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Drops of Inclusivity
(June 2022)
Racial Equations and Meanings in Puerto Rican Society, 1898-1965
Milagros Denis-Rosario - Author
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The Threefold Struggle
(June 2022)
Pursuing Ecological, Social, and Personal Wellbeing in the Spirit of Daniel Quinn
Andrew Frederick Smith - Author
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Dimensions of Aesthetic Encounters
(April 2022)
Perception, Interpretation, and the Signs of Art
Robert E. Innis - Author
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A novel fusing of multiple approaches and range of examples exploring the dimensions, objects, and import of aesthetic encounters.
We encounter in our lives things and situations that elicit from us special forms of attention. They affect and inform us in various ways, drawing us in and holding us in their grasp or turning us away. Works of art of all sorts, and nature in its myria...(Read More) |
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The Future of Lenin
(April 2022)
Power and Revolution in the 21st Century
Alla Ivanchikova - Editor
Robert R. Maclean - Editor
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Essays that argue in favor of Lenin's continuing relevance for twenty-first century politics and thought.
Situated in a particular historical moment marked by the violent crises of capitalism—the rise of the alt-right, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the Black Lives Matter movement—The Future of Lenin collects essays by an international cohort of scholars to assert Lenin's releva...(Read More) |
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The White Indians of Mexican Cinema
(April 2022)
Racial Masquerade throughout the Golden Age
Mónica García Blizzard - Author
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Examines the filmic representation of whiteness as indigeneity and its role in mediating racial politics in Mexico.
The White Indians of Mexican Cinema theorizes the development of a unique form of racial masquerade—the representation of whiteness as indigeneity—during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, from the 1930s to the 1950s. Adopting a broad decolonial perspective whil...(Read More) |
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Accumulation and Subjectivity
(March 2022)
Rethinking Marx in Latin America
Karen Benezra - Editor
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Reconsiders key concepts in Marxist thought by examining the relationship between accumulation and subjectivity in Latin American narrative, film, and social and political theory.
Since the 1970s, sociocultural analysis in Latin American studies has been marked by a turn away from problems of political economy. Accumulation and Subjectivity challenges this turn while reconce...(Read More) |
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Post-Chineseness
(March 2022)
Cultural Politics and International Relations
Chih-yu Shih - Author
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Analyzes international and cultural relationships informed by "China," a category that is becoming ever more indispensable and yet unstable in everyday narratives.
There have been few efforts to overcome the binary of China versus the West. The recent global political environment, with a deepening confrontation between China and the West, strengthens this binary image. Post-Chin...(Read More) |
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Addiction Recovery and Resilience
(February 2022)
Faith-based Health Services in an African American Community
Townsand Price-Spratlen - Author
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Analyzes the tensions and triumphs of a unique, faith-based, addiction recovery organization in a high poverty neighborhood.
We live in an era of substance misuse colliding with public health shortcomings. Consequences of mass incarceration and other racial disparities of the "drug war" are felt acutely in the neighborhoods and communities least equipped to deal with them. More tha...(Read More) |
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Barcelona, City of Comics
(February 2022)
Urbanism, Architecture, and Design in Postdictatorial Spain
Benjamin Fraser - Author
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Explores the close relationship between comics and urbanism in one of Europe's most notable global cities.
Barcelona, City of Comics introduces readers of English to a range of Spanish- and Catalan-language comics published after the death of dictator Francisco Franco in 1975. During this time of palpable social change, the Catalonian capital regained its reputation as the h...(Read More) |
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