Deviations

Gayle S Rubin

• Paperback | Engels | John Hope Franklin Center Book
• Deviations is the definitive collection of writing by Gayle S. Rubin, a pioneering theorist and activist in feminist, lesbian and gay, queer, and sexu... Lees meer

The Barbara Johnson Reader

Barbara Johnson

• Hardcover | Engels | John Hope Franklin Center Book
• This Reader collects in a single volume some of the most influential essays written by Barbara Johnson over the course of her thirty-year career as a ... Lees meer

Duress

Ann Laura Stoler

• Paperback | Engels | John Hope Franklin Center Book
• How do colonial histories matter to the urgencies and conditions of our current world? How have those histories so often been rendered as leftovers, a... Lees meer

The Problem with Work

Kathi Weeks

• Paperback | Engels | John Hope Franklin Center Book
• In The Problem with Work , Kathi Weeks boldly challenges the presupposition that work, or waged labor, is inherently a social and political good. Whil... Lees meer

Critique of Black Reason

Achille Mbembe

• Hardcover | Engels | John Hope Franklin Center Book
• In Critique of Black Reason eminent critic Achille Mbembe offers a capacious genealogy of the category of Blackness-from the Atlantic slave trade to t... Lees meer

Lynching in the West

Ken Gonzales-Day

• Hardcover | Engels | John Hope Franklin Center Book
• Accounts of lynching in the United States have primarily focused on violence against African Americans in the South. Ken Gonzales-Day reveals racially... Lees meer

The Archive and the Repertoire

Diana Taylor

• Paperback | Engels | John Hope Franklin Center Book
• In The Archive and the Repertoire preeminent performance studies scholar Diana Taylor provides a new understanding of the vital role of performance in... Lees meer

Red Tape

Akhil Gupta

• Paperback | Engels | John Hope Franklin Center Book
• Red Tape presents a major new theory of the state developed by the renowned anthropologist Akhil Gupta. Seeking to understand the chronic and widespre... Lees meer

Liquidated

Karen Ho

• Paperback | Engels | John Hope Franklin Center Book
• Financial collapses-whether of the junk bond market, the Internet bubble, or the highly leveraged housing market-are often explained as the inevitable... Lees meer

Biopolitics

• Hardcover | Engels | John Hope Franklin Center Book
• This anthology collects the texts that defined the concept of biopolitics, which has become so significant throughout the humanities and social scienc... Lees meer

Sessue Hayakawa

Daisuke Miyao

• Paperback | Engels | John Hope Franklin Center Book
• While the actor Sessue Hayakawa (1886-1973) is perhaps best known today for his Oscar-nominated turn as a Japanese military officer in The Bridge on t... Lees meer

Anthropology and Social Theory

Sherry B Ortner

• Paperback | Engels | John Hope Franklin Center Book
• In Anthropology and Social Theory the award-winning anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner draws on her longstanding interest in theories of cultural practic... Lees meer

Equaliberty

Étienne Balibar

• Hardcover | Engels | John Hope Franklin Center Book
• First published in French in 2010, Equaliberty brings together essays by Étienne Balibar, one of the preeminent political theorists of our time. The b... Lees meer

Errant Modernism

Esther Gabara

• Paperback | Engels | John Hope Franklin Center Book
• Making a vital contribution to the understanding of Latin American modernism, Esther Gabara rethinks the role of photography in the Brazilian and Mexi... Lees meer

Critique of Black Reason

Achille Mbembe

• Paperback | Engels | John Hope Franklin Center Book
• In Critique of Black Reason eminent critic Achille Mbembe offers a capacious genealogy of the category of Blackness-from the Atlantic slave trade to t... Lees meer

World-Systems Analysis

Immanuel Wallerstein

• Paperback | Engels | John Hope Franklin Center Book
• In World-Systems Analysis , Immanuel Wallerstein provides a concise and accessible introduction to the comprehensive approach that he pioneered thirty... Lees meer

Surviving Against the Odds

S Ann Dunham

• Hardcover | Engels | John Hope Franklin Center Book
• President Barack Obama's mother, S. Ann Dunham, was an economic anthropologist and rural development consultant who worked in several countries includ... Lees meer

Can Politics Be Thought?

Alain Badiou

• Paperback | Engels | John Hope Franklin Center Book
• In Can Politics Be Thought? -published in French in 1985 and appearing here in English for the first time-Alain Badiou offers his most forceful and sy... Lees meer

The Barbara Johnson Reader

Barbara Johnson

• Paperback | Engels | John Hope Franklin Center Book
• This Reader collects in a single volume some of the most influential essays written by Barbara Johnson over the course of her thirty-year career as a ... Lees meer

Screening Sex

Linda Williams

• Paperback | Engels | John Hope Franklin Center Book
• For many years, kisses were the only sexual acts to be seen in mainstream American movies. Then, in the 1960s and 1970s, American cinema "grew up" in ... Lees meer

The Archive and the Repertoire

Diana Taylor

• Hardcover | Engels | John Hope Franklin Center Book
• In The Archive and the Repertoire preeminent performance studies scholar Diana Taylor provides a new understanding of the vital role of performance in... Lees meer

Constructing the Black Masculine

Maurice O Wallace

• Hardcover | Engels | John Hope Franklin Center Book
• In seven representative episodes of black masculine literary and cultural history--from the founding of the first African American Masonic lodge in 17... Lees meer

The Queer Art of Failure

Jack Halberstam

• Paperback | Engels | John Hope Franklin Center Book
• The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives-to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic... Lees meer

Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary

Paul Rabinow

• Paperback | Engels | John Hope Franklin Center Book
• In this compact volume two of anthropology's most influential theorists, Paul Rabinow and George E. Marcus, engage in a series of conversations about ... Lees meer