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    "Lordi vividly illustrates that soul artists offer models of black resistance, joy, and community through their songs. This is a must-read for musicologists, critics, and fans of soul." (Starred Review) — Publishers Weekly

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  • Police Violence Syllabus

    Selections in this syllabus explore and criticize police violence in both contemporary and historical contexts. Topics include the militancy of policing, Black Lives Matter, carceral technologies, gender, and more.

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  • Rethinking Cosmopolitanism

    Focusing on the historical and cultural entanglement of Africa and Europe, the contributors to this issue of Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art emphasize the potential of cosmopolitanism to shape possibilities for coexistence and living with difference among all people.

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  • Gestures of Concern by Chris Ingraham

    “Laying out precisely why gestures of concern are significant and reminding us that there are never any empty gestures, Chris Ingraham offers a timely response to a certain reductive political discourse that sees meaning only in terms of representation."—Jenny Rice

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Sentient Flesh: Thinking in Disorder, Poiesis in Black - New

Sentient Flesh: Thinking in Disorder, Poiesis in Black

R. A. Judy

" I love this book, I feel this book, I am pleased by this book because I am undone and disturbed and disrupted and transported by this book."—Fred Moten
The Academic′s Handbook, Fourth Edition: Revised and Expanded - New

The Academic′s Handbook, Fourth Edition: Revised and Expanded

Lori A. Flores and Jocelyn H. Olcott, editors

"With beautifully written, thoughtful, and quite moving selections, this revised and expanded edition of the classic Academic's Handbook is very relevant to contemporary academic life and will find a wide audience across the academy." —Paige West
Method as Method - New

Method as Method

Carlos Rojas, editor

Contributors to this issue propose breaking the linkage between methodologies and objects or phenomena that inspired them and then applying them to a broader array of topics.
Bolivia in the Age of Gas - New

Bolivia in the Age of Gas

Bret Gustafson

"Bolivia in the Age of Gas is without a doubt the definitive account of the Bolivian petrostate and its subjects. It is also a true pleasure to read, the rare scholarly page-turner that conveys critical analytical insights in terms and ethnographic moments that will captivate readers of all backgrounds."—Dominic Boyer
Animal Traffic: Lively Capital in the Global Exotic Pet Trade - New

Animal Traffic: Lively Capital in the Global Exotic Pet Trade

Rosemary-Claire Collard

"This is a moving and beautifully written book and a major contribution to the fields of critical animal studies, political ecology, and biodiversity conservation."—Tony Weis
Literature, Activism, and Gendered Intimacy in Modern and Contemporary Iran - New

Literature, Activism, and Gendered Intimacy in Modern and Contemporary Iran

Contributors to this issue explore understudied subjects in the modern lives of Iranian women and the aesthetic sensibilities of earlier Iranian social classes.
Divided Bodies: Lyme Disease, Contested Illness, and Evidence-Based Medicine - New

Divided Bodies: Lyme Disease, Contested Illness, and Evidence-Based Medicine

Abigail A. Dumes

"A must-read for scholars of American health and medicine and for anyone interested in the growing Lyme disease epidemic." —Marcia C. Inhorn
cold war feminisms in East Asia - New

cold war feminisms in East Asia

Suzy Kim, issue editor

Unpacking the contest and varied concepts of "the Cold War," "feminism" and "East Asia," contributors ask how the Cold War shaped feminist movements and cultures in their critical analyses and possibilities for organization.
Sexual Hegemony: Statecraft, Sodomy, and Capital in the Rise of the World System - New

Sexual Hegemony: Statecraft, Sodomy, and Capital in the Rise of the World System

Christopher Chitty, Edited by Max Fox

"A work ahead of its time, Sexual Hegemony makes an uncannily prescient and powerful intervention. Its importance and brilliance cannot be overstated."—Petrus Liu

Best Sellers

Necropolitics - Best Sellers

Necropolitics

Achille Mbembe

"This book establishes Achille Mbembe as the leading humanistic voice in the study of sovereignty, democracy, migration, and war in the contemporary world."—Arjun Appadurai
Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawai'i - Best Sellers

Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawai'i

Hōkūlani K. Aikau and Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez, editors

"This brilliant and beautiful collection—which features interviews, personal essays, collaborative pieces with community elders, family histories, and more—is a rich ethical project that offers so much for so many. Mahalo!"—J. Kehaulani Kauanui
Time out of Joint: The Queer and the Customary in Africa - Best Sellers

Time out of Joint: The Queer and the Customary in Africa

Kirk Fiereck, Neville Hoad, and Danai S. Mupotsa, editors

Contributors to this issue investigate how queer theory might change when African texts, experiences, and concepts are placed front and center rather than treated as examples or case studies.
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
Trans Pornography - Best Sellers

Trans Pornography

Sophie Pezzutto and Lynn Comella, editors

To date, trans studies has not effectively engaged with the topic of trans porn, while pornography scholarship has largely neglected it as a genre of significance. The contributors to this issue fill that gap and provide an overview of this emerging area of inquiry.
The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies - Best Sellers

The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies

Tiffany Lethabo King

"King's concept of the shoal breaks new ground for thinking through the relationships between Indigenous peoples and African Americans and genocide and slavery as well as how they have formed our contemporary politics."— Mishauna Goeman
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

Featured Journals

Theater - Featured Journals

Theater

Tom Sellar, editor

Celebrating 50 years of publication, Theater has been the most informative, serious, and imaginative American journal available to readers interested in contemporary theater and performance.
Radical History Review - Featured Journals

Radical History Review

RHR Editorial Collective

Articles in RHR address issues of gender, race, sexuality, imperialism, and class, stretching the boundaries of historical analysis. Recent issues have reevaluated the role of policing in society.
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - Featured Journals

Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law

Jonathan Oberlander, editor

Recent and forthcoming issues address the politics of the opioid epidemic, an appraisal of the ACA after 10 years, and a first look at responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Romanic Review - Featured Journals

Romanic Review

Elisabeth Ladenson, editor

Now published by Duke University Press, Romanic Review covers all periods of French, Italian, and Ibero-Romance languages and literature, and it welcomes a broad diversity of critical approaches.

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

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

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.

Syllabi

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.
Environmentalism and Climate Change Syllabus - Syllabi

Environmentalism and Climate Change Syllabus

This syllabus features books and journal articles about environmentalism and climate change. Topics include climate change, environmental crisis, climate fiction, and environmental racism.
Feminist Politics and Women’s Rights Syllabus - Syllabi

Feminist Politics and Women’s Rights Syllabus

This syllabus lists articles and books that tackle feminist and women’s rights topics, including reproductive justice, women’s marches, and transnational feminism.
Global Immigration Syllabus - Syllabi

Global Immigration Syllabus

This syllabus focuses on areas of tension within and between nations over issues of immigration. It examines how sovereignty and humanitarianism intersect with cultural, ethnic, and economic issues.
Police Violence Syllabus - Syllabi

Police Violence Syllabus

Selections in this syllabus explore and criticize police violence in both contemporary and historical contexts. Topics include the militancy of policing, Black Lives Matter, carceral technologies, gender, and more.
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