Constructing the Black Masculine

Maurice O Wallace

• Paperback | Engels | John Hope Franklin Center Book
• In seven representative episodes of black masculine literary and cultural history--from the founding of the first African American Masonic lodge in 17... Lees meer

Contagious

Priscilla Wald

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• How should we understand the fear and fascination elicited by the accounts of communicable disease outbreaks that proliferated, following the emergenc... Lees meer

Errant Modernism

Esther Gabara

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• Making a vital contribution to the understanding of Latin American modernism, Esther Gabara rethinks the role of photography in the Brazilian and Mexi... Lees meer

Red Tape

Akhil Gupta

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• Red Tape presents a major new theory of the state developed by the renowned anthropologist Akhil Gupta. Seeking to understand the chronic and widespre... Lees meer

Sessue Hayakawa

Daisuke Miyao

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• While the actor Sessue Hayakawa (1886-1973) is perhaps best known today for his Oscar-nominated turn as a Japanese military officer in The Bridge on t... Lees meer

Biopolitics

• Hardcover | Engels | John Hope Franklin Center Book
• This anthology collects the texts that defined the concept of biopolitics, which has become so significant throughout the humanities and social scienc... Lees meer

Signal and Noise

Brian Larkin

• Paperback | Engels | John Hope Franklin Center Book
• Mainstream media and film theory are based on the ways that media technologies operate in Europe and the United States. In this groundbreaking work, B... Lees meer

Critique of Black Reason

Achille Mbembe

• Hardcover | Engels | John Hope Franklin Center Book
• In Critique of Black Reason eminent critic Achille Mbembe offers a capacious genealogy of the category of Blackness-from the Atlantic slave trade to t... Lees meer

Photography on the Color Line

Shawn Michelle Smith

• Paperback | Engels | John Hope Franklin Center Book
• Through a rich interpretation of the remarkable photographs W. E. B. Du Bois compiled for the American Negro Exhibit at the 1900 Paris Exposition, Sha... Lees meer

World-Systems Analysis

Immanuel Wallerstein

• Paperback | Engels | John Hope Franklin Center Book
• In World-Systems Analysis , Immanuel Wallerstein provides a concise and accessible introduction to the comprehensive approach that he pioneered thirty... Lees meer

Anthropology and Social Theory

Sherry B Ortner

• Paperback | Engels | John Hope Franklin Center Book
• In Anthropology and Social Theory the award-winning anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner draws on her longstanding interest in theories of cultural practic... Lees meer

Entanglements, or Transmedial Thinking about Capture

Rey Chow

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• How might the pornographic be associated with Brecht's and Benjamin's media theories? How are Foucault's and Deleuze's writings on visibilities "postc... Lees meer

The Passion of Tiger Woods

Orin Starn

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• Perhaps the best golfer ever, Tiger Woods rocketed to the top of a once whites-only sport. Endorsements made him a global brand and the world's riches... Lees meer

The Queer Art of Failure

Jack Halberstam

• Paperback | Engels | John Hope Franklin Center Book
• The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives-to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic... Lees meer

The Ellis Island Snow Globe

Erica Rand

• Paperback | Engels | John Hope Franklin Center Book
• In The Ellis Island Snow Globe , Erica Rand, author of the smart and entertaining book Barbie's Queer Accessories , takes readers on an unconventional... Lees meer

Dolly Mixtures

Sarah Franklin

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• While the creation of Dolly the sheep, the world's most famous clone, triggered an enormous amount of discussion about human cloning, in Dolly Mixture... Lees meer

The Barbara Johnson Reader

Barbara Johnson

• Paperback | Engels | John Hope Franklin Center Book
• This Reader collects in a single volume some of the most influential essays written by Barbara Johnson over the course of her thirty-year career as a ... Lees meer

The Last "Darky"

Louis Chude-Sokei

• Paperback | Engels | John Hope Franklin Center Book
• The Last "Darky" establishes Bert Williams, the comedian of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, as central to the development of a global... Lees meer

A World of Becoming

William E Connolly

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• In A World of Becoming William E. Connolly outlines a political philosophy suited to a world whose powers of creative evolution include and exceed the... Lees meer

World-Systems Analysis

Immanuel Wallerstein

• Hardcover | Engels | John Hope Franklin Center Book
• In World-Systems Analysis , Immanuel Wallerstein provides a concise and accessible introduction to the comprehensive approach that he pioneered thirty... Lees meer

Authentic Indians

Paige Raibmon

• Paperback | Engels | John Hope Franklin Center Book
• In this innovative history, Paige Raibmon examines the political ramifications of ideas about "real Indians." Focusing on the Northwest Coast in the l... Lees meer

Screening Sex

Linda Williams

• Paperback | Engels | John Hope Franklin Center Book
• For many years, kisses were the only sexual acts to be seen in mainstream American movies. Then, in the 1960s and 1970s, American cinema "grew up" in ... Lees meer

Constructing the Black Masculine

Maurice O Wallace

• Hardcover | Engels | John Hope Franklin Center Book
• In seven representative episodes of black masculine literary and cultural history--from the founding of the first African American Masonic lodge in 17... Lees meer

Equaliberty

Étienne Balibar

• Paperback | Engels | John Hope Franklin Center Book
• First published in French in 2010, Equaliberty brings together essays by Étienne Balibar, one of the preeminent political theorists of our time. The b... Lees meer