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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 *“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 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 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 *“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 *"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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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Book SynopsisMelanie S. Morrison tells the tragic story of the murder and attempted murder of three young women in 1930s Birmingham, Alabama, and the aftermath, which saw a reign of terror unleashed on the town's black community, the wrongful conviction and death sentencing of Willie Peterson, and a black-led effort to free Peterson.Trade Review(Starred Review) "In this passionate account of Jim Crow–era injustice, educator and activist Morrison exposes how courtrooms 'could function like lynch mobs when the defendant was black.'... Morrison, who is white, shares this painful story with clarity and compassion, emphasizing how much has changed since the 1930s, how much white people need to 'critically interrogate' the past, and how much 'remains to be done' in the fight for justice." * Publishers Weekly *"The author deserves praise for identifying Peterson’s trial as an important precursor to the 1960s civil rights movement. Audiences will be enthralled and angered by this all-too-familiar account of a criminal justice system that was and remains biased against black Americans." -- Karl Helicher * Foreword Reviews *"Morrison digs deeply into period newspapers and archives to uncover this story of injustice long overshadowed by the more famous Scottsboro Boys trial. A thoughtful look into a tale of prejudice and stolen justice that will find many readers who are interested in African American history, the early civil rights movement, and Southern history." -- Chad E. Statler * Library Journal *"Morrison’s book is an ultimate tribute to a man who is seldom mentioned in the Civil Rights Movement, but was a true civil rights hero and who despite torture and mental cruelty always proclaimed his innocence." -- Bill Castanier * Lansing City Pulse *"A straightforward, thoroughly researched nonfiction account of yet another disgraceful episode in Alabama racial history." -- Don Noble * Tuscaloosa News *"An important and timely book.” -- James L. Baggett * Birmingham Watch *"The book ends, as it begins, with a call to each of us to do our own work. In the afterword, poignantly written in the form of a letter to her late father, Morrison states the brutal truth: 'The demonization and criminalization of black men remains a national disgrace.' Eighty-seven years after Willie Peterson was targeted on a Birmingham street corner, there is still much work to be done. This book offers inspiration to keep at it." -- Joyce Hollyday * Sojourners *"iI shifting attention from Scottsboro's sleepy courthouse square to Birmingham's industrialized and highly stratified terrain, Morrison offers fresh perspective on the structural violence that undergirded white supremacy." -- Jason Morgan Ward * Southern Spaces *"Recounted in painstaking detail by Morrison, this near century-old case emerges as a precedent for contemporary discussions of racism in the criminal justice system, reaffirming how firmly rooted racial profiling and the criminalization of blackness are in American culture." -- Ladee Hubbard * TLS *"Morrison succeeds admirably in moving the literature beyond Scottsboro, which has garnered the lion’s share of historians’ attention. Morrison is at her best when she unearths legal records to explain how the criminal justice system was stacked against Peterson. . . . In Morrison’s hands, the Jim Crow justice system avoids caricature and emerges as a living, breathing system in which injustice is that much more evident and pernicious. . . . Compelling and beautifully written." -- David A. Varel * Journal of Southern History *"[Murder on Shades Mountain's] detailed narrative of one little-known crime and its aftermath is powerful and evocative and offers a revealing window into the workings of white supremacy—one that is even more dramatic in some ways than the story of the Scottsboro Boys. . . . Morrison’s work offers a critical reminder that whites must interrogate all the stories about race that they have inherited, even those of white advocates for racial justice." -- Renee Romano * American Historical Review *"Morrison forces the reader to grapple with the precarity of Black life in relation to white supremacist power structures like the criminal justice system.… Murder on Shades Mountain is a crucial text for tracing the genealogy of state-sanctioned anti-Black violence in America." -- Denzel Shabazz * Journal of African American History *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Part I. Danger in the Magic City 1. August 4, 1931 15 2. A City Beset by Fear 25 3. Reign of Terror in the Black Community 34 4. Fear, Loathing,and Oblivion in the White Community 45 Part II. Trials and Tribulations 5. The Arrest: September 23, 1931 55 6. Attempted Murder 67 7. Grand Jury Testimonies 76 8. The NAACP Comes to Life 85 9. Mounting the Defense 94 10. House of Pain 113 11. "A Temporarily Dethroned Mind" 116 12. "An Outrageous Spectacle of Injustice" 119 13. A Tumultuous Year 122 Part IV. Never Turning Back 14. Staying on the Firing Line 131 15. Charles Hamilton Houston 134 16. A Lynching in Tuscaloosa 142 17. Moving the Case Forward 150 18. No Negroes Allowed 162 19. A Flood of Letters 168 20. A Multitude of Regrets 172 21. Grave Doubts as to His Guilt 178 22. Jim Crow Justice 185 Epilogue. The Community That Kept Faith 193 Afterword. Letter to My Father 197 Acknowledgments 203 Notes 209 Bibliography 233 Index 241

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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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Book Synopsisthe essential reference for those seeking to understand the most profound registers of this major American thinker.Trade Review"Generations of scholars have given attention to various writings by W.E.B. Du Bois. Few of us, however, have had the courage, determination, and fortitude to inhabit the whole of his historically-situated oeuvre in order to think with Du Bois as he thought. Nahum Chandler, an exemplary critical hermeneuticist, continues to live an inhabitation of Du Bois' thought. And through his critical commentary on Du Bois' "essential early essays" that he has assembled in The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, Chandler calls us to the responsibility to forge enhanced, even new, appreciations of Du Bois' articulated thought, and to "grappling in thought and critical reflection with the implacable matters of existence in our time." In reading these essays via an inhabitation, one cannot but experience the profound ethical and intellectual forcefulness of Chandler's inhabitation and calling." -- -Lucius T. Outlaw Vanderbilt University "This definitive collection of W. E. B. Du Bois's early essays, some having never appeared in print before, is not just another anthology among the hundreds. It is a seminal contribution to the history of modern thought. Compiled and edited by the world's preeminent scholar of early Du Boisian thought, these texts represent his most generative period, when Du Bois engaged every discipline, helped construct modern social science, employed critical inquiry as a weapon of antiracism and political liberation, and always set his sites on the entire world. We know this not by the essays alone, but by Nahum Dimitri Chandler's brilliant, original, and quite riveting introduction. If you are coming to Du Bois for the first time of the 500th time, this book is a must-read." -- -Robin D. G. Kelley author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination "Chandler's collection makes available, for the first time, a systematic, chronological tour of Du Bois's evolving vision of the global color line, as that vision was developed in the crucial opening years of his publishing life. Students ... can follow here the trajectory of this influential intellectual project, step by step. This volume provides a revelatory point of entry into the early thought of Du Bois and a valuable resource for all those interested in African American intellectual history and the sociology of race." -- -Seth Moglen Lehigh UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction by Nahum Dimitri Chandler i-xliv 1894 1. The Afro-American (circa 1894) 1897 2. The Conservation of Races (1897) 3. Strivings of the Negro People (1897) 1898 4. The Study of the Negro Problems (1898) 1900 5. The Present Outlook for the Dark Races of Mankind (1900) 6. The Spirit of Modern Europe (1900) 1901 7. The Freedmen's Bureau (1901) 8. The Relation of the Negroes to the Whites in the South (1901) 1903 9. The Talented Tenth (1903) 1904 10. The Development of a People (1904) 1905 11. Sociology Hesitant (circa 1905) 1906 12. Die Negerfrage in den Vereinigten Staaten (The Negro Question in the United States) (1906) References Acknowledgements

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Book SynopsisThis volume gathers groundbreaking critical essays on Sabato (Simon) Rodia's renowned Watts Towers (Los Angeles, California) from diverse disciplinary perspectives, extensively highlighting his migration context as never before, as well as the Towers in the context of human and community development within the "Watts Towers Common Ground Initiative."Trade Review"This volume is more than a simple extrapolation of the many meanings of a particular folk object. It appeals to those interested in folk art and material culture, twentieth-century Italian American history and culture, and folklore in the public sector. It is a book of searching, of meditations and possibilities, of the enduring relationship between artists, their work, their communities, and the difference that collaborative advocacy for art can make." -Jeffrey Howard, Journal of Folklore Research "... a worthy volume that will be indispensable reading for anyone who has admired the Watts Towers." -- -Lawrence Rainey Modernism/Modernity "Sabato Rodia's Towers in Watts: Art, Migrations, Development is one of the most exciting collections of essays I have read in a long time. It does so much more than explore the fascinating history of Rodia's unique creation; this volume truly captures the rich, variegated, diverse, and transcontinental human drama surrounding the Towers. This book approaches Rodia's Towers much like a visitor would, by taking them in from a distance and then close-up, seeking various angles and perspectives and exploring their setting. This approach makes reading Sabato Rodia's Towers in Watts an experience and a journey of discovery where, in the end, the mysteries merge into a grand revelation of the nature of human creative aspiration." -- -Paul D'Ambrosio President and CEO, Fenimore Art Museum & The Farmers' Museum "This book invites readers to develop an appreciation for the nontraditional art that Simon Rodia's towers so heroically represent. . Above all, beyond its scholarly and informative impact, this book can inspire a broadrer vision of human creativity." -Paul Von Blum, Truth Dig "...'Sabato Rodia's Towers in Watts: Art, Migration, Development presents rich perspectives from academics, writers, artists, city administrators and community organizers." -UCLA Magazine "Sabato Rodia's Towers in Watts offer a rich array of perspectives on the creative work of the eccentric immigrant laborer who created one of the most mysterious landmarks of Los Angeles. Whether they are interested in untrained artists, folklore, immigration, cultural and class politics, historical preservation, Italian American life, or multi-cultural neighborhoods and their identities, readers will find unique and diverse provocations in this this lovingly and astutely assembled book." -- -Donna Gabaccia Professor of History, University of MinnesotaTable of Contentsi. Table of Contents ii. Acknowledgements iii. Contributors Introduction Luisa Del Giudice, Sabato Rodia's Towers in Watts and the Search for Common Ground 1. Situating Sabato Rodia and The Watts Towers: Art Movements, Cultural Contexts, and Migrations 1.1 Jo Farb Hernandez, Local Art, Global Issues: Tales of Survival and Demise Among Contemporary Art Environments 1.2 Guglielmo Bilancioni, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere: Simon Rodia and Fantastic Architecture 1.3 Paul A. Harris, The Poetic Concrete of Sam Rodia's Watts Towers and the Concrete Poetry of Ronald Johnson 1.4 Thomas Harrison, Without Precedent: The Watts Towers 1.5 Richard Candida Smith, An Era of Grand Ambitions: Sam Rodia and California Modernism 1.6 Laura E. Ruberto, A California Detour on the Road to Italy: The Hubcap Ranch, the Napa Valley, and Italian American Identity 1.7 Felice Ceparano, The Gigli of Nola Festival in the Nineteenth Century 1.8 Kenneth Scambray, California and the Italian Immigrant Experience: The Artistic and Literary Contexts of Simon Rodia's Watts Towers 1.9 Luisa Del Giudice, Sabato Rodia's Towers in Watts: Art, Migration, and Italian Imaginaries 1.10 Joseph Sciorra, "Why a Man Makes the Shoes?": Italian American Art and Philosophy in Sabato Rodia's Watts Towers 1.11 George Epolito, Parallel Expression: Revealing the Artistic Contributions of Italian Immigrants in South America During the Era of Simon Rodia 2. The Watts Towers Contested: Conservation, Guardianship, and Cultural Heritage 2.1 Jeanne Morgan, CSRTW- Committee for Simon Rodia's Towers in Watts: Fifty Years of Guardianship 2.2 Jeffrey Herr, Simon Rodia's Towers: A Status Report 2.3 Sarah Schrank, Nuestro Pueblo: The Spatial and Cultural Politics of the Los Angeles' Watts Towers 2.4 Monica Barra, Reading the Watts Towers, Teaching Los Angeles: Story Telling and Public Art 2.5 Katia Ballacchino, Spires and Towers Between Tangible, Intangible and Contested Transnational Culture/Heritage 3. The Watts Towers & Community Development 3.1 Artists in Conversation: John Outterbridge, Judson Powell, Charles Dickson, Augustine Aguirre, Betye Saar, Kenzi Shiokawa (Panel moderated by Rosie Lee Hooks, Saturday, October 23, 2010, 121 Dodd Hall, UCLA) 3.2 Gail Brown, From Where I'm Standing Photo-Documentary Workshops at Watts Towers Arts Center: Building Community Through Self-Awareness and Self-Expression 3.3 Shirmel Hayden, The Watts Towers: Simon Rodia Fights Back Afterword Luisa Del Giudice, Personal Reflections on the Watts Towers Common Ground Initiative Appendices Appendix A1 - Conversations with Rodia 1953 - 1964 A.1.1 Interview of S. Rodia, with William Hale and Ray Wisniewsky, Watts, 1953. A.1.2. Interview with Simon Rodia (Excerpts) by William Hale and Ray Wisniewsky, Watts, 1953. A.1.3. Conversation with Sam Rodia, by Mae Babitz and Jeanne Morgan, Martinez, California, September 1960. A.1.4 Interviews, Part A, B, C with S. Rodia, by Ed Farrell, Jody Farrell, Bud Goldstone, Seymour Rosen, Martinez; University of California, Berkeley; and San Francisco Museum, California, September 1960. A.1.5 Report on Visits to Simon Rodia to CSRTW, from Jody Farrell (Bud Goldstone, Seymour Rosen, Ed Farrell and Jody Farrell), Martinez and Berkeley, California, October 17, 1961; and San Francisco Museum of Art, October 19, 1961. A.1.6 Letter to the CSRTW, by Claudio Segre [Segre], Re: Visit with Rodia in Martinez, California, January 25, 1962. A.1.7 "New Yorker Reporter Visits Rodia," Report to the CSRTW, Re: Interview with Simon Rodia and Relatives, by Calvin Trillin, Nicholas King, Jeanne Morgan, Beniamino Bufano, Martinez, California, August 30, 1964. A.1.8 Conversations with Rodia, Report by Jeanne Morgan, Re: Visits in Martinez, California, May 20, June 15, July 5, August 10, Sept. 10, 1964, and comments on New Yorker visit of Aug. 30, 1964. A.1.10 Last Conversation with Sam Rodia, Report by Jeanne Morgan, Re: Visit in Martinez, California, December 22, 1964. A.1.11 Interview, Part A and B, with S. Rodia, by Norma Ashley-David, Martinez, California, March [1964?]. A.1.12 Interview (Excerpts) with Rodia's Neighbors, Long Beach, California, by Bud Goldstone, 1963. A.4.13 Interview with S. Rodia, by Nicholas King, Martinez, California, September, 1990. Appendix A2 - CSRTW Campaign to Save the Watts Towers A.2.1 Nancie Cavanna Song Score, "Please Don't Tear Down the Towers" A.2.2 Campaign to Save the Watts Towers: Correspondence A.2.3 Miscellaneous Documents

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Book SynopsisThis edited volume, Academics in Action! describes a multi-disciplinary model informed by the educational philosophy of John Dewey wherein students and faculty work with communities, learn from them, and combing findings from theory and research to develop solutions to solve community problems. The volume offers innovative examples of community-engaged research, teaching, and service.Trade Review"Academics in Action shows how the cooperation of academics and community-based organizations can provide teaching and learning that can substantially transform the world toward greater justice." -- -Jeannine Hill Fletcher author of Motherhood as Metaphor: Engendering Interreligious Dialogue "Academics in Action: A Model for Community-Engaged Research, Teaching, and Service, is a distinctive volume that could potentially inspire colleges and universities to adopt a multidisciplinary collaborative approach to service learning! Since institutions of higher learning are positioned to demonstrate their importance as agents of change, they can show us the significance of compassionate and knowledgeable leadership as it relates to the greater global good. This exceptional book also embraces qualitative and quantitative research. Combining these forms of study strengthens validity and positivistic interpretations of results and findings, leaving readers with noteworthy conclusions and strong implications for future practice at their institutions." -- -Patricia Ruggiano Schmidt Le Moyne College Professor EmeritaTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Theories, Frameworks, and Experiences Chapter 1: "John Dewey, Participatory Democracy and University-Community Partnerships by Bob Innes, Leigh Gilchist, Susan Friedman, and Kristen Tompkins Chapter 2: "The Ethical Foundations of Human and Organizational Development Programs: The EHDC across the Curriculum, by Paul Dokecki, Linda Isaacs, Hasina Mohyuddin, and Mark McCormack Chapter 3: Faculty and Student Experiences as a Model for Academic Action" by Oluchi Nwosu, Emily Hennessey, Emily Burchfield, Sandra Barnes, Lauren Brinkley-Rubenstein, and Sharon Shields Part II: Implications and Responses: Academics in Action! Chapter 4: "Using Research to Guide Efforts to Prevent and End Homelessness" by Beth Shinn, Lindsay Mayberry, Andrew Greer, Ben Fisher, Jessica Gibbons, and Vera Chatman Chapter 5: "Ecological Research Promoting Positive Youth Development" by Carol T. Nixon, Bernadette Doykos, Velma M. Murry, Maury Nation, Nina Martin, Alley Pickren, and Joseph Gardella Chapter 6: "Putting Boyer's Four Types of Scholarship into Practice: A Community Research and Action Perspective on Public Health" by Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein, William L. Turner, Vera Chatman, Laurel Lunn and Abbey Mann Chapter 7: "Conducting Research on Comprehensive Community Development Initiatives: Balancing Methodological Rigor and Community Responsiveness" by Kimberly Bess, Bernadette Doykos, Joanna Geller, Krista Craven, and Maury Nation Part III: Academic Structures that Foster Synergy, Collaboration, and Courses Chapter 8: "The Field School in Intercultural Education as a Model for International Service-Learning and Collaborative Action-Research Training" by Holly Karakos, Doug Perkins, Joanna Geller, Ben Fisher, , Nikolay Mihaylov, Sharon Shields, Laurel Lunn, and Neal Palmer Chapter 9: "An Interfaith Research Group Seeks to Understand Interfaith Community Groups: Creating a Mosaic of Personal Religious Values and Narratives" by Paul Dokecki, Linda Isaacs, Hasina Mohyuddin, and Mark McCormack Chapter 10: "Practicum Outcomes and Their Contributions" by Heather Smith, Vicki Davis, Beth Shinn, and Stephanie Zuckerman Chapter 11: "Can Philosophy, Theory, Pedagogy, and Practice Come Together to Guide Professional Education?" by Linda Isaacs, Sharon Shields, Craig Anne Heflinger, Paul Speer,Neal Palmer, Brendan O'Conner, and Allison McGuire Chapter 12:, "Links to Human Development, Social Justice, and Human Ecology or HDC's Roots from Dewey and Kohlberg", Andy Finch, Gina Frieden, Nina Martin, and Bethany Pittman Volume Conclusion

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn examining these cross-cultural collaborations between Asian and Asian American authors and their mostly white U.S. editors and publishers Trickster-Cosmopolitanism adds what's missing from the current scholarship on the publishing history of Asian American writing. -- -Donald E. Pease Dartmouth College "A timely and groundbreaking study of Asian American literary production in the age of globalization. Through the double lenses of textual analysis and publication history, it sheds new light on what Magosaki calls 'trickster cosmopolitanism,' an interesting term she develops from 'Signifying' as defined in Afro-American literary history and applies to her study of the work of Asian American women writers. Tricksters Cosmopolitanism is a unique book that makes important contribution to Asian American literature and global and feminist studies." -- -Yunte Huang University of California, Santa BarbaraTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1 Trickster Poetics at the Turn of the Century: Charles Chesnutt, Sui Sin Far, and Allies in the East Coast Publishing Industry (1) Locating Trickster Poetics Charles Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman and Walter Hines Page (2) Silence as Signifying Sui Sin Far's Short Stories, The Independent, and William Hayes Ward Chapter 2 The Making of the Cosmopolitan Subject: Jessica Hagedorn, San Francisco, and Multiculturalism in the Age of Globalization (1) San Francisco's Avant-Garde Literary Scene Yardbird Publishing, Shameless Hussey Press, and Third World Communications (2) A Star is Born Narrative Construction of the Cosmopolitan Subject in Jessica Hagedorn's "Pet Food" (3) The Death of the Artist Narrative Construction of the Cosmopolitan Subject in Jessica Hagedorn's "Pet Food," Side B (4) Stephen Vincent, Momo's Press, and the Crafting of "Pet Food" Chapter 3 L.A.-Paris-N.Y: Karen Tei Yamashita, Monique Truong, Min Jin Lee, and the Changing Parameters of Literary Production at the New Turn of the Century (1) L.A. Vie En Orange Animating the Global South in Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange (1998) (2) The Impossible Book Identifying the Imperial-Colonial Register in Monique Truong's The Book of Salt (2004) (3) Chick Lit Goes to Wall Street Min Jin Lee's Free Food for Millionaires (2006) Acknowledgements

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Book SynopsisLatinx Literature Unbound asks if and how it helps to identify a corpus of literature as Latinx. It proposes that an ethnic marker may not be a salubrious way to understand this literature. It suggests genre as a more productive way to understand the literature we have heretofore labeled Latinx.Table of ContentsIntroduction: What We Talk about When We Talk About Latina/o Literature Chapter 1: Brown Like Me?: The Author Function, Proper Names, and the Rise of Fictional Nobodies Chapter 2: Confounding the Mimetic: The Meta-Fictional Challenge to Representation Chapter 3: From Where I Stand: The Intimacy and Distance of We and You in the Short Story Chapter 4: The Lyric, or, A Radical Singularity in Latina/o Verse Conclusion: Thinking Beyond Limits

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Book SynopsisLatinx Literature Unbound asks if and how it helps to identify a corpus of literature as Latinx. It proposes that an ethnic marker may not be a salubrious way to understand this literature. It suggests genre as a more productive way to understand the literature we have heretofore labeled Latinx.Table of ContentsIntroduction: What We Talk about When We Talk About Latina/o Literature Chapter 1: Brown Like Me?: The Author Function, Proper Names, and the Rise of Fictional Nobodies Chapter 2: Confounding the Mimetic: The Meta-Fictional Challenge to Representation Chapter 3: From Where I Stand: The Intimacy and Distance of We and You in the Short Story Chapter 4: The Lyric, or, A Radical Singularity in Latina/o Verse Conclusion: Thinking Beyond Limits

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Book SynopsisThis study analyzes the effects of the Civil War on northern black families as they sacrificed for a Union victory. This book especially studies the effects of the war on these families as they and their soldiers fully supported the Union war effort and strived to gain full American citizenship.Table of ContentsList of Figures xi List of Abbreviations xiii Introduction | 1 1 Life in the North: Before the War | 11 2 A Grand Opportunity: 1861 and 1862 | 19 3 The Forming of Black Regiments and Success in Battle | 28 4 The Unequal Pay Issue | 44 5 Violence on Two Fronts | 81 6 Information Requests | 98 7 Discharge Requests | 120 8 The Conclusion of the War | 130 9 After the War: A Different Kind of Battle | 135 10 Even Farther Away from Home: Occupation Duty Continues | 156 11 Home Again | 178 Appendix: Northern Black Regiments 185 Acknowledgments 187 Notes 189 Cited Literature 237 Index 249

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 1. Blueprints: Invisible Man and the Great Migration to White Flight 25 2. The Price of Salt Is the City: Patricia Highsmith and the Queer Frontiers of Neoliberalism 46 3. Naked Lunch, Or, the Last Snapshot of the Surrealists 63 4. Shock Therapy: Atlas Shrugged, Urban Renewal, and the Making of the Entrepreneurial Subject 84 5. Fallen Corpses and Rising Cities: The Bell Jar and the Making of the New Woman 104 Conclusion: The Siege of Harlem and Its Commune 125 Acknowledgments 139 Notes 143 Works Cited 163 Index 185

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 1. Blueprints: Invisible Man and the Great Migration to White Flight 25 2. The Price of Salt Is the City: Patricia Highsmith and the Queer Frontiers of Neoliberalism 46 3. Naked Lunch, Or, the Last Snapshot of the Surrealists 63 4. Shock Therapy: Atlas Shrugged, Urban Renewal, and the Making of the Entrepreneurial Subject 84 5. Fallen Corpses and Rising Cities: The Bell Jar and the Making of the New Woman 104 Conclusion: The Siege of Harlem and Its Commune 125 Acknowledgments 139 Notes 143 Works Cited 163 Index 185

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Book SynopsisThis book examines how a variety of immaterial labor performed by Filipinos in the Philippines and around the world generate and explore vital affects, multiple networks, and other worlds. These forms of living capture life-making capacities within the capitalist world of disruptions and circulations of bodies and time.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Accumulating Time | 1 1 “I’ve Never Been to Me”: Redirecting Arrivals and Returns | 22 2 “Holding Out for Something Better”: Timing and Other In-Between Times | 43 3 “I Understand Where You’re Coming From”: Temporal Migration and Offshore Chronographies | 67 4 “We Have No Time to Wallow”: Death and Other Timely Diversions | 91 Coda: Presence and Mourning to the Future | 115 Acknowledgments | 127 Notes | 131 Works Cited | 147

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Book SynopsisTable of Contents1. Society of Alternate Belonging Two Guardians | 3 Anvil and Bellows | 5 Elevator Invention | 8 American Household | 10 Why Fear Heights | 12 Delayed or Modified | 13 Or Why the Assembly Disbanded as Before | 14 Lost Continent | 16 2. Amend, Delay, Curve, and Disquiet Baraka Inscape | 23 Film Noir: Telescope | 25 Freeway | 28 Nightshade, Camouflage | 30 Escena | 32 Freestanding Form | 34 Beyond Reckoning | 35 The Transport Hours | 38 Mortar and Method | 40 3. Kill Time Objective Color Wheel | High Water | 47 Kill Time Objective | 49 Liquid M | 51 Venus a Polygon | 53 Indivisible Continuum | 54 Vanishing | 62 Envío | 64 List of Illustrations | 69 Notes | 71 Acknowledgments | 73

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsFilipinx American Critique: An Introduction | 1 Rick Bonus and Antonio T. Tiongson Jr. Section A: Reckoning Part I: Empire as Endless War 1. Empire: Turns and Returns | 33 Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez 2. Empire as the Rule of War and Fascism | 42 Nerissa S. Balce 3. Empire: US States at the Intersection of Diaspora and Indigeneity | 57 Dean Itsuji Saranillio 4. The Persistence of War through Migration | 67 Cynthia Marasigan 5. Liminal Services: Third Spaces of Being within the United States | 83 JoAnna Poblete 6. “Genocide” and the Poetics of Alter-Being in the Obsolescence of the “Filipino American” | 91 Dylan Rodríguez Part II: Labor and Knowledge/Power 7. Filipinx Labor and the Contradictions of US Empire | 103 Josen Masangkay Diaz 8. On History, Development, and Filipinx American Studies: Emergent, Dominant, and Residual | 111 Victor Bascara 9. The Limits of “Immigration” Frameworks: Centering Empire in Analyzing Migration and the Diaspora | 118 Roy B. Taggueg Jr. and Robyn Magalit Rodriguez 10. Including the Excluded: The “Chinese” in the Philippines and the Study of “Migration” in Filipinx American Studies | 128 Richard T. Chu 11. Labor and Carework | 138 Anna Romina Guevarra 12. The Labor of History in Filipinx Historiography | 148 Jody Blanco Section B: Reclamation Part III: Across Language, Sex-Gender, and Space-Time Geographies 13. Pag-uugat at Paglalayag (Roots and Journeys): Filipino Language Learning and Activism | 165 Joi Barrios 14. In an Archipelago and Sea of Complexities: Contemporary Intersectional / Transpacific / Decolonial Queer and/or Trans Filipinx American Studies | 174 Kale Bantigue Fajardo 15. Datíng as Affect in Filipinx Migration | 185 Allan Punzalan Isaac 16. Gender: A Transpacific Feminist Approach to Filipinx Studies | 192 Denise Cruz 17. The Contingencies of Kasarian | 201 Robert Diaz Part IV: Critical Schooling and Justice in Other Words 18. Filipinx Americans and Higher Education | 211 Dina C. Maramba 19. Filipinx American College Student Identities: A Critique of Models | 221 Reuben B. Deleon 20. Third World Studies and the Living Archive of US-based Filipinx Activism | 229 Michael Schulze-Oechtering 21. Activism Is in the Heart of Filipinx American Studies | 239 Jeffrey Santa Ana 22. Filipinx American Activism—and Why I Once Loved Manny Pacquiao | 256 Karín Aguilar-San Juan 23. Considerations from the US-Occupied Pacific | 267 Kim Compoc Section C: Transformation Part V: Relationalities, Intimacies, and Entanglements 24. Filipinxness: An Epochal Perspective | 279 Anthony Bayani Rodriguez 25. A Tale of Two “X”s: Queer Filipinx and Latinx Linguistic Intimacies | 284 Sony Coráñez Bolton 26. Hypervisible (In)visibility: Black Amerasians | 291 Angelica J. Allen 27. Why I Don’t (Really) Consider Myself a Filipinx: Complicating “Filipinxness” from a Katutubo Intervention | 298 J. A. Ruanto-Ramirez 28. Repertoires on Other Stages | 308 Theodore S. Gonzalves Part VI: Recalcitrant Bodies, Unruly Vernaculars 29. Confronting Worldly Acts: Filipinx Performances and Their Elsewheres | 323 Lucy MSP Burns 30. Aye Nako!: The Frustrations of Filipinx American Illegibility | 335 Alana J. Bock 31. Who Cares?: Ability and the Elderly Question in Filipinx American Studies | 343 Edward Nadurata 32. Dalaga na!: Gender and Youth Studies Come of Age in Filipinx Studies | 352 Evelyn Ibatan Rodriguez 33. Unpacking Hiya: (Trans)national “Traits” and the (Un)making of Filipinxness | 362 Martin F. Manalansan IV 34. Language Run Amok | 370 Sarita Echavez See Afterword | 379 Gina Apostol Appendixes: Key Resources in Filipinx American Studies A. A Selection of Library Research Tools and Web Resources Related to Filipinx American Studies | 385 Gerardo A. Colmenar B. Selected List of Scholarship on Filipinx American Studies | 403 Edward Nadurata Acknowledgments | 415 List of Contributors | 419 Index | 435

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsFilipinx American Critique: An Introduction | 1 Rick Bonus and Antonio T. Tiongson Jr. Section A: Reckoning Part I: Empire as Endless War 1. Empire: Turns and Returns | 33 Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez 2. Empire as the Rule of War and Fascism | 42 Nerissa S. Balce 3. Empire: US States at the Intersection of Diaspora and Indigeneity | 57 Dean Itsuji Saranillio 4. The Persistence of War through Migration | 67 Cynthia Marasigan 5. Liminal Services: Third Spaces of Being within the United States | 83 JoAnna Poblete 6. “Genocide” and the Poetics of Alter-Being in the Obsolescence of the “Filipino American” | 91 Dylan Rodríguez Part II: Labor and Knowledge/Power 7. Filipinx Labor and the Contradictions of US Empire | 103 Josen Masangkay Diaz 8. On History, Development, and Filipinx American Studies: Emergent, Dominant, and Residual | 111 Victor Bascara 9. The Limits of “Immigration” Frameworks: Centering Empire in Analyzing Migration and the Diaspora | 118 Roy B. Taggueg Jr. and Robyn Magalit Rodriguez 10. Including the Excluded: The “Chinese” in the Philippines and the Study of “Migration” in Filipinx American Studies | 128 Richard T. Chu 11. Labor and Carework | 138 Anna Romina Guevarra 12. The Labor of History in Filipinx Historiography | 148 Jody Blanco Section B: Reclamation Part III: Across Language, Sex-Gender, and Space-Time Geographies 13. Pag-uugat at Paglalayag (Roots and Journeys): Filipino Language Learning and Activism | 165 Joi Barrios 14. In an Archipelago and Sea of Complexities: Contemporary Intersectional / Transpacific / Decolonial Queer and/or Trans Filipinx American Studies | 174 Kale Bantigue Fajardo 15. Datíng as Affect in Filipinx Migration | 185 Allan Punzalan Isaac 16. Gender: A Transpacific Feminist Approach to Filipinx Studies | 192 Denise Cruz 17. The Contingencies of Kasarian | 201 Robert Diaz Part IV: Critical Schooling and Justice in Other Words 18. Filipinx Americans and Higher Education | 211 Dina C. Maramba 19. Filipinx American College Student Identities: A Critique of Models | 221 Reuben B. Deleon 20. Third World Studies and the Living Archive of US-based Filipinx Activism | 229 Michael Schulze-Oechtering 21. Activism Is in the Heart of Filipinx American Studies | 239 Jeffrey Santa Ana 22. Filipinx American Activism—and Why I Once Loved Manny Pacquiao | 256 Karín Aguilar-San Juan 23. Considerations from the US-Occupied Pacific | 267 Kim Compoc Section C: Transformation Part V: Relationalities, Intimacies, and Entanglements 24. Filipinxness: An Epochal Perspective | 279 Anthony Bayani Rodriguez 25. A Tale of Two “X”s: Queer Filipinx and Latinx Linguistic Intimacies | 284 Sony Coráñez Bolton 26. Hypervisible (In)visibility: Black Amerasians | 291 Angelica J. Allen 27. Why I Don’t (Really) Consider Myself a Filipinx: Complicating “Filipinxness” from a Katutubo Intervention | 298 J. A. Ruanto-Ramirez 28. Repertoires on Other Stages | 308 Theodore S. Gonzalves Part VI: Recalcitrant Bodies, Unruly Vernaculars 29. Confronting Worldly Acts: Filipinx Performances and Their Elsewheres | 323 Lucy MSP Burns 30. Aye Nako!: The Frustrations of Filipinx American Illegibility | 335 Alana J. Bock 31. Who Cares?: Ability and the Elderly Question in Filipinx American Studies | 343 Edward Nadurata 32. Dalaga na!: Gender and Youth Studies Come of Age in Filipinx Studies | 352 Evelyn Ibatan Rodriguez 33. Unpacking Hiya: (Trans)national “Traits” and the (Un)making of Filipinxness | 362 Martin F. Manalansan IV 34. Language Run Amok | 370 Sarita Echavez See Afterword | 379 Gina Apostol Appendixes: Key Resources in Filipinx American Studies A. A Selection of Library Research Tools and Web Resources Related to Filipinx American Studies | 385 Gerardo A. Colmenar B. Selected List of Scholarship on Filipinx American Studies | 403 Edward Nadurata Acknowledgments | 415 List of Contributors | 419 Index | 435

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Book SynopsisIn 1941 and ‘42 African American scholars joined folklorist Alan Lomax on research trips to Coahoma County, Mississippi. Their mission was ""to document adequately the cultural and social backgrounds for music in the community."" Their work captures a place, a people, a way of life, and a set of rich musical traditions as they existed in the 1940s.Trade ReviewLost Delta Found: Rediscovering the Fisk University-Library of Congress Coahoma County Study, 1941-1942 presents a unique and valuable perspective on the pioneering Coahoma County study that also was recounted in Alan Lomax's Land Where the Blues Began, a prior Classics of Blues Literature honoree. Written by African American scholars from Fisk University, Lost Delta Found documents their crucial but often overlooked work on the project." - The Blues Foundation's Blues Hall of Fame induction announcement, 2019"Restores credit for the definitive Delta-blues research to the men who conducted it." - Paste Magazine"Splendid and significant . . . Work was instrumental in uncovering and giving the work of bluesmen Muddy Waters, Son House, Son Sims, and Willie Brown to the world; every library that owns [Alan Lomax's book The Land Where the Blues Began] should own this one, too. An essential purchase for music collections." - Library Journal"This may well be the greatest unpublished goldmine of early research into the music of black Mississippians, and its appearance is a boon not only to music scholars but to anyone interested in Southern life in a period of intense change and musical expression." - Sing Out!"These original documents . . . paint a compellingly accurate portrait of the Mississippi Delta in the 1940s. . . . Work, Jones, and Adams are finally getting their due at a time when Mississippi seems consumed with righting its past wrongs." - Mojo"Gordon and Nemerov have rescued from oblivion an important study of black life in rural Mississippi. . . . Work's 160 song transcriptions of 1941-1942 field recordings form the 100-page centerpiece of this book, and equally illuminating are insightful essays by the Fisk trio on plantation folklore and traditions, already fading at that time as urban influences permeated the Mississippi Delta." - Publishers WeeklyTable of Contents Acknowledgments Preface from Robert Gordone Introductory Chapter from Gordon and Nemerov Introduction to Jones by Nemerov 'The Mississippi Delta' by Lewis W. Jones Introduction to Work by Nemerov. John Work manuscript, untitled The discussion of Charles Haffer includes three sheets of his broadsides. 158 music original transcriptions. Introduction to Adams by Nemerov 'Changing Negro Life in the Delta' by Samuel C. Adams Appendices 1. The Natchez fire 2. A memorandum about the July trip to Coahoma County 3. Report on Preliminary Work in Clarksdale, Mississippi 4. Memorandum from Jones to Johnson 5. List of songs on Clarksdale jukeboxes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Spanish ballad tradition is one of the largest and most colourful in Europe, as reflected in the present collection of 71 of the best examples.Table of Contents Preface Introduction The Spanish Texts Sources References Love and Adventure Ballads (71 ballads, text and translation) Chronological Table Notes Index of Spanish First Lines

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Book SynopsisFuente Ovejuna (C.1613) is the most famous and frequently performed play by the creator of Spanish theatre, Lope de Vega (1562-1635). Astonishingly for its period, it celebrates the murder in 1476 of a nobleman, the Grand Commander of the Military Order of Calatrava, by the peasants he had oppressed, and their subsequent solidarity under torture.Table of Contents Introduction The characters The play in performance The Spanish text The English translation Notes bibliography ACT ONE ACT TWO ACT THREE Text variations Rades y Andrada, Chronicle of the Three Military Orders

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Book SynopsisThe Sueños is one of the most controversial, witty and fantastic works of early 17th century Spanish literature. The five Dreams minutely analyse stupidity, ignorance and evil, as these could be found in contemporary society.Table of Contents Translator's note Introduction Dreams: The dream of the last judgement The bedevilled constable The vision of hellv The world from the inside The dream of death Notes

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