Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Books
Duke University Press Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness Memoir of a
Book SynopsisIn this moving memoir Jane Lazarre, a white Jewish mother, describes her experience being married to an African American man and raising two sons as she learns, from family experience, teaching, and her studies, about the realities of racism in America.Trade Review"A terrifically courageous piece of work. I cannot think of another text written by a white woman that is like it, and I cannot imagine one that would address these complex issues with greater lucidity, grace, intelligence, and love." -- Claire Bond Potter"[Lazarre] . . . moves the reader. . . . When she writes, 'I wish I could become Black for my sons,' she delves straight into the heart of her dilemma." -- Helen Schulman * Elle *"A compassionate, compelling outpouring of anecdotal family stories and confessionals . . . that fine-tune the reader's awareness to racism in everyday life. Lazarre's voice is artful and measured, like a friend's, and her prose is thick with images . . . Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness provides substantial food for thought for both white and black perspectives on the murky issue of race in America." * Publishers Weekly *"A novelist, essayist, and teacher, Lazarre presents her troubling but clear-eyed vision of her life and times with incisiveness and grace." -- John Gregory Brown * Chicago Tribune *"[A] compelling story of one mother's honest efforts to reach across the chasm between black and white America to comfort and guide her sons as they navigate their way to adulthood and self-sufficiency." -- Gregory Howard Williams * Los Angeles Times Book Review *"Lazarre cuts close to the bone in this penetrating 'story of the education of an American woman.'" -- Mary Carroll * Booklist *"The inimitable eloquence of Lazarre's Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness defies facile summation." -- Kwame Okoampahoofe Jr. * New York Amsterdam News *"This insightful Jewish mother opens our eyes to the pervasiveness of racism in our culture—a reality that Jews and other whites can easily ignore." -- Rabbi Rachel Cowan author of * Mixed Blessings: Marriage between Christians and Jews *"A beautifully written, deeply thoughtful journey into the worlds of self and other." * Kirkus Reviews *"[An] illuminating book . . . Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness offer[s] invaluable insights not just for those working to raise children in biracial families, but for all who would like to understand the notion of whiteness in order to see beyond it and reach for fairness." -- Boyd Zenner * Women's Review of Books *"This is a passionate, provocative, and moving narrative that should be on every American's reading list. Jane Lazarre writes from an angle of vision that seems completely missing from the fractured and deeply troubled discourse about race in America. Her honesty and courage in telling this story is as instructive as it is praiseworthy, compelling us to think and feel differently." -- Sekou Sundiata author of * The Circle is Unbroken Is a Hard Bop *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Preface to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition xiii Prologue xxvii 1. The Richmond Museum of the Confederacy 1 2. Color Blind: The Whiteness of Whiteness 21 3. Passing Over 53 4. Reunions, Retellings, Refrains 99 5. A Color with No Precise Name 125 Notes 137
£86.70
Duke University Press Hope Draped in Black
Book SynopsisIn Hope Draped in Black Joseph R. Winters responds to the belief that America follows a constant trajectory of racial progress, using African American literature and film to construct an idea of hope that embraces melancholy in order to acknowledge and mourn America's traumatic history.Trade Review"In lucid prose and with a fluid grasp of diverse cultural text ... Winters demonstrates how a central strain of the black cultural tradition has been to disrupt the narrative of progress.... Against historians who simply cast racial progress as historically inaccurate and posit more cyclical theories of history (that the past recurs in unexpected ways), Winters powerfully contends that progress-talk helps keep injustice in place, creating the justification for collective moral apathy toward racial violence and a disregard for radical racial disparities—all in the name of their eventual eradication." -- Alex Zamalin * Political Theory *"Groundbreaking. . . . Sure to be referenced by scholars for many years to come." -- Chanté Baker Martin * Journal of Southern History *"The power of Hope Draped in Black is its reenergizing of the critiques of progress narratives, racial uplift discourse, and black respectability." -- Margo Natalie Crawford * American Literary History *"Hope Draped in Black skillfully interweaves insightful arguments with theory, literature, and other aesthetic forms. . . . Strikingly relevant, and [an] important contribution to the American political imagination." -- Bianca Borrero-Barreras * Journal of the North Carolina Association of Historians *"This is a very good book that is well worth reading. It does an excellent job of charting, in the words of the subtitle, 'the agony of progress.' . . . The concept of melancholic hope is jarring, anomalous, uncanny, and discomfiting. This, precisely, is its aim and virtue." -- William David Hart * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *"Vibrant, analytically rich, and deeply rewarding to read. . . . At heart, Hope Draped in Black exhibits a rare type of intellectual integrity and bravery." -- Jonathon S. Kahn * Callaloo *"Winters has produced a book that speaks to the past century of black religious life in the United States, while refusing to reduce that complex history to a single, simple theme." -- Marvin E. Wickware * Journal of Religion *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Unreconciled Strivings: Du Bois, the Seduction of Optimism, and the Legacy of Sorrow 31 2. Unhopeful but Not Hopeless: Melancholic Interpretations of Progress and Freedom 57 3. Hearing the Breaks and Cuts of History: Ellison, Morrison, and the Uses of Literary Jazz 85 4. Reel Progress: Race, Film, and Cinematic Melancholy 137 5. Figures of the Postracial: Race, Nation, and Violence in the Age of Obama and Morrison 187 Conclusion 237 Notes 253 Select Bibliography 287 Index 297
£98.60
Duke University Press Exiled Home
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Exiled Home constitutes a timely and sophisticated scholarly piece that entails a thorough methodological discussion and makes for fascinating reading. By placing deportation within an institutional and policy context and considering the experiences of undocumented immigrants raised in or deported from the host country, the book complements an existing literature that is largely concerned with the reasons for migration, the situation of adult immigrants, and the impact of remittances. The work makes an impassioned plea to legalize youths who are US citizens in all but immigration status and should prove of interest in both academic and policy circles." -- Sonja Wolf * International Migration Review *"At a time when more people than ever are being displaced from their homelands, Coutin’s vivid, youth-centered analysis offers a potent and instructive understanding both of those who migrate and of those who are exiled home." -- Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz * American Anthropologist *"An illuminating example of how to effectively and creatively mesh theory with qualitative data. . . . A carefully crafted, humane portrayal of the broad-ranging and common experiences of Salvadoran migrant children living in the United States and those violently reinserted in El Salvador." -- Shirley A. Heying * Journal of Anthropological Research *"Exiled Home is a testament to many things—the importance of fieldwork, the significance of critical thought, the power of political participation—but the book also evidences the gift of longstanding ethnographic engagements." -- Kevin Lewis O'Neill * Anthropological Quarterly *"For anyone wishing to understand what is at stake with the cancelation of TPS and DACA, the proposed changes to make asylum even harder to get, or the waves of caravans coming out of Central America, [Exiled Home] is essential. It will be useful and timely for courses from any discipline on immigration as well as political and legal anthropology." -- Amelia Frank-Vitale * Border Criminologies *"Focusing on Salvadoran migration, the book not only shows that Central American migration to the US is not new, but also that Salvadorans’ migratory experience is characterized by different forms of violence and uncertainty that are not bounded to national territories or categories. Exiled Home contributes to understanding how Salvadoran youth migrants expand what it means to be Salvadoran and American." -- Lurio Gutiérrez Rivera * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *“Exiled Home is an invaluable text, in which Susan Bibler Coutin builds upon her decades of critical ethnographic engagement with the Salvadoran diaspora to produce a theoretically rich and textured analysis of the children and youth who migrated with their families to the United States during the Salvadoran civil war (1980-92).” -- Irina Carlota Silber * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Violence and Silence 21 2. Living in the Gap 55 3. Dreams 95 4. Exiled Home through Deportation 129 5. Biographies and Nations 165 Conclusion. Re/membering Exiled Homes 205 Appendix 227 Notes 231 References 241 Index 265
£25.19
Duke University Press Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness
Book SynopsisIn this moving memoir Jane Lazarre, a white Jewish mother, describes her experience being married to an African American man and raising two sons as she learns, from family experience, teaching, and her studies, about the realities of racism in America.Trade Review"A terrifically courageous piece of work. I cannot think of another text written by a white woman that is like it, and I cannot imagine one that would address these complex issues with greater lucidity, grace, intelligence, and love." -- Claire Bond Potter"[Lazarre] . . . moves the reader. . . . When she writes, 'I wish I could become Black for my sons,' she delves straight into the heart of her dilemma." -- Helen Schulman * Elle *"A compassionate, compelling outpouring of anecdotal family stories and confessionals . . . that fine-tune the reader's awareness to racism in everyday life. Lazarre's voice is artful and measured, like a friend's, and her prose is thick with images . . . Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness provides substantial food for thought for both white and black perspectives on the murky issue of race in America." * Publishers Weekly *"A novelist, essayist, and teacher, Lazarre presents her troubling but clear-eyed vision of her life and times with incisiveness and grace." -- John Gregory Brown * Chicago Tribune *"[A] compelling story of one mother's honest efforts to reach across the chasm between black and white America to comfort and guide her sons as they navigate their way to adulthood and self-sufficiency." -- Gregory Howard Williams * Los Angeles Times Book Review *"Lazarre cuts close to the bone in this penetrating 'story of the education of an American woman.'" -- Mary Carroll * Booklist *"The inimitable eloquence of Lazarre's Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness defies facile summation." -- Kwame Okoampahoofe Jr. * New York Amsterdam News *"This insightful Jewish mother opens our eyes to the pervasiveness of racism in our culture—a reality that Jews and other whites can easily ignore." -- Rabbi Rachel Cowan author of * Mixed Blessings: Marriage between Christians and Jews *"A beautifully written, deeply thoughtful journey into the worlds of self and other." * Kirkus Reviews *"[An] illuminating book . . . Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness offer[s] invaluable insights not just for those working to raise children in biracial families, but for all who would like to understand the notion of whiteness in order to see beyond it and reach for fairness." -- Boyd Zenner * Women's Review of Books *"This is a passionate, provocative, and moving narrative that should be on every American's reading list. Jane Lazarre writes from an angle of vision that seems completely missing from the fractured and deeply troubled discourse about race in America. Her honesty and courage in telling this story is as instructive as it is praiseworthy, compelling us to think and feel differently." -- Sekou Sundiata author of * The Circle is Unbroken Is a Hard Bop *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Preface to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition xiii Prologue xxvii 1. The Richmond Museum of the Confederacy 1 2. Color Blind: The Whiteness of Whiteness 21 3. Passing Over 53 4. Reunions, Retellings, Refrains 99 5. A Color with No Precise Name 125 Notes 137
£22.79
Duke University Press Hope Draped in Black
Book SynopsisIn Hope Draped in Black Joseph R. Winters responds to the belief that America follows a constant trajectory of racial progress, using African American literature and film to construct an idea of hope that embraces melancholy in order to acknowledge and mourn America's traumatic history.Trade Review"In lucid prose and with a fluid grasp of diverse cultural text ... Winters demonstrates how a central strain of the black cultural tradition has been to disrupt the narrative of progress.... Against historians who simply cast racial progress as historically inaccurate and posit more cyclical theories of history (that the past recurs in unexpected ways), Winters powerfully contends that progress-talk helps keep injustice in place, creating the justification for collective moral apathy toward racial violence and a disregard for radical racial disparities—all in the name of their eventual eradication." -- Alex Zamalin * Political Theory *"Groundbreaking. . . . Sure to be referenced by scholars for many years to come." -- Chanté Baker Martin * Journal of Southern History *"The power of Hope Draped in Black is its reenergizing of the critiques of progress narratives, racial uplift discourse, and black respectability." -- Margo Natalie Crawford * American Literary History *"Hope Draped in Black skillfully interweaves insightful arguments with theory, literature, and other aesthetic forms. . . . Strikingly relevant, and [an] important contribution to the American political imagination." -- Bianca Borrero-Barreras * Journal of the North Carolina Association of Historians *"This is a very good book that is well worth reading. It does an excellent job of charting, in the words of the subtitle, 'the agony of progress.' . . . The concept of melancholic hope is jarring, anomalous, uncanny, and discomfiting. This, precisely, is its aim and virtue." -- William David Hart * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *"Vibrant, analytically rich, and deeply rewarding to read. . . . At heart, Hope Draped in Black exhibits a rare type of intellectual integrity and bravery." -- Jonathon S. Kahn * Callaloo *"Winters has produced a book that speaks to the past century of black religious life in the United States, while refusing to reduce that complex history to a single, simple theme." -- Marvin E. Wickware * Journal of Religion *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Unreconciled Strivings: Du Bois, the Seduction of Optimism, and the Legacy of Sorrow 31 2. Unhopeful but Not Hopeless: Melancholic Interpretations of Progress and Freedom 57 3. Hearing the Breaks and Cuts of History: Ellison, Morrison, and the Uses of Literary Jazz 85 4. Reel Progress: Race, Film, and Cinematic Melancholy 137 5. Figures of the Postracial: Race, Nation, and Violence in the Age of Obama and Morrison 187 Conclusion 237 Notes 253 Select Bibliography 287 Index 297
£25.19
Duke University Press The Rise of the American Conservation Movement
Book SynopsisIn this sweeping social history Dorceta E. Taylor examines the emergence and rise of the multi-faceted conservation movement from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century, showing how race, class, and gender influenced its every aspect.Trade Review"This book counterbalances previous hagiographic portrayals of conservationists, examining and judging the past from the perspective of modern values but minimizing the contributions of scientists not part of the establishment. Nevertheless, the book should interest historians and naturalists. . . . Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty." -- J. S. Schwartz * Choice *"Taylor has produced an extremely helpful book that defines and contextualizes important laws, concepts, social groups, and people who participated, or were alienated by, the rising American conservation movement." -- Margaret DePond * Environmental History *"An important addition to the historiography of the American conservation movement. . . . [Taylor's] synthesis of the ideas of the conservation movement, and the depth that she adds with her discussions of race and exclusion, in particular, make this work an important one for an understanding of the environmental history of the United States." -- Kimberly A. Jarvis * Journal of Social History *"Taylor accomplishes a transformative feat of scholarship. . . . She has authored a book that challenges the dominant interpretive frameworks of the field of environmental history and deserves a central place in introductory and ntermediate environmental courses. Just as importantly, she illuminates the overlapping historical roots of our present environmental predicament." -- Jennifer Thomson * Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era *"An ambitious book. . . . A useful reference to anyone interested in environmental protection, and particularly its social dimensions, during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries." -- Joshua M. Nygren * Agricultural History *"Covers an astonishing range of topics. . . . [M]any of [Taylor's] profiles are fascinating and significant in bringing new characters and elements into the mix of America’s conservation record." -- David Havlick * American Historical Review *"A well-written book. . . . Exceptional both in the manner of presentation and scope." -- Nathaniel Umukoro * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"A wide-ranging work, invoking numerous themes and moving in many different directions. . . . A valuable contribution to the field by opening new areas of inquiry as to how the confluences of class, race and gender can inform both environmental and social history." -- Nathan Perz * History *"The Rise of the American Conservation Movement shines when women like Sacagawea are described in ways that explode myths of the supposedly inherent connections among masculinity, ruggedness, and wilderness. . . . An excellent overview of the ACM." -- Robert Wengronowitz * International Sociology *"Dorceta E. Taylor’s book is a very useful corrective to the common focus on a few 'great' conservation heroes, such as Gifford Pinchot and Theodore Roosevelt. It is also pleasing to see the role of women acknowledged in a deeper and more satisfactory way than in previous syntheses, though Taylor rightly points out the masculinist domination of much of the conservation activity she calls a 'movement.' This book succeeds best as a powerful critique of conservation’s ethnocentrism and class dimensions." -- Ian Tyrrell * Journal of American Studies *"Taylor . . . highlights the effects of moralization on access to nature. She reveals the class, ethnoracial, and gender biases in these conservation movements and demonstrates their consequences: the exclusion of various minority populations and inequalities in the use and presence of, and public debate surrounding, natural resources." -- Hillary Angelo * Public Books *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I. The Impetus for Change 1. Key Concepts Informing Early Conservation Thought 9 2. Wealthy People and the City: An Ambivalent Relationship 32 Part II. Manliness, Womanhood, Wealth, and Sport 3. Wealth, Manliness, and Exploring the Outdoors: Racial and Gender Dynamics 51 4. Wealth, Women, and Outdoor Pursuits 83 5. People of Color: Access to and Control of Resources 109 Part III. Wildlife Protection 6. Sport Hunting, Scarcity, and Wildlife Protection 161 7. Blaming Women, Immigrants, and Minorities for Bird Destruction 189 8. Challenging Wildlife Regulations and Understanding the Business-Conservation Connections 224 Part IV. Gender, Wealth, and Forest Conservation 9. Rural Beautification and Forest Conservation: Gender, Class, and Corporate Dynamics 257 10. Preservation, Conservation, and Business Interests Collide 290 11. National Park Preservation, Racism, and Business Relations 328 12. Nation Building, Racial Exclusion, and the Social Construction of Wildlands 350 Conclusion 383 Notes 399 References 407 Index 465
£84.15
Duke University Press The Rise of the American Conservation Movement
Book SynopsisIn this sweeping social history Dorceta E. Taylor examines the emergence and rise of the multi-faceted conservation movement from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century, showing how race, class, and gender influenced its every aspect.Trade Review"This book counterbalances previous hagiographic portrayals of conservationists, examining and judging the past from the perspective of modern values but minimizing the contributions of scientists not part of the establishment. Nevertheless, the book should interest historians and naturalists. . . . Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty." -- J. S. Schwartz * Choice *"Taylor has produced an extremely helpful book that defines and contextualizes important laws, concepts, social groups, and people who participated, or were alienated by, the rising American conservation movement." -- Margaret DePond * Environmental History *"An important addition to the historiography of the American conservation movement. . . . [Taylor's] synthesis of the ideas of the conservation movement, and the depth that she adds with her discussions of race and exclusion, in particular, make this work an important one for an understanding of the environmental history of the United States." -- Kimberly A. Jarvis * Journal of Social History *"Taylor accomplishes a transformative feat of scholarship. . . . She has authored a book that challenges the dominant interpretive frameworks of the field of environmental history and deserves a central place in introductory and ntermediate environmental courses. Just as importantly, she illuminates the overlapping historical roots of our present environmental predicament." -- Jennifer Thomson * Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era *"An ambitious book. . . . A useful reference to anyone interested in environmental protection, and particularly its social dimensions, during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries." -- Joshua M. Nygren * Agricultural History *"Covers an astonishing range of topics. . . . [M]any of [Taylor's] profiles are fascinating and significant in bringing new characters and elements into the mix of America’s conservation record." -- David Havlick * American Historical Review *"A well-written book. . . . Exceptional both in the manner of presentation and scope." -- Nathaniel Umukoro * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"A wide-ranging work, invoking numerous themes and moving in many different directions. . . . A valuable contribution to the field by opening new areas of inquiry as to how the confluences of class, race and gender can inform both environmental and social history." -- Nathan Perz * History *"The Rise of the American Conservation Movement shines when women like Sacagawea are described in ways that explode myths of the supposedly inherent connections among masculinity, ruggedness, and wilderness. . . . An excellent overview of the ACM." -- Robert Wengronowitz * International Sociology *"Dorceta E. Taylor’s book is a very useful corrective to the common focus on a few 'great' conservation heroes, such as Gifford Pinchot and Theodore Roosevelt. It is also pleasing to see the role of women acknowledged in a deeper and more satisfactory way than in previous syntheses, though Taylor rightly points out the masculinist domination of much of the conservation activity she calls a 'movement.' This book succeeds best as a powerful critique of conservation’s ethnocentrism and class dimensions." -- Ian Tyrrell * Journal of American Studies *"Taylor . . . highlights the effects of moralization on access to nature. She reveals the class, ethnoracial, and gender biases in these conservation movements and demonstrates their consequences: the exclusion of various minority populations and inequalities in the use and presence of, and public debate surrounding, natural resources." -- Hillary Angelo * Public Books *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I. The Impetus for Change 1. Key Concepts Informing Early Conservation Thought 9 2. Wealthy People and the City: An Ambivalent Relationship 32 Part II. Manliness, Womanhood, Wealth, and Sport 3. Wealth, Manliness, and Exploring the Outdoors: Racial and Gender Dynamics 51 4. Wealth, Women, and Outdoor Pursuits 83 5. People of Color: Access to and Control of Resources 109 Part III. Wildlife Protection 6. Sport Hunting, Scarcity, and Wildlife Protection 161 7. Blaming Women, Immigrants, and Minorities for Bird Destruction 189 8. Challenging Wildlife Regulations and Understanding the Business-Conservation Connections 224 Part IV. Gender, Wealth, and Forest Conservation 9. Rural Beautification and Forest Conservation: Gender, Class, and Corporate Dynamics 257 10. Preservation, Conservation, and Business Interests Collide 290 11. National Park Preservation, Racism, and Business Relations 328 12. Nation Building, Racial Exclusion, and the Social Construction of Wildlands 350 Conclusion 383 Notes 399 References 407 Index 465
£23.39
Duke University Press Film Blackness
Book SynopsisMichael Boyce Gillespie shifts the ways we think about black film, seeing it not as the representation of the black experience, but as the visual negotiation between film as art and the social construction of race, as well as an interdisciplinary form that enacts black visual and expressive culture.Trade Review"This astonishingly comprehensive, compact book does nothing less than synthesize nearly the entirety of thought to date on black cinema, blackness in the cinema, and scholarship in this vital area of film studies. . . . Essential. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals." -- G. A. Foster * Choice *“A necessary book. Film Blackness gives us an inspired sense of a much-needed analysis of race in film, an analysis that has so far—true to form—eluded us.” -- Courtney R. Baker * Cinema Journal *“This book blew my mind.... Michael Boyce Gillespie’s Film Blackness sparks a necessary conversation about the art of Black film and its indefinable quality. He invites the reader to challenge themselves to perceive all Black film and art as individually distinct pieces of an endless puzzle of Blackness. Reader Meter: Five Stars." -- Mercedes K. Milner * Write or Die Chicks *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. We Insist: The Idea of Black Film 1 1. Reckless Eyeballing: Coonskin and the Racial Grotesque 17 2. Smiling Faces: Chameleon Street and Black Performativity 51 3. Voices Inside (Everything is Everything): Deep Cover and Modalities of Noir Blackness 83 4. Black Maybe: Medicine for Melancholy, Place, and Quiet Becoming 119 Coda. Destination Out 157 Notes 161 Bibliography 203 Index 223
£72.25
Duke University Press Third World Studies
Book SynopsisGary Y. Okihiro presents the intellectual history of the core ideas, concepts, methods, and theories of Third World studies—an academic field first proposed in 1968 that never existed—in order to provide tools for understanding power and ending oppression.Trade Review"Okihiro makes an exciting and innovative contribution to the scholarship on Third World studies by analysing a range of topics. It will make an excellent reading for anyone interested in the interplay between politics and framing of subjectivities and would be particularly useful for undergraduate and graduate courses on postcolonial studies, critical pedagogy and international politics." -- Ananya Sharma * Postcolonial Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Subjects 15 2. Nationalism 37 3. Imperialism 57 4. World-System 77 5. Education 93 6. Subjectification 107 7. Racial Formation 121 8. Social Formation 139 9. Syntheses 155 Notes 173 Bibliography 187 Index 201
£72.25
Duke University Press Waves of Knowing
Book SynopsisKarin Amimoto Ingersoll uses her concept of seascape epistemology to articulate an indigenous Hawaiian way of knowing founded on a sensorial, intellectual, and embodied literacy of the ocean that can provide the means for generating an alternative indigenous politics and ethics.Trade Review"Conveying the beauty and meaning of hee nalu to Hawaiians past and present, with water photos by her husband, Russell J. Amimoto, Waves of Knowing is an impassioned and informative call to surfers to be responsible to ourselves, our community and our shared, beloved sea." -- Mindy Pennybacker * Honolulu Star-Advertiser *"Despite the limitations of writing in the English language, Waves of Knowing is an elegant way of articulating an indigenous Hawaiian epistemology.... This book is a valuable contribution to the literature on indigenous methodology, and will also contribute to the growing literature in critical surf studies." -- Dina Gilio-Whitaker * Fourth World Journal *"Waves of Knowing is an intimate discussion of both external and internal realities found both in the politics of Hawaiʻi and within the author’s perception. Ingersoll eschews a colonial-variety, empirical world (knowledge without the nuance of dreams or intuition) and instead explores a dynamic, place-based, historic memory empowerment which becomes its own living archive. . . . Ingersoll works to re-code this fluid sensibility back into our thinking so feeling and emotion can respectfully re-enter our cognitive reality." -- Manulani Aluli Meyer * Indigenous Knowledge *“This beautifully written book makes a valuable contribution to articulating indigenous epistemologies, and offers concrete suggestions for how Kanaka Maoli ways of knowing can be translated into practices which empower indigenous and local knowledge and skills, affirm cultural identity, and care for both the land and seascapes.” -- Tui Nicola Clery * Pacific Affairs *"Waves of Knowing is an important contribution. . . . It helps us understand what has been lost but which is being recovered; it gives us insight into surfing and how new hybrid forms exist in the present but respect the past; and, most importantly, it helps give understanding of, and momentum to, ways of knowing our environment that provide critical alternatives to dominant epistemologies and the unsustainable and capricious economies they inform." -- John Overton * Asia Pacific Viewpoint *"As a methodological exploration into the ways in which personal history, cultural connectivity, imperial history, and commercialization of recreation can be woven through a story of encounters with (and in) a specific space, Waves of Knowing is a fascinating book." -- Philip Steinberg * Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography *"Although emphasized for practice-based or place-based education, the fields of philosophy, English, and history may also benefit from Ingersoll’s work, which is a brilliant example of an Indigenous way of knowing that is shaped from the epistemological complexity of the movement of the ocean through which insight into an ontologically formed Hawaiian identity is also provided." -- Amy Farrell-Morneau * Native American and Indigenous Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. He'e Nalu: Reclaiming Ke Kai 41 2. Oceanic Literacy: A Politics and an Ethics 79 3. Seascape Epistemology: Ke Kino and Movement 103 4. Ho'okele: Seascape Epistemology as an Embodied Voyage 127 5. Hālau O Ke Kai: Potential Applications of Seascape Epitemology 155 Epilogue 183 Notes 185 References 189 Index 197
£70.55
Duke University Press No Tea No Shade New Writings in Black Queer
Book SynopsisNo Tea, No Shade brings together nineteen essays from the next generation of black queer studies scholars, activists, and community leaders who build on the foundational work of black queer studies, pushing the field in new and exciting directions.Trade Review"No Tea, No Shade’s largest strength is its intimate relationship with its historical and theoretical origins: the text conjures up legends long ignored by white-dominated queer studies, including the Harlem Renaissance performer Gladys Bentley, the drag king MilDred, and Black Lace, a 90s-era erotic magazine by and for African-American lesbians." -- Sarah Fonseca * Lambda Literary Review *"This anthology captures a sense of daring potential. . . . Cogent and compelling." -- Jonathan Ward * European Journal of American Culture *Table of ContentsForeword / Cathy J. Cohen xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction / E. Patrick Johnson 1 1. Black/Queer Rhizomatics: Train Up a Child in the Way Ze Should Grow / Jafari S. Allen 27 2. The Whiter the Bread, the Quicker You're Dead: Spectacular Absence and Postracialized Blackness in (White) Queer Theory / Alison Reed 48 3. Troubling the Waters: Mobilizing a Trans*Analytic / Kai M. Green 65 4. Gender Trouble in Triton / C. Riley Snorton 83 5. Reggaetón's Crossings: Black Aesthetics, Latina Nightlife, and Queer Choreography / Ramón H. Rivera-Servera 95 6. Represent Freedom: Diaspora and the Meta-Queerness of Dub Theater / Lyndon K. Gill 113 7. To Transcender Transgender: Choreographers of Gender Fluidity in the Performances of MilDred Gerestant / Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley 131 8. Toward a Hemispheric Analysis of Black Lesbian Feminist Activism and Hip Hop Feminism: Artist Perspectives from Cuba and Brazil / Tanya Saunders 147 9. The Body Beautiful: Black Drag, American Cinema, and Heteroperpetually Ever After / La Marr Jurelle Bruce 166 10. Black Sissy Masculinity and the Politics of Dis-respectability / Kortney Ziegler 196 11. Let's Play: Exploring Cinematic Black Lesbian Fantasy, Pleasure, and Pain / Jennifer Declue 216 12. Black Gay (Raw) Sex / Marlon M. Bailey 239 13. Black Data / Shaka McGlotten 262 14. Boystown: Gay Neighborhoods, Social Media, and the (Re)production of Racism / Zachary Blair 287 15. Beyond the Flames: Queering the History of the 1968 D.C. Riot / Kwama Holmes 304 16. The Strangeness of Progress and the Uncertainty of Blackness / Treva Ellison 323 17. Re-membering Audre: Adding Lesbian Feminist Mother Poet to Black / Amber Jamilla Musser 346 18. On the Cusp of Deviance: Respectability Politics and the Cultural Marketplace of Sameness / Kaila Adia Story 362 19. Something Else to Be: Generations of Black Queer Brilliance and the Mobile Homecoming Experiential Archive / Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Julia Roxanne Wallace 380 Bibliography 395 Contributors 409 Index 415
£84.15
Duke University Press Film Blackness
Book SynopsisMichael Boyce Gillespie shifts the ways we think about black film, seeing it not as the representation of the black experience, but as the visual negotiation between film as art and the social construction of race, as well as an interdisciplinary form that enacts black visual and expressive culture.Trade Review"This astonishingly comprehensive, compact book does nothing less than synthesize nearly the entirety of thought to date on black cinema, blackness in the cinema, and scholarship in this vital area of film studies. . . . Essential. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals." -- G. A. Foster * Choice *“A necessary book. Film Blackness gives us an inspired sense of a much-needed analysis of race in film, an analysis that has so far—true to form—eluded us.” -- Courtney R. Baker * Cinema Journal *“This book blew my mind.... Michael Boyce Gillespie’s Film Blackness sparks a necessary conversation about the art of Black film and its indefinable quality. He invites the reader to challenge themselves to perceive all Black film and art as individually distinct pieces of an endless puzzle of Blackness. Reader Meter: Five Stars." -- Mercedes K. Milner * Write or Die Chicks *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. We Insist: The Idea of Black Film 1 1. Reckless Eyeballing: Coonskin and the Racial Grotesque 17 2. Smiling Faces: Chameleon Street and Black Performativity 51 3. Voices Inside (Everything is Everything): Deep Cover and Modalities of Noir Blackness 83 4. Black Maybe: Medicine for Melancholy, Place, and Quiet Becoming 119 Coda. Destination Out 157 Notes 161 Bibliography 203 Index 223
£19.94
Duke University Press Third World Studies
Book SynopsisGary Y. Okihiro presents the intellectual history of the core ideas, concepts, methods, and theories of Third World studies—an academic field first proposed in 1968 that never existed—in order to provide tools for understanding power and ending oppression.Trade Review"Okihiro makes an exciting and innovative contribution to the scholarship on Third World studies by analysing a range of topics. It will make an excellent reading for anyone interested in the interplay between politics and framing of subjectivities and would be particularly useful for undergraduate and graduate courses on postcolonial studies, critical pedagogy and international politics." -- Ananya Sharma * Postcolonial Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Subjects 15 2. Nationalism 37 3. Imperialism 57 4. World-System 77 5. Education 93 6. Subjectification 107 7. Racial Formation 121 8. Social Formation 139 9. Syntheses 155 Notes 173 Bibliography 187 Index 201
£18.89
Duke University Press No Tea No Shade
Book SynopsisThe follow-up to the groundbreaking Black Queer Studies, the edited collection No Tea, No Shade brings together nineteen essays from the next generation of scholars, activists, and community leaders doing work on black gender and sexuality. Building on the foundations laid by the earlier volume, this collection''s contributors speak new truths about the black queer experience while exemplifying the codification of black queer studies as a rigorous and important field of study. Topics include 'raw' sex, pornography, the carceral state, gentrification, gender nonconformity, social media, the relationship between black feminist studies and black trans studies, the black queer experience throughout the black diaspora, and queer music, film, dance, and theater. The contributors both disprove naysayers who believed black queer studies to be a passing trend and respond to critiques of the field''s early U.S. bias. Deferring to the past while pointing to the future, No TeTrade Review"No Tea, No Shade’s largest strength is its intimate relationship with its historical and theoretical origins: the text conjures up legends long ignored by white-dominated queer studies, including the Harlem Renaissance performer Gladys Bentley, the drag king MilDred, and Black Lace, a 90s-era erotic magazine by and for African-American lesbians." -- Sarah Fonseca * Lambda Literary Review *"This anthology captures a sense of daring potential. . . . Cogent and compelling." -- Jonathan Ward * European Journal of American Culture *Table of ContentsForeword / Cathy J. Cohen xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction / E. Patrick Johnson 1 1. Black/Queer Rhizomatics: Train Up a Child in the Way Ze Should Grow / Jafari S. Allen 27 2. The Whiter the Bread, the Quicker You're Dead: Spectacular Absence and Postracialized Blackness in (White) Queer Theory / Alison Reed 48 3. Troubling the Waters: Mobilizing a Trans*Analytic / Kai M. Green 65 4. Gender Trouble in Triton / C. Riley Snorton 83 5. Reggaetón's Crossings: Black Aesthetics, Latina Nightlife, and Queer Choreography / Ramón H. Rivera-Servera 95 6. Represent Freedom: Diaspora and the Meta-Queerness of Dub Theater / Lyndon K. Gill 113 7. To Transcender Transgender: Choreographers of Gender Fluidity in the Performances of MilDred Gerestant / Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley 131 8. Toward a Hemispheric Analysis of Black Lesbian Feminist Activism and Hip Hop Feminism: Artist Perspectives from Cuba and Brazil / Tanya Saunders 147 9. The Body Beautiful: Black Drag, American Cinema, and Heteroperpetually Ever After / La Marr Jurelle Bruce 166 10. Black Sissy Masculinity and the Politics of Dis-respectability / Kortney Ziegler 196 11. Let's Play: Exploring Cinematic Black Lesbian Fantasy, Pleasure, and Pain / Jennifer Declue 216 12. Black Gay (Raw) Sex / Marlon M. Bailey 239 13. Black Data / Shaka McGlotten 262 14. Boystown: Gay Neighborhoods, Social Media, and the (Re)production of Racism / Zachary Blair 287 15. Beyond the Flames: Queering the History of the 1968 D.C. Riot / Kwama Holmes 304 16. The Strangeness of Progress and the Uncertainty of Blackness / Treva Ellison 323 17. Re-membering Audre: Adding Lesbian Feminist Mother Poet to Black / Amber Jamilla Musser 346 18. On the Cusp of Deviance: Respectability Politics and the Cultural Marketplace of Sameness / Kaila Adia Story 362 19. Something Else to Be: Generations of Black Queer Brilliance and the Mobile Homecoming Experiential Archive / Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Julia Roxanne Wallace 380 Bibliography 395 Contributors 409 Index 415
£22.49
MD - Duke University Press Listening to Images
Book SynopsisTina M. Campt explores a way of listening to photography by engaging with lost archives of state identification photographs of Afro-diasporan people taken between the late 1800s and the present, showing how to hear the quiet refusal emanating from these photos originally intended to dehumanize and police their subjects.Trade Review"Listening to Images provides a powerful set of theoretical and methodological tools for historicizing and unpacking the kinds of photographic archives of which [Sandra] Bland’s images are a recent, prominent, and disturbing example. . . . Tina Campt’s stimulating new work is a must read in a flurry of exciting work at the intersection of Black Studies and visual culture." -- J. T. Roane * Black Perspectives *"[Campt's] work is particularly noteworthy for her ability to translate still images into moving narratives, to carry the reader through the image. Campt’s archive for Listening to Images is made of photos that one might pass over when looking for a more spectacular story. These include modes of identification photography—mugshots, passport photos—that reveal the apparatus of state control without its spectacular action or violence. These images are the low-tech precursor to the current proliferation of biometrics, the practice of tracking unique identity markers like DNA. Campt’s turn away from crisis brings the spectacle into perspective. She attends to the long backdrop of the eruptions of supposedly exceptional violence that is far too often overlooked, but is always present." -- JB Brager * The New Inquiry *"Fugitivity, according to Campt, is a form of refusal defined by a commitment to survival, in which one enacts, through a performance of a future that has not yet arrived, the conditions which will have sustained and valued black life. Listening to Images not only provides the grammar to articulate this fugitivity, it also attunes our senses to listen for it." -- Jacob Breslow * Feminist Review *"Scholars of Africana Studies, Cultural Studies, Visual Culture, Art History, and Gender Studies will no doubt find Campt’s archival research, innovative methodology, and evocative theorizations of a grammar of black feminist futurity to be generative and rich. . . . Campt’s work importantly recalibrates readers’ capacities to glean from images the complex grammars of black fugitivity, refusal, and futurity that resonate from and within identification photographs." -- Doria E. Charlson * Women & Performance *"Campt has written a succinct book of intensive propositions. . . . Listening to Images is an intricate text expounding on the theoretical interplay among archiving, seeing, and listening to visual materials that are in plain sight but not in sight. Thus, the sounds that they generate are quiet and have gripping agentive frequencies." -- Jerry Philogene * CAA Reviews *"Listening to Images skates along the surface of images, listening to their resonances. . . . This method allows Campt to create unexpected juxtapositions. . . . It is a testament to the book’s many points of connection between archives and time periods that I was left wanting more." -- Jocelyn Fenton Stitt * Meridians *“Listening to Images offers compelling, and surprisingly mobile, theorizations of seriality. . . . Campt explores institutional and bureaucratic photographs, the images of her title. She reads these against the grain, as generative artifacts whose serial conditions reframe their ostensibly oppressive meaning and reshape the ‘affective frequencies’ through which others encounter them. . . . Campt’s work has the potential to enrich conversations in periodical studies, mass media studies, and, yes, ‘seriality studies’ in all its messy possibility.” -- Sarah H. Salter * American Periodicals *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Listening to Images: An Execise in Counterintuition 1 1. Quick Soundings: The Grammar of Black Futurity 13 2. Striking Poses in a Tense Grammar: Stasis and the Frequency of Black Refusal 47 3. Haptic Temporalities: The Quiet Frequency of Touch 69 Coda. Black Futurity and the Echo of Premature Death 101 Notes 119 Bibliography 127 Illustration Credits 131 Index 137
£67.15
Duke University Press In the Wake
Book SynopsisUsing the multiple meanings of “wake” to illustrate the ways Black lives are determined by slavery’s afterlives, Christina Sharpe weaves personal experiences with readings of literary and artistic representations of Black life and death to examine what survives in the face of insistent violence and the possibilities for resistance.Trade Review"This could have been a one thousand page book, filled with 'evidence,' citations and systematic 'proof,' but instead it is an earned, slim volume of poetic, intellectual and, in fact, spiritual enactment of struggle. In this way, In The Wake is an effective, personal conversation with the reader that uses both fact, image, and emotion, legitimately, to illuminate argument." -- Sarah Schulman * Lambda Literary Review *"With In the Wake, Christina Sharpe looks out from the text and really tries to see us, both those here and gone, living and dead, in the wake, for all we are. We might begin, anew, by carefully looking back—double emphasis on care." -- John Murillo III * Make *"In the Wake is a necessary chapter in a lengthy tome of ending white supremacy." -- Jonathan Russell Clark * Literary Hub *"Mourning can be and has been a politics, but it must avoid becoming only a litany of horrors. Refusing melancholy in favor of care, In the Wake understands mourning as a practice embedded in living, and vice versa. Sharpe’s beautiful book enacts this indistinctness through pulling language apart and putting it to new purposes." -- Hannah Black * 4Columns *(Best Books of 2016) "The book that will live on in me from this year is Christina Sharpe’s In the Wake, on living in the wake of the catastrophic violence of legal chattel slavery. In the Wake speaks in so many multiple ways (poetry, memory, theory, images) and does so in language that is never still. It is, in part, about keeping watch, not unseeing the violence that has become normative, being in the hold, holding on and still living." -- Madeleine Thien * The Guardian *"In the Wake is work that holds space for what is unbearable and insists on letting it remain unbearable." -- Johanna Hedva * Mask Magazine *"[A] masterclass on form, and a must-read for those of us committed to the beautiful sentence, as well as the work of what is commonly called theory." -- Joshua Bennett * Poets & Writers *"Christina Sharpe [is] one of the boldest and most brilliant academics of our time. . . . In the Wake is one of those rare academic books at once rigorously argued and multiply engaging: intellectually, stylistically, emotionally." -- David Chariandy * Transition *"The present is saturated with grief about black lives in the wake of violence, being awake to the deaths and erasures can potentially create a future that can expand on being in the wake for more liveable lives of the black diaspora. It can also be the site of wake work, of attempts at creating social justice out of the metaphor Sharpe gives us.... Sharpe’s work has come at the right time." -- Angelina Eimannsberger * Indulgence *"In Sharpe’s probing work, the specter of slavery continues to haunt black subjects long after its abolition.... Sharpe’s book ... creates fruitful lines of exploration for political theorists concerned about the ethos of citizenship necessary for confronting white supremacy." -- Alex Zamalin * Political Theory *"[A]t once meditative and theoretical, stylistically meticulous and spacious, intensely personal and a work of assembly.” -- Matt Hooley * Antipode *"My most valuable discovery [in 2018] was the work of Christina Sharpe, a scholar of breathtaking range whose most recent book is In the Wake, about the aftershocks of chattel slavery in the Americas." -- Parul Sehgal * New York Times *"Sharpe traces every wound back to every knife back to every bladesmith. I've been both protector and prey, both war and prayer: In the Wake helps answer each clash, it draws a thread through the multitudes of our grief. How Black life pays for its offering and for its pain and for its gift. . . . This book here is a guide, a deeply personal and intellectual exploration of Blackness, it gives us a complete look at how our beginning shapes our end." -- Mustafa * CBC Books *Table of Contents1. The Wake 1 2. The Ship 25 3. The Hold 68 4. The Weather 102 Notes 135 References 153 Index 163
£70.55
Duke University Press Living a Feminist Life
Book SynopsisIn Living a Feminist Life Sara Ahmed shows how feminist theory is generated from everyday life and the ordinary experiences of being a feminist at home and at work. Building on legacies of feminist of color scholarship in particular, Ahmed offers a poetic and personal meditation on how feminists become estranged from worlds they critique—often by naming and calling attention to problems—and how feminists learn about worlds from their efforts to transform them. Ahmed also provides her most sustained commentary on the figure of the feminist killjoy introduced in her earlier work while showing how feminists create inventive solutions—such as forming support systems—to survive the shattering experiences of facing the walls of racism and sexism. The killjoy survival kit and killjoy manifesto, with which the book concludes, supply practical tools for how to live a feminist life, thereby strengthening the ties between the inventive creation of feminist theoTrade Review"Fans of bell hooks and Audre Lorde will find Ahmed's frequent homages and references familiar and assuring in a work that goes far beyond Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, capturing the intersection so critical in modern feminism." -- Abby Hargreaves * Library Journal *"Living a Feminist Life is perhaps the most accessible and important of Ahmed’s works to date. . . . [A] quite dazzlingly lively, angry and urgent call to arms. . . In short, everybody should read Ahmed’s book precisely because not everybody will." -- Emma Rees * Times Higher Education *"Living a Feminist Life is a work of embodied political theory that defies the conventions of feminist memoir and self-help alike. . . . Living a Feminist Life makes visible the continuous work of feminism, whether it takes place on the streets, in the home, or in the office. Playful yet methodical, the book tries to construct a living feminism that is neither essentialist nor universalist." -- Melissa Gira Grant * Bookforum *"Undeniably, Ahmed’s book is a highly crafted work, both scholarly and lyrically, that builds upon itself and delivers concrete, adaptable conclusions; it is a gorgeous argument, crackling with kind wit and an invitation to the community of feminist killjoys." -- Theodosia Henney * Lambda Literary Review *"Beautifully written and persuasively argued, Living a Feminist Life is not just an instant classic, but an essential read for intersectional feminists." -- Ann A. Hamilton * Bitch *"This book is about a wriggling out, a speaking out. And it teaches me to write, to think, like this — word twists word, and body to thought. Because for Ahmed, words make worlds and her book — the first after she left academia in feminist revolt — is full of bluesy world-play." -- Caren Beilin * Full Stop *"Living a Feminist Life is the perfect introduction to Ahmed’s academic work, if a general reader is unfamiliar with her. . . . For me, her lack of despair is the book’s strongest point. Ahmed’s work is as cutting and critical as it is joyful. There is a distinct hope and optimism for the future of diversity work – but still a demand for better." -- Evelyn Deshane * The F-Word *"Ahmed gifts us words that we may have difficulty finding for ourselves.... [R]eading her book provides a tentative vision for a feminist ethics for radical politics that is applicable far beyond what is traditionally considered the domain of feminism." -- Mahvish Ahmad * The New Inquiry *"Anyone at odds with this world—and we all ought to be—owes it to themselves, and to the goal of a better tomorrow, to read this book." -- Mariam Rahmani * Los Angeles Review of Books *"Living a Feminist Life offers something halfway between the immediacy and punch of the blog and the multi-layered considerations of a scholarly essay; the result is one of the most politically engaged, complex and personal books on gender politics we have seen in a while." -- Bidisha * TLS *"Especially compelling is Ahmed’s insistence that living as a feminist is not a sudden, euphoric escape from patriarchy and other structures of domination. Instead, it’s a lifelong project of chipping away at regimes that continue to exert considerable force. To practice feminism is therefore to encounter both frustration and widespread disapproval. It means, Ahmed warns, being seen as selfish, mean, and chronically dissatisfied—the bringer of discord to family dinners and professional meetings alike. For those of us willing to pay the price, Living a Feminist Life assures us we’re in good company." -- Susan Fraiman * Critical Inquiry *"Ahmed ... writes theory like nobody else.... Ahmed’s book is a feminist gift for its readers. You are invited to enjoy it, the rhythm and all." -- Leena-Maija Rossi * European Journal of Women's Studies *"It’s not easy being a feminist and Sara Ahmed has written a powerful, thought provoking and moving account of just what that means. But more than that, she provides us with a survival guide, some coping strategies combined with wisdom and inspiration. To read this book is to feel the warmth and strength of a sister(hood) wrapped around you." -- Heather Savigny * European Journal of Women's Studies *"Ahmed does for her readers what Audre Lorde did for her – document a way to live differently." -- Katherine Parker-Hay * Textual Practice *"[Ahmed's] prose style . . . is incantatory and quizzical, probing and playful. . . . Ahmed holds particular words up to the light and lets their unsuspected facets gleam, polishing their queer potential." -- Catherine Keyser * Public Books *"Living a Feminist Life hopes we can survive doing feminist theory, and energises us to do so." -- Clare Croft * Feminist Theory *“I live in south London, not far from where Sara used to lecture, so her work has always felt close, with an ability to touch and grasp—a quality academic feminist discourse often lacks. This book allows everyone to grasp, wrestle, and digest it, proving yet again that making theory accessible does not have to compromise quality. If anything, it’s quite the opposite.” -- Travis Alabanza * Out *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Bringing Feminist Theory Home 1 Part I. Becoming Feminist 19 1. Feminism Is Sensational 21 2. On Being Directed 43 3. Willfulness and Feminist Subjectivity 65 Part II. Diversity Work 4. Trying to Transform 93 5. Being in Question 115 6. Brick Walls 135 Part III. Living the Consequences 7. Fragile Connections 163 8. Feminist Snap 187 9. Lesbian Feminism 213 Conclusion 1. A Killjoy Survival Kit 235 Conclusion 2. A Killjoy Manifesto 251 Notes 269 References 281 Index 291
£75.65
Duke University Press AfroAtlantic Flight
Book SynopsisMichelle D. Commander traces how black American artists, intellectuals, and travelers envision literal and figurative flight back to Africa through speculative literature and film and travel to cultural heritage sites as means to create a sense of homecoming, belonging, and connection with their ancestors, spiritual realm, and Africa.Trade Review“Afro-Atlantic Flight is instructive and deserves a spot among the growing wave of Black geographies literature.” -- Bradley Hinger * Antipode *“Commander has written a book that offers hope and optimism to Black Americans by reclaiming old wounds that surface in the contemporary moment with an alarming regularity, violent maliciousness, and/or callous indifference. With little doubt, she has made important methodological, theoretical, and political contributions to the disciplines of literary studies, American studies, performance studies, diaspora studies, cultural anthropology, and geography.” -- R. Scott Carey * Journal of Critical Race Inquiry *“Wide-ranging and dynamic. Afro-Atlantic Flight makes a valuable contribution to a number of fields that take up subjects such as the contemporary politics of black American belonging, travel, and speculative narrative traditions in black expressive culture.” -- Stacie Selmon Mccormick * Studies in the Novel *“Afro-Atlantic Flight successfully situates the fantastic and the speculative as longstanding modalities for black survival, resistance, and solidarity. . . . Commander has produced nuanced interdisciplinary work that sustains argument and methodology throughout.” -- Daylanne K. English * American Literary History *"Afro-Atlantic Flight has an ambitious premise and methodology, combining cultural studies, participant observation, and semistructured interviews. . . . An innovative aspect of the work is how it thinks beyond Africa as the sole site of cultural authenticity desired by African Americans." -- Jocelyn Fenton Stitt * Meridians *"Afro-Atlantic Flight innovatively examines literature and film that thematize returns to Africa alongside nonliterary phenomena. . . . Commander’s nuanced account of how black people deploy imaginings of Africa reclaims the concept of a homeland return as politically fruitful while avoiding the pitfalls of earlier Pan-Africanist movements." -- Gabriella Friedman * American Quarterly *"Afro-Atlantic Flight is a provocative and fascinating text that will also invite further study even as it engages and answers its own questions in critical and significant ways." -- Susana M. Morris * CLA Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Fantastic Flights: the Search of Ancestral Traces in Black Speculative Narratives 25 2. The Production of Homeland Returns: Misrecognitions and the Unsteady Path toward the Black Fantastic in Ghana 75 3. "We Love to be Africans": Saudade and Affective Performance in Bahia, Brazil 123 4. Crafting Symbolic Africas in a Geography of Silence: Return Travels to and the Renarrativization of the U.S. South 173 Conclusion. "Say Me My Name": Genetic Science and the Emerging Speculative Technologies in the Construction of Afro-Atlantic Reconciliatory Projects 221 Notes 235 Bibliography 253 Index 269
£98.60
Duke University Press AfroAtlantic Flight Speculative Returns and the
Book SynopsisMichelle D. Commander traces how black American artists, intellectuals, and travelers envision literal and figurative flight back to Africa through speculative literature and film and travel to cultural heritage sites as means to create a sense of homecoming, belonging, and connection with their ancestors, spiritual realm, and Africa.Trade Review“Afro-Atlantic Flight is instructive and deserves a spot among the growing wave of Black geographies literature.” -- Bradley Hinger * Antipode *“Commander has written a book that offers hope and optimism to Black Americans by reclaiming old wounds that surface in the contemporary moment with an alarming regularity, violent maliciousness, and/or callous indifference. With little doubt, she has made important methodological, theoretical, and political contributions to the disciplines of literary studies, American studies, performance studies, diaspora studies, cultural anthropology, and geography.” -- R. Scott Carey * Journal of Critical Race Inquiry *“Wide-ranging and dynamic. Afro-Atlantic Flight makes a valuable contribution to a number of fields that take up subjects such as the contemporary politics of black American belonging, travel, and speculative narrative traditions in black expressive culture.” -- Stacie Selmon Mccormick * Studies in the Novel *“Afro-Atlantic Flight successfully situates the fantastic and the speculative as longstanding modalities for black survival, resistance, and solidarity. . . . Commander has produced nuanced interdisciplinary work that sustains argument and methodology throughout.” -- Daylanne K. English * American Literary History *"Afro-Atlantic Flight has an ambitious premise and methodology, combining cultural studies, participant observation, and semistructured interviews. . . . An innovative aspect of the work is how it thinks beyond Africa as the sole site of cultural authenticity desired by African Americans." -- Jocelyn Fenton Stitt * Meridians *"Afro-Atlantic Flight innovatively examines literature and film that thematize returns to Africa alongside nonliterary phenomena. . . . Commander’s nuanced account of how black people deploy imaginings of Africa reclaims the concept of a homeland return as politically fruitful while avoiding the pitfalls of earlier Pan-Africanist movements." -- Gabriella Friedman * American Quarterly *"Afro-Atlantic Flight is a provocative and fascinating text that will also invite further study even as it engages and answers its own questions in critical and significant ways." -- Susana M. Morris * CLA Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Fantastic Flights: the Search of Ancestral Traces in Black Speculative Narratives 25 2. The Production of Homeland Returns: Misrecognitions and the Unsteady Path toward the Black Fantastic in Ghana 75 3. "We Love to be Africans": Saudade and Affective Performance in Bahia, Brazil 123 4. Crafting Symbolic Africas in a Geography of Silence: Return Travels to and the Renarrativization of the U.S. South 173 Conclusion. "Say Me My Name": Genetic Science and the Emerging Speculative Technologies in the Construction of Afro-Atlantic Reconciliatory Projects 221 Notes 235 Bibliography 253 Index 269
£25.19
Duke University Press Critique of Black Reason
Book SynopsisEminent critic Achille Mbembe reevaluates history and racism, offering a capacious genealogy of the category of Blackness—from the Atlantic slave trade to the present—to show how the conjoining of the biological fiction of race with definitions of Blackness have been and continue to be used to uphold oppression.Trade Review"A very demanding yet incredibly powerful book." * Augsburger Allgemeine *"[I]ncontrovertible reading on the complex dynamic between race and belonging in twenty-first century societies. Though global in reach, the work is primarily infused with insightful analysis and perspectives on the United States, South Africa, and France, spaces in which the historical legacies of slavery, apartheid, and colonialism remain of pertinence to this day, while also being locations in and from which, the author himself has gained particular familiarity as integral components of his intellectual journey and trajectory. . . . [B]rilliant and pioneering. . . ." -- Dominic Thomas * Europe Now *“Critique of Black Reason constitutes an important move in bringing together francophone and anglophone postcolonial thought and is a timely demonstration of the re-invigorating potential of both critical thought and translation.” -- Hannah Grayson * Postcolonial Text *“Achille Mbembe’s Critique de la Raison Nègre . . . [is] a book that you want to shout about from the rooftops, so that all your colleagues and friends will read it. My copy, only a few months old, is stuffed with paper markers at many intervals, suggesting the richness of analysis and description on nearly every page. . . . This is certainly one of the outstanding intellectual contributions to studies of empire, colonialism, racism, and human liberation in the last decade, perhaps decades. . . . A brilliant book.” -- Elaine Coburn * Decolonization *“Critique of Black Reason is an illuminating and brilliant addition to Mbembe’s corpus. It is the kind of book, I suspect, that will become compulsory reading for undergraduate and graduate classes worldwide." -- Manosa Nthunya * The African Independent *"Achille Mbembe is one of the paradoxical optimists who predict the worst without ever losing their faith in the future. . . . Admittedly, slavery has been abolished and colonialism is a thing of the past. But today new forms of alienation have arisen, the Other continues to be stigmatized, and the monster of capitalism reaches for its dream of an limitless horizon. An inevitability? Not necessarily, shoots back this thinker, who invites us to reimagine the geography of the world." -- Maria Malagardis * Libération *"A lucid, thoughtful and sometimes poetic work, with phrases you want to underline on every page. Mbembe is a voice that needs to be heard, in the current discussion about racism and immigration in Europe." -- Peter Vermaas * NRC Handelsblad *"An outstanding intellectual contribution to the state of the art of race scholarship. It is a beautifully written work that begs for every sentence to be quoted. . . . Critique of Black Reason is an inescapable and vital work of race scholarship that animates the reader to imagine new radical possibilities for humanity. As such, the book is the must-read for scholars interested in critical race studies, colonial and postcolonial studies." -- Mante Vertelyte & Morten Stinus Kristensen * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"For me the most important African thinker today, Achille Mbembe has published the Critique of Black Reason. A very great book, encompassing the perspectives of the African continent as well as the political challenges facing the whole world." -- Jean-Marie Durand * Les inrockuptibles *"The book is a must for neoliberal and postmodern theory enthusiasts looking for insights on social constructs and perceptions of race relations. . . . The book is a challenge for the world to shift its thought pattern towards what has been disconnected traditionally as black history, to an incorporated collective human history bearing its roots in black history." -- Mary Abura * Journal of Contemporary African Studies *"Achille Mbembe has returned with a work that will surely prove provocative: Critique of Black Reason. This nod to Kant’s philosophic classic is, however, devilishly well-chosen since this work speaks to the never-ending tendency to place Europe at the world’s 'center of gravity.' Achille Mbembe . . . fights against established ideas and lazy thinking." * Am Magazine *"With characteristic elocution Achille Mbembe in Critique of Black Reason attends to the challenge . . . to write Africa/Blackness in all its manifestations." -- Lwazi Lushaba and Ziyana Lategan * South African Historical Journal *Table of ContentsTranslator's Introduction ix Acknowledgments xvii Introduction. The Becoming Black of the World 1 1. The Subject of Race 10 2. The Well of Fantasies 38 3. Difference and Self-Determination 78 4. The Little Secret 103 5. Requiem for the Slave 129 6. The Clinic of the Subject 131 Epilogue. There Is Only One World 179 Notes 185 Index 209
£72.25
Duke University Press Migrant Returns
Book SynopsisEric J. Pido examines the complicated relationship between the Philippine economy, Manila’s urban development, and Filipino migrants visiting or returning to their homeland, showing migration to be a multidirectional, layered, and continuous process with varied and often fraught outcomes.Trade Review“An insightful and timely account of Filipino Americans and their newfound role as key players in the Philippines' bourgeoning retirement and real estate industries.” -- Paul Nadal * Journal of Asian American Studies *"Dense and carefully argued ... Migrant Returns captures the multiple dimensions associated with return migration and serves as a valuable resource for those interested in transnationalism, globalization, and migration scholarship." -- Armand Gutierrez * International Migration Review *"A rich ethnographic account of homing. . . . Migrant Returns is a paradigmatic illumination of the multiple landscapes—personal, familial, social, and cultural—created by re/settlement, representation, and ultimately return that are emblematic of any relocation ideology. . . . By articulating the multiple logics of global economies and local social geographies, [Pido] has given us a nuanced ethnographic plunge into the multidirectional complexities and paradoxical positions of the current global diasporic moment." -- Anastasia Christou * American Ethnologist *"Overall, this book usefully troubles the labels of returnee and retiree within migration studies.… Pido's ability to incorporate an analysis of the role of the Philippine state and transnational real estate brokers in exploiting but also perpetuating this tension, makes Migrant Returns a valuable addition to Philippine and diaspora studies." -- Anjy Mary Paul * Journal of Southeast Asian Studies *Table of ContentsAbbreviations vii Preface ix Introduction. An Ethnography of Return 1 Part I: Departures 1. The Balikbayan Economy: Filipino Americans and the Contemporary Transformation of Manila 29 2. The Foreign Local: Balikbayans, Overseas Filipino Workers,and the Return Economy 49 3. Transnational Real Estate: Selling the American Dream in the Philippines 72 Part II. Returns 4. The Balikbayan Hotel: Touristic Performance in Manila and the Anxiety of Return 115 5. The Balikbayan House: The Precarity of Return Migrant Homes 131 6. Domestic Affects: The Philippine Retirement Authority, Retiree Visas, and the National Discourse of Homecoming 148 Conclusion: Retirement Landscapes and the Geography of Exception 163 Epilogue 179 Notes 187 References 197 Index 209
£90.10
Duke University Press Listening for Africa
Book SynopsisDavid F. Garcia examines the work of a wide range of musicians, dancers, academics, and activists between the 1930s and the 1950s to show how their belief in black music's African roots would provide the means to debunk racist ideologies, aid decolonization of Africa, and ease racial violence.Trade Review“Listening for Africa is a book that deserves to be read carefully and slowly. It is a work of sensitive and rigorous archival research combined with a sophisticated theoretical framework.” -- Ryan T. Skinner * American Anthropologist *“Scholars of Africanisms and race relations will appreciate Garcia's message. Recommended.” -- K. W. Mukuna * Choice *"An interesting and insightful read. . . . With an extensive bibliography at the end, this book will be of much interest to a wide variety of scholars interested in sound studies: anthropologists, musicologists, cultural studies scholars, and critical race theorists, to name a few. Garcia’s work gives scholars new tools to examine racial motivations behind music studies and discussions of music and sound, and new ways to discuss how that affects our writing, scholarly discussions and consensus, and the cultural influences of that information." -- Chelsea Adams * Journal of Anthropological Research *"Listening for Africa ambitiously and provocatively weaves together multiple strands of a rich, complex, and decidedly important tale: how academics and artists of diverse backgrounds engaged and promoted the African origins of diasporic black music and dance. . . . The best parts of the book were so ear-opening that I wished I was reading the first volume of a historical trilogy on the locus of artistic and intellectual biography at formative moments in the disciplinary organization of anthropology and ethnomusicology." -- Steven Feld * Journal of Anthropological Research *"Theoretically ambitious and meticulously researched. . . sure to become a classic account of the discursive construction of blackness through music." -- Michael Birenbaum Quintero * Journal of Popular Music Studies *"This impressive monograph is an archaeology of knowledge via several intersecting fields—anthropology, comparative musicology, folklore, African American, and dance studies—and interrogates the performances of an African past as manifested in Afro-Cuban, Caribbean, and African American contexts." -- Joel Dinerstein * African American Review *"Listening for Africa is an immensely useful study, documenting as it does the roles of numerous actants who otherwise do not appear in the established histories of jazz." -- Bruce Johnson * Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. Analyzing the African Origins of Negro Music and Dance in a Time of Racism, Fascism, and War 21 2. Listening to Africa in the City, in the Laboratory, and on Record 74 3. Embodying Africa against Racial Oppression, Ignorance, and Colonialism 124 4. Disalienating Movement and Sound from the Pathologies of Freedom and Time 173 5. Desiring Africa, or Western Civilization's Discontents 221 Conclusion. Dance-Music as Rhizome 268 Notes 277 Bibliography 323 Index 345
£112.20
Duke University Press Migrant Returns
Book SynopsisEric J. Pido examines the complicated relationship between the Philippine economy, Manila’s urban development, and Filipino migrants visiting or returning to their homeland, showing migration to be a multidirectional, layered, and continuous process with varied and often fraught outcomes.Trade Review“An insightful and timely account of Filipino Americans and their newfound role as key players in the Philippines' bourgeoning retirement and real estate industries.” -- Paul Nadal * Journal of Asian American Studies *"Dense and carefully argued ... Migrant Returns captures the multiple dimensions associated with return migration and serves as a valuable resource for those interested in transnationalism, globalization, and migration scholarship." -- Armand Gutierrez * International Migration Review *"A rich ethnographic account of homing. . . . Migrant Returns is a paradigmatic illumination of the multiple landscapes—personal, familial, social, and cultural—created by re/settlement, representation, and ultimately return that are emblematic of any relocation ideology. . . . By articulating the multiple logics of global economies and local social geographies, [Pido] has given us a nuanced ethnographic plunge into the multidirectional complexities and paradoxical positions of the current global diasporic moment." -- Anastasia Christou * American Ethnologist *"Overall, this book usefully troubles the labels of returnee and retiree within migration studies.… Pido's ability to incorporate an analysis of the role of the Philippine state and transnational real estate brokers in exploiting but also perpetuating this tension, makes Migrant Returns a valuable addition to Philippine and diaspora studies." -- Anjy Mary Paul * Journal of Southeast Asian Studies *Table of ContentsAbbreviations vii Preface ix Introduction. An Ethnography of Return 1 Part I: Departures 1. The Balikbayan Economy: Filipino Americans and the Contemporary Transformation of Manila 29 2. The Foreign Local: Balikbayans, Overseas Filipino Workers,and the Return Economy 49 3. Transnational Real Estate: Selling the American Dream in the Philippines 72 Part II. Returns 4. The Balikbayan Hotel: Touristic Performance in Manila and the Anxiety of Return 115 5. The Balikbayan House: The Precarity of Return Migrant Homes 131 6. Domestic Affects: The Philippine Retirement Authority, Retiree Visas, and the National Discourse of Homecoming 148 Conclusion: Retirement Landscapes and the Geography of Exception 163 Epilogue 179 Notes 187 References 197 Index 209
£22.49
Duke University Press Listening for Africa
Book SynopsisDavid F. Garcia examines the work of a wide range of musicians, dancers, academics, and activists between the 1930s and the 1950s to show how their belief in black music's African roots would provide the means to debunk racist ideologies, aid decolonization of Africa, and ease racial violence.Trade Review“Listening for Africa is a book that deserves to be read carefully and slowly. It is a work of sensitive and rigorous archival research combined with a sophisticated theoretical framework.” -- Ryan T. Skinner * American Anthropologist *“Scholars of Africanisms and race relations will appreciate Garcia's message. Recommended.” -- K. W. Mukuna * Choice *"An interesting and insightful read. . . . With an extensive bibliography at the end, this book will be of much interest to a wide variety of scholars interested in sound studies: anthropologists, musicologists, cultural studies scholars, and critical race theorists, to name a few. Garcia’s work gives scholars new tools to examine racial motivations behind music studies and discussions of music and sound, and new ways to discuss how that affects our writing, scholarly discussions and consensus, and the cultural influences of that information." -- Chelsea Adams * Journal of Anthropological Research *"Listening for Africa ambitiously and provocatively weaves together multiple strands of a rich, complex, and decidedly important tale: how academics and artists of diverse backgrounds engaged and promoted the African origins of diasporic black music and dance. . . . The best parts of the book were so ear-opening that I wished I was reading the first volume of a historical trilogy on the locus of artistic and intellectual biography at formative moments in the disciplinary organization of anthropology and ethnomusicology." -- Steven Feld * Journal of Anthropological Research *"Theoretically ambitious and meticulously researched. . . sure to become a classic account of the discursive construction of blackness through music." -- Michael Birenbaum Quintero * Journal of Popular Music Studies *"This impressive monograph is an archaeology of knowledge via several intersecting fields—anthropology, comparative musicology, folklore, African American, and dance studies—and interrogates the performances of an African past as manifested in Afro-Cuban, Caribbean, and African American contexts." -- Joel Dinerstein * African American Review *"Listening for Africa is an immensely useful study, documenting as it does the roles of numerous actants who otherwise do not appear in the established histories of jazz." -- Bruce Johnson * Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. Analyzing the African Origins of Negro Music and Dance in a Time of Racism, Fascism, and War 21 2. Listening to Africa in the City, in the Laboratory, and on Record 74 3. Embodying Africa against Racial Oppression, Ignorance, and Colonialism 124 4. Disalienating Movement and Sound from the Pathologies of Freedom and Time 173 5. Desiring Africa, or Western Civilization's Discontents 221 Conclusion. Dance-Music as Rhizome 268 Notes 277 Bibliography 323 Index 345
£27.90
Duke University Press On Site In Sound
Book SynopsisFocusing on the hemispheric circulation of South American musical cultures, Kirstie A. Dorr examines the spatiality of sound and the ways in which the sonic is bound to perceptions and constructions of geographic space, showing how people can use music and sound to challenge and transform dominant conceptions of place.Trade Review"Dorr’s intricately interwoven case studies offer important methodological and substantive insights for the study of Latin American music." -- Nancy Sue Love * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"On Site, In Sound is a rare and invaluable book that brings into critical colloquy the fields of ethnomusicology, critical geography, ethnic studies, performance studies, and gender studies. . . . The book is a great read of undoubtedly great use for scholars in the aforementioned fields of study, or to any student who wants to learn about the spatially transformative powers of sound and music, or more about Peruvian culture in general, although a degree of familiarity with either Latin American cultural studies or critical geography is recommended." -- Nathan Siu-Fung Cheung * Antipode *"Dorr explodes the discussion of sound’s emplacement across epochs and musical genres." -- Anthony W. Rasmussen * Sound Studies *"Dorr aims to make critical interventions into a number of cutting-edge academic discussions regarding race, gender, sexuality, nation, and diaspora. She does so with a remarkable cogency that demands and rewards multiple re-readings. ... When she [...] describe[s] the vocal sounds of Sumac, Wendy Sulca, Susana Baca, and others, she does so beautifully, and turns her readers into more deeply attuned listeners." -- John Gennari * The Americas *"Dorr offers a profoundly compelling and layered analysis of this musical phenomena, and the narratives of space and power that operate beneath the act of artistic identification. ... Built from a solid theoretical framework and with creative uses of the archive, On Site, In Sound is an excellent contribution that will be helpful to Latin Americanists who work on performance studies, sound studies, cultural studies, and the intersections of space, ethnicity, and gender." -- Juan Suárez Ontaneda * The Latin Americanist *“Rigorously theorized, On Site, in Sound encourages interdisciplinary dialogues between ethnic, area, feminist, and queer studies; cultural, performance, and sound studies; and political and cultural geography. . . . Dorr’s analysis of Black women performing in Peru illuminate[s] how women use performative platforms to contest gendered restrictions on their participation in public discourse.” -- Elizabeth Schwall * Latin American Research Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Thinking Site in Sound 1 1. Sounding Place Over Time: On the Sonic Transits of "El Cóndor Pasa" 25 2. Putumayo and Its Discontents: The Andean Music Industry as a World Music Geography 64 3. (Inter)national Stages, Mujeres Bravas, and the Spatial Politics of Diaspora 95 4. "You Can't Have a Revolution without Songs: Neighborhood Soundscapes and Multiscalar Activism in La Misión 145 Epilogue. Musical Pirates, Sonic Debts, and Future Geographies of Transit 175 Notes 189 Bibliography 217 Index 236
£98.60
Duke University Press The Race of Sound
Book SynopsisIn The Race of Sound Nina Sun Eidsheim traces the ways in which sonic attributes that might seem natural, such as the voice and its qualities, are socially produced. Eidsheim illustrates how listeners measure race through sound and locate racial subjectivities in vocal timbre—the color or tone of a voice. Eidsheim examines singers Marian Anderson, Billie Holiday, and Jimmy Scott as well as the vocal synthesis technology Vocaloid to show how listeners carry a series of assumptions about the nature of the voice and to whom it belongs. Outlining how the voice is linked to ideas of racial essentialism and authenticity, Eidsheim untangles the relationship between race, gender, vocal technique, and timbre while addressing an undertheorized space of racial and ethnic performance. In so doing, she advances our knowledge of the cultural-historical formation of the timbral politics of difference and the ways that comprehending voice remains central to understanding human experiTrade Review"Should be required reading in music education—and no doubt it will become required reading in many academic disciplines that touch on voice studies." -- Marit MacArthur * Yale Review *"An important read within sound studies and race studies." -- Jeff Donison * Journal of Radio & Audio Media *"The Race of Sound is brimming with insight and originality. Not every chapter contributes new knowledge (e.g., Eidsheim is not the first to note that black classical singers were constrained by listener expectations), but in tandem they constitute a groundbreaking argument that should inform all listeners and be part of all music courses. If enough readers take Eidsheim’s work to heart, we can begin to counter the effect of institutions that create and perpetuate the racialized voice." -- Sandra Jean Graham * ARSC Journal *“Eidsheim demonstrates an impressive ability to weave together different critical modes and diverse topics without faltering in her project…. New and established scholars interested in the study of race, gender, voice, and/or African American musics will find much to engage with in Eidsheim’s push toward nonessentializing listening.” -- Alex C. Valin * Women and Music *"Like Eidsheim’s earlier work, The Race of Sound presents meticulously researched, compelling, and detailed accounts of reception, race, and voice throughout the careers of important historical figures. The author provides ample evidence to support her groundbreaking arguments that will give readers a new understanding of how we construct voice, race, and identity every time we engage in the act of listening." -- Victoria Malawey * MUSICultures *“The Race of Sound is ... an insightful addition to the growing body of work on the voice.... We continue to live in a time in which Black voices struggle to be heard. The Race of Sound contributes to this struggle in recognition and joins the record of activist scholarship that centres and respects Black humanity.” -- Natalie Hyacinth * Feminist Review *“This book should be required reading for faculty members everywhere. . . . By asking listeners to reflect on their assumptions . . . The Race of Sound seeks greater freedom for Black musicians and people, opening the door to new possibilities for us all.” -- Loren Kajikawa * Journal of the American Musicology Society *“The Race of Sound allows us to rethink our understanding of identities through voice and thus better understand the social construction of race and gender. Brilliantly written, as approachable as it is accurate, The Race of Sound goes beyond the framework of musicology alone to embrace all cultural studies.” (Translated from French) -- Jean-René Larue * Volume *“Eidsheim provides an elaborate and powerful addition to music scholarship and sound studies as well as to humanities disciplines more broadly. . . . In exposing the plethora of mechanisms that build cultural lenses though which we hear voice, her work serves to puncture even the most trained musical ear or the deepest listener.” -- Kira Dralle * Notes *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction. The Acousmatic Question: Who Is This? 1 1. Formal and Informal Pedagogies: Believing in Race, Teaching Race, Hearing Race 39 2. Phantom Genealogy: Sonic Blackness and the American Operatic Timbre 61 3. Familiarity as Strangeness: Jimmy Scott and the Question of Black Timbral Masculinity 91 4. Race as Zeros and Ones: Vocaloid Refused, Reimagined, and Repurposed 115 5. Bifurcated Listening: The Inimitable, Imitated Billie Holiday 151 6. Widening Rings of Being: The Singer as Stylist and Technician 177 Appendix 201 Notes 205 Bibliography 243 Index 259
£72.25
Duke University Press On Site In Sound
Book SynopsisFocusing on the hemispheric circulation of South American musical cultures, Kirstie A. Dorr examines the spatiality of sound and the ways in which the sonic is bound to perceptions and constructions of geographic space, showing how people can use music and sound to challenge and transform dominant conceptions of place.Trade Review"Dorr’s intricately interwoven case studies offer important methodological and substantive insights for the study of Latin American music." -- Nancy Sue Love * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"On Site, In Sound is a rare and invaluable book that brings into critical colloquy the fields of ethnomusicology, critical geography, ethnic studies, performance studies, and gender studies. . . . The book is a great read of undoubtedly great use for scholars in the aforementioned fields of study, or to any student who wants to learn about the spatially transformative powers of sound and music, or more about Peruvian culture in general, although a degree of familiarity with either Latin American cultural studies or critical geography is recommended." -- Nathan Siu-Fung Cheung * Antipode *"Dorr explodes the discussion of sound’s emplacement across epochs and musical genres." -- Anthony W. Rasmussen * Sound Studies *"Dorr aims to make critical interventions into a number of cutting-edge academic discussions regarding race, gender, sexuality, nation, and diaspora. She does so with a remarkable cogency that demands and rewards multiple re-readings. ... When she [...] describe[s] the vocal sounds of Sumac, Wendy Sulca, Susana Baca, and others, she does so beautifully, and turns her readers into more deeply attuned listeners." -- John Gennari * The Americas *"Dorr offers a profoundly compelling and layered analysis of this musical phenomena, and the narratives of space and power that operate beneath the act of artistic identification. ... Built from a solid theoretical framework and with creative uses of the archive, On Site, In Sound is an excellent contribution that will be helpful to Latin Americanists who work on performance studies, sound studies, cultural studies, and the intersections of space, ethnicity, and gender." -- Juan Suárez Ontaneda * The Latin Americanist *“Rigorously theorized, On Site, in Sound encourages interdisciplinary dialogues between ethnic, area, feminist, and queer studies; cultural, performance, and sound studies; and political and cultural geography. . . . Dorr’s analysis of Black women performing in Peru illuminate[s] how women use performative platforms to contest gendered restrictions on their participation in public discourse.” -- Elizabeth Schwall * Latin American Research Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Thinking Site in Sound 1 1. Sounding Place Over Time: On the Sonic Transits of "El Cóndor Pasa" 25 2. Putumayo and Its Discontents: The Andean Music Industry as a World Music Geography 64 3. (Inter)national Stages, Mujeres Bravas, and the Spatial Politics of Diaspora 95 4. "You Can't Have a Revolution without Songs: Neighborhood Soundscapes and Multiscalar Activism in La Misión 145 Epilogue. Musical Pirates, Sonic Debts, and Future Geographies of Transit 175 Notes 189 Bibliography 217 Index 236
£25.19
Duke University Press Tropical Freedom
Book SynopsisIkuko Asaka examines emancipation's intersection with settler colonialism in North America, showing how emancipation efforts in the United States and present-day Canada were accompanied by attempts to relocate freed blacks to tropical regions, thereby conceiving freedom as a racially segregated condition based upon geography and climate.Trade Review“Tropical Freedom is an ambitious and satisfying book. Ikuko Asaka balances the two focuses of her work—free black people’s understandings of their freedom and belonging, and white imperial understandings of tropicality, labor, and the spaces of black freedom—with deft organization and clarity.” -- Elaine LaFay * H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews *"Tropical Freedom is a bold book that takes a variety of historical frameworks—among them settler colonialism, environmental determinism, and the geography of freedom—to tell the complicated story of African North Americans in the age of emancipation. This is a fascinating narrative and a welcome addition to the field." -- Kevin Hooper * Western Historical Quarterly *"Wonderful. . . . Tropical Freedom is undoubtedly a contribution to historiographies of Black colonization, it is also represents a significant contribution to the fields of settler colonial studies, Black Studies, gender and sexuality studies, critical geographies and race and space scholarship. Tropical Freedom is an important book to read and teach." -- Tiffany King * Reviews in History *"In its breadth of analysis and focussed case studies from Ottawa to Haiti; its transnational scope and archival research (the national archives of Canada and the United Kingdom are impressively mined); and its provoking, persuasive arguments, Tropical Freedom is one of the finest monographs I have read in a long while. It forges new links in transatlantic historiographies of labor, migration, and racial formation, and is essential reading for scholars interested in discourses of race, gender, climate, and settler colonial identity in North America in the era of emancipation." -- Henry Knight Lozano * Journal of American Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Note on Terms xi Introduction 1 1. Black Freedom and Settler Colonial Order 21 2. Black Geographies and the Politics of Diaspora 53 3. Intimacy and Belonging 81 4. Gendered Mobilities and White Settler Boundaries 111 5. Race, Climate, and Labor 139 6. U.S. Emancipation and Tropical Black Freedom 167 Conclusion 193 Notes 205 Bibliography 253 Index 281
£98.60
Duke University Press Spiritual Citizenship
Book SynopsisFadeke Castor explores the roles African religious practice play in the formation of social and political identities play in post-independence Trinidad and Tobago, showing how Ifá/Orisha practitioners build and perceive a sense of diasporic belonging that leads them to work toward black liberation and a decolonial future.Trade Review"The author deftly describes the ritual practices of African-based religions in the African diaspora and highlights the role of international conferences in the formation of religious identity. Additionally, she successfully relates the contemporary Orisa movement in Trinidad to the 1970s Trinidad black power movement. . . . Castor does an outstanding job of portraying the flow of ritual and ritual performance. Highly recommended." -- S. D. Glazier * Choice *"Spiritual Citizenship is an important text. . . . An essential teaching text on questions of multiculturalism, citizenship, race, and religion. Its engaging writing style on these timely issues and its focus on the under-studied (but fascinating) religious context of Trinidad make Spiritual Citizenship a must-read." -- J. Brent Crosson * Reading Religion *"Spiritual Citizenship is a groundbreaking ethnography. . . . With vivid, engaging and descriptive writing, Castor examines how Ifá/Orisha religious communities that were for decades persecuted and maligned have been re-evaluated in the context of the Black Power Movement in Trinidad—later defined as integral to the pluralistic and multicultural nation and simultaneously incorporated into transnational spiritual networks of priests and practitioners." -- Yolanda D. Covington-Ward * Transforming Anthropology *"Spiritual Citizenship makes an important ethnographic contribution to Caribbean anthropology and Afro-Atlantic history. . . . This study is notable for the unique and timely ethnographic contributions it makes." -- Keith E. McNeal * Journal of Anthropological Research *"What this book does best is to show how competing transnational and national dynamics offer multiple possibilities for religious authority and achievement, and how these possibilities generate friction. . . . Given how well Castor writes herself and her processes of learning and initiation into the ethnography, the book offers insights on transforming returns at multiple levels." -- Paul Johnson * Anthropos *Table of ContentsNote on Orthography ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xvii Introduction 1 Part I. Spiritual Engagements with Black Cultural Citizenship 1. The Spirit of Black Power: An Ancestral Calling 25 2. Multicultural Moments: From Margins to Mainstream 54 Part II. Emerging Spiritual Citizenship 3. Around the Bend: Festive Practices in a Yorùbá-Centric Shrine 71 4. Trini Travels: Spiritual Citizenship as Transnational 99 5. Ifá in Trinidad's Ground 128 Appendixes I-III 169 Notes 179 Glossary 191 References 197 Index 221
£26.36
Duke University Press Tropical Freedom Climate Settler Colonialism and
Book SynopsisIkuko Asaka examines emancipation's intersection with settler colonialism in North America, showing how emancipation efforts in the United States and present-day Canada were accompanied by attempts to relocate freed blacks to tropical regions, thereby conceiving freedom as a racially segregated condition based upon geography and climate.Trade Review“Tropical Freedom is an ambitious and satisfying book. Ikuko Asaka balances the two focuses of her work—free black people’s understandings of their freedom and belonging, and white imperial understandings of tropicality, labor, and the spaces of black freedom—with deft organization and clarity.” -- Elaine LaFay * H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews *"Tropical Freedom is a bold book that takes a variety of historical frameworks—among them settler colonialism, environmental determinism, and the geography of freedom—to tell the complicated story of African North Americans in the age of emancipation. This is a fascinating narrative and a welcome addition to the field." -- Kevin Hooper * Western Historical Quarterly *"Wonderful. . . . Tropical Freedom is undoubtedly a contribution to historiographies of Black colonization, it is also represents a significant contribution to the fields of settler colonial studies, Black Studies, gender and sexuality studies, critical geographies and race and space scholarship. Tropical Freedom is an important book to read and teach." -- Tiffany King * Reviews in History *"In its breadth of analysis and focussed case studies from Ottawa to Haiti; its transnational scope and archival research (the national archives of Canada and the United Kingdom are impressively mined); and its provoking, persuasive arguments, Tropical Freedom is one of the finest monographs I have read in a long while. It forges new links in transatlantic historiographies of labor, migration, and racial formation, and is essential reading for scholars interested in discourses of race, gender, climate, and settler colonial identity in North America in the era of emancipation." -- Henry Knight Lozano * Journal of American Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Note on Terms xi Introduction 1 1. Black Freedom and Settler Colonial Order 21 2. Black Geographies and the Politics of Diaspora 53 3. Intimacy and Belonging 81 4. Gendered Mobilities and White Settler Boundaries 111 5. Race, Climate, and Labor 139 6. U.S. Emancipation and Tropical Black Freedom 167 Conclusion 193 Notes 205 Bibliography 253 Index 281
£25.19
Duke University Press Domestic Economies
Book SynopsisSusanna Rosenbaum examines how immigrant Mexican and Central American domestic workers in Los Angeles and the predominantly white, upper-middle-class women who employ them seek to achieve the "American Dream," underscoring how the American Dream's ideology is racialized and gendered while exposing how pursuing it lies at the intersection of motherhood and domestic labor.Trade Review"One strength of Rosenbaum’s research design is its reliance not only on interviews but also on settings for observation: a middle-class mothers’ group, a domestic workers’ co-op, and an organization advocating for domestic workers’ rights." -- Debra Osnowitz * Gender & Society *"Domestic Economies provides a novel angle for examining domestic work through its focus on the identities of those who hire and do domestic work, rather than on employer-employee relations, as do most other studies." -- Rhacel Salazar Parren˜as * International Migration Review *"This is a beautifully written book, recommended for scholars of gender and work, immigration, and family." -- Kristin Marsh * American Ethnologist *"This important, nuanced and highly readable ethnography will be important reading for scholars and students interested in the globalisation of care and the intersections of migration, belonging, class, race and gender. I would also recommend it to general readers who want to learn more about the critical contributions of immigrant workers to contemporary everyday life, not only in America but across the world." -- Megha Amrith * Anthropological Forum *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Producing In/Visibility in Los Angeles 27 2. Middle-Class Dreaming and the Limits of "Americanness" 49 3. Making Mothers Count 83 4. Organizing, Motherhood, and the Meanings of (Domestic) Work 115 5. Dreaming American 148 Conclusion 177 Notes 185 References 205 Index 225
£72.25
Duke University Press Domestic Economies
Book SynopsisSusanna Rosenbaum examines how immigrant Mexican and Central American domestic workers in Los Angeles and the predominantly white, upper-middle-class women who employ them seek to achieve the "American Dream," underscoring how the American Dream's ideology is racialized and gendered while exposing how pursuing it lies at the intersection of motherhood and domestic labor.Trade Review"One strength of Rosenbaum’s research design is its reliance not only on interviews but also on settings for observation: a middle-class mothers’ group, a domestic workers’ co-op, and an organization advocating for domestic workers’ rights." -- Debra Osnowitz * Gender & Society *"Domestic Economies provides a novel angle for examining domestic work through its focus on the identities of those who hire and do domestic work, rather than on employer-employee relations, as do most other studies." -- Rhacel Salazar Parren˜as * International Migration Review *"This is a beautifully written book, recommended for scholars of gender and work, immigration, and family." -- Kristin Marsh * American Ethnologist *"This important, nuanced and highly readable ethnography will be important reading for scholars and students interested in the globalisation of care and the intersections of migration, belonging, class, race and gender. I would also recommend it to general readers who want to learn more about the critical contributions of immigrant workers to contemporary everyday life, not only in America but across the world." -- Megha Amrith * Anthropological Forum *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Producing In/Visibility in Los Angeles 27 2. Middle-Class Dreaming and the Limits of "Americanness" 49 3. Making Mothers Count 83 4. Organizing, Motherhood, and the Meanings of (Domestic) Work 115 5. Dreaming American 148 Conclusion 177 Notes 185 References 205 Index 225
£18.89
Duke University Press Black and Blur
Book SynopsisIn Black and Blur—the first volume in his consent not to be a single being trilogy—Fred Moten engages in a capacious consideration of the place and force of blackness in African diaspora arts, politics, and life, exploring a wide range of thinkers, musicians, and artists.Trade Review"Simply put, Moten is offering up some of the most affecting, most useful, theoretical thinking that exists on the planet today.... Moten’s work makes the activities of reading and thinking feel palpably fresh, weird, and vital." -- Maggie Nelson * 4Columns *"Some readers will come here because of The Feel Trio, because of The Undercommons. Some because Moten is the activists’ theorist, the contemporary art institution’s darling, because of performance studies, jazz studies, literature. Some readers will come here to encounter a brain that is at once more erudite, generous, capacious, fierce, jokey and infuriating than most others on the planet right now. Everybody ought to arrive here to be schooled and troubled, elated and confused, invited and indicted by a sparklingly original vision for black study." -- Nabil Kashyap * Full Stop *"It's this spirit of the collective effort of study and exchange and resonance, the effort to keep the channels open and keep listening, that has made Moten (or, maybe, 'Moten/s') such a celebrated thinker. At the end of sentences like these, you want to say something like Amen." -- Jess Row * Bookforum *"Be ready to be wowed; be ready to be challenged; most of all, be ready for the long haul. It is, apparently, the first in a planned trilogy. Moten is tracking his own course, and it’s fast-moving and spectacular." -- Patrick James Dunagan * Rain Taxi *"At a time when both theory and criticism are frequently and convincingly attacked as exhausted forms, Moten’s trilogy has reinvented both. . . . In its mixture of theoretical complexity and disarming directness, Moten’s beautifully written trilogy offers the sheer pleasure of art." -- Lidija Haas * Vulture *"2018 must go down for me as the year of Fred Moten’s trilogy: Black and Blur, Stolen Life, and The Universal Machine. You could say they’re essays about art, philosophy, blackness, and the refusal of social death, but I think of them more as a fractal universe forever inviting immersion and exploration, a living force now inhabiting my bookshelf." -- Maggie Nelson * Bookforum *"My favorite book(s) of 2018 are the three volumes of Fred Moten’s consent not to be a single being, individually titled Black and Blur, Stolen Life, and The Universal Machine. In this collection of essays stretching back fifteen years, Moten challenges the reader to imagine a radically interconnected aesthetic and political sphere that stretches from Glenn Gould to Fanon to Kant to Theaster Gates, sometimes in the space of a single sentence. This trilogy is one of the great intellectual adventures of our era." -- Jess Row * Bookforum *"A brilliant collection of essays, part of a series that investigates notions of Blackness and its representation. This is writing and practice that summons the irregular and the resistant.” -- Katrina Palmer * The Art Newspaper *Table of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments xv 1. Not In Between 1 2. Interpolation and Interpellation 28 3. Magic of Objects 34 4. Sonata Quasi Una Fantasia 40 5. Taste Dissonance Flavor Escape (Preface to a Solo by Miles Davis) 66 6. The New International of Rhythmic Feel/ings 86 7. The Phonographic Mise-en Scène 118 8. Line Notes for Lick Piece 134 9. Rough Americana 147 10. Nothing, Everything 152 11. Nowhere, Everywhere 158 12. Nobody, Everybody 168 13. Remind 170 14. Amuse-Bouche 174 15. Collective Head 184 16. Cornered, Taken, Made to Leave 198 17. Enjoy All Monsters 206 18. Some Extrasubtitles for Wildness 212 19. To Feel, to Feel More, to Feel More Than 215 20. Irruptions and Incoherences for Jimmie Durham 219 21. Black and Blue on White. In and And Space 226 22. Blue Vespers 230 23. The Blur and Breathe Books 245 24. Entanglement and Virtuosity 270 25. Bobby Lee's Hands 280 Notes 285 Works Cited 317 Index 329
£75.65
Duke University Press The Pursuit of Happiness Black Women Diasporic
Book SynopsisBianca C. Williams traces the experiences of African American women who travel to Jamaica and form affective relationships Jamaican men and women that help construct notions of diasporic belonging and a form of happiness that resists the damaging intersections of racism and patriarchy in the United States.Trade Review"Breathtaking. . . . Simply reading this book felt like an act of self-care for me—a breath of fresh air." -- Erica Lorraine Williams * Anthrodendum *"This book will be of interest to scholars in many fields, such as Black feminist studies, transnational and diaspora studies, and the anthropology of tourism and mobility. I particularly want to highlight the book’s contribution to affect studies, given Williams’ careful attention to the ways in which her interlocutors’ emotions are influenced by their racial, gendered, classed, and national subjectivities." -- Dannah Dennis * Journal for the Anthropology of North America *"The Pursuit of Happiness is an insightful and engrossing book about African-American women on topics few readers are privileged to hear about or understand." -- Jualynne E. Dodson * American Journal of Sociology *"The Pursuit of Happiness challenges white-centric understandings of Caribbean tourism, male-centric understandings of black diasporic connections, and youth-centric notions of leisure and emotional fulfillment. Williams's positioning of African American women as agents is especially remarkable. ... [This book] makes a vital contribution to transnational black feminist thought and feminist geography, African Diaspora studies, critical race studies, Caribbean studies, tourism studies, and cultural anthropology by centering black women's emotions and transnational mobilities within these fields." -- Nicosia Shakes * Anthropological Quarterly *"The Pursuit of Happiness is a beautifully written text which humanizes the lives, experiences, and desires of Black women. There are few exceptions wherein scholarly texts examines the experiences of U.S. Black women beyond the borders of the U.S. Williams' work is a guiding light as to how this may be successfully and meaningfully done in future works." -- Antwann Michael Simpkins * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. "Jamaica Crawled Into My Soul": Black Women, Affect, and the Promise of Diaspora 1 Interlude 27 1. More Than a Groove: Pursuing Happiness as a Political Project 31 Interlude 63 2. "Giving Back" to Jamaica: Experiencing Community and Conflict While Traveling with Diasporic Heart 65 Interlude 95 3. Why Jamaica? Seeking the Fantasy of a Black Paradise 99 Interlude 121 4. Breaking (It) Down: Gender, Emotional Entanglements, and the Realities of Romance Tourism 123 Interlude 159 5. Navigating (Virtual) Jamaica: Online Diasporic Contact Zones 163 Interlude 185 Epilogue. Lessons Learned 187 Notes 197 Bibliography 209 Index 221
£72.25
Duke University Press Ezilis Mirrors
Book SynopsisOmise'eke Natasha Tinsley traces how contemporary queer Caribbean and African American writers, filmmakers, musicians, and performers evoke the divinity Ezilia pantheon of lwa feminine spirits in Vodouin ways that offer a new model of queer black feminist theory.Trade Review"Ezili’s Mirrors thoroughly and carefully mines the utility and uniqueness of multiple spiritual and thought traditions, aesthetics, and sources of knowledge. . .. Ezili’s Mirrors is important because through it Tinsley shows us ways that black femme life and black queer life exists and asserts itself as other than the abject, the undesirable, the inappropriate, and the excessive." -- Alexandria Smith * The New Inquiry *"I have longed for a book as daring as Ezili's Mirrors." -- Meredith Coleman-Tobias * Reading Religion *"This pathbreaking work prompts Black feminist and queer diaspora scholars to use their academic training not as an endpoint, but as a point of departure, emboldening scholars to turn to whatever sources that are necessary to write books that will sustain alternative forms of knowing under increasing conditions of precarity in Black queer diasporic lives, loves, and labor." -- Darius Bost * The Black Scholar *"Once in a great while, a gem of a book comes along. It is not only elegantly written and astutely composed, compellingly and courageously argued, but it also opens up new and generative ways of looking at the African diaspora and the disciplines devoted to its study. I am talking about Tinsley’s Ezili’s Mirrors. I read the book with intense joy, on many levels: its theoretical polyamory, its dazzling methodology, its engrossing narrations, and the different senses it calls on." -- Gloria Wekker * TSQ *"Ezili's Mirrors makes an original contribution to the development of the field of queer black religion and to the ways in which this scholarship has a wider, public impact in the representation and self-understanding of queer-of-color spiritual communities whose members experience lives of constant fragmentation and recomposition daily, globally." -- Roberto Strongman * GLQ *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Bridge. Read This Book Like a Song 1 Introduction. For the Love of Laveau 3 Bridge. A Black Cisfemme Is a Beautiful Thing 29 1. To Transcender Transgender 31 Bridge. Sissy Werk 65 2. Mache Ansanm 67 Bridge. My Femdom, My Love 99 3. Riding the Red 101 Bridge. For the Party Girls 133 4. Its a Party 135 Bridge. Baía and Marigo 169 Conclusion. Arties's Song 171 Notes 195 Glossary 223 Bibliography 225 Index 241
£72.25
Duke University Press Conditions of the Present
Book SynopsisConditions of the Present collects essays by the late Lindon Barrett that theorize race and liberation in the United States, confront critical blind spots within both academic and popular discourse, and speak across institutional divides and the gulf between academia and the street.Trade Review“Conditions of the Present validates Lindon Barrett’s brilliant career in African American studies. Recommended.” -- L. L. Johnson * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface: Contrary to Appearances / Jennifer DeVere Brody xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction: Unruly Knowledges / Janet Neary 1 I. In the Classroom, In the Academy: Situating African American Literature, Theory, and Culture Introduction / Linh U. Hua 25 1. Institutions, Classrooms, Failures: African American Literature and Critical Theory in the Same Small Spaces 31 2. The Experiences of Slave Narratives: Reading against Authenticity 48 3. Redoubling American Studies: John Carlos Rowe and Cultural Criticism 61 II. Gestures of Inscription: African American Slave Narratives Introduction / Daphne A. Brooks 87 4. African-American Slave Narratives: Literacy, the Body, Authority 92 5. Hand-Writing: Legibility and the White Body in Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom 119 6. Self-Knowledge, Law, and African American Autobiography: Lucy A. Delaney's From the Darkness Cometh the Light 139 III. Imagining Collectively: Identity, Individuality, and Other Social Phantasms Introduction / Marlon B. Ross 165 7. Identities and Identity Studies: Reading Toni Cade Bambra's "The Hammer Man" 171 8. The Gaze of Langston Hughes: Subjectivity, Homoeroticism, and the Feminine in The Big Sea 193 9. Black Men in the Mix: Badboys, Heroes, Sequins, and Dennis Rodman 212 10. Dead Men Printed: Tupac Shakur, Biggie Smalls, and Hip-Hop Eulogy 237 IV. Calculations of Race and Reason: Theorizing the Psychic and the Social Introduction / Robyn Wiegman 273 11. Presence of Mind: Detection and Racialization in "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" 278 12. Family Values/Critical Values: "The Chaos of Our Strongest Feelings" and African American Women's Writings of the 1890s 299 13. Mercantilism, U.S. Federalism, and the Market within Reason: The "People" and the Conceptual Impossibility of Racial Blackness 320 Afterword: Remembering Lindon Barrett / Elizabeth Alexander 353 Contributors 357 Index 361 Credits 375
£112.20
Duke University Press The Pursuit of Happiness
Book SynopsisBianca C. Williams traces the experiences of African American women who travel to Jamaica and form affective relationships Jamaican men and women that help construct notions of diasporic belonging and a form of happiness that resists the damaging intersections of racism and patriarchy in the United States.Trade Review"Breathtaking. . . . Simply reading this book felt like an act of self-care for me—a breath of fresh air." -- Erica Lorraine Williams * Anthrodendum *"This book will be of interest to scholars in many fields, such as Black feminist studies, transnational and diaspora studies, and the anthropology of tourism and mobility. I particularly want to highlight the book’s contribution to affect studies, given Williams’ careful attention to the ways in which her interlocutors’ emotions are influenced by their racial, gendered, classed, and national subjectivities." -- Dannah Dennis * Journal for the Anthropology of North America *"The Pursuit of Happiness is an insightful and engrossing book about African-American women on topics few readers are privileged to hear about or understand." -- Jualynne E. Dodson * American Journal of Sociology *"The Pursuit of Happiness challenges white-centric understandings of Caribbean tourism, male-centric understandings of black diasporic connections, and youth-centric notions of leisure and emotional fulfillment. Williams's positioning of African American women as agents is especially remarkable. ... [This book] makes a vital contribution to transnational black feminist thought and feminist geography, African Diaspora studies, critical race studies, Caribbean studies, tourism studies, and cultural anthropology by centering black women's emotions and transnational mobilities within these fields." -- Nicosia Shakes * Anthropological Quarterly *"The Pursuit of Happiness is a beautifully written text which humanizes the lives, experiences, and desires of Black women. There are few exceptions wherein scholarly texts examines the experiences of U.S. Black women beyond the borders of the U.S. Williams' work is a guiding light as to how this may be successfully and meaningfully done in future works." -- Antwann Michael Simpkins * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. "Jamaica Crawled Into My Soul": Black Women, Affect, and the Promise of Diaspora 1 Interlude 27 1. More Than a Groove: Pursuing Happiness as a Political Project 31 Interlude 63 2. "Giving Back" to Jamaica: Experiencing Community and Conflict While Traveling with Diasporic Heart 65 Interlude 95 3. Why Jamaica? Seeking the Fantasy of a Black Paradise 99 Interlude 121 4. Breaking (It) Down: Gender, Emotional Entanglements, and the Realities of Romance Tourism 123 Interlude 159 5. Navigating (Virtual) Jamaica: Online Diasporic Contact Zones 163 Interlude 185 Epilogue. Lessons Learned 187 Notes 197 Bibliography 209 Index 221
£18.89
Duke University Press Ezilis Mirrors Imagining Black Queer Genders
Book SynopsisOmise'eke Natasha Tinsley traces how contemporary queer Caribbean and African American writers, filmmakers, musicians, and performers evoke the divinity Ezili—a pantheon of lwa feminine spirits in Vodou—in ways that offer a new model of queer black feminist theory.Trade Review"Ezili’s Mirrors thoroughly and carefully mines the utility and uniqueness of multiple spiritual and thought traditions, aesthetics, and sources of knowledge. . .. Ezili’s Mirrors is important because through it Tinsley shows us ways that black femme life and black queer life exists and asserts itself as other than the abject, the undesirable, the inappropriate, and the excessive." -- Alexandria Smith * The New Inquiry *"I have longed for a book as daring as Ezili's Mirrors." -- Meredith Coleman-Tobias * Reading Religion *"This pathbreaking work prompts Black feminist and queer diaspora scholars to use their academic training not as an endpoint, but as a point of departure, emboldening scholars to turn to whatever sources that are necessary to write books that will sustain alternative forms of knowing under increasing conditions of precarity in Black queer diasporic lives, loves, and labor." -- Darius Bost * The Black Scholar *"Once in a great while, a gem of a book comes along. It is not only elegantly written and astutely composed, compellingly and courageously argued, but it also opens up new and generative ways of looking at the African diaspora and the disciplines devoted to its study. I am talking about Tinsley’s Ezili’s Mirrors. I read the book with intense joy, on many levels: its theoretical polyamory, its dazzling methodology, its engrossing narrations, and the different senses it calls on." -- Gloria Wekker * TSQ *"Ezili's Mirrors makes an original contribution to the development of the field of queer black religion and to the ways in which this scholarship has a wider, public impact in the representation and self-understanding of queer-of-color spiritual communities whose members experience lives of constant fragmentation and recomposition daily, globally." -- Roberto Strongman * GLQ *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Bridge. Read This Book Like a Song 1 Introduction. For the Love of Laveau 3 Bridge. A Black Cisfemme Is a Beautiful Thing 29 1. To Transcender Transgender 31 Bridge. Sissy Werk 65 2. Mache Ansanm 67 Bridge. My Femdom, My Love 99 3. Riding the Red 101 Bridge. For the Party Girls 133 4. Its a Party 135 Bridge. Baía and Marigo 169 Conclusion. Arties's Song 171 Notes 195 Glossary 223 Bibliography 225 Index 241
£19.79
Duke University Press The Universal Machine
Book SynopsisIn the concluding volume to his landmark trilogy consent not to be a single being Fred Moten uses the work of Emmanuel Levinas, Hannah Arendt, and Franz Fanon to explore the relationship between blackness and phenomenology, theorizing blackness as a way of being in the world that evades regulation.Trade Review"It's this spirit of the collective effort of study and exchange and resonance, the effort to keep the channels open and keep listening, that has made Moten (or, maybe, 'Moten/s') such a celebrated thinker. At the end of sentences like these, you want to say something like Amen." -- Jess Row * Bookforum *"At a time when both theory and criticism are frequently and convincingly attacked as exhausted forms, Moten’s trilogy has reinvented both. . . . In its mixture of theoretical complexity and disarming directness, Moten’s beautifully written trilogy offers the sheer pleasure of art." -- Lidija Haas * Vulture *"2018 must go down for me as the year of Fred Moten’s trilogy: Black and Blur, Stolen Life, and The Universal Machine. You could say they’re essays about art, philosophy, blackness, and the refusal of social death, but I think of them more as a fractal universe forever inviting immersion and exploration, a living force now inhabiting my bookshelf." -- Maggie Nelson * Bookforum *"My favorite book(s) of 2018 are the three volumes of Fred Moten’s consent not to be a single being, individually titled Black and Blur, Stolen Life, and The Universal Machine. In this collection of essays stretching back fifteen years, Moten challenges the reader to imagine a radically interconnected aesthetic and political sphere that stretches from Glenn Gould to Fanon to Kant to Theaster Gates, sometimes in the space of a single sentence. This trilogy is one of the great intellectual adventures of our era." -- Jess Row * Bookforum *"consent not to be a single being, titled after a phrase of Édouard Glissant’s, ranges across an impressive number of disciplines: black studies, performance studies, aesthetics, phenomenology, ontology, ethnomusicology, jazz history, comparative literature, critical theory, etc. Without announcing its intervention as interdisciplinary–Moten deftly renders discipline beside the point. . . . Taken together, the series amounts to a powerful argument for black study—as an analytic, an impetus, a mode, the collective shout from a radical vista, whose bellow requires nothing less than 'passionate response' (Moten 2003)." -- Mimi Howard * boundary 2 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Preface ix 1. There Is No Racism Intended 1 2. Refuge, Refuse, Refrain 65 3. Chromatic Saturation 140 Notes 247 Works Cited 271 Index 281
£75.65
Duke University Press Conditions of the Present
Book SynopsisConditions of the Present collects essays by the late Lindon Barrett that theorize race and liberation in the United States, confront critical blind spots within both academic and popular discourse, and speak across institutional divides and the gulf between academia and the street.Trade Review“Conditions of the Present validates Lindon Barrett’s brilliant career in African American studies. Recommended.” -- L. L. Johnson * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface: Contrary to Appearances / Jennifer DeVere Brody xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction: Unruly Knowledges / Janet Neary 1 I. In the Classroom, In the Academy: Situating African American Literature, Theory, and Culture Introduction / Linh U. Hua 25 1. Institutions, Classrooms, Failures: African American Literature and Critical Theory in the Same Small Spaces 31 2. The Experiences of Slave Narratives: Reading against Authenticity 48 3. Redoubling American Studies: John Carlos Rowe and Cultural Criticism 61 II. Gestures of Inscription: African American Slave Narratives Introduction / Daphne A. Brooks 87 4. African-American Slave Narratives: Literacy, the Body, Authority 92 5. Hand-Writing: Legibility and the White Body in Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom 119 6. Self-Knowledge, Law, and African American Autobiography: Lucy A. Delaney's From the Darkness Cometh the Light 139 III. Imagining Collectively: Identity, Individuality, and Other Social Phantasms Introduction / Marlon B. Ross 165 7. Identities and Identity Studies: Reading Toni Cade Bambra's "The Hammer Man" 171 8. The Gaze of Langston Hughes: Subjectivity, Homoeroticism, and the Feminine in The Big Sea 193 9. Black Men in the Mix: Badboys, Heroes, Sequins, and Dennis Rodman 212 10. Dead Men Printed: Tupac Shakur, Biggie Smalls, and Hip-Hop Eulogy 237 IV. Calculations of Race and Reason: Theorizing the Psychic and the Social Introduction / Robyn Wiegman 273 11. Presence of Mind: Detection and Racialization in "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" 278 12. Family Values/Critical Values: "The Chaos of Our Strongest Feelings" and African American Women's Writings of the 1890s 299 13. Mercantilism, U.S. Federalism, and the Market within Reason: The "People" and the Conceptual Impossibility of Racial Blackness 320 Afterword: Remembering Lindon Barrett / Elizabeth Alexander 353 Contributors 357 Index 361 Credits 375
£27.90
Duke University Press Abject Performances Aesthetic Strategies in
Book SynopsisLeticia Alvarado explores how Latino artists and cultural producers have developed and deployed an irreverent aesthetics of abjection to resist assimilation and disrupt respectability politics.Trade Review"In writing this, I am thinking of contemporary figures of abjection—the asylum seeker, the victim of domestic abuse and gang violence, the parent and child violently separated at the US border. Abject Performances does not make such figures more legible, but rather encourages readers towards being with illegibility so as to create a condition for thinking through alternatives to citizenship, to accept the unknown and unknowable as a viable, yet confounding aesthetic, and a necessary, though unsustainable politic." -- Eddie Gamboa * Women & Performance *"Abject Performances presents a dynamic, fascinating, and novel approach to understanding the role of abjection in contestatory articulations of Latino identity. From the esoteric to the popular, the sacred to the profane, Leticia Alvarado weaves together a narrative that convincingly positions the abject as an entirely distinct way of producing latinidad through diverse cultural products." -- Alexandra Gonzenbach Perkins * Journal of American Studies *"Alvarado’s book usefully brings aesthetics and affect theory to bear upon not only what Latinidad means, but also how its possibilities can shift. . . . Alvarado rigorously theorizes a strand of Latinx affective and aesthetic engagement that names a feeling we already have and a perspective we need to embrace." -- Renee Hudson * ASAP/Journal *"Abject Performances is an ambitious text. The breadth of theoretical frameworks is especially impressive given the depth of critical analysis that complements them. . . . Viewing the ways in which aesthetic theory meets performance and media studies, Latino studies, and queer theory as an emerging flux continues necessary conversations in these fields." -- Lacie Rae B. Cunningham * Aztlán *"Alvarado brings together artistic, academic, and activist ways of being and doing in this world, opening spaces to imagine brighter futures. . . . Against the myth of wholeness and completion, Alvarado offers a final Muñozian gesture: circling back to the urgency of imagining futurity, Abject Performances rehearses a path towards a more sensual world not-yet-here." -- Leticia Robles-Moreno * TDR: The Drama Review *“Abject Performances lingers on moments of discord, rupture, and disunity among Latinx cultural producers and picks at the wounds to find what political possibilities might emerge in them.... I am fortified and inspired that such work is now possible....” -- Jillian Hernandez * American Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Sublime Abjection 1 1. Other Desires: Ana Mendieta's Abject Imaginings 25 2. Phantom Assholes: Asco's Affective Vortex 57 3. Of Betties Decorous and Abject: Ugly Betty's America la fea and Nao Bustamante's America la bella 89 4. Arriving at Apostasy: Performative Testimonies of Ambivalent Belonging 131 Conclusion. Abject Embodiment 161 Notes 167 Bibliography 193 Index 209
£103.70
Duke University Press Fugitive Life The Queer Politics of the Prison
Book SynopsisStephen Dillon examines the literary and artistic work of feminist, queer antiracist activists who were imprisoned or became fugitives in the United States during the 1970s, showing how they were among the first to theorize and make visible the co-constitutive symbiotic relationship between neoliberalism and racialized mass-incarceration.Trade Review"Dillon’s overall project returns a genealogy of antiprison politics to con-temporary queer theoretical debates on temporality, fugitivity, and desire. ... [His] text is thus not only a valuable contribution to Black feminist thought and queer studies but also a model for abolition itself." -- Cameron Clark * GLQ *"This is an excellent book for our times, an era provoking fresh outrage over children in cages and the brutal treatment of bodies fleeing violence by states that claim to honor human rights. It is a time to bathe in the spirit of many of the authors Dillon presents. Fugitive Life is a compelling reminder of the logics of the carceral state as they have been unfolding over centuries, and the inevitable — if frequently intangible —logics of resistance that also result." -- Keally McBride * Politics and Gender *“In Fugitive Life, Stephen Dillon uses the writings of fugitive activists to analyze how gender, race, and sexuality were deployed in the development of a new system of power in 1970: the neoliberal-carceral state. The book is beautifully written and a significant intervention that is sure to become a foundational text in a number of academic fields.” -- Erin Mayo-Adam * Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics *“Beautifully written, Fugitive Life is a key text for readers in American studies, criminology, queer studies, Black studies, and—keenly—for those of us who count ourselves as ongoing scholars of, and participants in, radical social and political movements.” -- Melanie Brazzell and Erica R. Meiners * QED *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. "Escape-Bound Captives": Race, Neoliberalism, and the Force of Queerness 1 1. "We're Not Hiding but We're Invisible": Law and Order, the Temporality of Violence, and the Queer Fugitive 27 2. Life Escapes: Neoliberal Economics, the Underground, and Fugitive Freedom 54 3. Possessed by Death: Black Feminism, Queer Temporality, and the Afterlife of Slavery 84 4. "Only the Sun Will Bleach His Bones Quicker": Desire, Police Terror, and the Affect of Queer Feminist Futures 119 Conclusion. "Being Captured Is Beside the Point": A World beyond the World 143 Notes 155 Bibliography 171 Index 185
£86.70
Duke University Press M Archive
Book SynopsisEngaging with the work of M. Jacqui Alexander and Black feminist thought more generally, Alexis Pauline Gumbs's M Archive is a series of prose poems that speculatively documents the survival of Black people following a worldwide cataclysm while examining the possibilities of being that exceed the human.Trade Review"M Archive adds to and extends the critical work being done around breath, breathing, and blackness. And in so doing, it gives us a reason to breathe – independently and collectively – again." -- Sasha Panaram * New Black Man (In Exile) *"Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a literary treasure. M Archive, the second book in an innovative trilogy that began with Spill, is evidence of her brilliance." * Bitch *(Starred Review) "Groundbreaking.... This is an impressive archive 'written in collaboration with the survivors' and the mythology that Gumbs develops from the artifacts of future black life and memory works to reveal an existence 'on the verge of regenerating the cells that would let us dream deep enough to remember.'” * Publishers Weekly *"The end of the world is no joke! This text is clearly ambitious. More compendium than chronicle, the writing is poetic, dense, and often solemn with glimmers of dark wit." -- Gabrielle Civil * Full Stop *"Offers a set of necessary and stimulating interventions . . . A generous work that challenges dominant views that assume that ancestral speculative work has no place in feminist theory." -- Chandra Frank * Feminist Formations *"At turns lush and awesome, in ways that make the eyes gleam and the mind crackle with electricity, in ways that devastate and leave the spirit raw with overlain feelings of complicity and responsibility, and loving, always loving, always loving in, between, and across every single word—the beautiful and daring writing of M Archive imperatively continues the constellar work of radical Black feminism’s ongoing project of 'imagining the unimaginable.'" -- John Murillo III * Make *"[G]round-breaking. . . . Gumbs’s trilogy embraces the lyric beauty in the acts of naming, remembering, and finding one’s way back to the source. . . . Reading Gumbs’s books feels like reading an archive that will someday, who knows maybe even someday soon, usher in an era of radical transformation." -- Kathryn Nuernberger * West Branch *Table of ContentsA Note ix From the Lab Notebooks of the Last Experiments 3 Archive of Dirt: What We Did 31 Archive of Sky: What We Became 71 Archive of Fire: Rate of Change 89 Archive of Ocean: Origin 105 Baskets (Possible Futures Yet to Be Woven) 133 Memory Drive 185 Acknowledgments 213 Notes 217 Periodic Kitchen Table of Elements 227
£72.25
Duke University Press Ontological Terror Blackness Nihilism and
Book SynopsisCalvin L. Warren intervenes in Afro-pessimism, Heideggerian metaphysics, and black humanist philosophy, illustrating how blacks embody a metaphysical nothing while showing how this nothingness destabilizes whiteness, makes blacks a target of violence, and explains why humanism has failed to achieve equality for blacks.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. The Free Black Is Nothing 1 1. The Question of Black Being 26 2. Outlawing 62 3. Scientific Horror 110 4. Catachrestic Fantasies 143 Coda. Adieu to the Human 169 Notes 173 Bibliography 201 Index 211
£72.25
Duke University Press Bodyminds Reimagined
Book SynopsisIn Bodyminds Reimagined Sami Schalk traces how black women''s speculative fiction complicates the understanding of bodyminds—the intertwinement of the mental and the physical—in the context of race, gender, and (dis)ability. Bridging black feminist theory with disability studies, Schalk demonstrates that this genre''s political potential lies in the authors'' creation of bodyminds that transcend reality''s limitations. She reads (dis)ability in neo-slavenarratives by Octavia Butler (Kindred) and Phyllis Alesia Perry (Stigmata) not only as representing the literal injuries suffered under slavery, but also as a metaphor for the legacy of racial violence. The fantasy worlds in works by N. K. Jemisin, Shawntelle Madison, and Nalo Hopkinson—where werewolves have obsessive-compulsive-disorder and blind demons can see magic—destabilize social categories and definitions of the human, calling into question the very nature of identity. In these tTrade Review"It is now time to bring focus and attention to the works of Black women speculative writers and their subjects. Bodyminds Reimagined becomes the discovery that celebrates these writers and subjects, while challenging the status quo within speculative fiction and (dis)ability studies, and moves them from marginalized objects to realist representations." -- Grace Gipson * Black Perspectives *“Sami Schalk’s highly anticipated Bodyminds Reimagined is the most significant contribution to literary and cultural disability studies in years. Appeals to scholars in critical race studies, queer studies, and social justice activism.” -- Anna L. Hinton * ASAP/Journal *"Sami Schalk’s book is an important bridge between Black women’s science fiction and disability theorizing. Her work requires a reconceptualization of the boundaries of disability studies and African American literature as well." -- Moya Bailey * Feminist Formations *"Bodyminds Reimagined boldly demonstrates the capacity of black speculation and experimentation to generate world-building visions that are inclusive and sustainable for multiply marginalized black subjects." -- Petal Samuel * Public Books *"Bodyminds Reimagined is a compelling critical study . . . simultaneously accessible and complex, exhaustively sourced and fresh in its analysis. . . . Students, scholars, and fans of speculative fiction will be well served to familiarize themselves with this book." -- Angela Rovak * Women's Studies *"Sami Schalk, through Bodyminds Reimagined, takes a revolutionary step in defining the black disabled person’s experience in literature and media by promoting examples of black disabled people in speculative fiction created by women of color; and by re-defining manifestations of intersectionality among disabled people of color." -- Timotheus "T.J." Gordon, Jr. * Ethnic Studies Review *"Bodyminds Reimagined is an important work on theorizing speculative fiction and the ways in which it can change perceptions, actions, and minds. A model for future intersectional scholarship, this book is well written and accessible." -- Joshua Earle * Catalyst *"Wide-reaching. . . . Sami Schalk’s version of intersectionality emphasizes multidimensional entanglements that resist visual charting and static notions of identity. This version of intersectionality serves as a launchpad for new social formations." -- Gabriella Friedman * American Quarterly *"Bodyminds Reimagined encouraged me to check my own privilege, to think differently about identity, and to reimagine my small niche in the world. The book is that good in its confrontation of the status quo, in its analysis of marginalized peoples in estranged worlds. . . . When I refer to Schalk’s Bodyminds Reimagined as groundbreaking, I do not mean this lightly. . . . All libraries should stock this book on their shelves." -- Isiah Lavender III * Science Fiction Studies *"Bodyminds Reimagined will appeal both to scholars and general readers. Schalk’s framework is simplified in a way that makes it digestible for those who may be unfamiliar with crip theory or intersectionality. With a slim frame, and at only four chapters, the book is inviting rather than intimidating. Schalk’s ability to sound both personable and professional is particularly enjoyable." -- Anelise Farris * Extrapolation *Table of ContentsPrologue and Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Metaphor and Materiality: Disability and Neo-Slave Narratives 33 2. Whose Reality Is It Anyway? Deconstructing Able-Mindedness 59 3. The Future of Bodyminds, Bodyminds of the Future 85 4. Defamiliarizing (Dis)ability, Race, Gender, and Sexuality 113 Conclusion 137 Notes 147 Bibliography 159 Index 175
£70.55
Duke University Press Abject Performances
Book SynopsisLeticia Alvarado explores how Latino artists and cultural producers have developed and deployed an irreverent aesthetics of abjection to resist assimilation and disrupt respectability politics.Trade Review"In writing this, I am thinking of contemporary figures of abjection—the asylum seeker, the victim of domestic abuse and gang violence, the parent and child violently separated at the US border. Abject Performances does not make such figures more legible, but rather encourages readers towards being with illegibility so as to create a condition for thinking through alternatives to citizenship, to accept the unknown and unknowable as a viable, yet confounding aesthetic, and a necessary, though unsustainable politic." -- Eddie Gamboa * Women & Performance *"Abject Performances presents a dynamic, fascinating, and novel approach to understanding the role of abjection in contestatory articulations of Latino identity. From the esoteric to the popular, the sacred to the profane, Leticia Alvarado weaves together a narrative that convincingly positions the abject as an entirely distinct way of producing latinidad through diverse cultural products." -- Alexandra Gonzenbach Perkins * Journal of American Studies *"Alvarado’s book usefully brings aesthetics and affect theory to bear upon not only what Latinidad means, but also how its possibilities can shift. . . . Alvarado rigorously theorizes a strand of Latinx affective and aesthetic engagement that names a feeling we already have and a perspective we need to embrace." -- Renee Hudson * ASAP/Journal *"Abject Performances is an ambitious text. The breadth of theoretical frameworks is especially impressive given the depth of critical analysis that complements them. . . . Viewing the ways in which aesthetic theory meets performance and media studies, Latino studies, and queer theory as an emerging flux continues necessary conversations in these fields." -- Lacie Rae B. Cunningham * Aztlán *"Alvarado brings together artistic, academic, and activist ways of being and doing in this world, opening spaces to imagine brighter futures. . . . Against the myth of wholeness and completion, Alvarado offers a final Muñozian gesture: circling back to the urgency of imagining futurity, Abject Performances rehearses a path towards a more sensual world not-yet-here." -- Leticia Robles-Moreno * TDR: The Drama Review *“Abject Performances lingers on moments of discord, rupture, and disunity among Latinx cultural producers and picks at the wounds to find what political possibilities might emerge in them.... I am fortified and inspired that such work is now possible....” -- Jillian Hernandez * American Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Sublime Abjection 1 1. Other Desires: Ana Mendieta's Abject Imaginings 25 2. Phantom Assholes: Asco's Affective Vortex 57 3. Of Betties Decorous and Abject: Ugly Betty's America la fea and Nao Bustamante's America la bella 89 4. Arriving at Apostasy: Performative Testimonies of Ambivalent Belonging 131 Conclusion. Abject Embodiment 161 Notes 167 Bibliography 193 Index 209
£26.09
Duke University Press Fugitive Life
Book SynopsisStephen Dillon examines the literary and artistic work of feminist, queer antiracist activists who were imprisoned or became fugitives in the United States during the 1970s, showing how they were among the first to theorize and make visible the co-constitutive symbiotic relationship between neoliberalism and racialized mass-incarceration.Trade Review"Dillon’s overall project returns a genealogy of antiprison politics to con-temporary queer theoretical debates on temporality, fugitivity, and desire. ... [His] text is thus not only a valuable contribution to Black feminist thought and queer studies but also a model for abolition itself." -- Cameron Clark * GLQ *"This is an excellent book for our times, an era provoking fresh outrage over children in cages and the brutal treatment of bodies fleeing violence by states that claim to honor human rights. It is a time to bathe in the spirit of many of the authors Dillon presents. Fugitive Life is a compelling reminder of the logics of the carceral state as they have been unfolding over centuries, and the inevitable — if frequently intangible —logics of resistance that also result." -- Keally McBride * Politics and Gender *“In Fugitive Life, Stephen Dillon uses the writings of fugitive activists to analyze how gender, race, and sexuality were deployed in the development of a new system of power in 1970: the neoliberal-carceral state. The book is beautifully written and a significant intervention that is sure to become a foundational text in a number of academic fields.” -- Erin Mayo-Adam * Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics *“Beautifully written, Fugitive Life is a key text for readers in American studies, criminology, queer studies, Black studies, and—keenly—for those of us who count ourselves as ongoing scholars of, and participants in, radical social and political movements.” -- Melanie Brazzell and Erica R. Meiners * QED *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. "Escape-Bound Captives": Race, Neoliberalism, and the Force of Queerness 1 1. "We're Not Hiding but We're Invisible": Law and Order, the Temporality of Violence, and the Queer Fugitive 27 2. Life Escapes: Neoliberal Economics, the Underground, and Fugitive Freedom 54 3. Possessed by Death: Black Feminism, Queer Temporality, and the Afterlife of Slavery 84 4. "Only the Sun Will Bleach His Bones Quicker": Desire, Police Terror, and the Affect of Queer Feminist Futures 119 Conclusion. "Being Captured Is Beside the Point": A World beyond the World 143 Notes 155 Bibliography 171 Index 185
£22.79
Duke University Press From the Tricontinental to the Global South
Book SynopsisAnne Garland Mahler traces the history and intellectual legacy of the understudied global justice movement called the Tricontinental and calls for a revival of the Tricontinental's politics as a means to strengthen racial justice and anti-neoliberal struggles in the twenty-first-century.Trade Review"From the Tricontinental to the Global South is particularly effective in its close reading of cultural texts and thus makes a significant contribution to cultural studies and cultural criticism. In centering Latin American and Black Radical intellectual and artistic traditions in its discussion of left transnational politics, anti-capitalism, and anti-imperialism, it effectively shifts the focus from Western Marxist traditions to racialized, oppressed, and dispossessed scholar-activists. Africana Studies, Latin American Studies, Ethnic Studies, Black Power studies, and subfields of history, sociology, and political science that focus on power relations, political organizing, and social movements will benefit from this framing." -- Charisse Burden-Stelly * Black Perspectives *"Mahler convincingly argues that movements many readers may be familiar with, such as the Black Panther Party, the Young Lords, and Black Lives Matter, were inheritors of or collaborators in this Tricontinental aesthetic. Reproductions of striking film stills and bold graphic design make the book as visually captivating as it is wonderfully written—modeling the Tricontinental’s commitment to a well-designed revolution." -- Amanda Reid * Public Books *"[A] rich, interdisciplinary history of the Tricontinental. . . . Historians of the United States will find interesting the many links between conceptions of the Global South and of the American South." -- Nico Slate * Journal of American History *"From the Tricontinental to the Global South is a compelling read and should appeal to a broad range of scholars who are interested in racial transnational social movements, racial capitalism, and the politics of culture in the Americas." -- Juan De Lara * Aztlán *"A conceptually rich examination of the political and aesthetic vocabularies produced by and around the Tricontinental, combining rigorous historical investigation with close formal analysis of works of literature, film, and visual culture. . . . Not only does From the Tricontinental to the Global South offer a long history of resistant politics in which Latin American, Afro-descendant, and African American intellectuals have played a central role, it provides a long view of contemporary understandings of the Global South, which both grounds the concept and gives it renewed critical heft. It is crucial reading for anyone interested in and working on the Global South today." -- Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra * Chasqui *“From the Tricontinental to the Global South is both interesting and challenging. . . . This would be a good book to use in graduate seminars on global history, the history of radicalism, and theory and history. Specialists will appreciate Mahler’s attention to detail and how she employs different types of evidence to analyze a largely forgotten radical movement.” -- Evan C. Rothera * African Studies Quarterly *"This book enriches the oeuvre of contemporary Cold War studies and critiques of neoliberalism. It builds on transnational scholarship that moves the Global South and Third Worldism away from national or regional paradigms to explain oppression and its resistance. … Mahler should be commended for the voluminous material she dissects and for jumping into the thorniness of these overlapping issues." -- John A. Gronbeck-Tedesco * American Historical Review *"From the Tricontinental to the Global South offers an indispensable historical perspective for understanding our tumultuous present; until Mahler releases an updated edition with a Tricontinentalist reading of the immediate post-George Floyd era, readers can only wait in anticipation." -- Daniel Cooper * American Literary History *"From the Tricontinental to the Global South is an outstanding and at times astounding book…. This book is likely to actually reshape the way fields, such as Latinx and postcolonial studies, define their relation to a centrally important but chronologically neglected history. I can imagine many graduate students not only adding this book to their Ph.D. reading lists but rethinking the entire trajectory of their future work because of it." -- Alfred J. López * Modern Fiction Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Beyond the Color Curtain: From the Black Atlantic to the Tricontinental 19 2. In the Belly of the Beast: African American Civil Rights through a Tricontinental Lens 68 3. The "Colored and Oppressed" in Amerikkka: Trans-Affective Solidarity in Writings by Young Lords and Nuyoricans 106 4. "Todos los negros y todos los blancos y todos tomamos café": Racial Politics in the "Latin, African" Nation 160 5. The (New) Global South in the Age of Global Capitalism: A Return to the Tricontinental 200 Conclusion. Against Ferguson? Internationalism from the Tricontinental to the Global South 241 Notes 247 Bibliography 299 Index 329
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