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by Rafael Campo
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
In his fifth collection of poetry, the physician and award-winning writer Rafael Campo considers what it means to be the enemy in America today. Using the empathetic medium of a poetry grounded in the sentient physical body we all share, he writes of a country endlessly at war—not only against the...
Governing Indigenous Territories
Enacting Sovereignty in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Governing Indigenous Territories illuminates a paradox of modern indigenous lives. In recent decades, native peoples from Alaska to Cameroon have sought and gained legal title to significant areas of land, not as individuals or families but as large, collective organizations. Obtaining these collective...
Aloha America
Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
Winner, 2013 Best First Book in Women's, Gender, and/or Sexuality History by the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians
Winner, 2013 Lawrence W. Levine Award, Organization of American Historians
Winner, 2013 Congress on Research in Dance Outstanding Publication Award
Aloha America reveals...
by Michael D. Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 1995
Ours is a century of uprootedness, with fewer and fewer people living out their lives where they are born. At such a time, in such a world, what does it mean to be "at home?" Perhaps among a nomadic people, for whom dwelling is not synonymous with being housed and settled, the search for...
Beyond Settler Time
Temporal Sovereignty and Indigenous Self-Determination
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
What does it mean to say that Native peoples exist in the present? In Beyond Settler Time Mark Rifkin investigates the dangers of seeking to include Indigenous peoples within settler temporal frameworks. Claims that Native peoples should be recognized as coeval with Euro-Americans, Rifkin argues,...
by Richard Price, Sally Price
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
When Richard and Sally Price stepped out of the canoe to begin their fieldwork with the Saamaka Maroons of Suriname in 1966, they were met with a mixture of curiosity, suspicion, ambivalence, hostility, and fascination. With their gradual acceptance into the community they undertook the work that...
Opposites
A Book of Opposites
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2016
Follow the everyday adventures of Midge and her beloved stuffed animal.
Midge and Moo are best friends. Every day they spend together is full of opposites.
Loud, quiet, sour, sweet.
Up, down, messy, neat!
If you and your little ones like bright, colorful illustrations...
Ivy and Industry
Business and the Making of the American University, 1880–1980
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2004
Emphasizing how profoundly the American research university has been shaped by business and the humanities alike, Ivy and Industry is a vital contribution to debates about the corporatization of higher education in the United States. Christopher Newfield traces major trends in the intellectual and...
My Tibetan Childhood
When Ice Shattered Stone
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
In My Tibetan Chldhood, Naktsang Nulo recalls his life in Tibet's Amdo region during the 1950s. From the perspective of himself at age ten, he describes his upbringing as a nomad on Tibet's eastern plateau. He depicts pilgrimages to monasteries, including a 1500-mile horseback expedition his family...
Art, Activism, and Oppositionality
Essays from Afterimage
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 1998
There is a common perception in the arts today that overtly activist art—often seen to sacrifice an aesthetic pleasure for a subversive one—is no longer in fashion. In bringing together sixteen of the most important essays on activist and community-based art from the pages of Afterimage—one...
The Repeating Island
The Caribbean and the Postmodern Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 1997
In this second edition of The Repeating Island, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, a master of the historical novel, short story, and critical essay, continues to confront the legacy and myths of colonialism. This co-winner of the 1993 MLA Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize has been expanded to include three entirely...
Postcolonial Modernism
Art and Decolonization in Twentieth-Century Nigeria
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
Written by one of the foremost scholars of African art and featuring 129 color images, Postcolonial Modernism chronicles the emergence of artistic modernism in Nigeria in the heady years surrounding political independence in 1960, before the outbreak of civil war in 1967. Chika Okeke-Agulu traces...
In Senghor's Shadow
Art, Politics, and the Avant-Garde in Senegal, 1960–1995
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2004
In Senghor’s Shadow is a unique study of modern art in postindependence Senegal. Elizabeth Harney examines the art that flourished during the administration of Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegal’s first president, and in the decades since he stepped down in 1980. As a major philosopher and poet...
Obeah and Other Powers
The Politics of Caribbean Religion and Healing
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
In Obeah and Other Powers, historians and anthropologists consider how marginalized spiritual traditions—such as obeah, Vodou, and Santería—have been understood and represented across the Caribbean since the seventeenth century. In essays focused on Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Puerto Rico,...