Lucas Hilderbrand offers a panoramic history of gay bars in the United States, demonstrating the central roles that bars have played in queer public life across the country.
Diving in to the history of South African gold and uranium mining, Gabrielle Hecht shows how forms of state governance and the fight for infrastructural and environmental justice tell a global story of racial capitalism and the Anthropocene.
Christina Cecelia Davidson explores the extraordinary and complicated life and career of H. C. C. Astwood, who was a preacher, politician, and the first Black man named US consul to the Dominican Republic in the nineteenth century.
Kency Cornejo traces the emergence of new artistic strategies for Indigenous feminist resistance in the wake of torture, disappearance, killings, and US-funded civil wars in Central America.
The Buenos Aires Reader offers an insider’s look at the diverse lived experiences of the people, politics, and culture of Argentina’s capital city primarily from the nineteenth century to the present.
Mariana Ortega presents a phenomenological study of aesthetics grounded in the work of Latinx artists, theorizing that photography is an affective medium crucial for processes of self-formation, resistance, and mourning in Latinx life.
Katarzyna Pieprzak examines how contemporary visual, literary, and performance art of the Maghreb has the potential to change the terms, histories, and imagined futures of mass housing in North Africa.
Philip Janzen traces the intellectual trajectories of Caribbean people who joined the British and French colonial administrations in Africa between 1890 and 1930.
Anneeth Kaur Hundle examines the 1972 expulsion of 80,000 South Asians of Ugandan heritage from Uganda, exploring its aftermaths and continuing impacts on global Afro-South Asian connections in the context of race, ethnicity, religion, caste, gender, and sexuality.
Myles Lennon offers an ethnographic study of cleantech corporations and community solar campaigns in New York City, calling for a just energy transition that privileges everyday senses over digital understandings of solar power.
Decentralizing Knowledges argues that epistemic decentralizing—the diverse infrastructures and nonhegemonic practices of knowledge production—should be a main objective in studying the specific infrastructures and practices that make such decentering possible.
Renowned scholar and photographer William Craft Brumfield offers a panoramic survey of Russia’s centuries-long heritage of wooden architecture.... Læs mere