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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...
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Not Quite White

White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness

by Matt Wray
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...
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La Patria del Criollo

An Interpretation of Colonial Guatemala

by Severo Martinez Pelaez
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...
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Black behind the Ears

Dominican Racial Identity from Museums to Beauty Shops

by Ginetta E. B. Candelario
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...
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Omens of Adversity

Tragedy, Time, Memory, Justice

by David Scott
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...
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by Marcus Garvey
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...
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Indigenous Intellectuals

Knowledge, Power, and Colonial Culture in Mexico and the Andes

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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...
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The Ghana Reader

History, Culture, Politics

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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...
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Pretend We're Dead

Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture

by Annalee Newitz
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2006

In Pretend We’re Dead, Annalee Newitz argues that the slimy zombies and gore-soaked murderers who have stormed through American film and literature over the past century embody the violent contradictions of capitalism. Ravaged by overwork, alienated by corporate conformity, and mutilated by the...
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Where the River Ends

Contested Indigeneity in the Mexican Colorado Delta

by Shaylih Muehlmann
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...
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Dark Shamans

Kanaimà and the Poetics of Violent Death

by Neil L. Whitehead
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....
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by Arturo Escobar, Dianne Rocheleau, Michael R. Dove
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...
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Imperial Debris

On Ruins and Ruination

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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...
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Understories

The Political Life of Forests in Northern New Mexico

by Jake Kosek
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...
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