Cui Zi’en—China’s most famous and controversial queer filmmaker, writer, scholar, and LGBTQ rights activist—presents ten queer coming-of-age stories of young boys and men as they explore their sexuality and desires in contemporary China.
Mark Rifkin explores how the construction of family as a white liberal institution of race-making drives US settler-colonial violence.
Eric Drott undertakes a wide-ranging study of the political economy of music streaming to engage in a broader reconsideration of music’s complex relation to capitalism.
Drawing on cultural policy, queer and feminist theory, materialist media studies, and postcolonial historiography, Bliss Cua Lim analyzes the crisis-ridden history of Philippine film archiving—a history of lost films, limited access, and collapsed archives.
Michael Richardson argues that a radical rethinking of what counts as witnessing is central to building a framework for justice, suggesting that nonhuman witnessing is central to combat contemporary global crises.
Lara Montesinos Coleman presents an ethnographic exploration of contemporary human rights discourse that reorients debates on legality, ethics, and humanity within anticapitalist and decolonial struggles.
Anthony Pinn examines how hip hop artists challenge white supremacist definitions of Blackness by challenging white distinctions between life and death.
Builds on five years of national organizing by Arts in a Changing America, an artist-led initiative that challenges structural racism in the art world,... Læs mere
Timothy D. Taylor theorizes music’s economic and noneconomic forms of value to examine how people’s conceptions of value inform and shape their production and consumption of music.
Katherine Brewer Ball argues that escape is a key site for exploring American conceptions of freedom and constraint, showing how Black and queer escape are forms of radical practice.
The contributors to Made in Asia/America explore the historical entanglements of video games, Asia, and America, showing how examining games offer new ways of imagining empire, race, and coalition.
Daniel Widener expands conceptions of the struggle for racial justice by reframing twentieth- and twenty-first-century antiracist movements in the United States in a broader internationalist context.