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    - Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds
    av Jayna Brown
    270 - 1 130,-

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    - The Female Student in the Japanese New Left
    av Chelsea Szendi Schieder
    270 - 1 130,-

    In Coed Revolution Chelsea Szendi Schieder examines the campus-based New Left in Japan by exploring the significance of women's participation in the protest movements of the 1960s.

  • - The Fight for Racial Justice at Duke University
    av Theodore D. Segal
    441 - 1 766,-

    Theodore D. Segal narrates the fraught and contested fight for racial justice at Duke University-which accepted its first black undergraduates in 1963-to tell both a local and national story about the challenges that historically white colleges and universities throughout the country continue to face.

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    - Secrecy, Fugitivity, and Hmong Refugee Epistemologies
    av Ma Vang
    297 - 1 589,-

    Ma Vang examines the experiences of Hmong refugees who migrated to the United States following the secret war in Laos (1961-1975) to theorize "history on the run" as a framework for understanding refugee histories, in particular those of the Hmong.

  • Spar 13%
    - The Black Political Philosophy of Frederick Douglass
    av Nick Bromell
    297 - 1 589,-

    Nick Bromell examines how Frederick Douglass forged a distinctively black political philosophy out of his experiences as an enslaved and later nominally free man in ways that challenge Anglo-Continental traditions of political thought.

  • - The Life and Music of William Parker
    av Cisco Bradley
    414 - 1 766,-

    Jazz critic and historian Cisco Bradley tells the story of the life and music of bassist and composer William Parker, who for fifty years has been a monumental figure in free jazz.

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    - Derivative Conditions of Racial Capitalism
    av Jonathan Beller
    324 - 1 184,-

    Jonathan Beller traces the history of the commodification of information and the financialization of everyday life, showing how contemporary capitalism is based in algorithms and the quantification of value that intensify social inequality.

  • - On Queer Gender, Race, and Writing
    av Erica Rand
    271 - 1 050,-

    Erica Rand uses multiple meanings of hip check-an athlete using their hip to throw an opponent off balance and the inspection of racialized gender-to consider the workings of queer gender, race, and writing.

  • av Marc Becker
    297 - 1 618,-

    Marc Becker draws on recently released US government surveillance documents on the Ecuadorian left to chart social movement organizing efforts during the 1950s, showing how the local patterns and dynamics that shaped the development of the Ecuadorian left could be found throughout Latin American during the cold war.

  • av Kajri Jain
    350,-

    Kajri Jain examines how the monumental statues erected in India following its economic reforms in the 1990s became a favored religious and political form with which to assert cultural, political, religious, and caste power.

  • - Sexual Politics under Neoliberal Islam
    av Evren Savci
    284 - 1 339,-

    Drawing from ethnographic work with queer activist groups in contemporary Turkey, Evren Savci explores how Western LGBT politics are translated and reworked there in ways that generate new spaces for resistance and solidarity.

  • Spar 14%
    - MTV's Transition to Reality Programming
    av Amanda Ann Klein
    284 - 1 589,-

    Drawing on interviews with industry workers from MTV programs such as The Real World and Teen Mom, Amanda Ann Klein examines the historical, cultural, and industrial factors leading to MTV's shift away from music videos to reality programming in the early 2000s and 2010s.

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    - Islam beyond Borders
    av Bruce B. Lawrence
    350 - 1 841,-

    This Reader assembles over two dozen selection of writing by leading scholar of Islam Bruce B. Lawrence which range from analyses of premodern and modern Islamic discourses, practices, and institutions to methodological and theoretical reflections on the study of religion.

  • av Joseph Masco
    424 - 1 841,-

    Joseph Masco examines the psychosocial, material, and affective consequences of the advent of nuclear weapons, the Cold War security state, climate change on contemporary US democratic practices and public imaginaries.

  • Spar 14%
    av Katherine McKittrick
    271 - 1 104,-

    Katherine McKittrick presents a creative and rigorous study of black and anticolonial methodologies, exploring how narratives of imprecision and relationality interrupt knowledge systems that seek to observe, index, know, and discipline blackness.

  • - Breath, Media, and Religious Revivalism in Contemporary Brazil
    av Maria Jose de Abreu
    374 - 1 589,-

    Maria Jose A. de Abreu examines the conservative Charismatic Catholic movement in contemporary urban Brazil to rethink the relationship between theology, the body, and neoliberal governance, showing how it works to produce subjects who are complicit with Brazilian neoliberalism.

  • - Electronics, Power, Insanity
    av Jeffrey Sconce
    655,-

    Jeffrey Sconce traces the history and continuing proliferation of psychological delusions that center on suspicions that electronic media seek to control us from the Enlightenment to the present, showing how such delusions illuminate the historical and intrinsic relationship between electronics, power, modernity, and insanity.

  • - A Queer History of Modeling
    av Elspeth H. Brown
    324 - 1 184,-

    Elspeth H. Brown traces modeling's history from the advent of photographic modeling in the early twentieth century to the rise of the supermodel in the 1980s, showing how it is both the quintessential occupation of a modern consumer economy and a practice that has been shaped by queer sensibilities.

  • Spar 15%
    av Catherine Besteman
    292 - 1 104,-

    Catherine Besteman offers a sweeping theorization of the ways in which countries from the global North are reproducing South Africa's apartheid system on a worldwide scale to control the mobility and labor of people from the global South.

  • - Slavery after Resistance and Social Death
    av Christopher Freeburg
    344 - 1 470,-

    Christopher Freeburg challenges the imperative to study black social life and slavery and its aftereffects through the lenses of freedom, agency, and domination and instead examines how enslaved Africans created meaning through spirituality, thought, and artistic creativity separate and alongside concerns about freedom.

  • - Labor, Culture, and Politics in Depression-Era California
    av Elizabeth E. Sine
    492 - 1 663,-

    Elizabeth E. Sine tells the story of the diverse groups of working-class Californians as they organized inventive, imaginative, and multipronged political movements to counter systems of inequity and marginalization during the Great Depression.

  • Spar 13%
    - Pharmacological Supersoldiers in the US Military
    av Andrew Bickford
    311 - 1 184,-

    Andrew Bickford analyzes the US military's attempts to design performance enhancement technologies and create pharmacological "supersoldiers" capable of becoming ever more lethal while withstanding various forms of extreme trauma.

  • - Race, Respectability, and Poverty in the Post-Emancipation South
    av Brandi Clay Brimmer
    492 - 1 663,-

    Brandi Clay Brimmer analyzes the US pension system from the perspective of poor black women in the period before, during, and after the Civil War outlines the struggles of mothers, wives, and widows of black Union soldiers to claim rights in the face of unjust legislation.

  • Spar 13%
    - Or, Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine
    av Hagar Kotef
    311 - 1 184,-

    Hagar Kotef explores the cultural, political, spatial, and theoretical mechanisms that enable people and nations to settle on the ruins of other people's homes, showing how settler-colonial violence becomes inseparable from one's sense of self.

  • - Race, Sound, and Poetry in Production
    av Anthony Reed
    297 - 1 589,-

    Anthony Reed takes the recorded collaborations between African American poets and musicians such as Amiri Baraka, Jayne Cortez, Cecil Taylor, and Charles Mingus to trace the overlaps between experimental music and poetry and the ways in which intellectuals, poets, and musicians define black sound as a radical aesthetic practice.

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    - Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being
    av Kaiama L. Glover
    297,-

    Kaiama L. Glover examines Francophone and Anglophone Caribbean literature whose female protagonists enact practices of freedom that privilege the self, challenge the prioritization of the community over the individual, and refuse masculinist discourses of postcolonial nation building.

  • - A Memorial Museum of the Mao Era
    av Jie Li
    324 - 1 264,-

    Jie Li traces the creation, preservation, and elision of memories about China's Mao era by envisioning a virtual museum that reckons with both its utopian yearnings and cataclysmic reverberations.

  • - Climate Caucasianism and Asian Ecological Protection
    av Mark W. Driscoll
    324,-

    Mark W. Driscoll examines Western imperialism in East Asia throughout the nineteenth century and the devastating effects of what he calls climate caucasianism-the West's racialized pursuit of capital at the expense of people of color, women, and the environment.

  • - Listening to Latinx and Caribbean Poetics
    av Ren Ellis Neyra
    284 - 1 130,-

    Weaving together the black radical tradition with Caribbean and Latinx performance, cinema, music, and literature, Ren Ellis Neyra highlights the ways Latinx and Caribbean sonic practices challenge antiblack, colonial, post-Enlightenment, and humanist epistemologies.

  • - Caribbean Survival in the Anthropocene
    av Mimi Sheller
    357,-

    Mimi Sheller delves into the ecological crises and reconstruction challenges affecting the entire Caribbean region, showing how vulnerability to ecological collapse and the quest for a "just recovery" in the Caribbean emerge from specific transnational political, economic, and cultural dynamics.

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