Duke University Press
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Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography
$43.43 Read moreIn Camera Geologica Siobhan Angus tells the history of photography through the minerals upon which the medium depends. Challenging the emphasis on immateriality in discourses on photography, Angus foc… [more below]
- Author: Angus, Siobhan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: March 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1478030186
- Language: English
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Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World: The Alchemy Lecture
$37.43 Add to cartThe second annual Alchemy Lecture brought together five artists, thinkers, and writers who proposed new ways of being and discussed radical visions for the future. Five Manifestos for the Beautiful Wo… [more below]
- Author: Boswell, Phoebe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1478032189
- Language: English
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Blues Mamas and Broadway Belters: Black Women, Voice, and the Musical Stage
$41.93 Add to cartIn Blues Mamas and Broadway Belters, songwriter, scholar, and dramatist Masi Asare explores the singing practice of black women singers in US musical theatre between 1900 and 1970. Asare shows how a v… [more below]
- Series: Refiguring American Music
- Author: Asare, Masi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 147803095X
- Language: English
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Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as PRAXIS
$43.43 Add to cartThe Jamaican writer and cultural theorist Sylvia Wynter is best known for her diverse writings that pull together insights from theories in history, literature, science, and black studies, to explore … [more below]
- Author: McKittrick, Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 07 2015
- ISBN10: 0822358344
- Language: English
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The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property
$43.43 Add to cartIn 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 property… [more below]
- Author: Kim, Eunsong
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: August 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1478030488
- Language: English
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Erosion: American Environments and the Anxiety of Disappearance
$41.93 Add to cartIn Erosion, Gina Caison traces how American authors and photographers have grappled with soil erosion as a material reality that shapes narratives of identity, belonging, and environment. Examining ca… [more below]
- Author: Caison, Gina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: November 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1478031166
- Language: English
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Black Utopias: Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds
$40.43 Add to cartIn Black Utopias Jayna Brown takes up the concept of utopia as a way of exploring alternative states of being, doing, and imagining in Black culture. Musical, literary, and mystic practices become uto… [more below]
- Author: Brown, Jayna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 26 2021
- ISBN10: 147801167X
- Language: English
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Pollution Is Colonialism
$38.93 Add to cartIn Pollution Is Colonialism Max Liboiron presents a framework for understanding scientific research methods as practices that can align with or against colonialism. They point out that even when resea… [more below]
- Author: Liboiron, Max
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: May 14 2021
- ISBN10: 147801413X
- Language: English
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How We Make Each Other: Trans Life at the Edge of the University
$43.43 Add to cartTrans people have always lived in the cracks of institutions–and the university is no exception. In How We Make Each Other, Perry Zurn tells the stories of how trans people make and live their lives … [more below]
- Author: Zurn, Perry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1478031301
- Language: English
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The Personality of Power: A Theory of Fascism for Anti-Fascist Life
$43.43 Add to cart“I am the Chosen One!” With this exclamation Donald Trump crowns the national exceptionalism his base upholds with a claim of personal exceptionalism. He leaves no doubt as to the emotional note: “I a… [more below]
- Series: Thought in the ACT
- Author: Massumi, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 04 2025
- ISBN10: 147803159X
- Language: English
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The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability
$41.93 Add to cartIn The Right to Maim Jasbir K. Puar brings her pathbreaking work on the liberal state, sexuality, and biopolitics to bear on our understanding of disability. Drawing on a stunning array of theoretical… [more below]
- Series: Anima: Critical Race Studies Otherwise
- Author: Puar, Jasbir K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: November 03 2017
- ISBN10: 0822369184
- Language: English
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Gone Gone
$37.43 Add to cartIn Gone Gone, Todd Meyers reckons with grief in the face of overdose death and with the afterlives of loss created by the opioid crisis. Through conversations with friends, lovers, and family members … [more below]
- Author: Meyers, Todd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1478031646
- Language: English
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How to Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity
$44.93 Add to cart“Hold tight. The way to go mad without losing your mind is sometimes unruly.” So begins La Marr Jurelle Bruce’s urgent provocation and poignant meditation on madness in black radical art. Bruce theori… [more below]
- Series: Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study
- Author: Bruce, La Marr Jurelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: June 18 2021
- ISBN10: 1478010878
- Language: English
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Black Disability Politics
$37.43 Add to cartIn Black Disability Politics Sami Schalk explores how issues of disability have been and continue to be central to Black activism from the 1970s to the present. Schalk shows how Black people have long… [more below]
- Author: Schalk, Sami
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 31 2022
- ISBN10: 147802500X
- Language: English
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Judicial Territory: Law, Capital, and the Expansion of American Empire
$161.93 Add to cartIn Judicial Territory, Shaina Potts reveals how the American empire has benefited from the post-World War II expansion of United States judicial authority over the economic decisions of postcolonial g… [more below]
- Author: Potts, Shaina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1478026480
- Language: English
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Necropolitics
$40.43 Add to cartIn Necropolitics Achille Mbembe, a leader in the new wave of francophone critical theory, theorizes the genealogy of the contemporary world, a world plagued by ever-increasing inequality, militarizati… [more below]
- Series: Theory in Forms
- Author: Mbembe, Achille
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 25 2019
- ISBN10: 147800651X
- Language: English
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Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
$43.43 Add to cartIn the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our relations to the earth and all its inhabitants. She esc… [more below]
- Series: Experimental Futures
- Author: Haraway, Donna J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: September 19 2016
- ISBN10: 0822362244
- Language: English
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Learning to Lead: Undocumented Students Mobilizing Education
$38.93 Add to cartIn Learning to Lead, Jennifer R. N?jera explores the intersections of education and activism among undocumented students at the University of California, Riverside. Taking an expansive view of educati… [more below]
- Author: Nájera, Jennifer R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1478030534
- Language: English
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Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity
$46.43 Add to cartSlaves to Fashion is a pioneering cultural history of the black dandy, from his emergence in Enlightenment England to his contemporary incarnations in the cosmopolitan art worlds of London and New Yor… [more below]
- Author: Miller, Monica L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: October 08 2009
- ISBN10: 0822346036
- Language: English
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Female Masculinity
$29.95 Add to cartIn this quintessential work of queer theory, Jack Halberstam takes aim at the protected status of male masculinity and shows that female masculinity has offered a distinct alternative to it for well o… [more below]
- Author: Halberstam, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: January 09 2019
- ISBN10: 1478001623
- Language: English
