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Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
This innovative collection demonstrates the profound effects of feeling on our experiences and understanding of photography. It includes essays on the tactile nature of photos, the relation of photography to sentiment and intimacy, and the ways that affect pervades the photographic archive. Concerns...
Not Quite White
White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2006
White trash. The phrase conjures up images of dirty rural folk who are poor, ignorant, violent, and incestuous. But where did this stigmatizing phrase come from? And why do these stereotypes persist? Matt Wray answers these and other questions by delving into the long history behind this term of abuse...
La Patria del Criollo
An Interpretation of Colonial Guatemala
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
This translation of Severo Martínez Peláez’s La Patria del Criollo, first published in Guatemala in 1970, makes a classic, controversial work of Latin American history available to English-language readers. Martínez Peláez was one of Guatemala’s foremost historians and a political activist...
Black behind the Ears
Dominican Racial Identity from Museums to Beauty Shops
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2007
Black behind the Ears is an innovative historical and ethnographic examination of Dominican identity formation in the Dominican Republic and the United States. For much of the Dominican Republic’s history, the national body has been defined as “not black,” even as black ancestry has been grudgingly...
Omens of Adversity
Tragedy, Time, Memory, Justice
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Omens of Adversity is a profound critique of the experience of postcolonial, postsocialist temporality. The case study at its core is the demise of the Grenada Revolution (1979–1983), and the repercussions of its collapse. In the Anglophone Caribbean, the Grenada Revolution represented both the...
The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Volume XIII
The Caribbean Diaspora, 1921-1922, Volume 13
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Volume XIII of The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers covers the twelve months between the UNIA's second international convention in New York in August 1921 and the third convention in August 1922. It was a particularly tumultuous time for Garvey and the UNIA: Garvey’s...
Indigenous Intellectuals
Knowledge, Power, and Colonial Culture in Mexico and the Andes
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Via military conquest, Catholic evangelization, and intercultural engagement and struggle, a vast array of knowledge circulated through the Spanish viceroyalties in Mexico and the Andes. This collection highlights the critical role that indigenous intellectuals played in this cultural ferment. Scholars...
The Ghana Reader
History, Culture, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Covering 500 years of Ghana's history, The Ghana Reader provides a multitude of historical, political, and cultural perspectives on this iconic African nation. Whether discussing the Asante kingdom and the Gold Coast's importance to European commerce and transatlantic slaving, Ghana's brief period...
Where the River Ends
Contested Indigeneity in the Mexican Colorado Delta
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Living in the northwest of Mexico, the Cucapá people have relied on fishing as a means of subsistence for generations, but in the last several decades, that practice has been curtailed by water scarcity and government restrictions. The Colorado River once met the Gulf of California near the village...
Dark Shamans
Kanaimà and the Poetics of Violent Death
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2002
On the little-known and darker side of shamanism there exists an ancient form of sorcery called kanaim**à, a practice still observed among the Amerindians of the highlands of Guyana, Venezuela, and Brazil that involves the ritual stalking, mutilation, lingering death, and consumption of human victims....
by Arturo Escobar, Dianne Rocheleau, Michael R. Dove
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
Reimagining Political Ecology is a state-of-the-art collection of ethnographies grounded in political ecology. When political ecology first emerged as a distinct field in the early 1970s, it was rooted in the neo-Marxism of world system theory. This collection showcases second-generation political...
Imperial Debris
On Ruins and Ruination
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
Imperial Debris redirects critical focus from ruins as evidence of the past to "ruination" as the processes through which imperial power occupies the present. Ann Laura Stoler's introduction is a manifesto, a compelling call for postcolonial studies to expand its analytical scope to address...
Understories
The Political Life of Forests in Northern New Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
Through lively, engaging narrative, Understories demonstrates how volatile politics of race, class, and nation animate the notoriously violent struggles over forests in the southwestern United States. Rather than reproduce traditional understandings of nature and environment, Jake Kosek shifts the...
Bioinsecurities
Disease Interventions, Empire, and the Government of Species
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
In Bioinsecurities Neel Ahuja argues that U.S. imperial expansion has been shaped by the attempts of health and military officials to control the interactions of humans, animals, viruses, and bacteria at the borders of U.S. influence, a phenomenon called the government of species. The book explores...