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  • The Chasers by Renato Rosaldo

    "I love this book—the voices, the stories, and the corazón. It's a great collection accessible to poets and Chasers alike, and to kids and adults and académicos, y los que se creen pendejos pero no lo son. It's wise and funny and heartbreaking and moving. Bravo. Felicidades." — Sandra Cisneros

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  • What's Next for Latinx? Theater vol. 49, no. 1

    With roots in protest and social change, Latinx theater carries an artistic vitality and urgency that has only been augmented by resistance to the current wave of repressive white nationalism.

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Book Reports: A Music Critic on His First Love, Which Was Reading - New

Book Reports: A Music Critic on His First Love, Which Was Reading

Robert Christgau

"These sprightly, highly opinionated 'adventures of an autodidact' reveal Christgau to be a highly literate, astute, and discerning book critic." — Kirkus Reviews
The Cuba Reader, Second Edition - New

The Cuba Reader, Second Edition

Aviva Chomsky, Barry Carr, Alfredo Prieto, and Pamela Maria Smorkaloff, Editors

"What The Cuba Reader does is provide incisive, intimate insight, not so much a road map as a vision of what has been and what could be. It's indispensable.” — Achy Obejas
A Quarter-Century of Common Knowledge - New

A Quarter-Century of Common Knowledge

Jeffrey M. Perl, editor

This anniversary issue celebrates the past 25 years of Common Knowledge, with 11 “conversations” that cover ambivalence, commensurability, intellectual philanthropy, punitive scholarship, and more.
Work: A Queer History of Modeling - New

Work: A Queer History of Modeling

Elspeth H. Brown

"This is no glib foray into celebrity culture, no superficial survey of supermodels. . . . A strikingly original, non-normative telling of 20th-century culture." — Shahidha Bari, Times Higher Education
Black Madness :: Mad Blackness - New

Black Madness :: Mad Blackness

Therí Alyce Pickens

“This book delivers on its promise. It opens disability studies and black studies to one another with generosity, humor, and the sharpest of wits."— Sharon Patricia Holland
The Politics of Boycotts - New

The Politics of Boycotts

E. Natalie Rothman and Andrew Zimmerman, issue editors

Contributors explore the global, entangled history of boycotts, from the original Captain Boycott to the struggles for justice in Israel/Palestine.
Trans Studies en las Américas - New

Trans Studies en las Américas

Claudia Sofía Garriga-López, Denilson Lopes, Cole Rizki, and Juana María Rodríguez, issue editors

Contributors offer a hemispheric perspective on trans and travesti issues to the Anglophone academy, expand transgender studies to engage geopolitical connections, and bring interdisciplinary approaches to topics ranging from policy to cultural production.
The Chasers - New

The Chasers

Renato Rosaldo

"I love this book—the voices, the stories, and the corazón. Bravo. Felicidades. What a lovely trip Renato Rosaldo has made to the interior of the border and to that other interior, his own heart." — Sandra Cisneros

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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
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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
Stuart Hall - Best Sellers

Stuart Hall

Grant Farred, issue editor

This special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly brings together a range of scholars who pay homage to the legacy of one of the most important founders of the field of cultural studies.
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
The Child Now - Best Sellers

The Child Now

Julian Gill-Peterson, Rebekah Sheldon, and Kathryn Bond Stockton, issue editors

Following the twists and turns of children now, contributors to this GLQ special issue confront how race, gender, and sexuality are made to live and grow in children’s bodies.

Featured Journals

Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - Featured Journals

Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law

Eric M. Patashnik, editor

A leading journal in its field, the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law focuses on the initiation, formulation, and implementation of health policy and analyzes the relations between government and health—past, present, and future.
East Asian Science, Technology and Society - Featured Journals

East Asian Science, Technology and Society

Wen-Hua Kuo, editor

Sponsored by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, East Asian Science, Technology and Society (EASTS) aims to bring together East Asian and Western scholars from the fields of science, technology, and society.
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.
Archives of Asian Art - Featured Journals

Archives of Asian Art

Patricia Berger, editor

Since its establishment in 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

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.
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