La Marr Jurelle Bruce ponders the presence of “madness” in black literature, music, and performance since the early twentieth... Læs mere
Shane Denson examines the ways in which computer-generated digital images displace and transform the traditional spatial and temporal relationships that viewers had with conventional analog forms of cinema.
Drawing on the radical black tradition, process philosophy, and Felix Guattari's schizoanalysis, Erin Manning explores the links between neurotypicality, whiteness, and black life.
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.
Christopher Freeburg challenges the imperative to study black social life and slavery and its aftereffects through the lenses of freedom, agency, and... Læs mere
The Lonely Letters is an epistolary blackqueer critique of the normative world in which Ashon T. Crawley meditates on the interrelation of blackqueer life, sounds of the black church,... Læs mere
Diana Taylor offers the theory of presente as a model of standing by and with victims of structural and endemic violence by being physically and politically present in situations where it seems that nothing can be done.
Arlene Dávila draws on numerous interviews with artists, dealers, and curators to explore how and why the contemporary international art market continues to overlook, devalue, and marginalize Latinx art and artists.
Eminent art historian Suzanne Preston Blier uncovers a previously unknown history of the influences and creative process of Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, one of the twentieth century's most important, celebrated, and studied paintings.
Prompting a reevaluation of canonical understandings of twentieth century art history, Mapping Modernisms provides an analysis of how indigenous artists and art from Africa, Oceania, and the Americas became recognized as modern.
In Jezebel Unhinged Tamura Lomax traces the historical and contemporary use of the jezebel trope in the black church and in black... Læs mere
Saiba Varma explores spaces of military and humanitarian care in Indian-controlled Kashmir—the world's most militarized place—to examine the psychic, ontological, and political entanglements between medicine and violence.