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Borderland on the Isthmus: Race, Culture, and the Struggle for the Canal Zone by Michael E. Donoghue
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.33The construction, maintenance, and defense of the Panama Canal brought Panamanians, U.S. soldiers and civilians, West Indians, Asians, and Latin Americans into close, even intimate, contact. In this... -
The Anomie of the Earth: Philosophy, Politics, and Autonomy in Europe and the Americas by Federico Luisetti
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29The contributors to The Anomie of the Earth explore the convergences and resonances between Autonomist Marxism and decolonial thinking. In discussing and rejecting Carl Schmitt's formulation of the... -
Negotiated Moments: Improvisation, Sound, and Subjectivity by Gillian Siddall
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.33The contributors to Negotiated Moments explore how subjectivity is formed and expressed through musical improvisation, tracing the ways the transmission and reception of sound occur within and... -
Cold War Anthropology: The CIA, the Pentagon, and the Growth of Dual Use Anthropology by David H. Price
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $28.66In Cold War Anthropology, David H. Price offers a provocative account of the profound influence that the American security state has had on the field of anthropology since the Second World War. Using... -
Africa in the Indian Imagination: Race and the Politics of Postcolonial Citation by Antoinette Burton
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $26.95In Africa in the Indian Imagination Antoinette Burton reframes our understanding of the postcolonial Afro-Asian solidarity that emerged from the 1955 Bandung conference. Afro-Asian solidarity is best... -
The Camera as Historian: Amateur Photographers and Historical Imagination, 1885-1918 by Elizabeth Edwards
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $27.98In the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, hundreds of amateur photographers took part in the photographic survey movement in England. They sought to record the material remains of the... -
Grammars of the Urban Ground by Ash Amin
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $23.23The contributors to Grammars of the Urban Ground develop a new conceptual framework and vocabulary for capturing the complex, ever-shifting, and interactive processes that shape contemporary cities... -
Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity by Sharon Patricia Holland
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $27.27Raising the Dead is a groundbreaking, interdisciplinary exploration of death's relation to subjectivity in twentieth-century American literature and culture. Sharon Patricia Holland contends that... -
Intimate Eating: Racialized Spaces and Radical Futures by Anita Mannur
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $22.24In Intimate Eating Anita Mannur examines how notions of the culinary can create new forms of kinship, intimacy, and social and political belonging. Drawing on critical ethnic studies and queer... -
Transnational Feminist Approaches to Anti-Muslim Racism by Sherene H. Razack
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.49This special issue advances transnational feminist approaches to the globally proliferating phenomenon of anti-Muslim racism. The contributors trace the global circuits and formations of power... -
Cultural Revolution and Revolutionary Culture by Alessandro Russo
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.26In Cultural Revolution and Revolutionary Culture, Alessandro Russo presents a dramatic new reading of China's Cultural Revolution as a mass political experiment aimed at thoroughly reexamining the... -
Writing in Space, 1973–2019 by Lorraine O'Grady
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.65Writing in Space, 1973-2019 gathers the writings of conceptual artist Lorraine O'Grady, who for over forty years has investigated the complicated relationship between text and image. A firsthand... -
Essential Essays (Two-volume set): Foundations of Cultural Studies & Identity and Diaspora by Stuart Hall
Booksplease Price: $53.61Volumes 1 and 2 of Stuart Hall's Essential Essays are available as a set From his arrival in Britain in the 1950s and involvement in the New Left, to founding the field of cultural studies and... -
Respawn: Gamers, Hackers, and Technogenic Life by Colin Milburn
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29In Respawn Colin Milburn examines the connections between video games, hacking, and science fiction that galvanize technological activism and technological communities. Discussing a wide range of... -
The Complete Lives of Camp People: Colonialism, Fascism, Concentrated Modernity by Rudolf Mrazek
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.71In The Complete Lives of Camp People Rudolf Mrazek presents a sweeping study of the material and cultural lives of twentieth-century concentration camp internees and the multiple ways in which their... -
Musicophilia in Mumbai: Performing Subjects and the Metropolitan Unconscious by Tejaswini Niranjana
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29In Musicophilia in Mumbai Tejaswini Niranjana traces the place of Hindustani classical music in Mumbai throughout the long twentieth century as the city moved from being a seat of British colonial... -
Eating in Theory by Annemarie Mol
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $22.24As we taste, chew, swallow, digest, and excrete, our foods transform us, while our eating, in its turn, affects the wider earthly environment. In Eating in Theory Annemarie Mol takes inspiration from... -
Media Crossroads: Intersections of Space and Identity in Screen Cultures by Paula J. Massood
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.26The contributors to Media Crossroads examine space and place in media as they intersect with sexuality, race, ethnicity, age, class, and ability. Considering a wide range of film, television, video... -
Stitches on Time: Colonial Textures and Postcolonial Tangles by Saurabh Dube
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29Destined to become a key work of subaltern studies and a crucial intervention in postcolonial scholarship, Stitches on Time probes the relationships between empire and modernity, nation and history,... -
Chicana Sexuality and Gender: Cultural Refiguring in Literature, Oral History, and Art by Debra J. Blake
RRP: $144.48Booksplease Price: $115.97Since the 1980s Chicana writers including Gloria Anzaldua, Cherrie Moraga, Sandra Cisneros, Ana Castillo, and Alma Luz Villanueva have reworked iconic Mexican cultural symbols such as mother earth... -
TV Socialism by Aniko Imre
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29In TV Socialism, Aniko Imre provides an innovative history of television in socialist Europe during and after the Cold War. Rather than uniform propaganda programming, Imre finds rich evidence of... -
The FBI in Latin America: The Ecuador Files by Marc Becker
RRP: $144.48Booksplease Price: $116.36During the Second World War, the FDR administration placed the FBI in charge of political surveillance in Latin America. Through a program called the Special Intelligence Service (SIS), 700 agents... -
The Creolization of Theory by Francoise Lionnet
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $29.94Introducing this collection of essays, Francoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih argue that looking back-investigating the historical, intellectual, and political entanglements of contemporary academic... -
The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Volume XIII: The Caribbean Diaspora, 1921-1922 by Marcus Garvey
RRP: $154.80Booksplease Price: $124.42Volume XIII of The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers covers the twelve months between the UNIA's second international convention in New York in August 1921 and the... -
Work Requirements: Race, Disability, and the Print Culture of Social Welfare by Todd Carmody
RRP: $108.36Booksplease Price: $88.13Throughout the history of the United States, work-based social welfare practices have served to affirm the moral value of work. In the late nineteenth century this representational project came to be... -
Juggling by Stewart Lawrence Sinclair
RRP: $87.72Booksplease Price: $71.62In Juggling, Stewart Lawrence Sinclair explores the four-thousand-year history and practice of juggling as seen through his life as a juggler. Sinclair—who learned to juggle as a child and paid his... -
Feeling Women's Liberation by Victoria Hesford
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.33The term women's liberation remains charged and divisive decades after it first entered political and cultural discourse around 1970. In Feeling Women's Liberation, Victoria Hesford mines the archive... -
A Vital Frontier: Water Insurgencies in Europe by Andrea Muehlebach
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $83.71In A Vital Frontier Andrea Muehlebach examines the work of activists across Europe as they organize to preserve water as a commons and public good in the face of privatization. Traversing social,... -
Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution by Sibylle Fischer
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.33Modernity Disavowed is a pathbreaking study of the cultural, political, and philosophical significance of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804). Revealing how the radical antislavery politics of this... -
New Languages of the State: Indigenous Resurgence and the Politics of Knowledge in Bolivia by Bret Darin Gustafson
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.33During the mid-1990s, a bilingual intercultural education initiative was launched to promote the introduction of indigenous languages alongside Spanish in public elementary schools in Bolivia's... -
The Search for the Codex Cardona by Arnold J. Bauer
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $22.24In The Search for the Codex Cardona, Arnold J. Bauer tells the story of his experiences on the trail of a cultural treasure, a Mexican "painted book" that first came into public view at Sotheby's... -
The Media Swirl: Politics, Audiovisuality, and Aesthetics by Carol Vernallis
RRP: $118.68Booksplease Price: $76.52From fan-generated content on TikTok to music videos, the contemporary media landscape is becoming ever more vast, spectacular, and intense. In The Media Swirl Carol Vernallis examines short-form... -
Embodying the Sacred: Women Mystics in Seventeenth-Century Lima by Nancy E. Van Deusen
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $23.53In seventeenth-century Lima, pious Catholic women gained profound theological understanding and enacted expressions of spiritual devotion by engaging with a wide range of sacred texts and objects, as... -
A Primer for Teaching Pacific Histories: Ten Design Principles by Matt K. Matsuda
RRP: $123.84Booksplease Price: $99.83A Primer for Teaching Pacific Histories is a guide for college and high school teachers who are teaching Pacific histories for the first time or for experienced teachers who want to reinvigorate... -
Cigarettes Are Sublime by Richard Klein
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $26.95Cigarettes are bad for you; that is why they are so good. With its origins in the author's urgent desire to stop smoking, Cigarettes Are Sublime offers a provocative look at the literary,... -
Mobilizing India: Women, Music, and Migration between India and Trinidad by Tejaswini Niranjana
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29Descendants of indentured laborers brought from India to the Caribbean between 1845 and 1917 comprise more than forty percent of Trinidad's population today. While many Indo-Trinidadians identify... -
Networked Reenactments: Stories Transdisciplinary Knowledges Tell by Katie King
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.33Since the 1990s, the knowledge, culture, and entertainment industries have found themselves experimenting, not altogether voluntarily, with communicating complex information across multiple media... -
The Deliverance of Others: Reading Literature in a Global Age by David Palumbo-Liu
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $27.27The Deliverance of Others is a compelling reappraisal of the idea that narrative literature can expand readers' empathy. What happens if, amid the voluminous influx of otherness facilitated by... -
Revolution and Its Narratives: China's Socialist Literary and Cultural Imaginaries, 1949-1966 by Xiang Cai
RRP: $165.12Booksplease Price: $133.13Published in China in 2010, Revolution and Its Narratives is a historical, literary, and critical account of the cultural production of the narratives of China's socialist revolution. Through... -
Becoming Black: Creating Identity in the African Diaspora by Michelle Wright
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29Becoming Black is a powerful theorization of Black subjectivity throughout the African diaspora. In this unique comparative study, Michelle M. Wright discusses the commonalties and differences in how...