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Mestizo State

Reading Race in Modern Mexico

by Joshua Lund
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2012

The Mestizo State examines how the ideas, images, and public discourse around race, nation, and citizen formation have been transformed in Mexico from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Starting with the Porfiriato, Joshua Lund investigates the rise of a racialized “mestizo state,” its reinvention...
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Juárez Girls Rising

Transformative Education in Times of Dystopia

by Claudia G. Cervantes-Soon
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017

Working-class girls in Ciudad Juárez grow up in a context marked by violence against women, the devastating effects of drug cartel wars, unresponsive and abusive authorities, and predatory U.S. capitalism: under constantly precarious conditions, these girls are often struggling to shape their lives...
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Veer Ecology

A Companion for Environmental Thinking

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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017

The words most commonly associated with the environmental movement—save, recycle, reuse, protect, regulate, restore—describe what we can do to help the environment, but few suggest how we might transform ourselves to better navigate the sudden turns of the late Anthropocene. Which words can help...
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by Joseph J. Fischel
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016

Sex and Harm in the Age of Consent cautions against the adoption of consent as our primary determinant of sexual freedom. For Joseph J. Fischel, consent is not necessarily always ethically sound. It is, he argues, a moralized fiction, and it churns out figures for its normativity: the predatory sex offender...
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Gaming at the Edge

Sexuality and Gender at the Margins of Gamer Culture

by Adrienne Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015

Video games have long been seen as the exclusive territory of young, heterosexual white males. In a media landscape dominated by such gamers, players who do not fit this mold, including women, people of color, and LGBT people, are often brutalized in forums and in public channels in online play. Discussion...
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Universes without Us

Posthuman Cosmologies in American Literature

by Matthew A. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013

During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a wide variety of American writers proposed the existence of energies connecting human beings to cosmic processes. From varying points of view—scientific, philosophical, religious, and literary—they suggested that such energies would eventually...
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Hope at Sea

Possible Ecologies in Oceanic Literature

by Teresa Shewry
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015

As far back as Thomas More’s Utopia and Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis, the Pacific Ocean has inspired literary creations of promising worlds. Hope at Sea asks how literary writers have more recently conceived the future of ocean living. In doing so, it provides a new perspective on art and imagination...
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Civil Racism

The 1992 Los Angeles Rebellion and the Crisis of Racial Burnout

by Lynn Mie Itagaki
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016

The 1992 Los Angeles rebellion, also known as the Rodney King riots, followed the acquittal of four police officers who had been charged with assault and the use of excessive force against a Black motorist. The violence included widespread looting and destruction of stores, many of which were owned or...
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Split Screen Korea

Shin Sang-ok and Postwar Cinema

by Steven Chung
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014

Shin Sang-ok (1926–2006) was arguably the most important Korean filmmaker of the postwar era. Over seven decades, he directed or produced nearly 200 films, including A Flower in Hell (1958) and Pulgasari (1985), and his career took him from late-colonial Korea to postwar South and North Korea to...
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Double Visions, Double Fictions

The Doppelgänger in Japanese Film and Literature

by Baryon Tensor Posadas
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018

A fresh take on the dopplegänger and its place in Japanese film and literature—past and present Since its earliest known use in German Romanticism in the late 1700s, the word Dopplegänger (double-walker) can be found throughout a vast array of literature, culture, and media. This motif...
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Landscape of Discontent

Urban Sustainability in Immigrant Paris

by Andrew Newman
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015

On a rainy day in May 2007, the mayor of Paris inaugurated the Jardins d’Éole, a park whose completion was hailed internationally as an exemplar of sustainable urbanism. The park was the result of a hard-fought, decadelong protest movement in a low-income Maghrebi and African immigrant district starved...
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The Three-Minute Outdoorsman

Wild Science from Magnetic Deer to Mumbling Carp

by Robert M. Zink
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014

There are days when, if we hunt or fish or watch birds, we just want to be alone with our thoughts. Other times, however, contemplating the great outdoors that contains so many unknowns, we may wish to learn about moaning moose . . . or mumbling carp . . . or magnetic deer. And this is where Robert M....
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by Lisa Tatonetti
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014

With a new and more inclusive perspective for the growing field of queer Native studies, Lisa Tatonetti provides a genealogy of queer Native writing after Stonewall. Looking across a broad range of literature, Tatonetti offers the first overview and guide to queer Native literature from its rise in the...
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Awakening the Eye

Robert Frank's American Cinema

by George Kouvaros
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015

Until now, celebrated photographer Robert Frank’s daring and unconventional work as a filmmaker has not been awarded the critical notice it deserves. In this timely volume, George Kouvaros surveys Frank’s films and videos and places them in the larger context of experimentation in American art and...
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