Sora Y. Han offers a poetic and radical work of legal theory and criticism that works at the confluence of Korean and Black anticolonial thought and freedom struggles to articulate new visions of freedom.
Katherine Brewer Ball argues that escape is a key site for exploring American conceptions of freedom and constraint, showing how Black and queer escape are forms of radical practice.
In Tendings, Nathan Snaza brings contemporary feminist and queer popular culture's resurging interest in esoteric practices like tarot and witchcraft into conversation with Black feminist and new materialist thought. Analyzing writing and performances by Maryse Condé, Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English, Starhawk, Christina Sharpe, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, and others, Snaza introduces his theory of tending as a concept that links ontology, att...
In Tendings, Nathan Snaza brings contemporary feminist and queer popular culture's resurging interest in esoteric practices like tarot and witchcraft into conversation with Black feminist and new materialist thought. Analyzing writing and performances by Maryse Condé, Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English, Starhawk, Christina Sharpe, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, and others, Snaza introduces his theory of tending as a concept that links ontology, att...
Throughout the twentieth century, even the harshest prison systems in the United States were rather porous. Incarcerated people were regularly released from prison for Christmas holidays, the wives of incarcerated men could visit for seventy-two hours relatively unsupervised, and governors routinely commuted the sentences of people convicted of murder. By the 1990s, these practices had become rarer as politicians and the media-in contrast to c...
Throughout the twentieth century, even the harshest prison systems in the United States were rather porous. Incarcerated people were regularly released from prison for Christmas holidays, the wives of incarcerated men could visit for seventy-two hours relatively unsupervised, and governors routinely commuted the sentences of people convicted of murder. By the 1990s, these practices had become rarer as politicians and the media-in contrast to c...
The essays in this volume encompass nearly thirty years of influential Peruvian sociologist Aníbal Quijano's work on coloniality, coloniality of power, and colonial matrix of power, bringing it to an English reading audience for the first time.
The essays in this volume encompass nearly thirty years of influential Peruvian sociologist Aníbal Quijano's work on coloniality, coloniality of power, and colonial matrix of power, bringing it to an English reading audience for the first time.
Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp chronicle and theorize two decades of immersion in New York City's wide-ranging disability worlds as parents, activists, anthropologists, and disability studies scholars.
Kathryn Yusoff examines the history of geology as a discipline to theorize how race and racialization emerged from Western production of geologic knowledge.
Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw explores African American art and representation from the height of the British colonial period to the present, seeking out the recovery of facts and narratives of African American creativity and self-representation that have been purposefully set aside, actively ignored, and disremembered.
The contributors to Made in Asia/America explore the historical entanglements of video games, Asia, and America, showing how examining games offer new ways of imagining empire, race, and coalition.
Matthew Chin interrogates queerness in Jamaica from early colonial occupation to the present, critically responding to Jamaica's reputation for homophobia and anti-queer violence.
Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp chronicle and theorize two decades of immersion in New York City's wide-ranging disability worlds as parents, activists, anthropologists, and disability studies scholars.
Matthew Chin interrogates queerness in Jamaica from early colonial occupation to the present, critically responding to Jamaica's reputation for homophobia and anti-queer violence.
Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw explores African American art and representation from the height of the British colonial period to the present, seeking out the recovery of facts and narratives of African American creativity and self-representation that have been purposefully set aside, actively ignored, and disremembered.
Nivedita Menon traces how the discourse of secularism hyper-visualizes women and religion as a means of obscuring forms of capitalist, racialized, caste, and anti-minoritarian violence throughout the global South.
Nivedita Menon traces how the discourse of secularism hyper-visualizes women and religion as a means of obscuring forms of capitalist, racialized, caste, and anti-minoritarian violence throughout the global South.
Lisa Messeri offers an ethnographic exploration of a contemporary community of Los Angeles-based storytellers, media artists, and tech innovators formed around virtual reality, believing that it could remedy society's ills.
Lisa Messeri offers an ethnographic exploration of a contemporary community of Los Angeles-based storytellers, media artists, and tech innovators formed around virtual reality, believing that it could remedy society's ills.
