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GENERAL INTEREST Cachita’s Streets, Schmidt 29
Aunties, Sablin 1 Gesture and Power, Covington-Ward 29
Haydée Santamaría, Cuban Revolutionary, Randall 2
Light in the Dark / Luz en lo Oscuro, Anzaldúa 3 C U LT U R A L S T U D I E S
Earth Beings, de la Cadena 4 Islam and Secularity, Göle 30
Ontopower, Massumi 5 Indian Given, Saldaña-Portillo 30
Strip Cultures, The Project on Vegas 6 Balibar on Althusser and Ideology’s Dramaturgy, Weed & Rooney 31
How Would You Like to Pay?, Maurer 7 1970s Feminism, Disch 31
Mounting Frustration, Cahan 8 Virtual Memory, King 32
Edgar Heap of Birds, Anthes 9 The Transparent Traveler, Hall 32
Zhang Hongtu, Lee & Silbergeld 10
AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES
Performance, Taylor 10
Dark Matters, Browne 33
Microgroove, Corbett 11
The Repeating Body, Brown 33
Muslim Fashion, Lewis 12
Territories of the Soul, Ellis 34
Asians Wear Clothes on the Internet, Pham 12
Shapeshifters, Cox 34
The Rio de Janeiro Reader, Williams, Chazkel & Knauss 13
Race Becomes Tomorrow, Sider 35
The Feminism of Uncertainty, Snitow 14
Saved for a Purpose, Joseph 15
I N D I G E N O U S / N AT I V E A M E R I C A N S T U D I E S
Normal Life, Spade 16
Dilemmas of Difference, Radcliffe 35
Exile and Pride, Clare 16
Conquest, Smith 17 G AY & L E S B I A N S T U D I E S / S E X U A L I T Y
Incognegro, Wilderson III 17 Sexing Empire, Cowan, Guidotti-Hernández & Ruiz 36
Reel World, Pandian 18 Metroimperial Intimacies, Mendoza 36
addicted.pregnant.poor, Knight 18
After War, Wool 19 ASIAN STUDIES
Cosmopolitan Conceptions, Inhorn 19 Queer Marxism in Two Chinas, Liu 37
Youth, Labor and Politics in East Asia, Lukács 37
ANTHROPOLOGY
Who Counts?, Nelson 20 SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES
The Need to Help, Malkki 20 Speaking of the Self, Malhotra & Lambert-Hurley 38
A Nervous State, Hunt 21 Pipe Politics, Contested Waters, Björkman 38
Emergent Ecologies, Kirksey 21 The Spectral Wound, Mookherjee 39
Alchemy in the Rain Forest, Jacka 22
Making Freedom, Makhulu 22 POLITICAL THEORY
Janus’s Gaze, Galli 39
MUSIC / SOUND STUDIES
Henri Bergson, Jankélévitch 40
Sensing Sound, Eidsheim 23
Sound, Chion 23 CARIBBEAN STUDIES
Remixing Reggaetón, Rivera-Rideau 24 Troubling Freedom, Lightfoot 40
Negro Soy Yo, Perry 24
Audible Empire, Radano & Olaniyan 25 HISTORY
Real Men Don’t Sing, McCracken 25 Food and France, Peters & Gordon 41

FILM STUDIES LITERARY CRITICISM

Birth of an Industry, Sammond 26 Modernist Ethics and Posthumanism, Ryan & West 41

SCIENCE STUDIES HISTORY OF ECONOMICS

Rendering Life Molecular, Myers 26 Market Failure in Context, Marciano & Medema 42

GENDER STUDIES M AT H E M AT I C S / N E W J O U R N A L S
Gut Feminism, Wilson 27 Banach Journal of Mathematical Analysis, Moslehian 42
Economies of Violence, Suchland 27 Annals of Functional Analysis, Moslehian 42

journals 43
RELIGIOUS STUDIES
Poetics of the Flesh, Rivera 28 selected backlist & bestsellers 46
Religious Affects, Schaefer 28 sales information & index Inside Back Cover

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Tube COVER: The last strawberries, Alekhovshchina, Leningrad Oblast, Russia, 2009.
Photograph by Nadia Sablin. From Aunties: The Seven Summers of Alevtina and Ludmila, page one.
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Aunties
The Seven Summers of Alevtina and Ludmila
photographs by nadia sablin
With a foreword by Sandra S. Phillips
In northwest Russia, in a small village called Alekhovshchina, Nadia Sablin’s
aunts spend the warmer months together in the family home and live as the
family has always lived—chopping wood to heat the house, bringing water from
the well, planting potatoes, and making their own clothes. Sablin’s remarkably
lyrical and evocative photographs, taken over seven summers, capture the
small details and daily rituals of her aunts’ surprisingly colorful and dreamlike
days, taking us not only to another country but to another time. Alevtina and
Ludmila, now in their seventies, seem both old and young, as if time itself was
as seamless and cyclical as their routines—working on puzzles, sewing curtains,
tatting lace, picking berries, repairing fences—and as full of the same subtle
mysteries. Sablin collaborated with her aunts to re-create scenes she remem-
bered from her childhood and to make new images of the patterns of their days.
In these photographs, Sablin combines observation and invention, biography
and autobiography, to tell the stories of her aunts’ life together, and in the pro-
cess, quilts together a thoughtful meditation on memory, aging, and belonging.
A CDS BOOK
Published by Duke University Press
and the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
see centerfold insert
PHOTOGRAPHY
November 88 pages, 11” x 8.25” trim size, 54 color photographs cloth, 978–0–8223–6047–6, $45.00tr/£31.00
WINNER
The Center for Documentary Studies/
Honickman First Book Prize in Photography
Nadia Sablin, a freelance photog-
rapher based in Brooklyn, New York,
earned a B.F.A. from the Rochester
Institute of Technology in 2002
and an M.F.A. from Arizona State
University in 2011. Her work has
been featured in such publications
as the New York Times, the
Guardian, the Moscow Times,
Photo by Nadia Sablin.
Slate, American Photo, the Calvert
Journal, and WPO ’s The Magazine. Sablin, who has received
the Firecracker Photographic Grant, a New York Foundation
for the Arts fellowship, and a Puffin Foundation Grant,
was named one of the Magenta Foundation’s Emerging
Photographers in 2011 and was Sean O’Hagan’s Juror’s Pick
for the Daylight Photo Awards in 2013. Sablin’s photographs
of her Russian aunts were chosen from 200 entries to
win the seventh biennial CDS /Honickman First Book Prize
in Photography.
Sandra S. Phillips is the senior curator of photography at
the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Among the most
recent exhibitions that she has curated for SFMOMA are South
Africa in Apartheid and After: David Goldblatt, Ernest Cole,
Billy Monk; Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective; and Exposed:
Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera Since 1870. Over her
career, she has curated major exhibitions, including Crossing
the Frontier: Photographs of the Developing West; William
Klein New York 1954–1955; Police Pictures: The Photograph as
Evidence; Diane Arbus: Revelations; Larry Sultan: The Valley;
and Robert Adams: Turning Back. Phillips has authored or
coauthored numerous catalogs, and her articles and essays
have appeared in such journals as Art in America, DoubleTake,
and History of Photography.
The Center for Documentary Studies/
Honickman First Book Prize in Photography
is open to North American photographers who use
their cameras for creative exploration, whether it
be of places, people, or communities; of the natural
or social world; of beauty at large or the lack of it;
of objective or subjective realities. For more informa-
tion about this important book series, Nadia Sablin’s
Aunties, and the previous prizewinning books, visit
firstbookprizephoto.com.
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Haydée Santamaría,
Cuban Revolutionary
She Led by Transgression
margaret randall

Margaret Randall is the Taking part in the Cuban Revolution’s first

author of dozens of books
of poetry and prose, includ-
ing Che on My Mind, and
the translator of When Rains
Became Floods: A Child
Soldier’s Story, both also
published by Duke University
Press.
Courtesy Albuquerque The
Magazine.
“Haydée Santamaría, Cuban Revolutionary is essential
reading for all involved in the struggles for social justice,
and for those devoted to literature, the arts, and
imagination as a core ingredient in realizing another world.
In Margaret Randall’s literary hands, Haydée is a study
of an ordinary, yet remarkable woman redefining herself
through commitment to revolutionary change and to the
people she loved. It is also a magnificent and sorrowful
meditation on revolution, loss, gender, and art. A major
and outstanding book.”—BERNARDINE DOHRN , activist,
academic, and clinical law professor, retired
armed action in 1953, enduring the torture
HAYDÉE SANTAMARÍA

and killings of her brother and fiancé,
CUBAN REVOLUTIONARY assuming a leadership role in the under-
SHE LED BY TRANSGRESSION ground movement, and smuggling weapons
into Cuba, Haydée Santamaría was the only
woman to participate in every phase of the
revolution. Virtually unknown outside of
Cuba, Santamaría was a trusted member of
Fidel Castro’s inner circle and friend of Che
Guevara. Following the revolution’s victory
Santamaría founded and ran the cultural
and arts institution Casa de las Americas,
Margaret Randall
which attracted cutting-edge artists, exposed
Cubans to some of the world’s greatest creative minds, and protected queer,
black, and feminist artists from state repression. Santamaría’s suicide in 1980
caused confusion and discomfort throughout Cuba; despite her commitment
to the revolution, communist orthodoxy’s disapproval of suicide prevented
the Cuban leadership from mourning and celebrating her in the Plaza of the
Revolution. In this impressionistic portrait of her friend Haydée Santamaría,
Margaret Randall shows how one woman can help change the course of history.

“In her personal and passionate book, Margaret Randall dares to speak out about the
pained silence surrounding Haydée Santamaría, perhaps the most important female figure
of the Cuban Revolution. Drawing on archives, interviews, memories, and imagination,
Randall brings this complex woman to life, both to honor her quiet idealism and to mourn
also by Margaret Randall her death by suicide, which made it impossible for her to be seen as a proper national
hero. This book opens the door to much-needed scholarship about the trauma suffered by
women who sought to bring about social transformations on the island.”—RUTH BEHAR,
author of Traveling Heavy: A Memoir in between Journeys

Che on My Mind
paper, $19.95tr/£13.99
978–0–8223–5592–2 / 2013

CUBA/BIOGRAPHY
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Light in the Dark / Luz en lo Oscuro

Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality
gloria e . anzaldúa
Edited by AnaLouise Keating

L IGH T I N T H E DA R K
LUZ E N LO OSC U RO
r e w r i t i ng i den t i t y,
sp i r i t ua l i t y, r e a l i t y
GLOR I A E . A NZ A L DÚA
e di t e d b y
Written during the last decade of her life, Gloria E. Anzaldúa (1942–
Light in the Dark represents the culmination 2004) was a visionary writer
whose work was recognized
of Gloria E. Anzaldúa’s mature thought
with many honors, including
and the most comprehensive presentation
the Before Columbus
of her philosophy. Throughout Anzaldúa Foundation American Book
weaves personal narratives into deeply Award, a Lambda literary award,
engaged theoretical readings to comment the National Endowment for
on numerous contemporary issues—includ- the Arts Fiction Award, and
Photo by Margaret Randall.
the Bode-Pearson Prize for
ing the September 11 attacks, neocolonial

a na l ou ise k e at i ng
practices in the art world, and coalitional
politics. She valorizes subaltern forms and
methods of knowing, being, and creating
that have been marginalized by Western
thought, and theorizes her writing process
as a fully embodied artistic and political practice. Resituating Anzaldúa’s work
within Continental philosophy and new materialism, Light in the Dark takes
Anzaldúan scholarship in new directions.
“Gloria E. Anzaldúa is one of the most generative and generous thinkers and story
tellers in our times. In these rich auto-ethnographies she continues to search for what
she calls the ‘positive shadows’ of personal and collective experience, spirit, and world.
Anzaldúa has the courage to write inside recesses and crevices to encounter what one
does not necessarily want to know, but needs nonetheless to inhabit, tuned to change
and possibility. In her unique speaking in entwined tongues, in Spanish and English, she
is a multimodal guide in our hard times to ‘active imagining’ for worlds that may yet be.
It is such a pleasure to see this book at last; it makes her legacy vivid when it is most
needed.”—DONNA HARAWAY, author of When Species Meet
Outstanding Contributions to American Studies. Her book
Borderlands / La frontera was selected as one of the 100
Best Books of the Century by the Hungry Mind Review and
the Utne Reader.
AnaLouise Keating, Professor of Women’s Studies at
Texas Woman’s University, is the author of Women Reading,
Women Writing: Self-Invention in Paula Gunn Allen, Gloria
Anzaldúa, and Audre Lorde; Teaching Transformation; and
Transformation Now! Toward a Post-Oppositional Politics
of Change. She is the editor of Anzaldúa’s Interviews/
Entrevistas; The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader; and EntreMundos/
AmongWorlds: New Perspectives on Gloria Anzaldúa; and
coeditor, with Anzaldúa, of this bridge we call home: radical
visions for transformation.
LATIN AMERIC A OTHERWISE
A Series Edited by Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt,
and Sonia Saldívar-Hull

“Ready to move beyond identity politics? Beyond contemporary theories of globalization, also by Gloria E. Anzaldúa
de-coloniality, feminism, Marxism? Then take this U.S. Third Space/Fourth World Feminist
Liberationist ride on Anzaldúan rivers of thought. They carry away outmoded debris.
Tributary streams nourish decolonial visions. Shimmering re-cognitions arrive. Perceptual
light shifts, wreaking havoc, unleashing floods of liberation philosophy. Dizzy? Take
the book’s medicine. It transforms refugees into citizen-chamanas, political co-creators
of how we will be known. Anzaldúa wonders: Do you have the yearning, the energizing
power of life, the courage to join us?”—CHELA SANDOVAL , author of Methodology
of the Oppressed

The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader

paper, $24.95tr/£16.99
978–0–8223–4564–0 / 2009

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Earth Beings
Ecologies of Practice across Andean Worlds
marisol de la cadena

Marisol de la Cadena is Earth Beings is the fruit of Marisol de la

Professor of Anthropology Cadena’s decade-long conversations with
at the University of California,
Mariano and Nazario Turpo, father and son,
Davis, and the author of
runakuna or Quechua people. Concerned
Indigenous Mestizos: The MARISOL
with the mutual entanglements of indig-
Politics of Race and Culture DE L A CADENA
in Cuzco, Peru, 1919–1991, enous and nonindigenous worlds, and the
also published by Duke E A RTH BEINGS partial connections between them, de la
University Press. EC O LOG I E S O F
PR AC T IC E AC RO S S Cadena presents how the Turpos’ indig-
A N D E A N WO R L D S enous ways of knowing and being include
and exceed modern and nonmodern prac-
tices. Her discussion of indigenous political
strategies—a realm that need not abide
by binary logics—reconfigures how to
think about and question modern politics,
while pushing her readers to think beyond “hybridity,” and toward translation,
communication that accepts incommensurability, and mutual difference as
conditions for ethnography to work.

THE LEWIS HENRY MORGAN LECTURES

A Series Edited by Robert Foster

“In response to its own subject, this is an extraordinary intervention in ethnography.

Marisol de la Cadena writes not across genres, different perspectives on one entity, but
in a way that allows different entities to emerge—and they’re not ‘genres’ at all. Diverse
narratives, conversations, recollections can be read simultaneously as scholarly tools
and as making present realities they can hardly contain. A highly courageous and in
personal terms deeply moving book.”—MARILYN STRATHERN , Cambridge University

also by Marisol de la Cadena “Earth Beings is one of those books that emerge into the scholarly domain once in a
decade that crystallizes that decade’s debates and rearticulates them in ways that open
paths into new worlds.”—ARTURO ESCOBAR, author of Territories of Difference: Place,
Movements, Life, Redes

Indigenous Mestizos:
The Politics of Race and Culture
in Cuzco, Peru, 1919–1991
paper, $27.95/£18.99
978–0–8223–2420–1 / 2000

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Ontopower
War, Powers, and the State of Perception
brian massumi

Color coded terror alerts; invasion; drone Brian Massumi is Professor of Communication at the
University of Montreal. He is the author of The Power at

Ontopower
war; rampant surveillance: all manifesta-
the End of the Economy, What Animals Teach Us about
tions of the type of new power Brian
Politics, and Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect,
War, Powers, and the State of Perception Massumi theorizes in Ontopower. Through Sensation, all also published by Duke University Press.
an in-depth examination of the War on
Terror and the culture of crisis, Massumi
identifies the emergence of preemption, “Ontopower is a powerfully written, tightly argued, and
which he characterizes as the operative persuasive accounting of the operative logic of preemp-
tion. Brian Massumi demonstrates how the military now
logic of our time. Security threats, regard-
drives war into the very nature of human perception.
less of the existence of credible intelligence,
Captivating and quintessential Massumi.”—ELIZABETH
are now felt into reality. Whereas nations POVINELLI , author of Economies of Abandonment:
Brian Massumi once waited for a clear and present danger Social Belonging and Endurance in Late Liberalism
to emerge before using force, a threat’s
felt reality now demands launching
a preemptive strike. Power refocuses on what may emerge, as that potential
presents itself to feeling. This affective logic of potential washes back from
the war front to become the dominant mode of power on the home front as
well. This is ontopower—the mode of power embodying the logic of preemp-
tion across the full spectrum of force, from the hardest (military intervention)
to the “soft” (surveillance). With Ontopower, Massumi provides an original
theory of power that explains not only current practices of war but the culture
of insecurity permeating our contemporary neoliberal condition.

also by Brian Massumi

The Power at the What Animals Teach Us Parables for the Virtual:
End of the Economy about Politics Movement, Affect,
paper, $21.95/£14.99 paper, $21.95/£14.99 Sensation
978–0–8223–5838–1 / 2015 978–0–8223–5800–8 / 2014 paper, $24.95/£16.99
978–0–8223–2897–1 / 2002

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Strip Cultures
Finding America in Las Vegas
the project on vegas

The members of The Project on Vegas are Stacy On the Las Vegas Strip, blockbuster casinos
M. Jameson, Instructor of Film Media at the University “Rabelais does Las Vegas” — Mike Davis
burst out of the desert, billboards prom-
of Rhode Island; Karen Klugman, photographer and
ise “hot babes,” actual hot babes proffer
Chair of the Art Department at the Hopkins School
complimentary drinks, and a million happy
in New Haven, Connecticut; Jane Kuenz , Associate
slot machines ring day and night. It’s loud
Professor of English at the University of Southern Maine;
and Susan Willis, Associate Professor of Literature at
STRIP CULTURES
Finding America in Las Vegas and excessive, but, as The Project on Vegas
Duke University. demonstrate, the Strip is not a world apart.
Combining written critique and more than
100 photographs by Karen Klugman, Strip
Cultures examines the politics of food and
water, art and spectacle, entertainment
and branding, body and sensory experience.
by The Project on Vegas In confronting the ordinary on America’s
most famous four-mile stretch of pavement,
the authors reveal how the Strip concentrates and magnifies the basic truths
and practices of American culture where consumerism is the stuff of life,
digital surveillance annuls the right to privacy, and nature—all but destroyed—
is refashioned as an element of decor.

“Bringing fresh perspectives to our understanding of the Las Vegas Strip, the authors
offer a compelling set of observations that speak not only to the over-the-top world
of the Strip, but to larger trends in American culture. They allow readers to catch a
brief glimpse of another Vegas, the one occupied by those who keep the city’s economic
wheels of gaming and tourism turning.”—LYNN COMELLA , University of Nevada,
Las Vegas

“Rabelais does Las Vegas.”—MIKE DAVIS , author of City of Quartz: Excavating the
also of interest Future in Los Angeles

Inside the Mouse:

Work and Play at Disney World
The Project on Disney
paper, $23.95
978–0–8223–1624–4 / 1995
Rights: World, except United Kingdom and Europe

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How Would You Like to Pay?

How Technology Is Changing the Future of Money
bill maurer

From Bitcoin to ApplePay, big changes Bill Maurer is Dean of the School
seem to be afoot in the world of money. of Social Sciences; Professor of
Anthropology, Law and Criminology,
How Would You Yet the use of coins and paper bills has
Law and Society; and the Director
Like to Pay? persisted for 3,000 years. In How Would
How Technology
of the Institute for Money, Technology
is Changing the
You Like to Pay?, leading anthropologist and Financial Inclusion at the
Future of Money Bill Maurer narrates money’s history, University of California, Irvine. He is
Bill Maurer the author of Pious Property: Islamic
considers its role in everyday life, and
Mortgages in the United States.
discusses the implications of how new
technologies are changing how we pay.
These changes are especially important
“A lucid and entertaining work which shines a light on many
in the developing world, where people
of the complexities of money and payments. Bill Maurer
who lack access to banks are using cell
makes us realize—and remember—that money is not just
phones in creative ways to send and economics and process, but also an integral part of human
save money. To truly understand money, life, and that the psychology and behavioral dynamics
Maurer explains, is to understand and appreciate the complex infrastructures around money are just as important to understand as the
and social relationships it relies on. Engaging and straightforward, How Would business aspects. A must-read!”—CAROL COYE BENSON ,
Glenbrook Partners
You Like to Pay? rethinks something so familiar and fundamental in new and
exciting ways. Ultimately, considering how we would like to pay gives insights
into determining how we would like to live.

F RO M C H A P T E R T WO
What is money? The answer is changing as electronic and mobile communications
devices become a new interface for storing, spending, paying and keeping track
of money, and as some in the tech world imagine an era of digital, non-state
currencies. Many people involved in economic development are pinning their
hopes for economic growth on adaptations of these new non-cash systems,
particularly with mobile phones. Others imagine libertarian utopias free from
governments and insulated from inflation and economic shocks thanks to peer-
to-peer cryptocurrencies. But can a new mode of payment or even a new currency
bring about such substantial changes? To answer this question, we need to
re-ask our earlier one: What is money?

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Susan E. Cahan is
Associate Dean and Dean
of the Arts in Yale College,
the editor of I Remember
Heaven: Jim Hodges and
Andy Warhol, and the coedi-
tor of Contemporary Art
and Multicultural Education.
She has directed programs at the New Museum of
Contemporary Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and
the Peter Norton Family Foundation.
“In this outstanding and nuanced book, Susan E. Cahan
illuminates a discourse over inclusion that took place all
over the country, and not just in visual art, but even in
opera and ballet where the very presence of the black
body became an issue. Her analysis reveals the muse-
ums’ duplicity, confusion, and attempts to serve only
their own interests, and the names of excluded artists
repeated in this book are shocking, as are the indica-
tions that curators claimed to have not known of people
like Jacob Lawrence. Mounting Frustration is a most
welcome means of cracking the silence and complacency
around the retrenchment since activists opened the
discourse on who owns culture.”—THULANI DAVIS ,
author of My Confederate Kinfolk: A Twenty-First Century
Freedwoman Discovers Her Roots
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Mounting Frustration
The Art Museum in the Age of Black Power
susan e . cahan
Prior to 1967 fewer than a dozen museum
MOUNTING exhibitions had featured the work of African
FRUSTRATION American artists. By the time the civil
THE ART rights movement reached the American art
MUSEUM IN museum, it had already crested: the first
THE AGE OF public demonstrations to integrate muse-
BLACK POWER ums occurred in late 1968, twenty years
after the desegregation of the military and
fourteen years after the Brown v. Board of
Education decision. In Mounting Frustration
Susan E. Cahan investigates the strategies
African American artists and museum pro-
fessionals employed as they wrangled over
SUSAN E. CAHAN
access to and the direction of New York
City’s elite museums. Drawing on numerous interviews with artists and analyses
of internal museum documents, Cahan gives a detailed and at times surprising
picture of the institutional and social forces that both drove and inhibited racial
justice in New York’s museums.
Cahan focuses on high-profile and wildly contested exhibitions that attempted to
integrate African American culture and art into museums, each of which ignited
debate, dissension, and protest. The Metropolitan Museum’s 1969 exhibition
Harlem on My Mind was supposed to represent the neighborhood, but it failed
to include the work of the black artists living and working there. While the
Whitney’s 1971 exhibition Contemporary Black Artists in America featured black
artists, it was heavily criticized for being haphazard and not representative. The
Whitney show revealed the consequences of museums’ failure to hire African
American curators, or even white curators who possessed knowledge of black art.
Cahan also recounts the long history of the Museum of Modern Art’s institutional
ambivalence toward contemporary artists of color, which reached its zenith in its
1984 exhibition “Primitivism” in Twentieth Century Art. Representing modern art
as a white European and American creation that was influenced by the “primitive”
art of people of color, the show only served to further devalue and cordon off
African American art.
In addressing the racial politics of New York’s art world, Cahan shows how
aesthetic ideas reflected the underlying structural racism and inequalities that
African American artists continue to face. The ongoing process of integrating
museums, Cahan demonstrates, is far broader than overcoming past exclusions.
ART HISTORY PUBLIC ATION INITIATIVE
www.arthistorypi.org
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Edgar Heap of Birds

bill anthes

For over three decades, contemporary Bill Anthes is a Professor in the Art Field Group
Native American artist Hock-E-Aye-Vi at Pitzer College and the author of Native Moderns:
Edgar Heap of Birds has pursued a disci- American Indian Painting, 1940–1960, also published
by Duke University Press.
plined practice in multiple media, having
shown his paintings, drawings, prints,
BILL ANTHES EDGAR HEAP OF BIRDS and text-based conceptual art through- “So often we fail to look carefully at or describe the works
out numerous national and international of Native American artists in depth, but tend instead to look
galleries and public spaces. In this first through them to some plane of political meaning to which
book-length study of this important artist, they presumably grant passage. Bill Anthes, by contrast,
lingers on and deeply engages with Edgar Heap of Birds’s
Bill Anthes analyzes Heap of Birds’s
work, filling a gaping hole in contemporary art scholarship.
art and politics in relation to the inter-
Compelling, thought provoking, and urgently needed.”
national contemporary art scene, Native —JANE BLOCKER , author of Where Is Ana Mendieta? Identity,
American history, and settler colonial- Performativity, and Exile
ism. Foregrounding how Heap of Birds
roots his practice in Cheyenne spirituality and an indigenous way of seeing
and being in the world, Anthes describes how Heap of Birds likens his art
to weapons, delivering trenchant critiques of the loss of land, life, and
autonomy endured by Native Americans. Whether appearing as interventions
in public spaces or in a gallery, Heap of Birds’s carefully honed artworks—
“sharp rocks”—pose questions about time, modernity, identity, power, and
the meaning and value of contemporary art in a global culture.

“The art of Edgar Heap of Birds as it comes to life in these pages guides us into the
dense interplay between seemingly familiar contemporary forms that in fact derive
from a lifetime of contemplation on the Cheyenne and Arapaho world the artist
belongs to and the art-making that grows therefrom. Bill Anthes impressively appreci-
ates the technical virtuosity Heap of Birds revels in even as he finds a path toward
understanding growing spiritual and intellectual wisdom—and perhaps more than
anything the great joy, humor, and hope—that have long fueled the art Edgar Heap of
Birds makes.”—ROBERT WARRIOR , editor of The World of Indigenous North America
also by Bill Anthes

Native Moderns:
American Indian Painting, 1940–1960
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Zhang Hongtu Performance

Expanding Visions of a Shrinking World
luchia meihua lee &
jerome silbergeld , editors
In this book, leading art
experts, art historians, and
critics review the life, career,
and artistic development
of New York–based Chinese
artist Zhang Hongtu.
A pioneer in contemporary
Chinese art, Zhang’s oeuvre
is as diverse, intellectually
complex, and engaging
as it is entertaining. From
Zhang Hongtu. Little Monkey, 2014. Ink, oil on
rice paper, mounted on panel; 48.5 x 46 inches. painting and sculpture to
Image courtesy of the artist.
computer-generated works
and multimedia projects, Zhang’s art is equally rich in terms
of China’s history and its current events, containing profound
reflections on China’s oldest cultural habits and contemporary
preoccupations. His art is designed to make Asian and Western
audiences look more closely at each other and at themselves
to recognize their beliefs and unexamined values.
From his early work during China’s Cultural Revolution to
his decades as an artist in New York, Zhang reflects the complex
attitudes of a scholar-artist toward modernity, as well as toward
Asian and Western societies and himself. Placing Zhang in the
context of his cultural milieu both in China and in the Chinese
immigrant artist community in America, this volume’s contributors
examine his adaptations of classic art to reflect a contemporary
sensibility, his relation to Cubism and Social Realism, his collabora-
tion with fashion designer Vivienne Tam, and his visual critique
of China’s current environmental crisis. Zhang’s work will be on
display at the Queens Museum in New York City from October 17,
2015 to March 6, 2016.
diana taylor
“Diana Taylor concludes with a strong claim that ‘Performance is a powerful
weapon. We need to understand it.’ In that light she is clearly a warrior
and an exemplary scholar. But she is also, as evidenced in the pages of this
book, a profoundly insightful, compassionate, hope-filled lover of perform-
ers and performance. I’ve rarely come across such a trustworthy witness
to the potential of art and activism. For that last ounce of courage,
I think I’ll just have to carry this inspiring chronicle of performance studies,
performance art and, from my read, artists of all sorts—and have it with
me in every type of backstage dressing room I might occupy.”—ANNA
DEAVERE SMITH
“Performance” has
multiple and often
overlapping meanings
that signify a wide
variety of social behav-
iors. In this invitation
to reflect on the power
of performance,
Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver (Split Britches) in their Diana Taylor explores
performance Retro Perspective / It’s a small house and
we’ve lived in it always, performed at the 2007 Encuentro many of its uses and
in Buenos Aires. Photo by Julio Pantoja.
iterations: artistic,
economic, sexual, political, and technological performance; the
performance of everyday life; and the gendered, sexed, and racial-
ized performance of bodies. This book performs its argument.
Images and texts interact to show how performance is at once a
creative act, a means to comprehend power, a method of transmit-
ting memory and identity, and a way of understanding the world.
Diana Taylor is University Professor of Performance Studies and
Spanish at New York University. She is the author and editor of several
books, including The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural
Memory in the Americas, and Disappearing Acts: Spectacles of Gender
and Nationalism in Argentina’s “Dirty War,” both also published by
Duke University Press.

Contributors
Julia F. Andrews, Alexandra Chang, Tom Finkelpearl, Michael Fitzgerald, Luchia Meihua
Lee, Morgan Perkins, Kui Yi Shen, Jerome Silbergeld, Eugenie Tsai, Thuy Linh Nguyen
Tu, Lilly Wei, Wu Hung

Luchia Meihua Lee is Guest Curator at the Queens Museum in

New York City and the Executive Director of the Taiwanese American
Arts Council. Jerome Silbergeld is P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Professor
of Chinese Art History at Princeton University.

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Microgroove
Forays into Other Music
john corbett

Microgroove continues John Corbett’s John Corbett is a music critic, record

MI CR exploration of diverse musics, with essays, producer, and curator. He is the author
of Extended Play: Sounding Off from
O GR interviews, and musician profiles that focus
on jazz, improvised music, contemporary
John Cage to Dr. Funkenstein, also

O O VE classical, rock, folk, blues, post-punk,

published by Duke University Press.
His writing has appeared in Downbeat,
and cartoon music. Corbett’s approach to The Wire, the Chicago Reader, and
writing is as polymorphous as the music, numerous other publications. He is
the co-owner of Corbett vs. Dempsey,
ranging from oral history and journalistic
an art gallery in Chicago.
portraiture to deeply engaged cultural cri-
Photo by W. Patrick Hinely
forays
tique. Corbett advocates for the relevance (WorkPlay).
into other music
john corbett of “little” music, which despite its smaller
audience, is of enormous cultural signifi-
“Microgroove is a brilliant contribution to the tradition of Nat
cance. He writes on musicians as varied Hentoff, Lester Bangs, Robert Christgau, John Rockwell, and
as Sun Ra, PJ Harvey, Koko Taylor, Steve Robert Palmer. John Corbett loves improvisation, and can
Lacy, and Helmut Lachenmann. Among other topics, he discusses recording write about unusual and nonpopular music in popular ways,
formats; investigates the relationship between music and visual art, dance, taking readers behind the curtain to help them understand
and poetry; and with Terri Kapsalis analyzes the role of female orgasm sounds what creativity means and the conditions under which it
comes to be. Corbett plays against the ultra-narrowcasting
in contemporary popular music. Above all, Corbett privileges the importance
concept that dominates media now, and seeks audiences
of improvisation; he insists on the need to pay close attention to “other” music
willing to chance an encounter with the unexpected. The
and celebrates its ability to open up pathways to new ideas, fresh modes of genre-busting of Microgroove is highly laudable and sorely
expression, and unforeseen ways of knowing. needed.”—GEORGE E. LEWIS, author of A Power Stronger
than Itself: the AACM and American Experimental Music

“John Corbett likes, I’m sorry—LOVES—all kinds of music. But who doesn’t? Well most
people really just dig one kind of genre or other but there are those who are into it ALL
and continue to seek and follow the wild threads from African American jazz, blues, R&B
and hip hop to the indie rock heart beat of college kid psychosis to the luscious worlds
of Braziliana to European free improvisation to Japanese noise and pop paroxysm. One also by John Corbett
may suspect this erudite fellow as a chin scratching academic but I’ve been in the pas-
senger seat next to this dude while he’s blasting Chicago blues cassettes and he’s ham-
mering the steering wheel and fully turned on by the dripping music moment of creation
and emotion. To share and express the impression of expression in discussion to the
intellect and to the cosmic fire, this is where the righteously engaged Corbett comes into
play. The respect, consideration, and wonder is genuine. As music defines his aesthetic
perspective so he playfully identifies our sentience with the promise of music, the power
of foreverness.”—THURSTON MOORE

Extended Play:
Sounding Off from
John Cage to Dr. Funkenstein
paper, $25.95/£17.99
978–0–8223–1473–8 / 1994

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Muslim Fashion Asians Wear Clothes

Contemporary Style Cultures on the Internet
reina lewis Race, Gender, and the Work
of Personal Style Blogging
minh - ha t. pham
“Gracefully interweaving hijab and veiling into historical, political, legal, and
cultural contexts, Reina Lewis delves deeply into the everyday style, fash-
ion, and dress of young Muslim women. Lewis captures a dynamic moment
in time—transnationally and comparatively—and offers keen insights into
“Asians Wear Clothes on the Internet is a fiercely imaginative and inspiring
the variations and intersectionalities of religion, ethnicity, class, gender,
book. Minh-Ha T. Pham’s discussion of the garment industry’s racialization
generation, and nation. Muslim Fashion is an extraordinary book and
and the details she provides about bloggers’ lives and the conditions of
an exemplary model of a feminist cultural studies approach to fashion.”
their labor is impressive. She acknowledges and debunks the writing on
—SUSAN B. KAISER , author of Fashion and Cultural Studies
overly utopian and breathless views of digital media as ‘participatory cul-
ture’ while giving full credit and agency to the bloggers she writes about.
Stunning!”—LISA NAKAMURA , author of Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures
In the shops of London’s
of the Internet
Oxford Street, girls wear
patterned scarves over their
hair as they cluster around In the first ever book devoted to a critical
makeup counters. Alongside investigation of the personal style blogo-
them, hip twenty-somethings sphere, Minh-Ha T. Pham examines the
style their head-wraps in phenomenal rise of elite Asian bloggers
high black topknots to match who have made a career of posting pho-
their black boot-cut trousers. tographs of themselves wearing clothes
MUSLIM Participating in the world of on the Internet. Pham understands their
FA S H I ON popular mainstream fashion— online activities as “taste work” practices
C O N T E M P O R A R Y S T Y L E C U LT U R E S often thought to be the domain that generate myriad forms of capital
REINA LEWIS
of the West—these young for superbloggers and the brands they
Photograph by Girls in Hunter
Muslim women are part of an emergent cross-faith transnational Boots and more. Licensed
feature. A multifaceted and detailed
under Creative Commons
youth subculture of modest fashion. In treating hijab and other Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0 analysis, Asians Wear Clothes on the
Generic. https://flic.kr/p/
forms of modest clothing as fashion, Reina Lewis counters the pvmpMJ Internet addresses questions concerning
overuse of images of veiled women as “evidence” in the prevalent the status and meaning of “Asian taste” in the early twenty-first
suggestion that Muslims and Islam are incompatible with Western century, the kinds of cultural and economic work Asian tastes do,
modernity. Muslim Fashion contextualizes modest wardrobe styling and the fashion public and industry’s appetite for certain kinds of
within Islamic and global consumer cultures, interviewing key racialized eliteness. Situating blogging within the historical context
players including designers, bloggers, shoppers, store clerks, of gendered and racialized fashion work while being attentive to
and shop owners. Focusing on Britain, North America, and Turkey, the broader cultural, technological, and economic shifts in global
Lewis provides insights into the ways young Muslim women consumer capitalism, Asians Wear Clothes on the Internet has pro-
use multiple fashion systems to negotiate religion, identity, and found implications for understanding the changing and enduring
ethnicity. dynamics of race, gender, and class in shaping some of the most
Reina Lewis is Professor of Cultural Studies at the London College popular work practices and spaces of the digital fashion media
of Fashion, University of the Arts London, and the author of Rethinking economy.
Orientalism: Women, Travel and the Ottoman Harem.
Minh-Ha T. Pham is Assistant Professor in the Graduate Media
Studies Program at the Pratt Institute. Her research has been featured
in the New York Times, the Guardian, the Atlantic, the San Francisco
Chronicle, CNN , NPR , Jezebel, and the Huffington Post.

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The Rio de Janeiro Reader

History, Culture, Politics
daryle williams , amy chazkel
& paulo knauss , editors

Spanning a period of over 450 years, The
Rio de Janeiro Reader traces the history,
THE culture, and politics of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
RIO DE JANEIRO
through the voices, images, and experi-
READER
H i story, Cu lture, Pol it ics
ences of those who have made the city’s
history. It outlines Rio’s transformation
from a hardscrabble colonial outpost and
strategic port into an economic, cultural,
and entertainment capital of the modern
world. The volume contains a wealth of
primary sources, many of which appear
here in English for the first time. A mix of
government documents, lyrics, journalism,
Daryle Williams, Amy Chazkel, and Paulo Knauss, editors
speeches, ephemera, poems, maps, engrav-
ings, photographs, and other sources capture everything from the fantastical
impressions of the first European arrivals to the complaints about roving
capoeira gangs, and from sobering eyewitness accounts of slavery’s brutality
to the glitz of Copacabana. The definitive English language resource on the city,
The Rio de Janeiro Reader presents the “Marvelous City” in all its complexity,
importance, and intrigue.
Daryle Williams is Associate Professor of History
at the University of Maryland and the author of Culture
Wars in Brazil: The First Vargas Regime, 1930–1945, also
published by Duke University Press. Amy Chazkel is
Associate Professor of History at the City University of New
York, Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center, and
the author of Laws of Chance: Brazil’s Clandestine Lottery
and the Making of Urban Public Life, also published
by Duke University Press. Paulo Knauss is Professor of
History at Universidade Federal Fluminense (Niterói, Brazil)
and the author of Rio de Janeiro da pacificação: franceses
e portugueses na disputa colonial.
“A great city deserves a great reader, and this one rises
to the occasion. From the colonial outpost to the modern
megalopolis, from emperors to the humblest of residents,
this reader offers snapshots of Rio from every angle. Chico
Buarque described cariocas as ‘completely crazy citizens,
with truckloads of reason.’ This book captures the craziness
and the reason.”—BRYAN M C CANN , author of Hard Times
in the Marvelous City: From Dictatorship to Democracy in the
Favelas of Rio de Janeiro

THE LATIN AMERIC A READERS

A Series Edited by Robin Kirk and Orin Starn

The Latin America Readers see page 46 for additional titles

The Dominican The Chile Reader: The Paraguay Reader: The Guatemala Reader:
Republic Reader: History, Culture, Politics History, Culture, Politics History, Culture, Politics
History, Culture, Politics Elizabeth Quay Hutchison, Peter Lambert & Greg Grandin, Deborah T. Levenson
Eric Paul Roorda, Lauren Derby Thomas Miller Klubock, Nara B. Andrew Nickson, editors & Elizabeth Oglesby, editors
& Raymundo González, editors Milanich & Peter Winn, editors paper, $27.95tr/£18.99 paper, $29.95tr/£20.99
paper, $27.95tr/£18.99 paper, $29.95tr/£18.99 978–0–8223–5268–6 / 2013 978–0–8223–5107–8 / 2011
978–0–8223–5700–1 / 2014 978–0–8223–5360–7 / 2013

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The Feminism of Uncertainty

A Gender Diary
ann snitow

Ann Snitow is Associate The Feminism of Uncertainty brings

Professor of Literature and
Gender Studies at Lang
College, The New School,
in New York City. A longtime
activist, Snitow has cofounded
The Network of East-West
Women, No More Nice Girls, and New York Radical
Feminists. She has written for the Village Voice, the
Nation, the Women’s Review of Books, Dissent, and
many other publications, and is coeditor of Powers
of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality and The Feminist
Memoir Project: Voices from Women’s Liberation.
“Ann Snitow’s writing brims with brilliance, subtlety,
and fresh insight on every page. Mixing personal
essay with complex theoretical thinking, these essays
stimulate and enlighten. One of those rare activists
who tries to understand rather than demolish her
political adversaries, Snitow manages here to be at
once deeply committed and open-minded, presenting
each side as sympathetically as her own. For anyone
confused by the controversies within feminism,
reading Ann Snitow is guaranteed to bring clarity.”
—ALIX KATES SHULMAN
“In this rich and varied collection drawn from a lifetime
of engagement with feminist politics, Ann Snitow com-
bines and recombines theory and activism to make
something living, fresh, and dare one say it, hopeful
out of what have proved to be surprisingly resistant
circumstances. I found thought-provoking insights
on every page, and so will you.”—KATHA POLLITT
The Feminism of Uncertainty
together Ann Snitow’s passionate, pro-
vocative dispatches from forty years
on the front lines of feminist activism
and thought. In such celebrated pieces
as “A Gender Diary”—which confronts
feminism’s need to embrace, while
dismantling, the category of “woman”—
Snitow is a virtuoso of paradox. Freely
mixing genres in vibrant prose, she
considers Angela Carter, Doris Lessing,
and Dorothy Dinnerstein and offers self-
reflexive accounts of her own organizing,
writing, and teaching. Her pieces on inter-
A Gender Diary ANN SNITOW
national activism, sexuality, motherhood,
and the waywardness of political memory all engage feminism’s impossible
contradictions—and its utopian hopes.
F RO M C H A P T E R T H R E E
From my first burst of intense activism, say 1969 to 1979, what I mainly recall
is a prevailing feeling shared across all sorts of different feminist groups, a
mixture of outrage and hope hard to recapture now. Sexism, racism, capitalism
were all under attack on many fronts; we expected everything was going to change.
I remember sitting on the train home after hours of talking to women, truly at ease
in a public place for the first time in my entire life, breathing deeply, taking as much
space as I wanted. Have we written enough about how erotic these new freedoms
sometimes felt? Most of us were young of course, but that can’t fully explain the
general atmosphere of passion set free, the literal embodiment of the name

“Ann Snitow is one of the irreplaceable voices of the the movement had then: “Women’s Liberation.”
feminist movement, as sharp, funny, precise, passion-
ate, and insightful today as she was in the founding
moments of women’s liberation. This collection
of pieces from her long career as an activist and
intellectual is as luminous and indispensable as she
is.”—GAYLE RUBIN

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Saved for a Purpose

A Journey from Private Virtues to Public Values
james a . joseph

The son of a minister, James A. Joseph
grew up in Louisiana’s Cajun country,
where his parents taught him the value
of education and the importance of
serving others. These lessons inspired
him to follow a career path that came
to include working in senior executive
or advisory positions for four U.S. pres-
idents and with the legendary Nelson
Mandela to build a new democracy
in South Africa. Saved for a Purpose
S AV E D F O R is Joseph’s ethical autobiography, in
A PUR POSE which he shares his moral philosophy
A Journey from Private Virtues to Public Values
and his insights on leadership.
j a m e s a. j o s e p h
In an engaging and personal style,
Joseph shows how his commitment to applying moral and ethical principles
to large groups and institutions played out in his work in the civil rights move-
ment in Alabama and as a college chaplain in California in the turbulent 1960s.
His time later as vice president of the Cummins Engine Company provided
an opportunity to promote corporate ethics, and his tenure as Under Secretary
James A. Joseph is Professor Emeritus of the
Practice of Public Policy at Duke University. Joseph
served as the U.S. ambassador to South Africa
from 1996 to 2000, and as the Under Secretary
of the U.S. Department of the Interior from 1977 to
1981. He was the President and CEO of the Council
on Foundations, Vice President of the Cummins
Engine Company, and served as Chaplain of the
Claremont Colleges. He is the recipient of numerous
honorary degrees and awards, including the Order
of Good Hope, South Africa’s highest award to a citi-
zen of a foreign country. Joseph is also the author of
Leadership as a Way of Being; Remaking America:
How the Benevolent Traditions of Many Cultures
Are Transforming Our National Life; and The
Charitable Impulse: Wealth and Social Conscience in
Communities and Cultures Outside the United States.
“I am so grateful that James A. Joseph has chosen to
share lessons learned from a lifetime of service in this
fine book.”—MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN , President,
Children’s Defense Fund

of the Interior in the Carter administration underscored the difficulty and
weight of making the right decisions while balancing good policy analysis
with transcendent moral principles.
In 1996 President Bill Clinton selected Joseph to become the U.S. ambassador
to South Africa. His recollections of working with Nelson Mandela, whom he
describes as a noble and practical politician, and his observations about what
he learned from Desmond Tutu and others about reconciliation contain some
of the book’s most poignant passages. Saved for a Purpose is unique, as
Joseph combines his insights from working to integrate values into America’s
public and private sectors with his long engagement with ethics as an
academic discipline and as a practical guide for social behavior. Ultimately,
it reflects Joseph’s passionate search for values that go beyond the personal
to include the ethical imperatives that should be applied to the communal.
All royalties from this book will be donated to the Association of Black Foundation
Executives (ABFE) and the Community Foundation of Sarasota County, Florida.
“James A. Joseph has had a remarkable career. I have
enjoyed working with him and watching him imple-
ment the values and ideals of Martin Luther King Jr. and
Nelson Mandela. He has written a book that I hope
will be widely read.”—ANDREW YOUNG , former
Congressman, United Nations ambassador, and Mayor
of Atlanta
“Ambassador James A. Joseph brings a new approach
to the question of why ethics matters by offering a
compelling case for ethical decision making drawn from
his wide and distinguished service in the real worlds
of church, business, charitable foundations, politics,
diplomacy, and higher education. The moral reasoning
in Saved for a Purpose is incredibly clear, and it is writ-
ten from an ethical perspective that is at once deeply
rooted in religious conviction and informed by careful
attention to the moral dimensions of decisions about
major social, economic, and political issues.”—JOSEPH
C. HOUGH JR. , President Emeritus of Union Theological
Seminary in New York and author of Black Power and
White Protestants

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NOW AVAIL A BLE FROM DUKE NOW AVA IL A BLE FROM DUKE

Normal Life Exile and Pride

Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Disability, Queerness, and Liberation
Politics, and the Limits of Law eli clare
dean spade With a new foreword by Aurora Levins Morales
and an afterword by Dean Spade
Revised and Expanded Edition

“Eli Clare writes with the spirit of a poet and the toughness of a construc-
“Should be read by everyone who is interested in challenging capitalism,
tion worker. The passion and skill of [his] writing will draw you inside
colonialism, racism, and patriarchy.”—ANGELA Y. DAVIS
a complex life and more deeply inside yourself.”—JEWELLE GOMEZ

Wait—what’s wrong with rights? It

“Should be read by everyone who is interested in challenging
capitalism, colonialism, racism, and patriarchy.” First published in 1999, the
—Angela Y. Davis
is usually assumed that trans and
groundbreaking Exile and Pride

EXILE
gender nonconforming people
is essential to the history and
should follow the civil rights and
future of disability politics. Eli
“equality” strategies of lesbian
and gay rights organizations
AND Clare’s revelatory writing about

NORMAL LIFE by agitating for legal reforms
that would ostensibly guarantee
nondiscrimination and equal
protection under the law. This
ADMINISTRATIVE VIOLENCE, CRITICAL TRANS approach assumes that the best
POLITICS, & THE LIMITS OF LAW DEAN SPADE way to address the poverty and
criminalization that plague trans
populations is to gain legal recognition and inclusion in the state’s
institutions. But is this strategy effective?
In Normal Life Dean Spade presents revelatory critiques of the
legal equality framework for social change and points to examples
of transformative grassroots trans activism that is raising demands
that go beyond traditional civil rights reforms. Spade explodes
assumptions about what legal rights can do for marginalized
populations, and describes transformative resistance processes
and formations that address the root causes of harm and violence.
In the new afterword to this revised and expanded edition, Spade
notes the rapid mainstreaming of trans politics and finds that
his predictions that gaining legal recognition will fail to benefit
trans populations are coming to fruition. In the context of recent
increased mainstream visibility of trans people and trans politics,
Spade continues to advocate for the dismantling of systems of
state violence that shorten the lives of trans people. Now more
than ever, Normal Life is an urgent call for justice and trans
liberation, and the radical transformations it will require.
Dean Spade is Assistant Professor at the Seattle University School
of Law and founder of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project.
PRIDE his experiences as a white dis-
abled genderqueer activist/writer
di s a bi l i t y, qu eer n e ss,
a n d l i ber at ion established him as one of the
ELI CLARE leading writers on the intersec-
with a New Foreword by
tions of queerness and disability
au ror a l e v i ns mor a l e s
and an Afterword by
de a n spa de and permanently changed the
landscape of disability politics
and queer liberation. With a
poet’s devotion to truth and an activist’s demand for justice, Clare
deftly unspools the multiple histories from which our ever-evolving
sense of self unfolds. His essays weave together memoir, history,
and political thinking to explore meanings and experiences of
home: home as place, community, bodies, identity, and activism.
Here readers will find an intersectional framework for understand-
ing how we actually live with the daily hydraulics of oppression,
power, and resistance. At the root of Clare’s exploration of envi-
ronmental destruction and capitalism, sexuality and institutional
violence, gender and the body politic, is a call for social justice
movements that are truly accessible to everyone. With heart and
hammer, Exile and Pride pries open a window onto a world where
our whole selves, in all their complexity, can be realized, loved,
and embraced.
Eli Clare is a poet, essayist, activist, and the author of The Marrow’s
Telling: Words in Motion. He speaks regularly at universities and confer-
ences throughout the United States about disability, queer identities,
and social justice, and his writing has appeared in numerous periodicals
and anthologies. Aurora Levins Morales is the author of Kindling:
Writings on the Body. Dean Spade is the author of Normal Life:
Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law.

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 general interest

NOW AVAIL A BLE FROM DUKE NOW AVA IL A BLE FROM DUKE

Conquest Incognegro
Sexual Violence and A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid
American Indian Genocide frank b . wilderson III
andrea smith
Foreword by Winona LaDuke
“Wilderson [will] become a major American writer. Mark my word.”
—ISHMAEL REED

“A must-read for everyone concerned about Native people and our Native
world.”—HAUNANI-KAY TRASK , author of From a Native Daughter:
Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai’i
In this revolutionary text, promi-
nent Native American studies
scholar and activist Andrea Smith
reveals the connections between
different forms of violence—
perpetrated by the state and by
society at large—and documents
their impact on Native women.
A MEMOIR OF EXILE AND APARTHEID
In 1995, a South African journal-
ist informed Frank Wilderson,
one of only two American mem-
bers of the African National
Congress (ANC), that President
Nelson Mandela considered
him “a threat to national secu-
rity.” Wilderson was asked to
comment. Incognegro is that
“comment.” It is also his response
INCOGNEGRO to a question posed five years

Beginning with the effects of
the abuses inflicted on Native
American children at state-sanc-
tioned boarding schools from the
1880s to the 1980s, Smith adroitly
expands our conception of violence to include the widespread
appropriation of Indian cultural practices by whites and other non-
Natives, environmental racism, and population control. Smith deftly
connects these and other examples of historical and contemporary
colonialism to the high rates of violence against Native American
women—the most likely to suffer from poverty-related illness and
to survive rape and partner abuse. Smith also outlines radical and
innovative strategies for eliminating gendered violence.
FRANK B. WILDERSON III later in a California university
classroom: “How come you came
back?” Although Wilderson recollects his turbulent life as an expa-
triate during the furious last gasps of apartheid, Incognegro is
at heart a quintessentially American story. During South Africa’s
transition, Wilderson taught at universities in Johannesburg and
Soweto by day. By night, he helped the ANC coordinate clandes-
tine propaganda, launch psychological warfare, and more. In this
mesmerizing political memoir, Wilderson’s lyrical prose flows from
unspeakable dilemmas in the red dust and ruin of South Africa
to his return to political battles raging quietly on U.S. campuses
and in his intimate life. Readers will find themselves suddenly
overtaken by the subtle but resolute force of Wilderson’s biting wit,

Andrea Smith is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies and Media
and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside. She is
the author of Native Americans and the Christian Right: The Gendered
Politics of Unlikely Alliances and coeditor of Theorizing Native Studies,
both also published by Duke University Press.
rare vulnerability, and insistence on bearing witness to history no
matter the cost.
Frank B. Wilderson III is Professor of African American Studies and
Drama at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Red,
White, and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms, also
published by Duke University Press.

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 general interest

Reel World addicted.pregnant.poor

An Anthropology of Creation kelly ray knight
anand pandian
With a foreword by Walter Murch
“Kelly Ray Knight has the courage to expose eloquently and ethnographically
one of the most painful public secrets of addiction and urban poverty (and
gentrification) that medicine, public health, science, and society cannot solve.
“Reel World thinks in and through the media of cinema and experience as What this book documents ethnographically and explores theoretically must
things of the world. They are like fireflies whose paths flash and cut out. be confronted in all its impossible complexity and violence.”—PHILIPPE
A chance encounter, a glance, or a gesture activates experiments in rhythm BOURGOIS , coauthor of Righteous Dopefiend
and voice, light and sound, a feeling of movement. Streets, migrants,
flowers, bullets, children’s textbooks and bottlefuls of pills form ecologies
of incipience. Ontological curiosity laps like an infinity wave in the craving For the addicted, pregnant, and poor
addic .poor
K E L LY R AY K N I G H T

for wonders now.”—KATHLEEN STEWART, author of Ordinary Affects
Reel World explores what happens
to life when everything begins to
look and feel like cinema. Drawing
on years of fieldwork with Tamil
filmmakers, artists, musicians,
and craftsmen in the south Indian
movie studios of “Kollywood,”
Anand Pandian examines how
ordinary moments become
elements of a cinematic world.
With inventive, experimental, and
sometimes comical zeal, Pandian
pursues the sensory richness
Photo by the author.
of cinematic experience and the
adventure of a writing true to these sensations. Thinking with the
visceral power of sound and image, his stories also broach deeply
philosophical themes such as desire, time, wonder, and imagination.
In a spirit devoted to the turbulence and uncertainty of genesis,
Reel World brings into focus an ecology of creative process:
the many forces, feelings, beings, and things that infuse human
endeavors with transformative potential.
women living in daily-rent hotels in
addicted.pregnant.poor
addicted.pregnant.poor San Francisco’s Mission district, life
addicted.pregnant.poor is marked by battles against drug
addicted.pregnant.poor
cravings, housing debt, and potential
addicted.pregnant.poor
addicted.pregnant.poor violence. In this stunning ethnogra-
addicted.pregnant.poor phy Kelly Ray Knight presents these
addicted.pregnant.poor
women in all their complex humanity
addicted.pregnant.poor
addicted.pregnant.poor and asks what kinds of futures are
addicted.pregnant.poor possible for them given their seem-
addicted.pregnant.poor ingly hopeless situation. During her
addicted.pregnant.poor
four years of fieldwork Knight docu-
mented women’s struggles as they traveled from the street to the
clinic, jail, and family court, and back to the hotels. She approaches
addicted pregnancy as an everyday phenomenon in these women’s
lives, and describes how they must navigate the tension between
pregnancy’s demands to stay clean and the pull of addiction and
poverty toward drug use and sex work. By creating the space for
addicted women’s own narratives and examining addicted pregnancy
from medical, policy, and social science perspectives, Knight forces
us to confront and reconsider the ways we think about addiction,
trauma, health, criminality, and responsibility.
Kelly Ray Knight is Assistant Professor of Anthropology, History and
Social Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.

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published by Duke University Press. Walter Murch is a sound designer,

film editor, and the winner of three Academy Awards.

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After War Cosmopolitan Conceptions

The Weight of Life at Walter Reed IVF Sojourns in Global Dubai
zoë h . wool marcia c . inhorn

“This brilliant and absorbing ethnography reveals how the violence of war
is rendered simultaneously enduring and ephemeral for wounded American
soldiers. Zoë H. Wool accounts for the frankness of embodiment and the
unstable yet ceaseless processes through which the ordinary work of living
is accomplished in the aftermath of serious injury. After War is a work
of tremendous clarity and depth opening new sightlines in disability and
the critical politics of the human body.”—JULIE LIVINGSTON , author of
Improvising Medicine: An African Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer
Epidemic
In After War Zoë H. Wool explores how the American soldiers
“Cosmopolitan Conceptions is a groundbreaking contribution to ongoing
discussions of globalized medicine, travel for reproductive care, and
the multiple and complex modernities of the contemporary Middle East.
Marcia C. Inhorn writes with great sympathy, valorizing the first-person
rationalities, suffering, and aspirations of the people she interviewed.
A very valuable book.”—RAYNA RAPP, author of Testing Women, Testing
the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America
In their desperate quest for con-
I VF
Sojourns
in ception, thousands of infertile

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couples from around the world

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most severely injured in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars struggle

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travel to the global in vitro fer-

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to build some kind of ordinary life while recovering at Walter Reed
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tilization (IVF) hub of Dubai. In

Army Medical Center from grievous injuries like lost limbs and
traumatic brain injury. Between 2007 and 2008, Wool spent time
with many of these mostly male soldiers and their families and
loved ones in an effort to understand what it’s like to be blown
up and then pulled toward an ideal and ordinary civilian life in
a place where the possibilities of such a life are called into ques-
tion. Contextualizing these soldiers within a broader political and
moral framework, Wool considers the soldier body as a historically,
politically, and morally laden national icon of normative masculinity.
She shows how injury, disability, and the reality of soldiers’ experi-
ences and lives unsettle this icon and disrupt the all-too-common
narrative of the heroic wounded veteran as the embodiment of
patriotic self-sacrifice. For these soldiers, the uncanny ordinariness
of seemingly extraordinary everyday circumstances and practices
at Walter Reed create a reality that will never be normal.
Zoë H. Wool is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Writing and Theory in the
Department of Anthropology at Columbia University.
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it a
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po
Cosmo
Cosmopolitan Conceptions Marcia
C. Inhorn highlights the stories
of 220 “reprotravelers” from fifty
countries who sought treatment at
a “cosmopolitan” IVF clinic in Dubai.
These couples cannot find safe,
affordable, legal, and effective IVF
services in their home countries, and their stories offer a window
into the world of infertility—a world that is replete with pain, fear,
danger, frustration, and financial burden. These hardships dispel
any notion that traveling for IVF treatment is reproductive tourism.
The magnitude of reprotravel to Dubai, Inhorn contends, reflects
the failure of countries to meet their citizens’ reproductive needs,
which suggests the necessity of creating new forms of activism
that advocate for developing alternate pathways to parenthood,
reducing preventable forms of infertility, supporting the infertile,
and making safe and low-cost IVF available worldwide.
Marcia C. Inhorn is William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Anthropology
and International Affairs in the Department of Anthropology and The
Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies
at Yale University. She is the coeditor of Medical Anthropology at the
Intersections: Histories, Activisms, and Futures, also published by Duke
University Press.

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 anthropolog y

Who Counts? The Need to Help

The Mathematics of Death and Life After Genocide The Domestic Arts of International Humanitarianism
diane m . nelson liisa h . malkki

“‘Life is painting a picture not doing a sum,’ Oliver Wendell Holmes once “Many have noted that heroic humanitarianism, if often inadvertently,
said; the diversity of human experience and the complexities of culture tends to presume a passive, suffering other. In this work, Liisa H. Malkki
can’t be explained by formula (no matter what our social scientists say). shatters that one-way mirror. With uncommon imagination and insight,
Holmes’s observation is wonderfully brought to life by Diane M. Nelson in she turns her gaze back on the neediness of the benefactor: on the ways
her compelling new ethnography, Who Counts? Building on her previous in which distant care-giving might offer an escape—a sense of passion
pathbreaking scholarship on Guatemala, Nelson creatively and empatheti- and purpose—to those alienated in prison-houses of relative affluence.”
cally documents the many ways in which a postgenocidal society struggles —JEAN COMAROFF, coeditor of Millennial Capitalism and the Culture
against the stifling cunning of neoliberal regimentation—against, in of Neoliberalism
other words, extinction by other means.”—GREG GRANDIN , author of
Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World
In The Need to Help Liisa H. Malkki
shifts the focus of the study of
In Who Counts? Diane humanitarian intervention from
M. Nelson explores aid recipients to aid workers
the social life of num-
bers, teasing out the The themselves. The anthropological
commitment to understand the
myriad roles math plays
in Guatemalan state Need to motivations and desires of these
professionals and how they imag-

violence, economic
exploitation and dis-
enfranchisement, as
Photo by James Rodríguez, used with kind permission.
well as in Mayan revi-
talization and grassroots environmental struggles. In the aftermath of
thirty-six years of civil war, to count—both numerically and in the sense
of having value—is a contested and qualitative practice of complex
calculations encompassing war losses, migration, debt, and competing
understandings of progress. Nelson makes broad connections among
seemingly divergent phenomena, such as debates over reparations
for genocide victims, Ponzi schemes, and anti-mining movements.
Challenging the presumed objectivity of Western mathematics, Nelson
shows how it flattens social complexity and becomes a raced, classed,
and gendered skill that colonial powers considered beyond the grasp
of indigenous peoples. Yet the Classic Maya are famous for the preci-
sion of their mathematics, including conceptualizing zero long before
Europeans. Nelson shows how Guatemala’s indigenous population is
increasingly returning to Mayan numeracy to critique systemic inequali-
ties with the goal of being counted—in every sense of the word.
Diane M. Nelson is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University
and a coeditor of War by Other Means: Aftermath in Post-Genocide
Guatemala and author of Reckoning: The Ends of War in Guatemala,
both also published by Duke University Press; and A Finger in the Wound:
Body Politics in Quincentennial Guatemala.
Help
THE DOMESTIC ARTS OF
INTERNATIONAL ine themselves in the world “out
HUMANITARIANISM
Liisa H. Malkki there” led Malkki to spend more
than a decade interviewing mem-
bers of the international Finnish
Red Cross, as well as observing
Finns who volunteered from their
homes through gifts of handiwork.
The need to help, she shows, can come from a profound neediness—
the need for aid workers and volunteers to be part of the lively world
and something greater than themselves, and, in the case of the elderly
who knit “trauma teddies” and “aid bunnies” for “needy children,” the
need to fight loneliness and loss of personhood. In seriously examining
aspects of humanitarian aid often dismissed as sentimental, or trivial,
Malkki complicates notions of what constitutes real political work.
She traces how the international is always entangled in the domestic,
whether in the shape of the need to leave home or handmade gifts that
are an aid to sociality and to the imagination of the world.
Liisa H. Malkki is Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University. She
is the author of Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory, and National Cosmology
among Hutu Refugees in Tanzania, and the coauthor of Improvising Theory:
Process and Temporality in Ethnographic Fieldwork.

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 anthropolog y
A Nervous State
Violence, Remedies, and Reverie in Colonial Congo
nancy rose hunt
“With stunning insight, Nancy Rose Hunt makes a distinguished contribu-
tion to African history that goes a long way toward generating a critical
understanding of colonial projects, their alignment with forms of early
capitalism, and the brutal practices of extraction industries. By braiding
these issues with the emergence of new healing cults, Hunt helps us better
understand the complex social process of colonialism. A Nervous State will
greatly impact African studies, colonial history, and the anthropology of
medicine and violence.”—VEENA DAS , coeditor of The Ground Between:
Anthropologists Engage Philosophy
Photo courtesy of Disciples of Christ Historical Society.
In A Nervous State, Nancy Rose Hunt considers the afterlives of
violence and harm in King Leopold’s Congo Free State. Discarding catas-
trophe as narrative form, she instead brings alive a history of colonial
nervousness. This mood suffused medical investigations, security
operations, and vernacular healing movements. With a heuristic of two
colonial states—one “nervous,” one biopolitical—the analysis alternates
between medical research into birthrates, gonorrhea, and childlessness
and the securitization of subaltern “therapeutic insurgencies.” By the
time of Belgian Congo’s famed postwar developmentalist schemes,
a shining infertility clinic stood near a bleak penal colony, both sited
where a notorious Leopoldian rubber company once enabled rape and
mutilation. Hunt’s history bursts with layers of perceptibility and song,
conveying everyday surfaces and daydreams of subalterns and colonials
alike. Congolese endured and evaded forced labor and medical and
security screening. Quick-witted, they stirred unease through healing,
wonder, memory, and dance. This capacious medical history sheds light
on Congolese sexual and musical economies, on practices of distraction,
urbanity, and hedonism. Drawing on theoretical concepts from Georges
Canguilhem, Georges Balandier, and Gaston Bachelard, Hunt provides a
bold new framework for teasing out the complexities of colonial history. 
Nancy Rose Hunt is Professor of History at the University of Michigan,
and the author of the prizewinning A Colonial Lexicon: Of Birth Ritual,
Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo, also published by Duke
University Press.
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Emergent Ecologies
eben kirksey
“A praisesong for the possibilities of bricolage, Emergent Ecologies is a
postmodern natural history in which displaced ants, macaques, frogs, and
flies tumble with philosophy, performance art, science, and adventure story.
Eben Kirksey takes us on a wild ride through a funhouse of risky and ironic
entanglements.”—ANNA LOWENHAUPT TSING , coeditor of Words in
Motion: Toward a Global Lexicon
In an era of global warming, natural
disasters, endangered species,
and devastating pollution, contem-
porary writing on the environment
largely focuses on doomsday
scenarios. Eben Kirksey suggests
we reject such apocalyptic think-
ing and instead find possibilities
in the wreckage of ongoing disas-
ters, as symbiotic associations of
opportunistic plants, animals, and
microbes are flourishing in unex-
pected places. Emergent Ecologies
Photo by the author.
uses artwork and contemporary
philosophy to illustrate hopeful opportunities and reframe key prob-
lems in conservation biology such as invasive species, extinction,
environmental management, and reforestation. Following the flight of
capital and nomadic forms of life—through fragmented landscapes
of Panama, Costa Rica, and the United States—Kirksey explores how
chance encounters, historical accidents, and parasitic invasions have
shaped present and future multispecies communities. New generations
of thinkers and tinkerers are learning how to care for emergent ecologi-
cal assemblages—involving frogs, fungal pathogens, ants, monkeys,
people, and plants—by seeding them, nurturing them, protecting them,
and ultimately letting go.
Eben Kirksey is a permanent faculty member in Environmental Humanities
at UNSW Australia and a Visiting Research Scholar at The Graduate Center,
City University of New York. He is the editor of The Multispecies Salon,
and the author of Freedom in Entangled Worlds: West Papua and the
Architecture of Global Power, both also published by Duke University Press.
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Alchemy in the Rain Forest
Politics, Ecology, and Resilience
in a New Guinea Mining Area
jerry k . jack a
“In this field-changing analysis, Jerry K. Jacka shows us a world that is com-
plex and changing, and he takes topics readers think they know and treats
them in new and stimulating ways. Alchemy in the Rain Forest is a brilliant
examination of ontological adaptation and change over the course of the
history of Papua New Guinea’s highlands.”—PAIGE WEST, author of From
Modern Production to Imagined Primitive: The Social World of Coffee from
Papua New Guinea
In Alchemy in the Rain Forest
Jerry K. Jacka explores how
the indigenous population of
Papua New Guinea’s Porgeran
highlands struggle to create
meaningful lives in the midst
of extreme social conflict
and environmental degrada-
Photo by the author.
tion. Drawing on theories of
political ecology, place, and ontology, and using ethnographic, environ-
mental, and historical data, Jacka presents a multilayered examination
of the impacts large-scale commercial gold mining in the region has had
on ecology and social relations. Despite the deadly interclan violence
and widespread pollution brought on by mining, the uneven distribu-
tion of its financial benefits has led many Porgerans to call for further
development. This desire for increased mining, Jacka points out, coun-
ters popular portrayals of indigenous people as innate conservationists
who defend the environment from international neoliberal development.
Jacka’s examination of the ways Porgerans search for common ground
between capitalist and indigenous ways of knowing and being points to
the complexity and interconnectedness of land, indigenous knowledge,
and the global economy in Porgera and beyond.
Jerry K. Jacka is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University
of Colorado, Boulder.
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Making Freedom
Apartheid, Squatter Politics,
and the Struggle for Home
anne- maria makhulu
“We tend to think of South Africa in terms of its heroic struggles. Anne-
Maria Makhulu shows us just how much we can learn by appreciating
its quieter and less dramatic subaltern moments. In doing so, she places
the expansion of shack settlements in post-apartheid Cape Town within
the larger transformations of a global context.”—DONALD L. DONHAM ,
author of Violence in a Time of Liberation: Murder and Ethnicity at a South
African Gold Mine, 1994
In Making Freedom Anne-Maria
Makhulu examines practices
of squatting and illegal settle-
ment on the outskirts of Cape
Town during and immediately
following the end of apartheid.
Apartheid’s paradoxical policies
of prohibiting migrant Africans
Photo courtesy of Josette Cole.
who worked in Cape Town from
living permanently within the city led some black families to seek safe
haven on the city’s perimeters. Beginning in the 1970s families set up
makeshift tents and shacks and built whole communities, defying the
state through what Makhulu calls a “politics of presence.” In the simple
act of building homes, squatters, who Makhulu characterizes as urban
militants, actively engaged a politics of “the right to the city” that
became vital in the broader struggles for liberation. Despite apartheid’s
end in 1994, Cape Town’s settlements have expanded, as new forms
of dispossession associated with South African neoliberalism perpetu-
ate relations of spatial exclusion, poverty, and racism. As Makhulu
demonstrates, the efforts of black Capetonians to establish claims to
a place in the city not only decisively reshaped Cape Town’s geography
but changed the course of history.
Anne-Maria Makhulu is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and
African and African American Studies at Duke University. She is a coeditor
of Hard Work, Hard Times: Global Volatility and African Subjectivities.
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 music / sound studies

Sensing Sound Sound

Singing and Listening as Vibrational Practice An Acoulogical Treatise
nina sun eidsheim michel chion
Translated and with an introduction by James A. Steintrager

“Sensing Sound offers a singular and original perspective on the status of

the voice and the theory of music. Nina Sun Eidsheim teaches readers to
think about voice as a multisensory phenomenon, and in so doing, turns
the tools of sound studies and critical musicology against themselves,
demonstrating conclusively that an understanding of sound is not enough
for understanding voice, singing, or music.”—JONATHAN STERNE , author
of MP3: The Meaning of a Format
“Michel Chion is one of the leading—and most prolific—writers on sound,
but only a few of his many books are available in English. This impeccable
translation of Sound will make Chion’s outstanding work available to a
broader audience.”—VEIT ERLMANN , author of Reason and Resonance:
A History of Modern Aurality

First published in French in 1998, revised in 2010, and appearing

In Sensing Sound Nina Sun
Eidsheim offers a vibrational
theory of music that radically
re-envisions how we think
about sound, music, and
listening. Eidsheim shows
how—rather than being fixed,
knowable, and constant—
sound, music, and listening
are dynamic and contextually
dependent. She uses twenty-
first-century operas by Juliana
Snapper, Meredith Monk,
Christopher Cerrone, and Alba
Triana as case studies to chal-
Songs of Ascensions performed inside the
sculptural tower created by Anne Hamilton. lenge common assumptions
Photo by Maria Mikheyenko.
about sound—such as air being
the default medium through which it travels—and to demonstrate the
importance a performance’s location and reception play in its contin-
gency. By theorizing the voice as an object of knowledge and rejecting
the notion of an a priori definition of sound, Eidsheim releases
the voice from a constraining set of fixed concepts and meanings.
In Eidsheim’s theory, music consists of aural, tactile, spatial, physical,
material, and vibrational sensations. This expanded definition of music
as manifested through material and personal relations suggests that we
are all connected to each other in and through sound. Sensing Sound
will appeal to readers interested in sound studies, new musicology,
contemporary opera, and performance studies.
Nina Sun Eidsheim is Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University
of California, Los Angeles.
here in English for the first time, Michel Chion’s Sound addresses the
philosophical, interpretive, and practical questions that inform our
encounters with sound. Chion considers how cultural institutions privi-
lege some sounds above others and how spurious distinctions between
noise and sound guide the ways we hear and value certain sounds.
He critiques the tenacious tendency to understand sounds in relation
to their sources and advocates “acousmatic” listening—listening with-
out visual access to a sound’s cause—to disentangle ourselves from
auditory habits and prejudices. Yet sound can no more be reduced
to mere perceptual phenomena than encapsulated in the sciences of
acoustics and physiology. As Chion reminds us and explores in depth,
a wide range of linguistic, sensory, cultural, institutional, and media-
and technologically specific factors interact with and shape sonic
experiences. Interrogating these interactions, Chion stimulates us to
think about how we might open our ears to new sounds, become more
nuanced and informed listeners, and more fully understand the links
between how we hear and what we do.
Michel Chion is a composer, filmmaker, teacher, researcher, and the
author of several books, including Film, A Sound Art; The Voice in Cinema;
and Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen. James A. Steintrager is Professor
of English, Comparative Literature, and European Languages and Studies
at the University of California, Irvine; he is the author, most recently,
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The Cultural Politics of Race in Puerto Rico
petr a r . rivera - rideau
“Petra R. Rivera-Rideau does an outstanding job explaining the contradic-
tory power dynamics behind the representations of blackness in Puerto
Rico. In exploring the ways in which racial identities get restructured,
reorganized, and even elided through the music industry, Rivera-Rideau
provides a significant contribution and a brilliant intervention into stud-
ies on race, blackness, and popular music in Puerto Rico.”—FRANCES
APARICIO , author of Listening to Salsa: Gender, Latin Popular Music,
and Puerto Rican Cultures
emixing
RRemixing
“racial democracy” in which a history
RegReggaetón
gaeton
The Cultural Politics of Race in Puerto Rico Petra R. Rivera-Rideau
neglecting and marginalizing the island’s black population, while Ivy
Queen, the genre’s most visible woman, disrupts the associations
between whiteness and respectability that support official discourses
of racial democracy. From censorship campaigns on the island that
sought to devalue reggaetón, to its subsequent mass marketing to
U.S. Latino listeners, Rivera-Rideau traces reggaetón’s origins and its
transformation from the music of San Juan’s slums into a global pop
phenomenon. Reggaetón, she demonstrates, provides a language
to speak about the black presence in Puerto Rico and a way to build
links between the island and the African diaspora.
Petra R. Rivera-Rideau is Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at
Virginia Tech.
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Puerto Rico is often depicted as a
of race mixture has produced a racially
harmonious society. In Remixing
Reggaetón, Petra R. Rivera-Rideau
shows how reggaetón musicians
critique racial democracy’s privileg-
ing of whiteness and concealment of
racism by expressing identities that
center blackness and African diasporic
belonging. Stars such as Tego Calderón
criticize the Puerto Rican mainstream’s
tendency to praise black culture while
Negro Soy Yo
Hip Hop and Raced Citizenship in Neoliberal Cuba
marc d . perry
“Offering a wealth of ethnographic detail, Negro Soy Yo is a welcome addi-
tion to the study of international hip hop, contemporary Cuban culture and
society, and the Black Atlantic. Marc D. Perry’s foregrounding of the role of
race in the history of Cuban hip hop, and in the transnational engagements
of Afro-Cuban culture more broadly, is a crucial contribution.”—WAYNE
MARSHALL , coeditor of Reggaetón
In Negro Soy Yo Marc D. Perry explores
Cuba’s hip hop movement as a window
into the racial complexities of the
island’s ongoing transition from revo-
lutionary socialism toward free-market
capitalism. Centering on the music and
lives of black-identified raperos (rap-
pers), Perry examines the ways these
young artists craft notions of black
Cuban identity and racial citizenship,
Photo by the author.
along with calls for racial justice, at the
fraught confluence of growing Afro-Cuban marginalization and long-held
perceptions of Cuba as a nonracial nation. Situating hip hop within
a long history of Cuban racial politics, Perry discusses the artistic and
cultural exchanges between raperos and North American rappers
and activists, and their relationships with older Afro-Cuban intellectuals
and African American political exiles. He also examines critiques
of Cuban patriarchy by female raperos, the competing rise of reggaetón,
as well as state efforts to incorporate hip hop into its cultural institu-
tions. At this pivotal moment of Cuban–U.S. relations, Perry’s analysis
illuminates the evolving dynamics of race, agency, and neoliberal trans-
formation amid a Cuba in historic flux.
Marc D. Perry is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African and
African Diaspora Studies at Tulane University.
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Audible Empire Real Men Don’t Sing

Music, Global Politics, Critique Crooning in American Culture
ronald radano & tejumola olaniyan , editors allison m c cracken

“Audible Empire is an important, substantive, and significant volume con-
taining essays that display a theoretical sophistication about an important
range of musical, social, and political issues. In addressing the ways in
which the production, distribution, and consumption of public music can
illuminate the history of empire and other transnational practices, struc-
tures, and institutions, Audible Empire introduces new ways of thinking
about music as a social force.”—GEORGE LIPSITZ , coauthor of The Fierce
Urgency of Now: Improvisation, Rights, and the Ethics of Co-Creation
“Allison McCracken explores the blurred genders of the croon through inti-
mate historical detail, impeccable research, and a sense of the ever-shifting
mores of sexual identity. She understands how technology influences
artistry; and how the core of musical seduction remains constant, a voice
whispering in the ear, a man singing to a woman in her own lingual.”
—LENNY KAYE , author of You Call It Madness: The Sensuous Song of
the Croon

Crooner Rudy Vallée’s soft, intimate,

Audible Empire rethinks the processes and mechanisms of empire RE and sensual vocal delivery simultane-
AL
and shows how musical practice has been crucial to its spread around M ously captivated millions of adoring
EN
the globe. Music is a means of comprehending empire as an audible DON fans and drew harsh criticism from
’T S
formation, and the contributors highlight how it has been circulated, I NG those threatened by his sensitive
consumed, and understood through imperial logics. These fifteen masculinity. Although Vallée and
interdisciplinary essays cover large swaths of genre, time, politics, other crooners reflected the gender
and geography, and include topics such as the affective relationship fluidity of late 1920s popular culture,
between jazz and cigarettes in interwar China; the sonic landscape their challenge to the Depression
of the U.S.–Mexico border; the critiques of post-9/11 U.S. empire by desi era’s more conservative masculine
rappers; and the role of tonality in the colonization of Africa. Whether norms led cultural authorities to
focusing on Argentine tango, theorizing anticolonialist sound, or exam- crooning in
american culture
stigmatize them as gender and sexual
ining the music industry of postapartheid South Africa, the contributors Allison McCracken deviants. In Real Men Don’t Sing
show how the audible has been a central component in the creation Allison McCracken outlines crooning’s
of imperialist notions of reason, modernity, and culture. In doing so, history from its origins in minstrelsy through its development
they allow us to hear how empire is both made and challenged. as the microphone sound most associated with white recording artists,
band singers, and radio stars. She charts early crooners’ rise and fall
Contributors
between 1925 and 1934, contrasting Rudy Vallée with Bing Crosby
Kofi Agawu, Philip V. Bohlman, Michael Denning, Brent Hayes Edwards, Nan Enstad,
Andrew Jones, Josh Kun, Morgan Luker, Jairo Moreno, Tejumola Olaniyan, Marc Perry, to demonstrate how attempts to contain crooners created and dictated
Ronald Radano, Nitasha Sharma, Micol Siegel, Gavin Steingo, Penny Von Eschen, standards of white masculinity for male singers. Unlike Vallée, Crosby
Amanda Weidman survived the crooner backlash by adapting his voice and persona to
adhere to white middle-class masculine norms. The effects of these
Ronald Radano is Professor of Music at the University of Wisconsin,
Madison, and the author of Lying Up a Nation: Race and Black Music.
norms are felt to this day, as critics continue to question the mascu-
Tejumola Olaniyan is Louise Durham Mead Professor of English at the linity of youthful, romantic white male singers. Crooners, McCracken
University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the author of Arrest the Music! Fela shows, were not only the first pop stars, but their short-lived yet
and His Rebel Art and Politics. massive popularity fundamentally changed American culture.

REFIGURING AMERIC AN MUSIC Allison McCracken is Associate Professor of American Studies at DePaul
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 film studies science studies

Birth of an Industry Rendering Life Molecular

Blackface Minstrelsy Models, Modelers, and Excitable Matter
and the Rise of American Animation natasha myers
nicholas sammond

“With a lively and engaging style, a commitment to a feminist and phenom-

“Welcome to an X-ray of Toontown, its Bones showing. Minstrelsy has some- enological analysis, and an extraordinary attention to the specificity of
times seemed the skeleton in the closet of American animation, its racist scientists’ embodied, material, and affective engagement in the creation
tar coons hiding inside our most beloved cartoons—Felix, Mickey, Bugs, of knowledge, Natasha Myers takes the study of the biosciences in a new
Daffy, and a host of others both before and after them. With sweeping eru- direction. Rendering Life Molecular expands the laboratory studies canon,
dition and definitive archival and theoretical diagnoses, Nicholas Sammond as it reanimates our sense of the dynamic contingencies and relationalities
shows just how pervasively blackface figurations have formed the back- of all biological entities.”—LUCY SUCHMAN , author of Human-Machine
bone of our animated fantasy lives. Modern cartoons don’t merely nod to Reconfigurations: Plans and Situated Actions
nineteenth-century blackface performance, Sammond establishes, they
constitute its afterlife.”—ERIC LOTT, author of Love and Theft: Blackface
What are living bodies made of?
Minstrelsy and the American Working Class
Protein modelers tell us that our
cells are composed of millions of
In Birth of an Industry Nicholas Sammond describes how popular early proteins, intricately folded molecular
American cartoon characters were derived from blackface minstrelsy. He structures on the scale of nanopar-
charts the industrialization of animation in the early twentieth century, ticles. Proteins twist and wriggle
its representation in the cartoons themselves, and how important black- as they carry out the activities that
face minstrels were to that performance, standing in for the frustrations keep cells alive. Figuring out how to
of animation workers. Cherished cartoon characters, such as Mickey make these unruly substances visible,
Mouse and Felix the Cat, were conceived and developed using blackface RENDERING L I FE MOLECUL AR tangible, and workable is a chal-
minstrelsy’s visual and performative conventions: these characters are lenging task, one that is not readily
not like minstrels; they are minstrels. They play out the social, cultural,
Models, Modelers, and
Excitable Matter automated, even by the fastest com-
political, and racial anxieties and desires that link race to the laboring
N ATA S H A M Y E R S
puters. Natasha Myers explores what
body, just as live minstrel show performers did. Carefully examin- protein modelers must do to render
ing how early animation helped naturalize virulent racial formations, three-dimensional, atomic-resolution models of these lively materi-
Sammond explores how cartoons used laughter and sentimentality als. Rendering Life Molecular shows that protein models are not just
to make those stereotypes seem not only less cruel but actually plea- informed by scientific data: model building entangles a modeler’s
surable. Although the visible links between cartoon characters and the entire sensorium, and modelers must learn to feel their way through
minstrel stage faded long ago, Sammond shows how important those the data to interpret molecular forms. Myers takes us into protein
links are to thinking about animation then and now, and about how modeling laboratories and classrooms, tracking how gesture, affect,
cartoons continue to help illuminate the central place of race in imagination, and intuition shape practices of objectivity. Asking,
American cultural and social life. “What is life becoming in modelers hands?,” she tunes into the ways
they animate molecules through their moving bodies and other media.
Nicholas Sammond is Associate Professor of Cinema Studies at the
University of Toronto. He is the author of Babes in Tomorrowland: Walt In the process she amplifies an otherwise muted liveliness inflecting
Disney and the Making of the American Child, 1930–60, and the editor mechanistic accounts of the stuff of life.
of Steel Chair to the Head: Essays on Professional Wrestling, both also Natasha Myers is Associate Professor of Anthropology at York University.
published by Duke University Press.

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 gender studies

Gut Feminism Economies of Violence

elizabeth a . wilson Transnational Feminism, Postsocialism,
and the Politics of Sex Trafficking
jennifer suchland
“‘There is still something about biology that remains troublesome for femi-
nist theory,’ writes Elizabeth Wilson, in Gut Feminism. This vigorous, rigor-
ous, and riveting book not only asks what biology might do for feminist
“Economies of Violence is a refreshing intervention into the global anti-
understandings of affect, illness, mood, and agency; it makes a searingly
trafficking discourse. Smart, timely, politically relevant, and convincingly
powerful case for an unashamed embrace of feminist aggression. A won-
argued, it will appeal to audiences both inside and outside of academia.
derful pedagogical experience.”—LAUREN BERLANT, author of Cruel
Jennifer Suchland’s book is a clarion call to academics, activists, and policy
Optimism
makers to radically rethink the way we talk about trafficking.”—KRISTEN
GHODSEE , author of The Left Side of History: World War II and the
Unfulfilled Promise of Communism in Eastern Europe
In Gut Feminism Elizabeth A. Wilson
urges feminists to rethink their
resistance to biological and pharma-
Recent human rights campaigns
ceutical data. Turning her attention
against sex trafficking have focused

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antibiological. She examines research
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and to address the necessary role of aggression in feminist politics.
Gut Feminism’s provocative challenge to feminist theory is that it would
be more powerful if it could attend to biological data and tolerate its
own capacity for harm.
Elizabeth A. Wilson is Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality
Studies at Emory University and the author of Psychosomatic: Feminism and
the Neurological Body, also published by Duke University Press.
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and the economies of violence
J EN N I F ER SU C H L A N D
that sustain them. Examining United
Nations proceedings on women’s
rights issues, government and NGO antitrafficking policies, and cam-
paigns by feminist activists, Suchland contends that trafficking must
be understood not solely as a criminal, gendered, and sexualized phe-
nomenon but as operating within global systems of precarious labor,
neoliberalism, and the transition from socialist to capitalist economies
in the former Soviet Union and Eastern bloc. In shifting the focus away
from individual victims, and by underscoring trafficking’s economic and
social causes, Suchland provides a foundation for building more robust
methods for combating human trafficking.
Jennifer Suchland is Associate Professor of Slavic and East European
Languages and Cultures and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at
Ohio State University.

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 religious studies

Poetics of the Flesh Religious Affects

mayra rivera Animality, Evolution, and Power
donovan o . schaefer

“Mayra Rivera’s Poetics of the Flesh is an elegant exploration of the sensual,

political, and theological fashioning of our materiality. Moving from ancient “Blending seamlessly the most fecund insights of affect theory, evolutionary
Christian texts to the most up to date material feminisms and postcolonial biology, and critical animal studies, as well as feminist, queer, and post-
discourses, this book insistently returns us to the unsettled and elusive colonial theories of materiality and embodiment, this bold and trenchant
vitality of flesh even in the most unpromising theoretical contexts, and challenge to the ideology of human exceptionalism and its accompanying
opens up the promise and possibility that our flesh, formed by those linguistic fallacy—the refusal to analyze religion and power outside
contexts, might through its practices change them in turn.”—KARMEN of language and texts—offers a revolutionary and more capacious
M AC KENDRICK , author of Divine Enticement: Theological Seductions approach to religion that recovers its visceral intensity and animal
generativity.”—MANUEL A. VÁSQUEZ , author of More Than Belief:
A Materialist Theory of Religion
In Poetics of the Flesh Mayra Rivera
offers poetic reflections on how we
POET ICS OF THE F L E SH understand our carnal relationship to In Religious Affects Donovan O. Schaefer challenges the notion that reli-
the world, at once spiritual, organic, gion is inextricably linked to language and belief, proposing instead that
and social. She connects conversa- it is primarily driven by affects. Drawing on affect theory, evolutionary
tions about corporeality in theology, biology, and poststructuralist theory, Schaefer builds on the recent
political theory, and continental materialist shift in religious studies to relocate religious practices in the
philosophy to show the relationship affective realm—an insight that helps us better understand how religion
between the ways ancient Christian is lived in conjunction with systems of power. To demonstrate religion’s
thinkers and modern Western animality and how it works affectively, Schaefer turns to a series of
philosophers conceive of the “body” case studies, including the documentary Jesus Camp and contemporary
and “flesh.” Her readings of the bibli- American Islamophobia. Placing affect theory in conversation with post-
M AY R A R I V E R A cal writings of John and Paul as well Darwinian evolutionary theory, Schaefer explores the extent to which
as the work of Tertullian illustrate nonhuman animals have the capacity to practice religion, linking human
how Christian ideas of flesh influenced the works of Maurice Merleau- forms of religion and power through a new analysis of the chimpanzee
Ponty and Michel Foucault, and inform her readings of Judith Butler, waterfall dance as observed by Jane Goodall. In this compelling case
Frantz Fanon, and others. Rivera also furthers developments in new for the use of affect theory in religious studies, Schaefer provides
materialism by exploring the intersections between bodies, material a new model for mapping relations between religion, politics, species,
elements, social arrangements, and discourses through body and flesh. globalization, secularlism, race, and ethics.
By painting a complex picture of bodies, and by developing an account
Donovan O. Schaefer is Departmental Lecturer in Science and Religion
of how the social materializes in flesh, Rivera provides a new way to
at the University of Oxford.
understand gender and race.
Mayra Rivera is Associate Professor of Theology and Latina/o Studies
at Harvard University and the author of The Touch of Transcendence:
A Postcolonial Theology of God.

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 religious studies

Cachita’s Streets Gesture and Power

The Virgin of Charity, Race, Religion, Nationalism,
and Revolution in Cuba and Everyday Performance in Congo
jalane d . schmidt yolanda covington - ward

Cuba’s patron saint, the Virgin of In Gesture and Power

The Virgin of Charity, Race, & Revolution in Cuba • Jalane D. Schmidt
Charity of El Cobre, also called Yolanda Covington-Ward
Cachita, is a potent symbol of Cuban examines the everyday
CACHITA’S national identity. Jalane D. Schmidt embodied practices
STREETS shows how groups as diverse as and performances of
Indians and African slaves, Spanish the BisiKongo people
colonial officials, Cuban indepen- of the lower Congo to
dence soldiers, Catholic authorities show how their gestures,
and laypeople, intellectuals, dances, and spirituality
journalists and artists, practitioners are critical in mobilizing
Photo by the author.
of spiritism and Santería, activists, social and political action.
politicians, and revolutionaries each Conceiving of the body as the center of analysis, a catalyst for social action,
have constructed and disputed the and a conduit for the social construction of reality, Covington-Ward focuses
meanings of the Virgin. Schmidt on specific flashpoints in the last ninety years of Congo’s troubled history,
examines the occasions from 1936 to 2012 when the Virgin’s beloved, when embodied performance was used to stake political claims, foster dis-
original brown-skinned effigy was removed from her national shrine sent, and enforce power. In the 1920s Simon Kimbangu started a Christian
in the majority black and mixed-race mountaintop village of El Cobre prophetic movement based on spirit-induced trembling, which swept
and brought into Cuba’s cities. There, devotees venerated and through the lower Congo, subverting Belgian colonial authority. Following
followed Cachita’s image through urban streets, amassing at large- independence, dictator Mobutu Sese Seko required citizens to dance and
scale public ceremonies in her honor that promoted competing claims sing nationalist songs daily as a means of maintaining political control.
about Cuban religion, race, and political ideology. Schmidt compares More recently, embodied performance has again stoked reform, as national-
these religious rituals to other contemporaneous Cuban street events, ist groups such as Bundu dia Kongo advocate for a return to pre-colonial
including Carnival, protests, and revolutionary rallies, where organiz- religious practices and non-Western gestures such as traditional greetings.
ers stage performances of contested definitions of Cubanness. Schmidt In exploring these embodied expressions of Congolese agency, Covington-
provides a comprehensive treatment of Cuban religions, history, and Ward provides a framework for understanding how embodied practices
culture, interpreted through the prism of Cachita. transmit social values, identities, and cultural history throughout Africa
and the diaspora.
Jalane D. Schmidt is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the
University of Virginia. Yolanda Covington-Ward is Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at the
University of Pittsburgh.
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Announcing a new series The Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People series
examines the religious, cultural, and political expressions of African,
African American, and African Caribbean traditions. Through transnational,
The Religious Cultures of African cross-cultural, and multidisciplinary approaches to the study of religion, the
and African Diaspora People series investigates the epistemic boundaries of continental and diasporic

EDITED BY JACOB K. OLUPONA , DIANNE M . STE WART religious practices and thought and explores the diverse and distinct

& TERRENCE L. JOHNSON ways African-derived religions inform culture and politics. The series aims
to establish a forum for imagining the centrality of Black religions in the
formation of the “New World.”

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Islam and Secularity Indian Given

The Future of Europe’s Public Sphere Racial Geographies across Mexico
and the United States
nilüfer göle
maría josefina saldaña - portillo

“Nilüfer Göle’s insistence on the ‘interpenetration’ of Muslim and European

experience is a major contribution, offering incisive theoretical formulations. “Indian Given is an important interrogation of racial and knowledge

In explicating the mutual interactions and transformations that arise from production in the Americas and offers important analyses of how racial

the conflicts and anxieties that accompany the proximity of Islam within geographies figure in the U.S./Mexico borderlands. With Indian Given,

Europe, she comments in new and insightful ways about Muslim/European María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo gives us the most comprehensive study

relations. Göle is a major thinker who deserves more prominence.”—JOAN of indigenous Mexican and Mexican American identity formations to

W. SCOTT, Institute for Advanced Study date.”—SONIA SALDÍVAR-HULL , author of Feminism on the Border:
Chicana Gender Politics and Literature

In Islam and Secularity Nilüfer Göle takes on two pressing issues: the
transforming relationship between Islam and Western secular modernity In Indian Given María

and the impact of the Muslim presence in Europe. Göle shows how the Josefina Saldaña-

visibility of Islamic practice in the European public sphere unsettles Portillo addresses

narratives of Western secularism. As mutually constitutive, Islam current racialized vio-

and secularism permeate each other, the effects of which play out in lence and resistance in

embodied and aesthetic practices and are accompanied by fear, anxiety, Mexico and the United

and violence. In this timely book, Göle illuminates the recent rethinking States with a geneal-

of secularism and religion, of modernity and resistance to it, of the ogy that reaches back

public significance of sexuality, and of the shifting terrain of identity
in contemporary Europe.
Nilüfer Göle is Professor of Sociology at the Centre d’Etudes Sociologiques
et Politiques Raymond Aron, and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences
Sociales (Paris). She is the author of Islam in Europe: The Lure of
Fundamentalism and the Allure of Cosmopolitanism and editor of Islam
and Public Controversy in Europe.
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A Series Edited by Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar, Jane Kramer,
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to the sixteenth cen-
Photo by Manuel Larios. tury. Saldaña-Portillo
formulates the central place of indigenous peoples in the construction
of national spaces and racialized notions of citizenship, showing, for
instance, how Chicanos/as in the U.S./Mexico borderlands might affirm
or reject their indigenous background based on their location. In this
and other ways, she shows how the legacies of colonial Spain’s and
Britain’s differing approaches to encountering indigenous peoples
continue to shape perceptions of the natural, racial, and cultural land-
scapes of the U.S. and Mexico. Drawing on a mix of archival, historical,
literary, and legal texts, Saldaña-Portillo shows how los indios/Indians
provided the condition of possibility for the emergence of Mexico and
the United States.
María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo is Associate Professor of Social and
Cultural Analysis at New York University and the author of The Revolutionary
Imagination in the Americas and the Age of Development, also published
by Duke University Press.

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 cultural studies

Balibar on Althusser 1970s Feminism

and Ideology’s Dramaturgy lisa disch , special issue editor

elizabeth weed & ellen rooney,

a special issue of SOUTH ATL ANTIC QUARTERLY
special issue editors

a special issue of For more than a decade, feminist historians and

DIFFERENCES: A JOURNAL OF FEMINIST CULTURAL STUDIES
Most readers of Louis
Althusser first enter his work
through his writings on ide-
ology. In an important new
essay Étienne Balibar, friend
and colleague of Althusser,
offers an original reading of
Althusser’s idea of ideology,
drawing on both recently
published posthumous writ-
ing and Althusser’s work on
the Piccolo Teatro di Milano.
Balibar’s essay uncovers
the intricate workings of
interpellation through Althusser’s essays on the theater. If debates
on dialectical materialism belong to a distant history, Balibar suggests,
the question of ideology remains crucial for thinking the present. The
issue includes commentaries on Balibar’s essay from five influential
scholars who engage critically with Althusser’s philosophy: Judith Butler,
Banu Bargu, Adi Ophir, Warren Montag, and Bruce Robbins. This issue
reanimates Althusser’s concept of ideology as an analytic tool for
contemporary cultural and political critique.
historiographers have engaged in challenging
the “third wave” portrait of 1970s feminism as
essentialist, white, middle-class, uninterested
in racism, and theoretically naive. This task
has involved setting the record straight about
women’s liberation by interrogating how that
image took hold in the public imagination and
among academic feminists. This issue invites feminist theorists to return
to women’s liberation—to the texts, genres, and cultural productions
to which the movement gave rise—for a more nuanced look at its con-
ceptual and political consequences. The essays in this issue explore such
topics as the ambivalent legacies of women’s liberation; the production
of feminist subjectivity in mass culture and abortion documentaries;
the political effects of archiving Chicana feminism; and conceptual
and generic innovations in the work of Gayle Rubin, Christine Delphy,
and Shulamith Firestone.
Contributors
Maria Cotera, Lisa Disch, Nancy Fraser, Victoria Hesford, Shatema Threadcraft,
Shilyh Warren, Kathi Weeks
Lisa Disch is Professor of Political Science and Women’s Studies at the
University of Michigan. She is the author of The Tyranny of the Two-Party
System and Hannah Arendt and the Limits of Philosophy.

Contributors
Étienne Balibar, Banu Bargu, Judith Butler, Warren Montag, Adi Ophir, Bruce Robbins,
Ellen Rooney, Elizabeth Weed

Elizabeth Weed is Director Emeritus of the Pembroke Center for Teaching

and Research on Women at Brown University. Ellen Rooney is Professor
of Modern Culture and Media and Professor of English at Brown University.

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 cultural studies

Virtual Memory The Transparent Traveler

Time-Based Art and the Dream of Digitality The Performance and Culture of Airport Security
homay king rachel hall

“Homay King’s Virtual Memory is a fascinating and beautifully written book “Rachel Hall’s study of the performance of surveillance, transparency, and
that explores the complex imbrication of the analog with the digital, both screening at airports offers acute perceptions about the cultural impact of
technologically and conceptually, and makes the case that there is no the TSA’s screening practices, and her notion of transparency has both imme-
experience of technology or art that can avoid engagement with the real- diate political implications and lasting explanatory power. Current debates
ity of lived experience. Considering the breadth of its examples and topics, over surveillance and demands for transparency make this book important
Virtual Memory should find readers not only in film and media studies, but and incredibly prescient.”—DIANA TAYLOR , author of Performance
in art history and criticism, and science and technology studies as well.
An outstanding book.”—D. N. RODOWICK , author of Philosophy’s Artful
Conversation At the airport we line up, remove
our shoes, empty our pockets,
and hold still for three seconds
THE in the body scanner. Deemed
safe, we put ourselves back
T RAN SPA R E N T together and are free to buy the
beverage we were prohibited from
taking through security. In The
TRAVELER Transparent Traveler Rachel Hall
explains how the familiar routines
of airport security choreograph
THE
PERFORMANCE
passenger behavior to create
AND
CULTURE OF
submissive and docile travel-
AIRPORT
SECURITY ers. The cultural performance of
contemporary security practices
RACHEL HALL
mobilizes what Hall calls the
“aesthetics of transparency.” To appear transparent, a passenger must
A publicity still for Ming Wong’s Persona Performa, 2011. Courtesy of the artist.
perform innocence and display a willingness to open their body to rou-
In Virtual Memory, Homay King traces the concept of the virtual through tine inspection and analysis. Those who cannot—whether because of
the philosophical works of Henri Bergson, Gilles Deleuze, and Giorgio race, immigration and citizenship status, disability, age, or religion—are
Agamben to offer a new framework for thinking about film, video, and deemed opaque, presumed to be a threat, and subject to search and
time-based contemporary art. Detaching the virtual from its contem- detention. Analyzing everything from airport architecture, photography,
porary associations with digitality, technology, simulation, and speed, and computer-generated imagery to full-body scanners and TSA behav-
King shows that using its original meaning—which denotes a potential ior detection techniques, Hall theorizes the transparent traveler as the
on the cusp of becoming—provides the means to reveal the “analog” embodiment of a cultural ideal of submission to surveillance.
elements in contemporary digital art. Through a queer reading of the Rachel Hall is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Louisiana
life and work of mathematician Alan Turing, and analyses of artists State University and the author of Wanted: The Outlaw in American Visual
who use digital technologies such as Christian Marclay, Agnès Varda, Culture.
and Victor Burgin, King destabilizes the analog/digital binary. By treat-
ing the virtual as the expression of powers of potential and change
and of historical contingency, King explains how these artists transcend
distinctions between disembodiment and materiality, abstraction and
tangibility, and the unworldly and the earth-bound. In so doing, she
shows how their art speaks to durational and limit-bound experience
more than contemporary understandings of the virtual and digital
would suggest.
Homay King is Associate Professor of History of Art at Bryn Mawr
College and the author of Lost in Translation: Orientalism, Cinema,
and the Enigmatic Signifier, also published by Duke University Press.

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Dark Matters The Repeating Body

On the Surveillance of Blackness Slavery’s Visual Resonance in the Contemporary
simone browne kimberly juanita brown

“Simone Browne paints a devastating portrait of the compounding work of “In this moving study of slavery and its afterlife, Kimberly Juanita Brown
racial surveillance—a process in which profiling serves as both the justifi- examines literature, photography, and contemporary art to retrieve black
cation for information gathering and a defense of the heightened, dispro- women from the margins of slavery’s representation. The Repeating Body
portionate scrutiny this information is said to warrant. From the branding is an invaluable contribution to the study of feminism, diaspora, and visual
of flesh as stigmata of captivity to biometric markers as gatekeepers, Dark culture.”—SAIDIYA HARTMAN , author of Lose Your Mother: A Journey
Matters transports us across space and time, illuminating how the sort- Along the Atlantic Slave Route
ing, counting, and surveilling of human beings was as central to the dawn
of industrialization as it is to the information society. Browne’s incisive,
wide-ranging, and multidisciplinary meditation shows us the scale and per- Haunted by representations of
sistence of surveillance culture, and especially its urgent stakes for com- black women that resist the
THE REPEATING BODY reality of the body’s vulner-
munities of color. Her deft history of the present moment reveals how data
becomes us.”—ALONDRA NELSON , author of Body and Soul: The Black ability, Kimberly Juanita Brown
Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination traces slavery’s afterlife in black
women’s literary and visual cul-
tural productions. Brown draws
In Dark Matters Simone Browne locates the conditions of blackness on black feminist theory, visual
as a key site through which surveillance is practiced, narrated, and culture studies, literary criti-
resisted. She shows how contemporary surveillance technologies and cism, and critical race theory to
practices are informed by the long history of racial formation and by explore contemporary visual and
the methods of policing black life under slavery, such as branding, run- literary representations of black
away slave notices, and lantern laws. Placing surveillance studies into women’s bodies that embrace
conversation with the archive of transatlantic slavery and its afterlife, slavery’s visual resonance in the contemporary
and foreground the body’s vul-
kimberly juanita brown
Browne draws from black feminist theory, sociology, and cultural stud- nerability and slavery’s inherent
ies to analyze texts as diverse as the methods of surveilling blackness violence. She shows how writers
she discusses: from the design of the eighteenth-century slave ship such as Gayl Jones, Toni Morrison, Audre Lorde, and Jamaica Kincaid,
Brooks, Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon, and The Book of Negroes, to along with visual artists Carrie Mae Weems and María Magdalena
contemporary art, literature, biometrics, and post-9/11 airport security Campos-Pons, highlight the scarred and broken bodies of black women
practices. Surveillance, Browne asserts, is both a discursive and mate- by repeating, passing down, and making visible the residues of slav-
rial practice that reifies boundaries, borders, and bodies around racial ery’s existence and cruelty. Their work not only provides a corrective
lines, so much so that the surveillance of blackness has long been, to those who refuse to acknowledge that vulnerability, but empowers
and continues to be, a social and political norm. black women to create their own subjectivities. In The Repeating Body,
Simone Browne is Assistant Professor of African and African Diaspora Brown returns black women to the center of discourses of slavery,
Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. thereby providing the means with which to more fully understand slav-
ery’s history and its penetrating reach into modern American life.
Kimberly Juanita Brown is Visiting Scholar in Gender Studies at Brown
University and Visiting Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies
at Harvard University.

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Territories of the Soul Shapeshifters

Queered Belonging in the Black Diaspora Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship
nadia ellis aimee meredith cox

“Territories of the Soul is a work of such profligate complexity and counter-
intuitive imagination that it defies stable definition. It aims, above all, to
figure a queer aesthetic of diasporic sensibility that exceeds any simple
dialectic of belonging and displacement, sameness and difference. Through
its uncanny juxtapositions it challenges us to think against our norma-
tive assumptions of the limits and satisfactions of black identification.
Nadia Ellis has written a sensuously queer manifesto of diasporic loss and
utopia.”—DAVID SCOTT, author of Omens of Adversity: Tragedy, Time,
Memory, Justice
“In this powerful and passionate book Aimee Meredith Cox communicates
important messages about the integrity and humanity of Black girls, their
potential, and the ways this potential is variously thwarted, squeezed,
bounced, and redirected. Rich in detail and at times hilarious, painful, and
revealing, Cox’s ethnography provides an account of the ways girls move
through the obstacle course of poverty, racism, and gender violence
to create and imagine lives for themselves.”—ELIZABETH CHIN, author
of Purchasing Power: Black Kids and American Consumer Culture

In Shapeshifters Aimee Meredith

Nadia Ellis attends to African diasporic belonging as it comes into Cox explores how young Black
being through black expressive culture. Living in the diaspora, Ellis women in a Detroit homeless shel-
asserts, means existing between claims to land and imaginative flights ter contest stereotypes, critique
unmoored from the Earth—that is, to live within the territories of the their status as partial citizens,
soul. Drawing on the work of Jose Muñoz, Ellis connects queerness’s uto- and negotiate poverty, racism,
pian potential with diasporic aesthetics. Occupying the territory of the and gender violence to create
soul, being neither here nor there, creates in diasporic subjects feelings and imagine lives for themselves.
of loss and desire and a sensation of a pull from elsewhere. Ellis locates Based on eight years of fieldwork
these phenomena in the works of C. L. R. James, the testy encounter at a local shelter, Cox shows how
Black Girls and
between George Lamming and James Baldwin at the 1956 Congress of the Choreography the shelter’s residents—who range
of Citizenship
Negro Artists and Writers in Paris, the elusiveness of the queer diasporic in age from fifteen to twenty-two—
subject in Andrew Salkey’s novel Escape to an Autumn Pavement, and
the trope of spirit possession in Nathaniel Mackey’s writing and Burning
SHAPESHIFTERS AIMEE MEREDITH COX
employ strategic methods she
characterizes as choreography to
Spear’s reggae. Ellis’s use of queer and affect theory shows how geog- disrupt the social hierarchies and
raphies claim diasporic subjects in ways that nationalist or masculinist prescriptive narratives that work to marginalize them. Among these are
tropes can never fully capture. Diaspora, Ellis concludes, is best under- dance and poetry, which residents learn in shelter workshops. These
stood as a mode of feeling and belonging, one fundamentally shaped outlets for performance and self-expression, Cox shows, are key to the
by the experience of loss. residents exercising their agency, while their creation of alternative
Nadia Ellis is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, family structures demands a rethinking of notions of care, protection,
Berkeley. and love. Cox also uses these young women’s experiences to tell larger
stories: of Detroit’s history, the Great Migration, deindustrialization, the
politics of respectability, and the construction of Black girls and women
as social problems. With Shapeshifters Cox gives a voice to young Black
women who find creative and non-normative solutions to the problems
that come with being young, Black, and female in America.
Aimee Meredith Cox is Assistant Professor of African and African
American Studies at Fordham University.

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 african american studies
Race Becomes Tomorrow
North Carolina and the Shadow of Civil Rights
gerald m . sider
“Through storytelling Gerald M. Sider makes many incisive points about
race, culture, power, and class. His stories are more than just stories—they
provide entry points into a deeper understanding of how people live race
and power. Highly stimulating, and at times humorous and poignant, Race
Becomes Tomorrow will make a controversial and important contribution
to contemporary debates about race, culture, and inequality.”—LESLEY
GILL , author of The School of the Americas: Military Training and Political
Violence in the Americas
In Race Becomes Tomorrow Gerald M. Sider weaves together stories
from his civil rights activism, his youth, and his experiences as an
anthropologist to investigate the dynamic ways race has been con-
structed and lived in America since the 1960s. Tacking between past
and present, Sider describes how political power, economic control,
and racism inject chaos into the lives of ordinary people, especially
African Americans, with surprising consequences. In addition to
recounting his years working on voter registration in rural North
Carolina, Sider makes connections between numerous issues, from
sharecropping and deindustrialization to the recessions of the 1970s
and 2008, the rise of migrant farm labor, and contemporary living-wage
campaigns. Sider’s stories—whether about the cockroach races in immi-
grant homes, degrading labor conditions, or the claims and failures of
police violence—provide numerous entry points into gaining a deeper
understanding of how race and power both are and cannot be lived.
They demonstrate that race is produced and exists in unpredictability,
and the transition from yesterday to tomorrow is anything but certain.
Gerald M. Sider is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate
Center and the College of Staten Island, City University of New York,
and the author of Skin for Skin: Death and Life for Inuit and Innu, also
published by Duke University Press.
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November 264 pages, 13 illustrations
paper, 978–0–8223–6008–7, $24.95/£16.99
cloth, 978–0–8223–5976–0, $89.95/£62.00
i n d i g e n o u s /n a t i v e a m e r i c a n s t u d i e s
Dilemmas of Difference
Indigenous Women and the Limits
of Postcolonial Development Policy
sarah a . radcliffe
“Sarah A. Radcliffe’s wonderful new book shows how race, class, and
gender continue to structure inequalities in the postcolonial present.
Based on innovative collaborations with indigenous women’s organiza-
tions in Ecuador, this book is an important intervention into the politics of
knowledge. She brings us the voices of indigenous women—the supposed
beneficiaries of development—who bring their own situated knowledge to
bear to critique both NGO development projects and the alternative model
of vivir bien, creating new forms of citizenship in the process.”—NANCY
GREY POSTERO, author of Now We Are Citizens: Indigenous Politics in
Postmulticultural Bolivia
In Dilemmas of Difference Sarah
A. Radcliffe explores the relation-
ship of rural indigenous women
in Ecuador to the development
policies and actors that are osten-
sibly there to help ameliorate
social and economic inequality.
Radcliffe finds that development
Photo by the author.
policy’s inability to recognize and
reckon with the legacies of colonialism reinforces long-standing social
hierarchies, thereby reproducing the very poverty and disempower-
ment they are there to solve. This ineffectiveness results from failures
to acknowledge the local population’s diversity and a lack of account-
ing for the complex intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, class, and
geography. As a result, projects often fail to match beneficiaries’ needs,
certain groups are made invisible, and indigenous women become
excluded from positions of authority. Drawing from a mix of ethno-
graphic fieldwork and postcolonial and social theory, Radcliffe centers
the perspectives of indigenous women to show how they craft practices
and epistemologies that critique ineffective development methods,
inform their political agendas, and shape their strategic interventions
in public policy debates.
Sarah A. Radcliffe is Professor of Latin American Geography at the
University of Cambridge and coauthor of Indigenous Development in
the Andes: Culture, Power, and Transnationalism, also published by Duke
University Press.
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 gay & lesbian studies / sexuality

Sexing Empire Metroimperial Intimacies

Bodies, Gender, and Desire in Colonial Fantasy, Racial-Sexual Governance, and the
and Postcolonial Relations Philippines in U.S. Imperialism, 1899–1913
ben cowan , nicole m . guidotti - hernández victor román mendoza
& jason ruiz , special issue editors

a special issue of RADIC AL HISTORY REVIEW “Metroimperial Intimacies is a magisterial work of cultural and historical
scholarship, and one of the best books about Philippine cultural exigen-
cies in the early twentieth century to come out in recent years. Wielding
From steamships to steam rooms
an expert and elegant hand, Victor Román Mendoza deploys a queer
and sweat lodges to sweatshops,
of color perspective and relocates it outside of American shores into
processes of pleasures and desire
its colonial frontier. An exciting, intricately argued, and path-breaking
have shaped the regulation and
book, Metroimperial Intimacies marks a major turn.”—MARTIN F.
classification of bodies in a wide
MANALANSAN IV, author of Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the
variety of colonial settings. On
Diaspora
beaches and online, and in board-
rooms, temples, and taverns, sexual
practices have always influenced In Metroimperial Intimacies Victor Román Mendoza combines histori-
imperial power relations. In the cal, literary, and archival analysis with queer-of-color critique to show
many places and relationships how U.S. imperial incursions into the Philippines enabled the growth of
where colonialism still affects eco- unprecedented social and sexual intimacies between native Philippine
nomics, sex and sexuality remain and U.S. subjects. The real and imagined intimacies—whether expressed
a driving—if sometimes hidden— through friendship, love, or eroticism—threatened U.S. gender and
Performers enacting a scalping at the Indian
Pageant. Photo by Gil Larsen and used cour- force. The contributors to this sexuality norms. To codify U.S. heteronormative behavior, the colonial
tesy of the Bayfield Heritage Association.
provocative issue contemplate government prohibited anything loosely defined as perverse, which
empire as a global process involving sexualized subjects and objects, along with popular representations of Filipinos, regulated colonial sub-
with essays that consider the history of sex and (or in) empire across jects and depicted them as sexually available, diseased, and degenerate.
several disciplines. Their topics include a “bewitched” nun in colonial Mendoza analyzes laws, military records, the writing of Philippine stu-
Mexico, contemporary call-center workers in the Philippines, and dents in the United States, and popular representations of Philippine
General Douglas MacArthur’s mixed-race Filipina mistress, among many colonial subjects to show how their lives, bodies, and desires became
others. the very battleground for the consolidation of repressive legal, eco-
Contributors nomic, and political institutions and practices of the U.S. colonial state.
Laura Briggs, Keith Camacho, Ben Cowan, Emmanuel David, Vernadette Vicuña By highlighting the importance of racial and gendered violence in main-
Gonzalez, Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández, Elizabeth Mesok, Rachel Sarah O’Toole, taining control at home and abroad, Mendoza demonstrates that studies
Katrina Phillips, Jason Ruiz of U.S. sexuality must take into account the reach and impact of U.S.
imperialism.
Ben Cowan is Assistant Professor of World History at George Mason
University. Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández is Associate Professor of Victor Román Mendoza is Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies and
American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of English at the University of Michigan.
Unspeakable Violence: Remapping U.S. and Mexican National Imaginaries,
also published by Duke University Press. Jason Ruiz is Assistant Professor PERVERSE MODERNITIES
A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe
of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame and the author of
Americans in the Treasure House: Travel to Porfirian Mexico and the Cultural
Politics of Empire.

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Queer Marxism in Two Chinas Youth, Labor and Politics in East Asia
petrus liu gabriella luk ács , special issue editor

a special issue of POSITIONS: ASIA CRITIQUE

“In this quite stunning book, Petrus Liu offers a new intervention into
gender and sexuality studies. He establishes queer perspectives as a way The economic deregulation
of thinking about the doubleness of China, and tracks how sexuality has that followed the East Asian
been produced as a new ethnic identity within an emerging pluralist frame- financial crisis and reces-
work, and how queer Marxism contests this production. Liu argues for sion in the 1990s blocked
a complex materialist social theory that takes into account the relationship youth from the labor market.
between labor power, the reproduction of society, and the material status This issue investigates
of sexuality. In the end, he refuses to identify materialism with economic the resulting youth labor
reductionism, showing instead how the reproduction of society requires its crisis and its predominant
cultural articulation, and how the effort to navigate two Chinas produces manifestations—youth
a non–state-centered form of queer critique. For Liu, queer theorists are in
unemployment and underem-
a powerful position to call the theory of the state into question—a move
ployment. The contributors
that holds out serious consequences for a new geopolitical reading of
examine these phenomena
Marxism through the powerful framework of sexuality.”—JUDITH BUTLER , Han Bing, Youth Offered Up to Capital 1, 2007.
not as social anomalies but
Courtesy of the artist.
Maxine Elliot Professor, University of California, Berkeley
as the new faces of labor for
youth. They conceptualize this situation as emblematic of a global crisis
In Queer Marxism in Two Chinas Petrus Liu rethinks the relationship in capitalism and study how the politics of youth unemployment and
between Marxism and queer cultures in mainland China and Taiwan. underemployment emerge interconnected in China, Japan, and South
Whereas many scholars assume the emergence of queer cultures Korea. The essays highlight how political leaders in these countries
in China signals the end of Marxism and demonstrates China’s politi- gamble with the futures of their young people to secure their places
cal and economic evolution, Liu finds the opposite to be true. He in neoliberal globalization, disconnecting national futures from personal
challenges the persistence of Cold War formulations of Marxism that ones.
position it as intellectually incompatible with queer theory, and shows Contributors
how queer Marxism offers a nonliberal alternative to Western models Cho Hae-joang, Jennifer Jihye Chun, Mark Driscoll, Michael Fisch, Ju Hui Judy Han,
of queer emancipation. The work of queer Chinese artists and intellec- Anita Koo, Gabriella Lukács, Pun Ngai, Xia Zhang
tuals not only provides an alternative to liberal ideologies of inclusion
Gabriella Lukács is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University
and diversity, but demonstrates how different conceptions of and of Pittsburgh. She is the author of Scripted Affects, Branded Selves:
attitudes toward queerness in China and Taiwan stem from geopolitical Television, Subjectivity, and Capitalism in 1990s Japan, also published
tensions. With Queer Marxism in Two Chinas Liu offers a revision by Duke University Press.
to current understandings of what queer theory is, does, and can be.
Petrus Liu is Associate Professor of Humanities at Yale-NUS College
and the author of Stateless Subjects: Chinese Martial Arts Literature and
Postcolonial History.

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 south asian studies

Speaking of the Self Pipe Politics, Contested Waters

Gender, Performance, Embedded Infrastructures of Millennial Mumbai
and Autobiography in South Asia lisa björkman
anshu malhotra &
siobhan lambert- hurley, editors
“Pipe Politics, Contested Waters is a brilliant ethnography of water and Lisa
Björkman is one helluva fieldworker: indefatigable, resilient, determined,
and resourceful. Determined as she was to get to the bottom of things,
“In analyzing material from South Asia, across contexts and time periods,
what she finds is that she can’t. The more she tries to map the infrastruc-
Speaking of the Self is a novel contribution to the flourishing field of auto-
ture or follow the water engineers and their workmen to the sites at which
biography studies. The contributors present material little-known
the ‘system’ needs to be fixed, the more the solutions, if there are any,
to Anglophone audiences that will stimulate thinking by specialists who
seem out of reach. A path-breaking book, Pipe Politics, Contested Waters
have heretofore been mostly focused on ‘Western’ texts and contexts.”
is destined to become a classic in the burgeoning literature on water
—MARILYN BOOTH , author of Classes of Ladies of Cloistered Spaces:
and water sustainability.”—STEVEN CATON , author of Yemen Chronicle:
Writing Feminist History through Biography in Fin-de-siècle Egypt
An Anthropology of War and Mediation

Many consider the autobiography to

Despite Mumbai’s position as
be a Western genre that represents
India’s financial, economic, and
the self as fully autonomous.
cultural capital, water is chroni-
The contributors to Speaking of the
p i p e p o l i t i c s , c o n t e s t e d wat e r s cally unavailable for rich and
Self challenge this presumption by
poor alike. Mumbai’s dry taps
examining a wide range of women’s
are puzzling, given that the city
autobiographical writing from South
does not lack for either water or
Asia. Expanding the definition of what
financial resources. In Pipe Politics,
kinds of writing can be considered
Contested Waters, Lisa Björkman
autobiographical, the contributors
shows how an elite dream to trans-
analyze everything from poetry,
form Mumbai into a “world-class”
songs, mystical experiences, and
Embedded Infrastructures of Millennial Mumbai lisa Björkman
business center has wreaked havoc
diaries to prose, fiction, architecture,
on the city’s water pipes. In rich
and religious treatises. The authors
ethnographic detail, Pipe Politics,
Jahanara, attributed to Lalchand, c.
they study are just as diverse:
Contested Waters explores how
1631–3. © British Library Board. Add. a Mughal princess, an eighteenth-
Or.3129.f.25v. Used by permission. the everyday work of getting water animates and inhabits a penumbra
century courtesan from Hyderabad,
of infrastructural activity—of business, brokerage, secondary markets,
a nineteenth-century Muslim prostitute in Punjab, a housewife in
and sociopolitical networks—whose workings are reconfiguring and
colonial Bengal, a Muslim Gandhian devotee of Krishna, several female
rescaling political authority in the city. Mumbai’s increasingly illegible
Indian and Pakistani novelists, and two male actors who worked as
and volatile hydrologies, Björkman argues, are lending infrastructures
female impersonators. The contributors find that in these autobiogra-
increasing political salience just as actual control over pipes and flows
phies the authors construct their gendered selves in relational terms.
becomes contingent on dispersed and intimate assemblages of knowl-
Throughout, they show how autobiographical writing—in whatever form
edge, power, and material authority. These new arenas of contestation
it takes—provides the means toward more fully understanding the his-
reveal the illusory and precarious nature of the project to remake
torical, social, and cultural milieu in which the author performs herself
Mumbai in the image Shanghai or Singapore, and gesture instead
and creates her subjectivity.
toward the highly contested futures and democratic possibilities
Contributors of the actually existing city.
Asiya Alam, Afshan Bokhari, Uma Chakravarti, Kathryn Hansen, Siobhan Lambert-
Hurley, Anshu Malhotra, Ritu Menon, Shubhra Ray, Shweta Sachdeva Jha, Sylvia Vatuk
Lisa Björkman is Assistant Professor of Urban and Public Affairs at
University of Louisville, and Research Scholar at CETREN (Transregional
Anshu Malhotra is Associate Professor of History at the University Research Network), University of Göttingen (Germany).
of Delhi and the author of Gender, Caste, and Religious Identities:
Restructuring Class in Colonial Punjab. Siobhan Lambert-Hurley is
Senior Lecturer in Modern History at Loughborough University and author
of Muslim Women, Reform and Princely Patronage: Nawab Sultan Jahan
Begam of Bhopal.

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 south asian studies
The Spectral Wound
Sexual Violence, Public Memories,
and the Bangladesh War of 1971
nayanik a mookherjee
Foreword by Veena Das
“Nayanika Mookherjee has made visible a scene of gendered violence in
the Bangladesh War of Liberation that travels beyond its specific context
to historical, theoretical, and lived realities that are global in range and
scope.”—GAYATRI CHAKRAVORTY SPIVAK , author of An Aesthetic
Education in the Era of Globalization
Photo by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.
Following the 1971 Bangladesh War, the Bangladesh government
publicly designated the thousands of women raped by the Pakistani
military and their local collaborators as birangonas, (“brave women”).
Nayanika Mookherjee demonstrates that while this celebration of
birangonas as heroes keeps them in the public memory, they exist in
the public consciousness as what Mookherjee calls a spectral wound.
Dominant representations of birangonas as dehumanized victims
with disheveled hair, a vacant look, and rejected by their communities
create this wound, the effects of which flatten the diversity of their
experiences through which birangonas have lived with the violence
of wartime rape. In critically examining the pervasiveness of the bir-
angona construction, Mookherjee opens the possibility for a more
politico-economic, ethical, and nuanced inquiry into the sexuality of war.
Nayanika Mookherjee is Reader in Socio-Cultural Anthropology
at Durham University. Veena Das is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of
Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University.
A N T H R O P O L O GY/S O U T H A S I A N S T U D I E S
October 352 pages, 42 illustrations
paper, 978–0–8223–5968–5, $26.95/£18.99
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political theory
Janus’s Gaze
Essays on Carl Schmitt
carlo galli
Edited and with an introduction by Adam Sitze
Translated by Amanda Minervini
“Carlo Galli is certainly the most important scholar of Carl Schmitt in Italy
and, to my knowledge, in the world. Among Galli’s virtues is how well he
situates Schmitt’s concepts both in the context of Schmitt’s entire opus
and in the context of twentieth-century German politics and political theory.
Galli’s essays provide brilliant explications and explorations of Schmitt’s
central concepts, and Adam Sitze’s introduction and Amanda Minervini’s
translation are exemplary.”—MICHAEL HARDT, coauthor of Empire
First published in Italian in 2008 and appearing here in English for
the first time, Janus’s Gaze is the culmination of Carlo Galli’s ongo-
ing critique of the work of Carl Schmitt. Galli argues that Schmitt’s
main accomplishment, as well as the thread that unifies his oeuvre,
is his construction of a genealogy of the modern that explains how
modernity’s compulsory drive to achieve order is both necessary and
impossible. Galli addresses five key problems in Schmitt’s thought: his
relation to the state, the significance of his concept of political theology,
his readings of Machiavelli and Spinoza, his relation to Leo Strauss,
and his relevance for contemporary political theory. Galli emphasizes
the importance of passing through Schmitt’s thought—and, more
important beyond Schmitt’s thought—if we are to achieve insight into
the problems of the global age. Adam Sitze provides an illuminating
introduction to Schmitt and Galli’s reading of him.
Carlo Galli is Professor of History of Political Theory at the University
of Bologna and the author of many books, including Political Spaces and
Global War. Adam Sitze is Associate Professor of Law, Jurisprudence and
Social Thought at Amherst College and the coeditor of Biopolitics: A Reader,
also published by Duke University Press. Amanda Minervini is Visiting
Assistant Professor of Italian at Colorado College and translator of Nymphs
by Giorgio Agamben.
POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
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paper, 978–0–8223–6032–2, $23.95/£16.99
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 political theory
Henri Bergson
vladimir jankélévitch
Translated by Nils F. Schott
Edited by Alexandre Lefebvre and Nils F. Schott
“Vladimir Jankélévitch’s reading of Henri Bergson remains fresh and vital,
it is written with tremendous erudition and diligence, and it provides
a ‘Bergson regained’ for a whole new generation of readers of a truly great
philosopher. Jankélévitch gives us Bergson as a philosopher of life and also
a figure for whom philosophy should be a way of life.”—KEITH ANSELL-
PEARSON, author of Philosophy and the Adventure of the Virtual: Bergson
and the Time of Life
HENRI
BERGSON
VLADIMIR JANKÉLÉVITCH
A L E XA N DR E L EF E BVR E & N I L S F. SC HO T T, E DI TORS
T R A N S L A T E D B Y N I L S F. S C H O T T
this book in 1931 and revised it in 1959 to treat Bergson’s later works.
This unabridged translation of the 1959 edition includes an editor’s
introduction, which contextualizes and outlines Jankélévitch’s reading
of Bergson, additional essays on Bergson by Jankélévitch, and
Bergson’s letters to Jankélévitch.
Vladimir Jankélévitch (1903–1985) held the Chair in Moral Philosophy
at the University of Paris-Sorbonne from 1951 to 1978, and wrote more than
twenty books on philosophy and music. Alexandre Lefebvre is Senior
Lecturer in the Department of Government and International Relations and
the Department of Philosophy at the University of Sydney. He is the coeditor
of Bergson, Politics, and Religion, also published by Duke University Press.
Nils F. Schott is James M. Motley Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities
at Johns Hopkins University and the translator of several books, including
The Helmholtz Curves: Tracing Lost Time, by Henning Schmidgen.
PHILOSOPHY
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August 360 pages
paper, 978–0–8223–5935–7, $25.95/£17.99
cloth, 978–0–8223–5916–6, $94.95/£66.00
caribbean studies
Troubling Freedom
Antigua and the Aftermath of British Emancipation
natasha lightfoot
“Troubling Freedom is a major contribution to the burgeoning literature
on the aftermath of emancipation. More than any other scholar, Natasha
Lightfoot probes the daily lives of the former slaves, illuminating their family
relations, work lives, religious practices, and quotidian struggles. The end
of slavery emerges not as a revolutionary watershed but as a transition
from one regime of inequality to another.”—ERIC FONER, author of
Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
Appearing here in English for the
first time, Vladimir Jankélévitch’s
Henri Bergson is one of the two
great commentaries written on Henri
Bergson. Gilles Deleuze’s Bergsonism
renewed interest in the great French
philosopher but failed to consider
Bergson’s experiential and religious
perspectives. Here Jankélévitch
covers all aspects of Bergson’s
thought, emphasizing the concepts of
time and duration, memory, evolution,
simplicity, love, and joy. A friend of
Bergson’s, Jankélévitch first published
Moravian Church Mission, St. John’s Street (ca. 1830). Aquatint by Johann Stobwasser.
Courtesy of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University.
In 1834 Antigua became the only British colony in the Caribbean to move
directly from slavery to full emancipation. Immediate freedom, however,
did not live up to its promise, as it did not guarantee any level of stabil-
ity and autonomy, and the implementation of new forms of coercion and
control made it in many ways indistinguishable from slavery. In Troubling
Freedom Natasha Lightfoot tells the story of how Antigua’s newly freed
black working people struggled to realize freedom in their everyday lives,
prior to and in the decades following emancipation. She presents freed-
people’s efforts to form an efficient workforce, acquire property, secure
housing, worship, and build independent communities in response to
elite prescriptions for acceptable behavior and oppression. Despite its
continued efforts, Antigua’s black population failed to convince whites
that its members were worthy of full economic and political inclusion.
By highlighting the diverse ways freedpeople defined and created
freedom through quotidian acts of survival and occasional uprisings,
Lightfoot complicates conceptions of freedom and the general narrative
that landlessness was the primary constraint for newly emancipated
slaves in the Caribbean.
Natasha Lightfoot is Assistant Professor of History at Columbia University.
C A R I B B E A N H I S T O R Y/A F R I C A N D I A S P O R A
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 history literary criticism

Food and France Modernist Ethics and Posthumanism

What Food Studies Can Teach Us about History derek ryan & mark west, special issue editors

erica j . peters &

a special issue of TWENTIETH-CENTURY LITERATURE
bertram m . gordon , special issue editors

From snakes to sheep, from hyenas

a special issue of FRENCH HISTORIC AL STUDIES
to moths, from rural landscapes to
childhood objects, this special issue
This special issue offers a broad range examines the role of nonhuman alterity
of social and cultural insights into in the ethics of modernism. Drawing
the history of French gastronomy. on the posthumanist theory of Jacques
At a moment when French cuisine no Derrida, Bruno Latour, Jane Bennett,
longer dominates the world of fine and others, Modernist Ethics and
dining, the history of French food has Posthumanism offers original close
drawn increasing attention in the aca- readings of both canonical and more
demic world. The contributors address marginalized modernist figures. The
topics spanning the seventeenth to the contributors analyze unrecognizable
twentieth centuries, such as coffee’s creatures in D. H. Lawrence and Virginia
relationship to slavery and exoticism; Woolf; indeterminate animals in E. M. Forster; networks of human and
the promotion of terroir to an aspiring nonhuman agents in Rainer Maria Rilke and Woolf; pacifism among
middle class; the contrast between the people, animals, and things in Samuel Beckett; responsibility and rural
romanticized images of Parisian shop girls and their efforts to survive environments in Mary Butts; and objects, both lost and found, and
on street food in the early twentieth century; the “standard meal” the threat of extinction in Elizabeth Bowen. What emerges from these
imagined by nineteenth-century nutritionists and the divergent reality essays is an account of modernist ethics that is embedded in relations
of meager lunches for the working class; and the inequitable experience between human and nonhuman and that gains its force through experi-
of wartime deprivation. The articles in this issue both model how the ments in both content and form.
study of the culture of food can ground our understanding of France’s
Contributors
place in the world and illuminate questions of nationalism, global
Gabriel Hankins, Laci Mattison, Stephen Ross, Derek Ryan, Jeff Wallace, Mark West,
networks, gender, race, ethnicity, and class.
Sam Wiseman
Contributors
Derek Ryan is Lecturer in Modernist Literature at the University of
Martin Bruegel, Bertram M. Gordon, Julia Landweber, Philippe Meyzie, Kenneth Mouré,
Kent and the author of Animal Theory: A Critical Introduction. Mark West
Erica J. Peters, Patricia A. Tilburg
is a recent Ph.D. graduate of the University of Glasgow.
Erica J. Peters is the Director of Culinary Historians of Northern California
and author of San Francisco: A Food Biography. Bertram M. Gordon
is Professor of History at Mills College and the author of Collaborationism
in France during the Second World War.

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 histor y of economics mathematics / new journals

Market Failure in Context Banach Journal of Mathematical Analysis

alain marciano & mohammad sal moslehian , editor
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mohammad sal moslehian , editor

This volume explores the social, political, and intellectual contexts

in which twentieth-century notions of market failure were developed.
Markets can fail to perform in ways that best promote the larger inter-
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standing of and appreciation for the influence of external ideas and
events on the development of economic theories and to stimulate
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economics.
Subscribers to History of Political Economy will receive a copy of Market
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