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  • Celebrate 25 years of GLQ

    On the occasion of GLQ's twenty-fifth anniversary, the editors, authors, and readers of the journal commemorate its impact on queer theory.

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  • The Hundreds by Laurent Berlant and Kathleen Stewart

    "In Berlant and Stewart’s hands, affect theory provides a way of understanding the sensations and resignations of the present, the normalized exhaustion that comes with life in the new economy."—Hua Hsu, New Yorker 

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  • The music and sound studies e-book collection

    Titles in this collection address not just music and ethnomusicology as they are traditionally studied but also the social, cultural, and technological dimensions of sound more broadly defined.

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Is It Still Good to Ya?: Fifty Years of Rock Criticism, 1967–2017 - New

Is It Still Good to Ya?: Fifty Years of Rock Criticism, 1967–2017

Robert Christgau

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism
Essential Essays: Foundations of Cultural Studies & Identity and Diaspora - New

Essential Essays: Foundations of Cultural Studies & Identity and Diaspora

Stuart Hall

“Stuart Hall was one of the great political intellectuals of our time—learned, perspicacious, provocative, and wise.” — Wendy Brown
<i>GLQ</i> at 25 - New

GLQ at 25

Marcia Ochoa and Jennifer DeVere Brody, issue editors

On the occasion of GLQ’s twenty-fifth anniversary, the editors, authors, and readers of the journal commemorate its impact on the field.
The Hundreds - New

The Hundreds

Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart

A collaborative experimental writing project that strives toward sensing and capturing the resonances that operate at the ordinary level of everyday experience.
Black Feminism Reimagined - New

Black Feminism Reimagined

Jennifer C. Nash

“A must-read for scholars in the field. Jennifer C. Nash is a key voice in black studies, and if we didn't know that before, we know it now.” — Sharon Patricia Holland
Global Black Consciousness - New

Global Black Consciousness

Margo Natalie Crawford and Salah M. Hassan, issue editors

A critical and nuanced analysis of global black consciousness as both a citing of diasporic flows and a grounded site of decolonizing movement.
African Feminisms: Cartographies for the Twenty-First Century - New

African Feminisms: Cartographies for the Twenty-First Century

Alicia C. Decker and Gabeba Baderoon, issue editors

Contributors challenge patriarchal ideologies and structures on myriad fronts, both on the African continent and beyond.

Best Sellers

Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood - Best Sellers

Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood

James Baldwin

"A brilliant exploration of black childhood with profound emotional depth, drawn from the grace and struggles of community and reinforcing the truth that no one knows Harlem like Baldwin." —Kirkus
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
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
Stolen Life - Best Sellers

Stolen Life

Fred Moten

"At a time when both theory and criticism are frequently and convincingly attacked as exhausted forms, Moten’s trilogy has reinvented both." —Vulture
After #Ferguson, After #Baltimore - Best Sellers

After #Ferguson, After #Baltimore

Barnor Hesse and Juliet Hooker, issue editors

Drawing primarily on the US #BlackLivesMatter movement, contributors to this issue come to terms with the crisis in the meaning of black politics during the post–civil rights era.
Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure - Best Sellers

Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure

Eli Clare

"A dazzling work of intellectually rigorous and wildly original thinking that challenges our most deeply held beliefs about the nature of cure, exposing its place in the ideologies of domination."—Aurora Levins Morales
In the Wake: On Blackness and Being - Best Sellers

In the Wake: On Blackness and Being

Christina Sharpe

"Christina Sharpe brings everything she has to bear on her consideration of the violation and commodification of Black life and the aesthetic responses to this ongoing state of emergency. … A searing and brilliant work."—Saidiya Hartman
Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a Twenty-First-Century Transgender Studies - Best Sellers

Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a Twenty-First-Century Transgender Studies

Susan Stryker and Paisley Currah, editors

The inaugural issue of TSQ pays homage to Sandy Stone's field-defining “Posttranssexual Manifesto” and assesses where the field is now and where it seems to be heading.

Featured Journals

Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism - Featured Journals

Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism

Ginetta E. B. Candelario, editor

Interdisciplinary feminist journal Meridians provides a forum for the finest scholarship and creative work by and about women of color.
GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies - Featured Journals

GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies

Marcia Ochoa and Jennifer DeVere Brody, editors

Publishing scholarship, criticism, and commentary in diverse, interdisciplinary areas, GLQ offers queer perspectives on all issues touching on sex and sexuality.
Hispanic American Historical Review - Featured Journals

Hispanic American Historical Review

Martha Few, Zachary Morgan, Matthew Restall, and Amara Solari, editors

Founded over 100 years ago, Hispanic American Historical Review pioneered the study of Latin American history and culture in the United States and remains the most widely respected journal in the field.
American Literature - Featured Journals

American Literature

Priscilla Ward and Matthew Taylor, editors

American Literature has been regarded since its inception as the preeminent periodical in its field, with articles covering the works of American authors from colonial to contemporary.
Public Culture - Featured Journals

Public Culture

Shamus Khan, editor

Four-time CELJ award winner Public Culture publishes field-defining ethnographies and analyses of the cultural politics of globalization.
Archives of Asian Art - Featured Journals

Archives of Asian Art

Patricia Berger, editor

Since 1945, Archives of Asian Art has been devoted to publishing new scholarship on the art and architecture of South, Southeast, Central, and East Asia.

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 Jonathan Wahl, 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

Masaki Izumi and Yoshinori Namikawa, 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

Michael Detlefsen 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.
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