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Book SynopsisIn The Williamsburg Avant-Garde Cisco Bradley chronicles the rise and fall of the underground music and art scene in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn between the late 1980s and the early 2010s. Drawing on interviews, archival collections, musical recordings, videos, photos, and other ephemera, Bradley explores the scene’s social, cultural, and economic dynamics. Building on the neighborhood’s punk DIY approach and aesthetic, Williamsburg''s free jazz, postpunk, and noise musicians and groups---from Mary Halvorson, Zs, and Nate Wooley to Matana Roberts, Peter Evans, and Darius Jones---produced shows in a variety of unlicensed venues as well as in clubs and cafes. At the same time, pirate radio station free103point9 and music festivals made Williamsburg an epicenter of New York’s experimental culture. In 2005, New York’s rezoning act devastated the community as gentrification displaced its participants farther afield in Brooklyn and in Queens. WithTrade Review"The Williamsburg Avant-Garde is the most comprehensive study to date of one of the most important music scenes of the past 30-plus years." -- Dave Mandl * The Wire *"Well-researched. . . . Drawing on these first-hand accounts as well as on his access to the personal archives of some of the artists involved, Bradley provides a lively account of the neighborhood’s vital experimental music movement from its underground beginnings in various squats and abandoned industrial sites to its eventual dissolution in the face of rising rents and gentrification." -- Daniel Barbiero * Point of Departure *"One of the most important strengths of The Williamsburg Avant-Garde is that it elaborates with equal care, regardless of idiom or generation, on the intentions, ideas and aesthetic strategies of the highly diverse range of artists who could find a platform there. . . . What makes Bradley’s archeology at the same time so urgently contemporary is that so many of the artists covered are alive and active right now, even if a good number of them may still be underground." -- Patrick Brennan * Arteidolia *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Locating the Williamsburg Avant-Garde 1 Part I. Utopian Spaces for Sound 1. The Emergence of the Williamsburg Scene: Warehouses, Squatter Parties, and Punk Roots, 1988–1994 21 2. Pirate Radio and Jumping the River: The Williamsburg Loft Scene, 1997–2004 55 3. Art Galleries, Clubs, and Bohemian Cafés: The Williamsburg DIY, 2001–2006 100 Part II. Commercial DIY and the Last Underground Venues 4. A Point of Confluence: The Downtown Scene Comes to Zebulon, 2004–2006 145 5. A New Generation Emerges: Zebulon, 2005–2012 189 6. A Fractured Landscape: The Last Avant-Garde Music Spaces of Williamsburg, 2005–2014 228 Afterword. Art, Experiment, and Capital 263 Notes 271 Art Sources for the Williamsburg Avant-Garde 335 Bibliography 343 Index 367

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

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Book SynopsisOver the past twenty years, Chinese novelist Yan Lianke has emerged as one of the most important writers in the world. In Discovering Fiction, Yan offers insights into his views on literature and realism, the major works that inspired him, and his theories of writing. He juxtaposes discussions of the high realism of Leo Tolstoy and Lu Xun against Franz Kafka’s modernism and Gabriel García Márquez’s magical realism, charting the relationship between causality, truth, and modes of realism. He also discusses his approach to realism, which he terms “mythorealism”—a way of capturing the world’s underlying truth by relying on the allegories, myths, legends, and dreamscapes that emerge from daily life. Revealing and instructive, Discovering Fiction gives readers an unprecedented look into the mind and art of a literary giant.Trade Review"Yan’s commentaries on the realist canon emerging over the last several hundred years are consistently insightful and often strikingly illuminating, as in his assessments of how the strongest writers, from Defoe to Turgenev and beyond, have continually shifted readers’ understanding of what counts as reality. . . . A sometimes dense but always discerning consideration of how truth emerges across an impressive array of global literature." * Kirkus Reviews *"A thought-provoking look at the state of literature, and how it came to pass." * Publishers Weekly *Table of ContentsTranslator's Introduction. Creating Reality and Surpassing Realism / Carlos Rojas ix 1. Realism's Four Levels of Truth 1 2. Zero Causality 35 3. Full Causality 51 4. Partial Causality 59 5. Inner Causality 83 6. Mythorealism 99 Appendix: Chinese Authors and Works 125 Notes 129 Bibliography 133 Index 137

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Book SynopsisDrawing from archives and cultural productions from the United States, the Caribbean, and Europe, Lorgia García Peña considers Black Latinidad in a global perspective in order to chart colonialism as an ongoing sociopolitical force.Trade Review"García Peña offers an innovative way of thinking about Latinidad and Blackness … Translating Blackness offers significant contributions to the field of Latina/o studies." -- Annaliese Martinez * Latino Studies *"García Peña pushes the reader to consider sites that lie outside the common migratory routes of Black Latinx individuals. Bringing together the fields of Black and Latinx studies, García Peña ... offers a transnational conceptualization of Black Latinidad that goes beyond its academic theorization in the U.S. context." -- Shreya Parikh * Lateral *Table of ContentsNote on Terminology ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Race, Colonialism, and Migration in the Global Latinx Diaspora 1 Part I. On Being Black and Citizen: Latinx Colonial Vaivenes 1. A Full Stature of Humanity: Latinx Difference, Colonial Musings, and Black Belonging during Reconstruction 29 2. Arthur Schomburg’s Haiti: Diaspora Archives and the Epistemology of Black Latinidad 79 Part II. Black Feminist Contradictions in Latinx Diasporas 3. Against Death: Black Latina Rebellion in Diasporic Community 113 4. The Afterlife of Colonial Gender Violence: Black Immigrant Women’s Life and Death in Postcolonial Italy 153 5. Second Generation Interruptions: Archives of Black Belonging in Postcolonial Diaspora 193 Conclusion: Confronting Global Anti-immigrant Antiblackness 233 Notes 241 Bibliography 279 Index 303

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Book SynopsisCarol Vernallis examines short form audiovisual mediafrom TikTok mashups to Beyoncé's Lemonadeto offer techniques for understanding digital media.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi A Note on the Cover xiii Introduction 1 I. Post-Classical Cinema at the Limit 1. Partying in The Great Gatsby: Baz Luhrmann’s Audovisual Sublime 27 2. Shattered Pleasures: Michael Bay’s Transformers: Age of Extinction 48 II. Music Video and the Art-Video Border 3. Beyoncé’s Overwhelming Opus; or, the Past and Future of Music Video 71 4. Avant-Gardists and the Lure of Pop Music 97 5. Beyoncé’s Lemonade: She Dreams in Both Worlds (Carol Vernallis, Lisa Perrot, and Holly Rogers) 122 6. Tracing the Carters through the Galleries: “APES**T/APESHIT” and the Louvre 138 7. Storytelling on the Ledge: Lady Gaga and Jonas Åkerlund’s “Paparazzi” 154 III. Music Video’s Late Late Style 8. How to Analyze Music Videos: Beyoncé and Melina Matsoukas’s “Pretty Hurts” 175 9. Dave Meyer’s Moments of Audiovisual Bliss 196 10. Janelle Monáe’s “You Make Me Feel” and Anderson.Paak with Kendrick Lamar’s “Tints”: Getting Up in My [Rearview] Mirror 211 IV. Audiovisual Aesthetics Online 11. Who Needs Music Documentaries When There’s TikTok and Carpool Karaoke? 231 12. TikTok and Costume-Drama Mashups on YouTube 247 V. New Modes of Analysis: Industry 13. The Art of Color Grading (Carol Vernallis, Jonathan Leal, Eric Weldt, and Aubrey Woodiwiss) 265 14. Music Video Directors, Production Houses, and the Media Swirl 290 VI. New Modes of Analysis: Neuroscience 15. Music Video’s Multisensory 307 16. Tracing the Asset: Humanistic and Quantitative Approaches to Cybercrime Film Trailers (Snowden and Bourne) 319 VII. New Modes of Analysis: Politics and Vernacular Culture 17. New Technologies, Social Justice, and the Future in Beyoncé’s Audiovisual Albums 335 18. Fox News, COVID-19, Brief Media Aesthetics, and Historical Resonances 356 Afterword 369 Notes 373 Bibliography 403 Index 429

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Book SynopsisLiza Taylor examines how U.S. women of color feminists' coalitional collective politics of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s is an indispensable resource to contemporary political theory, feminist studies, and intersectional social justice activism.Trade Review"This well-written and clearly organized book challenges the reader to explore effective activism over time with directions for the future. Thus, the book would be ideal for undergraduate and graduate courses in sociology, women’s studies, and criminal justice that include contemporary political theory, feminist studies, and intersectional social justice. The 'call to action' structure of the book creates a platform for the facilitator to really engage the student in the option of taking an actual step to make change within the current politically diverse arena. Exercises such as this makes the book unique within this discipline and a must have within the classroom." -- Shauntey James * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"Taylor is a feminist political theorist who offers sophisticated arguments about philosophical principles and feminist practices together with an accessible discussion of core texts from women of color. She writes for multidisciplinary feminist readers already familiar with classics such as position papers from the Combahee River Collective and essays by Audre Lorde but does so with sufficient attention to explaining these and other arguments from the rich field of feminist theorizing. Students just becoming aware of this area of study will get a vibrant introduction, and more knowledgeable readers will find this an innovative and helpful approach. . . . Highly recommended. General readers through faculty; professionals." -- M. M. Ferree * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. From Rosa Luxemburg to the Combahee River Collective: Spontaneous Coalition as a Precursor to Intersectional Marxism and Politico-Ethical Coalition Politics 33 2. Women of Color Feminism and Politico-Ethical Coalition Politics: Recentering the Politics of Coalition with Reagon, Smith, Combahee, and Lorde 67 3. Coalition from the Inside Out: Struggling toward Coalitional Identity and Developing a Coalitional Consciousness with Lode, Anzaldúa, Sandoval, and Pratt 106 4. Writing Feminist Theory, Doing Feminist Politics: Rethinking Collective Feminist Authorship with This Bridge Called My Back 150 5. The Women's March on Washington and Politico-Ethical Coalitional Opportunities in the Age of Trump 189 Conclusion: Lessons for Contemporary and Future Feminist Activists 225 Notes 249 References 259 Index 277

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Book SynopsisIn Death’s Futurity Sampada Aranke examines the importance of representations of death to Black liberation. Aranke analyzes posters, photographs, journalism, and films that focus on the murders of Black Panther Party members Lil’ Bobby Hutton, Fred Hampton, and George Jackson to construct a visual history of the 1960s and 1970s Black Power era. She shows how Black radicals used these murders to engage in political action that imagined Black futurity from the position of death. Photographs of Hutton that appeared on flyers and posters called attention to the condition of his death while the 1971 documentary The Murder of Fred Hampton enabled the consideration of Hampton’s afterlife through visual meditations on his murder. Printmaking and political posters surrounding Jackson’s murder marked the transition from Black Power to the prison abolition movement in ways that highlighted the relationship between surveillance, policing, incarceration, and anTrade Review"The author’s close readings of the role of visual artifacts in generating consciousness, agency, and a sense of futurity about a better future in their audiences is both compelling and original, and her engaging prose makes it a pleasure to read." -- Simon Stow * European Journal of American Studies *"Aranke provides a lyrical and materially nuanced account of how the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense mobilized a range of visual media, objects, and tactics. . . . In the process, Aranke not only reorients our understanding of 'the political' in art of the 1960s, but also puts tremendous pressure on art-historical conceits such as 'the curatorial,' which in the Panthers’ hands does not mean protecting priceless artworks within neoliberal institutions, but rather involves preserving the bloodstained objects left in [Fred] Hampton’s apartment in order to make visible the anti-Black violence that enables the coherence of American 'civil society" and the ongoing expansion of the carceral state undergirding it." * Artforum *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. The Visual Life of Black Power 1 1. “1,000 Bobby Huttons” 21 2. Fred Hampton and the Political Life of Objects 53 3. George Jackson’s Murder and Fugitive Imaginaries 90 Epilogue. The United States of Attica 135 Notes 147 Bibliography 171 Index 181

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Book SynopsisIn The Briny South Nienke Boer examines the legal and literary narratives of enslaved, indentured, and imprisoned individuals crossing the Indian Ocean to analyze the formation of racialized identities in the imperial world. Drawing on court records, ledgers, pamphlets, censors’ reports, newsletters, folk songs, memoirs, and South African and South Asian works of fiction and autobiography, Boer theorizes the role of sentiment and the depiction of emotions in the construction of identities of displaced peoples across the Indian Ocean. From Dutch East India Company rule in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to early apartheid South Africa, Boer shows how colonial powers and settler states mediated and manipulated subaltern expressions of emotion as a way to silence racialized subjects and portray them as inarticulately suffering. In this way, sentiment operated in favor of the powerful rather than as an oppositional weapon of the subaltern. By tracing the entwinement oTrade Review"One of the work’s great strengths is its ability to articulate how the context and sources for the Indian Ocean differ from those of the Atlantic world, especially for enslavement and indenture. Enslavement in the Indian Ocean world produced a legal archive unlike that of the Atlantic Ocean, allowing Boer to ask and answer questions about enslaved life that could not be posed in the Atlantic. This has the dual effect of bringing into relief what is unique about each while simultaneously helping to bring Atlantic world scholars into the world of the Indian Ocean." -- Jared Asser * Emotions: History, Culture, Society *"A keen sense of form enables [Boer] to plot a course through a vast array of legal and literary texts that span centuries and include court rulings, legal complaints, testimonies, and political pamphlets alongside poetry, folk songs, fiction, and memoirs. It is no small feat to weave together an archive as expansive and complex as the Indian Ocean itself, and Boer manages to do so with striking clarity and precision. ... The Briny South offers a new paradigm for scholars and readers of Indian Ocean literature, histories of enslavement, indenture, internment, inter-imperialism, or South African apartheid." -- Tyler Scott Ball * ISLE *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Enslaved, Indentured, Interned 1 1. Representing Speech in Bondage in the Court Records of the Dutch Cabo de Goede Hoop, 1652–1795 17 2. Silencing the Enslaved: The Aesthetics of Abolitionism in the British Cape Colony, 1795–1834 48 3. “Grievances More Sentimental than Material”: Representing Indentured Labor in Natal, 1860–1915 82 4. A Sentimental Education in Boer War Imprisonment Camps in South Asia, 1899–1902 109 5. Sentiment and the Law in Early South African Indian Writing, 1893–1960 132 Coda. No Human Footprints 154 Notes 161 Bibliography 187 Index 205

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Book SynopsisIn Sexuality and the Rise of China Travis S. K. Kong examines the changing meanings of same-sex identities, communities, and cultures for young Chinese gay men in contemporary Hong Kong, Taiwan, and mainland China. Drawing on ninety life stories, Kong’s transnational queer sociological approach shows the complex interplay between personal biography and the dramatically changing social institutions in these three societies. Kong conceptualizes coming out as relational politics and the queer/tongzhi community and commons as an affective, imaginative means of connecting, governed by homonormative masculinity. He shows how monogamy is a form of cruel optimism and envisions state and sexuality intertwining in different versions of homonationalism in each location. Tracing the alternately diverging and converging paths of being young, 'Chinese,' gay, and male, Kong reveals how both Western and emerging inter- and intra- Asian queer cultures shape queer/tongzhi expeTrade Review“Challenging the teleological trajectory of the sexual emancipation model through sociological analysis and compelling storytelling, Sexuality and the Rise of China argues that assessments of social openness cannot reveal the full complexities of inter-Asian constructions of queer lives. Travis S. K. Kong is particularly insightful in demonstrating how the intertwining of the state, politics, and sexuality leads to some unexpected findings about the acceptance or repression of gay rights.” -- Lisa Rofel, author of * Desiring China: Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture *"The combination of ethnographic detail and nuanced analysis make Sexuality and the Rise of China a fascinating, compelling and highly readable account of the social shaping of tongzhi lives." -- Stevi Jackson * Asian Anthropology *"The transnational queer sociology approach used in this study has resulted in a detailed and revealing account of how the post-90s gay generation in Greater China are negotiating their lives, relationships, and identities under the sway of rapid socio-economic and political change. In addition, the study offers a set of innovative and instructive theoretical and methodological ways forward, ones that are locally or regionally sensitive, to research the sociopolitical dimensions of sexuality beyond dominant Western paradigms and sensibilities. Thus, for anyone with research interests in sexuality issues in Greater China and other Asian regions, Kong’s book will become foundational reading. Finally, and in the spirit of transdisciplinarity, the book will provide those of us who are working on queer issues from other backgrounds (for example, in language/discourse studies, anthropology, education studies, or social work) much inspiration." -- Benedict J.L. Rowlett * Journal of Homosexuality *"For anyone working on sexual cultures in East Asia and beyond, this book is essential reading. Its readability and clarity, and profoundly personal style of writing, without compromising on theoretical depth, also make it highly recommended for teaching purposes." -- Jeroen de Kloet * China Information *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations ix Note on Romanization xi Preface and Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1. Queering Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China 26 2. Coming Out as Relational Politics 62 3. Tongzhi Commons, Community, and Collectivity 86 4. Love and Sex as Cruel Optimism 108 5. Homosexuality, Homonationalism, and Homonormativity 130 Conclusion 155 Glossary 173 Notes 175 Works Cited 193 Index 223

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Book SynopsisIn How to Lose the Hounds Celeste Winston explores marronage—the practice of flight from and placemaking beyond slavery—as a guide to police abolition. She examines historically Black maroon communities in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC, that have been subjected to violent excesses of police power from slavery until the present day. Tracing the long and ongoing historical geography of Black freedom struggles in the face of anti-Black police violence in these communities, Winston shows how marronage provides critical lessons for reimagining public safety and community well-being. These freedom struggles take place in what Winston calls maroon geographies—sites of flight from slavery and the spaces of freedom produced in multigenerational Black communities. Maroon geographies constitute part of a Black placemaking tradition that asserts life-affirming forms of community. Winston contends that maroon geographies operate as a central method of Black flight,Trade Review“Through Celeste Winston’s examination of early Black communities from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as well as her study of late modern Black communities in the twentieth century, we learn vital lessons about the value of marronage for our understandings of slavery, resistance, liberation, freedom, race, capitalism, and geography. Imagining Black futures beyond slavery and a world without the police, Winston offers a wonderful treatise that will reverberate throughout geography, Black studies, American studies, history, political theory, and decolonial politics. How to Lose the Hounds is an absolutely marvelous book and a magnificent achievement!” -- Neil Roberts, author of * Freedom as Marronage *“With its rich account of marronage in Montgomery County, Maryland, and beyond, Celeste Winston’s How to Lose the Hounds is a brilliant addition to the study of black flight, geographic transformations, and abolition. How to Lose the Hounds both succeeds as a rigorous study of maroon geographies, maroon justice and other maroon tactics and, importantly, insists that a careful understanding of ‘radical Black praxis of community’ is essential to the work toward police abolition.” -- Simone Browne, author of * Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Prologue xiii Introduction 1 1. Maroon Folklore as an Abolition Technology 21 2. The Fugitive Infrastructure of Maroon Geographies 37 3. Maroon Justice 65 4. Community beyond Policing 87 5. Maroon Geographies and the Paradox of Abolition Policy 109 Epilogue: Abolition Future Folklore 129 Notes 133 References 139 Index 159

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Book SynopsisIn Struggles for the Human, Lara Montesinos Coleman blends ethnography, political philosophy, and critical theory to reorient debates on human rights through attention to understandings of legality, ethics, and humanity in anticapitalist and decolonial struggle. Drawing on her extensive involvement with grassroots social movements in Colombia, Coleman observes that mainstream expressions of human rights have become counterparts to capitalist violence, even as this discourse disavows capitalism’s deadly implications. She rejects claims that human rights are inherently tied to capitalism, liberalism, or colonialism, instead showing how human rights can be used to combat these forces. Coleman demonstrates that social justice struggles that are rooted in marginalized communities’ lived experiences can reframe human rights in order to challenge oppressive power structures and offer a blueprint for constructing alternative political economies. By examining the practice of Trade Review“Lara Montesinos Coleman’s arresting and beautiful ethnography of Colombian resistance movements doubles as an informed and sophisticated critical intervention into the controversy about the meanings of human rights in an age of neoliberalism. Bypassing the politics of struggle, the book proves, is a mistake for anyone rushing to bury—or praise—human rights today.” -- Samuel Moyn, Yale University“In Struggles for the Human, Lara Montesinos Coleman brings together a blistering critique of mainstream human rights practices and a nuanced account of neoliberalism with a defense of the continued use of human rights by radical social movements. Coleman shows how human rights retain a disruptive potential and can contribute to the dismantling of capitalist structures of impunity. Breaking new ground in our thinking about rights, capitalist power, and emancipation, this is an indispensable book for all those interested in the politics of human rights, radical social movements, and political philosophy.” -- Jessica Whyte, author of * The Morals of the Market: Human Rights and the Rise of Neoliberalism *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction. Human Rights in Struggle 1 1. Necroeconomics: Violence, Law, and Twenty-First-Century Plunder 27 2. Deadly Colonial Ethics: Development Policy-Speak and Corporate Responsibility 57 3. Privatizing Workers’ Rights: Social Partnership in a Neoliberal World 81 4. Elusive Justice: Capital, Impunity, and Counterlegality 105 5. From Pernicious Optimism to Radical Hope: Human Rights beyond Abstract Values 132 6. For an Insurgent Humanism 153 Conclusion. What Do We Make of Human Rights? Ten Points 170 Notes 175 Bibliography 213 Index 239

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Book SynopsisInformatics of Domination is an experimental collection addressing formations of power that manifest through technical systems and white capitalist patriarchy in the twenty-first century. The volume takes its name from a chart in Donna J. Haraway’s canonical 1985 essay “A Manifesto for Cyborgs.” Haraway theorizes the informatics of domination as a feminist, diagrammatic concept for situating power and a world system from which the figure of the cyborg emerges. Informatics of Domination builds on Haraway’s chart as an open structure for thought, inviting fifty scholars, artists, and creative writers to unfold new perspectives. Their writings take on a variety of forms, such as essays on artificial intelligence, disability and protest, and transpacific imaginaries; conversations with an AI trained on Black oral history; a three-dimensional response to Mexico-US border tensions; hand-drawn images on queer autotheory; ecological fictions about gut microbiomes and wet markets; and more. Together, the writings take up the unfinished structure of the chart in order to proliferate critiques of white capitalist patriarchal power with the study of information systems, networks, and computation today. This volume includes an afterword by Haraway. Contributors. Dalida María Benfield, Zach Blas, Ama Josephine Budge Johnstone, micha cárdenas, Amy Sara Carroll, Shu Lea Cheang, Jian Neo Chen, Heather Dewey-Hagborg, Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal, Stephanie Dinkins, Ricardo Dominguez, Ashley Ferro-Murray, Matthew Fuller, Jacob Gaboury, Jennifer Gabrys, Alexander R. Galloway, Jennifer Mae Hamilton, Donna J. Haraway, Eva Hayward, Stefan Helmreich, Kathy High, Leon J. Hilton, Ho Rui An, Hi''ilei JuliaKawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart, Tung-Hui Hu, Caroline A. Jones, Melody Jue, Homay King, Larissa Lai, Lawrence Lek, Esther Leslie, Alexis Lothian, Isadora Neves Marques, Radha May (Elisa Giardina-Papa, Nupur Mathur, and Bathsheba Okwenje), Shaka McGlotten, Mahan Moalemi, madison moore, Astrida Neimanis, Bahar Noorizadeh, Luciana Parisi, Thao Phan, Ana Teixeira Pinto, Luiza Prado de O. Martins, Rita Raley, Patricia Reed, Jennifer Rhee, Bassem Saad, Ashkan Sepahvand, Justin Talplacido Shoulder, Lucy Suchman, Ollie Zhang

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Book SynopsisDo you believe in magic? This familiar question suggests magic is easily recognized but unreal. In Magic's Translations, Margaret J. Wiener argues that such views are shaped by historical power struggles, especially in Europe's relations with the wider world. Focusing on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Dutch interactions with Indonesians, Wiener reveals how colonial agents framed unfamiliar practices, practitioners, and objects as magic, rendering distinct phenomena fundamentally alike and advancing colonizing projects that deemed magic antithetical to reason and reality. While colonial authorities, including ethnologists, mobilized the concept of magic to differentiate Europeans from Indonesians, nature from culture, reason from superstition, and fact from fetish, their efforts produced unexpected outcomes: Some Indonesian artifacts and acts not only retained their power but invaded European experiences. As anthropologists were among the key translators of magic throughout the world, Wiener intersperses accounts of magic's translations in the Indies with reflections on anthropology's ongoing engagement with the concept. She demonstrates that magic became an object of expert knowledge, political control, and popular fascination, rather than a self-evident category or relic of naïve belief.

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Book SynopsisTopics covered include a postcolonial reading of African spirituality, sexuality, and the Erotic through Mbari art in Igboland, Nigeria; Audre Lorde's experience with the Black-Indigenous relations in the Eurasian Borderlands; self-representation by female ex-combatants in Peru; militarization, postcoloniality, and the poetics of historical experience in Mahasweta Devi's Draupadi; and trauma and its discontents through Louise Erdrich's The Round House. Contributors. Ashjan Ajour, Bright Alozie, Evelyn Saavedra Autry, Robyn Bourgeois, Ginetta E.B. Candelario, Kerri Clarke, Maree Clarke, Ana Del Conde, Jenny L. Davis, Basuli Deb, Fran Edmonds, Michelle M. Jacob, Nanya Jhingran, Candy Esther Martínez, Daniel McKay, Kai Orton, Tatsiana Shchurko, Sabra Thorner, Winniebell Xinyu Zong

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Book SynopsisThe role of disability and deafness in art Distressing Language is full of mistakeserrors of hearing, speaking, writing, and understanding. Michael Davidson engages the role of disability and deafness in contemporary aesthetics, exploring how physical and intellectual differences challenge our understanding of art and poetry. Where hearing and speaking are considered normative conditions of the human, what happens when words are misheard and misspoken? How have writers and artists, both disabled and non-disabled, used error as generative elements in contesting the presumed value of "sounding good"? Distressing Language grows out of the author's experience of hearing loss in which misunderstandings have become a daily occurrence. Davidson maintains that verbal confusions are less an aberration in understanding than a component of new knowledge. Davidson discusses a range of sites, from captioning errors and Bad Lip Reads on YouTube, to the deaf artist Christine Sun Kim's audiovisual installations, and a poetic reinterpretation of the Biblical Shibboleth responding to the atrocities of the Holocaust. Deafness becomes a guide in each chapter of Distressing Language, giving us a closer look at a range of artistic mediums and how artists are working with the axiom of "error" to produce novel subjecthoods and possibilities.Trade ReviewDrawing on his own experience of increasing deafness, Davidson provides an engrossing look into the ways that slips or unusual forms of language can unexpectedly lead to new meanings and beauty. Distressing Language expertly weaves together modern poetry and fiction, popular culture, sign language art, theory, politics, and history, and is often as funny as it is profound. * Christopher Krentz, author of Writing Deafness: The Hearing Line in Nineteenth-Century American Literature *A highly original account of language, meaning, and sound, all framed through hearing loss. In Davidson’s account, meaning and value come from things not working the way they are supposed to. But rather than fetishizing technical glitch or aesthetic failure, he processes meaning through a disability hermeneutic. Throughout Distressing Language, the lines between poetry, sound art, and music are intentionally blurred and violated, while the meaning of sound is foregrounded as something especially important for those who have limited access to it. * Jonathan Sterne, McGill University *

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Book SynopsisReimagines how race, ethnicity, imperialism, and colonialism can be central to social science researchand methodsThere is a growing consensus that the discipline of sociology and the social sciences broadly need to engage more thoroughly with the legacy and the present day of colonialism, Indigenous/settler colonialism, imperialism, and racial capitalism in the United States and globally. In Disciplinary Futures, a cross-section of scholars comes together to engage sociology and the social sciences by way of these paradigms, particularly from the influence of disciplines of American, Ethnic, and Indigenous Studies. With original essays from scholars such as Y?n Lê Espiritu, Sunaina Maira, Hokulani K. Aikau, Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, Ben Carrington, Yvonne Sherwood, and Gilda L. Ochoa, among others, Disciplinary Futures offers concrete pathways for how the social sciences can expand from the limiting frameworks they traditionally use to study race and racism, namely: the black-white binarTrade ReviewThe margins of sociology are at once its cutting edge. There we find innovative scholarship remaking the discipline through critical engagements with American, cultural, ethnic, gender and women's, Indigenous, postcolonial, and queer studies. A stocktaking and agenda-setting book, Disciplinary Futures brings empire, racial capitalism, settler colonialism, queer of color critique, white supremacy, and intersectionality from the periphery to the core of our concern. May sociology take heed. * Moon-Kie Jung, author of Beneath the Surface of White Supremacy: Denaturalizing U.S. Racisms Past and Present *Much lip service is paid to the significance of engaging in inter- and multidisciplinary research, but surprisingly little or no attention is given to why it is important and how to do it. These issues are central to this volume. A diverse and stellar group of scholars illustrate how the discipline of sociology can be rethought, enriched, and expanded through a deep engagement with other disciplines. Their scholarship reveals the necessity for sociology to revitalize and reinvent itself in order to fully comprehend the positionality, experiences, and voices of racialized and marginalized groups. * Michael Omi, co-author of Racial Formation in the United States *This is a powerful collection that challenges sociologists to confront the epistemic violence that undergirds their discipline. It challenges race-neutral and nation-bound analysis of the experiences of people of color as it calls for a critical sociology that acknowledges the injuries of racism, settler-colonialism, and imperialism in everyday experiences. This is a must-read for anyone committed to dismantling inequality. * Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, author of Servants of Globalization: Migration and Domestic Work *The important essays in this exciting interdisciplinary volume bring valuable insights from studies of race and immigration, disability, gender and sexuality, and Indigeneity to bear upon research and methods in sociology and the social sciences.” * Lisa Lowe, author of The Intimacies of Four Continents *

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Book SynopsisUncovers what Christian seminaries taught about Islam in their formative years Throughout the nineteenth century, Islam appeared regularly in the curricula of American Protestant seminaries. Islam was not only the focus of Christian missions, but was studied as part of the history of the Church as well as in the new field of comparative religions. Moreover, Arabic was taught as a cognate biblical language to help students better understand biblical Hebrew. Passages from the Qur'an were sometimes read as part of language instruction. Christian seminaries were themselves new institutions in the nineteenth century. Though Islam had already been present in the Americas since the beginning of the slave trade, it was only in the nineteenth century that the American public became more aware of Islam and had increasing contact with Muslims. It was during this period that extensive trade with the Ottoman empire emerged and more feasible travel opportunities to the Middle East became available due to the development of the steamship. Providing an in-depth look at the information about Islam that was available in seminaries throughout the nineteenth century, Muhammad in the Seminary examines what Protestant seminaries were teaching about this tradition in the formative years of pastoral education. In charting how American Christian leaders' ideas about Islam were shaped by their seminary experiences, this volume offers new insight into American religious history and the study of Christian-Muslim relations.

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Book SynopsisExplores the lives and intellectual influences of the creators of Critical Race TheoryCritical race theory (CRT), a vital movement and discipline in American legal scholarship, has transformed our understanding of systemic racism. Yet despite insightful analysis revealing the threads of racism embedded in American institutions and society, it has been demonized by opponents at every turn, with numerous state legislators now seeking to ban its use in the classroom. The Origins of Critical Race Theory weaves together the many sources of critical race theory, recounting the origin story for one of the most insightful and controversial academic movements in U.S. history. In addition to introducing readers to the tenets and key insights of critical race theory, Martinez and Smith explore the lives and intellectual influences of the movement's founders, shedding light on how the many components of critical race theory eventually formed into a movement. Through archival research and inter

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Book SynopsisHow gallows humor can bolster us to confront global warming We've all seen the headlines: oceans rising, historic heat waves, mass extinctions, climate refugees. It feels overwhelming, like nothing can make a difference in combating this ongoing global catastrophe. How can we mobilize to save the world when we feel this depressed? Stay Cool enjoins us to laugh our way forward. Human beings have used comedy to cope with difficult realities since the beginning of recorded timethe more dismal the news, the darker the humor. Using this rich tradition of dark comedy to investigate climate change, Aaron Sachs makes the case that gallows humor, a mainstay of African Americans and Jews facing extraordinary oppression, can cultivate endurance, persistence, and solidarity in the face of calamity. Sachs surveys the macabre tradition of laughing during great suffering, from the Black Plague to the San Francisco earthquake of 1906and offers some of the earliest examples of superlative dark comedy. He also explores how a new generation of activists and comedians are deploying dark humor to great effect, by poking fun at older people's apathy about climate catastrophes, lambasting oil corporations' "eco" rebranding, and even producing an off-Broadway dystopian comedy called "Sea Level Rise." Sachs offers suggestions for how environmentalists can use dark comedy first to boost their own morale, and then to reframe their activism in more energizing and relatable ways. Environmentalism is probably the least funny social movement that's ever existed. Stay Cool seeks to change that. Will comedy save the world? Not by itself, no. But it can put people in a decent enough mood to get them started on a rescue mission.

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Book SynopsisIn the early history of Halifax (1749-1766), debt litigation was extremely common. People from all classes frequently used litigation and its use in private matters was higher than almost all places in the British Empire in the 18th century. In Law, Debt, and Merchant Power, James Muir offers an extensive analysis of the civil cases of the time as well as the reasons behind their frequency. Muir’s lively and detailed account of the individuals involved in litigation reveals a paradoxical society where debtors were also debt-collectors. Law, Debt, and Merchant Power demonstrates how important the law was for people in their business affairs and how they shaped it for their own ends. Trade Review'At the higher methodological level, the work both fascinates and provokes... Muir's book is an interesting, original, and important work, part of the new wave of regional scholarship that integrates greater Nova Scotia into the history of the eighteenth-century British Atlantic.' -- Barry Cahill Acadiensis February 2017Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Halifax, a community of litigants Chapter 3: Initiating Actions Chapter 4: Avoiding Trial Chapter 5: Going to Trial Chapter 6: Ending the Action Chapter 7: Appeals and Other Courts Chapter 8: Conclusion Appendix 1: Sources and Methods Appendix 2: Interpreting Occupational and Status Data Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIn early modern Iberia, Moorish clothing was not merely a cultural remnant from the Islamic period, but an artefact that conditioned discourses of nobility and social preeminence. In Moors Dressed as Moors, Javier Irigoyen-García draws on a wide range of sources: archival, legal, literary, and visual documents, as well as tailoring books, equestrian treatises, and festival books to reveal the currency of Moorish clothing in early modern Iberian society. Irigoyen-García’s insightful and nuanced analyses of Moorish clothing production and circulation shows that as well as being a sign of status and a marker of nobility, it also served to codify social tensions by deploying apparent Islamophobic discourses. Such luxurious value of clothing also sheds light on how sartorial legislation against the Moriscos was not only a form of cultural repression, but also a way to preclude their full integration into Iberian society. Moors Dressed as Moors challenges the Trade Review"Irigoyen-Garcia’s study amplifies with scholarly rigor our understanding of early modern Iberian cultural politics in ways that resonate with our own cultural locations as scholars at a time of heightened ethnic and national tensions." -- Israel Burshatin, Haverford College * Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Vol 43 no 1 *"This is an interesting and useful book for readers who are interested in the understanding of clothes beyond aesthetics." -- Laura Pérez Hernández * The Journal of Dress History, vol 2 3, Autumn 2018 *"Irigoyen’Garcia’s book is a much-needed corrective to existing studies on early modern Spanish dress, which tend to undermine the diversity of Morisco cultures and their sartorial practices, which, in many cases, were not that distinguishable from others in their local context. This is a must read for any scholar interested in better appreciating the complex relationship between dress, social status, and ethnicity in early modern Iberian. I will certainly assign it in future graduate courses on early modern cultures, as it contributes not only to discussions on clothing, but also to the construction of Iberian identities more broadly speaking." -- Christina H. Lee, Princeton University * Renaissance Quarterly, vol 71 4, Winter 2018 *"This book is well supported by a solid theoretical apparatus, primary sources, and a vast bibliography…this well-written book undoubtedly constitutes an essential work on clothing and identity." -- Filomena Barros, University of Évora * Medieval Clothing and Textiles, vol 15 *"Moors Dressed as Moors will be of great value to scholars and students seeking to understand the complexity that underpins the history of the Morisco minority in Spain. Moreover, given the current controversies relating to the status and cultural assimilation of Muslim minorities in Europe (controversies that continue to involve debates about clothing), this is research that is still very relevant." -- François Soyer, University of New England * The English Historical Review *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: "Moors dressed as Moors" Part 1. "Morisma nueva de Christianos": Iberian Christian Moorish Clothing 1. Moors at Court 2. Moorish Clothing and Nobility 3. Unlawful Moorishness 4. Lope's Moors: Self-Fashioning and Resentment Part 2. Moorishness is in the Eye of the Beholder: Moriscos as Dressed Bodies 5. Policing Moriscos in Sixteenth-Century Granada 6. Searching for the Iberian Moorish Morisco 7. Moriscos Performing as Moors 8. Moriscos as Theatrical Bodies Conclusions Bibliography

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Book SynopsisRussia’s Turkish Wars examines the changing place of the Balkan population in Russian military thought, strategic planning, and occupation policies. It reveals choices made by the tsarist strategists and commanders during the Russian-Ottoman wars, reflecting a general reconceptualization of the role of the people in modern warfare that took place during the nineteenth century. The book explores the tsarist military’s engagement with the population of the Balkans in the wake of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. It draws on previously unpublished materials from Russian archives as well as a broad range of published primary sources. Victor Taki recounts the discussions among Russian military men and the international relations of the nineteenth century. Russia’s Turkish Wars ultimately provides a new perspective on both military change and Imperial Russia’s Balkan entanglements.

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Book SynopsisWith the goal of bridging the gap between research and practice, this book provides intriguing and innovative thoughts on leadership and gender in organizations from renowned scholars as well as high-level corporate thought leaders in the area of diversity and inclusion.Table of ContentsForeword Alyssa Panitch, Purdue University Preface David Hummels, Purdue University 1. Introduction: Making the Case for Gender Inclusion and Women’s Career Equality at Work Ellen Ernst Kossek, Purdue University and Kyung-Hee Lee, Purdue University Part I: Fostering Positive Work for Women 2. Creating Gender Inclusive Climates and Conversations What the Research Tells Us: The Role of Inclusive Climates in Closing the Gender Gap Lisa Nishii, Cornell University View from Practice: The Power in “Staying vs. Leaving” Conversations to Create an Inclusive Workplace at Accenture Nellie Borrero, Accenture Integrating Research and Practice: Gender Inclusive Climates Charlice Hurst, University of Notre Dame Managerial and Organizational Actions for Creating Inclusive Climates Ellen Ernst Kossek, Purdue University and Kyung-Hee Lee, Purdue University 3. Mentoring and Other Strategies for Advancing Women’s Careers What the Research Tells Us: Glass Ceiling Chisels Belle Rose Ragins, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee View from Practice: Advancing Women at IBM Rosalia Thomas, IBM Integrating Research and Practice: Mentoring Patrice Buzzanell, University of South Florida Managerial and Organizational Actions for Mentoring and Advancing Women Ellen Ernst Kossek, Purdue University and Kyung-Hee Lee, Purdue University Part II: Gender Inclusion in Industry and Organizational Contexts 4. How to Leverage Diverse Teams What the Research Tells Us: Claiming the Unexpected Value of Diversity Denise Lewin Loyd, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign View from Practice: Engaging Teams for Business Success at PWC Anne Donovan, PricewaterhouseCoopers Integrating Research and Practice: Diverse Teams Beth Livingston, University of Iowa Managerial and Organizational Actions for Creating Inclusive Teams Ellen Ernst Kossek, Purdue University and Kyung-Hee Lee, Purdue University 5. Learning from STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) Contexts What the Research Tells Us: That None Shall Perish Kelly Mack, Association of American Colleges & Universities, Chris Sahley, Purdue University, and Orlando Taylor, Fielding Graduate University View from Practice: Learning from Successful Women in the STEM Field Mariana Monteiro, FCM, LLC Integrating Research and Practice: STEM Contexts Diana Bilimoria, Case Western Reserve University Managerial and Organizational Actions to Transform STEM Contexts Ellen Ernst Kossek, Purdue University and Kyung-Hee Lee, Purdue University 6. Learning from Entrepreneurial Settings What the Research Tells Us: The Glass Ceiling of Entrepreneurship and How Women Are Breaking Free Kim Eddleston, Northeastern University View from Practice: Emerging Organizational Culture and Inclusion Nina Swanson, Walmart Integrating Research and Practice: Entrepreneurial Settings Nathalie Duval-Couetil, Purdue University Managerial and Organizational Actions to Create Inclusive Entrepreneurial Settings Ellen Ernst Kossek, Purdue University and Kyung-Hee Lee, Purdue University 7. Epilogue: A Beginning Blueprint for Organizations and Researchers to Advance Gender Inclusion and Equality (with Caveats) Ellen Ernst Kossek, Purdue University and Kyung-Hee Lee, Purdue University Acknowledgments 

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Book SynopsisFrom Confederation to the partial abolition of the death penalty a century later, defendants convicted of sexually motivated killings and sexually violent homicides in Canada were more likely than any other condemned criminals to be executed for their crimes. Despite the emergence of psychiatric expertise in criminal trials, moral disgust and anger proved more potent in courtrooms, the public mind, and the hearts of the bureaucrats and politicians responsible for determining the outcome of capital cases. Wherever death has been set as the ultimate criminal penalty, the poor, minority groups, and stigmatized peoples have been more likely to be accused, convicted, and executed. Although the vast majority of convicted sex killers were white, Canada’s racist notions of the Indian mind meant that Indigenous defendants faced the presumption of guilt. Black defendants were also subjected to discriminatory treatment, including near lynchings. In debates about capital punishmenTrade Review"Strange has not only offered a challenging, thoughtful, and often unsettling work, but has done so in a fashion solidifying her place as one of this nation’s very best historians." -- Jonathan Swainger, University of Northern British Columbia * Labour/Le Travail *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The Politics of the Death Penalty and the Problem of Sex Murder 2. Sex Fiends and the Death Penalty at the Turn of Canada’s Century 3. Contesting Convictions and Questioning Culpability: Sex Murder between the Wars 4. Sexual Psychopathy and Penal Severity in the Post-War Era 5. Sexual Psychopathy, Insanity, and the Death Penalty under Scrutiny in the 1950s 6. Sex Murder in the Sixties and the Demise of the Death Penalty Epilogue: The Problem of Sex Murder in the Shadow of Abolition Note on Sources and Methods

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Book SynopsisHarvesting State Support provides an analytical focus on the local implementation and interpretation of the agricultural reform process in Japan.Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Abbreviations Foreword Acknowledgments Part One: Introduction: Institutional Change in Japan’s Agricultural Sector 1. Japan’s Agricultural Support and Protection Regime 2. Toward a Local Perspective on Gradual Institutional Change 3. Institutional Change in Japanese Agricultural Support and Protection through the Local Lens Part Two: Japan’s Agricultural Support and Protection over Time 4. Postwar Evolution of Support and Protection 5. Gradual Change and Increasing Institutional Ambiguity in Agricultural Support and Protection Part Three: Local Agricultural Regimes and Village Institutions 6. Different Local Manifestations of Macro-Level Change 7. Postwar Formation of Local Agricultural Regimes and Village Institutions Part Four: Village Institutions as Dynamic Resources – Local Renegotiation of Agricultural Support and Protection 8. Farmland Consolidation as a Social Process 9. Local Variations of Agricultural Entrepreneurship 10. Hamlet-Based Collective Farming and Village Institutions 11. Boundary Change: Decreasing Prospects for Comprehensive Local Institutional Agency Part Five: Conclusions 12. Renegotiating Japan’s Agricultural Support and Protection 13. Institutional Change through the Local Lens Appendix A: Field Research Appendix B: Interviews Appendix C: Types of Farms in Japan Appendix D: Paddy Field Subsidies Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisWhat’s in Your Genome? describes the functional regions of the human genome, the evidence that 90% of it is junk DNA, and the reasons this evidence has not been widely accepted by the popular press and much of the scientific community.The human genome contains about 25,000 protein-coding and noncoding genes and many other functional elements, such as origins of replication, regulatory elements, and centromeres. Functional elements occupy only about 10 percent of the more than three billion base pairs in the human genome. Much of the rest is composed of ancient fragments of broken genes, transposons, and viruses. Almost all of this is thought to be junk DNA, based on evidence that dates back fifty years. This conclusion is controversial. What’s in Your Genome? describes the arguments on both sides of the debate and attempts to explain the reasoning behind those different points of view. The book corrects a number of Table of ContentsPreface Prologue The Junk DNA War 1. Introducing Genomes 2. The Evolution of Sloppy Genomes 3. Repetitive DNA and Mobile Genetic Elements 4. Why Don’t Mutations Kill Us? 5. The Big Picture 6. How Many Genes? How Many Proteins? 7. Gene Families and the Birth and Death of Genes 8. Noncoding Genes and Junk RNA 9. The ENCODE Publicity Campaign 10. Turning Genes On and Off 11. Zen and the Art of Coping with a Poorly Designed Genome Glossary References Index

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Book SynopsisWritten over a period of more than two decades, Colour Matters is a collection of essays that shows how race informs the aspirational pursuits of Black youth in the Greater Toronto Area.Table of ContentsForeword D. Alissa Trotz Introduction: Exploring the Social and Educational Experiences of Black Canadian Youth Over Time 1. Historical and Social Context of the Schooling and Education of African Canadians Response: Complicating Gender and Racial Identities within the Study of Educational History Funke Aladejebi 2. Generational Differences in Black Students’ School Performance Response: It’s the Same with Black British Caribbean Pupils Shirley Anne Tate 3. “To make a better future”: Narrative of a 1.5 Generation Caribbean-Canadian Response: Using Gender to Think Through Migration, Love, and Student Success Amoaba Gooden 4. Students “at risk”: Stereotypes and the Schooling of Black Boys Response: Black Lives Matter in the USA and Canada Joyce E. King 5. More than Brains and Hard Work: The Aspirations and Career Trajectories of Two Young Black Men Response: What Folks Don’t Get: Race and Class Matter Annette M. Henry 6. Class, Race, and Schooling in the Performance of Black Male Athleticism Response: Basketball’s Black Creative Labour and the Mitigation of Anti-Black Schooling Mark V. Campbell 7. Troubling Role Models: Seeing Racialization in the Discourse Relating to “Corrective Agents” for Black Males Response: Black Role Models and Mentorship Under Racial Capitalism Sam Tecle 8. “Up to No Good”: Black on the Streets and Encountering Police Response: It Could Have Been Written Today: A Montrealer’s Reflection Adelle Blackett 9. “Colour Matters”: Suburban Life as Social Mobility and its High Cost for Black Youth Response: Respectability Politics and the Search for Upward Mobility in Canada Andrea A. Davis 10. Toward Equity in Education for Black Students Response: “I will treat all my students with respect”: The Limits to Good Intentions Leanne Taylor Epilogue Michele A. Johnson Acknowledgements Biographies of Contributors/Respondents

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Book SynopsisIn this revised and updated third edition, one of Canada's leading historians covers the history of the Canadian military to the present day.Trade Review"Granatstein is, without doubt, one of Canada’s pre-eminent military historians ... [Should any] Canadian wish to become functionally knowledgable about our army, this book is an excellent place to start." -- Steven Dieter * The Globe and Mail *"[An] immensely readable tour de force through the political and battlefield swamps of army history." -- Ron Lowman * Toronto Star *"Everyone who cares for and about Canada's army will be pleased with Granatstein’s superb book." -- Major Michael McNorgan * Canadian Military Journal *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Maps 1. The Militia Myth: Canadian Arms to Confederation 2. Making an Army: Beginnings 3. A Militia under Arms: Sam Hughes’s Army 4. Becoming Professional: Arthur Currie’s Army 5. Losing Professionalism: The Interwar Years 6. McNaughton’s Army: The Long Wait 7. Into Battle: Sicily and Italy, July 1943–June 1944 8. Into Battle: Northwest Europe and Italy, June 1944–May 1945 9. The Professional Army, 1945–1968 10. Professionalism under Siege, 1968–2001 11. Afghanistan and the Remaking of the Army 12. Conclusion Notes A Selected Bibliography of Secondary Sources Illustration Credits Index

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Book SynopsisThe Rise of the Neighbourhood in Canada provides a comprehensive account of how Canadian neighbourhoods have evolved in character and importance over time.

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Book SynopsisNone of the works included among Erasmus’ ‘Literary and Educational Writings’ in the Collected Works of Erasmus captures his most adventurous thinking about how texts signify in and thereby make or remake worlds of thought, feeling, and action. The one that comes closest to doing so, the Ratio verae theologiae (‘A System of True Theology’), was first published separately in 1518 and 1519, then appeared in the preliminaries to the New Testament in Erasmus’ (revised) 1519 edition. This handy Ratio or compendious ‘System’ gave advice on how to interpret complex texts and develop persuasive arguments based upon them. Its lessons were applied to the canonical Scriptures as source, and to everyday Christian theology as target discourse. They unfold in response to the special difficulties and incitements of the biblical text in Latin and Greek, within a framework provided by classical grammar and rhetoric, adjusTrade Review"Fans of Praise of Folly and the Colloquies ought to open Erasmus on Literature to see what and how Erasmus wanted them to read. Scholars of theology will scrutinize the edition carefully, as Erasmus’s contemporaries did. Seminaries in need of a book that teaches exegesis more thoroughly than Augustine now have one, ready for immediate use." -- Willis Goth Regier, University of Illinois * Renaissance and Reformation *Table of ContentsForeword by Anthony Grafton Illustrations Notes on Contributors Abbreviations and Works Frequently Cited Abbreviations of Biblical Books Used in Explanatory Notes Editor’s Introduction Chronology of Erasmus’ Life and Works Approaches to Erasmus’ Ratio or ‘System’ of 1518–1519 The Ratio in Erasmus’ Life and Work to 1519 Mark Vessey Erasmus, Sacred Literature, and Literary Theory Brian Cummings Biblical Poetics in Scholasticism and the Ratio Christopher Ocker The Ratio and Annotations of Erasmus as Theory and Practice of Biblical Interpretation Riemer Faber The Parable of Sincere and Sophistical Discourse in the Ratio Kathy Eden Scheme of Contents of the Ratio verae theologiae Note on the Text The Ratio verae theologiae Preface: Purpose of the Ratio Elements of a Method for the Study of Scripture The Unity in Variety of the Gospel ‘The Wonderful Circle and Harmony of the Entire Drama of Christ’ The Figurative Character of the Language of Sacred Literature Elements of a Method for the Study of Scripture (Concluded) Explanatory Notes Conspectus of Church Fathers Cited in the Ratio Bibliography Concordance of Editions of the Ratio Index

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Book SynopsisAesthetics of Repair analyses how the belongings called art are mobilized by Indigenous artists and cultural activists in British Columbia, Canada. Drawing on contemporary imaginaries of repair, the book asks how diverse forms of collective reckoning with settler-colonial harm resonate with urgent conversations about aesthetics of care in art. The discussion moves across urban and remote spaces of display for Northwest Coaststyle Indigenous art, including galleries and museums, pipeline protests, digital exhibitions, an Indigenous-run art school, and a totem pole repatriation site. The book focuses on the practices around art and artworks as forms of critical Indigenous philosophy, arguing that art’s efficacies in this moment draw on Indigenous protocols for enacting justice between persons, things, and territories. Featuring examples of belongings that embody these social relations a bentwood box made to house material memories, a totem pole whose return rep

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