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Feminism in Coalition: Thinking with US Women of Color Feminism - New

Feminism in Coalition: Thinking with US Women of Color Feminism

Liza Taylor

A book of the highest caliber, Feminism in Coalition is invaluable for thinking about how to build movements across difference.”—Christine Keating
Historicizing the Images and Politics of the Afropolitan - New

Historicizing the Images and Politics of the Afropolitan

Rosa Carrasquillo, Melina Pappademos, Lorelle Semley, issue editors

This volume of written and photographic essays is one of the first sustained historical treatments of the Afropolitan. By engaging with the Afropolitan as a historical phenomenon, the authors highlight new methods and theories for analyzing global diasporas.
New World Orderings: China and the Global South - New

New World Orderings: China and the Global South

Lisa Rofel and Carlos Rojas, editors

“This important collection is cutting-edge work on China’s impact and interaction with the global South. . . . It is a useful resource for all students and scholars in Chinese studies.”—Ban Wang
Cold War Camera - New

Cold War Camera

Thy Phu, Erina Duganne, and Andrea Noble, editors

“A sparkling and expertly sculpted set of essays that brings a neglected period and politics into new and vivid focus. Understanding the Cold War as a global conflict . . . the volume lays out an authoritative new cultural cartography showing how power and visibility were distributed.”—Christopher Pinney
Feltness: Research-Creation, Socially Engaged Art, and Affective Pedagogies - New

Feltness: Research-Creation, Socially Engaged Art, and Affective Pedagogies

Stephanie Springgay

“Reading this book feels like a gift, like a sustained glimpse of potentials for making a world otherwise. Its orientation, conceptual framework, and intellectual resources are utterly contemporary, cutting-edge, and forward facing. . . . [A] marvel from start to finish.”—Gregory J. Seigworth
Feminist Mournings - New

Feminist Mournings

Kimberly Juanita Brown, Jyoti Puri, issue editors

Contributors to this special issue of Meridians explore feminist articulations of mourning that are anchored in slavery, settler occupation, colonialism, migration, and the violence of modern national states.
Turning Archival: The Life of the Historical in Queer Studies - New

Turning Archival: The Life of the Historical in Queer Studies

Daniel Marshall and Zeb Tortorici, editors

“Turning Archival is a state of the field collection that offers a very rich conversation on queer/trans historicity, archival practice, affect, longing, and desire for a past.”—Susan Stryker
Lion's Share: Remaking South African Copyright - New

Lion's Share: Remaking South African Copyright

Veit Erlmann

“Lion’s Share keenly weaves together an ethnographically based description, discussion, and analysis of copyright. . . . [It] breaks new ground in its consideration of the operation of legal and business institutions, particularly as they relate to intellectual property in an African context.”—Olufunmilayo B. Arewa
Afro-Gothic - New

Afro-Gothic

Sybil Newton Cooksey and Tashima Thomas. issue editors

This issue of liquid blackness presents "Afro-Gothic" as an aesthetic and theoretical framework for understanding. It includes essays, interviews, a playlist, and a roundtable.

Best Sellers

The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex - Best Sellers

The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex

INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence

"Powerfully demonstrate[s] what we too often forget: our attempts at securing safety for ourselves and our communities are subject to much more powerful attempts by the state and society to make itself safe—including to make itself safe from us and our most radical, challenging, revolutionary, feminist ideas." — Ruthann Robson
Dark Matters - Best Sellers

Dark Matters

Simone Browne

"Dark Matters is of great importance not just because it illuminates historical and contemporary surveillance technologies of (anti)blackness, but equally because it opens up a series of questions around geography, race, power, and surveillance."—Hidefumi Nishiyama, Theory & Event
Queer Fire: Liberation and Abolition - Best Sellers

Queer Fire: Liberation and Abolition

Jesse A. Goldberg, Marquis Bey, issue editors

This special issue of GLQ brings together scholars, artists, and activists working at the intersections of queer theory, critical race studies, and radical movements to consider prison abolition as a project of queer liberation and queer liberation as an abolitionist project.
Living a Feminist Life - Best Sellers

Living a Feminist Life

Sara Ahmed

"Living a Feminist Life makes visible the continuous work of feminism. … Playful yet methodical, the book tries to construct a living feminism that is neither essentialist nor universalist."—Bookforum
Cruel Optimism - Best Sellers

Cruel Optimism

Lauren Berlant

“This is Berlant at her most revolutionarily queer, questioning what would happen if we stopped thinking of ourselves in terms of identity categories, and instead reorganized our sense of self around the specific objects and ideas to which we are attached and the affects that they produce in us.” — Chase Dimock, Lambda Literary Review
Trans-Exclusionary Feminisms and the Global New Right - Best Sellers

Trans-Exclusionary Feminisms and the Global New Right

Serena Bassi, Greta LaFleur, editors

Contributors to this special issue of TSQ consider what the global rise of trans-exclusionary politics and the envelopment of these politics into global right-wing movements might mean for changing understandings of transgender experience, science and medicine, and legal protections.
Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle - Best Sellers

Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle

Shannen Dee Williams

“Sweeping in its scope, exhaustively researched, and balanced in presentation,Subversive Habits is a seminal history of Black Catholic Nuns and their struggle for equality and justice in the Catholic Church.” —Bettye Collier-Thomas
Crip Temporalities - Best Sellers

Crip Temporalities

Ellen Samuels and Elizabeth Freeman, issue editors

This special issue brings together explorations of crip temporality: the ways in which bodily and mental disabilities shape the experience of time. Through accessibly written essays, art, and poems, contributors explore both the confines of crip temporality and the freedoms it provides.
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene - Best Sellers

Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene

Donna J. Haraway

"Staying with the Trouble is Haraway at her most accessible. … This is a work to provoke and inspire. It is a call to arms (or pseudopods as the case may be)!" —Savage Minds

Featured Journals

Hispanic American Historical Review - Featured Journals

Hispanic American Historical Review

Lauren H. Derby, Katherine M. Marino, Fernando Pérez-Montesinos, William Summerhill, Kevin Terraciano, editors

Published quarterly, in cooperation with the Conference on Latin American History and the American Historical Association, HAHR is the preeminent journal in the field of Latin American history.
South Antlantic Quarterly - Featured Journals

South Antlantic Quarterly

Michael Hardt, editor

SAQ, founded amid controversy in 1901, provides bold analyses of the current intellectual scene, both nationally and worldwide. Published exclusively in guest-edited special issues, this award-winning centenarian journal features some of the most prominent contemporary writers and scholars tackling urgent political, cultural, and social questions.
TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly - Featured Journals

TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly

Susan Stryker, micha cárdenas, Francisco J. Galarte, Jules Gill-Peterson, Abraham B. Weil, editors

TSQ offers a high-profile venue for innovative research and scholarship that contest the objectification, pathologization, and exoticization of transgender lives. It publishes interdisciplinary work that explores the diversity of gender, sex, sexuality, embodiment, and identity in ways that have not been adequately addressed by feminist and queer scholarship.

Mathematics

Illinois Journal of Mathematics - Mathematics

Illinois Journal of Mathematics

Steven Bradlow, editor

The Illinois Journal of Mathematics publishes new, peer-reviewed articles in all areas of mathematics research and has published works by many of the world's leading mathematicians.
Duke Mathematical Journal - Mathematics

Duke Mathematical Journal

Richard Hain and Alexander Kiselev, editors

Duke Mathematical Journal is one of the world's top ten mathematics journals, emphasizing the most active and influential areas of current mathematics.
Kyoto Journal of Mathematics - Mathematics

Kyoto Journal of Mathematics

Koji Fujiwara and Atsushi Moriwaki, editors

The Kyoto Journal of Mathematics has a long and distinguished history of publishing high-quality, original mathematics research papers and surveys at the forefront of pure mathematics.
Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic - Mathematics

Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic

Curtis Franks and Anand Pillay, editors

Since 1960, the Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic has published original work in all areas of logic and the foundations of mathematics.

Syllabi

Critical University Studies Syllabus - Syllabi

Critical University Studies Syllabus

The syllabus provides insight into critical inquiries of the university system and its histories, and reflects on directions for future frameworks for higher education.
Conceptualizing COVID Syllabus - Syllabi

Conceptualizing COVID Syllabus

Early attempts to conceptualize how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the discourse in the humanities and social sciences in 2021.
Asian/Pacific American Cultures and Histories Syllabus - Syllabi

Asian/Pacific American Cultures and Histories Syllabus

These resources help contextualize the experiences of Asian & Pacific Americans amid anti-Asian racism in the US, while also exploring community formation, solidarity between marginalized groups, and worldmaking possibilities.
Elections in Global History Syllabus - Syllabi

Elections in Global History Syllabus

This syllabus features scholarship on historical elections. Topics include the study of past election events, voting inequity, election quotas, media politics, protests during election times, and more.
Political Protests and Movements of Resistance Syllabus - Syllabi

Political Protests and Movements of Resistance Syllabus

These articles, books, and journal issues tackle topics of political protest, resistance, and activism. Subjects include transnational social movements, spatial reclamation, student occupation, protest literature, and more.
Revisiting Queer Studies Syllabus - Syllabi

Revisiting Queer Studies Syllabus

This syllabus lists articles and books that revisit queer studies topics, including decolonizing queerness, queerness and antinormativity, queer migration, and contemporary coming-out stories.
Labor and Precarity Syllabus - Syllabi

Labor and Precarity Syllabus

These books and articles consider the many faces of precarity around the world, including roles such as gig workers, warehouse workers, day laborers, and sanitation workers.
Catastrophe and Its Aftermath Syllabus - Syllabi

Catastrophe and Its Aftermath Syllabus

This syllabus explores the ways disasters affect us and how we emerge from them changed. These lessons might help us conceptualize potential shapes for a post-COVID-19 world.
Care in Uncertain Times Syllabus - Syllabi

Care in Uncertain Times Syllabus

As we collectively deal with the implications of a global pandemic, care and self-care have become ever more important. These books, issues, and articles investigate different ways that care can bind together individuals and communities where larger institutions or governments fail to intervene.
Navigating the Threat of Pandemic Syllabus - Syllabi

Navigating the Threat of Pandemic Syllabus

Amid the worldwide spread of COVID-19, it’s a challenging time, and our thoughts are with those affected by this disease. In support and solidarity, we present books and journal articles that help build knowledge and understanding of how we navigate the spread of communicable diseases.
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