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Disseminating knowledge—through the publication of printed books, periodicals, and electronic files—beyond the confines of the University's campus.
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We are deeply saddened to learn of the death of Lauren Berlant, one of our bestselling authors and a great friend to the Press. A full remembrance will come later this week, in the meantime, this @NewYorker article is a good piece on their work and legacy.
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A huge congratulations to Fred Moten, who has been named a 2020 MacArthur Fellow. Earlier this week he also won the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism! #MacFellow.
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We are working on a remembrance, but we cannot overstate the influence of #FredricJameson on Duke University Press. We have made his articles in our journals freely available through October 31. "Postmodernism" is our all-time bestselling book.
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The newest book in the Stuart Hall: Selected Writings series, "Selected Writings on Race and Difference," will be out in April. You can read Paul Gilroy's introduction now for free on our website! #StuartHall.
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The contributors to "Crip Genealogies" reorient the field of disability studies by centering the work of transnational feminism, queer of color critique, and trans scholarship & activism. Read the free intro now! #AmericanStudies #DisabilityStudies
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Here's a Monday treat: the introduction to "On the Inconvenience of Other People," Lauren Berlant's final book, is now available for free on our website. The book is out in September.
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In "The Suicide Archive," Doyle D. Calhoun charts a long history of suicidal resistance to French colonialism and neocolonialism, from the time of slavery to the Algerian War for Independence to the “Arab Spring.” Read the intro now for free:
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The first volume to bring together Stuart Hall’s engagements with art, film, and photography, “Selected Writings on Visual Arts and Culture” offers over two dozen essays, lectures, and reviews. Read the introduction today: #StuartHall #MediaStudies
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We are thrilled that @BarnardCollege professor Monica L. Miller's 2009 book "Slaves to Fashion" is the inspiration for the 2025 @metmuseum Costume Institute exhibition. #MetGala .
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Tithi Bhattacharya’s “Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence,” which examines the social history of Bengali ghost stories, will be out in August. Read the introduction for free on our website: #Twitterstorians #SouthAsianStudies
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Sony Coráñez Bolton's new book "Crip Colony" examines the racial politics of disability, mestizaje, and sexuality in the Philippines. Read the introduction for free on our website now. #AsianAmericanStudies #DisabilityStudies.
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Register here to attend Wednesday's online lecture from Christina Sharpe, author of "In the Wake." Sharpe's lecture focuses on the various Black meanings embedded in the “ordinary” notes that compose Black Life.
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Editorial Director @kwissoker chooses "In the Wake" by @hystericalblkns as his top book of the decade on the blog today.
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In "How We Write Now," Jennifer C Nash (@pornoscholar) considers how Black feminist prose becomes a mode of living and feeling, dreaming and being. Read the introduction for free on our website: #FeministTheory
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"State of Fear: Policing a Postcolonial City" by Joshua Barker examines how fear and violence are produced through everyday practices of rule and control in Indonesia. Read the introduction today on our website. #PoliceandAbolition #CulturalAnthropology
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"The Black Geographic," edited by Camilla Hawthorne & @JovanLewis, explores the theoretical innovations of Black Geographies scholarship and how it approaches Blackness as historically and spatially situated. Read the free introduction on our website now.
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Congratulations to Katherine McKittrick @demonicground, whose book "Dear Science and Other Stories" has won the 2021 Meridian Book Award for Outstanding Scholarly Work in Geography from @theAAG.
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Check out "Black Disability Politics" by @DrSamiSchalk. It will be out in October but you can read the book's introduction, for free, right now on our website. #BlackStudies #ReadUP
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Carlos Ulises Decena's new book, "Circuits of the Sacred," examines transnational black Latinx Caribbean immigrant queer life and spirit. Read the introduction for free now. #BlackStudies #LGBTQBooks.
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Aimé Césaire’s three act drama ". And the Dogs Were Silent"—written in 1943 and lost until 2008—dramatizes the Haitian Revolution and the rise of Toussaint Louverture as its heroic leader. Read the intro online now: #CaribbeanStudies #AiméCésaire
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Among our new books in September is "Complaint!" by @SaraNAhmed, which will be a must-read for anyone hoping to make change in academe. #FeministStudies #HigherEd.
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"Crip Spacetime" by @pricemargaret examines the experiences of disabled academics to show how attempts at providing individual accommodations actually impede rather than enhancing access. Read the free intro! #DisabilityStudies #Activism
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We are pleased to support the efforts to honor the contributions of scholar Dr. Lorgia García Peña by making an electronic version of her book The Borders of Dominicanidad free, and offering 30% off the print version with coupon E19GRCIA. #LorgiaFest
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The introduction to @SaraNAhmed's forthcoming new book, Complaint! is on our website now #feministkilljoy #feministpedagogy
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Check out all our great new books in August, including "Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence" by Tithi Bhattacharya.
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Now available: our Care in Uncertain Times Syllabus, full of books & articles about caring for one another and ourselves. All content free through June. Start reading:
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In "The Time beneath the Concrete," Nasser Abourahme argues that settler colonialism in #Palestine is always as much an attempt to conquer time as it is to conquer land. Read the introduction for free now.
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Congratulations to @LethaboKing on winning the 2020 Lora Romero First Book Prize from @AmerStudiesAssn for her book "The Black Shoals"! #2020ASA.
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Kemi Adeyemi's (@kemi_aa) new book "Feels Right" examines how Black queer women use the queer dance floor to relate to themselves, the Black queer community, and gentrifying Chicago neighborhoods. Check out the intro now! #LGBTQ #AfricanAmericanStudies
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Read the free intro by @hystericalblkns for the second Alchemy Lecture, "Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World," featuring work from @PhoebeBoswell, @pepepierce, Saidiya Hartman, Janaína Oliveira, & Cristina Rivera Garza.
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Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan’s "Code" unearths new & compelling connections between the human sciences & regimes of technocratic control in the US from the 1930s - 1970s. Read the introduction for free on our website now. #MediaStudies #Twitterstorians.
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"Open Admissions" by @DanicaSavonick traces the largely untold story of the teaching experience of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich at #CUNY in the late '60s and early '70s. You can read the intro for free now at #Pedagogy
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Stuart Hall would have been 87 today. Celebrate his birthday by reading the new two-volume collection Essential Essays.
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Mark Rifkin's "The Politics of Kinship" explores how the construction of family as a white liberal institution of race-making drives US settler-colonial violence. Read the free intro now! #NativeStudies #AmericanStudies
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In "Immeasurable Weather," @sagrossman explores how environmental data collection has been central to the larger project of settler colonialism in the United States. Read the intro for free on our website now.
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Among the great new books we have coming out in April are two new volumes from Stuart Hall: "Selected Writings on Race and Difference," edited by Ruth Wilson Gilmore & Paul Gilroy @bungatuffie and "Selected Writings on Marxism," edited by Gregor McLennan.
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Check out our great new January titles, including "Indigenous Peoples and Borders," edited by Sheryl Lightfoot and Elsa Stamatopoulou #IndigenousStudies .
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Save 30% on #NewBook "The Politics of Collecting" by Eunsong Kim, which traces how racial capitalism and colonialism situated the rise of US museum collections and conceptual art forms. #ArtHistory #CulturalStudies.
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Among our great new books in September is one that many of you have been waiting for, Lauren Berlant's "On the Inconvenience of Other People." Learn more about all our latest titles:
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It's true! We will be publishing Hortense Spillers's unpublished dissertation, but likely not until late 2024 or early 2025.
Excited to learn that Hortense Spillers’ dissertation FABRICS OF HISTORY: ESSAYS ON THE BLACK SERMON (1974) will be published by @DukePress in 2023 with a new introduction by the author.
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An Yountae’s “The Coloniality of the Secular” investigates the collusive ties between modern concepts of the secular, religion, race, & coloniality in the Americas. Read the intro for free & pre-order the book for 50% off with coupon CYBER23! #Philosophy
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Lorgia García Peña (@lorgia_pena)'s new book "Translating Blackness" charts colonialism as an ongoing sociopolitical force by considering Black Latinidad in a global perspective. Check out the intro on our website! #LatinxStudies #AfricanAmericanStudies
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You can now read Gregor McLennan's introduction to Stuart Hall's "Selected Writings on Marxism" free on our website. The book is out in April, along with "Selected Writing on Race and Difference." #StuartHall #Marxism.
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Check out "The Politics of Collecting" by Eunsong Kim. It will be out in August but you can read the book's introduction, for free, right now on our website. #MuseumStudies #ArtHistory
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Congrats to Naisargi N. Davé whose book "Indifference" is the winner of the 2024 Gregory Bateson Prize, given by @culanth!.
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Congratulations to @BlkNunHistorian, whose book "Subversive Habits" has won the Letitia Woods Brown Prize from @ABWHTruth!
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Congratulations to Sony Coráñez Bolton, whose book "Crip Colony" has won the Lora Romero First Book Prize from the American Studies Association! .
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Congratulations to @aslizeng, who has won the Ruth Benedict Prize from @QueerAnthro for her book "Violent Intimacies," and to Naisargi N. Davé, whose book "Indifference" received honorable mention.
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Amber Jamilla Musser's "Between Shadows and Noise" theorizes sensation as a Black feminist method for aesthetic interpretation & criticism that uses knowledge held by the body to access the unrepresentable. Read the free intro! #AFAMStudies #GenderStudies
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"Reconfiguring Racial Capitalism" by Mingwei Huang is an ethnography of Chinese capitalist projects in Johannesburg that traces the development of new forms of racial capitalism in the twenty-first century. Read the intro for free now:
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On May 13, 3pm CET, @TheoryFrom presents a discussion feat. @bungatuffie & Ruth Wilson Gilmore, coeditors "Selected Writings on Race and Difference." Talk:Book webpage:
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The essays in "Aníbal Quijano" encompass the Peruvian sociologist's work on coloniality, coloniality of power, & colonial matrix of power, bringing it to an English reading audience for the first time. Read the free intro! #Sociology #LatinAmericanStudies
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A nationwide #abortion ban in the US would lead to a 21% increase in pregnancy-related deaths overall & a 33% increase in pregnancy-related deaths for non-Hispanic Black people, finds @ajeanstevenson in Demography:
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Sharad Chari's "Apartheid Remains" explores how people handle the remains of segregation & apartheid in South Africa as witnessed through portals in an industrial-residential landscape in the city Durban. Read the free intro! #Geography #AfricanStudies
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Looking for a new guide to critical theory? Lawrence Grossberg's "On the Way to Theory" offers an accessible and robust account of thinkers like Spinoza, Kant, Hegel, Marx, and Nietzsche. Read the introduction for free today:
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Coming up Tuesday, September 10, @MediaFuturesHub hosts an in-person book launch for @richardson_m_a, author of "Nonhuman Witnessing." Join if you're in #Sydney!.
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"Reproductive Racial Capitalism," a special issue of @HistoryOfThePr1 is online! Read the intro by editors Jennifer Morgan & Alys Eve Weinbaum, & Weinbaum's article "Hortense Spillers and the Ungendering of (Re)productive Racial Capitalism - both free:
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Our Fall Sale starts now! Save 50% on all in-stock books and journal issues with coupon FALL2020. Shop now! .
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We are deeply sad to learn of the death of Elizabeth Freeman, author or editor of many books & journal issues with us, and former editor of GLQ.
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Matt Hooley's (@citiless) new book "Against Extraction" examines how Ojibwe art created in Indigenous Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, resists the extractive violence of settler colonialism. Read the free intro now! #IndigenousStudies #PostColonialStudies
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In "The Personality of Power: A Theory of Fascism for Anti-Fascist Life ," Brian Massumi retheorizes the conditions of contemporary fascism through the prism of Donald Trump’s persona. Read a sample of this timely new book for free now:.
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Huge congratulations to Achille Mbembe, author of "Necropolitics" and "Brutalism," who is the 2024 @HolbergPrize laureate! .
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In "Puta Life," Juana María Rodríguez @RadioRodriguez probes the ways that sexual labor and Latina sexuality become visual phenomena. Read the introduction for free on our website now. #LatinxStudies #LGBTQBooks.
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"The Terrible We", a new book by Cameron Awkward-Rich, argues for and models a trans criticism that works against the disavowal of madness, illness, and disability. Check out the intro on our website now! #TransStudies #DisabilityStudies #Philosophy
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The contributors to "Feminism against Cisness" showcase the future of feminist historical, theoretical, & political thought freed from the conceptual strictures of cisness. #Philosophy #LGBTQStudies Read the free intro!
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We are thrilled to announce that "liquidity," the first issue of @liquidblackness published by Duke UP, is now available! Please give a warm welcome to this #OpenAccess journal of aesthetics & Black studies. Read "liquidity" free here:
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"Nonhuman Witnessing" by @richardson_m_a is one of the great new titles coming out in February. #AffectTheory
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We are sorry to learn of the death of noted ethnic studies scholar Gary Y. Okihiro, author of many books, including "Third World Studies.".
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Maron E. Greenleaf's new book "Forest Lost" is an ethnography of forest carbon offsets and the wider effort to make the living rainforest valuable in the Brazilian Amazon. Read the intro for free on our website now!.
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Congratulations to Jennifer Nash (@pornoscholar)! Her book, Black Feminism Reimagined, has been awarded the Gloria E. Anzaldua prize from @nwsa . Read the introduction to her book here
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This Thursday Feb. 10, @SaraNAhmed author of Complaint!, gives an online lecture sponsored by @BerlinUAlliance:
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"Reckoning with Slavery" by @ProfJLMorgan will be out in June. Read the intro for free today! #Twitterstorians #BlackHistory.
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Today 8/19 only, during our #FlashFriday sale, you can pre-order "Black Disability Politics" by @DrSamiSchalk for 50% off using coupon FL22SCHA! .
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Contributors to "Indigenous Feminisms across the World, Part 1," a special issue of @M3RIDIANS, explore forms and meanings of resistance and activist strategies within contemporary feminisms. View the full TOC:
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Jess Whatcott's "Menace to the Future" explores the history of institutionalization and eugenicist ideology in the U.S. You can read the intro now at #DisabilityStudies #QueerHistory
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Congratulations to all our authors whose books won awards this fall.
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Congratulations to @savannahshange! Progressive Dystopia is co-winner of the Sharon Stephens First Book Prize from @AmEthno! Read the introduction to the book here:
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"The Border Reader," edited by Gilberto Rosas and @mireyalozaphd, brings together canonical and cutting-edge humanities and social science scholarship on the US-Mexico border region. Read the introduction for free on our website now.
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"Unsettled Labors" by Rachel H. Brown explores migrant care work in Palestine/Israel. Read the introduction for free on our website now. #PoliticalTheory #MiddleEastStudies
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"The Ocean on Fire" by @MaurerAnais foregrounds Pacific literature as a key archive for thriving in an environment bombarded with the equivalent of one Hiroshima bomb a day for half a century. Read the free intro! #EnvironmentalStudies #NativeStudies
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"Brutalism," by Achille Mbembe and "Primitive Normativity," by Elizabeth W. Williams are among the great new titles we have coming out this January.
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On June 8, join @marxforcats, author of "Marx for Cats," for an online talk hosted by @ACS_brum.
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You can now read the introduction to Xine Yao's @XineYaoPhD "Disaffected," part of our Perverse Modernities series, free on our website. #c19amlit #litPOC
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Read the free introduction to "Abundance" by @anjaliarondekar which centers sexuality within area, post/colonial, and anti/caste histories. #SouthAsianStudies #QueerTheory.
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Save 30% on #NewBook "The Black Geographic," edited by Camilla Hawthorne & @JovanLewis, which explores the theoretical innovations of Black Geographies scholarship & how it approaches Blackness as historically & spatially situated. #Geography #BlackStudies.
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In "The Cybernetic Border," @ichaarlopez argues that US drone, surveillance, & informational technologies that protect the US-Mexico border mark border crossers as racialized others that must be policed. Read the free intro! #Technology #LatinxStudies
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The introduction to “Black Aliveness, or a Poetics of Being” by Kevin Quashie is online now! Read it free today before it is released in February 2021. #BlackFeministStudies #Poetry #BlackOutdoors.
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In "Intoxicated," Mel Y. Chen explores how the mutual entanglements of race, imperialism and disability take form as a racialized and marginalized intoxicated subject. Read the intro for free now! #DisabilityStudies #QueerTheory.
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Save 30% on #NewBook "Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence" by Tithi Bhattacharya, which maps the role that Bengali ghosts and ghost stories played in constituting the modern Indian nation. #SouthAsianStudies.
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"The Cunning of Gender Violence," edited by Lila Abu-Lughod, Rema Hammami, & Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, details how a visionary feminist project folded into modern world affairs that harm the people it seeks to protect. Read the free intro! #AnthroTwitter
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We are sorry to learn of the death of artist Lorraine O'Grady at the age of 90. We were proud to publish "Writing in Space, 1973–2019 in 2020," which collected her written work. Our thoughts are with her friends and family.
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"Critical AI: A Field in Formation," a special issue of American Literature (95:2) edited by @ritaraley and @j_s_rhee is now online! Read their introduction for free: Learn more about this issue and buy a copy: @amlitjournal #AI
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Two new volumes in our #StuartHall series are now available, "Selected Writings on Marxism" and "Selected Writings on Race and Difference," each only about $15 during our Spring Sale with coupon SPRING21.
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"On Addiction: Insights from History, Ethnography, and Critical Theory" by Darin Weinberg examines the tensions between regarding addiction as either a voluntary practice or a biomedical disease. Read the introduction on our website today.
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Our bestselling book of the decade was Living a Feminist Life by @SaraNAhmed . See how we've grown and changed over the past ten years on the blog today.
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"Changing the Subject", a new book by @ProfSrilaRoy, traces the impact of neoliberalism on gender and sexuality rights movements in the Global South through queer and feminist activism in India. Check out the intro now! #Globalization #AsianStudies
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Huge congratulations to Jennifer Morgan, author of "Reckoning with Slavery!".
Meet Jennifer L. Morgan, a historian and 2024 #MacFellow demonstrating how exploitation of African women's reproductive potential was central to race-based slavery in early America. Learn more about Jennifer ⬇️.
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