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.
Examines a diverse group of feminist film and cinema to show how filmmakers scramble our senses to open up space for encountering and examining the political... Læs mere
Erik S. McDuffie establishes the importance of the US Midwest to global Black history and radicalism, tracing the influence of Garveyism and its legacies from the 1920s onward.
Drawing on a wealth of archival materials—autobiographies, memoirs, fiction, and ethnographies—Pandey explores the complex and varied ways in which men in colonial and postcolonial India navigate their domestic lives across stratified castes and classes.
Traces the genders manifesting alongside Japanese popular culture in Akihabara, an area in Tokyo renowned for the fandom and consumption of... Læs mere
Examines the visual and performance art practices of feminist, queer, femme, and gender-nonconforming Afro-Indian and South African black artists to understand the paradoxes of freedom in contemporary South Africa.
Anthropologist and dancer Maya J. Berry examines the popular Black working-class dance rumba as a way of knowing to account for the embodied and spiritual dimensions of Black political imagination in post-Fidel Cuba.
Reading seventeenth-century legal theory, natural history, inventories, and political pamphlets alongside contemporary poetry, theory, and philosophy from Black... Læs mere
Using the Five Colleges in Massachusetts as a case study, Zurn draws on archival work and oral histories to outline how trans students, faculty, and staff make and live their lives at the edges of higher education.
Drawing on decades of ethnographic experience, Blaser proposes a new lens for combatting the momentous challenges the world currently faces, arguing that... Læs mere
Mariana Ortega presents a phenomenological study of aesthetics grounded in the work of primarily Latinx artists. Motivated by her experience of loss and exile,... Læs mere
A major literary event, the publication of the final volume of Peter Weiss’s three-volume novel The Aesthetics of Resistance makes one of the towering works of twentieth-century German literature available to English-speaking readers for the first time.