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    “This indispensable book reframes how scholars in disability studies, Asian American studies, and beyond engage with questions of disability, empire, coloniality, and mestizaje.”—Julie Avril Minich
     

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  • Death's Futurity by Sampada Aranke

    “Presenting a significant intercession in the field of visual culture as well as the imaging of 1960s and 1970s radicalism and the Black Panther Party, Aranke has written a stunning book that could not be more timely.”—Kellie Jones

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  • To Be Nsala's Daughter by Chérie N. Rivers

    “In this ambitious investigation into the colonial archive, Rivers offers a meditation on the meaning of archive, its violences and reproductions, and a way to contemplate the relationship between the history of empire and the history of photographic reproduction”—Kimberly Juanita Brown

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  • Wake Up, This is Joburg, Words by Tanya Zack, Photographs by Mark Lewis

    “Wake Up, This Is Joburg is a fantastic, creative work that offers a broad look at one of Africa’s most vibrant and intriguing cities. . . . [t]his book is a beautifully executed, smart, and elegant contribution.”—Danny Hoffman

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Between Banat: Queer Arab Critique and Transnational Arab Archives - New

Between Banat: Queer Arab Critique and Transnational Arab Archives

Mejdulene Bernard Shomali

“Enlarging the scope of queer of color critique by adding new vocabularies and applying innovative methods of close reading to an interdisciplinary and intergenerational archive, Shomali makes an enticing set of arguments for thinking with Arab femme-ness.”—Amber Jamilla Musser
Circuits of the Sacred: A Faggotology in the Black Latinx Caribbean - New

Circuits of the Sacred: A Faggotology in the Black Latinx Caribbean

Carlos Ulises Decena

“This tour-de-force queer study demands that academics engage with ancestral imperatives—creative, discursive, intellectual, or spiritual. Circuits of the Sacred is both scream and libation, a liturgy for the future, necessary praxis on this long path to liberation.”—Gina Athena Ulysse
Letterpress Revolution: The Politics of Anarchist Print Culture - New

Letterpress Revolution: The Politics of Anarchist Print Culture

Kathy E. Ferguson

“This labor of love brings back to us an almost-lost world in vivid and exemplary ways, with theoretical sophistication, historical depth, analytical rigor, and literary flair. Letterpress Revolution is a beautiful book—and a hopeful gift to future generations.”—Marcus Rediker
Psychoanalysis and Solidarity - New

Psychoanalysis and Solidarity

Michelle Rada, issue editor

Motivated by the hysteric’s desire for a better life and Freud’s commitment to our intersubjectivity in common, contributors to this special issue of differences consider psychoanalysis as a political project that holds open the space of collective action.
Rising Up, Living On: Re-Existences, Sowings, and Decolonial Cracks - New

Rising Up, Living On: Re-Existences, Sowings, and Decolonial Cracks

Catherine E. Walsh

“With beautifully written prose that flows like refreshing water at the desert’s edge, Rising Up, Living On offers not only a rich array of theoretical insights, stories of resistances in the face of despair, and artistic representations but also portraits of different ways to live and think.”—Lewis R. Gordon
The Science of Sex Itself - New

The Science of Sex Itself

Benjamin Kahan and Greta LaFleur, issue editors

In this special issue of GLQ contributors trace how sexual scientific thought circulated throughout the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries and how that thought continues to shape sexuality.
The Briny South: Displacement and Sentiment in the Indian Ocean World - New

The Briny South: Displacement and Sentiment in the Indian Ocean World

Nienke Boer

“This ambitious and refreshing book makes a skillful contribution to debates on empire and its systems of control and the imaginative responses to forms of subjection viewed outside the paradigm of the Atlantic.”— Simon Gikandi
Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco's Tenderloin - New

Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco's Tenderloin

Joseph Plaster

“Kids on the Street is a beautiful, powerful contribution to an inspiring tradition of activist queer and trans public history scholarship”—Susan Stryker
Peter Weiss and <i>The Aesthetics of Resistance</i> - New

Peter Weiss and The Aesthetics of Resistance

Kai Evers, Julia Hell, Seth Howes, issue editors

This special issue of New German Critique marks the recent English translation of the second volume of Peter Weiss's The Aesthetics of Resistance, also published by Duke University Press, with new, future-oriented readings of the novel.

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
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.
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
Feminist Mournings - Best Sellers

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.
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
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
Psychoanalysis and Solidarity - Best Sellers

Psychoanalysis and Solidarity

Michelle Rada, issue editor

Motivated by the hysteric’s desire for a better life and Freud’s commitment to our intersubjectivity in common, contributors to this special issue of differences consider psychoanalysis as a political project that holds open the space of collective action.
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

Journal of Asian Studies - Featured Journals

Journal of Asian Studies

Joseph S. Alter, editor

The Journal of Asian Studies, the flagship journal of the Association for Asian Studies, is the most authoritative and prestigious publication in the field of Asian studies. The journal publishes the very best empirical and multidisciplinary work on Asia, spanning the arts, history, literature, the social sciences, and cultural studies.
Agricultural History - Featured Journals

Agricultural History

Albert Way, editor

Agricultural History is the journal of record in its field. As such, it publishes articles that explore agriculture and rural life over time, in all geographies and among all people.
liquid blackness - Featured Journals

liquid blackness

Alessandra Raengo and Lauren McLeod Cramer, editors

liquid blackness seeks to carve out a place for aesthetic theory and the most radical agenda of Black studies to come together in productive ways, with the goal of attending to the aesthetic work of blackness and the political work of form.

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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