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The Passion of Tiger Woods
An Anthropologist Reports on Golf, Race, and Celebrity Scandal
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
Perhaps the best golfer ever, Tiger Woods rocketed to the top of a once whites-only sport. Endorsements made him a global brand and the world’s richest athlete. The child of a multiracial marriage, Woods and his blond, blue-eyed wife, Elin Nordegren, seemed to represent a new postracial America....
A Matter of Rats
A Short Biography of Patna
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
It is not only the past that lies in ruins in Patna, it is also the present. But that is not the only truth about the city that Amitava Kumar explores in this vivid, entertaining account of his hometown. We accompany him through many Patnas, the myriad cities locked within the city—the shabby reality...
Roll With It
Brass Bands in the Streets of New Orleans
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Roll With It is a firsthand account of the precarious lives of musicians in the Rebirth, Soul Rebels, and Hot 8 brass bands of New Orleans. These young men are celebrated as cultural icons for upholding the proud traditions of the jazz funeral and the second line parade, yet they remain subject to...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 1991
This volume provides a first-hand survey of the arts and literature during a crucial period in modern culture, 1915–1924. Pound was then associated with such germinal magazines as BLAST, The Little Review, The Egoist, and Poetry; he was discovering or publicizing writers such as Robert Frost, Hilda...
by Fred Moten
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
"Taken as a trilogy, consent not to be a single being is a monumental accomplishment: a brilliant theoretical intervention that might be best described as a powerful case for blackness as a category of analysis."—Brent Hayes Edwards, author of Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination
In...
Seeing the Unspeakable
The Art of Kara Walker
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2004
One of the youngest recipients of a MacArthur “genius” grant, Kara Walker, an African American artist, is best known for her iconic, often life-size, black-and-white silhouetted figures, arranged in unsettling scenes on gallery walls. These visually arresting narratives draw viewers into a dialogue...
Mounting Frustration
The Art Museum in the Age of Black Power
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
In Mounting Frustration Susan E. Cahan uncovers the moment when the civil rights movement reached New York City's elite art galleries. Focusing on three controversial exhibitions that integrated African American culture and art, Cahan shows how the art world's racial politics is far more complicated than overcoming past exclusions.
Brilliant Imperfection
Grappling with Cure
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
In Brilliant Imperfection Eli Clare uses memoir, history, and critical analysis to explore cure—the deeply held belief that body-minds considered broken need to be fixed. Cure serves many purposes. It saves lives, manipulates lives, and prioritizes some lives over others. It provides comfort, makes...
by Lauren Berlant, Lee Edelman
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Sex, or the Unbearable is a dialogue between Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman, two of our leading theorists of sexuality, politics, and culture. In juxtaposing sex and the unbearable they don't propose that sex is unbearable, only that it unleashes unbearable contradictions that we nonetheless struggle...
by Mark Seltzer
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
In his virtuosic new book noted cultural critic Mark Seltzer shows how suspense, as art form and form of life, depicts and shapes the social systems that organize our modern world. Modernity's predicament, Seltzer writes, is a society so hungry for reality that it cannot stop describing itself, and...
Photography on the Color Line
W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and Visual Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2004
Through a rich interpretation of the remarkable photographs W. E. B. Du Bois compiled for the American Negro Exhibit at the 1900 Paris Exposition, Shawn Michelle Smith reveals the visual dimension of the color line that Du Bois famously called “the problem of the twentieth century.” Du Bois’s...
by Bill Anthes
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
For over three decades, contemporary Native American artist Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds has pursued a disciplined practice in multiple media, having shown his paintings, drawings, prints, and text-based conceptual art throughout numerous national and international galleries and public spaces....
The Problem with Work
Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
In The Problem with Work, Kathi Weeks boldly challenges the presupposition that work, or waged labor, is inherently a social and political good. While progressive political movements, including the Marxist and feminist movements, have fought for equal pay, better work conditions, and the recognition...
Re/presenting Class
Essays in Postmodern Marxism
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2001
Re/presenting Class is a collection of essays that develops a poststructuralist Marxian conception of class in order to theorize the complex contemporary economic terrain. Both building upon and reconsidering a tradition that Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff—two of this volume’s editors—began...