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Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Jennifer L. Morgan draws on the lived experiences of enslaved African women in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-centuries to reveal the contours of early modern notions of trade, race, and commodification in the Black Atlantic.
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Decolonizing Memory: Algeria and the Politics of Testimony (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Jill Jarvis examines the crucial role that writers and artists have played in cultivating historical memory and nurturing political resistance... Læs mere
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Black Bodies, White Gold: Art, Cotton, and Commerce in the Atlantic World (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Anna Arabindan-Kesson examines how cotton became a subject for nineteenth-century art by tracing the symbolic and material correlations between cotton and Black people in British and American visual culture.
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The Stone and the Wireless: Mediating China, 1861–1906 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Shaoling Ma examines late Qing China's political upheavals and modernizing energies through the problem of the dynamics between new media technologies such as the telegraph the discursive representations of them.
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Visions of Beirut: The Urban Life of Media Infrastructure (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Hatim El-Hibri explores how the creation and circulation of images has shaped the urban spaces and cultural imaginaries of Beirut, showing how images can be used to consolidate or destabilize regimes of power.
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Black Athena Writes Back: Martin Bernal Responds to His Critics (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Bernal's response to criticisms to his 1987 book, 'BLACK ATHENA', which argued for an Afro-Asiatic origin for Greek civilisation.
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Gender and National Literature: Heian Texts in the Constructions of Japanese Modernity (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Reveals the connections between gender, nationalism, and cultural representation evident in prevailing... Læs mere
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Whiteness Interrupted: White Teachers and Racial Identity in Predominantly Black Schools (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Marcus Bell presents a revealing portrait of white teachers in a majority Black schools to outline how white racial identity is constructed based on localized interactions and the ways whiteness takes a different form in predominantly Black spaces.
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Birthing Black Mothers (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Jennifer C. Nash examines how the figure of the “Black mother” has become a powerful political category synonymous with crisis, showing how they are often rendered into one-dimensional symbols of tragic heroism and the ground zero of Black life.
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A Mass Conspiracy to Feed People: Food not Bombs and the World-Class Waste of Global Cities (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
David Boarder Giles traces the work of Food Not Bombs—a global movement of grassroots soup kitchens that... Læs mere
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Art As Information Ecology: Artworks, Artworlds, and Complex Systems Aesthetics (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Drawing on close readings of 1960s American art, Jason A. Hoelscher offers an information theory of art and an aesthetic theory of information in which he shows how art operates as information wherein art's meaning cannot be determined.
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Reimagining Social Medicine from the South (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Abigail H. Neely explores social medicine's possibilities and limitations at one of its most important origin sites: the Pholela Community Health Centre (PCHC) in South Africa.
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