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

• Paperback | Engels | John Hope Franklin Center Book
• How should we understand the fear and fascination elicited by the accounts of communicable disease outbreaks that proliferated, following the emergenc... Lees meer

A Time for Tea

Piya Chatterjee

• Hardcover | Engels | John Hope Franklin Center Book
• In this creative, ethnographic, and historical critique of labor practices on an Indian plantation, Piya Chatterjee provides a sophisticated examinati... Lees meer

The Ellis Island Snow Globe

Erica Rand

• Hardcover | 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

Red Tape

Akhil Gupta

• Paperback | Engels | John Hope Franklin Center Book
• 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

Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary

Paul Rabinow, George E Marcus, James D Faubion, Tobias Rees

• Hardcover | Engels | John Hope Franklin Center Book
• In this compact volume two of anthropology's most influential theorists, Paul Rabinow and George E. Marcus, engage in a series of conversations about ... Lees meer

The Archive and the Repertoire

Diana Taylor

• Hardcover | Engels | John Hope Franklin Center Book
• In The Archive and the Repertoire preeminent performance studies scholar Diana Taylor provides a new understanding of the vital role of performance in... 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

Can Politics Be Thought?

Alain Badiou

• Hardcover | Engels | John Hope Franklin Center Book
• In Can Politics Be Thought? --published in French in 1985 and appearing here in English for the first time--Alain Badiou offers his most forceful and ... Lees meer

Translating Time

Bliss Cua Lim

• Hardcover | Engels | John Hope Franklin Center Book
• Under modernity, time is regarded as linear and measurable by clocks and calendars. Despite the historicity of clock-time itself, the modern concept o... Lees meer

Lynching in the West

Ken Gonzales-Day

• Hardcover | Engels | John Hope Franklin Center Book
• Accounts of lynching in the United States have primarily focused on violence against African Americans in the South. Ken Gonzales-Day reveals racially... 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

Screening Sex

Linda Williams

• Hardcover | 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

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

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

Authentic Indians

Paige Raibmon

• Hardcover | 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

Sessue Hayakawa

Daisuke Miyao

• Hardcover | Engels | John Hope Franklin Center Book
• 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

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

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

Dolly Mixtures

Sarah Franklin

• Hardcover | Engels | John Hope Franklin Center Book
• 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 Passion of Tiger Woods

Orin Starn

• Paperback | Engels | John Hope Franklin Center Book
• 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

Surviving Against the Odds

S Ann Dunham

• Hardcover | Engels | John Hope Franklin Center Book
• President Barack Obama's mother, S. Ann Dunham, was an economic anthropologist and rural development consultant who worked in several countries includ... Lees meer

Dolly Mixtures

Sarah Franklin

• Paperback | Engels | John Hope Franklin Center Book
• 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 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