brilliant literary critique. The writing is exquisite, for the book is both polyphonic and constantly---effortlessly---changing tack. I would turn the page without any sense of where Monica Huerta might take me next, only knowing that I wanted to follow, that I did not want to come out from under this spell.” -- Justin Torres, author of * We the Animals *"Thoughtful, wry, and intimate, Magical Habits is a memoir that’s rich with questions about identity, heritage, authenticity, and the true American dream." -- Meg Nola * Foreword *"This striking debut blends personal and political essays with U.S. and Mexican histories, photos, menus and a fable to indulge 'multiple habits of thought rather than proposing there is one way of knowing.'" * New York Times Book Review *"Huerta weaves into each chapter powerful stories of her upbringing and family and the narrative of her own winding path in academia. She cleverly uses a variety of documents and historical archival material, sourced from her family and their businesses in Chicago and Mexico, to explore wide-ranging themes of migration and displacement and the results of what she calls racial capitalism. . . . It is a fascinating read. . . ." -- Amy Lewontin * Library Journal *"Magical Habits’s blend of personal archive and theory prompts the reader to question their assumptions around what constitutes accepted archives and heralded academic discourse. . . . Within a relatively slim text, Huerta performs a rich kind of self-ekphrasis, looking at material from her own life and family for clues about how to live alongside scholarship: television, family lore, tales from her love life that read like movie reels." -- Rosa Boshier * Los Angeles Review of Books *"When I tweeted a joke ('joke') about timing my book proposal to a certain full moon, someone recommended I read Monica Huerta’s Magical Habits, an intimate, academic, genre-bending study of race, history, and heritage grounded in Huerta’s experience growing up in her family’s Mexican restaurants. I’m glad I listened, and not only because Huerta validates moon-based writing timelines—it was a much-needed reminder that there are countless ways to tell a story, and that a book can be whatever you want it to be." -- Arianna Rebolini * The Millions *"Delightfully heterogenous and perfectly unblended, Huerta’s mixture of creative and critical writing spans from history to monologues, to tales and family documents, including a variety of media—photographs, restaurant menus, advertisements—which comprise her personal ‘archive’ (xix). . . . As a book which ‘seeks to enact as much as describe,’ Magical Habits is a love story between the reader and the writing, one to be read with generosity and eagerness (ix)." -- Adriana Murad Konings * ASAP/Journal *“Monica Huerta’s first book, Magical Habits, is unlike many other contemporary Latinx studies monographs. It breaks with generic conventions of literary criticism and stuns with Huerta’s reflections on everyday encounters with history and capitalism via family, place, race, self, and the stories they intertwine.” -- Jennifer M. Lozano * MELUS *“Monica Huerta’s intricate and deeply intimate Magical Habits takes the reader on an inventive study of the links between stories, race, place, and archive. . . . This book will definitely benefit students and researchers in the fields of feminism and gender studies, critical race theory, Chicanx studies, and Latinx literature. It could also enlighten students wishing for more creative liberty in academia.” -- Anaïs Ornelas Ramirez * Lateral *“Monica Huerta’s Magical Habits takes us deep into the possibilities of everyday objects, feelings, and questions. . . . I love this book because I, like Huerta, am committed ‘to take on scholarly rituals that lead to elsewhere.’ This memoir that is also a collage and a performance does just this.” -- Suzanne Bost * Prose Studies *Table of ContentsAuthor's Note ix Preface: A Patron Saint xi 1. The Synthesis Problem 1 2. Fabulation 22 1988 31 3. Disciplines and Disciples 33 4. Aphorism as a Promise 42 2002 48 5. Heartbreak as Praxis 51 6. Whether Wisdom 68 2004 73 The Quene. A Mervilos and Magiquall Tale of epistemological Mischief, Wherein there are revealed no secretes 77 7. Before and After 85 2006 98 8. When Courts of Love Have Cash Registers 103 1976 107 9. Auctions 111 10. Uncertainty and Bathing 118 2010 124 2013 128 11. After Hypervigilance 132 2017 142 12. Choreography 143 Acknowledgments 153 Notes 157 Selected Bibliography 167

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Book SynopsisNicole M. Guidotti-Hernández challenges the stereotypes of machismo with nuanced portraits of Mexican men and masculinities along and across the US-Mexico border.Trade Review“Archiving Mexican Masculinities in Diaspora makes a critical contribution to our collective sense of gender dynamics in twentieth-century migration studies. Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández delivers a nuanced treatment of the masculinity of Mexican migrants over the first half of the twentieth century. Through myriad lenses, we see Mexican nationals as partners and lovers, as fathers and sons, as machos and domestic beings, and in homosocial and heteronormative positions.” -- George J. Sánchez, * Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900–1945 *“Guidotti-Hernández is an elegant writer, and this book’s compelling and deeply human arguments resonate through the lucid prose. . . . This is a book to be read slowly, to be scrutinized and experienced.” -- Lydia R. Cooper * Western American Literature *"This incredibly thought-provoking book is meant to be read closely; Guidotti-Hernández’s forceful analysis, along with the more than fifty accompanying illustrations, deserves careful attention." -- Juan Ignacio Mora * Latino Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Part I. Enrique Flores Magón's Exile: Revolutionary Desire and Familial Entanglements 1. Greeting Cards, Love Notes, Love Letters 35 2. PLM Intimate Betrayals: Enrique Flores Magón, Paula Carmona, and the Gendered History of Denunciation 43 3. Out of Betrayal and into Anarchist Love and Family 83 4. Bodily Harm 107 5. De la Familia Liberal 127 6. The Split 139 7. The Emotional Labor of Being in Leavenworth 147 8. Deportation to a Home That Doesn't Exist, or "He Has Interpreted the Alien's Mind" 157 Part I: Conclusion 171 Part II: The Homoerotics of Abjection: The Gaze and Leonard Nadel's Salinas Valley Bracero Photographs 9. Making Braceros Out of Place and Outside of Time 185 10. The Salinas Valley and Hidden Affective Histories 197 11. Hip Forward into Domestic Labor and Other Intimacies 215 12. Queer Precious Lives 233 13. Wanting to Be Looked At 251 14. Passionate Violence and Thefts 275 Part II: Conclusion 283 Conclusion 285 Notes 291 Bibliography 321 Index 329

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Book SynopsisPriya Kandaswamy brings together two crucial moments in welfare history—the advent of the Freedmen's Bureau during Reconstruction and the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996—to show how they each targeted Black women through negative stereotyping and normative assumptions about gender, race, and citizenship.Trade Review“Priya Kandaswamy brings to light the struggles of African American women to navigate the competing and contradictory demands placed upon them after emancipation. By linking the question of state assistance in the aftermath of the Civil War to the contemporary welfare debate, Kandaswamy enables readers to see the endurance of anti-Black racism and heteronormativity as well as how state power operates to enforce labor discipline and maintain social stratification. The parallels between these two time periods are eye-opening.” -- Premilla Nadasen, author of * Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement *“Domestic Contradictions is remarkably original in its historiographic perspective and structure. Rather than offering a ‘long history’ of race, gender, and welfare, Priya Kandaswamy boldly juxtaposes two key moments in welfare-state history and, in so doing, is able to successfully demonstrate the haunting of Reconstruction's violent limitations in the late twentieth century. Sharp and innovative, this will be an influential work in gender theory and gender history. Indeed, Kandaswamy's impact on feminist scholarship and public debates will be very significant.” -- Sarah Haley, author of * No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity *“In Domestic Contradictions, Kandaswamy offers an important perspective on the well-established idea that welfare policies are deeply classist, racist, and sexist.... I strongly recommend this book to welfare scholars and students of social policy who want to understand more deeply our uniquely American social safety net.” -- Leah Hamilton * Affilia *“Domestic Contradictions makes an important contribution to both intersectional thought and feminist analyses of the American welfare system. . . . The author compellingly argues that today’s welfare system reforms aim at producing a class of lower wage workers whose identities mirror the racial discriminatory ideological presuppositions that have persisted since the Reconstruction Era.” -- Giada Mangiameli * Feminist Encounters *"Domestic Contradictions is remarkably original and vitally important. ... Kandaswamy’s scholarship joins the best work in the history of gender and sexuality by demonstrating how patterns of social life that often get framed as preordained have, in fact, been shaped through concerted state action." -- Brooke Depenbusch * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii 1. Welfare Reform and the Afterlife of Slavery 1 2. Making State, Making Family 29 3. Marriage and the Making of Gendered Citizenship 59 4. Domestic Labor and the Politics of Reform 105 5. The Chains of Welfare 151 Conclusion 193 Notes 197 Bibliography 215 Index 227

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Book SynopsisJennifer C. Nash examines how the figure of the Black mother has become a powerful political category synonymous with crisis, showing how they are often rendered into one-dimensional symbols of tragic heroism and the ground zero of Black life.Trade Review“Viewing Black motherhood as a trending political site, Jennifer C. Nash boldly pushes Black feminists to reflect critically on their own embrace of crisis rhetoric that casts Black maternal bodies as mere symbols of state violence marked by suffering, trauma, and grief. While powerfully arguing we risk reproducing Black mothers as problems in need of intervention and relying on low-wage Black birthworkers to save them, Nash points to ways we can theorize new forms of Black maternal freedom that refuse confinement to a marketed crisis frame.” -- Dorothy Roberts, author of * Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty *“Investigating the fraught position in which Black mothers find themselves and the complex ways they engage with the discourse of crisis that is attached to them, Birthing Black Mothers will generate a wonderfully complex debate in Black feminism. The difficult conversations that Jennifer C. Nash’s arguments will incite are well worth the discomfort. This brilliant book is the most exciting piece of scholarship I have read this year.” -- Khiara M. Bridges, author of * The Poverty of Privacy Rights *"[An] essential examination of Black motherhood and its layered complexities of representation, performance, gaze, critique, precarity and politics." -- Karla Strand * Ms. *"Birthing Black Mothers is a highly relevant and accessible work that will appeal to students interested in various aspects of Black motherhood, as well as to a broader audience outside academia. Jennifer Nash's depiction of the contemporary crisis enriches ongoing debates around Black motherhood." -- Etyelle Pinheiro de Araujo * E3W Review of Books *"Birthing Black Mothers is an insightful and important analysis of black motherhood in the contemporary moment. . . . Nash’s most significant contribution lies in the questions she asks of black feminists; what happens when 'Black feminist innovations' are absorbed by the very institutions they are meant to challenge? What are the consequences of getting a rickety seat at an intrinsically unjust table?" -- Patricia Hamilton * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"Birthing Black Women is essential reading for those interested in reproductive justice, Black feminism, public health, and media studies." -- Jennifer Musial * Resources for Gender and Women's Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. The Afterlives of Malaysia Goodson, or Black Mothering in Crisis 1 1. Black Gold: Remaking Black Breasts in an Era of Crisis 31 2. In the Room: Birthwork by Women of Color in a State of Emergency 69 3. Black Maternal Aesthetics: The Making of a Noncrisis Style 103 4. Writing Black Motherhood: Black Maternal Memoirs and Economies of Grief 133 Conclusion. The Afterlives of Jazmine Headley 173 Coda. "All Mothers Were Summoned when George Floyd Called Out for His Mama" 179 Notes 187 Bibliography 209 Index 235

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Book SynopsisIn Black Gathering Sarah Jane Cervenak engages with Black artists and writers who create alternative spaces for Black people to gather free from interruption or regulation. Drawing together Black feminist theory, critical theories of ecology and ecoaesthetics, and Black aesthetics, Cervenak shows how novelists, poets, and visual artists such as Gayl Jones, Toni Morrison, Clementine Hunter, Samiya Bashir, and Leonardo Drew advance an ecological imagination that unsettles Western philosophical ideas of the earth as given to humans. In their aestheticization and conceptualization of gathering, these artists investigate the relationships among art, the environment, home, and forms of Black togetherness. Cervenak argues that by offering a formal and conceptual praxis of gathering, Black artists imagine liberation and alternative ways of being in the world that exist beyond those Enlightenment philosophies that presume Black people and earth as given to enclosure and ownership.Trade Review“Extending her rich study of philosophical praxis and the racial politics of wandering, Sarah Jane Cervenak explores daily practices and real-life social happenings as frames for navigating the discourses of death, subjection, and, most vitally, life. Surely this is a gathering; surely this is a beautiful work in Black aesthetics.” -- Kevin Quashie, author of * Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being *“Foregrounding fugitive existence in the reading of key literary texts and artworks, Black Gathering offers a powerful account of how Blackness (as it signals the without of modern representation) releases humans and nonhumans from their modern aesthetic enclosure (as subject and object of uncommitted contemplation) and juridic-economic misfortune (as subject and object of expropriation and extraction).” -- Denise Ferreira da Silva, author of * Toward a Global Idea of Race *“[Black Gathering], laid out in a captivating manner, moves from engagement with the concept of an earthly home and expands into works which explore the cosmos as well as parallel worlds. . . . This book will be of interest to advanced scholars studying the theory of African American artistic contributions.” -- Laura Christine Haynes * ARLIS/NA *“One of the key strengths of the book is its own ‘gathering’: that is, Cervenak takes up artists and works that either have been understudied or are not typically considered in the same context. . . . [Black Gathering] rewards readers interested in Black women’s (literary and visual) art, questions of form, and Black abstraction.” -- Evie Shockley * ISLE *“Black Gathering’s utopianism bespeaks an investment, inherited from performance studies, in what artworks are as well as what they do. Cervenak approaches Black ecologies not from the perspective of animality but from that of property. . . . Art, for Cervenak, generates a commons of sorts: it holds space for Black life, unenclosed.” -- Jean-Thomas Tremblay * GLQ *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Another Beginning Part I. Gathering's Art 1. "For a While at Least": Toni Morrison, Nikki Wallschlaeger, and the Ecoaesthetic Shapes of Home 2. The Art of the Matter: Samiya Bashir and Gabrielle Ralambo-Rajerison's Cosmopoetics Part II. The Art of Gathering 3. Arrangements Against the Sentence: Gayl Jones's Early Literature 4. "A Project From Outside": Leonardo Drew's Sculpture Conclusion: Clementine Hunter's Unscalable Field Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisRana M. Jaleel links international law's redefinition of mass rape as a crime against humanity to the expansion of US imperialism and its effacement of racialized violence and dispossession.Trade Review“Imaginative and deeply ambitious, The Work of Rape upends conventional thinking. Traversing a vast terrain, Rana M. Jaleel insists we turn from how rape has been problematically framed through various feminist legal efforts so we may reconceptualize its relation to racial and colonial world orderings of life. A brilliant and convincing book.” -- Leti Volpp, Robert D. and Leslie Kay Raven Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley“Rana M. Jaleel presents an eye-opening and mesmerizing global account of the contexts, significations, and meanings that rape as a juridical offense and cultural term has undergone from the 1990s to the present. She boldly intervenes into current discussions about rectifying the pervasiveness of societal sexual violence that has been reignited by movements like #TimesUp and #MeToo. One walks away from this book with new clarity about the substantive differences and stakes among women of color, Indigenous, queer, and radical feminist frameworks for understanding sexual violence and for acting against it. This is the book I’ve wanted for these times.” -- Chandan Reddy, author of * Freedom with Violence: Race, Sexuality, and the US State *"The Work of Rape is a challenging text, but one that asks us to think deeply and seriously about feminist and queer theory, sexual violence, racialization, and the politics of rape." -- Sameena Mulla * GLQ *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. The Work of Rape 1 1. The US Sex Wars Meet the Ethnic Wars 49 2. States of War, Men as State: The Tortured Americas, Genocidal Balkans, and the Sexual State Form 88 3. My Own Private Genocide: From Ethnic War to the War on Terror 110 4. Two Title IXs: Empire and the Transnational Production of "Welcomeness" on Campus 142 Epilogue. Decolonial and Abolitionist Feminisms and the Work of Rape 174 Notes 187 Bibliography 229 Index 255

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Book SynopsisIn Moving Home, Sandra Gunning examines nineteenth-century African diasporic travel writing to expand and complicate understandings of the Black Atlantic. Gunning draws on the writing of missionaries, abolitionists, entrepreneurs, and explorers whose work challenges the assumptions that travel writing is primarily associated with leisure or scientific research. For instance, Yoruba ex-slave turned Anglican bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther played a role in the Christianization of colonial Nigeria. Sarah Forbes Bonetta, a formerly enslaved girl 'gifted' to Queen Victoria, traveled the African colonies as the wife of a prominent colonial figure and under the protection of her benefactress. Alongside Nancy Gardiner Prince, Martin R. Delany, Robert Campbell, and others, these writers used their mobility as African diasporic and colonial subjects to explore the Atlantic world and beyond while they negotiated the complex intersections between nation and empire. Rather than categorizing theTrade Review“Sandra Gunning’s clear-sighted treatment of the complex political and social worlds in which her subjects found themselves and the multiple strategies through which they negotiated those worlds offers an especially important corrective to universalizing, homogenizing tendencies in much contemporary diasporic scholarship. Gunning argues for a new look at diaspora, particularly as a lens into the process of cultural change. Moving Home offers, in other words, provides a broad theory of the relationship of literature and literary criticism to profound social transformation.” -- Priscilla Wald, author of * Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative *“Moving Home takes a nuanced, intersectional approach to travel writers' construction of gendered identities. . . . Throughout her book, Gunning eschews generalization and accentuates instead the specific politics surrounding each text she discusses." -- Elizabeth A. Bohls * Review 19 *"An important corrective to dominant views of 19th-century Black identities and writings, as well as of travel writing, Gunning’s book will interest all scholars of literature and Black studies. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." -- D. E. Magill * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xvii Introduction 1 1. Mary Seacole's West Indian Hospitality 23 2. Home and Belonging for Nancy Prince 55 3. The Repatriation of Samuel Ajayi Crowther 86 4. Martin R. Delany and Robert Campbell in West Africa 120 5. Sarah Forbes Bonetta and Travel as Social Capital 160 Coda 197 Notes 205 Bibliography 227 Index 251

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Book SynopsisMarcus Bell presents a revealing portrait of white teachers in a majority Black schools to outline how white racial identity is constructed based on localized interactions and the ways whiteness takes a different form in predominantly Black spaces.Trade Review“A rich and insightful book, Whiteness Interrupted is an original contribution that will impact numerous disciplines—sociology, black studies, ethnic studies, whiteness studies, and education—while also appealing to a broader readership interested in the formation of racial identity.” -- Victor M. Rios, author of * Human Targets: Schools, Police, and the Criminalization of Latino Youth *“Whiteness Interrupted makes a crucial intervention by showing how whites are racialized when they are the minority. Marcus Bell's examination of white teachers in black schools raises important questions about racial asymmetry in all its forms. Framing the construction of race around spatial negotiation interrupts the theorizing of whiteness in much-needed ways.” -- Freeden Blume Oeur, author of * Black Boys Apart: Racial Uplift and Respectability in All-Male Public Schools *“Whiteness Interrupted is an important investigation on the contemporary ways in which White identity forms and reforms. Bell lays out a persuasive call for sociologists of race and ethnicity to pay more attention to locality.” -- Matthew W. Hughey * Social Forces *“Whiteness Interrupted tackles the complex subject of racial identity among white educators and makes it understandable for many Americans. . . . This is definitely a must-read for all, particularly as the US becomes a majority-minority society. Essential.” -- K. H. Jones * Choice *“Individuals who are interested in racial inequality within select institutions (education, government, the economy, etc.) will find this research stimulating, although graduate students, undergraduates, teachers, and professors should be particularly interested in [Whiteness Interrupted].” -- Michael Parrish * Ethnic and Racial Studies *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Whiteness in America 1 1. White Racelessness 17 2. The Color Line and the Classroom 38 3. Becoming White Teachers 63 4. The White Race Card 85 5. Colorblind 117 Conclusion: White Identity Politics and the Coming Crisis of Place 153 Appendix: Methodology and Research Design 166 Notes 179 Bibliography 219 Index 241

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Book SynopsisWritings on Media collects Stuart Hall's most important work on the media, reaffirming his stature as an innovative media theorist while demonstrating the continuing relevance of his methods of analysis.Trade Review“How refreshing and urgent to revisit Stuart Hall’s formative ideas about racism, identity, ideology, and media at the very moment that media has become such a contested site and source of ideological work. Hall’s searing and critical insights about what media does, how it works, and why it matters have never been as pressing as they are today. In our global and national media ecologies where disputes over facts, epistemological turmoil, fake news, and ideological rigidities are routine, Charlotte Brunsdon’s curated collection of Hall’s essays on the media is a remarkable and indispensable gift.” -- Herman Gray, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz“Stuart Hall revolutionized the critical study of media, positioning them—newspapers, photographs, television—as key sites of struggle over cultural meaning and power, and thus as central to the project of cultural studies. Above all, however, Hall did not just write about media but used them prolifically as outlets for critical intervention in the world. This superb set of essays testifies to the uniquely powerful voice of one of the most important public intellectuals in postimperial Britain.” -- Ien Ang, Distinguished Professor of Cultural Studies, Western Sydney University"Brunsdon . . . gifts us with the evolution and contours of Hall’s thought(s) about media more broadly in work he produced mostly in the decade of the 1970s or thereabouts: about photography and the visual arts, about the press, about radio and broadcasting, and finally about television. . . What the American reader learns from this collection is this: Hall was a prescient, energetic thinker of specificity and generality at the same time. . . ." -- Amy Villarejo * Critical Studies in Television *"This is the true magic here: what Hall furnished for us during the course of his life, and what Brunsdon has collected and contextualized in Writings on Media, is an invitation into Hall’s world—to see the world as he did. This vision is bright eyed, and delighted, and serious, and humble. . . . In all of his prose, it is unmistakable just how much Hall absolutely wants you in it with him, and to share his questions, and to identify possible answers, and to figure it out with you. And, that is a very precious gift indeed." -- Max Wiggins * College & Research Libraries *"This series is a veritable motherlode for Hall devotees and neophytes alike. . . . As Brunsdon points out, ensures that even the older or more micro-focused pieces in this volume still have ample value for current scholarship in media, film and cultural studies, and for the broader intersections around the analysis of politics, race, identity and ideological formation." -- Bill Yousman * Screen *Table of ContentsEditor's Note on the Text vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction: A History of the Present / Charlotte Brunsdon 1 Part I. The Photograph in Context Introduction to Part I 15 1. Preface to Black Britain: A Photographic History 23 2. Media and Message: The Life and Death of Picture Post 26 3. The Social Eye of Picture Post 34 4. The Determinations of New Photographs 54 5. Reconstruction Work: Images of Post-war Black Settlement 78 6. Vanley Burke and the "Desire for Blackness" 95 Part II. Media Studies and Cultural Studies Introduction to Part II 101 7. Film Teaching: Liberal Studies 111 8. The World of the Gossip Column 122 9. A World at One with Itself 131 10. Introduction to Paper Voices 141 11. Down with the Little Woman 155 12. Mugging: A Case Study in the Media 162 13. Introduction to Media Studies at the Centre 169 14. The Whites of Their Eyes: Racist Ideologies and the Media 177 Part III. Television Introduction to Part III 201 15. Television as a Medium and Its Relation to Culture 209 16. Watching the Box 237 17. Gogglebox Gigolos 242 18. TV Types 245 19. Encoding and Decoding in the Television Discourse 247 20. Media Power: The Double Bind 267 21. Will Annan Open the Box? 276 22. Which Public, Whose Service? 281 23. Black and White in Television 297 Coda 315 24. Stuart Hall's Desert Island Discs 317 Index 331 Place of First Publication 343

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Book SynopsisNahum Dimitri Chandler examines W. E. B. Du Bois's early thought and its continued relevance, demonstrating that Dub Bois must be re-read, appreciated, and studied anew as a philosophical writer and thinker contemporary to our time.Trade Review“Nahum Dimitri Chandler's "Beyond This Narrow Now" gives the reader the marvelous benefit of Chandler's exquisite knowledge of the DuBoisian oeuvre and his singular unrelenting commitment to tarrying with it. As one of our master teachers, Chandler is at his best here in leading us systematically, virtually line by line, through early Du Bois in his critical conceptual formation.” -- Hortense J. Spillers, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor, Vanderbilt University“‘Beyond This Narrow Now’ is a seminal contribution to foregrounding Du Bois’ epistemological roots and its implication for the future.” -- Mosa M. Phadi * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"Chandler is a meticulous scholar and a brilliant thinker with much to say about Du Bois as an intellectual problem. Parts of the book will be accessible to many readers, and Chandler’s approach to analysis serves as a master class in close reading. However, because of the occasionally esoteric nature of Chandler's approach, readers with a background in critical theory or philosophy have the most to gain. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, researchers/faculty, professionals/practitioners." -- J. W. Miller * Choice *“Chandler’s work is a definitive contribution towards a re-assessment of contemporary orientations of Du Boisian scholarship. His original thoughts and perspectives on Du Bois . . . provide new, innovative approaches to the work of such an iconic thinker and writer.” -- Lena Dallywater * Connections *"Insofar as he remains a critical resource in the present, perhaps one of the things that is most useful about Du Bois today is his ability to interpret historical possibility as the other side of historical limit, and to convince us that the future can still be altogether otherwise than the past that has been given to us, even now. There is no better guide to these aspects of Du Bois’s thought than Nahum Chandler’s 'Beyond This Narrow Now.'. . . Chandler is a poetic and evocative stylist, as well as a profound thinker, who offers the reader aesthetic and intellectual pleasures that help compensate for whatever syntactic or semantic hurdles pop up along the way." -- Ian Litwin * Georgia Review *"Chandler provides a patiently elaborated study of Du Bois’s early thought—a 'delimitation' of this thought that argues for the openness of its investigations and thus our perennial return to its hermeneutics." -- Rebecka Rutledge Fisher * American Literary History *"The merit of Chandler's work is that he stretches Du Bois's reflections along the arc drawn by contemporaneity and brings them into conversation with a constellation of critical theories from post-structuralism to post-colonialism, highlighting the specificity and contemporary importance of Du Bois's thought." -- Vincenzo Di Mino * Journal of Critical Race Inquiry *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Note on Citations xiii An Opening—At the Limit of Thought, a Preface xvii A Notation: The Practice of W.E.B. Du Bois as a Problem for Thought—Amidst the Turn of the Centuries 1 Part I. "Beyond This Narrow Now": Elaborations of the Example in the Thought of W.E.B. Du Bois—At the Limit of the World 25 Part II. The Problem of the Centuries: A Contemporary Elaboration of "The Present Outlook for the Dark Races of Mankind," circa the 27th of December, 1899—Or, At the Turn of the Twentieth Century 145 Another Coda, the Explicit—Revisited 221 Notes 231 References 269 Index 291

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Book SynopsisIn Disaffected Xine Yao explores the racial and sexual politics of unfeeling—affects that are not recognized as feeling—as a means of survival and refusal in nineteenth-century America. She positions unfeeling beyond sentimentalism''s paradigm of universal feeling. Yao traces how works by Herman Melville, Martin R. Delany, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, and Sui Sin Far engaged major sociopolitical issues in ways that resisted the weaponization of white sentimentalism against the lives of people of color. Exploring variously pathologized, racialized, queer, and gendered affective modes like unsympathetic Blackness, queer female frigidity, and Oriental inscrutability, these authors departed from the values that undergird the politics of recognition and the liberal project of inclusion. By theorizing feeling otherwise as an antisocial affect, form of dissent, and mode of care, Yao suggests that unfeeling can serve as a contemporary political straTrade Review“Just when it seemed there could be nothing more to say about nineteenth-century sentimentalism, Xine Yao comes along with this powerhouse of a book. She exposes sentimentalism’s sly trick: a white supremacy exerted through an appearance of empathy that is actually the policing of feeling itself. Stunningly argued and refreshingly contrarian, Disaffected showcases what is most exciting about nineteenth-century American literary studies today while making important connections to emerging conversations in studies of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality.” -- Britt Rusert, author of * Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture *“Against the affective economy in which white pain demands racialized consolation and white sympathy extorts racialized gratitude and emotional labor, Xine Yao’s original study examines ‘disaffection’ as a powerful practice that refuses the affective obligations of the nineteenth-century liberal social order. To be ‘disaffected’ is more than the absence of feeling—it is rather to feel otherwise, to refuse affective coercion, to stay with the negativity of unfeeling and to interrupt its rehabilitation, and more importantly, to invent counterpractices of sociality and care from below.” -- Lisa Lowe, author of * The Intimacies of Four Continents *"Disaffected is a remarkable achievement that asks readers for 'reciprocity' in the 'mutual, uneven process of knowledge-making, meaning-making, community-building' that emerges from the withholdings and disclosures of unfeeling." -- Benjamin Hulett * Synapsis *"The history of emotions has not seen the likes of this book before and its importance cannot be overstated. At the very least, the introductory chapter should make it on to every syllabus." -- Rob Boddice * Emotions *"One of the marvels of this book is how Yao allows ideas and images to resonate and return across her readings, even as she approaches each text on its own terms. . . . Yao’s broader achievement in Disaffected is to theorize and exemplify a disaffected reading practice that unsettles the assumptions inherited from the tradition of sentimentalism." -- Nicholas Spengler * Leviathan *"This is an excellent, thought-provoking monograph, which is sure to leave its mark on a wide range of disciplines and fields." -- Jonathan D. S. Schroeder * American Literary History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Disaffected from the Culture of Sentiment 1 1. The Babo Problem: White Sentimentalism and Unsympathetic Blackness in Herman Melville's Benito Cereno 29 2. Feeling Otherwise: Martin R. Delany, Black-Indigenous Counterintimacies, and the Possibility of a New World 70 3. The Queer Frigidity of Professionalism: White Women Doctors, the Struggle for Rights, and the Marriage Plot 107 4. Objective Passionless: Black Women Doctors and Dispassionate Strategies of Uplifting Love 138 5. Oriental Inscrutability: Sui Sin Far, Chinese Faces, and the Modern Apparatuses of U.S. Immigration 171 Coda. Notes toward a Disaffected Manifesto beyond Survival 208 Notes 211 Bibliography 243 Index

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Book SynopsisVernadette Vicuña Gonzalez follows the life of Filipina vaudeville and film actress Isabel Rosario Cooper, who was the mistress of General Douglas MacArthur to explore the contours of empire as experienced on the scale of personal relationships.Trade Review“Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez crafts a gorgeous and meticulous portrait of one of the most intriguing women of the twentieth century, Isabel Rosario Cooper. Woven out of ghosts of texts and archival fractures and gaps, Empire's Mistress is a replete mystery tale, a feminist biography, a Hollywood story, an intimate study of Philippine-U.S. relations, and a masterful work of postcolonial noir. Above all, Empire's Mistress is a haunting, by which afterlives of empire address our contemporary dilemmas about how to articulate, frame, and center unspoken lives to tell history accurately. A deeply satisfying work of exhumation, Empire's Mistress makes complex history live, and I'm grateful for Gonzalez's unflinching, refractive, and always revelatory gaze on that history.” -- Gina Apostol, author of * Insurrecto *“Imaginatively tracing the life of Isabel Rosario Cooper in and through the elisions and silences of the archives, Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez makes a significant contribution to rethinking the process of archival research when it involves marginalized subjects whose existence appears sporadically in the historical accounts of others. A compelling read.” -- Vicente L. Rafael, author of * Motherless Tongues: The Insurgency of Language amid Wars of Translation *"Gonzalez’s book is part- excavation, part-celebration of Cooper, that puts the story of MacArthur and his mistress into a new context, and not necessarily in a sordid way. Gonzalez is mindful at all times that Cooper was a daughter of colonization. That is why you read this book, to see another small-scale, personal perspective of the U.S. Philippines relationship where colonial mentality is more than a massive headache." -- Emil Guillermo * Philippine Inquirer *“Empire’s Mistress is a dynamic text at the cutting edge of transdisciplinary research and will appeal to lay readers looking for a juicy noir tale and to scholars of women’s history, twentieth century US–Philippines political relations, and postcolonial and cultural studies. Gonzalez’s writing against the archival grain is a pleasure to read.” -- Thea Quiray Tagle * Philippine Studies *“Empire’s Mistress is a clever reflection of both the disjointed American imperial archive and the non-linear life Cooper had invented for herself. . . . Gonzalez not only engages in interdisciplinary analyses and methodologies to study the archive, but beautifully interweaves multiple genres—academic prose, poetry, playwriting, and art—to speculate a historical narrative that dances on the fine line between fiction and non-fiction.” -- Kristin Oberiano * Western Historical Quarterly *“[Gonzalez] insists on a speculative archival reading that allows Cooper to move from being the object of the possessive to a framing that makes her a different kind of subject . . . ultimately centering and valuing the intimate knowledges formed and passed between women who experience the violence of empire.” -- Rachel Yim * Women & Performance *“Gonzalez is . . . especially lively when she is highlighting her personal discovery of archival documents. . . . Her glimpses into early Manila and the colonial life of American soldiers who married Filipina women was fascinating, and the best-researched part of this tale.” -- Kirby Pringle * Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television *“Empire’s Mistress is a work of art—figuratively and literally—that unearths the engrossing life of Isabel Rosario Cooper. . . . It is an archetype of how archival research should be repurposed.” -- Luis Zuriel P. Domingo * Sojourn *“Vernadette Gonzalez’s Empire’s Mistress offers a welcome correction to the common practice of colonial subjects being written out of history. . . . It constitutes a fascinating account of a minor biography intersecting with a major biography and historical events as seen from the colonized periphery.” -- Delia Malia Konzett * Pacific Affairs *Table of ContentsArchival Detritus, Fabrications, Second Takes, and Other Provocations 1. This Is Not a Love Story 1 2. Death Certificate, Partial 13 3. A General and Unruly Wards 15 4. The Flower of Cathay, Excerpts 28 5. Misapprehensions 30 6. The Farm Boy and the Unbiddable Wife 32 7. The Delicate Moonbeam 48 8. "Dimples": Innocence (Colonial Kink) 49 9. Stage Presence 67 10. Letters Lost at Sea, Imagined, Excerpts 69 11. The New Filipina, Kissing 72 12. Gossip: Fiction and Nonfiction 86 13. "It Girl" Meets General 89 14. Recipe for the Douglas 93 15. The Washington Housewife, the Hollywood Hula Girl, and the Two Husbands: Reinventions 94 16. Out of Place 111 17. 1st Filipina Nurse, Geisha, Little Sergeant, Javanese Nurse, Uncredited 112 18. Lolita's Lines 127 19. Bit Parts: Racial Types, Ensemble 128 20. Caged Birds 149 21. For Future Archives, Apocrypha, and Fictions 160 22. Death Certificate, Entire 165 23. The Suicide 167 24. Last Review 170 Acknowledgments 173 Notes 177 Filmography (with Roles) 199 Bibliography 203 Index 215

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Book SynopsisRight Here, Right Now collects the powerful first-person stories of dozens of men who are living on death row in the United States, offering a glimpse into the lives of some of the most marginalized people in America.Trade Review"Everyone must read this book. To read the compelling stories in these pages is to feel the birth pangs of the fundamental changes that must come. These voices bear witness that criminal justice in America has become a nation's crime unto itself. We must measure our national stature and moral standing not by stock markets or church steeples but by the grace and humanity of the institutions that rebuild broken lives. Right Here, Right Now is the place to start." -- Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival and author of * The Third Reconstruction: Moral Mondays, Fusion Politics, and the Rise of a New Justice Movement *“Revelatory. Having spent twenty-five years advocating for comprehensive criminal justice reform and having spent time with many innocent people in maximum security prisons, I have often found more decency and compassion amongst the people inside the prison walls than without. These first-person stories serve to remind us of the humanity and common decency that we as a society all too often push aside in our rush to judgment and punishment.” -- Jason Flom, host of the podcast * Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom *"This powerful collection contains true stories from the dozens of men living on death row across the country. Some remembrances stretch back to childhood experiences of poverty and police misconduct, while other accounts pertain to life inside the carceral system, as the writers fight to hold on to their connections to the outside world. The events of 2020 underscored systematic inequality and the injustices of the justice system; here, these firsthand accounts form a moving, personal call to action." -- Sarah Edwards * IndyWeek *"Right Here, Right Now contains moving, first-person, anonymous accounts of men living on death row. . . . With the common refrain of death row being reserved for the worst of America’s criminals, Right Here, Right Now provokes uncomfortable questions about a judicial system that disproportionately incarcerates those who are 'descendants of enslaved peoples and other people of color, the vast majority poor, and too many mentally ill,' as articulated by acclaimed death row attorney Henderson Hill in the book’s foreword." -- Thomasi McDonald * Indy Week *"What is the worst thing you ever did? What drove you to do it? What would your life be like if you were defined only by that one thing? Those are some of the questions that came to mind as I read Right Here, Right Now: Life Stories from America’s Death Row, a collection of powerful and often wrenching first-person stories of more than 100 men sentenced to death. It’s an emotionally difficult read, but it’s more than worth the investment of time and heart." -- Steven Petrow * Washington Post *"Right Here, Right Now is much more than a death penalty critique. At its heart, the book is about the challenge that has always faced us humans: to see the beauty, dignity, and value in every single person, and to create a society around that. What would it mean to live in a culture that looks at convicted murderers and determinedly sees the humanity there? What would it take to become a society that genuinely serves the least among us before celebrating the achievers?" -- Amanda Abrams * Plough *"Poignant. . . . This volume packs a punch and gives a voice to those whose stories need to be fully heard. Libraries, especially those seeking to expand collections related to criminal justice and the politics surrounding issues of race and class, should purchase this title." -- Mattie Cook * Library Journal *“While there are different authors voicing their tales throughout, [Right Here, Right Now] reads as one strong voice. . . . This piece furthers our understanding of not only experiences when sentenced to death, but also the tenacity that a human can hold to still be able to grow, learn, and think deeply despite the conditions that they are living under." -- AM Purdy * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice *Table of ContentsForeword / Henderson Hill ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 About the Stories 9 I. The Part That Was Innocent (Early Childhood, Birth to Five Years Old) 1. Playing Solitary 17 2. Grandma Shot Bob 18 3. Ajar 19 4. Now Questions Asked 21 5. Downpour 22 6. Nigger Lover 24 7. Shelf Life 25 8. Not the Worst Fate 27 9. Car Ride 30 10. Momma's Boy 32 11. Good Habits 34 II. Boot Camp (Elementary School, Six to Ten Years Old) 12. It Was Reefer 39 13. Blistered 41 14. Ode to a Pretty Girl 43 15. U-Turn 45 16. The Monster 46 17. Don't Bring a Gun to a Knife Fight 47 18. Red, Half-White, and Blue 49 19. Badge of Honor 51 20. Boot Camp 52 21. Lesson Learned 54 22. Better Off Dead 56 23. Shake It Off 58 III. The Drama Was Live (Middle School, Eleven to Thirteen Years Old) 24. You Can Be Anything 63 25. Bootleg 65 26. Luxury 67 27. Cop 68 28. Man of the House 69 29. Trance 71 30. Tar Pit 73 31. Point Blank 75 32. Role Model 77 33. Elliot MF Jones 79 34. Suspension of Disbelief 81 IV. From Bad to Worse (Fourteen Years Old to Arrest) 35. A Wrap 85 36. JD 86 37. When We Were Young 88 38. Stinging Bee 90 39. Hands On 92 40. On My Own 94 41. Ain't Got No Name 96 42. Slap in the Face 98 43. Doing My Job 100 44. White Devil 102 45. Voices in the Dark 103 46. Finally 105 47. Crossing Over 107 V. Given the Circumstances 48. A Kind of Peace 113 49. Seeing the Light 116 50. Boy 119 51. The Quiet Room 122 52. Helpless 124 53. Just Like a Frog 127 54. The Source 129 55. I Heard You 131 56. Mercy on My Soul 133 57. Butterflies 135 58. After the Storm 137 VI. Worst of the Worst (Entering Death Row and Solitary) 59. What You Got? 141 60. Worst of the Worst 142 61. Nursing Home 144 62. Combat Readiness 143 63. The Hole 148 64. Peanut 150 65. Motel 6 152 66. All These Guys 155 67. Word is Bond 157 VII. You Are Not Here to Be Rehabilitated 68. The Raw 163 69. Firstborn 165 70. Valentine's Day 166 71. Time Lost 169 72. Hugs 171 73. I Knew What Was Coming 173 74. The Real Question 175 75. For My Heart Only 177 76. Guilty by Association 179 77. Pumping Iron 181 78. I Became Him 183 79. Definitely Christmas 185 80. Sidekick for Life 187 81. The Huggy Boys 190 82. Cellar Dwellers 192 83. Your Neighbor 195 84. Beyond the Wall 198 85. Ten Cents a Minute 201 86. You Can Do It 204 87. The Kind that Never Go Away 206 88. Making It Home 208 89. Someone Was Going to Die 211 90. Sugar Rush 214 VIII. Every Day's Worth Celebrating (Facing Execution) 91. Deal the Cards 219 92. Weighing the Cost 221 93. The Envelope 223 94. Final Hours 226 95. Cruel and Unusual 228 96. Black and Mild 229 97. Something Wasn't Right 231 98. Holy Week 234 99. Dawn 235 Afterword / Timothy B. Tyson 237 Resources for Deeper Connection 249

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Book SynopsisNicole M. Guidotti-Hernández challenges the stereotypes of machismo with nuanced portraits of Mexican men and masculinities along and across the US-Mexico border.Trade Review“Archiving Mexican Masculinities in Diaspora makes a critical contribution to our collective sense of gender dynamics in twentieth-century migration studies. Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández delivers a nuanced treatment of the masculinity of Mexican migrants over the first half of the twentieth century. Through myriad lenses, we see Mexican nationals as partners and lovers, as fathers and sons, as machos and domestic beings, and in homosocial and heteronormative positions.” -- George J. Sánchez, * Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900–1945 *“Guidotti-Hernández is an elegant writer, and this book’s compelling and deeply human arguments resonate through the lucid prose. . . . This is a book to be read slowly, to be scrutinized and experienced.” -- Lydia R. Cooper * Western American Literature *"This incredibly thought-provoking book is meant to be read closely; Guidotti-Hernández’s forceful analysis, along with the more than fifty accompanying illustrations, deserves careful attention." -- Juan Ignacio Mora * Latino Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Part I. Enrique Flores Magón's Exile: Revolutionary Desire and Familial Entanglements 1. Greeting Cards, Love Notes, Love Letters 35 2. PLM Intimate Betrayals: Enrique Flores Magón, Paula Carmona, and the Gendered History of Denunciation 43 3. Out of Betrayal and into Anarchist Love and Family 83 4. Bodily Harm 107 5. De la Familia Liberal 127 6. The Split 139 7. The Emotional Labor of Being in Leavenworth 147 8. Deportation to a Home That Doesn't Exist, or "He Has Interpreted the Alien's Mind" 157 Part I: Conclusion 171 Part II: The Homoerotics of Abjection: The Gaze and Leonard Nadel's Salinas Valley Bracero Photographs 9. Making Braceros Out of Place and Outside of Time 185 10. The Salinas Valley and Hidden Affective Histories 197 11. Hip Forward into Domestic Labor and Other Intimacies 215 12. Queer Precious Lives 233 13. Wanting to Be Looked At 251 14. Passionate Violence and Thefts 275 Part II: Conclusion 283 Conclusion 285 Notes 291 Bibliography 321 Index 329

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Book SynopsisIn Maroon Choreographyfahima ife speculates on the long (im)material, ecological, and aesthetic afterlives of black fugitivity. In three long-form poems and a lyrical essay, they examine black fugitivity as an ongoing phenomenon we know little about beyond what history tells us. As both poet and scholar, ife unsettles the history and idea of black fugitivity, troubling senses of historic knowing while moving inside the continuing afterlives of those people who disappeared themselves into rural spaces beyond the reach of slavery. At the same time, they interrogate how writing itself can be a fugitive practice and a means to find a way out of ongoing containment, indebtedness, surveillance, and ecological ruin. Offering a philosophical performance in black study, ife prompts us to consider how we—in our study, in our mutual refusal, in our belatedness, in our habitual assemblage—linger beside the unknown. Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book ATrade Review“Maroon Choreography reads like liner notes for a dance unwitnessed except by sound, or a dramaturgy for a dance recorded by the mud and roots of trees who would have been the only audience. It is obscure but everywhere. More unknowable than little known. It participates in the important recent critical practice that goes beyond applying or extending theory and instead insists there is something else to perceive and another way to perceive it.” -- Alexis Pauline Gumbs, author of * Dub: Finding Ceremony *“With great erudition and deep musicality, fahima ife has written a funky, rigorous, and lyrical investigation of what it is to have been made to have and not have a body. An incredible tempest of a book.” -- Fred Moten, author of * Black and Blur *“ife invokes recent thinkers for whom the inherited rules and categories of what we have learned to call civilization look like acts of Western oppression. Against those categories, with sublimity and verve, ife’s verse raises up a defiant ‘queeribbeanness,’ celebrating ‘unruly contemporary dancers’ and other ‘black bodies” that ‘struggle to name our lives as sovereign, on our own terms.’ Spectacularly allusive in its canny, concise segments, sometimes programmatic but more often simply learned, Ife’s ‘tremulous / antegrammatical’ work invokes ‘the black morning of baldwin / across the river in another country.’” -- Stephanie Burt * New York Times Book Review *"Reading this text is an exercise in letting go of the familiar to practice otherwise. Through breathing, sitting, humming, and pausing with this text I am consistently reminded (as if one could forget) that our compulsory education systems are colonially choreographed. . . . To engage with this book in the field of comparative and international education is to practice asking more of ourselves and our work while making another world possible." -- Cee Carter * Comparative Education Review *“It is not often that an academic text takes you on a journey. fahima ife’s book of essays and poetry, Maroon Choreography, invites us to theorize not by defining and analyzing but rather by inhabiting an undocumented past of escape from slavery that links to present-day escapes from slavery’s afterlife. In this process of imagining, the text engages with an important conversation within Black studies, critical theory, and performance studies.” -- Omar Ricks * Dance Chronicle *"Maroon Choreography . . . inspires as possibility for what poetry might be, how it might bring forth homage and critical theory about Blackness in new forms and fresh ways of thought. It disassembles. I’m drawn to books of all sorts that unravel dominant discourses that plague our imaginations, and ife does that." -- Dawn Lundy Martin * Brooklyn Poets *"Maroon Choreography . . . . [is] a radical work that emerges from centuries of the informal, from the pneumatic symphony of all of us, but specifically of Blackness, 'in the slickness of joy,' and takes to the snake with great force. ife proposes questions that are rarely asked, perspectives refusing popular thought. They invite us to sit with them, to float, ascend, transcend, practice, to move through something not written by the choreography of coloniality — and to breathe 'in the upper air unseen.'" -- Cameron Lovejoy * Fugue *Table of ContentsA Prefatory Note ix Recrudescence 1 Porous Aftermath 15 Nocturnal Work 51 Maroon Choreography 79 Coda 93 Anindex 117

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Book SynopsisPriya Kandaswamy brings together two crucial moments in welfare historythe advent of the Freedmen's Bureau during Reconstruction and the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996to show how they each targeted Black women through negative stereotyping and normative assumptions about gender, race, and citizenship.Trade Review“Priya Kandaswamy brings to light the struggles of African American women to navigate the competing and contradictory demands placed upon them after emancipation. By linking the question of state assistance in the aftermath of the Civil War to the contemporary welfare debate, Kandaswamy enables readers to see the endurance of anti-Black racism and heteronormativity as well as how state power operates to enforce labor discipline and maintain social stratification. The parallels between these two time periods are eye-opening.” -- Premilla Nadasen, author of * Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement *“Domestic Contradictions is remarkably original in its historiographic perspective and structure. Rather than offering a ‘long history’ of race, gender, and welfare, Priya Kandaswamy boldly juxtaposes two key moments in welfare-state history and, in so doing, is able to successfully demonstrate the haunting of Reconstruction's violent limitations in the late twentieth century. Sharp and innovative, this will be an influential work in gender theory and gender history. Indeed, Kandaswamy's impact on feminist scholarship and public debates will be very significant.” -- Sarah Haley, author of * No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity *“In Domestic Contradictions, Kandaswamy offers an important perspective on the well-established idea that welfare policies are deeply classist, racist, and sexist.... I strongly recommend this book to welfare scholars and students of social policy who want to understand more deeply our uniquely American social safety net.” -- Leah Hamilton * Affilia *“Domestic Contradictions makes an important contribution to both intersectional thought and feminist analyses of the American welfare system. . . . The author compellingly argues that today’s welfare system reforms aim at producing a class of lower wage workers whose identities mirror the racial discriminatory ideological presuppositions that have persisted since the Reconstruction Era.” -- Giada Mangiameli * Feminist Encounters *"Domestic Contradictions is remarkably original and vitally important. ... Kandaswamy’s scholarship joins the best work in the history of gender and sexuality by demonstrating how patterns of social life that often get framed as preordained have, in fact, been shaped through concerted state action." -- Brooke Depenbusch * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii 1. Welfare Reform and the Afterlife of Slavery 1 2. Making State, Making Family 29 3. Marriage and the Making of Gendered Citizenship 59 4. Domestic Labor and the Politics of Reform 105 5. The Chains of Welfare 151 Conclusion 193 Notes 197 Bibliography 215 Index 227

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Book SynopsisJennifer C. Nash examines how the figure of the Black mother has become a powerful political category synonymous with crisis, showing how they are often rendered into one-dimensional symbols of tragic heroism and the ground zero of Black life.Trade Review“Viewing Black motherhood as a trending political site, Jennifer C. Nash boldly pushes Black feminists to reflect critically on their own embrace of crisis rhetoric that casts Black maternal bodies as mere symbols of state violence marked by suffering, trauma, and grief. While powerfully arguing we risk reproducing Black mothers as problems in need of intervention and relying on low-wage Black birthworkers to save them, Nash points to ways we can theorize new forms of Black maternal freedom that refuse confinement to a marketed crisis frame.” -- Dorothy Roberts, author of * Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty *“Investigating the fraught position in which Black mothers find themselves and the complex ways they engage with the discourse of crisis that is attached to them, Birthing Black Mothers will generate a wonderfully complex debate in Black feminism. The difficult conversations that Jennifer C. Nash’s arguments will incite are well worth the discomfort. This brilliant book is the most exciting piece of scholarship I have read this year.” -- Khiara M. Bridges, author of * The Poverty of Privacy Rights *"[An] essential examination of Black motherhood and its layered complexities of representation, performance, gaze, critique, precarity and politics." -- Karla Strand * Ms. *"Birthing Black Mothers is a highly relevant and accessible work that will appeal to students interested in various aspects of Black motherhood, as well as to a broader audience outside academia. Jennifer Nash's depiction of the contemporary crisis enriches ongoing debates around Black motherhood." -- Etyelle Pinheiro de Araujo * E3W Review of Books *"Birthing Black Mothers is an insightful and important analysis of black motherhood in the contemporary moment. . . . Nash’s most significant contribution lies in the questions she asks of black feminists; what happens when 'Black feminist innovations' are absorbed by the very institutions they are meant to challenge? What are the consequences of getting a rickety seat at an intrinsically unjust table?" -- Patricia Hamilton * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"Birthing Black Women is essential reading for those interested in reproductive justice, Black feminism, public health, and media studies." -- Jennifer Musial * Resources for Gender and Women's Studies *"The contemporary content and ingenious writing style of the author create numerous points to engage students in various subjects ranging from reproductive rights to social class, thus making it perfect for both undergraduate and graduate students. The book would easily lend itself to a women’s and gender studies or sociology program, but facilitators would be remiss to ignore the social movement underpinnings, making it ideal for political science or criminal justice courses with an emphasis on inequality, social justice, and race." -- Shauntey James * Gender & Society *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. The Afterlives of Malaysia Goodson, or Black Mothering in Crisis 1 1. Black Gold: Remaking Black Breasts in an Era of Crisis 31 2. In the Room: Birthwork by Women of Color in a State of Emergency 69 3. Black Maternal Aesthetics: The Making of a Noncrisis Style 103 4. Writing Black Motherhood: Black Maternal Memoirs and Economies of Grief 133 Conclusion. The Afterlives of Jazmine Headley 173 Coda. "All Mothers Were Summoned when George Floyd Called Out for His Mama" 179 Notes 187 Bibliography 209 Index 235

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Book SynopsisIn Black Gathering Sarah Jane Cervenak engages with Black artists and writers who create alternative spaces for Black people to gather free from interruption or regulation. Drawing together Black feminist theory, critical theories of ecology and ecoaesthetics, and Black aesthetics, Cervenak shows how novelists, poets, and visual artists such as Gayl Jones, Toni Morrison, Clementine Hunter, Samiya Bashir, and Leonardo Drew advance an ecological imagination that unsettles Western philosophical ideas of the earth as given to humans. In their aestheticization and conceptualization of gathering, these artists investigate the relationships among art, the environment, home, and forms of Black togetherness. Cervenak argues that by offering a formal and conceptual praxis of gathering, Black artists imagine liberation and alternative ways of being in the world that exist beyond those Enlightenment philosophies that presume Black people and earth as given to enclosure and ownership.Trade Review“Extending her rich study of philosophical praxis and the racial politics of wandering, Sarah Jane Cervenak explores daily practices and real-life social happenings as frames for navigating the discourses of death, subjection, and, most vitally, life. Surely this is a gathering; surely this is a beautiful work in Black aesthetics.” -- Kevin Quashie, author of * Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being *“Foregrounding fugitive existence in the reading of key literary texts and artworks, Black Gathering offers a powerful account of how Blackness (as it signals the without of modern representation) releases humans and nonhumans from their modern aesthetic enclosure (as subject and object of uncommitted contemplation) and juridic-economic misfortune (as subject and object of expropriation and extraction).” -- Denise Ferreira da Silva, author of * Toward a Global Idea of Race *“[Black Gathering], laid out in a captivating manner, moves from engagement with the concept of an earthly home and expands into works which explore the cosmos as well as parallel worlds. . . . This book will be of interest to advanced scholars studying the theory of African American artistic contributions.” -- Laura Christine Haynes * ARLIS/NA *“One of the key strengths of the book is its own ‘gathering’: that is, Cervenak takes up artists and works that either have been understudied or are not typically considered in the same context. . . . [Black Gathering] rewards readers interested in Black women’s (literary and visual) art, questions of form, and Black abstraction.” -- Evie Shockley * ISLE *“Black Gathering’s utopianism bespeaks an investment, inherited from performance studies, in what artworks are as well as what they do. Cervenak approaches Black ecologies not from the perspective of animality but from that of property. . . . Art, for Cervenak, generates a commons of sorts: it holds space for Black life, unenclosed.” -- Jean-Thomas Tremblay * GLQ *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Another Beginning Part I. Gathering's Art 1. "For a While at Least": Toni Morrison, Nikki Wallschlaeger, and the Ecoaesthetic Shapes of Home 2. The Art of the Matter: Samiya Bashir and Gabrielle Ralambo-Rajerison's Cosmopoetics Part II. The Art of Gathering 3. Arrangements Against the Sentence: Gayl Jones's Early Literature 4. "A Project From Outside": Leonardo Drew's Sculpture Conclusion: Clementine Hunter's Unscalable Field Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisRana M. Jaleel links international law's redefinition of mass rape as a crime against humanity to the expansion of US imperialism and its effacement of racialized violence and dispossession.Trade Review“Imaginative and deeply ambitious, The Work of Rape upends conventional thinking. Traversing a vast terrain, Rana M. Jaleel insists we turn from how rape has been problematically framed through various feminist legal efforts so we may reconceptualize its relation to racial and colonial world orderings of life. A brilliant and convincing book.” -- Leti Volpp, Robert D. and Leslie Kay Raven Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley“Rana M. Jaleel presents an eye-opening and mesmerizing global account of the contexts, significations, and meanings that rape as a juridical offense and cultural term has undergone from the 1990s to the present. She boldly intervenes into current discussions about rectifying the pervasiveness of societal sexual violence that has been reignited by movements like #TimesUp and #MeToo. One walks away from this book with new clarity about the substantive differences and stakes among women of color, Indigenous, queer, and radical feminist frameworks for understanding sexual violence and for acting against it. This is the book I’ve wanted for these times.” -- Chandan Reddy, author of * Freedom with Violence: Race, Sexuality, and the US State *"The Work of Rape is a challenging text, but one that asks us to think deeply and seriously about feminist and queer theory, sexual violence, racialization, and the politics of rape." -- Sameena Mulla * GLQ *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. The Work of Rape 1 1. The US Sex Wars Meet the Ethnic Wars 49 2. States of War, Men as State: The Tortured Americas, Genocidal Balkans, and the Sexual State Form 88 3. My Own Private Genocide: From Ethnic War to the War on Terror 110 4. Two Title IXs: Empire and the Transnational Production of "Welcomeness" on Campus 142 Epilogue. Decolonial and Abolitionist Feminisms and the Work of Rape 174 Notes 187 Bibliography 229 Index 255

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Book SynopsisSandra Gunning draws on nineteenth-century African diasporic travel writing to explore the conditions and possibilities of race, gender, sex, and class that early black Atlantic travel enabled.Trade Review“Sandra Gunning’s clear-sighted treatment of the complex political and social worlds in which her subjects found themselves and the multiple strategies through which they negotiated those worlds offers an especially important corrective to universalizing, homogenizing tendencies in much contemporary diasporic scholarship. Gunning argues for a new look at diaspora, particularly as a lens into the process of cultural change. Moving Home offers, in other words, provides a broad theory of the relationship of literature and literary criticism to profound social transformation.” -- Priscilla Wald, author of * Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative *“Moving Home takes a nuanced, intersectional approach to travel writers' construction of gendered identities. . . . Throughout her book, Gunning eschews generalization and accentuates instead the specific politics surrounding each text she discusses." -- Elizabeth A. Bohls * Review 19 *"An important corrective to dominant views of 19th-century Black identities and writings, as well as of travel writing, Gunning’s book will interest all scholars of literature and Black studies. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." -- D. E. Magill * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xvii Introduction 1 1. Mary Seacole's West Indian Hospitality 23 2. Home and Belonging for Nancy Prince 55 3. The Repatriation of Samuel Ajayi Crowther 86 4. Martin R. Delany and Robert Campbell in West Africa 120 5. Sarah Forbes Bonetta and Travel as Social Capital 160 Coda 197 Notes 205 Bibliography 227 Index 251

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Book SynopsisMarcus Bell presents a revealing portrait of white teachers in a majority Black schools to outline how white racial identity is constructed based on localized interactions and the ways whiteness takes a different form in predominantly Black spaces.Trade Review“A rich and insightful book, Whiteness Interrupted is an original contribution that will impact numerous disciplines—sociology, black studies, ethnic studies, whiteness studies, and education—while also appealing to a broader readership interested in the formation of racial identity.” -- Victor M. Rios, author of * Human Targets: Schools, Police, and the Criminalization of Latino Youth *“Whiteness Interrupted makes a crucial intervention by showing how whites are racialized when they are the minority. Marcus Bell's examination of white teachers in black schools raises important questions about racial asymmetry in all its forms. Framing the construction of race around spatial negotiation interrupts the theorizing of whiteness in much-needed ways.” -- Freeden Blume Oeur, author of * Black Boys Apart: Racial Uplift and Respectability in All-Male Public Schools *“Whiteness Interrupted is an important investigation on the contemporary ways in which White identity forms and reforms. Bell lays out a persuasive call for sociologists of race and ethnicity to pay more attention to locality.” -- Matthew W. Hughey * Social Forces *“Whiteness Interrupted tackles the complex subject of racial identity among white educators and makes it understandable for many Americans. . . . This is definitely a must-read for all, particularly as the US becomes a majority-minority society. Essential.” -- K. H. Jones * Choice *“Individuals who are interested in racial inequality within select institutions (education, government, the economy, etc.) will find this research stimulating, although graduate students, undergraduates, teachers, and professors should be particularly interested in [Whiteness Interrupted].” -- Michael Parrish * Ethnic and Racial Studies *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Whiteness in America 1 1. White Racelessness 17 2. The Color Line and the Classroom 38 3. Becoming White Teachers 63 4. The White Race Card 85 5. Colorblind 117 Conclusion: White Identity Politics and the Coming Crisis of Place 153 Appendix: Methodology and Research Design 166 Notes 179 Bibliography 219 Index 241

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Book SynopsisIn Soundscapes of Liberation, Celeste Day Moore traces the popularization of African American music in postwar France, where it signaled new forms of power and protest. Moore surveys a wide range of musical genres, soundscapes, and media: the US military''s wartime records and radio programs; the French record industry''s catalogs of blues, jazz, and R&B recordings; the translations of jazz memoirs; a provincial choir specializing in spirituals; and US State Department-produced radio programs that broadcast jazz and gospel across the French empire. In each of these contexts, individual intermediaries such as educators, producers, writers, and radio deejays imbued African American music with new meaning, value, and political power. Their work resonated among diverse Francophone audiences and transformed the lives and labor of many African American musicians, who found financial and personal success as well as discrimination in France. By showing how the popularity of African AmerTrade Review“Celeste Day Moore takes us on a dazzling and deeply researched tour through the soundscapes and multisensory experiences of the Francophone Black world. Soundscapes of Liberation is indispensable reading for scholars and students of the African Diaspora, liberation projects, and the circulation of music in the twentieth century.” -- Penny M. Von Eschen, author of * Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War *“Celeste Day Moore provides the best account of the process by which African American culture was popularized in postwar France at a time when France was negotiating its relationship to decolonization, American culture, and power writ large. This fascinating and detailed book made me think anew about things I thought I knew well.” -- Daniel Widener, author of * Black Arts West: Culture and Struggle in Postwar Los Angeles *"What Moore describes is not a simple love affair between a music maligned at home and a country destined to embrace it. . . . Navigating broad territories, she moves from an era when African-American music could only be apprehended fragmentarily to the advent of mass broadcasting, long playing records, and the involvement of state powers. Although this history's outlines can feel familiar, it is approached in a fresh way." -- Pierre Crépon * The Wire *"Thoroughly researched, erudite, and well written, this volume is required reading for those who study the African diaspora and African American music. Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals; general readers." -- F. J. Hay * Choice *"Soundscapes of Liberation is a meticulously, deeply, and broadly, researched work. It is well-written and compelling." -- Brett A. Berliner * Diplomatic History *Table of ContentsAbbreviations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Making Soundwaves 1 1. Jazz en Liberté: The US Military and the Soundscapes of Liberation 17 2. Writing Black, Talking Back: Jazz and the Value of African American Identity 43 3. Spinning Race: The French Record Industry and the Production of African American Music 71 4. Speaking in Tongues: The Negro Spiritual and the Circuits of Black Internationalism 103 5. The Voice of America: Radio, Race, and the Sounds of the Cold War 133 6. Liberation Revisited: African American Music and the Postcolonial Landscape 161 Epilogue: Sounding like a Revolution 195 Notes 201 Sources 251 Index 283

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Book SynopsisThis special issue advances transnational feminist approaches to the globally proliferating phenomenon of anti-Muslim racism. The contributors trace the global circuits and formations of power through which anti-Muslim racism travels, operates, and shapes local contexts. The essays center attention on and explore the gendered, sexualized, and racialized forms of anti-Muslim oppression and resistance in modern social theory, law, protest cultures, social media, art, and everyday life in the United States and transnationally. The contributors illuminate the complex nature of global anti-Muslim racism through various topics including Islamophobia in the context of race, gender, and religion; hate crimes; the sexualization of Islam in social media; queer Muslim futurism; the connection between secularism and feminism in Pakistan; the racialization of Muslims in the early Cold War period; and anti-Muslim racism in Russia. Together the essays provide a complex picture of the multifaceted nat

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Book SynopsisNicole Charles frames the refusal of Afro-Barbadians to immunize their daughters with the HPV vaccine as suspicion, showing that this suspicion is based in concrete histories of government mistrust and coercive medical practices on colonized peoples.Trade Review“Suspicion is a compellingly written and superlatively theorized ethnography of public health, affect, and the persistence of racism in the Caribbean. Nicole Charles uses suspicion to understand the logic behind Black parents' decisions about whether to give their children vaccines, showing that their decisions are rooted not in ignorance and irrationality but within long histories of racial and sexual injury as well as hierarchies related to race, class, color, education, and authority. This is quite simply a remarkable book.” -- Deborah A. Thomas, author of * Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation: Sovereignty, Witnessing, Repair *“In this empirically rich account of HPV vaccine promotion and refusal in Barbados, Nicole Charles depathologizes and unsettles conventional understandings of vaccine hesitancy through the urgent conceptual framework of suspicion. Deeply informed by and contributing to plural interdisciplinary conversations in Black feminisms, transnational gender studies, science and technology studies, and the history and anthropology of the Caribbean, Charles listens closely to insightful interlocutors in Barbados to illuminate the embodied affective intensity of contemporary vaccine politics.” -- Anne Pollock, author of * Synthesizing Hope: Matter, Knowledge, and Place in South African Drug Discovery *"Charles provides us with a thoroughly researched examination of an important subject at a time when such research is urgently needed in the face of a deadly pandemic. She shows us that parents in Barbados are motivated by genuine fears regarding the health of their children, and reasonable suspicion about the motivations of the state, and of vaccine manufacturers. That is significant for understanding how black Caribbean people evaluate technologies that affect health." -- F.S.J. Ledgister * Caribbean Quarterly *"This interesting, theoretically engaging book explores vaccine hesitancy among adolescents and young women in the English-speaking Caribbean nation of Barbados. Feminist scholars, medical anthropologists, and health-care professionals in the Caribbean and other postcolonial settings will benefit greatly from exposure to the ideas outlined in this book. Highly recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals. General readers." -- F. H. Smith * Choice *“Suspicion is a richly documented and theoretically ambitious ethnography of HPV vaccination hesitancy in Barbados. . . . Charles persuasively shows that Barbadians’ suspicion toward the HPV vaccination should be taken seriously, as it constitutes a productive tool for social and cultural analysis. . . . [Suspicion] is a theoretically sophisticated book that charts new territory within the literature.” -- Cristina A. Pop * Gender & Society *“This remarkable book . . . makes an important contribution to international scholarship on vaccine hesitancy, linking personal and familial decision-making in Barbados with transnational economic trends, national health and economic policies, and local embodied experiences of postcoloniality. . . . Suspicion offers a necessary correction to current received wisdom about some people’s deeply felt discomfort about vaccines, which inevitably links vaccine hesitancy with irrationality and misinformation.” -- Bernice L. Hausman * Journal of Medical Humanities *“Although numerous studies have been undertaken on vaccine confidence and its social regulators, there has rarely been a work published in this area that provides such depth of feeling to the voiced concerns of a specific community. . . . The result is a beautifully rich understanding of the complexity of human decision-making and a recognition that, at least in the case of Afro-Barbadians, ‘suspicion’ is a far more apt description of collective vaccine response than ‘hesitancy.’” -- Paula Larsson * H-Sci-Med-Tech, H-Net Reviews *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Suspicion: An Introduction 1 1. Circles of Suspicion 24 2. Risk and Suspicion: An Archive of Surveillance and Racialized Biopolitics in Barbados 45 3. (Hyper)Sexuality, Respectability, and the Language of Suspicion 66 4. Care, Embodiment, and Sensed Protection 94 5. Suspicion and Certainty 115 Conclusion: Toward Radical Care 148 Notes 155 Bibliography 175 Index 191

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Book SynopsisIn Poetic Operations artist and theorist micha cárdenas considers contemporary digital media, artwork, and poetry in order to articulate trans of color strategies for safety and survival. Drawing on decolonial theory, women of color feminism, media theory, and queer of color critique, cárdenas develops a method she calls algorithmic analysis. Understanding algorithms as sets of instructions designed to perform specific tasks (like a recipe), she breaks them into their component parts, called operations. By focusing on these operations, cárdenas identifies how trans and gender-non-conforming artists, especially artists of color, rewrite algorithms to counter violence and develop strategies for liberation. In her analyses of Giuseppe Campuzano''s holographic art, Esdras Parra''s and Kai Cheng Thom''s poetry, Mattie Brice''s digital games, Janelle Monáe''s music videos, and her own artistic practice, cárdenas shows how algorithmic analysis provideTrade Review“In this beautifully written book, micha cárdenas directs us to look at how the algorithm, as analytic and praxis, holds the possibility of trans of color survival. Deftly moving across numerous geographies, texts, and fields of inquiry, Poetic Operations is a bold contribution to trans of color studies.” -- C. Riley Snorton, author of * Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity *“micha cárdenas’s powerful new work extends intersectionality as a mode for understanding the relationships between race, class, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, and other axes of power, oppression, and resistance. Doing important theoretical and analytical work in its analysis of trans of color media arts practice, Poetic Operations will be useful for those working in media studies, digital studies, trans studies, and art history, as well as anyone interested in interrogating power.” -- Sasha Costanza-Chock, author of * Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need *"Poetic Operations is arguably the first major academic work to deal with the subject matter in such detail. How cárdenas uses the term will likely become the standard by which other engagements with the term are measured.” -- Sofie Vlaad * Journal of Critical Race Inquiry *“Importantly, this book models theory developed from and for trans of color existence and models how scholars must critically reflect on how our theories have ramifications for people’s lives. . . . Poetic Operations provides methods for analysis and design that invite exciting and innovative projects that engage in decolonial trans of color survival and celebration.” -- Shano (Hongyuan) Liang and Michael Anthony DeAnda * Lateral *“cárdenas explores digital media, speculative design and technology, performance and visual arts, coding, activism, theory, games, and poetry across the geographies of the Americas and beyond, along with a deep self-reflective engagement with her own practice-based projects. . . . Centering Black, Indigenous, Latinx trans and travesti voices, PoeticOperations offers critical approaches to deploy digital technologies for decolonial futures.” -- Nishant Upadhyay * American Quarterly *"Poetic Operations is a clear, well-written, and creative first- and third-person account of trans of color existence in written, digital, and performed avenues of praxis. Ultimately, cárdenas provides a useful model of algorithms, exposing this tool as a survival method used by trans people for centuries and how it continues to prevent violence and provide safety and security for contemporary communities everywhere." -- Riana Slyter * Women's Studies in Communication *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Algorithmic Analysis 1 1. Trans of Color Poetics 26 2. The Decolonial Cut 43 3. The Shift 72 4. The Experience of Shifting 96 5. The Stitch 129 Conclusion. Visionary Trans of Color Futures 167 Notes 179 Bibliography 203 Index 213

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Book SynopsisIn Black Trans Feminism Marquis Bey offers a meditation on blackness and gender nonnormativity in ways that recalibrate traditional understandings of each. Theorizing black trans feminism from the vantages of abolition and gender radicality, Bey articulates blackness as a mutiny against racializing categorizations; transness as a nonpredetermined, wayward, and deregulated movement that works toward gender’s destruction; and black feminism as an epistemological method to fracture hegemonic modes of racialized gender. In readings of the essays, interviews, and poems of Alexis Pauline Gumbs, jayy dodd, and Venus Di’Khadijah Selenite, Bey turns black trans feminism away from a politics of gendered embodiment and toward a conception of it as a politics grounded in fugitivity and the subversion of power. Together, blackness and transness actualize themselves as on the run from gender. In this way, Bey presents black trans feminism as a mode of enacting the wholesale dismanTrade Review“In Marquis Bey's deeply creative and fiercely imaginative book, Black trans feminism describes a kind of worldly inhabitation and a radical form of theorizing power and refusal in ways that are not contingent on identity. In Bey's hands, Black trans feminism becomes a powerful call for vulnerability, fugitive hope, abolition, and freedom. Black Trans Feminism allows us to gesture to all that we want from this world but do not yet know how to name.” -- Jennifer C. Nash, author of * Birthing Black Mothers *“In its deep engagements with the three movements of its title, Black Trans Feminism is a very exciting book to read, digest, and think through. Marquis Bey’s focus on fugitivity and the elastic category of the fugitive stealing themself back is a highly salient and timely conceptual offering, and I’m astonished by the clarity, precision, and deep-digging that Bey brings to the material. Those working at the interstices of Black trans feminism need this gift of manifest lucidity to reference, teach, and expound on.” -- Eliza Steinbock, author of * Shimmering Images: Trans Cinema, Embodiment, and the Aesthetics of Change *“Black Trans Feminism constitutes an incisive critique and interrogation of the very grammars of gender normativity. . . . With this project, he attempts to reconfigure how we understand kinship, blackness, transness and Black feminism in order to establish a coalition that can be understood as a broadening of kinship network relationalities, affinities and affiliations.” -- Marietta Kosma * European Journal of American Culture *"Bey’s work is an important contribution to the conversations surrounding race, transgender identity, and feminist praxis, providing a hopeful mode for reimagining our world and ourselves. . . . Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty." -- D. E. Magill * Choice *“Black Trans Feminism is a deep philosophical and literary exploration of Black trans feminism. . . . The book offers critical and imaginative visions of gender radical and abolitionist futures. Bey tell us how we can possibly get there with a sense of hope that is so rare in academic writing.” -- Nishant Upadhyay * American Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Abolition, Gender Radicality 1 Part 1 1. Black, Trans, Feminism 37 2. Fugitivity, Un/gendered 66 3. Trans/figurative, Blackness 88 Part 2 4. Feminist, Fugitivity 115 5. Questioned, Gendered 145 6. Trigger, Rebel 175 Conclusion: Hope, Fugitive 199 Notes 229 Bibliography 263 Index 283

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Book SynopsisMarlon B. Ross explores the figure of the sissy as central to how Americans have imagined, articulated, and negotiated black masculinity from the 1880s to the present.Trade Review“In this remarkable work of African American intellectual history, Marlon B. Ross refuses to allow the sloppy modes of thought that have us tripping over the distinction between gender conduct and sexual orientation. He is vigilant about the matter of maintaining a distinction between the sissy and the homosexual. This long-overdue study will have a very large impact on queer studies, masculinity studies, and African American studies.” -- Robert F. Reid-Pharr, author of * Archives of Flesh: African America, Spain, and Post-humanist Critique *“Sissy Insurgencies is a model of careful historical and literary analysis from a scholar who has made an indelible mark on masculinity studies, black studies, and queer of color critique. Ambitious and far reaching in scope, this book is a stunning work of sissy insurgent genius.” -- C. Riley Snorton, author of * Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity *"Including considerations of and references to works by Richard Wright, Langston Hughes, and Amiri Baraka, among others, Sissy Insurgencies is as much a provocative literary study of African-American fiction and autobiography as it is an examination of the role of the sissy in Black and mainstream American culture." -- Reginald Harris * Gay and Lesbian Review *Table of ContentsPreamble. Sissies Everywhere ix 1. Can the Sissy Be Insurgent? 1 2. Sissy Housekeeping: Cleanliness, Gender Dissonance, and the Spoils of Political Patronage at Washington's Tuskegee 51 3. Un/fit Manliness: Evading Masculine Brutality in James Weldon Johnson's Sissy Narratives 111 4. Baldwin's Sissy Heroics 165 5. Sissy but Not Gay: Anatomy of the Post-Civil Rights Straight Black Sissy 233 6. Gay but Not Sissy: Race and the Queering of the Professional Athlete 283 Postscript. Whatever Happened or Will Happen to the Sissy-Boy? 343 Notes 349 Bibliography 403 Index 433

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Book SynopsisAlexandra T. Vazquez listens to the music and history of Miami to explore the city's sonic cultures and its material and social realities.Trade Review“Alexandra T. Vazquez’s bold, brilliant, and refreshingly unconventional meditation on sonic placemaking in Florida is fearless and groundbreaking. Compressing the deep, wide, and volatile politics and poetics of the global South into a focused exploration of the “Sunshine State,” The Florida Room reminds readers of what daring, innovative, and challenging theory looks and sounds like. This luminous book opens up our notions of what counts as theory as well as who gets identified as theorists.” -- Daphne A. Brooks, author of * Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound *“Not only does The Florida Room come to us at just the right time in the history of Miami cultures, it arrives from a scholar who is a great interpreter of the interplay between music, performance, and the social. Alexandra T. Vazquez amasses an archive of fascinating materials, listens to them in every sense for what they say about themselves and that which circulates around them, and accounts for that creativity and thought in prose that is virtuosic and open to surprises. This singular book is a true gift.” -- Antonio López, author of * Unbecoming Blackness: The Diaspora Cultures of Afro-Cuban America *"As Vazquez identifies unexpected resonances and collaborations—snaking her way through singer Betty Wright, the Indigenous rock group Tiger Tiger, and Miami bass’s Luke Skyywalker Records—her prose is lively and darting, as if refusing to let a central narrative congeal. It's a loving and rich account of somewhere that exists both in real life and the imagination, too abundant to be contained." -- Cat Zhang * PItchfork, Best Music Books of 2022 *Table of ContentsPreface. Head for the Beach ix 1. The Florida Room 1 2. Miami from the Spoils 46 3. Drums Take Time 81 4. Bass is the Place 117 Afterword 156 Acknowledgments 159 Notes 165 Bibliography 203 Index 215

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Book SynopsisMary Pat Brady traces the figure of the captive and cast-off child over 150 years of Latinx/Chicanx literature as a critique of colonial modernity and the forms of confinement that underpin racialized citizenship.Trade Review“With its equally lyrical and incisive political commentary, Scales of Captivity rigorously explores how the (re)production of the US settler colonial racial state depends upon both a monopoly on violence and a monopoly on movement. It makes a crucial, timely, and pathbreaking intervention into literary and cultural studies, immigration studies, political geography, and ethnic, gender, and sexuality studies.” -- Kirstie A. Dorr, author of * On Site, In Sound: Performance Geographies in América Latina *“Mary Pat Brady has written a multilayered, bracing study with deep historical roots and startling contemporary resonance. She reanimates questions of citizenship and exclusion at the heart of Chicanx/Latinx studies, while simultaneously uncovering the inextricability of childhood, queer politics, and acts of witnessing. Brilliantly argued and compellingly written, this stellar work is the guidebook we desperately need to make sense of endlessly shifting borders and boundaries.” -- Richard T. Rodríguez, author of * Next of Kin: The Family in Chicano/a Cultural Politics *“As ambitious as it is thorough, Scales of Captivity scours over 150 years of philosophical, political, and literary history, supplying the reader with fascinating and pertinent insights into the creation and maintenance of the complex racial/social hierarchies that currently exist throughout the US-Mexican border complex. . . . The counter-theories that Brady offers to combat these systems of oppression are even more provocative, making it a must read for anyone seriously interested in border issues.” -- Chandler R. Thompson * Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies *"Scholars of western American literature will find in Scales of Captivity a historically aware sketch of 175 years of the central role of capture in building Spanish/Mexican/US sovereignty in the West, as well as nuanced close readings of a broad selection of Latine cultural production situated in the region—which, Brady’s analyses remind us, has always been many regions." -- Sarah J. Ropp * Western American Literature *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. The Scalar Lien 1 1. Captivating Ties: On Children without Childhoods 37 2. Plausible Deniability: Pursuing the Traces of Captivity 79 3. Submerged Captivities: Moving toward Queer Horizontality 119 4. N + 1: Sex and the Hypervisible (Invisible) Migrant 153 5. Misplaced: Peopling a Deportation Imaginary 197 Conclusion. Density's Resistance to Scale 239 Notes 249 Bibliography 275 Index 293

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Book SynopsisTodd Carmody explores how the idea that work is inherently meaningful was reinforced and tasked to those who lived on the margins and needed assistance during nineteenth-century America.Trade Review"Work Requirements is a creative, persuasive, and well-crafted analysis of the representational labor undergirding our “work society”. It is essential reading for anyone seeking to contest this mode of social organization." -- Karen M. Tani * International Journal of Social History *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Signs Taken for Work 1 1. The Pensioner’s Claim 33 2. The Beggar’s Case 74 3. The Work of the Image 119 4. Institutional Rhythms 172 Coda. Remaking Reciprocity 214 Acknowledgments 221 Notes 225 Bibliography 289 Index 315

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Book SynopsisShannen Dee Williams provides a comprehensive history of Black Catholic nuns in the United States, tracing how Black sisters’ struggles were central to the long African American freedom movement.Trade Review“Deeply researched, elegantly written, and boldly argued, Subversive Habits is a brilliant excavation of the long political history of Black nuns. This is extraordinary scholarship that is as accessible as it is groundbreaking and illuminating. This timely and essential book widens the frames of Black women’s history, of religion and activism, and of Black Catholicism.” -- Barbara D. Savage, author of * Your Spirits Walk beside Us: The Politics of Black Religion *“Sweeping in its scope, exhaustively researched, and balanced in presentation,Subversive Habits is a seminal history of Black Catholic Nuns and their struggle for equality and justice in the Catholic Church.” -- Bettye Collier-Thomas, author of * Jesus, Jobs, and Justice: African American Women and Religion *"An awe-inspiring history book about Black nuns who fought for freedom and equality. . . . Subversive Habits is a stirring history text about the remarkable faith and conviction of Black nuns in America." -- Melissa Wuske * Foreword *(Starred Review) "Informative and often surprising, this should be required reading for scholars of Catholic and African American religious history and will undoubtedly become the standard text on its subject." * Publishers Weekly *"The 'uncommon faithfulness' of the nuns in Subversive Habits—taking the church at its word when it teaches that we are all one body—is a model of discipleship from which all Catholics can learn." -- Kathleen Manning * U.S. Catholic *"Shannen Williams's book chronicles the bold steps and persistence African-American sisters took to debunk their rejection by white orders that insisted Black women lacked souls and/or virtue suitable to be admitted to them. . . . This outstanding book, Subversive Habits, is well-researched, quite revealing and a set of history and reality lessons of how Black sisters kept the faith and made the Catholic Church change." -- Ralph E. Moore, Jr. * The AFRO *"This eye-opening, inspiring and thoroughly researched book unearths a history that few Americans know: the challenges and triumphs of Black Catholic nuns in the United States. It’s one of the most exciting new books in Black women’s history and powerfully captures the interconnections between race, religion and politics." -- Keisha Blain * Politico *"Subversive Habits demands a committed reader. However, it will reward the resilient and open-minded reader with apokalupsis—tremendous learning about the scope of racism throughout the American Catholic Church as well as the witness of these Black Catholic women and their contributions to the church and the world. Please take up the reading and stick with it. Draw some perseverance from the women the book depicts and take heart in their commitment to justice." -- Kevin Spinale * America *"Subversive Habits brings a very necessary balance to histories published in recent decades that focus on civil rights work by Catholics. It seems these historians were writing about the exception and not the norm. This is the story of courageous nuns, including those who felt they couldn't remain any longer, who are the true gems of American Catholic history. Every woman religious must read this book." -- Laura Swan * Magistra *"In Subversive Habits, historian Williams has given us a remarkable work of scholarship, one that may be distressing for many readers because she clears away any shred of doubt about the U.S. Catholic Church being racist from its very beginnings." -- Kathleen Finley * The Tablet *"I have never read a more thoughtful account of the Black Catholic experience than Shannen Dee Williams’ Subversive Habits. Williams’ book is a revelatory history of the experiences of Black religious women in understanding race, faith, and change in the Catholic church from the antebellum period through the various waves of civil-rights struggle to the contemporary era." -- Marcia Chatelain * Chronicle of Higher Education * "Williams seeks to tell the story of these women and of the Black and majority white sisterhoods in which they participated. The account is well documented, and Williams includes a look at the current departures of Black sisters from religious life and considers the likely future of Black female religious communities. Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty, and professionals." -- L. H. Hoyle * Choice *"Williams's book is the go-to work on Black women religious in the United States during and in the afterlife of slavery. Future scholars, practitioners, and interlocutors are indebted to this brilliant author for the treasure trove she has gifted us." -- Ahmad Greene-Hayes * Journal of Southern History *Table of ContentsAbbreviations ix Note on Terminology xiii Preface: Bearing Witness to a Silenced Past xv Acknowledgments xix Introduction. America’s Forgotten Black Freedom Fighters 1 1. Our Sole Wish Is to Do the Will of God: The Early Struggles of Black Catholic Sisters in the United States 23 2. Nothing Is Too Good for the Youth of Our Race: The Fight for Black-Administered Catholic Education during Jim Crow 61 3. Is the Order Catholic Enough? The Struggle to Desegregate White Sisterhoods after World War II 103 4. I Was Fired Up to Go to Selma: Black Sisters, the Second Vatican Council, and the Fight for Civil Rights 134 5. Liberation Is Our First Priority: Black Nuns and Black Power 167 6. No Schools, No Churches! The Fight to Save Black Catholic Education in the 1970s 200 7. The Future of the Black Catholic Nun Is Dubious: African American Sisters in the Age of Church Decline 231 Conclusion. The Catholic Church Wouldn't Be Catholic If It Wasn’t for Us 259 Glossary 271 Notes 273 Bibliography 345 Index 371

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Book SynopsisThe contributors to this volume examine the artistic practice of Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, whose innovative art and urgent engagement with a range of pressing contemporary issues mark her as one of the most vital artists of our time.Trade Review"With the publication of the important book . . . art lovers are treated to a full account of the life, creative processes, vision, and accomplishments of a great Latina artist. . . . The editors . . . have greatly enhanced our knowledge of an important American artist of craft and fine arts." -- Ricardo Romo * Latinos in America *"It is a joy to see Jimenez Underwood’s work as a teacher addressed and to read about her influence on students. Essays are supported by excellent images and a strong introduction. A significant notes section points to additional research. This excellent resource will be good for courses that expand on the understandings of textile art and art history. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; professionals." -- L. L. Kriner * Choice *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations xi Preface. The Art of Necessity / Luis Valdez xv Acknowledgments xvii Introduction / Laura E. Pérez and Ann Marie Leimer 1 I. Spinning—Making Thread 1. The Hands of Consuelo Jimenez Underwood: A Filmmaker's Reflections / Carol Sauvion 25 2. Charged Objects: The Multivalent Fiber Art of Consuelo Jimenez Underwood / Christine Laffer 35 II. Weaving—Hand Work 3. History/Whose-Story? Postcoloniality and Contemporary Chicana Art / Constance Cortez 53 4. A Tear in the Curtain: Hilos y Cultura in the Art of Consuelo Jimenez Underwood / Amalia Mesa-Bains 71 5. Prayers for the Planet: Reweaving the Natural and the Social—Consuelo Jimenez Underwood's Welcome to Flower-Landia / Laura E. Pérez 80 6. Consuelo Jimenez Underwood: Welcome to Flower-Landia / María Ester Fernández 91 7. Between the Lines: Documenting Consuelo Jimenez Underwood's Fiber Pathways / Emily Zaiden 100 8. Flags, the Sacred, and a Different America in Consuelo Jimenez Underwood's Fiber Art / Clara Román-Odio 111 9. Garments for the Goddess of the Américas: The American Dress Triptych / Ann Marie Leimer 123 10. Space, Place, and Belonging in Borderlines: Countermapping in the Art of Consuelo Jimenez Underwood / Karen Mary Davalos 142 11. Decolonizing Aesthetics in Mexican and Xicana Fiber Art: The Art of Consuelo Jimenez Underwood and Georgina Santos / Cristina Serna 161 12. Reading Our Mothers: Decolonization and Cultural Identity in Consuelo Jimenez Underwood's Rebozos for Our Mothers / Carmen Febles 181 13. Weaving Water: Toward an Indigenous Method of Self- and Community Care / Jenell Navarro 198 III. Off the Loom—Into the World 14. Consuelo Jimenez Underwood: Artist, Educator, and Advocate / Robert Milnes 221 15. Being Chicanx Studies: Lessons for Racial Justice from the Work and Life of Consuelo Jimenez Underwood / Marcus Pizarro 239 16. Blue Río Tapestries / Verónica Reyes 244 Notes 261 Bibliography 290 Contributors 304 Index 311

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Book SynopsisKaysha Corinealdi traces the multigenerational activism of Afro-Caribbean Panamanians as they forged diasporic communities in Panama and the United States throughout the twentieth century.Trade Review"A widely appealing and valuable addition to diaspora studies, Central American and Caribbean historiography, and scholarly understandings of how individuals and groups navigate belonging in and beyond the nation." -- Elizabeth Manley * The Americas *"Panama in Black uncovers the complexities of Afro-Caribbean Panamanian identity across class, gender, and generational lines. Corinealdi’s account of Afro-diasporic world making reveals an ongoing practice in which Afro-Caribbean migrants shaped ideas of citizenship on the isthmus and throughout the Americas. As a result, this book is essential reading for those interested in the history of Caribbean migrations, the African diaspora, the Canal Zone, Panamanian nation formation, and citizenship in Latin America." -- Takkara Brunson * H-Caribbean *"Panama in Black demonstrates some of the reasons researchers, including myself, were drawn to these immigrants and their descendants. . . . I salute Kaysha Corinealdi for this latest addition to the bookshelf and look forward to more." -- Michael Conniff * ReVista *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction. Legacies of Exclusion and Afro-Caribbean Diasporic World Making 1 1. Panama as Diaspora: Documenting Afro-Caribbean Panamanian Histories, 1928–1936 29 2. Activist Formations: Fighting for Citizenship Rights and Forging Afro-Diasporic Alliances, 1940–1950 57 3. Todo por la Patria: Diplomacy, Anticommunism, and the Rhetoric of Assimilation, 1950–1954 93 4. To Be Panamanian: The Canal Zone, Nationalist Sacrifices, and the Price of Citizenship, 1954–1961 122 5. Panama in New York: Las Servidoras and Engendering an Educated Black Diaspora, 1953–1970 150 Conclusion. Afro-Caribbean Panamanians and the Future of Diasporic World Making 180 Notes 195 Bibliography 233 Index 253

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Book SynopsisThe contributors to The Pandemic Divide analyze and explain the myriad racial disparities that came to the forefront of the COVID-19 pandemic while highlighting what steps could have been taken to mitigate its impact.Trade Review"Required, essential reading for Americans trying to reconcile their pandemic experiences." (starred review) -- Tina Panik * Library Journal *"The Pandemic Divide should appeal to anyone with an interest in social and cultural politics, and moreover policy. In a world that is continually racialised and then derided for being so, this book is an urgent reminder of how deep rooted systems operate in sinister ways to continually exploit, undermine, and undervalue whole swathes of the population." -- Georgia Bisbas * Lancet Infections Diseases *"Disturbing but proactive...." -- Andrew Robinson * Nature *"Wright, Hubbard, and Darity offer compelling sociological, economic, and epidemiological data to show that that structural racism has undeniable consequences on the health and mortality of racial and ethnic minorities. The Pandemic Divide is a useful text for students, educators, and researchers to understand why the COVID-19 pandemic impacted certain populations more than others." -- Gwenetta Curry * Ethnic and Racial Studies *Table of ContentsA Note on Terminology ix Foreword / Mary T. Bassett xi Introduction. Six Feet and Miles Apart: Structural Racism in the United States and Racially Disparate Outcomes during the COVID-19 Pandemic / Lucas Hubbard, Gwendolyn L. Wright, and William A. Darity Jr. 1 Section I: COVID-19 in Context 1. How Systemic Racism and Preexisting Conditions Contributed to COVID-19 Disparities for Black Americans / Keisha L. Bentley-Edwards, Melissa J. Scott, and Paul A. Robbins 29 2. Labor History and Pandemic Response: The Overlapping Experiences of Work, Housing, and Neighborhood Conditions / Joe William Trotter Jr. 46 Section II: COVID-19 and Institutions 3. “God Is in Control”: Race, Religion, Family, and Community during the COVID-19 Pandemic / Sandra L. Barnes 69 4. COVID-19, Race, and Mass Incarceration / Arvind Krishnamurthy 87 Section III: COVID-19 and Financial Disparities 5. Housing, Student Debt, and Labor Market Inequality: COVID-19, Black Families/Households, and Financial Insecurity / Fenaba R. Addo and Adam Hollowell 111 6. Race, Entrepreneurship, and COVID-19: Black Small-Business Survival in Prepandemic and Postpandemic America / Henry Clay McKoy Jr. 129 7. COVID-19 Effects on Black Business-Owner Households / Chris Wheat, Fiona Greig,and Damon Jones 186 8. Closing Racial Economic Gaps during and after COVID-19 / Jane Dokko and Jung Sakong 210 Section IV: COVID-19 and Educational Disparities 9. Latinx Immigrant Parents and Their Children in Times of COVID-19: Facing Inequities Together in the “Mexican Room” of the New Latino South / Marta Sánchez, Melania DiPietro, Leslie Babinski, Steve Amendum, and Steven Knotek 231 10. COVID-19, Higher Education, and Social Inequality / Adam Hollowell and N. Joyce Payne 256 11. The Rebirth of K-12 Public Education: Postpandemic Opportunities / Kristen R. Stephens, Kisha N. Daniels, and Erica R. Phillips 276 Postscript: COVID-19 and the Path Forward / Eugene T. Richardson 295 Contributors 301 Index 307

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Book SynopsisMelding memoir with cultural criticism, Richard T. Rodríguez examines the relationship between British post-punk musicians like Siouxsie and the Banshees, Adam Ant, and Pet Shop Boys and their Latinx audiences in the United States since the 1980s.Trade Review"This at-once scholarly and personal book is a moving tribute to the escapism and comfort that music can give to the most marginalized members of society: Rodríguez provides well-researched analysis of the influences on and of post-punk bands, in realms from racial politics to ethnic cultural dynamics, and also writes of his own experiences as a young fan searching for belonging. Rodríguez’s book successfully balances an intellectual understanding of the cultural ramifications of post-punk music with poignant and alluring background stories, appealing to scholars and fans alike." -- Lisa Henry * Library Journal *"In this part-memoir, part-ethnography of England and SoCal in the 1980s, author Rodríguez, a professor of media and cultural studies and English at UC Riverside, investigates what binds these two seemingly disparate cultures. Starting with his own tween-age fandom of Boy George and the Culture Club, Rodríguez plumbs the depths of the passionate, sometimes tainted love affair between British post-punks and the Latinos who worship at their altar." -- Suzy Exposito * Los Angeles Times *"Extremely well written and researched the book is a fantastic exploration into the wider reaches of UK post-punk and compulsive reading for those with an interest in subculture studies and the post-punk scene itself." -- Lee Powell * Vive Le Rock *"Rodríguez could’ve easily ripped into a press corps that still largely thinks Latinos only listen to Spanish-language music backed by either accordions or congas. He does critique them but limits the bile in favor of a warm, poignant memoir-analysis, which he writes is 'animated by a deep investigative labor propelled by fannish investment.'" -- GustavoArellano * Los Angeles Times *"An intriguing study of how music builds connections between different communities, and how pop desire translates over time and space." -- Rob Sheffield * Rolling Stone *"Ultimately, Rodriguez’s book is a tribute to the music that not only provided a soundtrack to his teenage years but also enabled him to navigate his way through the thorny questions of identity." -- Gilbert Garcia * San Antonio Express-News *"Tender, wry, delicate, and rich, A Kiss across the Ocean is a love letter to the theatrically potent musical and visual gestures of the artists and bands of the British postpunk scene that made a difference in the mid-1980s and continue to do so today, even when people may have forgotten some of the bands’ names." -- Caridad Svich * Theatre Survey *"In seven short chapters, the author’s intertwining of autobiography and a deeply researched history is a winning approach for articulating the equally intertwined friendships, influence and politics of British post-punk and Latin American cultures." -- Maria Elena Buszek * Punk & Post-Punk *"The book is valuable in furthering a grasp of the deeply nuanced cultural hybridity, orientation and style sensibilities that have informed U.S. Latinx life from its very beginnings, and how this community has in turn been pivotal in determining artistic output beyond our borders and into the mainstream. . . . , Rodriguez opens up vistas from personal experience and lifelong research to chart dizzying connections across fandom, fantasy and friendships, showing influences from Latinos on both U.S. coasts on recording artists who received and processed Latinx culture in tandem with their trans-Atlantic careers." -- Benjamin Ortiz * New Lines Magazine *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix A Kiss Across the Ocean: An Introduction 1 1. Red over White 27 2. Touching Prince Charming 48 3. Darker Entries 67 4. The Shining Sinners 85 5. Zoot Suits and Secondhand Knowledge 104 6. Mexican Americanos 128 7. Latin/o American Party 147 Conclusion. Dedicated to the One I Love 164 Notes 175 References 207 Index 231

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Book SynopsisJovan Scott Lewis retells the history and afterlife of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre and its century-long legacy of dispossession, placing it in a larger historical and social context of widespread anti-Black racism and segregation in Tulsa and beyond.Trade Review"Violent Utopia’s findings shed a searching light on Oklahoman history but are not limited to or by it. Whilst humble enough to only define itself as a ‘minor contribution’ to the reparations movement, Violent Utopia’s great strength is an analytical dexterity that studiously balances the dialectical dance of anti-Black violence and Black freedom dreams." -- Thomas Cryer * LSE Review of Books *“This thought-provoking book is worth reading. It shows that much can be learned from studying Black communities from a critical race perspective.” -- Robert L. Boyd * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"Skillfully incorporates the tools of geography, ethnography, and history to investigate issues surrounding reparations and what they might accomplish for the African American community. . . . Highly recommended. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals." * Choice *"Lewis's Violent Utopia offers a fresh and nuanced perspective on the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and its legacies. ... The book is a stellar ethnohistorical model for scholars." -- Jajuan Johnson * Journal of Southern History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Violence 21 2. Inheritance 55 3. Restoration 93 4. Repair 131 5. Territory 174 Conclusion 210 Notes 223 Bibliography 239 Index 251

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