Explores the vital role of hands-on experiences in shaping scientific knowledge in contemporary life science laboratories with an in-depth analysis of the interaction between “manual” practices in experimental research and “hands-off” theories of (scientific) knowledge formation.
Kevin Adonis Browne blends literary, visual, and material forms to present a narrative of Caribbean Blackness. Arguing that the story of Caribbeanness cannot be told through words... Læs mere
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.
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.