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On Being Included
Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
What does diversity do? What are we doing when we use the language of diversity? Sara Ahmed offers an account of the diversity world based on interviews with diversity practitioners in higher education, as well as her own experience of doing diversity work. Diversity is an ordinary, even unremarkable,...
Feminism without Borders
Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2003
Bringing together classic and new writings of the trailblazing feminist theorist Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Feminism without Borders addresses some of the most pressing and complex issues facing contemporary feminism. Forging vital links between daily life and collective action and between theory and...
No Bond but the Law
Punishment, Race, and Gender in Jamaican State Formation, 1780–1870
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2004
Investigating the cultural, social, and political histories of punishment during ninety years surrounding the 1838 abolition of slavery in Jamaica, Diana Paton challenges standard historiographies of slavery and discipline. The abolition of slavery in Jamaica, as elsewhere, entailed the termination...
Jameson on Jameson
Conversations on Cultural Marxism
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2007
Fredric Jameson is one of the most influential literary and cultural critics writing today. He is a theoretical innovator whose ideas about the intersections of politics and culture have reshaped the critical landscape across the humanities and social sciences. Bringing together ten interviews conducted...
Beautiful Data
A History of Vision and Reason since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Beautiful Data is both a history of big data and interactivity, and a sophisticated meditation on ideas about vision and cognition in the second half of the twentieth century. Contending that our forms of attention, observation, and truth are contingent and contested, Orit Halpern historicizes the...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
While sexually explicit writing and art have been around for millennia, pornography—as an aesthetic, moral, and juridical category—is a modern invention. The contributors to Porn Archives explore how the production and proliferation of pornography has been intertwined with the emergence of the...
Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame
Where “Black” Meets “Queer”
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2006
Shame, Kathryn Bond Stockton argues in Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame, has often been a meeting place for the signs “black” and “queer” and for black and queer people—overlapping groups who have been publicly marked as degraded and debased. But when and why have certain forms of shame...
Gods in the Bazaar
The Economies of Indian Calendar Art
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2007
Gods in the Bazaar is a fascinating account of the printed images known in India as “calendar art” or “bazaar art,” the color-saturated, mass-produced pictures often used on calendars and in advertisements, featuring deities and other religious themes as well as nationalist leaders, alluring...
Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the World
System, Scale, Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
In this collection of essays, leading cultural theorists consider the meaning and implications of world-scale humanist scholarship by engaging with Immanuel Wallerstein’s world-systems analysis. The renowned sociologist developed his influential critical framework to explain the historical and continuing...
Native Hubs
Culture, Community, and Belonging in Silicon Valley and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2007
Most Native Americans in the United States live in cities, where many find themselves caught in a bind, neither afforded the full rights granted U.S. citizens nor allowed full access to the tribal programs and resources—particularly health care services—provided to Native Americans living on reservations....
Indian Given
Racial Geographies across Mexico and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
In Indian Given María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo addresses current racialized violence and resistance in Mexico and the United States with a genealogy that reaches back to the sixteenth century. Saldaña-Portillo formulates the central place of indigenous peoples in the construction of national spaces...
Racial Transformations
Latinos and Asians Remaking the United States
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2006
Moving beyond the black-white binary that has long framed racial discourse in the United States, the contributors to this collection examine how the experiences of Latinos and Asians intersect in the formation of the U.S. nation-state. They analyze the political and social processes that have racialized...
In Darkness and Secrecy
The Anthropology of Assault Sorcery and Witchcraft in Amazonia
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2004
In Darkness and Secrecy brings together ethnographic examinations of Amazonian assault sorcery, witchcraft, and injurious magic, or “dark shamanism.” Anthropological reflections on South American shamanism have tended to emphasize shamans’ healing powers and positive influence. This collection...
Lending Power
How Self-Help Credit Union Turned Small-Time Loans into Big-Time Change
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Established by Martin Eakes and Bonnie Wright in North Carolina in 1980, the nonprofit Center for Community Self-Help has grown from an innovative financial institution dedicated to civil rights into the nation's largest home lender to low- and moderate-income borrowers. Self-Help's first capital...