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Beyond Lines of Control
Performance and Politics on the Disputed Borders of Ladakh, India
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2004
The Kashmir conflict, the ongoing border dispute between India and Pakistan, has sparked four wars and cost thousands of lives. In this innovative ethnography, Ravina Aggarwal moves beyond conventional understandings of the conflict—which tend to emphasize geopolitical security concerns and religious...
Contagious
Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2008
How should we understand the fear and fascination elicited by the accounts of communicable disease outbreaks that proliferated, following the emergence of HIV, in scientific publications and the mainstream media? The repetition of particular characters, images, and story lines—of Patients Zero and...
Colonial Pathologies
American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2006
Colonial Pathologies is a groundbreaking history of the role of science and medicine in the American colonization of the Philippines from 1898 through the 1930s. Warwick Anderson describes how American colonizers sought to maintain their own health and stamina in a foreign environment while exerting...
Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth-Century World
A Concise History
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
Throughout this lively and concise historical account of Mao Zedong’s life and thought, Rebecca E. Karl places the revolutionary leader’s personal experiences, social visions and theory, military strategies, and developmental and foreign policies in a dynamic narrative of the Chinese revolution....
Arrested Histories
Tibet, the CIA, and Memories of a Forgotten War
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
In the 1950s, thousands of ordinary Tibetans rose up to defend their country and religion against Chinese troops. Their citizen army fought through 1974 with covert support from the Tibetan exile government and the governments of India, Nepal, and the United States. Decades later, the story of this...
Red Hangover
Legacies of Twentieth-Century Communism
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
In Red Hangover Kristen Ghodsee examines the legacies of twentieth-century communism twenty-five years after the Berlin Wall fell. Ghodsee's essays and short stories reflect on the lived experience of postsocialism and how many ordinary men and women across Eastern Europe suffered from the massive...
Transnational Sport
Gender, Media, and Global Korea
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
Based on ethnographic research in Seoul and Los Angeles, Transnational Sport tells how sports shape experiences of global Koreanness, and how those experiences are affected by national cultures. Rachael Miyung Joo focuses on superstar Korean athletes and sporting events produced for transnational...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2001
Bringing together new articles and essays from the controversial Berkeley conference of the same name, The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness presents a fascinating range of inquiry into the nature of whiteness. Representing academics, independent scholars, community organizers, and antiracist activists,...
by Sonia Sanchez
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2010
Sonia Sanchez is a prolific, award-winning poet and one of the most prominent writers in the Black Arts movement. This collection brings her plays together in one volume for the first time. Like her poetry, Sanchez’s plays voice her critique of the racism and sexism that she encountered as a young...
Other Planes of There
Selected Writings
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
For more than two decades, the artist Renée Green has created an impressive body of work in which language is an essential element. Green is also a prolific writer and a major voice in the international art world. Other Planes of There gathers for the first time a substantial collection of the work...
What We Made
Conversations on Art and Social Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
In What We Made, Tom Finkelpearl examines the activist, participatory, coauthored aesthetic experiences being created in contemporary art. He suggests social cooperation as a meaningful way to think about this work and provides a framework for understanding its emergence and acceptance. In a series...
Haydée Santamaría, Cuban Revolutionary
She Led by Transgression
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015
Taking part in the Cuban Revolution's first armed action in 1953, enduring the torture and killings of her brother and fiancé, assuming a leadership role in the underground movement, and smuggling weapons into Cuba, Haydée Santamaría was the only woman to participate in every phase of the Revolution....
Portrait of a Young Painter
Pepe Zuniga and Mexico City's Rebel Generation
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
In Portrait of a Young Painter, the distinguished historian Mary Kay Vaughan adopts a biographical approach to understanding the culture surrounding the Mexico City youth rebellion of the 1960s. Her chronicle of the life of painter Pepe Zúñiga counters a literature that portrays post-1940 Mexican...
Becoming Reinaldo Arenas
Family, Sexuality, and The Cuban Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Becoming Reinaldo Arenas explores the life and work of the Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas (1943–1990), who emerged on the Latin American cultural scene in the 1960s and quickly achieved literary fame. Yet as a political dissident and an openly gay man, Arenas also experienced discrimination and persecution;...