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American Mathematical Society Geometric Set Theory
Book SynopsisIntroduces a new research direction in set theory: the study of models of set theory with respect to their extensional overlap or disagreement. The book considers a broad spectrum of objects from analysis, algebra, and combinatorics. The topic is nearly inexhaustible in its variety, and many directions invite further investigation.Table of Contents Introduction. Equivalence relations: The virtual realm. Turbulence. Nested sequences of models. Balanced extensions of the Solovay model: Balanced Suslin forcing. Simplicial complex forcings. Ultrafilter forcings. Other forcings. Preserving cardinalities. Uniformization. Locally countable structures. The Silver divide. The arity divide. Other combinatorics. Bibliography. Index.
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American Mathematical Society Sage for Undergraduates
Book SynopsisAs the open-source and free alternative to expensive software, Sage offers anyone with a web browser the ability to use cutting-edge mathematical software and share the results with others, often with stunning graphics. This book is a gentle introduction to Sage for undergraduate students.Trade ReviewFrom the previous edition:"Professor Bard has provided a valuable service by carefully explaining everything an undergraduate student of mathematics, or a teacher of these topics, needs to get started with Sage quickly and easily. It will also be useful for any student or teacher of another STEM discipline. There is an excellent mix of the most frequently used commands, along with warnings about common pitfalls or caveats. I highly recommend it for anyone new to Sage, or who desires an overview of the system's impressive capabilities."—Robert A. Beezer, University of Puget Sound"This book is a sort of ""Missing Manual"" that explains how Sage can be used in a range of standard mathematics courses, instead of targeting specialists like much existing Sage documentation. The depth of content is very impressive, and describes--in a single coherent narrative--how to successfully use Sage for a wide swath of undergraduate applied topics."—William Stein, University of Washington, SeattleTable of Contents Welcome to Sage! Fun projects using Sage Advanced plotting techniques Advanced features of Sage Programming in Sage and Python Building interactive webpages with Sage What to do when frustrated! Transitioning to SageMathCloud Translating Python2 to Python3 Acknowledgments for the second edition Acknowledgments for the first edition Bibliography Index
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POP UP PROJECTS Pop Up Row Of Four Set
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive guide offers an engaging collection of pop-up designs that can be applied to various creative projects. Perfect for both beginners and experienced crafters, it provides step-by-step instructions and vivid illustrations that will inspire anyone looking to add a unique touch to their work.
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Book Protectors Pack of 10 X 168L Longer Length Adjustable Book
Book SynopsisPack of 10 x welded PVC wallets. Height: 168mm. Minimum width: 240mm. Maximum width: 285mm.
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University of Texas Press Modern Hebrew for Beginners A Multimedia Program
Book SynopsisWith over 18,500 copies sold and now revised and updated, Modern Hebrew for Beginners is the core of a widely used multimedia program for teaching Hebrew in the college-level classroom.
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University of Texas Press Country Music USA 50th Anniversary Edition
Book SynopsisThe essential companion to the 2019 Ken Burns documentary on country music, in which Bill Malone appears as a featured historian, this fiftieth-anniversary edition of Country Music USA traces the music from the early days of radio into the new millennium.Trade ReviewAn important book. . . the first to tell the genre’s complete story, beginning with its folk, religious and early commercial origins — the ballads of the British Isles, the tent revivals, the 19th-century minstrel shows and the 1927 recording session in Bristol, Tennessee, that saw both Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family make their first recordings. * Texas Observer *Considered the definitive history of American country music. * Los Angeles Times *Country Music USA has been an authoritative and detailed history lesson and reference manual for country music, paralleled in quality and scope by few other works. It’s country music’s biography, starting with country’s very beginnings in primitive folk, and ranging all the way to the present day. * Saving Country Music *[Country Music USA] was, and remains, a staggering work of scholarship that became a cornerstone of American music history—anyone writing seriously about country must reckon with it. * Longreads *Malone's book provides a veritable treasure trove of information regarding the musicians, musical styles, and distribution networks (primarily the radio and phonograph recordings) of country music. . . Malone presents his readers with discrete insights into the particular musical acts that gave rise to and perpetuated the country music tradition in all of its internal contradictions, negotiations, and accommodations. * PopMatters *If you've long been passionate about music, especially early country music's acoustic forms, Malone's books are a validation of your passion. They are also a retro road map of how the musicians and tunes that moved our souls arrived in our lives. * Mandolin Café *The country-music history bible. * Rolling Stone *A seminal document in logging [country music's] story. * Billboard *[Country music's] definitive history. * New Yorker *Table of Contents List of Illustrations Foreword by Henry Sapoznik Preface Chapter 1. The Folk Background before Commercialism Chapter 2. The Early Period of Commercial Hillbilly Music Chapter 3. The First Country Singing Star: Jimmie Rodgers Chapter 4. Country Music during the Depression Chapter 5. The Cowboy Image and the Growth of Western Music Chapter 6. The War Years: The National Expansion of Country Music Chapter 7. The Boom Period: The Emergence of a Big Business, 1946–1953 Chapter 8. The Development of Country-Pop Music and the Nashville Sound Chapter 9. The Reinvigoration of Modern Country Music, 1960–1972 Chapter 10. Bluegrass Chapter 11. Country Music, 1972–1984 Chapter 12. Tradition and Change: Country Music, 1985–2000 Chapter 13. A New Century Notes Bibliographical Essays Index Index of Song Titles
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University of Texas Press Plant Kin
Book SynopsisUsing sensory ethnobotany to understand people-plant relationships and gardening practices in the Brazilian Cerrado, this multispecies ethnography presents a non-Western approach to environmental conservation and resilience.Trade ReviewFascinating...Plant Kin offers a glimmer of hope in the Anthropocene of the possibilities of alternative and sustainable engagements with plants and their ecologies. * CHOICE *Theresa Miller presents a thoughtful portrayal of shifting ideas about the human place both in the world and in relation to plants in our era of changing climate...Each chapter on its own could be read as a unique contribution; taken collectively, they convey what she calls a sensory ethnobotany perspective that is interdisciplinary in scope...Plant Kin pays careful attention to what Canela indigenous people say and do in order to survive in a changing world that has long seen both the people and their places as sacrifice zones to be scoured for resources to feed global wealth. * American Ethnologist *[Plant Kin] contributes a thorough investigation of traditional ecological knowledge in a specific community and provides an in-depth example of the sociocultural processes that promote agrobiodiversity maintenance among a particular group and key group members. As such, it is a great resource for students of ethnobotany and related fields interested in relationships between cultural and biological diversity. * Economic Botany *Plant Kin is a rigorously researched and carefully construed multispecies ethnography that focuses on the Indigenous Canela of the Brazilian Cerrado or savanna environment...Overall, the book is well-written and well-paced. The use of qualitative ethnographic material and testimonies from interlocutors interspersed with the author’s own prose make for a lively and captivating read. * Journal of Latin American Geography *[Plant Kin's] introduction, five chapters, and short conclusion are rich with ethnographic examples, highlighting resilience, multisensory care and multispecies relationships...In Plant Kin, Miller provides a well-written ethnography...it would interest students and scholars in anthropology, ethnobotany, environmental studies, Indigenous studies, and Latin American studies. * Environment and Society *Table of Contents List of Illustrations Introduction: Toward a Sensory Ethnobotany in the Anthropocene Approaching People and Plants in the Anthropocene Approaching Sensory Ethnobotany Introducing the Canela People Introducing the Plant Kin Following the Pathways of This Book 1. Tracing Indigenous Landscape Aesthetics in the Changing Cerrado Tracing a Canela Aesthetics of Land Understanding the Canela Bio-Sociocultural Life-World Understanding the Changing Cerrado Approaching the Canela Territorial Landscape Becoming Resilient: Living with and Valuing the Land 2. Loving Gardens: Human–Environment Engagements in Past and Present-- Understanding Indigenous Landscape Transformations Gardening: A Brief History, 1814–Present Loving Forest and Riverbank Gardens in the Twenty-First Century Learning from Star-Woman: Origins of Horticulture and Biodiversity Maintenance Gardening as Resistance 3. Educating Affection: Becoming Gardener Parents Parenting Plants: Skills, Practice, Process Learning, Knowing, and Feeling with Plants Understanding Gendered Multispecies Bodies Caretaking of Plant Children: The Experts Becoming Strong, Becoming Happy, Becoming Well Making and Growing with Plant Kin 4. Naming Plant Children: Ethnobotanical Classification as Childcare Categorizing Plants: Sensory Pleasures Noticing, Naming, Sorting, and Saving Expanding Multispecies Families Writing: Plant Childcare in the Twenty-First Century Multispecies Loving, Open Taxonomies, and Living Lists 5. Becoming a Shaman with Plants: Friendship, Seduction, and Mediating Danger Talking with Plants Becoming a Shaman: Engagements with Nonhumans Shamanic Caring Shamanic Mediating: Dangers in the Gardens Becoming Friends to Plants in Canela Scalar Animism Conclusion: Exploring Futures for People and Plants in the Twenty-First Century Advocating for Sensory Ethnobotany in Multispecies Futures Epilogue Acknowledgments Appendices Appendix A: Living Lists of Canela Cultivated Crops Appendix B: Living Lists of Canela Native Plants in Savannah, Chapada, and Riverbank Appendix C: Star-Woman (Caxêtikwỳj) Mythic Story Notes References Index
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University of Texas Press Beyoncé in Formation
Book SynopsisMaking headlines when it was launched in 2015, Omise'eke Tinsley's undergraduate course Beyoncé Feminism, Rihanna Womanism has inspired students from all walks of life. In Beyoncé in Formation, Tinsley now takes her rich observations beyond the classroom, using the blockbuster album and video Lemonade as a soundtrack for vital new-millennium narratives. Woven with candid observations about her life as a feminist scholar of African studies and a cisgender femme married to a trans spouse, Tinsley's Femme-onade mixtape explores myriad facets of black women's sexuality and gender. Turning to Beyoncé's Don't Hurt Yourself, Tinsley assesses black feminist critiques of marriage and then considers the models of motherhood offered in Daddy Lessons, interspersing these passages with memories from Tinsley's multiracial family history. Her chapters on nontraditional bonds culminate in a discussion of contemporary LGBT politics through the lens of the internet-breaking video Formation, underscoring why Beyoncé's black femme-inism isn't only for ciswomen. From pleasure politics and the struggle for black women's reproductive justice to the subtext of blues and country music traditions, the landscape in this tour is populated by activists and artists (including Loretta Lynn) and infused with vibrant interpretations of Queen Bey's provocative, peerless imagery and lyrics. In the tradition of Roxanne Gay's Bad Feminist and Jill Lepore's best-selling cultural histories, Beyoncé in Formation is the work of a daring intellectual who is poised to spark a new conversation about freedom and identity in America.Trade ReviewLemonade is proving to be a modern Mona Lisa, a work of art ripe for both academic analysis and inner reflection—modes Tinsley mixes and remixes in this lively, erudite memoir-cum-cultural critique that uses Queen Bey’s seminal album to examine her own life as a black Southern femme. * O, The Oprah Magazine *An incisive, spiraling celebration of Southern black women. * Publishers Weekly *You'll come away from each chapter with a new appreciation of what Beyoncé has meant to women, particularly black women, across the country. * The Current *Sure to appeal to scholars and pop-culture enthusiasts alike, this provocative book works to blur the lines between straight and gay black feminism. . . Lively and intelligent reading. * Kirkus Reviews *[Translates] the visual and audio to another plane entirely, and will undoubtedly inspire much rewatching and relistening. * Booklist *Tinsley...brings tremendous gusto to her critique of Beyonce's 2016 album Lemonade. * Publishers Weekly Holiday Gift Guide 2018 *Tinsley's…critical analysis of black women's sexuality, gender, and identity through the gaze of Beyoncé and the Lemonade album is especially important as her queer black perspective dissects Queen Bey in a way that only a black women-loving black woman could. * The Feminist Press *[Tinsley's] approach…keeps the text accessible to music fans while underlining the book's central thesis: that Lemonade is one of the great black feminist works of this century and it deserves an exalted place in the canon of women's studies. * austin360 *Part memoir, part pop-culture scholarship, this slim, engaging book uses Beyoncé as a springboard for wide-ranging ruminations on sexuality, motherhood, and activism, among other big ideas. * Texas Observer *Beyoncé in Formation is a remarkably pleasing book. It takes the reader by the hand and, skipping delightedly, leads her into a universe of happy, sexy, loving fandom, where Beyoncé is queen and all are welcome at worship. * Houston Chronicle *With all the headlines it generated upon its release, it's hard to believe there's anything left to say about Beyoncé's Lemonade. Yet, Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley…manages to find new meaning in this cultural analysis of the already iconic record. * Exclaim *An insightful cultural reading of the performer combined with memoir. * The Globe and Mail *...expands on [Tinsley's] popular course in a vibrant blend of memoir and cultural analysis. * Broadly *Tinsley's tone and use of first-person perspective throughout Beyoncé in Formation invites readers to likewise contemplate their relationship to Lemonade's themes. She writes with familiarity and authority all at once. I thought I 'got' Lemonade before, but Beyoncé in Formation inspired me to dig deeper. * Women's Review of Books *A call for solidarity among Black feminists, this painfully beautiful read reminds us that none of us are free until we are all free. * Bust Magazine *A smart, eye-opening examination. * Toronto Star *This 'mixtape' memoir is an empowering presentation that encourages readers to think outside the box...when it comes to defining feminism. * Philadelphia Tribune *Part scholarly treatise and part family history, part lavish scrapbook and part justice-oriented advocacy—you've never read a book quite like this. * The Millions *Accessible and compulsively readable. The Beyhive will ride with [Tinsley's] breathless video analyses, but I especially love Tinsley's candid stories about her own life and loves. * The Rumpus *Tinsley's commitment to theorizing Black queer femme gender and sexuality opens up a space for lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer Black women that most Black feminist projects neglect to address…Tinsley demonstrates the Black feminist practice of bringing one's self into their writing without overshadowing the larger contributions of their research much like the 2018 books Thick by Tressie M. Cottom and Eloquent Rage by Brittney Cooper. * Ethnic and Racial Studies *Table of Contents Introduction: For the Texas Bama Femme Family Album: Making Lemonade Out of Marriage, Motherhood, and Southern Tradition Queen Bee Blues Mama Said Shoot “Most Bomb Pussy”: Toward a Black Feminist Pleasure Politics Love the Grind Unapologetically Femme Calling for Freedom: Black Women’s Activism in the US South Freedom, Too I Came to Slay Outro: I Know Beyoncé Loves Black Femmes Acknowledgments Notes Index
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MU - University of Texas Press Exile and the Nation
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University of Texas Press I Want Golden Eyes
Book SynopsisA girl must save herself and her family after discovering her society''s secrets in this sci-fi novel in translation.I Want Golden Eyes is set on the Comoros Islands at the end of this century in a futuristic city called Quartzia, the home of a genetically privileged minority called the Golden Eyes. The rest of the population, the Limiteds, live in a cavity called the Hive beneath the city. Dalia is a sixteen-year-old girl who lives in the Hive but works with her family in Quartzia at Professor Adam’s house, where she cleans, her sister grows organic food in the garden, and her deaf father works as the cook. Because books are forbidden in the Hive, Dalia secretly borrows math texts from the professor’s library and smuggles them to read in the Hive. When Professor Adam, who is famous for engineering embryos with enhanced genes, discovers Dalia’s crime, he enslaves her for two years in his library. Dalia seeks to flee the city with her family after overhearing the professor being ordered to design genetic traits for the president’s expected baby and realizes that Golden Eyes are not privileged by nature’s selection, as she was led to believe, but by authority and money.
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University of Texas Press Conjured Bodies Queer Racialization in
Book SynopsisIs Latinidad a racial or an ethnic designation? Both? Neither? The increasing recognition of diversity within Latinx communities and the well-known story of shifting census designations have cast doubt on the idea that Latinidad is a race, akin to white or Black. And the mainstream media constantly cover the browning of the United States, as though the racial character of Latinidad were self-evident. Many scholars have argued that the uncertainty surrounding Latinidad is emancipatory: by queering race-by upsetting assumptions about categories of human difference-Latinidad destabilizes the architecture of oppression. But Laura Grappo is less sanguine. She draws on case studies including the San Antonio Four (Latinas who were wrongfully accused of child sex abuse); the football star Aaron Hernandez's incarceration and suicide; Lorena Bobbitt, the headline-grabbing Ecuadorian domestic-abuse survivor; and controversies over the racial identities of public Latinx figures to show how mediaTrade Review[Conjured Bodies] provides an accessible and significant exploration of the construct of race in the U.S. Grappo’s book provides an insightful and engaging discussion of the importance of understanding both the value and danger of malleability...Grappo’s book provides thought provoking and gripping arguments about the possible consequences, harms, and issues of conjured identities, images, and bodies that is well positioned in current explorations of intersectionality...a necessary read for any serious student and scholar of Latinidad. * Ethnic and Racial Studies *Conjured Bodies expands the understanding of the politics of race and sexuality within Latinidad—the notion of a shared Latin American identity—by introducing readers to the concepts of Latinx ambiguity and queer racialization...Conjured Bodies is a vital addition to mainstream media research within Latinx studies, media studies, queer studies, and critical ethnic studies…Highly recommended. * CHOICE *Conjured Bodies is an impactful study that opens conversations on spectrality and racial categorizations, allowing scholars in Latinx studies, gender studies, LGBTQ+ studies, media studies, carceral studies, and hauntology to build on the author’s interdisciplinary research. * Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction. “The browning of America”: Conjured Bodies and Queer Racialization Chapter 1. “This could be Satanic-related”: Fantasies of Innocence and Criminalization in the Case of the San Antonio Four Chapter 2. “A life is worth more than a penis”: Lorena (Gallo) Bobbitt and the Domestication of Abuse Chapter 3. “A troubled, battered mind”: The Queer Lives and Deaths of Aaron Hernandez, 1989–2017 Chapter 4. “Who’s going to tell Sammy Sosa he is Afro-Latino?”: Transraciality and Panethnic Latinx Authenticity Conclusion. “Feeling brown”: Conjuring Latinidad, Here and Now Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Texas Press A Pure Solar World Sun Ra and the Birth of
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MU - University of Texas Press I Am My Own Path
Book SynopsisA definitive, bilingual selection of poetry, essays, and letters by one of Puerto Rico's most beloved poets.
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MU - University of Texas Press The Intimacy of Images
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John Wiley & Sons Making Levantine Cuisine
Book SynopsisMelding the rural and the urban with the local, regional, and global, Levantine cuisine is a mÉlange of ingredients, recipes, and modes of consumption rooted in the Eastern Mediterranean. Making Levantine Cuisine provides much-needed scholarly attention to the region's culinary cultures while teasing apart the tangled histories and knotted migrations of food. Akin to the region itself, the culinary repertoires that constitute Levantine cuisine endure and transform-are unified but not uniform. This book delves into the production and circulation of sugar, olive oil, and pistachios; examines the social origins of kibbe, Adana kebab, shakshuka, falafel, and shawarma; and offers a sprinkling of family recipes along the way. The histories of these ingredients and dishes, now so emblematic of the Levant, reveal the processes that codified them as national foods, the faulty binaries of Arab or Jewish and traditional or modern, and the global nature of foodways. Making Levantine Cuisine draws from personal archives and public memory to illustrate the diverse past and persistent cultural unity of a politically divided region.
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MU - University of Texas Press Miraculous Celebrity
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MU - University of Texas Press World Making in Nepantla
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John Wiley & Sons Homer in Performance Rhapsodes Narrators and Characters
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John Wiley & Sons The Egyptian Labor Corps Race Space and Place in the First World War
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John Wiley & Sons Urbanism and Empire in Roman Sicily
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Duke University Press Black Feminism Reimagined
Book SynopsisIn Black Feminism Reimagined Jennifer C. Nash reframes black feminism''s engagement with intersectionality, often celebrated as its primary intellectual and political contribution to feminist theory. Charting the institutional history and contemporary uses of intersectionality in the academy, Nash outlines how women''s studies has both elevated intersectionality to the discipline''s primary program-building initiative and cast intersectionality as a threat to feminism''s coherence. As intersectionality has become a central feminist preoccupation, Nash argues that black feminism has been marked by a single affect—defensiveness—manifested by efforts to police intersectionality''s usages and circulations. Nash contends that only by letting go of this deeply alluring protectionist stance, the desire to make property of knowledge, can black feminists reimagine intellectual production in ways that unleash black feminist theory''s visionary world-making possibilities.<Trade Review"What Nash does in Black Feminism Reimagined is new, brave, and important." -- Chelsea Johnson * Women's Review of Books *"This book brings charged feminist issues, anxieties, and negative affects to the surface for the field of women’s studies to confront making for a challenging yet necessary read." -- Tiffany Lethabo King * Feminist Formations *"This is a book that generates messy feelings, that forges counterintuitive intimacies, that asks and answers difficult questions about a field that is still too often denied a brief— at least in the US academy— as a crucial site of intellectual motility, critical inquiry, and capacious knowledge production." -- Shoniqua Roach * Syndicate *"Black Feminism Reimagined is an invitation to explore the radical openness of Black feminism and the diversity of its potential expressions." -- James Bliss * Syndicate *"[This] book has created a moment in the academy that calls us to practice radical honesty. [Its] honesty about the affect and feelings that Black feminism— and particularly intersectionality— produce in the academy is a rare and refreshing break from the norms of bourgeois pretense and protocols of politesse." -- Tiffany King * Syndicate *"Black Feminism Reimagined invites us to think about which sites of black feminism have been emphasized and which have been foreclosed in its multi-decade tarrying with the academy." -- Amber Musser * Syndicate *"Nash provides an important new examination of intersectionality and Black feminism, one that will shape women’s studies and feminist theory well into the future. Challenging yet enlightening, this book is sharp and nuanced and necessary. It’s your end-of-year #RequiredReading." -- Karla Strand * Ms. *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Feeling Black Feminism 1 1. A Love Letter from a Critic, or Notes on the Intersectionality Wars 33 2. The Politics of Reading 59 3. Surrender 81 4. Love in the Time of Death 111 Coda: Some of Us are Tired 133 Notes 139 Bibliography 157 Index 165
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Duke University Press The Politics of Taste
Book SynopsisIn The Politics of Taste Ana María Reyes examines the works of Colombian artist Beatriz González and Argentine-born art critic, Marta Traba, who championed González's art during Colombia's National Front coalition government (195874). During this critical period in Latin American art, artistic practice, art criticism, and institutional objectives came into strenuous yet productive tension. While González's triumphant debut excited critics who wanted to cast Colombian art as modern, sophisticated, and universal, her turn to urban lowbrow culture proved deeply unsettling. Traba praised González's cursi (tacky) recycling aesthetic as daringly subversive and her strategic localism as resistant to U.S. cultural imperialism. Reyes reads González's and Traba's complex visual and textual production and their intertwined careers against Cold War modernization programs that were deeply embedded in the elite's fear of the masses and designed to avert Cuban-inspired revolution. In so doing, Reyes provides fresh insights into Colombia's social anxieties and frustrations while highlighting how interrogations of taste became vital expressions of the growing discontent with the Colombian state.Trade Review“Ana María Reyes tackles an important but understudied subject that is absolutely essential to understanding contemporary Colombian politics, culture, and society: the relationship between aesthetics and the Cold War in Colombia. Her analysis of Beatriz González's artistic practices, Marta Traba's art criticism, the institutions where they worked and exhibited, and Colombia's cultural politics and Cold War policies during the National Front period is brilliant and compelling.” -- Mary Roldán, author of * Blood and Fire: La Violencia in Antioquia, Colombia, 1946–1953 *“In this exciting and enlightening book, Ana María Reyes provides an entirely new perspective on the art of Beatriz González, on Latin American engagements with pop, and on Marta Traba's assessment of González's work. By offering a clear sense of the cultural dynamics of the Cold War in Colombia and class politics within Bogota during this period, Reyes allows readers to better appreciate González's subject matter, style, color sensibility, and use of appropriation.” -- Mary Coffey, author of * Orozco’s American Epic: Myth, History, and the Melancholy of Race *“Rich, multivalent context as means to weighing Colombian Beatriz González’s early artistic production (1964–70) is exactly what this assistant professor of Latin American art at Boston University offers readers with her monograph The Politics of Taste. The author’s analysis is buttressed by field research including access to the artist’s personal archive, twelve hours of personal interviews with her, and archival work in Medellín, Colombia…. Reyes’s skillfully crafted text is the first single-author monograph on the artist in English.” -- Teresa Eckmann * Art Journal *"Reyes’s study is rich in information, illustrations, and ideas. . . . This book is authoritative, rigorous, and consistently insightful." -- Luis Rebaza-Soraluz * E.I.A.L. *
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Duke University Press Information Activism
Book SynopsisFor decades, lesbian feminists across the United States and Canada have created information to build movements and survive in a world that doesn''t want them. In Information Activism Cait McKinney traces how these women developed communication networks, databases, and digital archives that formed the foundation for their work. Often learning on the fly and using everything from index cards to computers, these activists brought people and their visions of justice together to organize, store, and provide access to information. Focusing on the transition from paper to digital-based archival techniques from the 1970s to the present, McKinney shows how media technologies animate the collective and unspectacular labor that sustains social movements, including their antiracist and trans-inclusive endeavors. By bringing sexuality studies to bear on media history, McKinney demonstrates how groups with precarious access to control over information create their own innovative and resourcefTrade Review“In an age when technological innovation itself is often assumed to make the world a better place, Cait McKinney reminds us that, for the past fifty years, lesbian feminist activists have resourcefully patched together their own heterodox information infrastructures—composed of telephone hotlines and spiral-bound notebooks, index cards and digitization technologies, hacked tools and customized protocols—to serve clear social and ethical ends. Their information activism enabled them to create systems of connection and care that are responsive to human need, rather than, as is so common today, to advertisers and algorithms.” -- Shannon Mattern, author of * Code and Clay, Data and Dirt: Five Thousand Years of Urban Media *“Through what might seem like an unlikely mashup of lesbian feminism and information studies, Cait McKinney illuminates both in original and compelling ways. The novel concept of information activism is a valuable contribution to understandings of social movements and counterpublics. And McKinney sheds new light on often misunderstood or neglected histories of lesbian feminism by exploring amateur obsessions with circulating information, including digital media. Together, information and lesbian feminism become unexpectedly sexy, erotic, and affectively charged.” -- Ann Cvetkovich, author of * Depression: A Public Feeling *"Steeped in the words, culture, vernacular, ephemera, and ways of interacting that have been refined by decades of lesbians, queers, and other feminists. The details are delightful. The writing is warm. Individuals and communities come to life on the page." -- Alexandra Juhasz * Lambda Literary Review *"What can we extrapolate from the sparse log that is left behind? In Information Activism, McKinney ... approaches this question with palpable respect for those doing the work at the time and with a sharp curiosity for the pieces of information that they didn’t leave behind. Each chapter examines a different kind of network—newsletters, hotlines, indexing projects, and archives—and centers the women who created and maintained them to make lifesaving, community-sustaining information available and accessible." -- Meerabelle Jesuthasan * The Nation *"Saturated with vivid historical detail, a testimony to McKinney’s extensive archival research. . . . The book’s intimate depictions of pre-digital information management invite its readers to reflect on the staggering amount of slow, painstaking technology work that went into feminism’s second wave." -- Deborah Thurman * Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory *"I loved reading this book. . . . McKinney illustrates the interconnectedness of past social movements, present activism, and the attainability of liberatory futures." -- aems emswiler * Information & Culture *"McKinney's Information Activism reinforces why information activism matters. . . . McKinney's work does not feel wholly bound to either the past or present. Like many meaningful queer projects, it is oriented toward a sense of futurity: a perpetual process of improvisation, revision, and worldmaking." -- Harris Kornstein * Catalyst *"McKinney compellingly argues against strict and discrete definitions of print and digital, drawing instead a through-line between current pressing questions of ethics, access, and search retrieval on the one hand and past archiving practices of lesbian feminist activists on the other. . . . This work is a fascinating read for scholars of media and information, archives, queer histories, and activism. It raises a number of important questions about medium-specific affordances, privacy, and access that merit further study." -- Nelanthi Hewa * Canadian Journal Of Communication *"Information Activism is a critical celebration of activist-archivism, practiced via newsletters, crisis lines, periodicals, and other archive-community hybrid spaces. . . . Through a refusal of the safe, straight archive, and an embrace of strategic opacity and theft . . . McKinney invite[s] us to an archive that loves us back. Information is care, passed in the verb of love for ourselves and for each other, and these texts sustain kinship lines both new and old." -- Sarah Cavar * Feminist Media Studies *"Information Activism is a perfect book for readers interested in lesbian feminist activist histories and how social movements are sustained through old and new media technologies and productions. . . . McKinney offers readers a perfect entrée into thinking critically about LGBTQ+ archives and communities. Media studies and archival studies scholars might consider joining together to build on McKinney’s timely and important research to center the role that community archives play in building and sustaining community networks." -- Jamie A. Lee * Journal of the History of Sexuality *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. The Internet That Lesbians Built: Newsletter Networks 33 2. Calling to Talk and Listening Well: Information as Care at Telephone Hotlines 67 3. The Indexers: Dreaming of Computers while Shuffling Paper Cards 105 4. Feminist Digitization Practices at the Lesbian Herstory Archives 153 Epilogue. Doing Lesbian Feminism in an Age of Information Abundance 205 Notes 217 Bibliography 261 Index 281
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Duke University Press Mekong Dreaming
Book SynopsisThe Mekong River has undergone vast infrastructural changes in recent years, including the construction of dams across its main stream. These projects, along with the introduction of new fish species, changing political fortunes, and international migrant labor, have all made a profound impact upon the lives of those residing on the great river. It also impacts how they dream. In Mekong Dreaming, Andrew Alan Johnson explores the changing relationship between the river and the residents of Ban Beuk, a village on the Thailand-Laos border, by focusing on the effect that construction has had on human and inhuman elements of the villagers' world. Johnson shows how inhabitants come to terms with the profound impact that remote, intangible, and yet powerful forces-from global markets and remote bureaucrats to ghosts, spirits, and gods-have on their livelihoods. Through dreams, migration, new religious practices, and new ways of dwelling on a changed river, inhabitants struggle to understand and affect the distant, the inassimilable, and the occult, which offer both sources of power and potential disaster.Trade Review“Mekong Dreaming is both an exemplary work of ethnography and a timely and important intervention in contemporary debates in anthropological theory. Focusing on northeast Thailand and the effects of dam construction on the Mekong among local fishing and farming communities, this book's original contribution consists in its foregrounding of uncertainty and unknowability in the lived experience of non-western cosmologies.” -- Stuart J. McLean, coeditor of * Crumpled Paper Boat: Experiments in Ethnographic Writing *“Andrew Alan Johnson's lucid and richly detailed ethnography of the Thai-Lao border shows how the inchoate and the unknowable can be apprehended through genuinely empirical research. In this masterful analysis, Johnson shows how a marginalized population grapples with the intensified environmental uncertainties generated by modern technology and political upheaval by deploying a cosmological vision that enfolds piety, potentiality, and materiality in a tangled experiential frame.” -- Michael Herzfeld, author of * Siege of the Spirits: Community and Polity in Bangkok *"The book is clearly written, presenting a compelling narrative of daily life and also delving into complex topics without drowning in academic jargon. As such it is accessible for both students and experts. . . . The power of Johnson’s approach is that rather than simply casting uncertainty as a negative, he explores the ways in which uncertainty—the power of 'maybe'—can act as a potency rather than simply something to be worked around." -- Erin B. Taylor * Anthropology Book Forum *“Mekong Dreaming is a lovely, fluent ethnography of a river and its political ecology, focusing on the people on one bank of the Mekong where it forms a border between Thailand and Laos…. Johnson’s style is crisp and engaging and his dealings with recent theory are all concrete and pointed…. Johnson has produced political ethnography of a high order.” -- Leo Coleman * PoLAR Online *“This accessible anthropological work, Mekong Dreaming, demonstrates how infrastructural projects—in this case, hydropower dams on the Mekong—interrupt and reconfigure the social life of the river and relations of those whose fate has long been intertwined with its currents.” -- Dominique Dillabough-Lefebvre * LSE Review of Books *“Johnson’s argument is complex, deftly interweaving fields as diverse as environmental anthropology, migration studies, Thai animism and mediumship, border studies, and more. The resulting ethnography is illuminating and compelling.” -- Mary Beth Mills * Journal of Anthropological Research *“Johnson’s writing is a pleasure: eclectic, erudite and sometimes eccentric.... He handles weighty concepts lightly, and doesn’t let unwieldy terminology upset the flow of the very reader-friendly text. He comes across as a committed, skilled and very human fieldworker.” -- Ashley Carruthers * Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology *“[Mekong Dreaming] will be a useful text in anthropology courses. I highly recommend this book as it...provides new and important insights.” -- Ian G. Baird * Sojourn *“[Mekong Dreaming] provides crucial insights into the interconnectedness between daily life, environment, and religious experiences.” -- Grzegorz Fraszczak * Religious Studies Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Through a Glass, Darkly 1 1. Naga and Garuda 29 2. River Beings 69 3. Dwelling under Distant Suns 104 4. The River Grew Tired of Us 130 5. Human and Inhuman Worlds 161 Notes 171 Bibliography 179 Index 193
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Duke University Press Reimagining Social Medicine from the South
Book SynopsisAbigail H. Neely explores social medicine's possibilities and limitations at one of its most important origin sites: the Pholela Community Health Centre (PCHC) in South Africa.Trade Review“Compelling and original, Reimagining Social Medicine from the South rethinks core concepts in historical and anthropological discussions of health and healing in Africa through the lenses of political ecology and relational ontologies. Drawing on rich ethnographic and archival examples, Abigail H. Neely illuminates how robust conceptions of the ‘social’ at the heart of a pioneering social medicine project in rural South Africa nonetheless struggled to incorporate more-than-human understandings of life and well-being. The book's insistence that health and illness are entanglements that exceed the confines of the individual body and academic renderings of the ‘social’ alike is a call for place-based models for improving health that challenge global health's narrow frames of measurability and efficacy.” -- Cal Biruk, author of * Cooking Data: Culture and Politics in an African Research World *“It is not easy to develop an analysis that incorporates both racial capitalism and witchcraft, but through her deeply respectful ethnographic examination of the work of a groundbreaking and highly influential health clinic in South Africa, Abigail H. Neely manages to do just that. Her penultimate chapter is a phenomenal rendition of the multiple ontologies of health.” -- Julie Guthman, author of * Wilted: Pathogens, Chemicals and the Fragile Future of the Strawberry Industry *"... Interested readers at all levels will gain important insights into the challenges posed by global initiatives in social medicine. Recommended. Graduate students and faculty. General readers." -- S. W. Moss * Choice *“Neely’s theorizing is smart, sophisticated, and intriguing.” -- Daniel Jordan Smith * International Journal of African Historical Studies *“Neely’s book will be especially useful for graduate students and professionals working with the large body of existing literature on health interventions . . . and need a strong model for how to rework this literature in exciting critical and theoretical frames.” -- Casey Golomski * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"Reimagining Social Medicine from the South is bound to intrigue any family physician. . . . Abigail H. Neely has successfully highlighted the conceptual framework of the practice of social medicine in South Africa, its uniqueness, the strengths of the PCHC model, and its weaknesses. She has emphasized the importance of social elements in the practice of social medicine. Her personal narrative makes the book an easy read, more humane and appealing." -- Rashmi Rode * Family Medicine *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xvii Introduction. Telling the Story of Social Medicine from Pholela 1 1. Seeing Like a Health Center 17 2. Relationships and Social Medicine 41 3. Nutrition, Science, and Racial Capitalism 58 4. Witchcraft and the Limits of Social Medicine 79 Conclusion. Social Medicine in the Age of Global Health 99 Glossary 105 Notes 107 Bibliography 147 Index 163
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Duke University Press Queer Fire
Book SynopsisThis special issue brings together scholars, artists, and activists working at the intersections of queer theory, critical race studies, and radical movements to consider prison abolition as a project of queer liberation and queer liberation as an abolitionist project. Pushing beyond observations that prisons disproportionately harm queer people, the contributors demonstrate that gender itself is a carceral system and demand that gender and sexuality, too, be subject to abolition. The contributors offer fresh analytical lenses, personal reflections, and unequivocal calls to action to the ongoing work of constructing liberatory futures without prisons, police, or the tyranny of colonial gender systems. In the essays collected here, they explore trans identity and community across prison walls, consider how gentrification functions as a carceral mechanism, meditate on the importance and ethics of queer art, and argue for the necessity of anticarceral queer politics that do not look to pu
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Duke University Press Junot Diaz
Book SynopsisJosé David Saldívar offers a critical examination of Junot Díaz, showing how his influences converged in his fiction and how his work radically changed the course of US Latinx literature and created a new way of viewing the decolonial world.Trade Review"This is an engaging, important contribution to understanding of Junot Díaz’s work and life. Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers." -- A. A. Edwards * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface xi Acknowledgments xix Introduction 1 1. “Wrestling with J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings”: How Junot Díaz Thinks About Coloniality, Power, and the Speculative Genres 27 Part I. Junot Díaz’s MFA Program Era at Cornell University and Beyond 2. Díaz’s Planet MFA: “Negocios” 47 3. Díaz’s Planet POC (People of Color): Drown 73 Part II. Understanding Imaginary Transference and the Colonial Difference 4. Becoming Oscar “Oscar Wao” 99 Part III. A Legacy In-formation 5. Junot Díaz’s Search for Decolonial Love 151 Conclusion and Coda: “Monstro” and Islandborn 179 Notes 191 Bibliography 225 Index 239
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Duke University Press Crip Genealogies
Book SynopsisThe contributors to Crip Genealogies reorient the field of disability studies by centering the work of transnational feminism, queer of color critique, and trans scholarship and activism. They challenge the white, Western, and Northern rights-based genealogy of disability studies, showing how a single coherent narrative of the field is a mode of exclusion that relies on logics of whiteness and imperialism. The contributors examine how disability justice activists work in concert with other social justice projects, explore crip environments, create alternate disciplinary genealogies, and reject notions of the model minority. Throughout, they demonstrate how the mandate for a single genealogy of the discipline whitewashes disability and continues forms of violence. By cripping disability studies, the contributors allow for divergent histories, the coexistence of anti-ableist and antiracist theorizing, and a radically just and capacious understanding of disability. ContTrade Review"This is an essential anthology that challenges the existing (white, Western/Northern, imperialist) frameworks of disability studies in favor of lenses focused on transnational feminism and queer/trans of color critique and activism." -- Karla J. Strand * Ms. *
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Duke University Press Being Dead Otherwise
Book SynopsisAnne Allison examines the emergence of new death practices surrounding grieving, burial, and ritual in Japan as the old custom of family-based graves and mortuary care is coming undone.Trade Review"This is an extraordinary book. . . . Startling stories of mortician contests, robot Buddhist priests, and clean-up crews dealing with the odor of death illustrate change and the crisis of care in a society where good health care has made very old age a common experience, yet family and community have not kept up to provide solatia and death care for the increasing population of those in need. Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty; professionals." -- M. White * Choice *Table of ContentsPrelude ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Histories 1. Ambiguous Bones: Dead in the Past 25 2. The Popular Industry of Death: From Godzilla to the Ending Business 47 Preparations 3. Caring (Differently) for the Dead 73 4. Preparedness: A Biopolitics of Making Life Out of Death 99 Departures 5. The Smell of Lonely Death and the Work of Cleaning It Up 123 6. De-parting: The Handling of Remaindered Remains 149 Machines 7. Automated Graves: The Precarity and Prosthetics of Caring for the Dead 173 Epilogue 191 Notes 197 Bibliography 215 Index 231
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Duke University Press Intoxicated
Book SynopsisIn Intoxicated Mel Y. Chen explores the ongoing imperial relationship between race, sexuality, and disability. They focus on nineteenth-century biopolitical archives in England and Australia to show how mutual entanglements of race and disability take form through toxicity. Examining English scientist John Langdon Down’s characterization of white intellectual disability as Asian interiority and Queensland’s racialization and targeting of Aboriginal peoples through its ostensible concern with black opium, Chen explores how the colonial administration of race and disability gives rise to “intoxicated” subjects often shadowed by slowness. Chen charts the ongoing reverberations of these chemical entanglements in art and contemporary moments of political and economic conflict or agitation. Although intoxicated subjects may be affected by ongoing pollution or discredited as agents of failure, Chen affirmatively identifies queer/crip forms of unlearning and worlTrade Review“Intoxicated thinks about and through molecular intimacies. We are all chemically restrained, either structurally or voluntarily, some more the former than the latter. We are all too slow (or intoxicated), too fast (or agitated), and never quite right. ‘Take my hand,’ Mel Y. Chen invites the reader, ‘and slump, stumble, shake, and tumble with me.’ These alternate forms of cognition and movement promise new ways of knowing in the academy and beyond.” -- Cynthia Wu, Professor of Gender Studies and Asian American Studies, Indiana University“In the interlaced archives of toxicity, disability, and race, Mel Y. Chen brilliantly agitates the past and helps us unlearn and redistribute these key terms. The book gifts us with profoundly reorienting paths that undo, rather than reify, toxicity, pointing readers toward an alterwise of vibrating noninnocent transecologies of intoxicated intimacy.” -- M. Murphy, author of * The Economization of Life *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Intoxications, Intimacies, and Interformations 1 1. Slow Constitution: Down Syndrome and the Logic of Development 18 2. Agitation as a Chemical Way of Being 62 3. Unlearning: Intoxicated Method 100 Afterwards: Telling the End Not to Wait 142 Notes 165 Bibliography 177 Index
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Duke University Press How the Earth Feels
Book SynopsisIn How the Earth Feels Dana Luciano examines the impacts of the new science of geology on nineteenth-century US culture. Drawing on early geological writings, Indigenous and settler accounts of earthquakes, African American antislavery literature, and other works, Luciano reveals how geology catalyzed transformative conversations regarding the intersections between humans and the nonhuman world. She shows that understanding the earth’s history geologically involved confronting the dynamic nature of inorganic matter over vast spans of time, challenging preconceived notions of human agency. Nineteenth-century Americans came to terms with these changes through a fusion of fact and imagination that Luciano calls geological fantasy. Geological fantasy transformed the science into a sensory experience, sponsoring affective and even erotic connections to the matter of the earth. At the same time, it was often used to justify accounts of evolution that posited a modern, civilized,Trade Review“Tracking the strange pleasures and anxieties around geologic thinking in literary texts, popular culture, and scientific disciplines, Dana Luciano beautifully renders how time is felt and experienced at different scales and intensities. Her account of how biopolitics underwrote the pleasingly terrifying view of deep time as expressed by the fossil record is a signature accomplishment. How the Earth Feels makes a stunningly original contribution. I savored every sentence in this book.” -- Stephanie Foote, author of * The Parvenu’s Plot: Gender, Culture, and Class in the Age of Realism *“This wide-ranging book takes geology as nothing less than the foundation of modernity, a form of world-making extending from the nineteenth century to our own time, featuring the giddy fantasies of racism and colonialism as much as the rigors of a new science. Empiricism and materialism double here as biopolitics. Clear-eyed, lucid, timely.” -- Wai Chee Dimock, author of * Weak Planet: Literature and Assisted Survival *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. The “Fashionable Science” 1 1. “The Infinite Go-Before of the Present”: Geological Time, Worldmaking, and Race in the Nineteenth Century 31 2. Unsettled Ground: Indigenous Prophecy, Geological Fantasy, and the New Madrid Earthquakes 57 3. Romancing the Trace: Ichnology, Affect, Matter 87 4. Matters of Spirit: Vibrant Materiality and White Femme Geophilia 114 5. The Natural History of Freedom: Blackness, Geomorphology, Worldmaking 137 Coda. Ishmael’s Anthropocene: Geological Fantasy in the Twenty-First Century 171 Notes 181 Bibliography 211 Index
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Duke University Press Speculative Light
Book SynopsisSpeculative Light brings together scholars, critics, and artists who analyze the stylistic and historical import of James Baldwin's and Beauford Delaney's works, showing how their lifelong friendship fundamentally shaped their ideas about art and life.
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MD - Duke University Press Visual Disobedience
Book SynopsisIn Visual Disobedience, Kency Cornejo traces the emergence of new artistic strategies for Indigenous, feminist, and anticarceral resistance in the wake of torture, disappearance, killings, and US-funded civil wars in Central America. Cornejo reveals a direct line from US intervention to current forms of racial, economic, and gender injustice in the isthmus, connecting this to the criminalization and incarceration of migrants at the US-Mexico border today. Drawing on interviews with Central American artists and curators, she theorizes a form of “visual disobedience” in which art operates in opposition to nation-states, colonialism, and visual coloniality. She counters historical erasure by examining over eighty artworks and highlighting forty artists across the region. Cornejo also rejects the normalized image of the suffering Central American individual by repositioning artists as creative agents of their own realities. With this comprehensive exploration of contempo
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MD - Duke University Press The Suicide Archive
Book SynopsisThroughout the French empire, from the Atlantic and the Caribbean to West and North Africa, men, women, and children responded to enslavement, colonization, and oppression through acts of suicide. In The Suicide Archive, Doyle D. Calhoun charts a long history of suicidal resistance to French colonialism and neocolonialism, from the time of slavery to the Algerian War for Independence to the “Arab Spring.” Noting that suicide was either obscured in or occluded from French colonial archives, Calhoun turns to literature and film to show how aesthetic forms and narrative accounts can keep alive the silenced histories of suicide as a political language. Drawing on scientific texts, police files, and legal proceedings alongside contemporary African and Afro-Caribbean novels, film, and Senegalese oral history, Calhoun outlines how such aesthetic works rewrite histories of resistance and loss. Consequently, Calhoun offers a new way of writing about suicide, slavery, and colo
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Duke University Press The Buenos Aires Reader
Book SynopsisThe Buenos Aires Reader offers an insider’s look at the diverse lived experiences of the people, politics, and culture of Argentina’s capital city primarily from the nineteenth century to the present. Refuting the tired cliché that Buenos Aires is the “Paris of South America,” this book gives a nuanced view of a city that has long been attentive to international trends yet never ceases to celebrate its local culture. The vibrant opinions, reflections, and voices of Buenos Aires come to life through selections that range from songs, poems, letters, and essays to interviews, cartoons, paintings, and historical documents, many of which have been translated into English for the first time. These selections tell the story of the city’s culture of protest and celebration, its passion for soccer and sport, its gastronomy and food traditions, its legendary nightlife, and its musical, literary, and artistic cultures. Providing an unparalleled look at
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MD - Duke University Press On the Way to Theory
Book SynopsisLawrence Grossberg introduces the major theories that have animated contemporary Western theory, from those of Kant, Marx, and Heidegger to Foucault, Deleuze, and Hall, explaining their key concepts and defining the possibilities of their thought.
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Duke University Press Made in NuYoRico
Book SynopsisIn Made in NuYoRico, Marisol Negrón tells the cultural history of salsa, tracing the music’s Nuyorican meanings over a fifty-year period that begins with the establishment of Fania Records in 1964 and how it capitalized on salsa’s Nuyorican imaginary to cultivate a global audience. Drawing on interviews with fans, legendary musicians, and music industry figures as well as analyses of songs, albums, films, and archival documents, Negrón shows how Nuyorican cultural and social histories became embedded in and impacted salsa music''s flows during its foundational period in the mid-1960s and its boom in the 1970s. Salsa’s Nuyorican aesthetics challenged mainstream notions of Americanness and Puerto Ricanness and produced an alternative public sphere through which New York’s poor and working-class Puerto Ricans could contest racialization and colonial power. By outlining salsa’s complicated musical, cultural, commercial, racial, gendered, l
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MD - Duke University Press A Resonant Ecology
Book SynopsisIn A Resonant Ecology, Max Ritts traces how sound’s integration into the environmental politics of Canada’s North Coast has paved the way for massive industrial expansion. While conservationists hope that the dissemination of whale songs and other nature sounds will showcase the beauty of local wildlife for people around the world, Ritts reveals how colonial capitalism can co-opt sonic efforts to protect the coast. He demonstrates how digital technologies allow industry to sonically map new shipping lanes and facilitate new ways of experiencing sound—premised not on listening, but on sound’s exploitable status as a data resource. By outlining how sound can both perpetuate and refuse capitalist colonialism, Ritts challenges the idea that the sonic realm is inherently liberatory and reveals sound to be a powerfully uncertain object. Through a situated geographical approach, he makes the case that only a decolonial and multigenerational environmental politic
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MD - Duke University Press Blues Mamas and Broadway Belters
Book SynopsisIn Blues Mamas and Broadway Belters, songwriter, scholar, and dramatist Masi Asare explores the singing practice of black women singers in US musical theatre between 1900 and 1970. Asare shows how a vanguard of black women singers including Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, Pearl Bailey, Juanita Hall, Lena Horne, Eartha Kitt, Diahann Carroll, and Leslie Uggams created a lineage of highly trained and effective voice teachers whose sound and vocal techniques continue to be heard today. Challenging pervasive narratives that these and other black women possessed “untrained” voices, Asare theorizes singing as a form of sonic citational practice—how the sound of the teacher’s voice lives on in the student’s singing. From vaudeville-blues shouters, black torch singers, and character actresses to nightclub vocalists and Broadway glamour girls, Asare locates black women of the musical stage in the context of historical voice pedag
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Duke University Press Living and Dying in Sao Paulo
Book SynopsisJeffery Lesser focuses on São Paulo's Bom Retiro neighborhood to examine the competing visions of wellbeing in Brazil among racialized immigrants and policymakers and health officials.
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Duke University Press Forest Lost
Book SynopsisForest Lost is an ethnography of forest carbon offsets and the wider effort to make the living rainforest valuable in the Brazilian Amazon. Unlike other forest commodities, forest carbon offsets do not involve resource extraction; instead, they require keeping carbon in place through forest protection. Maron E. Greenleaf explores forest carbon offsets to understand green capitalism-the use of capitalist logics and practices to mitigate environmental damage. She traces cultural, environmental, governmental, material, and multispecies relations involved in making forest carbon valuable as well as how forest carbon's commodification in the Amazon turned it into a source of redistributable public environmental wealth. At the same time, Greenleaf shows how making forest carbon monetarily valuable created an unexpected set of uneven, contingent, and contested social and political relations. While forest carbon in the Amazon demonstrates that green capitalism can be socially inclusive, it also shows that green capitalism can reinforce the marginalization it purportedly seeks to combat. By outlining these complex relations and tensions, Greenleaf elucidates broader efforts to create a capitalism suited to the Anthropocene and those efforts' alluring promises and vexing failures.
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MD - Duke University Press Survival of a Perverse Nation
Book SynopsisIn Survival of a Perverse Nation, Tamar R. Shirinian traces two widespread rhetorics of perversion—sexual and moral—in postsocialist Armenia, showing how they are tied to anxieties about the nation’s survival. In her fieldwork with Armenians, Shirinian found that right-wing nationalists’ focus on sexual perversion centers the figure of the homosexual, while questions of moral perversion surround oligarchs and other members of the political economic elite. While the homosexual is seen as non- or improperly reproductive, the oligarch’s moral deviations from the caring and paternalistic expectations associated with national leadership also endanger Armenia’s survival. Shirinian shows how both figures threaten the nation’s proper social reproduction, a source of great anxiety for a nation whose primary point of identity is surviving genocide. In the existential threat posed by these forms of perversion Shirinian finds paths where nonsurvival
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MD - Duke University Press Remixing Wong Karwai Music Bricolage and the
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Duke University Press The Aesthetics of Resistance Volume III
Book SynopsisOriginally published in German in 1981 and appearing here in English for the first time, the final volume of Peter Weiss's three-volume novel The Aesthetics of Resistance depicts antifascist resistance, radical proletarian political movements, and the relationship between art and resistance from the late 1930s to the end of World War II.
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Duke University Press Under Pressure
Book SynopsisMax Brzezinski tells the story of David Bowie and Queen's 1981 hit song Under Pressure and outline the political, cultural, and socioeconomic conditions from which it emerged.
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MD - Duke University Press Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen
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Duke University Press The Years of Blood
Book SynopsisThe Years of Blood collects the most significant stories by journalist Alma Guillermoprieto, completing her complex and always compelling portrait of the Latin America of our times, in all its tragedy and glory, as it traverses a new era of populism and demagoguery.
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Duke University Press Contemporary African Screen Worlds
Book SynopsisContemporary African Screen Worlds brings together a new generation of African screen media scholars who explore and theorize the dynamic, interactive screen worlds that have arisen in contemporary Africa due to dramatic global changes in technology.
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