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When Biometrics Fail
Gender, Race, and the Technology of Identity
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011
From digital fingerprinting to iris and retina recognition, biometric identification systems are a multibillion dollar industry and an integral part of post-9/11 national security strategy. Yet these technologies often fail to work. The scientific literature on their accuracy and reliability documents...
Lines of Flight
Discursive Time and Countercultural Desire in the Work of Thomas Pynchon
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2002
For Thomas Pynchon, the characteristic features of late capitalism—the rise of the military-industrial complex, consumerism, bureaucratization and specialization in the workplace, standardization at all levels of social life, and the growing influence of the mass media—all point to a transformation...
Free Speech, The People's Darling Privilege
Struggles for Freedom of Expression in American History
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2000
Modern ideas about the protection of free speech in the United States did not originate in twentieth-century Supreme Court cases, as many have thought. Free Speech, “The People’s Darling Privilege” refutes this misconception by examining popular struggles for free speech that stretch back through...
Groove Tube
Sixties Television and the Youth Rebellion
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2001
Critics often claim that prime-time television seemed immune—or even willfully blind—to the landmark upheavals rocking American society during the 1960s. Groove Tube is Aniko Bodroghkozy’s rebuttal of this claim. Filled with entertaining and enlightening discussions of popular shows of the time—such...
Racial Revolutions
Antiracism and Indian Resurgence in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2001
Since the 1970s there has been a dramatic rise in the Indian population in Brazil as increasing numbers of pardos (individuals of mixed African, European, and indigenous descent) have chosen to identify themselves as Indians. In *Racial Revolutions—*the first book-length study of racial formation...
by Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Susan S. Lanser, Catherine Burgass
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2005
What accounts for the power of stories to both entertain and illuminate? This question has long compelled the attention of storytellers and students of literature alike, and over the past several decades it has opened up broader dialogues about the nature of culture and interpretation. This third...
Virtual Memory
Time-Based Art and the Dream of Digitality
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
In Virtual Memory, Homay King traces the concept of the virtual through the philosophical works of Henri Bergson, Gilles Deleuze, and Giorgio Agamben to offer a new framework for thinking about film, video, and time-based contemporary art. Detaching the virtual from its contemporary associations with...
Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance
Selections from the Work of Richard Bruce Nugent
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2002
Richard Bruce Nugent (1906–1987) was a writer, painter, illustrator, and popular bohemian personality who lived at the center of the Harlem Renaissance. Protégé of Alain Locke, roommate of Wallace Thurman, and friend of Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, the precocious Nugent stood for many...
Authentic Blackness
The Folk in the New Negro Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 1999
What constitutes “blackness” in American culture? And who gets to define whether or not someone is truly African American? Is a struggling hip-hop artist more “authentic” than a conservative Supreme Court justice? In Authentic Blackness J. Martin Favor looks to the New Negro Movement—also...
Wrestling with the Left
The Making of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2010
In Wrestling with the Left, Barbara Foley presents a penetrating analysis of the creation of Invisible Man. In the process she sheds new light not only on Ralph Ellison’s celebrated novel but also on his early radicalism and the relationship between African American writers and the left during the...
Within the Circle
An Anthology of African American Literary Criticism from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 1994
Within the Circle is the first anthology to present the entire spectrum of twentieth-century African American literary and cultural criticism. It begins with the Harlem Renaissance, continues through civil rights, the Black Arts Movement, and on into contemporary debates of poststructuralist and black...
Indonesian Notebook
A Sourcebook on Richard Wright and the Bandung Conference
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
While Richard Wright's account of the 1955 Bandung Conference has been key to shaping Afro-Asian historical narratives, Indonesian accounts of Wright and his conference attendance have been largely overlooked. Indonesian Notebook contains myriad documents by Indonesian writers, intellectuals, and...
Black Atlas
Geography and Flow in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Black Atlas presents definitive new approaches to black geography. It focuses attention on the dynamic relationship between place and African American literature during the long nineteenth century, a volatile epoch of national expansion that gave rise to the Civil War, Reconstruction, pan-Americanism,...
Indian Nation
Native American Literature and Nineteenth-Century Nationalisms
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 1997
Indian Nation documents the contributions of Native Americans to the notion of American nationhood and to concepts of American identity at a crucial, defining time in U.S. history. Departing from previous scholarship, Cheryl Walker turns the "usual" questions on their heads, asking not how...