Social and cultural history Books
Princeton University Press Making Money in the Early Middle Ages
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Piecing together case studies from the Mediterranean and northern Europe, as well as looking at mining, metal production and alternative forms of currency, this is a rich account of early English numismatic history." * Spear’s *"Making Money in the Early Middle Ages provides a broad portrait of daily life through the lens of currency in the ninth century that makes the book a worthwhile read."---Ryne Clos, Spectrum Culture
£32.30
Princeton University Press The Killing Season
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the George McT. Kahin Prize, Association for Asian Studies""Winner of the Distinguished Book Award in Non-U.S. History, Society for Military History""Winner of the Raphael Lemkin Book Award, Institute for the Study of Genocide""Longlisted for the 2019 ICAS Book Prize in Humanities, International Convention of Asia Scholars""One of the Financial Times' Best Books of 2018: History""One of Foreign Affairs' Picks for Best of Books 2018"
£19.00
Princeton University Press African Dominion
Book SynopsisIn a radically new account of the importance of early Africa in global history, Gomez traces how Islam's growth in West Africa, along with intensifying commerce that included slaves, resulted in a series of political experiments unique to the region, culminating in the rise of empire.Trade Review"Winner of the ASA Book Prize (Herskovits), African Studies Association""Winner of the Martin A. Klein Prize, American Historical Association""One of Choice Reviews' Outstanding Academic Titles of 2018"
£25.20
Princeton University Press Dweller in Shadows
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Shortlisted for the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards""The most comprehensive [biography] to date. . . . Dweller in Shadows has many virtues. . . . The deepest impress of [the] book, however, is that it grows into the portrait of a hero."---Anthony Lane, New Yorker"Kate Kennedy finally does justice to the neglected poet, whose musician’s ear for the sounds of the war captures the reality of trench life like no other . . . . Enthralling, meticulously researched and deeply sympathetic."---Andrew Motion, The Spectator"[A] poignant biography of Gurney. . . . [Kennedy] captures not only her subject’s melancholy and angst but also his unique artistic accomplishments. For this Ms. Kennedy is particularly well-suited. . . . Her longtime interest in the intersection of words and music is evident in her sensitive analysis of Gurney’s songs and her careful, probing readings of his verse."---David Yezzi, Wall Street Journal"This substantial and, for the most part, unusually readable biography gives us a rich picture of the world and terrible existence of an astonishing, multitalented artist whose true time is long overdue."---Lachlan Mackinnon, Times Literary Supplement"Compelling and extraordinary."---Sean Rafferty, BBC Radio 3 ‘In Tune’"[A] fine, well-researched and intelligent biography. . . . This painstaking biography will do much to enhance [Gurney's] reputation."---Simon Heffer, Literary Review "[An] admirably detailed and perceptive biography. . . . [Kennedy] examines in some detail the extraordinary depth and talent of Gurney’s creative genius—she is particularly illuminating in talking about his poetry—while being candid about his erratic behaviour and impractical approach to adult life."---Daniel Jaffé, BBC Music Magazine "A particularly rich and detailed account. . . . This will certainly prove to be a valuable reference tool."---Jeremy Dibble, Gramophone"This is an impeccably and thoroughly researched biography, carefully analytical and elegantly presented. Kate Kennedy has left no stone unturned in her endeavours. It certainly makes for rewarding reading. Although Gurney has long dwelt on the shadowy periphery of musical life, this outstanding biography does much to redress the balance. It has to be one of the most heart-rending books I’ve ever read."---Stephen Greenbank, MusicWeb International"Written with enormous empathy, Kennedy’s account is heart-wrenching in places. A compelling work"---Elizabeth Fitzherbert, The Lady"Gurney deserved much better treatment. He deserved a much better society. His work began to give expression to his incipient sense of the need for social change. It’s to be hoped this thorough, sympathetic book will bring him the attention he was denied while he lived, and perhaps also prevent today’s or tomorrow’s Gurney suffering a similar fate."---Alan Dent, Penniless Press"This is a wonderful book that is an affectionate tribute to a truly great man."---Candia McKormack, Cotswold Life"The book deftly sheds light on how Gurney produced his much respected work." * Library Journal *"Kate Kennedy’s comprehensive biography of the early-20th-century British poet and composer Ivor Gurney, Dweller in Shadows, is an enormous feat of meticulously detailed scholarship. No stone has been left unturned and no aspect of his life has been left untouched (or at least not speculated upon) by Kennedy.. . . . In Dweller in Shadows Kennedy has created a fully realized portrayal of a complex historical figure’s life and reclaimed it for the good of historians and laypeople alike."---Walter Holland, Rain Taxi Review of Books"A stunning contribution to the fields of psychiatric historiography, musicology, literary studies, psychoanalytical scholarship, and many more disciplines, I learned a great deal from this beautifully constructed text, and I hope that Dr. Kennedy will continue to produce other such gripping biographies in years to come."---Brett Kahr, Confer"Authoritative and exhaustively researched"---Roger Ebbatson, Journal of the Friends of the Dymock Poets
£29.75
Princeton University Press The Slow Moon Climbs The Science History and
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the PROSE Award in History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, Association of American Publishers"
£15.29
Princeton University Press Dweller in Shadows
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Shortlisted for the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards""The most comprehensive [biography] to date. . . . Dweller in Shadows has many virtues. . . . The deepest impress of [the] book, however, is that it grows into the portrait of a hero."---Anthony Lane, New Yorker"Kate Kennedy finally does justice to the neglected poet, whose musician’s ear for the sounds of the war captures the reality of trench life like no other . . . . Enthralling, meticulously researched and deeply sympathetic."---Andrew Motion, The Spectator"[A] poignant biography of Gurney. . . . [Kennedy] captures not only her subject’s melancholy and angst but also his unique artistic accomplishments. For this Ms. Kennedy is particularly well-suited. . . . Her longtime interest in the intersection of words and music is evident in her sensitive analysis of Gurney’s songs and her careful, probing readings of his verse."---David Yezzi, Wall Street Journal"This substantial and, for the most part, unusually readable biography gives us a rich picture of the world and terrible existence of an astonishing, multitalented artist whose true time is long overdue."---Lachlan Mackinnon, Times Literary Supplement"Compelling and extraordinary."---Sean Rafferty, BBC Radio 3 ‘In Tune’"[A] fine, well-researched and intelligent biography. . . . This painstaking biography will do much to enhance [Gurney's] reputation."---Simon Heffer, Literary Review "[An] admirably detailed and perceptive biography. . . . [Kennedy] examines in some detail the extraordinary depth and talent of Gurney’s creative genius—she is particularly illuminating in talking about his poetry—while being candid about his erratic behaviour and impractical approach to adult life."---Daniel Jaffé, BBC Music Magazine "A particularly rich and detailed account. . . . This will certainly prove to be a valuable reference tool."---Jeremy Dibble, Gramophone"This is an impeccably and thoroughly researched biography, carefully analytical and elegantly presented. Kate Kennedy has left no stone unturned in her endeavours. It certainly makes for rewarding reading. Although Gurney has long dwelt on the shadowy periphery of musical life, this outstanding biography does much to redress the balance. It has to be one of the most heart-rending books I’ve ever read."---Stephen Greenbank, MusicWeb International"Written with enormous empathy, Kennedy’s account is heart-wrenching in places. A compelling work"---Elizabeth Fitzherbert, The Lady"Gurney deserved much better treatment. He deserved a much better society. His work began to give expression to his incipient sense of the need for social change. It’s to be hoped this thorough, sympathetic book will bring him the attention he was denied while he lived, and perhaps also prevent today’s or tomorrow’s Gurney suffering a similar fate."---Alan Dent, Penniless Press"This is a wonderful book that is an affectionate tribute to a truly great man."---Candia McKormack, Cotswold Life"The book deftly sheds light on how Gurney produced his much respected work." * Library Journal *"Kate Kennedy’s comprehensive biography of the early-20th-century British poet and composer Ivor Gurney, Dweller in Shadows, is an enormous feat of meticulously detailed scholarship. No stone has been left unturned and no aspect of his life has been left untouched (or at least not speculated upon) by Kennedy.. . . . In Dweller in Shadows Kennedy has created a fully realized portrayal of a complex historical figure’s life and reclaimed it for the good of historians and laypeople alike."---Walter Holland, Rain Taxi Review of Books"A stunning contribution to the fields of psychiatric historiography, musicology, literary studies, psychoanalytical scholarship, and many more disciplines, I learned a great deal from this beautifully constructed text, and I hope that Dr. Kennedy will continue to produce other such gripping biographies in years to come."---Brett Kahr, Confer"Authoritative and exhaustively researched"---Roger Ebbatson, Journal of the Friends of the Dymock Poets
£19.00
Princeton University Press The Perils of Interpreting
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Kenshur Prize, Bloomington Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies""Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize""Shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize, McGill University""A History Today Book of the Year""Harrison digs equally in Chinese and European archives, finding abundant vivid material from which to reconstruct [Li and Staunton’s] stories, weaving them together to rewrite the opening chapter of Sino–British relations as a series of unfortunate events in which a word, a look or a gesture could alter the course of the encounter. . . . An invigorating re-vision. . . . Harrison’s strength is in narrating lives lived and reminding us that the consequences were never preordained."---Timothy Brook, Times Literary Supplement"Today the fiasco of 1793 is the postulate for an elaborate paradigm that is supposed to explain China’s decline in power in the 19th century. . . . But the paradigm is problematic: it isn’t only ahistorical but, as Henrietta Harrison suggests in The Perils of Interpreting, it focuses on the wrong people."---Pamela Crossley, London Review of Books"Harrison could not have picked two more fascinating men to focus her book on. Both Li and Staunton lived truly extraordinary lives and the reader is led vividly through each. . . . Not only is The Perils of Interpreting an empathetic portrait of two men, it also deftly reveals the critical importance of translation and of interpreters—for without them neither cross-cultural interactions nor cross-cultural understanding can even begin."---Sarah Bramao-Ramos, History Today"Often the most readable books on Chinese history are those that use detailed accounts of the lives of individuals to illuminate the great events of their time. Oxford professor Henrietta Harrison’s The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire is a fine example, providing a fresh description of the 1793 embassy from Britain’s King George III to the Manchu Qianlong emperor through the eyes of those who mediated, rather than those of the principals."---Peter Neville-Hadley, South China Morning Post Magazine"[The Perils of Interpreting] reads like a swashbuckling adventure novel. . . . [A] vivid reconstruction of an era."---John Krich, Nikkei Asia"[The Perils of Interpreting] takes a familiar story—the deteriorating diplomacy between Britain and Qing China from the 1793 Macartney Mission and the Opium War—and masterfully retells it through the lives of two translators." * History Today *"[Harrison’s] prose is pictorial and vivacious, effortlessly carrying the reader into a new domain of empathy and historical awareness. The unique and intimate stories of translators offer an antidote to simplistic accounts. . . . The result is a book that thoroughly transforms what we know about Sino-British encounters leading up to the Opium War."---Jenny Huangfu Day, Journal of Chinese History"Marvelous."---Haun Saussy, Journal of the American Oriental Society"The Perils of Interpreting offers extraordinarily fresh information deftly crafted into a narrative embracing biography, imperial history, maritime history, British political history, religious history, and the history of Chinese and British relations. Harrison, an adroit storyteller, designed the book as a chronologically told story of two men, two cultures, and two imperial powers attempting to communicate between worlds. . . . Harrison’s attention to interpretation, its delicacy, its omissions as well as its expressions reveals how power inheres in language, and power is as much in the hands of translators as in the hands of leaders of state. This fascinating, deeply researched, highly informed account is microhistory at its very best."---Carla Mulford, The Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer"Harrison’s rich book opens up so many lines of inquiry that it is bound to produce a wealth of follow-up studies. Let us hope that they will be as eye-opening and enjoyable to read."---Eun Kyung Min, Eighteenth-Century Studies"Fascinating."---Hamish Gobson, Think Scotland
£29.75
Princeton University Press The Perils of Interpreting The Extraordinary
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Kenshur Prize, Bloomington Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies""Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize""Shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize, McGill University""A History Today Book of the Year""Harrison digs equally in Chinese and European archives, finding abundant vivid material from which to reconstruct [Li and Staunton’s] stories, weaving them together to rewrite the opening chapter of Sino–British relations as a series of unfortunate events in which a word, a look or a gesture could alter the course of the encounter. . . . An invigorating re-vision. . . . Harrison’s strength is in narrating lives lived and reminding us that the consequences were never preordained."---Timothy Brook, Times Literary Supplement"Today the fiasco of 1793 is the postulate for an elaborate paradigm that is supposed to explain China’s decline in power in the 19th century. . . . But the paradigm is problematic: it isn’t only ahistorical but, as Henrietta Harrison suggests in The Perils of Interpreting, it focuses on the wrong people."---Pamela Crossley, London Review of Books"Harrison could not have picked two more fascinating men to focus her book on. Both Li and Staunton lived truly extraordinary lives and the reader is led vividly through each. . . . Not only is The Perils of Interpreting an empathetic portrait of two men, it also deftly reveals the critical importance of translation and of interpreters—for without them neither cross-cultural interactions nor cross-cultural understanding can even begin."---Sarah Bramao-Ramos, History Today"Often the most readable books on Chinese history are those that use detailed accounts of the lives of individuals to illuminate the great events of their time. Oxford professor Henrietta Harrison’s The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire is a fine example, providing a fresh description of the 1793 embassy from Britain’s King George III to the Manchu Qianlong emperor through the eyes of those who mediated, rather than those of the principals."---Peter Neville-Hadley, South China Morning Post Magazine"[The Perils of Interpreting] reads like a swashbuckling adventure novel. . . . [A] vivid reconstruction of an era."---John Krich, Nikkei Asia"[The Perils of Interpreting] takes a familiar story—the deteriorating diplomacy between Britain and Qing China from the 1793 Macartney Mission and the Opium War—and masterfully retells it through the lives of two translators." * History Today *"[Harrison’s] prose is pictorial and vivacious, effortlessly carrying the reader into a new domain of empathy and historical awareness. The unique and intimate stories of translators offer an antidote to simplistic accounts. . . . The result is a book that thoroughly transforms what we know about Sino-British encounters leading up to the Opium War."---Jenny Huangfu Day, Journal of Chinese History"Marvelous."---Haun Saussy, Journal of the American Oriental Society"The Perils of Interpreting offers extraordinarily fresh information deftly crafted into a narrative embracing biography, imperial history, maritime history, British political history, religious history, and the history of Chinese and British relations. Harrison, an adroit storyteller, designed the book as a chronologically told story of two men, two cultures, and two imperial powers attempting to communicate between worlds. . . . Harrison’s attention to interpretation, its delicacy, its omissions as well as its expressions reveals how power inheres in language, and power is as much in the hands of translators as in the hands of leaders of state. This fascinating, deeply researched, highly informed account is microhistory at its very best."---Carla Mulford, The Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer"Harrison’s rich book opens up so many lines of inquiry that it is bound to produce a wealth of follow-up studies. Let us hope that they will be as eye-opening and enjoyable to read."---Eun Kyung Min, Eighteenth-Century Studies"Fascinating."---Hamish Gobson, Think Scotland
£16.19
Pluto Press Fractured
Book SynopsisAn antidote to political infighting and the culture warsTrade Review‘A searing materialist critique of the historical origins of attacks on Identity Politics from the right, a clarifying text that analyses the strategic purpose of the imagined ‘culture war’ that continues to engulf mainstream politics’ -- Lola Olufemi, author of ‘Feminism, Interrupted’‘Class reductionism sheds little light on our crisis-ridden times. Instead, ’Fractured’ uncovers both the historical entanglements of class and race and the multitude of solidarities that continually rise to oppose oppression. Richmond and Charnley gift us with the analysis, and hope, we need to fight on’ -- Alana Lentin, author of ‘Why Race Still Matters’'Issues a powerfully argued appeal to the left to finally understand that “Prioritising solidarity for those most marginalised or under attack is not about guilt or charity or ‘virtue-signalling’. It is part of what can get everyone free"' -- Sophie Lewis, author of 'Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family' and 'Abolish The Family: A Manifesto For Care and Liberation'‘A sharp and lucid rejoinder to all the political trends that in recent years have imbued "identity politics” with magically divisive powers. ‘Fractured’ is essential to understanding anti-racist politics today’ -- Arun Kundnani, author of 'The Muslims are Coming!''An important and timely analysis rich in historical detail. It challenges crude denunciations of 'identity politics' on both right and left, and reiterates that intersectionality is indeed political economy' -- Alison Phipps, Professor of Sociology at Newcastle University, author of ‘Me, Not You’'This sharp, thoughtful, generous little book helps us see the many roads that lead to better worlds, arguing that to get there we need to abandon those noisy, nasty, noxious debates on “identity politics”. It clears ground, carefully tracing histories of resistance and reaction, reminding us that the working class is and always has been manifold - and therein lies our strength' -- Luke de Noronha, academic and writer at the Sarah Parker Remond Centre, University College London and author of 'Deporting Black Britons: Portraits of Deportation to Jamaica' and co-author, with Gracie Mae Bradley, of 'Against Borders: The Case For Abolition'‘This is a stirring book, full of inspiration, insight, provocation. ‘Fractured’ insists that if we are to grasp the radical possibilities of connection, we must first understand the political legacy of division. Expect to be educated, made to think, or better still, urged to reconsider’ -- Vron Ware, author of ‘Beyond the Pale’Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Whiteness as Historiography 2. Qualities of Testimony 3. Black Feminism and Class Composition 4. Aliens at the Border 5. Storming The Ideal 6. Whiteness Riots 7. The Mad and Hungry Dogs Conclusion
£16.14
Cornell University Press The Devil
Book SynopsisThis lively and learned book traces the history of the concept of evil and its personification as the Devil from ancient times to the period of the New Testament and across cultures and civilizations.Trade ReviewAll readers... will be enriched and stimulated by this honestly presented biography of the Evil One. The Devil, in religious myth, personal vision, and mystical reality, offers invaluable material for reflection and meditation. * Studia Mystica *Russell is not only a conscientious historian, anxious to examine in texts, myths, legends, art and literature the persistence and transformation of a particular idea. He is also an introspective essayist who acknowledges his own continuing struggle to understand the nature and source of evil. -- Robert Coles * New York Times Book Review *This fascinating story of 'the Devil' explores the concept and personification of evil (defined as 'the infliction of pain on sentient beings') from its ancient beginnings into New Testament times. * Seventeenth Century News *This is a serious work by a first-rate medievalist who has turned his eyes to antiquity in order to elucidate the sources of man's experience of the evil one. The result is scholarly, readable, and comprehensive.... Russell's notations are copious and impressive, attesting to the vast amount of research that has gone into this study. The text is richly illustrated with some fifty well-chosen plates.... An exceptionally lucid study and a major contribution to the field. * Review of Books and Religion *Table of ContentsPreface1. The Question of Evil2. In Search of the Devil3. The Devil East and West4. Evil in the Classical World5. Hebrew Personifications of Evil6. The Devil in the New Testament7. The Face of the DevilSelected BibliographyIndex
£18.99
University of Toronto Press Myth and Meaning
Book SynopsisEver since the rise of science and the scientific method in the seventeenth century, we have rejected mythology as the product of superstitious and primitive minds. Only now are we coming to a fuller appreciation of the nature and role of myth in human history. In these five lectures originally prepared for the CBC, Claude Lévi-Strauss, one of the world's greatest living thinkers, offers the insights of a lifetime spent interpreting myths and trying to discover their significance for human understanding.The lectures begin with a discussion of the historical split between mythology and science and the evidence that mythic levels of understanding are being reintegrated in our approach to knowledge. In an extension of his theme, Professosr Lévi-Strauss analyses what we have called 'primitive' thinking and discusses some universal features of human mythology. The final two lectures outline the functional relationship between mythology and history and the structural relationship b
£11.39
Wayne State University Press Yiddishlands
Book SynopsisThis lively and irreverent memoir explores the settings where Yiddish - a language of song, rebellion, and eternal longing - has thrived: in the cabaret and cafe, the kitchen and classroom, the literary salon and mystical commune, the partisan brigade and on pilgrimage to Poland.Trade ReviewDavid G. Roskies's passionate narrative of a brilliant family is more than a memoir of rupture and renewal-it is a history of a civilization, its languages, its lost cities, its living songs." - Cynthia Ozick, recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize"Yiddishlands' is a richly transcendent piece of writing that salvages many episodes of personal, family, and social history, not only in the Old Country but in modern Montreal and the numerous other places (hence the plural title)." - Jewish News Weekly of Northern California"David Roskies is the only one of his generation who can map the Yiddish literary world after the war with personal stories, vivid portraits of the key players, and extraordinary acumen and wit. Yiddishlands is a tour de force." - Hana Wirth-Nesher, professor of English and American studies and director of the Goldreich Family Institute for Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture at Tel Aviv University
£23.96
Duke University Press Feeling Photography
Book SynopsisWith more than sixty photographs, including twenty in color, changes how we see, think about, and feel photography, past and present. It includes essays on the tactile nature of photos, the relation of photography to sentiment and intimacy, and the ways that affect pervades the photographic archive.Trade Review"I found it a fascinating read. To my knowledge, the book is unique in its coverage of this perspective on photography, and I would recommend this book for anyone interested in photography and visual culture on a theoretical level. Very useful for undergraduate and graduate studies in fine arts, visual culture, gender studies, and, obviously, photography." -- Sandra Cowan * ARLIS/NA Reviews *"The collection offers some very useful ways of thinking about the emerging field of affect theory and its applications to the broad domain of photography. … [Brown and Phu's] anthology … substantially broadens the terrain beyond photojournalism and documentary—currently, the core concerns of the literature on photography and the affective turn." -- Susan Best * CAA Reviews *"Elspeth H. Brown and Thy Phu’s Feeling Photography is an exciting contribution to the field of photography theory.... This collection will be of interest to a very wide range of scholars in the humanities, and not just those that study photography – the book offers a range of ways to think about the function of photography as it often exists unanalyzed at the margins of a variety of social and cultural phenomena." -- Rachel Alpha Johnston Hurst * Reviews in Cultural Theory *"This volume presents a significant contribution to photographic criticism and affect theory, adding to recent scholarship...the collection will be of interest to researchers of affect, visual culture and media, with relevance to documentary film." -- Emily Bullock * Media International Australia *"It’s visual studies and affect theory in one space, and with contributors like Kimberly Juanita Brown, Ann Cvetkovich, and Dana Seitler, it’s a powerhouse collection." -- Melissa Chadburn * Literary Hub *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction / Elspeth H. Brown and Thy Phu 1 Part I. Touchy-Feely 1. Photography between Desire and Grief: Roland Barthes and F. Holland Day / Shawn Michelle Smith 29 2. Making Sexuality Sensible: Tammy Rae Carland's and Catherine Opie's Queer Aesthetic Forms / Dana Seitler 47 3. Sepia Mutiny: Colonial Photography and Its Others in India / Christopher Pinney 71 4. Skin, Flesh, and the Affective Wrinkles of Civil Rights Photography / Elizabeth Abel 93 Part II. Intimacy and Sentiment 5. Looking Pleasant, Feeling White: The Social Politics of the Photographic Smile / Tanya Sheehan 127 6. Anticipating Citizenship: Chinese Head Tax Photographs / Lily Cho 159 7. Regarding the Pain of the Other: Photography, Famine, and the Transference of Affect / Kimberly Juanita Brown 181 8. Accessible Feelings, Modern Looks: Irene Castle, Ira L. Hill, and Broadway's Affective Economy / Marlis Schweitzer 204 Part III. Affective Archives 9. Trauma in the Archive / Diana Taylor 239 10. School Photos and Their Afterlives / Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer 252 11. Photographing Objects as Queer Archival Practice / Ann Cvetkovich 273 12. Topographies of Feeling: On Catherine Opie's American Football Landscapes / Lisa Cartwright 297 13. The Feeling of Photography, the Feeling of Kinship / David L. Eng 325 Epilogue / Thy Phu and Elspeth H. Brown 349 Bibliography 357 Contributors 385 Index 389
£35.10
Duke University Press Flyboy 2
Book SynopsisFlyboy 2 provides a panoramic view of the last thirty years of Greg Tate's influential cultural criticism of contemporary Black music, art, literature, film, and politics. These essays, interviews, and reviews cover everything from Miles Davis, Ice Cube, and Suzan Lori Parks to Afro-futurism, Kara Walker, and Amiri Baraka.Trade Review"Tate has been an important if underread critic for the past several decades, and this collection will allow more readers to discover him. Not a fast or simple read, but a worthwhile one for fans of music and culture." -- Craig L. Shufelt * Library Journal *"Flyboy 2 will be like no other collection of writing you will read this year, and probably this decade. Refer back to the original Flyboy book to whet your palate, and to note and compare the evolution of Tate’s voice and his perception of the world and music around him. Take comfort in knowing that there is a Black writer who has no choice but to be real, poised and dignified, denying all pressures to bastardize the class and power of Black arts criticism and literary excellence." -- Jordannah Elizabeth * Amsterdam News *"Whether you are new to his work or a longtime reader, the universe of Black magic lovingly curated in Flyboy 2 will do your soul good." -- Steven W. Thrasher * The Guardian *"Flyboy 2 is an immersive, fluid, and genre-bending collection of commentary, essays, and exposition of the self, a beautiful text solidly grounded in the critical theories of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century academia." -- Patty Comeau * ForeWord Reviews *"What Flyboy 1 and 2 show is that Tate has come a long way in the study of this, the feared black planet and, in so doing, came out a more skilful, more humble man. What his style won’t let me forget is this: we are simultaneously in command of this world, and others." -- Kwanele Sosibo * Mail & Guardian *"What made Tate’s criticism special was his ability to theorize outward from his encounters with genius and his brushes with banality—to telescope between moments of artistic inspiration and the giant structures within which those moments were produced. . . . Tate has a keen sense for the way that both artists and communities discern where they fit in the world, and what is expected of them, and then either go along for the ride or carefully plot their escapes." -- Hua Hsu * The New Yorker *"[T]hought-provoking. . . . There's lots to unpack in Tate's writing, challenging us to come along for the ride--if we're up to it." -- David Hershkovits * Paper Magazine *"A Rolling Stone contributor, Greg Tate's ferocious, slang-tinged salvos and deep-rooted historical analysis have inspired readers and intimidated colleagues for decades. This sequel to the 1992 collection Flyboy in the Buttermilk felt particularly acute in the context of 2016's nonstop stream of racial horror, whether Tate is delineating visual artist Kara Walker's unflinching slavery-era silhouettes or eulogizing Richard Pryor and Michael Jackson. . . ." -- Michaelangelo Matos * Rolling Stone *"Greg Tate has been responsible for some of the most erudite and energetic cultural criticism of the past thirty years. . . . The book stands as a testimony to the richness and variety of contemporary Black artistic production, and to Tate’s restless curiosity and learning." -- Michael Lapointe * TLS *“Like all of Greg Tate's work, this is required reading for anyone interested in the last several decades of life and culture in the United States.” -- Charles L. Hughes * Journal of Popular Music Studies *"Flyboy 2 collects more pieces that prove Tate, a Rolling Stone contributor, hasn't lost a step, with riffs on young artists like Azealia Banks ('a freaky-geeky, speed-rapping succubus') and forebears such as Jimi Hendrix ('one of our most agile and adept freedom fighters'). It's a dive into what Tate calls 'Black Cognition,' a cornerstone of the American mind." -- Will Hermes * Rolling Stone *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Lust, of All Things (Black) 1 1. The Black Male Show Amiri Baraka 9 Wayne Shorter 16 Jimi Hendrix 24 John Coltrane 41 Gone Fishing: Remembering Lester Bowie 44 The Black Artists' Group 50 Butch Morris 55 Charles Edward Anderson Berry and the History of Our Future 57 Lonnie Holley 68 Marion Brown (1931–2010) and Djinji Brown 71 Dark Angels of Dust: David Hammons and the Art of Streetwise Trancendentalism 73 Bill T. Jones: Combative Moves 78 Garry Simmons: Conceptual Bomber 81 The Persistence of Vision: Storyboard P 83 Ice Cube 91 Wynton Marsalis: Jazz Crusader 102 Thonton Dail: Free, Black, and Brightening Up the Darkness of the World 110 Kehinde Wiley 124 Rammellzee: The Ikonoklast Samurai 127 Richard Pryor: Pryor Lives 136 Richard Pryor 146 Gil Scott-Heron 149 The Man in Our Mirror: Michael Jackson 152 Miles Davis 158 2. She Laughing Mean and Impressive Too Born to Dyke: I Love My Sister Laughing and Then Again When She's Looking Mean, Queer, and Impressive 167 Joni Mitchell: Black and Blond 175 Azealia Banks 177 Sade: Black Magic Woman 180 All the Things You Could Be by Now If Iames Brown Was a Feminist 186 Itabari Njeri 193 Kara Walker 196 Women at the Edge of Space, Time, and Art: Ruminations on Candida Romero's Little Girls 202 Ellen Gallagher 208 To Bid a Poet Black and Abstract 210 "The Gikuyu Mythos versus the Cullud Grrrl from Outta Space": A Wangechi Mutu Feature 213 Come Join the Hieroglyphic Zombie Parade: Deborah Grant 219 Björk's Second Act 223 Thelma Golden 228 3. Hello Darknuss My Old Meme Top Ten Reasons Why So Few Black Women Were Down to Occupy Wall Street Plus Four More 235 What Is Hip-Hop? 239 Intelligence Data: Bob Dylan 242 Hip-Hop Turns Thirty 246 Love and Crunk: Outkast 252 White Freedom: Eminem 254 Wu-Dunit: Wu-Tang Clan 256 Unlocking the Truth vs. John Cage 260 4. Screenings Spike Lee's Bamboozled 265 It's A Mack Thing 270 Sex and Negrocity: John Singleton's Baby Boy 272 Lincoln in Whiteface: Jeffrey Wright and Don Cheadle in Susan-Lori Parks's Topdog/Underdog 275The Black Power Mixtape 278 5. Race, Sex, Politricks and Belle Lettres Clarence Major 285 The Atlantic Sound: Caryl Phillips's The Atlantic Sound 288 Acocalypse Now: Patricia Hill Collins's Black Sexual Politics; Thomas Shevory's Notorious H.I.V.; Jacob Levenson's The Secret Epidemic 290 Blood and Bridges 292 Nigger-'Tude 296 Triple Threat: Jerry Gafio Watts's Amiri Baraka; Hazel Rowley's Richard Wright; David Macey's Frantz Fanon 299 Bottom Feeders: Natsuo Kirino's Out 306 Scaling the Heights: Maryse Condé's Windward Heights 307 Fear of a Mongrel Planet: Zadie Smith's White Teeth 310 Adventures in the Skin Trade: Lisa Teasley's Glow in the Dark 313 Generous Hexed: Jeffery Renard Allen's Rails under My Back 315 Going Underground: Gayl Jones's Mosquito 317 Judgment Day: Toni Morrison's Love and Edward P. Jones's The Known World 320 Black Modernity and Laughter, or How It Came to Be That N*g*as Got Jokes 322 Kalahari Hopscotch, or Notes toward a Twenty-Volume Afrocentric Futurist Manifesto 330 Sources 343 Index 347
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Duke University Press Spill
Book SynopsisIn Spill poet, independent scholar, and activist Alexis Pauline Gumbs presents a commanding collection of poetry inspired by Black feminist literary critic Hortense Spillers depicting scenes of fugitive Black women and girls seeking freedom from gendered violence and racism.Trade Review"Gumbs’s writing has luscious urgency and rhythmic drive, which will make it of interest beyond its titular audience." -- Barbara Hoffert * Library Journal *"Spill is not just a poetic collection where art meets criticism or where art is criticism. Instead, it is an intricately woven, polyvocal, ever-expansive map that details and gives rise to new and old black feminisms instructing us how to live and move with(in) these proliferating epistemologies." -- Sasha Panaram * New Black Man (In Exile) *"Inspired by the work of black feminist intellectual Hortense Spillers, Gumbs’ collection of poems appear as a series of powerful scenarios. Reading the volume is akin to being a member of a theatre audience. The fourth wall is peeled away and one is suddenly witness to heartbreaking, inspiring and insightful scenes depicting fugitive black women and girls – unsung and celebrated 'sheroes' – seeking freedom from gendered violence and racism." -- Thomasi McDonald * News & Observer *"Spill is poetry that invites the reader to imagine these poems weren't written- they was lived, they were felt, and in some deep sense, re-membered. In other words, this book happened in somebody's body, a body committed to Black Feminist ways of knowing and feeling in the world.... By embracing and applying these through the form of the parable, Spill speaks to the radical, spiritual power that belongs to those 'black women who made and broke narrative.'" -- Lara Mimosa Montes * Poetry Project Review *"Gumbs’s poetry takes up the detritus of the everyday that surrounds theory — the affective social and political worlds in which black feminist theorists write — and bends it, splits it, like a prism breaking a beam of light into a rainbow." -- Maria Velazquez * Cascadia Subduction Zone *"Gumbs seamlessly moves between historic reference, inherited memories, and a series of visions or a journal of dreams-the result is bigger than text itself. Her writing blurs the lines between past, present, and future. The book communes with ancestral knowledge while offering conjectures of what could be, reminding us that Black women have always seen what comes next, past the edges of what seemed or seems possible.... Spill is first and foremost a love offering to all Black women, but all readers who bear witness will leave its pages knowing of radical imagined possibilities and the difficult path laid before us toward elsewhere: 'our work here is not done.'" -- Zaina Alsous * Bitch *"This book is a commanding collection of scenes depicting fugitive Black women and girls seeking freedom from gendered violence and racism. Like Audre Lorde, Gumbs writes for the complexity of her vision." -- Jaki Shelton Green * NBC News (NBCBlk) *"Blending my love of Black queer feminist authors with genre bending and analytically complex poetry, Gumbs’s work inflicted pleasantly unfamiliar feelings upon me that I cannot 'claim to have invented.' Spill transformed me from a reluctant bystander of theory and poetry into a willing and enthused participant…. Alexis Pauline Gumbs’s Spill is an offering for all seeking an unpredictable and experimental journey of Black feminist artistic expression and self-discovery." -- Eden Sena Kokui Segbefia * Scalawag *"Gumbs not only speaks to the spiritual, bodily and otherworldly experience of black women, she allows readers to imagine new possibilities for poetry as a portal for understanding and deepening feminist theory." * Triangle Tribune *"This book is alive. The more I read it, the more gingerly I found myself handling its pages, despite the strength and determination of the women depicted within. . . . The scenes read as half song, half sermon (though intimately pitched), and taken as a whole create a richly textured chorus through which an exhilarating and deeply intelligent life force surges." -- Kim Adrian * The Rumpus *"[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 xi How She Knew 1 How She Spelled It 17 How She Left 31 How She Survived until Then 45 What She Did Not Say 61 What He Was Thinking 75 Where She Ended Up 91 The Witnesses the Wayward the Waiting 111 How We Know 125 The Way 141 Acknowledgments 151 Notes 153 Bibliography 161
£18.04
Duke University Press The Revolution Has Come
Book SynopsisIn The Revolution Has Come Robyn C. Spencer traces the Black Panther Party's organizational evolution in Oakland, California, examining how its internal politics along with external forces such as COINTELPRO shaped the Party's efforts at fostering self-determination in Oakland's black communities.Trade Review"In The Revolution Has Come, her detailed organizational history of the party, the historian Robyn C. Spencer reminds us that for the party’s leaders, it was critical that their platform be accessible, as [Huey P.] Newton put it, to 'the brothers on the block.'" -- James Ryerson * New York Times Book Review *"Unlike other scholarship that has foregrounded a handful of primarily male leaders, Spencer’s account is a well-rounded organizational history. . . . The author deftly weaves together an impressive source base to present a cohesive and accessible narrative of the evolution of the Black Panther Party. Highly recommended." -- A. Ribeiro * Choice *"This book is an outstanding contribution to the growing literature on the history of the struggle of African Americans to liberate themselves. Spencer’s attention to historical details, with respect to the critical stages and features that marked the short lifespan . . . of the BPP, is breathtaking." -- Kwesi Tsri * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"The author’s crisp, clean, incisive prose proved an eye-opening reading experience that at times left me dumbfounded as to how many myths and assumptions have come to dominate latter-day perceptions of the Panthers." -- Michael Ezra * Black Perspectives *"Spencer’s attention to women and gender provides a much-needed intervention in the historiography of the [Black Panther] Party and of Black Power more broadly. ... Ultimately, her book reveals how the Party and its dynamic women members and gender frameworks offer a roadmap for a new generation of historians, activists, and revolution." -- Ashley Farmer * Black Perspectives *"Robyn C. Spencer’s politically timely and eminently engaging history of the Black Panther Party (BPP) is a must read for anyone interested in Black Power and the history of the African American freedom struggle more broadly. Published on the fiftieth anniversary of the BPP’s founding, The Revolution Has Come breaks new ground by presenting a wealth of original source material that sheds new light on the organizational development and the ideological outlook of the Panthers in Oakland." -- Nicholas Grant * Radical Americas *“[Spencer’s] crisp, clean, incisive prose proved an eye-opening reading experience that at times left me dumbfounded as to how many myths and assumptions have come to dominate latter-day perceptions of the Panthers. . . . The Revolution Has Come is a very strong book that I would recommend for high school, undergraduate, and graduate school students as well as general readers. Even seasoned experts on the BPP will likely learn much from this wonderful, new account.” -- Michael Ezra * Journal of Civil and Human Rights *"One of the strengths of Spencer’s book, and what allows it to stand out from the explosion of books on the BPP in the past 10 years, is that she documents with clarity the ideological changes within the party that shaped it in the 1960s and 1970s. . . . Perhaps Spencer’s greatest contribution to Black Panther historiography is her thorough examination of the BPP’s political and ideological changes after 1972." -- Robert Greene II * Public Books *"A much-needed organizational history. . . . Provides greater depth to scholarship on the Black Panther Party." -- Marcia Walker-McWilliams * American Historical Review *"Spencer’s book provides an excellent overview of the birth of the movement, its impact, and importantly the role of women, who comprised more than 60% of the party membership." -- Kehinde Andrews * The Guardian *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Seize the Time: The Roots of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California 7 2. In Defense of Self-Defense 35 3. Moving on Many Fronts: The Black Panther Party's Transformation from Local Organization to Mass Movement 61 4. Inside Political Repression, 1969–1971 88 5. "Revolution Is a Process Rather Than a Conclusion": Rebuilding the Party, 1971–1974 114 6. The Politics of Survival: Electoral Politics and Organizational Transformation 143 7. "I Am We": The Demise of the Black Panther Party, 1977–1982 177 Conclusion 202 Notes 205 Bibliography 241 Index 253
£19.79
Duke University Press M Archive
Book SynopsisEngaging with the work of M. Jacqui Alexander and Black feminist thought more generally, Alexis Pauline Gumbs's M Archive is a series of prose poems that speculatively documents the survival of Black people following a worldwide cataclysm while examining the possibilities of being that exceed the human.Trade Review"M Archive adds to and extends the critical work being done around breath, breathing, and blackness. And in so doing, it gives us a reason to breathe – independently and collectively – again." -- Sasha Panaram * New Black Man (In Exile) *"Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a literary treasure. M Archive, the second book in an innovative trilogy that began with Spill, is evidence of her brilliance." * Bitch *(Starred Review) "Groundbreaking.... This is an impressive archive 'written in collaboration with the survivors' and the mythology that Gumbs develops from the artifacts of future black life and memory works to reveal an existence 'on the verge of regenerating the cells that would let us dream deep enough to remember.'” * Publishers Weekly *"The end of the world is no joke! This text is clearly ambitious. More compendium than chronicle, the writing is poetic, dense, and often solemn with glimmers of dark wit." -- Gabrielle Civil * Full Stop *"Offers a set of necessary and stimulating interventions . . . A generous work that challenges dominant views that assume that ancestral speculative work has no place in feminist theory." -- Chandra Frank * Feminist Formations *"At turns lush and awesome, in ways that make the eyes gleam and the mind crackle with electricity, in ways that devastate and leave the spirit raw with overlain feelings of complicity and responsibility, and loving, always loving, always loving in, between, and across every single word—the beautiful and daring writing of M Archive imperatively continues the constellar work of radical Black feminism’s ongoing project of 'imagining the unimaginable.'" -- John Murillo III * Make *"[G]round-breaking. . . . Gumbs’s trilogy embraces the lyric beauty in the acts of naming, remembering, and finding one’s way back to the source. . . . Reading Gumbs’s books feels like reading an archive that will someday, who knows maybe even someday soon, usher in an era of radical transformation." -- Kathryn Nuernberger * West Branch *Table of ContentsA Note ix From the Lab Notebooks of the Last Experiments 3 Archive of Dirt: What We Did 31 Archive of Sky: What We Became 71 Archive of Fire: Rate of Change 89 Archive of Ocean: Origin 105 Baskets (Possible Futures Yet to Be Woven) 133 Memory Drive 185 Acknowledgments 213 Notes 217 Periodic Kitchen Table of Elements 227
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University of New Mexico Press Crosses of Iron The Tragic Story of Dawson New
Book SynopsisTells the tragic story of what was once New Mexico’s largest and most modern company town and of how the strong, determined residents of the community coped with two heartbreaking catastrophes.Trade ReviewAn engrossing tale of the rise, the flowering and contributions, the disasters, and the memories of Dawson, a very important coal-mining site in northern New Mexico."—Richard W. Etulain, author of New Mexican Lives: Profiles and Historical StoriesTable of ContentsForewordRichard MelzerPrefaceChapter 1. EntombedChapter 2. The Birth of DawsonChapter 3. The Early YearsChapter 4. A Model CommunityChapter 5. The ImmigrantsChapter 6. Danger in the MinesChapter 7. October 22, 1913Chapter 8. The BurialsChapter 9. The SorrowChapter 10. The CauseChapter 11. The InquestChapter 12. Back to NormalChapter 13. Oh, No, Not Again!Chapter 14. What Happened This Time?Chapter 15. Writing on the WallChapter 16. Closing TimeChapter 17. Dawson CemeteryChapter 18. Down Memory LaneEpilogueAcknowledgmentsKilled in the Explosion of October 22, 1913Killed in the Explosion of February 8, 1923NotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Manitoba Press Gifts from Amin Ugandan Asian Refugees in Canada
Book SynopsisThe first major oral history project dedicated to the stories of Ugandan Asian refugees in Canada, Gifts from Amin explores the historical context of their expulsion from Uganda, the multiple motivations behind Canada’s decision to admit them, and their resilience over the past fifty years.Table of Contents Introduction Ch 1: Exploring the Historical Roots of the Expulsion Decree Ch 2: Dreams and Reality: Amin’s Expulsion Decree and the International Community’s Response Ch 3: “Thank you, Pierre”: Canadian Immigration Policy in the 1970s and the Decision to Admit Ugandan Asian Expellees Ch 4: “His Dream Became My Nightmare”: Canadian Operations and Life in Uganda during the 90-day Expulsion Period Ch 5: “An Honourable Place”: Establishing New Roots in Canada and Evaluating Resettlement Initiative Ch 6: From Refugees to Citizens: Integration, Commemoration, and Identities in Canada Conclusion: Gifts that Keep on Giving: Ugandan Asian Canadians in the 21st Century
£23.21
Temple University Press,U.S. Beauty and Brutality
Book SynopsisDiverse perspectives on Manila that suggest the city's exhilarating sights and sounds broaden how Philippine histories are defined and understoodTrade Review“Beauty and Brutality is a carefully curated, original, and sophisticated collection of essays that explores Manila in all of its complexity, possibility, and potential. Readers will engage with Manila through multiple senses—from the snarl of traffic and the density of the city’s air to its stunning display of cultural forms of resistance and persistence amid national and transnational violence. Beauty and Brutality provides key historical and contextual information, serving as an invaluable orientation to the city, what it represents, and its significance both within the Philippines and abroad.”—Denise Cruz, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, and author of Transpacific Femininities: The Making of the Modern Filipina“Metro Manila has long served as one of the world’s poster cities for uneven and unequal development. These exhaustive studies in Beauty and Brutality explore the vast complexity and manifold contradictions of Manila as a space of dense inhabitation and a place of conflicting affections. The editors and contributors attend, with criticality and care, to the irrepressible desires and hopes of its citizens, inveterate survivors of Manila’s long history of beautification and brutalization by capitalists and colonizers. To such ‘beauty’ and ‘brutality,’ contributor Ferdinand Lopez adds ‘blood,’ with its paradoxical connotations of vitality, vigor, and violence. Bloody, not just beautiful and brutal, this incomparable city is, indeed!”—Oscar V. Campomanes, Professor of English at Ateneo de Manila University"An essential anthology of 15 essays curated by Manalansan, Diaz, and Tolentino, the book takes beauty as a point of departure to explore diverse spatio-temporal practices of city-making through Manila.... [A] unique contribution to both urban studies and Manila studies.... Beauty and Brutality presents an indispensable addition to the growing body of contemporary and historical works that seek to creatively document the fascinating shifts and spaces in a rapidly changing Manila."—Journal of Urban Affairs
£27.90
Duke University Press The Politics of Decolonial Investigations
Book SynopsisIn The Politics of Decolonial Investigations Walter D. Mignolo provides a sweeping examination of how coloniality has operated around the world in its myriad forms from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first. Decolonial border thinking allows Mignolo to outline how the combination of the self-fashioned narratives of Western civilization and the hegemony of Eurocentric thought served to eradicate all knowledges in non-European languages and praxes of living and being. Mignolo also traces the geopolitical origins of racialized and gendered classifications, modernity, globalization, and cosmopolitanism, placing them all within the framework of coloniality. Drawing on the work of theorists and decolonial practitioners from the Global South and the Global East, Mignolo shows how coloniality has provoked the emergence of decolonial politics initiated by delinking from all forms of Western knowledge and subjectivities. The urgent task, Mignolo stresses, is the epistemic reconstitutiTrade Review“Even regular readers of Walter D. Mignolo will find a wealth of new insights, analyses, and topics as he brilliantly considers some of decolonial theory's current controversies and new applications. With his hard-hitting insistence on the problems of Eurocentrism, Mignolo's spirited explanation and defense of decolonial theory is illuminating.” -- Linda Martín Alcoff, author of * Rape and Resistance *“Walter Mignolo's oeuvre fiercely demands that we need to move beyond an engagement with the Euro American prison house of concepts and forge a theoretical vocabulary that is not merely an inheritance of colonialism. The decolonial option is premised on transcending amnesia—the manifestation of the colonial wound—toward traditions of intellection from the Global South. This new book shows yet again his uncompromising and ardent delineation of emancipatory landscapes of thought.” -- Dilip M. Menon, Mellon Chair in Indian Studies, University of the Witwatersrand"Mignolo’s book collects a significant contribution into various key issues around decoloniality and the ongoing movement beyond Eurocentric modernity. . . . A powerful intervention developing decolonial thought in thinking paths forward and alternative futures rather than fixating or being limited to critique." -- Ali Kassem * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"A hugely provocative, far-reaching, comprehensive and accessible book for scholars engaged across disciplines, geopolitical focuses, and languages. It proposes a particularly valuable provocation for scholars of European languages, especially challenging those of us for whom the jumping-off point for our analysis is so deeply situated in Modern Languages’ Eurocentric knowing and its attendant tactics of domination as factors to be taken for granted. It challenges and rewards the reader through its significant contributions to theory and the routes it offers to decolonial futures." -- Rebecca Ogden * Modern Language Review *"Mignolo is at his best in his analysis of the nation-state and the limitations of Western political theories. . . . Mignolo’s magnum opus The Politics of Decolonial Investigations is a sober description of the history of the world of the last five hundred years, its atrocities, and injustices, but it also gives us hope by describing the world that is emerging from underneath the ruins of Western civilization." -- Breny Mendoza * Society for U.S. Intellectual History *"The Politics of Decolonial Investigations constitutes an essential point of entry for all readers interested in decolonization. Thanks to its ability to synthesize complex problems within the field and Mignolo's constant reflection on how to exercise epistemic rebellion in the face of the colonial power matrix driven by coloniality, this is undoubtedly a book that will guide the new generation of researchers into the distant future." (translated from Spanish) -- Omar Osorio Amoretti * Spanish and Portuguese Review *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xxiii Introduction 1 Part I. Geopolitics, Social Classification, and Border Thinking 1. Racism as We Sense It Today 85 2. Islamaphobia/Hispanophobia 99 3. Dispensable and Bare Lives 127 4. Decolonizing the Nation-State 154 Part II. Cosmopolitanism, Decoloniality, and Rights 5. The Many Faces of Cosmo-polis 183 6. Cosmopolitanism and the Decolonial Option 229 7. From "Human" to "Living" Rights 254 Part III. The Geopolitics of the Modern/Colonial World Order 8. Decolonial Reflections on Hemispheric Partitions 287 9. Delinking, Decoloniality, and De-Westernization 314 10. The South of the North and the West of the East 349 Part IV. Geopolitics of Knowing, the Question of the Human, and the Third Nomos of the Earth 11. Mariátegui and Gramsci in "Latin" America 381 12. Sylvia Wynter: What Does It Mean to Be Human? 420 13. Decoloniality and Phenomenology 458 14. The Rise of the Third Nomes of the Earth 483 Epilogue. Yes, We Can: Border Thinking, Pluriversality, and Colonial Differentials 531 Notes 563 Bibliography 641 Index 685
£29.45
Duke University Press Written in Stone
Book SynopsisTwentieth Anniversary Edition with a new preface and afterword From the removal of Confederate monuments in New Orleans in the spring of 2017 to the violent aftermath of the white nationalist march on the Robert E. Lee monument in Charlottesville later that summer, debates and conflicts over the memorialization of Confederate “heroes” have stormed to the forefront of popular American political and cultural discourse. In Written in Stone Sanford Levinson considers the tangled responses to controversial monuments and commemorations while examining how those with political power configure public spaces in ways that shape public memory and politics. Paying particular attention to the American South, though drawing examples as well from elsewhere in the United States and throughout the world, Levinson shows how the social and legal arguments regarding the display, construction, modification, and destruction of public monuments mark the seemingly endless cTrade Review"Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty." -- W. C. Johnson * Choice *"Levinson offers more questions than answers, which I find appealing. . . . It is a short and highly readable book, which also makes it ideal for classroom use. If one wanted to provoke a lively debate in class, this book would be the ideal work." -- Jeffrey E. Smith * Journal of American Culture *Table of ContentsPreface to the 2018 Edition xiWritten in Stone An Introduction 1 Afterword 125 Acknowledgments 203
£19.94
Duke University Press Otherwise Worlds
Book SynopsisThe contributors to Otherwise Worlds investigate the complex relationships between settler colonialism and anti-Blackness to explore the political possibilities that emerge from such inquiries. Pointing out that presumptions of solidarity, antagonism, or incommensurability between Black and Native communities are insufficient to understand the relationships between the groups, the volume''s scholars, artists, and activists look to articulate new modes of living and organizing in the service of creating new futures. Among other topics, they examine the ontological status of Blackness and Indigeneity, possible forms of relationality between Black and Native communities, perspectives on Black and Indigenous sociality, and freeing the flesh from the constraints of violence and settler colonialism. Throughout the volume''s essays, art, and interviews, the contributors carefully attend to alternative kinds of relationships between Black and Native communities that can lead toward libeTrade Review“Ambitious, theoretically sophisticated, and timely, Otherwise Worlds stages a much-needed conversation between Black studies and Native studies as they interface with critical race theory and gender and queer theory while significantly advancing the discourses around racialized being, anti-blackness, Indigeneity, and settler colonialism.” -- Alexander G. Weheliye, author of * Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human *“Presenting new analyses and theorizations of the intersections and tensions between Black studies and Native studies, Otherwise Worlds shows how these fields can speak and think with each other. It has the potential to serve as a model of decolonial love in the academy and in our communities.” -- Michelle Jacob, author of * Indian Pilgrims: Indigenous Journeys of Activism and Healing with Saint Kateri Tekakwitha *"There is so much to admire about this book. I am making my way through each section slowly. Artists, activists and scholars frame the questions, complexities and possibilities an 'otherwise' orientation might open up, if we find better and better ways of ‘thinking of, caring for and talking to one another’ about the ongoing effects of genocide, colonialism, enslavement and anti-Blackness." -- Julia Guez * Houston Chronicle *“Otherwise Worlds offers a thought-provoking guide towards re-imagining the presence, resurgence and future of Black and Indigenous life…. Otherwise Worlds is an outstanding piece of academic work and a remarkable guide to approaching alternative worlds beyond racism, ecological destruction and racial capitalism.” -- Laura Mariana Reyes * Cultural Studies *“This collection is truly a conversation between disciplines and paves the way for new ways of relating to one another. Otherwise Worlds is a compelling collection that does what it sets out to do.” -- Alina Scott * E3W Review of Books *“Otherwise Worlds is a call to think beyond ourselves and curate an authentic relation to the scholarship, the land, and mainly the people. A major takeaway from each interview, essay, and artwork in this volume is the range of interdisciplinarity needed to capture the complexity of this discourse of sovereignty and liberation across the diaspora.” -- Daisy E. Guzman Nunez * NACLA Report on the Americas *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Beyond Incommensurability: Toward an Otherwise Stance on Black and Indigenous Relationality / Tiffany Lethabo King, Jenell Navarro, and Andrea Smith 1 Part I. Boundless Bodies 1. Stayed | Freedom | Hallelujah / Ashon Crawley 27 2. Reading the Dead: A Feminist Black Critique of Global Capital / Denise Ferreira da Silva 38 3. Staying Ready for Black Study / Frank B. Wilderson III and Tiffany Lethabo King 52 Part II. Boundless Ontologies 4. New World Grammars: The "Unthought" Black Discourses of Conquest / Tiffany Lethabo King 77 5. The Vel of Slavery: Tracking the Figure of the Unsovereign / Jared Sexton 94 6. Sovereignty as Deferred Genocide / Andrea Smith 118 7. Murder and Metaphysics: Leslie Marmon Silko's "Tony's Story" and Audre Lorde's "Power" / Chad Benito Infante 133 8. Black Malpractice (or, the Fugitive Sacred) / J. Kameron Carter 158 Part III. Boundless Socialities 9. Possessions of Whiteness: Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness in the Pacific / Maile Arvin 213 10. "What's Past Is Prologue": Black Native Refusal and the Colonial Archive / Sandra Harvey 218 11. Indian Country's Apartheid / Cedric Sunray 236 12. "Ugh! Maskoke People and Our Pervasive Anti-Black Racism . . . Let the Language Teach Us!" / Marcus Briggs-Cloud 13. Mississippian Black Metal Grl on a Friday Night with Artist's Statement / Hotvlkuce Harjo 291 Part IV. Boundless Kinship 14. The Countdown Remix: Why Two Native Feminists Ride with Queen Bey / Jenelle Navarro and Kimberly Robertson 15. Slay Serigraph with Artist's Statement / Kimberly Robertson 320 16. Mass Incarceration since 1492 / Jenell Navarro and Kimberly Robertson 322 17. "Liberation," Cover of Queer Indigenous Girl, Volume 4, and "Roots," Cover of Black Indigenous Boy, Volume 2 / Se'mana Thompson 330 18. Visual Cultures of Indigenous Futurism / Lindsay Nixon 332 19. Diaspora, Transnationalism, and the Decolonial Project / Rinaldo Walcott 343 20. Building Maroon Intellectual Communities / Chris Finley 362 About the Authors 371 Index
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Duke University Press History on the Run
Book SynopsisMa Vang examines the experiences of Hmong refugees who migrated to the United States following the secret war in Laos (19611975) to theorize history on the run as a framework for understanding refugee histories, in particular those of the Hmong.Trade Review“Ma Vang seeks out those places where secrets lie, not to reveal them but to consider their social force as archives and cosmologies of knowledge and power. Pursuing a wide range of inquiries that contribute to larger questions about historiography, ‘official’ histories, refugees, and ex-allies of U.S. foreign ventures, History on the Run is an important and necessary interdisciplinary feat. Stunningly original and thoroughly provocative, it is the most compelling book in refugee studies in years.” -- Mimi Thi Nguyen, author of * The Gift of Freedom: War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages *“In this rigorous and significant work Ma Vang shifts our broader understandings of the connections among state secrecy, racial and colonial war, and refugee subjectivities. By refusing to engage in a simple recovery project or to reveal hidden secrets, Vang offers instead a sophisticated analysis of the structuring logic, function, and effects of state secrecy that demonstrates that it is is liberal military empire's norm, not its exception.” -- Jodi Kim, author of * Ends of Empire: Asian American Critique and the Cold War *"...History on the Run is a must read for those who are looking to expand their knowledge in this field and/or wanting to learn more about Hmong refugees." -- Doua Kha * International Examiner *"Vang’s book contributes to larger conversations occurring within history about the value and machinations of historiography and its implications on human geographical mobility and minoritarian subjectivity. In essence, Vang’s magisterial book is a field-defining and paradigm-shifting work in critical ethnic and critical refugee studies." -- Kong Pheng Pha * Society and Space *"Vang's book . . . truly marks a turn in Hmong studies, one that demands complexity and rigor, and asks its readers to think critically about Hmong knowledge and about how academia sustains white supremacy." -- Aline Lo * Lateral *"As an interdisciplinary scholar, Vang strings together data and theories from various fields, resulting in a multilayered, complex work. Therefore, academics and students from multiple disciplines can all find it relevant and rewarding from different angles. . . . The book presents a powerful voice to retell the refugee’s 'history on the run,' one that defies traditional archiving and encapsulates a rich body of knowledge to destabilize imperialist projects." -- Chi Yen Ha * Journal of Asian Studies *"Vang’s book is captivating. Her focus on Amerasian studies allows her to theorize refugee epistemologies in a specific international context (US, Hmong, and Laos connectivities) while still offering new theoretical insights to refugee studies of other inter-/national contexts. As such, the value of her work to refugee studies and ethnic studies is undeniable." -- Miriam Jaehn * Pacific Affairs *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. The Lost Bag and the Refugee Archive 1 1. Secrecy as Knowledge 27 2. Missing Things: State Secrets and U.S. Cold War Policy toward Laos 57 3. The Refugee Soldier: A Critique of Recognition and Citizenship in the Hmong Veterans' Naturalization Act of 1997 93 4. The Terrorist Ally: The Case against General Vang Pao 117 5. The Refugee Grandmother: Silence as Presence in The Latehomecomer and Gran Torino 145 Epilogue. Geographic Stories for Refugee Return 179 Notes 189 Bibliography 231 Index 251
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Duke University Press To Make Negro Literature
Book SynopsisElizabeth McHenry locates a hidden chapter in the history of Black literature at the turn of the twentieth century, revising concepts of Black authorship and offering a fresh account of the development of Negro literature focused on the never published, the barely read, and the unconventional.Trade Review“From the title to the final words of her coda, Elizabeth McHenry provokes, persuades, and prods readers to apply thought to the knowledge presented in this book. It is a nuanced and wise offering of immaculate research and righteous rumination to anyone—whether the casual browser who never once thought about the topic or the most sophisticated scholar of Black culture generally and print culture particularly.” -- Frances Smith Foster, author of * ’Til Death or Distance Do Us Part: Love and Marriage in African America *“In this revelatory study, Elizabeth McHenry argues that the turn of the twentieth century, so often lamented as a nadir of race relations, was in fact the pivotal era when the infrastructure for the African American literary tradition was built. Looking behind the scenes to efforts that at first glance might seem perfunctory or crassly commercial (subscription bookselling services, printing presses, reading rooms, bibliographies), she unearths the enormous labor—albeit sometimes aborted or thwarted or unfinished—undertaken by writers and intellectuals in the period to create the very concept of ‘Negro literature’ as a viable publishing category as much as an ideological project linked to uplift and civil rights.” -- Brent Hayes Edwards, author of * Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination *"This reviewer found especially engaging the author's assessment of Mary Church Terrell’s efforts to publish short stories and the records she kept (for posterity) of publishers’ rejections. Other chapters are equally engaging, revealing surprising information about the interstices of the African American literary tradition. In sum, this is a riveting, much needed account of the spaces between recognized African American literary success and the scaffolding that enables it. Essential. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals; general readers." -- A. S. Newson-Horst * Choice *"McHenry teaches how to read the past in order to glean the lessons to be learned from defeat. If we study failure, we can learn about process, creativity, and the makings of literary culture in the US alongside the country’s history of racialized and gendered violence. . . . By reading in this way, McHenry invites failure to speak and us to admit how it has made and shaped this literary history. Such reading reveals how Black authors have wrestled with and against 'what is.'" -- Tara A. Bynum * Public Books *"A richly innovative archive of under-researched, though vital textual practices alongside defamiliarizing and thus generative readings of better-known ones. . . . The timely analytical and methodological interventions in To Make Negro Literature emerge from McHenry homing in on failed, unrefined, and workaday black texts." -- Douglas A. Jones, Jr. * American Literary History *"McHenry’s detailing of African American genres and authors that are commonly overlooked offers readers a more comprehensive view of African American literature during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Readers of McHenry’s book are called to appreciate noncanonical African American literature through her clear explanations. . . . This book will interest scholars of African American literature, especially those who wish to learn more about unfamiliar writers and works." -- Courtney Walton * European Journal of American Studies *"A luminous venture into a little-known corner of African American literary history." -- Sara Rutkowski * Journal of Southern History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. To Make Negro Literature 1 1. "The Information Contained in This Book Will Never Appear in School Histories": Progress of a Race and Subscription Bookselling at the End of the Nineteenth Century 23 2. Thinking Bibliographically 78 3. Washington's Good Fortune: Writing and Authorship in Practice 129 4. The Case of Mary Church Terrell 188 Coda. Underground Railroads of Meaning 235 Notes 239 Bibliography 269 Index 285
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Duke University Press Cistem Failure
Book SynopsisIn Cistem Failure Marquis Bey meditates on the antagonistic relationship between blackness and cisgender. Bey asks, What does it mean to have a gender that matches one's sex---that is, to be cisgender---when decades of feminist theory have destroyed the belief that there is some natural way to be a sex? Moving from the The Powerpuff Girls to the greeting How ya mama'n'em? to their own gender identity, Bey finds that cisgender is too flat as a category to hold the myriad ways that people who may or may not have undergone gender-affirmative interventions depart from gender alignment. At the same time, blackness, they contend, strikes at the heart of cisgender's invariable coding as white: just as transness names a non-cis space, blackness implies a non-cis space. By showing how blackness opens up a way to subvert the hegemonic power of the gender binary, Bey makes a case for an antiracist gender abolition project that rejects cisgender as a regulatory apparatus.Trade Review"I found Cistem Failure by Marquis Bey really exciting. In it, Bey wonders whether and how blackness is at odds with cisgender identity. I love when a book articulates things I haven’t been able to put into words. It is as if something that had been squirming inside me settles." -- Chantal V. Johnson * The Millions *"In 2019, Bey’s debut collection Them Goon Rules changed me as a scholar, a feminist, an accomplice and a person; Black Trans Feminism is just as imperative. I forced myself to decide between this one and Bey’s Cistem Failure, which was also released this year. Well, hell, just read ‘em both." -- Karla J. Strand * Ms. Magazine *“Marquis and their work provide much room for fruitful engagement with critical animal studies. . . . Marquis’s form is highly artistic and this keeps their essays begging to be acknowledged and revisited, as any good piece of art should. Bey’s writing is really an experience. They write otherwise as they encourage the reader to imagine otherwise, other ways of being.” -- Nathan Poirier * Journal for Critical Animal Studies *“Written with tongue-in-cheek humour and deep vulnerability, Cistem Failure speaks to scholar-activists across disciplines who are invested in livability and collective liberation. . . . Although Bey speaks only to their particular experience, they position themself as potential kin to anyone whose life does not map neatly onto the cistrans binary or who is committed to the project of gender abolition.” -- Derek P. Siegel * Ethnic and Racial Studies *Table of ContentsPreface. Cistem Failure ix Acknowledgments xvii Back in the Day 1 Heart of Cisness 21 How Ya Mama’n’em? 47 Notes on (Trans)Gender 61 Blowing Up Narnia 87 RE: [No Subject] 105 The Coalition of Gender Abolition 129 Notes 147 Bibliography 153 Index 161
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Duke University Press The Pandemic Divide
Book SynopsisThe contributors to The Pandemic Divide analyze and explain the myriad racial disparities that came to the forefront of the COVID-19 pandemic while highlighting what steps could have been taken to mitigate its impact.Trade Review"Required, essential reading for Americans trying to reconcile their pandemic experiences." (starred review) -- Tina Panik * Library Journal *"The Pandemic Divide should appeal to anyone with an interest in social and cultural politics, and moreover policy. In a world that is continually racialised and then derided for being so, this book is an urgent reminder of how deep rooted systems operate in sinister ways to continually exploit, undermine, and undervalue whole swathes of the population." -- Georgia Bisbas * Lancet Infections Diseases *"Disturbing but proactive...." -- Andrew Robinson * Nature *"Wright, Hubbard, and Darity offer compelling sociological, economic, and epidemiological data to show that that structural racism has undeniable consequences on the health and mortality of racial and ethnic minorities. The Pandemic Divide is a useful text for students, educators, and researchers to understand why the COVID-19 pandemic impacted certain populations more than others." -- Gwenetta Curry * Ethnic and Racial Studies *Table of ContentsA Note on Terminology ix Foreword / Mary T. Bassett xi Introduction. Six Feet and Miles Apart: Structural Racism in the United States and Racially Disparate Outcomes during the COVID-19 Pandemic / Lucas Hubbard, Gwendolyn L. Wright, and William A. Darity Jr. 1 Section I: COVID-19 in Context 1. How Systemic Racism and Preexisting Conditions Contributed to COVID-19 Disparities for Black Americans / Keisha L. Bentley-Edwards, Melissa J. Scott, and Paul A. Robbins 29 2. Labor History and Pandemic Response: The Overlapping Experiences of Work, Housing, and Neighborhood Conditions / Joe William Trotter Jr. 46 Section II: COVID-19 and Institutions 3. “God Is in Control”: Race, Religion, Family, and Community during the COVID-19 Pandemic / Sandra L. Barnes 69 4. COVID-19, Race, and Mass Incarceration / Arvind Krishnamurthy 87 Section III: COVID-19 and Financial Disparities 5. Housing, Student Debt, and Labor Market Inequality: COVID-19, Black Families/Households, and Financial Insecurity / Fenaba R. Addo and Adam Hollowell 111 6. Race, Entrepreneurship, and COVID-19: Black Small-Business Survival in Prepandemic and Postpandemic America / Henry Clay McKoy Jr. 129 7. COVID-19 Effects on Black Business-Owner Households / Chris Wheat, Fiona Greig,and Damon Jones 186 8. Closing Racial Economic Gaps during and after COVID-19 / Jane Dokko and Jung Sakong 210 Section IV: COVID-19 and Educational Disparities 9. Latinx Immigrant Parents and Their Children in Times of COVID-19: Facing Inequities Together in the “Mexican Room” of the New Latino South / Marta Sánchez, Melania DiPietro, Leslie Babinski, Steve Amendum, and Steven Knotek 231 10. COVID-19, Higher Education, and Social Inequality / Adam Hollowell and N. Joyce Payne 256 11. The Rebirth of K-12 Public Education: Postpandemic Opportunities / Kristen R. Stephens, Kisha N. Daniels, and Erica R. Phillips 276 Postscript: COVID-19 and the Path Forward / Eugene T. Richardson 295 Contributors 301 Index 307
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Duke University Press Surface Relations
Book SynopsisVivian L. Huang retheorizes the stereotype of inscrutability as a queer aesthetic strategy within contemporary Asian American cultural life.Trade Review"This book provides an overflowing fountain of information on Asian American inscrutability. The artworks that are analyzed are provocative and eye-opening, and the depth of understanding that Huang has for the subject matter is unsurpassable. Overall, Surface Relations is the ideal text for anybody who wants to further their specific research on queer and feminist Asian American artistic expression." -- Shandy Frey * ARLIS/NA Reviews *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Inscrutable Surfacing 1 1. Invisibility and the Vanishing Point of Asian/American Visuality 25 2. Silence and Parasitic Hospitality in the Works of Yoko Ono, Laurel Nakadate, and Emma Sulkowicz 47 3. Im/penetrability, Trans Figuration, and Unreliable Surfacing 73 4. Flatness, Industriousness, and Laborious Flexibility 105 5. Distance, Negativity, and Slutty Sociality in Tseng Kwong Chi’s Performance Photographs 135 Conclusion: Something Is Missing 165 Notes 187 Bibliography 207 Index 221
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Duke University Press Black Disability Politics
Book SynopsisIn Black Disability Politics Sami Schalk explores how issues of disability have been and continue to be central to Black activism from the 1970s to the present. Schalk shows how Black people have long engaged with disability as a political issue deeply tied to race and racism. She points out that this work has not been recognized as part of the legacy of disability justice and liberation because Black disability politics differ in language and approach from the mainstream white-dominant disability rights movement. Drawing on the archives of the Black Panther Party and the National Black Women’s Health Project alongside interviews with contemporary Black disabled cultural workers, Schalk identifies common qualities of Black disability politics, including the need to ground public health initiatives in the experience and expertise of marginalized disabled people so that they can work in antiracist, feminist, and anti-ableist ways. Prioritizing an understanding of disability Trade Review"With Sami Schalk’s incredible book, Black Disability Politics, we begin to move into a different kind of book doing intrinsically connected work—a rigorously researched look at all the ways that disabled people’s concerns have been foundational to Black resistance organizing. . . . If knowing your history is a key ingredient to success, Black Disability Politics presents a deeply researched and still incredibly readable map of the past, with implications for the shimmering future. This, along with what I can only describe as a muscular clarity in her writing, was incredible as a beginner to the topic to feel my understanding grow as I read, and that is only possible in the capable hands of a great writer like Schalk." -- S. Bear Bergman * Xtra! *"Sami Schalk explores the histories and essential lessons of Black disabled labor, politics and movements. This is a long-overdue and essential volume." -- Karla Strand * Ms. *"Black Disability Politics is a profound exploration and documentation of a cultural topic that has gone overlooked throughout the entire history of the Black American experience. . . . A deeply important view of the fight for the rights of disabled Black people in America since the 1970s." -- Jordannah Elizabeth * New York Amsterdam News *"This book will be of particular interest to undergraduate and graduate students because it invites continued exploration of Black disability studies and politics. Recommended. Undergraduates through faculty." -- S. Burch * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Black Health Matters 1 1. “We Have a Right to Rebel”: Black Disability Politics in the Black Panther Party 23 2. Fighting Psychiatric Abuse: The BPP and the Black Disability Politics of Mental and Carceral Institutions 48 Praxis Interlude One. Anti-ableist Approaches to Fighting Disabling Violence 69 3. Empowerment through Wellness: Black Disability Politics in the National Black Women’s Health Project 81 4. More Than Just Prevention: The NBWHP and the Black Disability of HIV/AIDS 110 Praxis Interlude Two. Approaches to Disability Identity in Black Disability Politics 129 5. Black Disability Politics Now 140 (Not a) Conclusion. The Present and Futures of Black Disability Politics 154 Notes 161 Bibliography 187 Index 199
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Duke University Press Deathlife
Book SynopsisIn Deathlife, Anthony B. Pinn analyzes hip hop to explore how Blackness serves as a framework for defining and guiding the relationship between life and death in the United States. Pinn argues that white supremacy and white privilege operate based on the right to distinguish death from life. This distinction is produced and maintained through the construction of Blackness as deathlife. Drawing on Afropessimism and Black moralism, Pinn theorizes deathlife as a technology of whiteness that projects whites’ anxieties about the end of their lives onto the Black other. Examining the music of Jay-Z; Kendrick Lamar; Tyler, the Creator; and others, Pinn shows how hip hop configures the interconnection and dependence between death and life in such a way that death and life become indistinguishable. In so doing, Pinn demonstrates that hip hop presents an alternative to deathlife that challenges the white supremacist definitions of Blackness and anti-Blackness moTrade Review“Not since Orlando Patterson’s magisterial exploration of social death have we had as monumental an engagement with the ideas of life, death, and Blackness as Anthony Pinn delivers in his groundbreaking book Deathlife. Pinn uses hip hop’s struggles between life and death, and with life as death, to illumine both the white quest for immortality through slaying Blackness, and the Black hunger for meaning by staring nothingness in the eye. Deathlife captures the way that Blackness and being, and Blackness and nonbeing, have had no useful distinction in the lexicon of white supremacy, while brilliantly arguing for a rationale of Black existence that sees no value in separating life from death. A transcendent work of astonishing originality.” -- Michael Eric Dyson“Anthony B. Pinn shows how Black critical theory’s focus on the antagonism between the human and Blackness can be heard in hip hop and popular culture. His concept of deathlife—the merging together of death and life—underscores how the sphere of the (white) human relies on the fantasy of cordoning off life from death. Whiteness, Pinn argues, needs Black deathlife in order to understand life and death.” -- Joseph R. Winters, author of * Hope Draped in Black: Race, Melancholy, and the Agony of Progress *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Paradigms of Death (or Life) and Deathlife 1 Part I. Signifying Deathlife 1. The Orphic Hustler 45 2. The Anithero 73 Part II. Consuming Deathlife 3. Bacchic Intent 97 4. Zombic Hunger 125 Epilogue. Two Types of Melancholia 149 Notes 165 Discography 201 Bibliography 207 Index 223
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Duke University Press Stay Black and Die
Book SynopsisIn Stay Black and Die, I. Augustus Durham examines melancholy and genius in black culture, letters, and media from the nineteenth century to the contemporary moment. Drawing on psychoanalysis, affect theory, and black studies, Durham explores the black mother as both a lost object and a found subject often obscured when constituting a cultural legacy of genius across history. He analyzes the works of Frederick Douglass, Ralph Ellison, Marvin Gaye, Octavia E. Butler, and Kendrick Lamar to show how black cultural practices and aesthetics abstract and reveal the lost mother through performance. Whether attributing Douglass’s intellect to his matrilineage, reading Gaye’s falsetto singing voice as a move to interpolate black female vocality, or examining the women in Ellison’s life who encouraged his aesthetic interests, Durham demonstrates that melancholy becomes the catalyst for genius and genius in turn is a signifier of the maternal. Using psychoanalysis to deveTrade Review“What haunts and inspires black creativity in an antiblack world? In Stay Black and Die, I. Augustus Durham offers a gendered vernacular psychoanalytic reading of this question, which is to say that he offers a lush blues of genius’s complicated sustenance and insistence. And right there in this blues is the centrality of black femaleness—the maternal—that dapples the engagement with the object that is and is not lost. This richly researched book showcases genius as a notion traced through its motherline and, as such, Durham’s brilliance is a stay in every sense of the word: a hold, a refusal, a plea, and an inhabitance, a longing in which one can linger.” -- Kevin Quashie, author of * Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being *“I. Augustus Durham adds a fundamentally new and truly insightful spin to studies in blackness and melancholy. Bringing melancholy into the realm of nonromanticized genius, he moves seamlessly between the study of literature and the study of music. His analysis of music videos also makes his approach to black melancholy and genius a deep study of affect that refuses any boundaries between the literary, the sonic, and the visual. I am certain that Durham’s theorization of melancholic genius will become a portable, widely cited idea.” -- Margo Natalie Crawford, author of * Black Post-Blackness: The Black Arts Movement and Twenty-First-Century Aesthetics *Table of ContentsFigures viii Echo | I xi Thank | You; or, Acknowledgments xix Color | Blackness 1 Read | Frederick 39 Travel | Ralph 79 Man | Marvin 117 Woman | Gan 151 Love | Kendrick 179 Study | Us 213 Notes 225 Bibliography 273 Index 309
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Duke University Press The Politics of Kinship
Book SynopsisWhat if we understood the idea of family as central to representing alternative forms of governance as expressions of racial deviance? In The Politics of Kinship, Mark Rifkin shows how ideologies of family, including notions of kinship, recast Indigenous and other forms of collective self-organization and self-determination as disruptive racial tendencies in need of state containment and intervention. Centering work in Indigenous studies, Rifkin illustrates how conceptions of family and race work together as part of ongoing efforts to regulate, assault, and efface other political orders. The book examines the history of anthropology and its resonances in contemporary queer scholarship, contemporary Indian policy from the 1970s onward, the legal history of family formation and privacy in the United States, and the association of blackness with criminality across US history. In this way, Rifkin seeks to open new possibilities for envisioning what kinds of relations, networks, and Trade Review“The Politics of Kinship is a new and exciting contribution to the field that raises productive questions about the relationship and distinction between family and kinship. As part of his larger project, developing a queer critique of settler colonialism, Mark Rifkin here homes in on discourses of family and kinship to examine how these conversations have often elided underlying questions of governance and sovereignty.” -- Manu Karuka, author of * Empire’s Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad *“Distinctly and importantly drawing on Indigenous intellectual frames in order to rethink racialization in the United States, Mark Rifkin makes a powerful contribution to the robust body of scholarship on family, kinship, and race. The Politics of Kinship is a fantastic book.” -- Jennifer C. Nash, author of * How We Write Now: Living with Black Feminist Theory *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Enfamilyment, Political Orders, and the Racializing Work of Scale 1 1. Kinship’s Past, Queer Interventions, and Indigenous Futures 43 2. Indian Domesticity, Setter Regulation, and the Limits of the Race/Politics Distinction 93 3. Marriage, Privacy, Sovereignty 145 4. Blackness, Criminaltiy, Governance 199 Coda: Inside/Outside State Forms 257 Notes 271 Bibliography 343 Index 379
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New York University Press South Central Dreams
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2022 Latino/a Section Best Book Award, given by the American Sociological AssociationHonorable Mention for the Robert E. Park Award, given by the Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological AssociationFinalist for the 2021 C. Wright Mills Award, given by the Society for the Study of Social ProblemsRace, place, and identity in a changing urban America Over the last five decades, South Los Angeles has undergone a remarkable demographic transition. In South Central Dreams, eminent scholars Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Manuel Pastor follow its transformation from a historically Black neighborhood into a predominantly Latino one, providing a fresh, inside look at the fascinatingand constantly changingrelationships between these two racial and ethnic groups in California. Drawing on almost two hundred interviews and statistical data, Hondagneu-Sotelo and Pastor explTrade ReviewSouth Central’s evolution from almost entirely African American to mostly Latino is a bellwether for an important part of a changing America. Through statistical and ethnographic analysis, Hondagneu-Sotelo and Pastor describe that change at several levels, showing how Black-Latino relations challenge traditional notions of ethnic succession and assimilation. Rather, they reveal how residents have formed an identity based on their shared home and a minority linked fate, to organize and empower their communities. -- Edward Telles, co-author of Durable Ethnicity: Mexican Americans and the Ethnic CoreSouth Central LA looms large in the American imagination. Media reports of racial violence, drug trafficking and Gangster Rap music, dominate portrayals of this iconic Black and Latinx community. But as is so often the case with media depictions of marginalized urban communities, such images are largely distortions of the reality experienced by those who called South Central home. Drawing on interviews with residents, stories from those who have witnessed this community transform from predominantly Black to predominantly Latinx, and demographic and economic data that offer quantitative measures of a community in transition, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Manuel Pastor provide texture, nuance and flavor so that outsiders can appreciate that South Central is so much more than has been depicted in films and news reports. This book captures the vibrancy, dynamism and complexity that makes South Central unique, and it reminds us that beyond the challenges and hardships facing its residents, there is also a heart and a spirit that makes this much maligned space special and unique. -- Pedro A. Noguera, author of The Trouble With Black Boys: ...And Other Reflections on Race, Equity, and the Future of Public EducationSouth Los Angeles is a dynamic urban space shaped by decades of demographic change, cultural sedimentation, and multi-ethnic home-making. In South Central Dreams, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Manuel Pastor beautifully capture the soul of the area through a mixed-method study that places quantitative data in dialogue with informant voices. The result is a must-read volume that complicates popular notions about Black-Brown relations and provides important lessons for sociological theory. -- Darnell M. Hunt, co-editor of Black Los Angeles: American Dreams and Racial RealitiesSouth Central Dreams offers a penetrating look at immigration, adaptation, and social change in a poor urban community shifting from black to brown. Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Manuel Pastor masterfully document how the specifics of place and time shape the actions of ordinary people as they transcend social difference to construct a common identity and transform a stigmatized urban quarter into a cherished place called 'home.' This book moves well beyond the usual cliches of a fraught relationship between Blacks and Latinos and offers a model for how community studies should be done, hopefully one that will be emulated in other cities throughout the nation. -- Douglas Massey, author of American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the UnderclassBravo! In this book, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Manuel Pastor document a powerful new age of Latino politics. In South Central Los Angeles, Latino youth have blended the immigrant insights of their elders with the experiences of their African American classmates, neighbors, and friends, expanding the possibilities of Brown/Black solidarity by forging a brand-new political identity. 'We are South Central!,' they exclaim, embracing as their own every struggle that has determined the conditions of life in their community. -- Kelly Lytle Hernandez, author of City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771–1965Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Manuel Pastor breathe life into the understudied and underappreciated complexities of South Los Angeles. Through the historical analysis of the friends, families, organizers and activists of our neighborhoods, we are shown not just our past, but our future as well. Especially in a time of racial reckoning in this country, and after an administration that spent its entire four years picking at the fabric of a delicate bond of solidarity across communities of color, South Central Dreams stands out as an important commentary on identity and civic engagement with implications for not only Los Angeles, but the rest of the country. -- Congresswoman Karen Bass, former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus (2019-2020)Two of our most esteemed scholars of immigration have given us a new paradigm for how to think about race, place, and identity. This book takes a deep dive into the lives of first- and second-generation Latinx immigrants as they shape home and identity alongside their Black neighbors in South LA. Rather than retelling the classic narrative of immigrant assimilation, this book shows the tensions and negotiations that go into making home in a multi-racial community and the power of shared struggle. The authors’ relational perspective allows them to explore the ways Latinx identity is shaped by Blackness and gives us new insights into how people set roots, find friends, and forge identities around urban anchors like community gardens, parks and neighborhood markets. -- Natalia Molina, author of How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial ScriptsSouth Central Dreams is a major contribution to both Latinx and Los Angeles Studies. By revisiting community residents in South Central Los Angeles a full generation after Latinos began moving into the area, the authors provide a nuanced and careful portrait of neighborhood life with important implications for Brown/Black spaces across the U.S. -- Laura Pulido, co-author of A People's Guide to Los Angeles
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New York University Press A Queer New York
Book SynopsisWinner, 2021 Glenda Laws Award given by the American Association of GeographersThe first lesbian and queer historical geography of New York CityOver the past few decades, rapid gentrification in New York City has led to the disappearance of many lesbian and queer spaces, displacing some of the most marginalized members of the LGBTQ+ community. In A Queer New York, Jen Jack Gieseking highlights the historic significance of these spaces, mapping the political, economic, and geographic dispossession of an important, thriving community that once called certain New York neighborhoods home. Focusing on well-known neighborhoods like Greenwich Village, Park Slope, Bedford-Stuyvesant, and Crown Heights, Gieseking shows how lesbian and queer neighborhoods have folded under the capitalist influence of white, wealthy gentrifiers who have ultimately failed to make room for them. Nevertheless, they highlight the ways lesbian and queer communities have succeeded in carving out spacesand livesin a cTrade Review"Jen Jack locates and studies hard-to-find, and still harder to maintain, lesbian and queer spaces and places that were built and also lost over several decades in New York City … Jen Jack works within groups of lesbians who made the places of queer New York: thinking together about how assimilation, gentrification, gay, queer, and trans identities, racism and sexism, and ultimately capital shaped our cities, and the lives we make in them." * Lambda Literary *"In A Queer New York, Jen Jack Gieseking offers a stunningly trenchant and much needed study of lesbian-queer spaces in the city. He deftly demonstrates how place and belonging can be mapped into lesbian-queer generational shifts. With light, elegant, and sometimes humorous prose combined with an incisive analytical approach, Gieseking showcases the processes of urban emplacement and displacement of lesbian-queer lives and bodies from Greenwich Village to Crown Heights to Park Slope. A fabulous geographical portrait of an-other Big Apple." -- Martin F. Manalansan IV, author of Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora"Plaiting personal testimony, with group interviews and with archival research, A Queer New York is an exemplary study. May its emulators come soon. Yet, although this multimethod approach might prove a paradigm, the clarity and wit of Gieseking’s prose will be more difficult to match. A Queer New York is not only a lodestar for queer geographies but radiates for urban geography more broadly as a brilliant excursus on the lived realities of neoliberal urbanization." * The AAG Review of Books *"The histories and geographies of sexually and gender diverse New York, especially the ones that travel outside of the city, are often told from the limited and limiting perspective of cis white gay men. A Queer New York offers a timely and needed historical geography of the city (1980-2010) that displaces the centrality of these experiences and highlights the role played by lesbians and queers in producing space in the city." * Gender, Place & Culture *"[W]hat Gieseking offers his readers is a layered historical mapping, one that reveals the significance of Otherness to the creation of alternative urban spatialities. With little doubt, this book will act as a beacon to all those academics, activists, and queers who wish to explore for themselves the lights of the queer city, in all their different colors." -- Cyd Sturgess, Universiteit Utrecht * Historical Geography *
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University of Toronto Press Feeding Fascism
Book SynopsisFeeding Fascism explores how women negotiated the politics of Italy’s Fascist regime in their daily lives and how they fed their families through agricultural and industrial labour. The book looks at women’s experiences of Fascism by examining the material world in which they lived in relation to their thoughts, feelings, and actions.Over the past decade, Diana Garvin has conducted extensive research in Italian museums, libraries, and archives. Feeding Fascism includes illustrations of rare cookbooks, kitchen utensils, cafeteria plans, and culinary propaganda to connect women’s political beliefs with the places that they lived and worked and the objects that they owned and borrowed. Garvin draws on first-hand accounts, such as diaries, work songs, and drawings, that demonstrate how women and the Fascist state vied for control over national diet across many manifestations – cooking, feeding, and eating – to assert and negotiatTrade ReviewGarvin’s book is a fascinating look at how dinner tables, café menus, cookbooks, and kitchen utensils can help us understand the intersection of politics and daily life. In this case, Garvin takes readers on a journey through women’s experiences of Fascism under Benito Mussolini’s regime by exploring their cooking, agricultural labor, and industrial food production in Italy from 1922 through 1945." -- Annie Sciacca * Civil Eats *"Feeding Fascism is a fascinating journey through the food, kitchens, and work of women in an era of intense political ideology and citizen stewardship, where nutrition and food science, design and modernity were all used to facilitate that stewardship." * Nature Food *"Feeding Fascism contributes much to our understanding of women’s lives under Mussolini’s dictatorship and is a welcome addition to a growing body of scholarship that challenges the consent-resistance dichotomy that long dominated studies of interwar Italy. Fascists rarely missed an opportunity to celebrate what they were doing or to explain to people how they wanted them to act and feel. By subjecting the kitchen cabinets, factory cafeterias, ration cards, and recipe collections of the period to scrutiny, Garvin has brought the experiences of at least some Italian women into the frame." -- Anne Wingenter, Loyola University * LARB *"Feeding Fascism looks past the gilded hearths of Fascist leaders, and transports us instead to rice paddies, factories and working-class kitchens. This important intervention in Fascism scholarship examines cooking, foraging, and labour in fields and factories to understand ‘what happened between rebellion and consent’ throughout the ventennio." -- Amy King * Modern Italy *"Feeding Fascism is for a general audience, and Garvin succeeds in making the material accessible – no dry prose or unfamiliar academic jargon here. By using the less-explored lens of women’s food work, she sheds light on a moment in history that threated to profoundly changed Italian culinary traditions." -- Prathap Nair * The Parliament *"Feeding Fascism is an excellent contribution to the scholarship on Italian women, labour, food production and policy, industrialization, and architecture." -- Megan Kirby, York University * Histoire sociale / Social History *“Garvin deftly strikes a balance between explaining the process of food distribution and describing the subjective experiences of women within the macroeconomic transformations that concerned food production at the time.” -- Lucas René Ramos * EuropeNow Journal *“Garvin’s work announces that the comprehensibility of the feelings, stories and struggles from those kitchens can only be partial without understanding their physical, tangible, tactile features … her constant emphasis on biopolitics and banal nationalism in everyday life underlines the extent to which food is always inherently political, whether or not it is recognized as such.” -- Fabio Parasecoli, New York University * MLN *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Tabletop Politics 1. Towards an Autarkic Italy 2. Agricultural Labour and the Fight for Taste 3. Raising Children on the Factory Line 4. Recipes for Exceptional Times 5. Model Fascist Kitchens Conclusion: From Feeding Fascism to Eating Mussolini A Note to Future Researchers Notes Bibliography Index
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University Press of Mississippi The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban
Book SynopsisIn the last fifty years, folklorists have amassed an extraordinary corpus of contemporary legends including the Choking Doberman, the Eaten Ticket, and the Vanishing Hitchhiker. But what about the urban legends of the past? These legends and tales have rarely been collected, and when they occasionally appear, they do so as ancestors or precursors of the urban legends of today, rather than as stories in their own right. In The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends, Simon Young fills this gap for British folklore (and for the wider English-speaking world) of the 1800s. Young introduces seventy Victorian urban legends ranging from Beetle Eyes to the Shoplifter''s Dilemma and from Hands in the Muff to the Suicide Club. While a handful of these stories are already known, the vast majority have never been identified, and they have certainly never received scholarly treatment. Young begins the volume with a lengthy introduction assessing nineteenth-century media
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Stanford University Press Reader's Block: A History of Reading Differences
Book SynopsisWhat does the term "reading" mean? Matthew Rubery's exploration of the influence neurodivergence has on the ways individuals read asks us to consider that there may be no one definition. This alternative history of reading tells the stories of "atypical" readers and the impact had on their lives by neurological conditions affecting their ability to make sense of the printed word: from dyslexia, hyperlexia, and alexia to synesthesia, hallucinations, and dementia. Rubery's focus on neurodiversity aims to transform our understanding of the very concept of reading. Drawing on personal testimonies gathered from literature, film, life writing, social media, medical case studies, and other sources to express how cognitive differences have shaped people's experiences both on and off the page, Rubery contends that there is no single activity known as reading. Instead, there are multiple ways of reading (and, for that matter, not reading) despite the ease with which we use the term. Pushing us to rethink what it means to read, Reader's Block moves toward an understanding of reading as a spectrum that is capacious enough to accommodate the full range of activities documented in this fascinating and highly original book. Read it from cover to cover, out of sequence, or piecemeal. Read it upside down, sideways, or in a mirror. For just as there is no right way to read, there is no right way to read this book. What matters is that you are doing something with it—something that Rubery proposes should be called "reading."Trade Review"By constructing a detailed map of mis-reading, Rubery argues for the value of non-normative reading experiences. Some differences are disabling, he recognizes, but others make visible aspects of reading that go unnoticed and unappreciated when they function smoothly."—Paul Armstrong, author of Stories and the Brain"Rubery uncovers the hidden history of neurodiverse reading (and non-reading). Drawing upon everything from clinical studies to life writing, this is a brilliant and remarkably original work that challenges and subverts a whole set of received wisdoms about how readers engage with books. After Reader's Block, you will never again make cozy assumptions about how and why people read."—Shafquat Towheed, coeditor of The History of Reading"An inclusive, beautifully formulated invitation to think of reading as a cluster of practices as prolific as the minds and the texts nourished in their combination. Rubery is one of the most sensitive and original scholars working with literature today."—Christina Lupton, author of Love and the Novel"This is a fascinating, innovative, and skillful book which presents its deep research and learning fluently and lightly. Thought-provoking, timely, and moving, Reader's Block is essential reading for those interested in disability studies and the history of the book."—Sophie Ratcliffe, author of The Lost Properties of Love"A thoughtful and timely survey of neuro-divergent readers' singular, complex, sometimes fraught relationship with the written word."—Daniel Tammet, author of Every Word is a Bird We Teach to Sing"Rubery gives us fresh eyes to grasp the semi-miraculous nature of the reading act in all its complexity and potential for transforming the life of every reader and the species itself."—Maryanne Wolf, author of Reader, Come Home"By its very nature, Reader's Block is designed for casual reading—and particularly for people interested in science, history, literature and neurodiversity."—Matthew Rozsa, Salon"Thinking about reading in terms of the different reading behaviors these essays about atypical readers document can help one achieve a broader, more inclusive understanding of what read actually means.... Recommended."—J. F. Andrews, CHOICE"Matthew Rubery's... remarkably well-researched catalogue of neurodivergent reading experiences reveals how many different ways brains can engage with texts, demonstrating that this seemingly quotidian activity is neither unitary nor widely understood."—Timothy Aubry, American Literary HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Unideal Reader 1. Dyslexia 2. Hyperlexia 3. Alexia 4. Synesthesia 5. Hallucinations 6. Dementia Epilogue
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University of Minnesota Press Remembering Our Intimacies: Mo'olelo, Aloha
Book SynopsisRecovering Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) relationality and belonging in the land, memory, and body of Native Hawai’i Hawaiian “aloha ʻāina” is often described in Western political terms—nationalism, nationhood, even patriotism. In Remembering Our Intimacies, Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio centers in on the personal and embodied articulations of aloha ʻāina to detangle it from the effects of colonialism and occupation. Working at the intersections of Hawaiian knowledge, Indigenous queer theory, and Indigenous feminisms, Remembering Our Intimacies seeks to recuperate Native Hawaiian concepts and ethics around relationality, desire, and belonging firmly grounded in the land, memory, and the body of Native Hawai’i.Remembering Our Intimacies argues for the methodology of (re)membering Indigenous forms of intimacies. It does so through the metaphor of a ‘upena—a net of intimacies that incorporates the variety of relationships that exist for Kānaka Maoli. It uses a close reading of the moʻolelo (history and literature) of Hiʻiakaikapoliopele to provide context and interpretation of Hawaiian intimacy and desire by describing its significance in Kānaka Maoli epistemology and why this matters profoundly for Hawaiian (and other Indigenous) futures. Offering a new approach to understanding one of Native Hawaiians’ most significant values, Remembering Our Intimacies reveals the relationships between the policing of Indigenous bodies, intimacies, and desires; the disembodiment of Indigenous modes of governance; and the ongoing and ensuing displacement of Indigenous people.Trade Review"A stunning example of archival research, translation, and analysis, Remembering Our Intimacies is both a kāhea (call) and makana (gift), a truly inspiring offering to the lāhui and the fields of Native and queer studies. Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio innovatively theorizes how Kānaka Maoli create multiple forms of pilina (intimacy) to manifest the responsibilities and possibilities of collective pleasure. This is the moʻolelo that queer Natives have been waiting for."—Lani Teves, author of Defiant Indigeneity: The Politics of Hawaiian Performance"With a fearless commitment to land-based love, Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio channels the multi-bodied powers of Hi‘iaka to cast an intimate yet expansive net of relating that reaches across geography, generation, and gender. Poetically moving from Hawaiian language archives to Mauna movement memories, this book creates both a refuge for queer Indigenous politics and a map for remembered futures."—Ty P. Kāwika Tengan, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa "[Remembering Our Intimacies] generously offers all readers a way to imagine intimate relations beyond the settler-capitalist constructions of land as property and love as patriarchy."—Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies AssociationTable of ContentsContentsHe Mele no Hōpoe: A Dedication Nā Mahalo: Acknowledgements A Note about Language Use ʻŌlelo Mua: Beginning to (Re)memberGathering Our Stories of Belonging 1. Aloha ʻĀina as Pilina2. Hawaiian Archives, Abundance, and the Problem of TranslationFor My Favorite Spring, “Puna” Leonetta Keolaokalani Kinard 3. The Ea of Pilina and ʻĀina4. ʻĀina, the Aho of our ʻUpenaKaimana: A Dismembered Home5. Kamaʻāina: Pilina and Kuleana in a Time of Removal Rise Like a Mighty Wave6. Kū Kiaʻi Mauna: How Kapu and Kānāwai Are Overthrowing Law and Order in HawaiʻiʻŌlelo Pīnaʻi: Epilogue NotesBibliographyIndex
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Temple University Press,U.S. From Black Power to Hip Hop: Racism, Nationalism,
Book SynopsisExamines the new forms of racism in American life and the political responses to themTrade Review"Her book offers a refreshing view of the politics on the ground, where people matter more than identities and the ideologies embedded within them." Ms. Magazine "Collins' lucid observations form the backdrop of her sustained engagement with nationalism, feminism, and racism in a collection that includes signature essays on topics as diverse as American national identity, the contemporary relevance of Afro centrism, and women's agency in black community politics." - Signs "Collins's work is always a pleasure to read. She deftly weaves historical analyses, popular culture, literature, and theory to produce a complex portrait of ongoing and systematic racism, relentlessly highlighting the interconnected dynamics of gender inequality as well as other systems of oppression. Each of these essays makes clear that any political response to racism must incorporate an intersectional approach." Gender and Society "The book can serve as good primer...Hill Collins' writing is always composed with a synthesis of historical analyses, popular culture, literature and theory that is often lacking in other academics' social scientific treatises. Any of the six essays within the text makes a clear case that either an organized-collective or individual response to racism, sexism, or capitalism must incorporate an intersectional approach." Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society "The six essays in this volume explore the political realities of the period from the end of Black Power to the ascendancy of hip hop. They focus on the relationship between new racial formations and on political responses to them...A theme of the volume is Hill's endeavour to theorise intersectionality, and she focuses on the intersections between race, nation, and gender, to a lesser extent, social class. The aim of this book is to make a case for anti racist group based political struggles that respect individual and human rights which embrace a global analysis of how our lives are interconnected, and are informed by feminism and nationalism." Sage Race Relations Abstracts "In her new book Patricia Hill Collins reminds us why she is one of the most prolific and insightful sociologists to diagnose contemporary racial and sexual politics."-The African American Review, Spring 2008
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University of South Carolina Press Steady and Measured: Benner C. Turner, A Black
Book SynopsisReassesses the career of Benner C. Turner, the polarizing African American president at South Carolina State College during the civil rights eraTravis D. Boyce considers the full sweep of Benner C. Turner's life and career in the context of the contrary pressures of white and Black authority. Borrowing an expression from Michelle Obama's remarks to the 2016 Democratic National Convention, Boyce casts Turner, long-serving president of South Carolina State University, as a steady and measured leader who preserved the limited resources his historically Black institution possessed in the face of often hostile social, political, and economic power structures. Previous accounts of Turner and his SC State presidency portray him as unwilling to criticize the state's white power structure and unable to contend with their open resistance to civil rights. Boyce argues that the modern view of Turner flattens a complex terrain, often relying selectively on hostile sources, underplaying the political constraints on presidents of publicly funded HBCUs in the South. Considering Turner in a richer context, with a deep awareness of Turner's early life formative influences, Boyce provides a more complete critical examination of his leadership in trying times.
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GMC Publications Biographic: Churchill
Book SynopsisThe Biographic series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creative. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey all of them in vivid snapshots. Many people know that Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) was a British statesman and prime minister, a speechmaker who led Britain through the dark days of the Second World War. What, perhaps, they don't know is that he came under enemy fire over 50 times; took 36 bottles of wine, 18 of scotch and 6 of vintage brandy to the Boer War; painted over 600 works of art and won the Nobel Prize for Literature; and developed his taste for Havana cigars while working as a war correspondent in the Cuban War of Independence.
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Reaktion Books The Fires of Lust: Sex in the Middle Ages
Book SynopsisAn illuminating exploration of the surprisingly familiar sex lives of ordinary medieval people. The medieval humoral system of medicine suggested that it was possible to die from having too much-or too little-sex, while the Roman Catholic Church taught that virginity was the ideal state. Holy men and women committed themselves to lifelong abstinence in the name of religion. Everyone was forced to conform to restrictive rules about who they could have sex with, in what way, how often, and even when, and could be harshly punished for getting it wrong. Other experiences are more familiar. Like us, medieval people faced challenges in finding a suitable partner or trying to get pregnant (or trying not to). They also struggled with many of the same social issues, such as whether prostitution should be legalized. Above all, they shared our fondness for dirty jokes and erotic images. By exploring their sex lives, the book brings ordinary medieval people to life, revealing details of their most personal thoughts and experiences. Ultimately, it provides us with an important and intimate connection to the past.Trade Review"A lively and readable account rooted in a deep knowledge of the scholarly literature on sexuality in medieval western Europe. Harvey's specialism in the history of medicine provides particular depth, and is integrated with legal and cultural material to create a sparkling and convincing whole." -- Ruth Mazo Karras, Trinity College Dublin "Masterful. There is no better guide to what occurs betwixt the sheets of the medieval bedroom than Harvey. The Fires of Lust-an absolute triumph." -- Kate Lister, author of "A Curious History of Sex and Harlots, Whores & Hackabouts" "With unabashed directness, a delicate touch of wit, and constant humanity, Harvey surveys the world of medieval sex and sexuality. Throughout The Fires of Lust she situates the twin themes of morality and medicine in the social and material world that medieval people inhabited. What those people thought, felt, feared, and hoped for all play a part, alongside the pronouncements of theologians, lawmakers, and intellectuals. Here, in its messy complexity, is medieval life-life laid bare, but always with respect and care. A triumph." -- John H. Arnold, Professor of Medieval History, University of Cambridge, author of "Belief and Unbelief in the Middle Ages" "Learned, fun, and full of surprises-a fascinating, wide-ranging guide to medieval sexual attitudes and experiences." -- Fara Dabhoiwala, author of "The Origins of Sex: A History of the First Sexual Revolution"
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Reaktion Books Wasteland with Words: A Social History of Iceland
Book SynopsisIceland appears to many a country shrouded in mystery and legend, and marked by contradiction: a part of Europe, and yet separated from it by the Atlantic Ocean; seemingly inhospitable, and yet home to more than 300,000 souls. Wasteland with Words explores the evolution and transformation of Icelandic society and culture, investigating the literary and historical factors that created the rich cultural heritage enjoyed by Icelanders today. Sigurdur Gylfi Magnusson presents a wide-ranging and detailed analysis of the island's history, examining how a nineteenth-century economy based on the industries of fishing and agriculture - one of the poorest in Europe - grew to become a disproportionately large economic power in the late twentieth century, while retaining its strong sense of cultural identity. The recent economic and political collapse of the country is also assessed, in the light of the historical development of the island. With a focus on the lives of individual Icelanders throughout, the book seeks to chart the vast changes in this country's history through the impact and effect on the Icelandic people themselves. "Wasteland with Words" is a comprehensive study of the island's social and historical development, from tiny fishing settlements to a global economic power. It will appeal to anyone interested in or studying this most enigmatic of islands, and also to those interested in cultural and social history as a whole.Trade Review'Magnusson narrates a well-timed history of Iceland through the lives of ordinary people and local communities in a pointillist style that evokes a rich heritage. He shows how a localised barter economy, based in fishing and agriculture, became a financial system with a global strategy that fatally overreached itself with embarrassing international political and financial consequences. The dust has yet to settle.' - The Times '[a] combination of cultural depth and material backwardness is the central message of Sigurdur Gylfi Magnusson's social history of one of Europe's smallest and remotest countries ... This book, drawing on Icelanders' astonishingly detailed diaries and letters in past centuries, gives the outsider a rare glimpse into the past lives of an extraordinary people.' - Edward Lucas, The Economist 'Magnusson's ambitious work provides a unique perspective on the development of Iceland's cultural heritage ... an unflinching look into Iceland's past through the literary legacy of many average Icelanders and attempts to construct a clearer picture of the development of Iceland's culture and educational past ... well researched and full of rich resources, the book provides unique insight into a truly unparalleled country and culture, not found in many works available to English readers ... an important work. Highly recommended.' - Choice 'an intimate and personal history of Iceland ... Anyone planning to travel to Iceland will find that this well-written book offers a valuable background on the island's unique social and cultural history.' - Sydney Morning Herald 'an indispensible book for everyone who is interested in the history of Iceland. It is a highly informative piece of solid scholarly work, with a clear methodology and it is simply very well written. Finally, just a word of praise about the superior choice of illustrations throughout the book and the highly informative captions that accompany them.' - TijdSchrift voor Skandinavistiek 'a very welcome addition to the small number of books about Iceland's modern history available in English. The few other works on modern Icelandic history are largely written in Icelandic for local consumption. This means that the rest of the world is largely starved of any broader or deeper understanding of Iceland beyond the headline-grabbing activities of its bankers and volcanoes ... as an introduction to 19th- and 20th-century Icelandic history it is excellent.' - Reviews in History 'An unusual approach to social history, with the emphasis on the last two centuries but looking back also to earlier periods, this study is impressive methodologically and conceptually and has much to offer those working on the social history of other countries. Good in its range which includes cultural history. Fascinating range of sources.' - The Historian '[Magnusson] tells the story of Iceland from the bottom up, through examples culled from diaries, newspapers, and the histories of particular families. He avoids discussing the ceremonial and official. He has read an amazing number of Icelandic autobiographies. His writing is fluid, lithe and informal.' - The Grapevine, IcelandTable of ContentsIntroduction: Blind Spots in History 1 Modern Times: Society, Work and Demography 2 People and Politics 3 The Feeling of Swallowing a Hunchback: Material Culture 4 Icelandic Connections: The Lure of the New World 5 Tactics for Emotional Survival: Education, Work and Entertainment 6 Death and Daily Life 7 Childhood, Youth and the Formation of the Individual 8 A True Passion: Writing as Personal Expression 9 The Shaping of Modern Man 10 The Middle Ages and Beyond: A Cultural Foundation 11 The Barefoot Historians and the 'People's Press' 12 Urban Living: Industry, Labour and Living Conditions 13 The Myth of the Modern Woman: Gender Roles in Urban and Rural Iceland 14 Death in the City 15 Children in Urban Areas 16 Monsters from the Deep and the Icelandic Way of Thinking 17 Selective Modernization and Capitalist Euphoria 18 'Iceland Sucks!' References Select Bibliography Acknowledgements Photo Acknowledgements Index
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Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art A Revolution on Canvas: The Rise of Women Artists
Book SynopsisThe first collective, critical historical study of women artists in Britain and France during the Revolutionary era In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, hundreds of women in London and Paris became professional artists, exhibiting and selling their work in unprecedented numbers. Many rose to the top of their nations’ artistic spheres and earned substantial incomes from their work, regularly navigating institutional inequalities expressly designed to exclude members of their sex. In the first collective, critical history of women artists in Britain and France during the Revolutionary era, Paris Spies-Gans explores how they engaged with and influenced the mainstream cultural currents of their societies at pivotal moments of revolutionary change. Through an interdisciplinary analysis of the experiences of these narrative painters, portraitists, sculptors, and draughtswomen, this book challenges longstanding assumptions about women in the history of art. Importantly, it demonstrates that women built profitable artistic careers by creating works in nearly every genre practiced by men, in similar proportions and to aesthetic acclaim. It also reveals that hundreds of women studied with male artists, and even learned to draw from the nude. Where traditional histories have left a void, this generously illustrated book illuminates a lively world of artistic production. Featuring an extensive range of these artists’ paintings, drawings, sculptures, and writings, alongside contemporary prints, satires, and works by their male peers, A Revolution on Canvas transforms our understanding of the opportunities and identities of women artists of the past. Distributed for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British ArtTrade Review“Revelatory.”—Sebastian Smee, Washington Post“Exhaustive, groundbreaking research. . . . [A] beautifully produced book.”—Jacqueline Riding, Art Newspaper, “Top Art Books of 2022”“By making its points compellingly and driving the agenda forward, A Revolution on Canvas is an important contribution to the field.”—Tabitha Barber, Art Newspaper“This publication, which might be one of the most anticipated art history books of the year, draws heavily on new research and statistical analysis on the subject of women artists during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.”—Sothebys.com“A wave of women pursued public recognition and commercial reward for their art at this time. It was a surge of activity, as Spies-Gans thoughtfully charts, hitherto unprecedented in history.”—Royal Academy Magazine“A Revolution on Canvas is an important contribution to our understanding of the history of art in the 18th century.”—WSG BulletinWinner of the 2023 Stansky Book Prize, sponsored by NACBSShortlisted for the 2023 Berger Prize, sponsored by The British Art JournalReceived Honorable Mention from the Louis A. Gottschalk Prize, sponsored by American Society for Eighteenth-Century StudiesName One of the Top Art Books of 2022 by The Art NewspaperOn the 2022 Top Art Books List by The Conversation
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Zone Books Cheerfulness – A Literary and Cultural History
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HarperCollins Publishers Houses of the National Trust: The history and
Book SynopsisFully revised and updated edition of the classic, stunningly illustrated guide to the cream of Britain’s historic country houses cared for by the National Trust, encompassing both interior and exterior design. This captivating book, fully revised and updated and featuring more NT houses than ever before, is a guide to some of the greatest architectural treasures of Britain, encompassing both interior and exterior design. This new edition is fully revised and updated and includes entries for new properties including: Acorn Bank, Claife Viewing Station, Cushendun, Cwmdu, Fen Cottage, The Firs (birthplace of Edward Elgar), Hawker's Hut, Lizard Wireless Station, Totternhoe Knolls and Trelissick. The houses covered include spectacular mansions such as Petworth House and Waddesdon Manor, and more lowly dwellings such as the Birmingham Back to Backs and estate villages like Blaise Hamlet, near Bristol. In addition to houses, the book also covers fascinating buildings as diverse as churches, windmills, dovecotes, castles, follies, barns and even pubs. The book also acts as an overview of the country's architectural history, with every period covered, from the medieval stronghold of Bodiam Castle to the clean-lined Modernism of The Homewood. Teeming with stories of the people who lived and worked in these buildings: wealthy collectors (Charles Wade at Snowshill), captains of industry (William Armstrong at Cragside), prime ministers (Winston Churchill at Chartwell) and pop stars (John Lennon at Mendips). Written in evocative, imaginative prose and illustrated with glorious images from the National Trust's photographic library, this book is an essential guide to the built heritage of England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
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Oxford University Press Saints Heretics and Atheists A Historical
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe discussions are balanced and clearly presented, if occasionally simplistic, and each chapter ends with a list of accessible readings for further study. There is a useful index. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface 1. Plato's Euthyphro: What is Piety? 1.1. The setting 1.2. First attempt: examples of piety 1.3. Second attempt: what is dear to the gods 1.4. Third attempt: what all the gods love 1.5. Fourth attempt: piety is the part of justice that concerns the gods 1.6. Fifth attempt: the pious is what is dear to the gods 2. Augustine's On Free Choice of the Will: Where Does Evil Come From? 2.1. The setting 2.2. What is the cause of evil? 2.3. The well-ordered person 2.4. Sin and ignorance 2.5. An objection and two conclusions 2.7. Freedom and determinism 3. Augustine's On Free Choice of the Will: Why Do We Have Free Will? 3.1. Set up and structure 3.2. How is it manifest that God exists? 3.3. Do all things, insofar as they are good, come from God? 3.4. Should free will be counted as a good thing that comes from God? 3.5. Happiness and immortality 4. Augustine's On Free Choice of Will: Why Do We Sin? 4.1. Why do we sin, and who is to blame? 4.2. Is libertarian freedom consistent with divine foreknowledge? 4.3. Can't God be blamed for creating beings that he knows will sin? 4.4. Is it the case that some of us must sin? 4.5. Three views on divine foreknowledge 5. Anselm's Proslogion: Does Reason Prove that God Exists? 5.1. The setting 5.2. Anselm's ontological argument 5.3. A Perfect Island? 5.4. Two Objections 6. Ibn Sina's The Book of Salvation: What is the Nature of the Soul? 6.1. The setting 6.2. What does the intellect do? 6.3. Is the soul immaterial? 6.4. Is the soul immortal? 6.5. What am I? 7. Al-Ghazali's The Rescuer from Error: Is Religious Belief Founded in Reason? 7.1. The setting 7.2. Three views on faith and reason 7.3. The quest for certainty 7.4. Three false foundations 7.5. Is God hidden? 8. Al-Ghazali's The Rescuer from Error: Is Religious Belief Founded in Experience? 8.1. Al-Ghazali's turn to mysticism 8.2. Three accounts of religious experience 8.3. Is religious experience a good reason for belief? 9. Aquinas's Summa Theologica: Does Experience Prove that God Exists? 9.1. The setting 9.2. Is the existence of God self-evident? 9.3. Can we prove that God exists? 9.4. The argument from motion, the first step 9.5. The argument from motion, the second step 9.6. The argument from motion, the conclusion 9.7. The argument from providence 10. Aquinas's Summa Theologica: What is the Impersonal Nature of God? 10.1. Is God simple? 10.2. Is God perfect? 10.3. Is God infinite? 10.4. Is God one? 10.5. Analogical predication 11. Aquinas's Summa Theologica: What is the Personal Nature of God? 11.1. The big picture 11.2. Divine knowledge 11.3. Divine will 11.4. Divine love 11.5. Is God masculine? 12. Porete's The Mirror of Simple Souls: What is Salvation? 12.1. The setting 12.2. Assent and annihilation 12.3. Heaven 12.4. Hell 12.5. Life after Death? 13. Pascal's The Wager: Should We Bet on God? 13.1. The setting 13.2. A wager 13.3. Pascal's wager 13.4. Background assumptions 13.5. Objections and replies 14. Spinoza's Ethics: Is God Nature? 14.1. The setting 14.2. Substance monism 14.3. The Master Argument 14.4. "Deus sive Natura" (God or Nature)? 15. Spinoza's Ethics: Are We Modes of God? 15.1. Substance, attributes, modes 15.2. Human beings 15.3. Against libertarian freedom 15.4. For compatibilist freedom 15.5 Moderating the passions 16. Spinoza's Ethics: Good without God? 16.1. Two accounts of goodness 16.2. Beyond egoism 16.3. Good without God? 17. Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion: Is the Universe Designed? 17.1. The setting 17.2. The limits of reason 17.3. Cleanthes's first design argument 17.4. Cleanthes's second design argument 17.5. Is the universe fine-tuned? 18. Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion: Design without a Designer? 18.1. The regress objection 18.2. The design argument and traditional theism 18.3. An immanent designer? 18.4. No designer at all? 18.5. Contemporary criticisms 19. Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion: True Religion? 19.1. The "causal" argument 19.2. The problem of evil 19.3. Consistency, evidence and evil 19.4. "True religion" 19.5. Two contemporary views on the problem of evil 20. Shepherd's The Credibility of Miracles: May we believe in miracles? 20.1. The setting 20.2. Against miracles 20.3. What is a miracle? 20.4. Believing in miracles? 21. Mills' Essays on Religion: Is Religion Useful? 21.1. The setting 21.2. On Nature 21.3. Raising the question 21.4. Is religion publicly useful? 21.5. Is religion privately useful? 21.6. What is secular humanism? 22. Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality: What do Good, Bad and Evil mean? 22.1. The setting 22.2. Three big ideas 22.3. Genealogy of values 22.4. Inversion of values 22.5. Evaluation of values 22.6. Debunking morality and religion? 23. Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality: Whence Conscience, Bad Conscience and Guilt? 23.1. The origin of conscience 23.2. The origin of bad conscience 23.3. The origin of moral guilt 23.4. Should we obey our conscience? 24. Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality: No Alternative? 24.1. What do ascetic ideals mean? 24.2. The puzzle of ascetic ideals 24.3. The "vale of tears" 24.4. "pointless suffering" 24.5. "the ascetic priest" 24.6. No alternative? 25. William James's Will to Believe: The Right to Believe? 25.1. The setting 25.2. The ethics of belief 25.3. The varieties of belief 25.4. A first argument 25.5. A second argument 25.6. Returning to Plato
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Duke University Press A World of Many Worlds
Book Synopsis A World of Many Worlds is a search into the possibilities that may emerge from conversations between indigenous collectives and the study of science''s philosophical production. The contributors explore how divergent knowledges and practices make worlds. They work with difference and sameness, recursion, divergence, political ontology, cosmopolitics, and relations, using them as concepts, methods, and analytics to open up possibilities for a pluriverse: a cosmos composed through divergent political practices that do not need to become the same. Contributors. Mario Blaser, Alberto Corsín Jiménez, Déborah Danowski, Marisol de la Cadena, John Law, Marianne Lien, Isabelle Stengers, Marilyn Strathern, Helen Verran, Eduardo Viveiros de CastroTrade Review"The strength of this book is its presentation and varied discussion of the omission of all of the 'other-than-human-persons' who comprise the heterogeneity of cultures that form worlds beyond the Anthropocene. . . . This book provides excellent fodder for readers to reflexively consider their individual roles in the global knowledge-making process, the outcomes they create (and are creating), and the frames within which they dwell." -- Sally A. Applin * Journal of International and Global Studies *“A World of Many Worlds is a rich and welcome collection of essays that offers a complex and exploratory response to a timely problematic. Its statement is forthright and hallmark....” -- Mat Keel * AAG Review of Books *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Pluriverse: Proposals for a World of Many Worlds / Mario Blaser and Marisol de la Cadena 1 1. Opening Up Relations / Marilyn Strathern 23 2. Spiderweb Anthropologies: Ecologies, Infrastructures, Entanglements / Alberto Corsín Jiménez 53 3. The Challenge of Ontological Politics / Isabelle Stengers 83 4. The Politics of Working Cosmologies Together While Keeping Them Separate / Helen Verran 112 5. Denaturalizing Nature / John Law and Marianne Lien 131 6. Humans and Terrans in the Gaia War / Eduardo Viveiros de Castro and Deborah Danowski 172 Contributors 205 Index 209
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