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  • Black Feminist Politics

    From the Voting Rights Act to the Kamala Harris Vice Presidency (1965–2025)

    by Duchess Harris ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book offers a rigorous and historically grounded analysis of Black women’s political thought, activism, and institutional engagement across six decades. This book begins with 1965—a pivotal year in which the Voting Rights Act fundamentally transformed political participation for African Americans and, notably, the year Kamala Harris was born. This temporal convergence serves as the book’s ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Black Feminist Politics from Kennedy to Trump

    by Duchess Harris ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    From “black girl magic” to Black Lives Matter, the second decade of the 21st century is defined by black feminist politics. Black Feminist Politics from Kennedy to Trump is a definitive investigation of the mainstreaming of black feminist politics in the 21st century. Following on the success of Black Feminist Politics from Kennedy to Clinton and Black Feminist Politics from Kennedy to Obama, this ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Racially Writing the Republic

    Racists, Race Rebels, and Transformations of American Identity

    by John Kuo Wei Tchen, Laura Janara ...
    Racially Writing the Republic investigates the central role of race in the construction and transformation of American national identity from the Revolutionary War era to the height of the civil rights movement. Drawing on political theory, American studies, critical race theory, and gender studies, the contributors to this collection highlight the assumptions of white (and often male) supremacy ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Black Girl Magic Beyond the Hashtag

    Twenty-First-Century Acts of Self-Definition

    by Tammy Owens ...
    Series series The Feminist Wire Books
    Hashtag or trademark, personal or collective expression, #BlackGirlMagic is an articulation of the resolve of Black women and girls to triumph in the face of structural oppressions. The online life of #BlackGirlMagic insists on the visibility of Black women and girls as aspirational figures. But while the notion of Black girl magic spreads in cyberspace, the question remains: how is Black girl ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Stories of Scottsboro

    by James Goodman ...
    From the Pulitzer Prize-nominated author of But Where Is the Lamb? comes a grippingly narrated work of history and "edge-of-the-seat reportage" (Chicago Tribune) that tells the story of a case that marked a watershed in American racial justice.To white Southerners, it was "a heinous and unspeakable crime" that flouted a taboo as old as slavery. To the Communist Party, which mounted the defense, ... Read more

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  • Salvage Work

    U.S. and Caribbean Literatures amid the Debris of Legal Personhood

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    Salvage Work examines contemporary literary responses to the law’s construction of personhood in the Americas. Tracking the extraordinary afterlives of the legal slave personality from the nineteenth century into the twenty-first, Angela Naimou shows the legal slave to be a fractured but generative figure for contemporary legal personhood across categories of race, citizenship, gender, and labor. ... Read more

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  • Paul Auster's Postmodernity

    by Brendan Martin ...
    Series series Studies in Major Literary Authors
    This book focuses upon the literary and autobiographical writings of American novelist Paul Auster, investigating his literary postmodernity in relation to a full range of his writings. Martin addresses Auster’s evocation of a range of postmodern notions, such as the duplicitous art of self-invention, the role of chance and contingency, authorial authenticity and accountability, urban dislocation, ... Read more

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  • Troubling the Family

    The Promise of Personhood and the Rise of Multiracialism

    by Habiba Ibrahim ...
    Series series Difference Incorporated
    Troubling the Family argues that the emergence of multiracialism during the 1990s was determined by underlying and unacknowledged gender norms. Opening with a germinal moment for multiracialism—the seemingly massive and instantaneous popular appearance of Tiger Woods in 1997—Habiba Ibrahim examines how the shifting status of racial hero for both black and multiracial communities makes sense only ... Read more

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  • American Hungers

    The Problem of Poverty in U.S. Literature, 1840-1945

    by Gavin Jones ...
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  • Racial Blasphemies

    Religious Irreverence and Race in American Literature

    by Michael L. Cobb ...
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    Racial Blasphemies, using critical race theory and literary analysis, charts the tense, frustrated religious language that saturates much twentieth-century American literature. Michael Cobb argues that we should consider religious language as a special kind of language - a language of curse words - that furiously communicates not theology or spirituality as much as it signals the sheer difficulty ... Read more

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  • Represent and Destroy

    Rationalizing Violence in the New Racial Capitalism

    by Jodi Melamed ...
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    In the global convulsions in the aftermath of World War II, one dominant world racial order broke apart and a new one emerged. This is the story Jodi Melamed tells in Represent and Destroy, portraying the postwar racial break as a transition from white supremacist modernity to a formally antiracist liberal capitalist modernity in which racial violence works normatively by policing representations ... Read more

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