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  • Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art

    Nka publishes critical work that examines contemporary African and African Diaspora art within the modernist and postmodernist experience.

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  • Deported Americans by Beth Caldwell

    "Caldwell humanizes the crises these individuals endure, including those of spouses and children who face the decision of having to leave everything they know behind to be with their exiled loved ones. A stark portrayal of the contradictory, misguided, and ineffectual immigration laws that determine the futures of so many."—Booklist

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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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New

Hush: Media and Sonic Self-Control - New

Hush: Media and Sonic Self-Control

Mack Hagood

"Hush is challenging and imaginative; read it and you will learn to think differently about sound, noise, silence, and meaning." — Jonathan Sterne
Medicine Stories: Essays for Radicals - New

Medicine Stories: Essays for Radicals

Aurora Levins Morales

“A poetic, deeply personal memoir of the intellect and the soul. Aurora Levins Morales embraces genres, political movements, and spiritual awakenings to tell one multifaceted story of a life searching for justice and serenity, in community, in society, and with one's own body.” — Sarah Schulman
<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.
Bloodflowers: Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Photography, and the 1980s - New

Bloodflowers: Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Photography, and the 1980s

W. Ian Bourland

“Exhaustively researched and beautifully written."— Steven Nelson
Dance for Me When I Die - New

Dance for Me When I Die

Cristian Alarcón

"Cristian Alarcón is a masterful writer and an intrepid, sensitive reporter, and this book is a must-read."— Daniel Alarcón
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
Queer about Comics - Best Sellers

Queer about Comics

Darieck Scott and Ramzi Fawaz, issue editors

Contributors explore the intersection of queer theory and comics studies, providing new theories of how comics represent and reconceptualize queer sexuality, desire, intimacy, and eroticism.
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
Global Black Consciousness - Best Sellers

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.

Featured Journals

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.
Environmental Humanities - Featured Journals

Environmental Humanities

Thom van Dooren and Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey, editors

Environmental Humanities publishes outstanding interdisciplinary scholarship that draws humanities disciplines into conversation with each other, and with the natural and social sciences, around significant environmental issues.
Duke Mathematical Journal - Featured Journals

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.
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies - Featured Journals

Journal of Middle East Women's Studies

Soha Bayoumi, Sherine Hafez, and Ellen McLarney, editors

This interdisciplinary journal advances the fields of Middle East gender, sexuality, and women's studies through the contributions of academics, artists, and activists from around the globe working in the interpretive social sciences and humanities.

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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