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The Politics of Liberal Education by Barbara Herrnstein Smith 9780822311836
RRP: $121.26Booksplease Price: $98.22Controversy over what role "the great books" should play in college curricula and questions about who defines "the literary canon" are at the forefront of debates in higher education. The Politics of... -
Shows of Force: Power, Politics, and Ideology in Art Exhibitions by Timothy W. Luke 9780822311232
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $29.94It has long been considered a mark of naivete to ask of a work of art: What does it say? But as Timothy W. Luke demonstrates in Shows of Force, artwork is capable of saying plenty, and much of the... -
Intimate Industries: Restructuring (Im)Material Labor in Asia by Rhacel Salazar Parreñas 9780822368465
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.45This issue addresses how laborers within intimate industries-those who do interpersonal work that tends to the sexual, bodily, health, hygiene, or care needs of individuals-are shaping Asia's growing... -
The Novel and Neoliberalism by Nancy Armstrong 9781478003533
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.45How has the form of the novel responded to the conditions now grouped under the term "neoliberalism"? These conditions have generated an explosion of narrative forms that make the past two decades... -
Arts in Earnest: North Carolina Folklife by Daniel W. Patterson 9780822310211
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29Arts in Earnest explores the unique folklife of North Carolina from ruddy ducks to pranks in the mill. Traversing from Murphy to Manteo, these fifteen essays demonstrate the importance of North... -
Nations, Identities, Cultures by V. Y. Mudimbe 9780822320654
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $27.27This volume investigates the concepts of nation, identity, and culture as they have evolved within the contexts of exile and as a result of the consolidation of the ethnic and the political. The... -
Chick Flicks: Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement by B. Ruby Rich 9780822321217
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $37.19If there was a moment during the sixties, seventies, or eighties that changed the history of the women's film movement, B. Ruby Rich was there. Part journalistic chronicle, part memoir, and 100% pure... -
Feeding Anorexia: Gender and Power at a Treatment Center by Helen Gremillion 9780822331209
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $29.94Feeding Anorexia challenges prevailing assumptions regarding the notorious difficulty of curing anorexia nervosa. Through a vivid chronicle of treatments at a state-of-the-art hospital program, Helen... -
All Is True: The Claims and Strategies of Realist Fiction by Lilian R. Furst 9780822316466
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29"All is true," realist writers would say of their work, to which critics now respond: All is art and artifice. Offering a new approach to reading nineteenth-century realist fiction, Lilian R. Furst... -
Nation Within: The History of the American Occupation of Hawai'i by Tom Coffman 9780822361978
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $25.95In 1893 a small group of white planters and missionary descendants backed by the United States overthrew the Kingdom of Hawai'i and established a government modeled on the Jim Crow South. In Nation... -
The Life and Times of Louis Lomax: The Art of Deliberate Disunity by Thomas Aiello 9781478011804
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $23.23Syndicated television and radio host. Serial liar. Pioneering journalist. Convicted criminal. Close ally of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. Publicity-seeking provocateur. Louis Lomax's life was... -
The Voice in the Headphones by David Grubbs 9781478008132
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $23.04The voice in the headphones says, "you're rolling" . . . The Voice in the Headphones is an experiment in music writing in the form of a long poem centered on the culture of the recording studio. It... -
The Mexico Reader: History, Culture, Politics by Gilbert M. Joseph 9781478018360
RRP: $33.53Booksplease Price: $24.21The Mexico Reader is a vivid and comprehensive guide to muchos Mexicos-the many varied histories and cultures of Mexico. Unparalleled in scope, it covers pre-Columbian times to the present, from the... -
or, on being the other woman by Simone White 9781478018469
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $15.76In or, on being the other woman, Simone White considers the dynamics of contemporary black feminist life. Throughout this book-length poem, White writes through a hybrid of poetry, essay, personal... -
Unspooled: How the Cassette Made Music Shareable by Rob Drew 9781478025597
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $22.24Well into the new millennium, the analog cassette tape continues to claw its way back from obsolescence. New cassette labels emerge from hipster enclaves while the cassette's likeness pops up on... -
Third World Studies: Theorizing Liberation Gary Y. Okihiro 9781478030676
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $24.54In this revised and expanded second edition of Third World Studies, Gary Y. Okihiro considers the methods and theories that might constitute the formation of Third World studies. Proposed in 1968 at... -
Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence: A Social History of Fear in Colonial Bengal Tithi Bhattacharya 9781478030713
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $22.52In Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence, Tithi Bhattacharya maps the role that Bengali ghosts and ghost stories played in constituting the modern Indian nation, and the religious ideas seeded therein,... -
Daughter, Mother, Grandmother, and Whore: The Story of a Woman Who Decided to be a Puta Gabriela Leite 9781478026273
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $84.10In the early 1970s, while living at home with her conservative middle-class family and studying at the University of Sao Paulo, Gabriela Leite decided to become a sex worker. From her first client in... -
The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property Eunsong Kim 9781478030485
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $24.54In The Politics of Collecting, Eunsong Kim traces how racial capitalism and colonialism situated the rise of US museum collections and conceptual art forms. Investigating historical legal and... -
Impossible Things Miller Oberman 9781478031093
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $20.23Offering an intimate account of intergenerational grief, Miller Oberman’s new collection of poetry, Impossible Things, explores his experiences as both a transgender child and father. Oberman weaves... -
Heavyweight: Black Boxers and the Fight for Representation Jordana Moore Saggese 9781478030638
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $24.54In Heavyweight, Jordana Moore Saggese examines images of Black heavyweight boxers to map the visual terrain of racist ideology in the United States, paying particular attention to the intersecting... -
The Fold: From Your Body to the Cosmos by Laura U. Marks 9781478025856
RRP: $113.52Booksplease Price: $92.16In The Fold, Laura U. Marks offers a practical philosophy and aesthetic theory for living in an infinitely connected cosmos. Drawing on the theories of Leibniz, Glissant, Deleuze, and theoretical... -
The Fold: From Your Body to the Cosmos by Laura U. Marks 9781478030119
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $28.19In The Fold, Laura U. Marks offers a practical philosophy and aesthetic theory for living in an infinitely connected cosmos. Drawing on the theories of Leibniz, Glissant, Deleuze, and theoretical... -
Sex and Disability by Robert McRuer 9780822351405
RRP: $134.16Booksplease Price: $108.30The title of this collection of essays, Sex and Disability, unites two terms that the popular imagination often regards as incongruous. The major texts in sexuality studies, including queer theory,... -
Deported Americans: Life after Deportation to Mexico by Beth C. Caldwell 9781478003908
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $27.14When Gina was deported to Tijuana, Mexico, in 2011, she left behind her parents, siblings, and children, all of whom are U.S. citizens. Despite having once had a green card, Gina was removed from the... -
C. L. R. James in Imperial Britain by Christian Hogsbjerg 9780822356127
RRP: $144.48Booksplease Price: $115.97C. L. R. James in Imperial Britain chronicles the life and work of the Trinidadian intellectual and writer C. L. R. James during his first extended stay in Britain, from 1932 to 1938. It reveals the... -
Mexican American Religions: Spirituality, Activism, and Culture by Gaston Espinosa 9780822341192
Booksplease Price: $42.27This collection presents a rich, multidisciplinary inquiry into the role of religion in the Mexican American community. Breaking new ground by analyzing the influence of religion on Mexican American... -
Trans-Americanity: Subaltern Modernities, Global Coloniality, and the Cultures of Greater Mexico by Jose David Saldivar 9780822350835
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29A founder of U.S.-Mexico border studies, Jose David Saldivar is a leading figure in efforts to expand the scope of American studies. In Trans-Americanity, he advances that critical project by arguing... -
Open Admissions: The Poetics and Pedagogy of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich in the Era of Free College Danica Savonick 9781478026372
RRP: $108.36Booksplease Price: $88.13In Open Admissions Danica Savonick traces the largely untold story of the teaching experience of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich at the City University of New York... -
Open Admissions: The Poetics and Pedagogy of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich in the Era of Free College Danica Savonick 9781478030614
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $23.53In Open Admissions Danica Savonick traces the largely untold story of the teaching experience of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich at the City University of New York... -
How We Write Now: Living with Black Feminist Theory Jennifer C. Nash 9781478030461
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.52In How We Write Now Jennifer C. Nash examines how Black feminists use beautiful writing to allow writers and readers to stay close to the field's central object and preoccupation: loss. She... -
Earth Diplomacy: Indigenous American Art, Ecological Crisis, and the Cold War Jessica L. Horton 9781478030492
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $26.95In Earth Diplomacy, Jessica L. Horton reveals how Native American art in the mid-twentieth century mobilized Indigenous cultures of diplomacy to place the earth itself at the center of international... -
Sovereignty and Extortion: A New State Form in Mexico Claudio Lomnitz 9781478026495
RRP: $105.78Booksplease Price: $86.12Over the past fifteen years in Mexico, more than 450,000 people have been murdered and 110,000 more have been disappeared. In Sovereignty and Extortion, Claudio Lomnitz examines the Mexican state in... -
Insult and the Making of the Gay Self by Didier Eribon 9780822332862
RRP: $134.16Booksplease Price: $108.30A bestseller in France following its publication in 1999, Insult and the Making of the Gay Self is an extraordinary set of reflections on "the gay question" by Didier Eribon, one of France's foremost... -
Coloniality at Large: Latin America and the Postcolonial Debate by Mabel Morana 9780822341475
RRP: $172.86Booksplease Price: $141.53Postcolonial theory has developed mainly in the U.S. academy, and it has focused chiefly on nineteenth-century and twentieth-century colonization and decolonization processes in Asia, Africa, the... -
China Urban: Ethnographies of Contemporary Culture by Nancy N. Chen 9780822326342
RRP: $121.26Booksplease Price: $98.22China Urban is an ethnographic account of China's cities and the place that urban space holds in China's imagination. In addition to investigating this nation's rapidly changing urban landscape, its... -
Chinese Circulations: Capital, Commodities, and Networks in Southeast Asia by Eric Tagliacozzo 9780822349037
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.71Chinese merchants have traded with Southeast Asia for centuries, sojourning and sometimes settling, during their voyages. These ventures have taken place by land and by sea, over mountains and across... -
![Dissident Syria: Making Oppositional Arts Official by Miriam G. Cooke 9780822340164 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/4966365/4965583/9780822340164__41460.1722631174.jpg?c=1 "Dissident Syria: Making Oppositional Arts Official by Miriam G. Cooke 9780822340164 [USED COPY]")
Dissident Syria: Making Oppositional Arts Official by Miriam G. Cooke 9780822340164 [USED COPY]
RRP: $113.52Booksplease Price: $7.03From 1970 until his death in 2000, Hafiz Asad ruled Syria with an iron fist. His regime controlled every aspect of daily life. Seeking to preempt popular unrest, Asad sometimes facilitated the... -
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Living with the Coast of Maine by Joseph T. Kelley 9780822308645 [USED COPY]
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $10.32Maine is known for its rockbound coast and pristine shoreline. Yet there is more to this shore than rocky cliffs. This book describes the origin of the more common "soft coast" of eroding bluffs,... -
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Soviet Jewry in the 1980s: The Politics of Anti-Semitism and Emigration and the Dynamics of Resettlement by Robert O. Freedman 9780822309062 [USED COPY]
RRP: $82.56Booksplease Price: $8.26Contributors. Stephen Feinstein, Robert O. Freedman, Theodore H. Friedgut, Zvi Gitelman, Marshall I. Goldman, Sidney Heitman, William Korey, Howard SpierBook InformationISBN 9780822309062Author...