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Israel/Palestine
and the Queer International
sarah schulman Sarah Schulman is a longtime AIDS
and queer activist, and a cofounder of the
MIX Festival and the ACT UP Oral History
In this chronicle of political Project. She is a playwright and the
awakening and queer solidarity, author of seventeen books, including
the novels The Mere Future, Shimmer,
the activist and novelist Sarah
Rat Bohemia, After Delores, and People
Schulman describes her dawning in Trouble, as well as nonfiction works such as The Gentrification
consciousness of the Palestinian of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination, My American
liberation struggle. Invited to Israel History: Lesbian and Gay Life during the Reagan/Bush Years,
to give the keynote address at Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences,
and Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS , and the Marketing of Gay
an LGBT studies conference at Tel
America, which is also published by Duke University Press.
Aviv University, Schulman declines,
She is Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at The City
joining other artists and academics University of New York, College of Staten Island.
honoring the Palestinian call for
an academic and cultural boycott
“The transformation of my own personal relationship to the state
of Israel. Anti-occupation activ-
of Israel has been a long, subtle, slow, stubborn journey that has
ists in the United States, Canada, taken a lifetime. One of the strangest things about willful ignorance
Israel, and Palestine come together regarding Israel and Palestine is how often ‘progressive’ people,
to help organize an alternative like myself, with histories of community activism and awareness,
solidarity visit for the American engage in it. It this way it somewhat parallels the history
of homophobia, in that there are emotional blocks that keep
activist. Schulman takes us
many straight people from applying their general value systems
to an anarchist, vegan cafe in Tel Aviv, where she meets anti-occupation
to human rights for all. The irony, in my case, of being a lifelong
queer Israelis, and through border checkpoints into the West Bank, where
activist and not doing the work to ‘get it’ about Israel is deep and
queer Palestinian activists welcome her into their spaces for conversations hard to both understand and convey. But I have come to learn that
that will change the course of her life. She describes the dusty roads through this insistent blindness is pervasive, and I want to use the oppor-
the West Bank, where Palestinians are cut off from water and subjected to tunity of this book to confront and expose my own denial in a way
endless restrictions while Israeli settler neighborhoods have full freedoms that I hope will be helpful to others.”—from Israel/Palestine and
the Queer International
and resources.
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“In this provocative and important book, Joseph Dumit brings a new approach to bear
on critiques of the pharmaceutical industry and U.S. health care, showing how, over the
past few decades, we have come to live by ‘the numbers’ and ‘risk factors’ that make
embracing lifelong pharmaceutical regimes seem like common sense. But is it? Dumit
explores the pharmaceuticalization of American culture and consciousness with a light,
accessible touch that belies the depth of his knowledge.”—RAYNA RAPP, author of
Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America
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Go-Go Live
The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City
natalie hopkinson
Go-Go Live is a social history of black Washington told through its go-go
“Go-Go Live is a terrific and important piece of work. Music, race,
music and culture. Encompassing dance moves, nightclubs, and fashion, as and the city are three key pivot points of our society, and Natalie
well as the voices of artists, fans, business owners, and politicians, Natalie Hopkinson pulls them together in a unique and powerful way.
Hopkinson’s Washington-based narrative reflects the broader history of race I have long adored Washington, D.C.’s go-go music. This book
in urban America in the second half of the twentieth century and the early helped me understand the history of the city and the ways that
it reflects the whole experience of race and culture in our society.
twenty-first. In the 1990s, the middle class that had left the city for the suburbs
It puts music front and center in the analysis of our urban experi-
in the postwar years began to return. Gentrification drove up property values
ence, something which has been too long in coming.”—RICHARD
and pushed go-go into D.C.’s suburbs. The Chocolate City is in decline, but its
FLORIDA , author of The Rise of the Creative Class and direc-
heart, D.C.’s distinctive go-go musical culture, continues to beat. On any given tor of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the Rotman School of
night, there’s live go-go in the D.C. metro area. Management, University of Toronto
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MP3
The Meaning of a Format
jonathan sterne
Jonathan Sterne teaches in the Department of Art MP3: The Meaning of a Format
History and Communication Studies, and the History recounts the hundred-year history
and Philosophy of Science Program at McGill University. of the world’s most common format
He is the author of the award-winning book The Audible
for recorded audio. Understanding
Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction, also pub-
the historical meaning of the MP3
lished by Duke University Press, and the editor of The
Sound Studies Reader. Sterne has written for Tape Op, format entails rethinking the place
Punk Planet, Bad Subjects, and other alternative press of digital technologies in the larger
venues. He also makes music and other audio works. universe of twentieth-century
Visit his website at http://sterneworks.org.
communication history, from
hearing research conducted by the
“MP3: The Meaning of a Format is packed with great telephone industry in the 1910s,
stories. It’s a brilliant book about how we listen and how through the mid-century develop-
we make music. It traces the way MP 3 s have been key to
ment of perceptual coding (the
the way technology is revolutionizing music.”—LAURIE
technology underlying the MP3),
ANDERSON, artist/musician
to the format’s promiscuous social
“As we continue to inhabit the digital universe created life since the mid-1990s.
by the invention of the computer, Jonathan Sterne pro-
MP 3 s are products of compression,
vides us with an important cultural history and theory
of the pervasive MP 3 audio format. His insights go deep a process that removes sounds
into our basic ideas of hearing and listening, as well unlikely to be heard from recordings. Although media history is often character-
as of information, showing how these ideas are tied ized as a progression toward greater definition, fidelity, and truthfulness, MP 3 :
to twentieth-century media.”—PAULINE OLIVEROS, The Meaning of a Format illuminates the crucial role of compression in the devel-
composer and improviser, founder of the Deep Listening
opment of modern media and sound culture. Taking the history of compression
Institute, and Distinguished Research Professor of Music,
as his point of departure, Jonathan Sterne investigates the relationship between
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
sound, silence, sense, and noise; the commodity status of recorded sound and
the economic role of piracy; and the importance of standards in the governance
of our emerging media culture. He demonstrates that formats, standards, and
infrastructures—and the need for content to fit inside them—are every bit as
also by Jonathan Sterne central to communication as the boxes we call “media.”
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Beyond Shangri-La
America and Tibet’s Move
into the Twenty-First Century
john kenneth knaus
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Ethics of Liberation
In the Age of Globalization and Exclusion
enrique dussel
TR ANSLATION EDITED BY ALEJANDRO A. VALLEGA
Translated by Eduardo Mendieta, Camilo Pérez Bustillo,
Yolanda Angulo, and Nelson Maldonado-Torres
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Depression
A Public Feeling
ann cvetkovich
also by Ann Cvetkovich “Like all my favorite bands, Ann Cvetkovich disregards trends in favor of fearlessness.
While tackling the tough issues of today, she still gives us a book that feels totally time-
less. Depression: A Public Feeling fills a gap that has morphed into a crater. The book is
as invaluable as it is enjoyable. I found myself sighing throughout, thinking ‘Phew, some-
one finally said that!’”—KATHLEEN HANNA, member of the bands Le Tigre, Bikini Kill,
and the Julie Ruin
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Doryun Chong is Associate Curator of Painting and A trove of primary source materials, From
Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art. Michio Postwar to Postmodern, Art in Japan 1945–
Hayashi is Professor in the Faculty of Liberal Arts at 1989 is an invaluable scholarly resource for
Sophia University in Tokyo. Kenji Kajiya is Associate
readers who wish to explore the fascinating
Professor in the Faculty of Art at Hiroshima City
University. Fumihiko Sumitomo is an accomplished subject of avant-garde art in postwar
independent curator in Tokyo. Japan. In this comprehensive anthology,
an array of key documents, artist manifestos,
critical essays, and roundtable discussions
are translated into English for the first
time. The pieces cover a broad range of
artistic mediums—including photography,
film, performance, architecture, and design—
and illuminate their various points of
convergence in the Japanese context.
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in the Americas
edited and with an introduction “Detecting gendering in high finance is a long-standing challenge—it is
a domain inhospitable to the main categories of feminist analysis. Melissa
by esther kim lee
S. Fisher goes at it with gusto and gives us a great book.”—SASKIA
SASSEN , author of Territory, Authority, Rights
“For over a decade now, some of our nation’s most impressive new plays
have been written by Korean American dramatists. Esther Kim Lee’s impor- Wall Street Women tells the
tant anthology gathers together the groundbreaking work of these artists,
story of the first genera-
who are transforming American theater with their energy, innovations, and
tion of women to establish
sheer talent.”—DAVID HENRY HWANG , playwright
themselves as professionals
on Wall Street. Since these
Showcasing the dynamism of women, who began their
contemporary Korean diasporic careers in the 1960s, faced
theater, this anthology features blatant discrimination and
seven plays by second- barriers to advancement, they
generation Korean diasporic created formal and informal
writers from the United States, associations to bolster one
Canada, and Chile. By bring- another’s careers. In this
ing the plays together in this important historical eth-
collection, Esther Kim Lee nography, Melissa S. Fisher
highlights the themes and draws on fieldwork, archival
styles that have enlivened research, and extensive interviews with a very successful cohort of
Korean diasporic theater in first-generation Wall Street women. She describes their professional
the Americas since the 1990s. and political associations, most notably the Financial Women’s
Some of the plays are set in Association of New York City, which was founded in the 1950s,
urban Koreatowns. One takes place in the middle of Texas, while and the Women’s Campaign Fund, a bipartisan group formed to
another unfolds entirely in a character’s mind. Ethnic identity is not promote the election of pro-choice women.
as central as it was in the work of previous generations of Asian Fisher charts the evolution of the women’s careers, the growth
diasporic playwrights. In these plays, experiences of diaspora and of their political and economic clout, changes in their perspectives
displacement are likely to be part of broader stories, such as the and the cultural climate on Wall Street, and their experiences of
difficulties faced by a young mother trying to balance family and the 2008 financial collapse. While most of the pioneering subjects
career. Running through these stories are themes of assimilation, of Wall Street Women did not participate in the women’s move-
authenticity, family, memory, trauma, and gender-related expecta- ment as it was happening in the 1960s and 1970s, Fisher argues
tions of success. Lee’s introduction includes a brief history of the that they did produce a “market feminism” which aligned liberal
Korean Peninsula in the twentieth century and of South Korean feminist ideals about meritocracy and gender equity with the logic
immigration to the Americas, along with an overview of Asian of the market.
American theater and the place of Korean American theater within
Melissa S. Fisher is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at
it. Each play is preceded by a brief biography of the playwright Georgetown University. She is a coeditor of Frontiers of Capital:
and a summary of the play’s production history. Ethnographic Reflections on the New Economy, also published by
Duke University Press.
Esther Kim Lee is Associate Professor of Theatre and Asian American
Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the
author of A History of Asian American Theatre.
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Hamid Naficy is Professor Hamid Naficy is one of the world’s leading authorities on Iranian film, and A Social
of Radio-Television-Film and History of Iranian Cinema is his magnum opus. Covering the late nineteenth
the Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani century to the early twenty-first and addressing documentaries, popular genres,
Professor in Communication
and art films, it explains Iran’s peculiar cinematic production modes, as well as
at Northwestern University.
He is the author of An Accented
the role of cinema and media in shaping modernity and a modern national iden-
Cinema: Exilic and Diasporic tity in Iran. This comprehensive social history unfolds across four volumes, each
Filmmaking and The Making of which can be appreciated on its own.
of Exile Cultures: Iranian
Television in Los Angeles.
The extraordinary efflorescence in Iranian film, TV, and new media since the
consolidation of the Islamic Revolution animates Volume 4. During this time,
documentary films proliferated. Many filmmakers took as their subject the revo-
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cultural studies
Red Tape
Bureaucracy, Structural Violence,
and Poverty in India
akhil gupta
Red Tape presents a major new theory of the state Akhil Gupta is Professor
developed by the renowned anthropologist Akhil of Anthropology and Director
of the Center for India and
Gupta. Seeking to understand the chronic and
South Asia at the University
widespread poverty in India, the world’s fourth
of California, Los Angeles.
largest economy, Gupta conceives of the relation He is the author of Postcolonial
between the state in India and the poor as one Developments: Agriculture in
of structural violence. Every year this violence kills the Making of Modern India and a coeditor of Culture,
Power, Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology, both
between two and three million people, especially
also published by Duke University Press.
women and girls, and lower-caste and indigenous
peoples. Yet India’s poor are not disenfranchised;
they actively participate in the democratic project.
“This long-awaited book is a masterful achievement which
Nor is the state indifferent to the plight of the
offers a close look at the culture of bureaucracy in India and
poor; it sponsors many poverty amelioration programs. through this lens, casts new light on structural violence, liber-
Gupta conducted ethnographic research among officials charged with coordinat- alization, and the paradox of misery in the midst of explosive
economic growth. Akhil Gupta’s sensitive analysis of the
ing development programs in rural Uttar Pradesh. Drawing on that research, he
everyday practices of writing, recording, filing, and reporting
offers insightful analyses of corruption; the significance of writing and written
at every level of the state in India joins a rich literature on
records; and governmentality, or the expansion of bureaucracies. Those analyses the politics of inscription and marks a brilliant new bench-
underlie his argument that care is arbitrary in its consequences, and that arbi- mark for political anthropology in India and beyond.”—ARJUN
trariness is systematically produced by the very mechanisms that are meant to APPADURAI, author of Fear of Small Numbers
ameliorate social suffering. What must be explained is not only why government
“This is a landmark study of bureaucratic practices through
programs aimed at providing nutrition, employment, housing, healthcare, and
which the state is actualized in the lives of the poor in India.
education to poor people do not succeed in their objectives, but also why, when Akhil Gupta’s theoretical sophistication and the ethnographic
they do succeed, they do so unevenly and erratically. depth in this book demonstrate how South Asian studies
A JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN CENTER BOOK continues to challenge and shape the direction of social
theory. This book is a stunning achievement.”—VEENA DAS ,
author of Life and Words
also by Akhil Gupta
“Whether exploring corruption, literacy, or population policy,
Akhil Gupta provides an utterly original account of the deadly
operations of state power associated with the ascendancy
of new industrial classes and of neoliberal practice in contem-
porary India. A tour de force.”—MICHAEL WATTS , author of
Silent Violence
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cultural studies
also by Carolyn Dinshaw “How do queers relate to the distant past and experience time? Carolyn Dinshaw’s answer
to this question in How Soon Is Now? ranges through astute literary criticism, cogently
argued theory, and snippets of autobiography. The result is a provocative essay about
the value and presence of the past that is also at times profoundly moving. Her account
of the amateur scholar’s privileged relation to asynchrony and affective engagement with
the object of study should give all in the academy pause for thought.”—SIMON GAUNT,
author of Love and Death in Medieval French and Occitan Courtly Literature
Getting Medieval
Sexualities and Communities, Pre- and Postmodern
paper $25.95/£19.99
978–0–8223–2365–5 / 1999
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cultural studies
“Certain to be an important and influential book, The Deliverance of Others examines the
profound challenges that the ‘contemporary’ historical moment poses to literary novel- also by David Palumbo-Liu
writing in the early twenty-first century, when the fine line between a ‘sufficient’ and
an ‘excessive’ measure of otherness seems to have been trespassed, when, as David
Palumbo-Liu puts it in his extraordinary reading of J. M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello, read-
ers of the novel are asked to imagine themselves confronting a ‘tidal wave of difference’
that exceeds the specific capacities of realist form and the more general compact that
literary writing offers to strike between historical conditions and the liberal, sympathetic
imagination.”—IAN BAUCOM , author of Specters of the Atlantic: Finance Capital, Slavery,
and the Philosophy of History
Immanuel Wallerstein
and the Problem of the World
System, Scale, Culture
DAVID PALUMBO-LIU, BRUCE ROBBINS,
AND NIRVANA TANOUKHI, EDITORS
paper $23.95/£18.99
978–0–8223–4848–1 / 2011
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Perpetual War
Cosmopolitanism from the Viewpoint of Violence
bruce robbins
Bruce Robbins is the For two decades Bruce Robbins has been a
Old Dominion Foundation theorist of and participant in the movement for
Professor in the Humanities
a “new cosmopolitanism,” an appreciation of the
at Columbia University.
varieties of multiple belonging that emerge as
He is the author of Upward
Mobility and the Common peoples and cultures interact. In Perpetual War
Good: Toward a Literary he takes stock of this movement, rethinking his
History of the Welfare State own commitment and reflecting on the respon-
and Feeling Global: Internationalism in Distress, and a sibilities of American intellectuals today. In this
coeditor of Cosmopolitics: Thinking and Feeling beyond
era of seemingly endless U.S. warfare, Robbins
the Nation and Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of
the World: System, Scale, Culture, also published by Duke contends that the declining economic and politi-
University Press. cal hegemony of the United States will tempt it
into blaming other nations for its problems and
lashing out against them.
“Apart from the significant contribution that Perpetual War
will make to the literature on cosmopolitanism, it is a richly Under these conditions, cosmopolitanism in the traditional sense—primary loyalty
elaborated work of intellectual and cultural history in its to the good of humanity as a whole, even if it conflicts with loyalty to the inter-
own right. Bruce Robbins is a superb writer and critic, and ests of one’s own nation—becomes a necessary resource in the struggle against
his analyses are incisive, deeply informed, and refreshingly military aggression. To what extent does the “new” cosmopolitanism also include
blunt. Perhaps because he has for so many years been think-
or support this “old” cosmopolitanism? In an attempt to answer this question,
ing about the vicissitudes of political thought and feeling,
Robbins engages with such thinkers as Noam Chomsky, Edward Said, Anthony
and in particular about cosmopolitanism, Robbins has a
quite unusual ability to zero in not only on the analytic Appiah, Immanuel Wallerstein, Louis Menand, W. G. Sebald, and Slavoj Z̆iz̆ek. The
but also the emotional or psychological core of his object paradoxes of detachment and belonging they embody, he argues, can help define
of study. His deep and wide-ranging treatment of cosmopoli- the tasks of American intellectuals in an era when the first duty of the cosmopoli-
tanism will advance debate on the topic immeasurably.” tan is to resist the military aggression perpetrated by his or her own country.
—AMANDA ANDERSON , author of The Powers of Distance:
Cosmopolitanism and the Cultivation of Detachment
“Over the past twenty years, no one has done more than also by Bruce Robbins
Bruce Robbins to elaborate an ideal of cosmopolitanism that
grapples productively with local attachments (including those
of nationalism and patriotism) while aspiring toward a critical
internationalism. In these rigorously scrupulous, relentlessly
challenging essays, Robbins shows why that project is so
important, and why intellectuals on the left need to defend
the provisions of the social welfare state while promoting
a supranational standard of international justice—a project
that entails the difficult recognition that the domestic welfare
state is also the international warfare state. Perpetual War is
an exemplary attempt to come to terms with that recognition, Immanuel Wallerstein The Servant’s Hand
and pursue its implications wherever they lead.”—MICHAEL and the Problem of the World English Fiction from Below
System, Scale, Culture paper $23.95/£18.99
BÉRUBÉ , author of The Left at War
DAVID PALUMBO-LIU, BRUCE ROBBINS, 978–0–8223–1397–7 / 1993
AND NIRVANA TANOUKHI, EDITORS
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cultural studies
“The Gift of Freedom is a dazzling book. Focusing on the figure of the “Animacies is a book about ‘reworldings,’ as Mel Y. Chen traces the myriad
Vietnamese refugee as a key to comprehending how the rhetoric of ways that objects and affects move through and reshape zones of possibil-
U.S. liberalism and freedom became hegemonic during the Cold War and ity for political transformation and queer resistance to neoliberal biopoli-
in the contemporary post–9/11 period, Mimi Thi Nguyen offers an original tics. At the same time, Animacies itself generates such transformations:
approach to rethinking Cold War politics and U.S. liberal freedom.” grounded in a generous, expansive understanding of queer of color and
—DAVID L. ENG , author of The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism disability/crip critique, Chen’s study reworlds or reorients disability studies,
and the Racialization of Intimacy gender and sexuality studies, critical race theory, animal studies, affect
studies, and linguistics. In all of these critical spaces, Animacies might be
described as the breathtaking and revivifying book we have been waiting
In The Gift of Freedom, Mimi Thi for.”—ROBERT M C RUER, coeditor of Sex and Disability
Nguyen develops a new understand-
ing of contemporary United States
empire and its self-interested claims In Animacies, Mel Y. Chen draws on
to provide for others the advantage recent debates about sexuality, race,
of human freedom. Bringing together and affect to examine how matter
critiques of liberalism with postco- that is considered insensate, immo-
lonial approaches to the modern bile, or deathly, animates cultural
cartography of progress, Nguyen lives. Toward that end, Chen investi-
proposes “the gift of freedom” as gates the blurry division between the
the name for those forces that avow living and the dead, or that which is
to reverence aliveness and beauty, beyond the human or animal. Within
and to govern an enlightened human- the field of linguistics, animacy has
ity, while producing new subjects been described variously as a quality
and actions—such as a grateful refugee, or enduring war—in an age of of agency, awareness, mobility,
liberal empire. From the Cold War to the global war on terror, the United sentience, or liveness. Chen turns
States simultaneously promises the gift of freedom through war and to cognitive linguistics to stress
violence, and administers the debt that follows. Focusing here on the how language habitually differentiates the animate and the inanimate.
figure of the Vietnamese refugee as the twice-over target of the gift of Expanding this construct, Chen argues that animacy undergirds much
freedom—first through war, second through refuge—Nguyen suggests that is pressing and indeed volatile in contemporary culture, from
that the imposition of debt precludes the subjects of freedom from animal rights debates to biosecurity concerns.
escaping those colonial histories that deemed them “unfree.” To receive
Chen’s book is the first to bring the concept of animacy together with
the gift of freedom then is to be indebted to empire, perhaps without
queer of color scholarship, critical animal studies, and disability theory.
end.
Through analyses of dehumanizing insults, the meanings of queerness,
Mimi Thi Nguyen is Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, animal protagonists in recent Asian/American art and film, the lead toy
and Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. panic in 2007, and the social lives of environmental illness, Animacies
She is a coeditor of Alien Encounters: Popular Culture in Asian America, also illuminates a hierarchical politics infused by race, sexuality, and abil-
published by Duke University Press.
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NEXT WAVE: NEW DIRECTIONS IN WOMEN’S STUDIES agency and receptivity, health and toxicity, productivity and stillness—
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Mel Y. Chen is Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies
at the University of California, Berkeley.
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“Tijuana Dreaming stages an international dialogue about issues of over- “Gilberto Rosas’s exploration of the seamy underbelly of neoliberal state
whelming importance. It will enable supremely talented Spanish-language sovereignty in the sewer tunnels beneath the U.S.–Mexico border takes us
writers to reach Anglophone audiences, compel scholars to rethink to a vexed and murky place, both ethnographically and theoretically. His
why culture matters now, and lead readers around the world to consider work invites us to consider provocative and urgent questions about the
the responsibilities and obligations that we incur in the face of rapidly deep complicity between policing and criminality, and the racialized relega-
changing configurations of capital, culture, violence, and the nation state.” tion of human life to abjection and unnatural death on the new frontier.
—GEORGE LIPSITZ , author of How Racism Takes Place Rosas’s insistence on directing our critical gaze to a dark and dank place of
subjection, power, and violence ought to instigate vital new lines of debate
in the study of border enforcement and subjectivity within the wild zones
Tijuana Dreaming is an unprec- of state power.”—NICHOLAS DE GENOVA , coeditor of The Deportation
edented introduction to the arts, Regime: Sovereignty, Space, and the Freedom of Movement
culture, politics, and economics
of contemporary Tijuana, Mexico.
With many pieces translated from The city of Nogales straddles the
the Spanish for the first time, the border running between Arizona and
anthology features contributions Sonora, Mexico. On the Mexican
by prominent scholars, journalists, side, marginalized youths calling
bloggers, novelists, poets, curators, themselves Barrio Libre (Free ‘Hood)
and photographers from Tijuana employ violence, theft, and bribery
and greater Mexico. They explore to survive, often preying on undocu-
urban planning in light of Tijuana’s mented migrants who navigate the
unique infrastructural, demographic, city’s sewer system to cross the U.S.-
and environmental challenges. They Mexico border. In this book, Gilberto
delve into its musical countercultures, architectural ruins, cinema, and Rosas draws on his in-depth ethno-
emergence as a hot spot on the international art scene. One contributor graphic research among the members
examines fictional representations of Tijuana’s past as a Prohibition-era of Barrio Libre to understand why its
“city of sin” for U.S. pleasure seekers. Another reflects on its present members have embraced criminality,
as a city beleaguered by kidnappings and drug violence. In an inter- and how neoliberalism and security policies on both sides of the border
view, Nestor García Canclini revisits ideas that he advanced in Culturas have affected the youths’ descent into Barrio Libre.
híbridas (1990), his watershed book about Latin America and cultural
Rosas argues that although these youth participate in the victimiza-
hybridity. Taken together, the selections present a kaleidoscopic por-
tion of others, they should not be demonized. They are complexly and
trait of a major border city in the age of globalization.
adversely situated. The effects of NAFTA have forced many of them,
Contributors as well as other Mexicans, to migrate to Nogales. Moving fluidly with
Tito Alegría, Humberto Félix Berumen, Roberto Castillo, Iain Chambers, Luis Humberto the youth through the spaces that they inhabit and control, he shows
Crosthwaite, Teddy Cruz, Ejival, Tarek Elhaik, Guillermo Fadanelli, Ingrid Hernández, how the militarization of the border actually destabilized the region
Jennifer Insley-Pruitt, Kathryn Kopinak, Josh Kun, Jesse Lerner, Fiamma Montezemolo, and led Barrio Libre to turn to increasingly violent activities, includ-
Rene Peralta, Rafa Saavedra, Lucía Sanromán, Michelle Téllez, Santiago Vaquera-
ing drug trafficking. By focusing on these youth and their delinquency,
Vásquez, Heriberto Yépez
Rosas demonstrates how capitalism and criminality shape perceptions
Josh Kun is a professor in the Annenberg School for Communication and and experiences of race, sovereignty, and resistance along the U.S.–
Journalism and the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the Mexico border.
University of Southern California. Fiamma Montezemolo is an anthro-
pologist and artist currently teaching in the Department of Art Practice at
Gilberto Rosas is Assistant Professor in the Departments of Anthropology
and Latina/Latino Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
the University of California, Berkeley. Iain Chambers teaches cultural and
postcolonial studies at the Orientale University of Naples.
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“In this exceptional work, Rachel Prentice attends to the practices of surgi-
cal training and mastery, as well as the ethical problems posed by techno- “Anne Pollock is trained in science and technology studies and is sensitive
logical innovation. Given these problems, she suggests that our conceptu- to the complexities of knowledge, politics, markets, and social categories.
alizations of the ethical in surgery might be productively rethought. There In this original study, she reveals how the modern history of heart disease
is no other book like this one; Prentice effectively places bodily practice is intertwined not only with the emergence and growth of the field of cardi-
at the center of questions of reason, innovation, technique, and ethics ology but also with civil rights struggles, pharmaceutical drug development
in science studies.”—LAWRENCE COHEN , author of No Aging in India: and marketing, and changing notions of the biological and social
Alzheimer’s, the Bad Family, and Other Modern Things meanings of race.”—STEVEN EPSTEIN , author of Inclusion: The Politics
of Difference in Medical Research
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anthropolog y music & sound
Judith Farquhar examines how health magazines serve as sources “A compelling account of how music and culture are inextricably wedded
of both medical information and erotic titillation to readers in urban to one another.”—DANIEL M. NEUMAN , Ethnomusicology
China. Tom Boellstorff analyzes how queer zines produced in Indonesia
construct the relationship between same-sex desire and citizenship. “It penetrates with clarity a musical and linguistic maze to bring to life processes
Purnima Mankekar investigates the rearticulation of commodity affect, through which individual emotions become the wellspring for social and cultural
erotics, and nation on Indian television. Louisa Schein describes how structures, and social and cultural structures become the bedrock of the experi-
portrayals of Hmong women in videos shot in Laos create desires ential world.”—JOHN SHEPHERD , Popular Music
for the homeland among viewers in the diaspora. Taken together, the
“A new departure point for ethnomusicology that reopens central questions . . .
essays offer fresh insights into research on gender, erotics, media,
of the meaning of musical sound; of the presence of theory in nonliterate societ-
and Asia, transnationally conceived.
ies; of the importance of the use of the local language and appropriate modes
Contributors of investigation in fieldwork.”—ALLAN THOMAS , American Anthropologist
Anne Allison, Tom Boellstorff, Nicole Constable, Heather Dell, Judith Farquhar,
Sara L. Friedman, Martin F. Manalansan IV, Purnima Mankekar, Louisa Schein, “One of the first books to successfully integrate ethnographic, musical, and lin-
Everett Yuehong Zhang guistic analysis, Sound and Sentiment remains a model for such integration.
In addition, it undergirds acoustemology, or the anthropology of sound, a schol-
Purnima Mankekar is Associate Professor of Asian American
arly tack that is accelerating, with no ritardando in sight.”—BONNIE C. WADE ,
Studies and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Louisa Schein is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Women’s author of Thinking Musically: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture
and Gender Studies at Rutgers University.
“Sound and Sentiment continues to animate debates about sound, listening,
and aesthetics across cultural and linguistic anthropology, ethnomusicology,
performance studies, media studies, history, and folklore.”—LOUISE MEINTJES ,
author of Sound of Africa! Making Music Zulu in a South African Studio
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February 392 pages, 25 illustrations September 300 pages, 28 illustrations (including 2 in color)
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music & sound
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October 360 pages, 18 illustrations, includes CD November 304 pages
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film & T V studies
“After reading Prescription TV, you’ll never watch ads for Viagra—or any
other prescription drug—in the same way again. Joy V. Fuqua navigates
“One Night on TV Is Worth Weeks at the Paramount will be the standard
the historical, material, and cultural dimensions of television’s role in
work on postwar U.S. music and television. Murray Forman gives us a
cultivating the modern consumer-patient. She demonstrates how television
full picture of cultural change in a key period of media transition. Reading
is implicated in professional and colloquial discourses of health, medicine,
his book, we witness the breakup of the big bands, the dismantling of the
and consumer agency, and how it has reconfigured ideas about medical
Hollywood system, the rise of network television, and the tense politics
and therapeutic space in the hospital and the home.”—MIMI WHITE,
of race and ethnicity that marked popular American entertainment in the
author of Tele-Advising: Therapeutic Discourse in American Television
1940s and 1950s.”—WILL STRAW, author of Cyanide and Sin: Visualizing
Crime in 50s America
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August 392 pages, 80 illustrations January 384 pages, 40 illustrations
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August Vol. 20, no. 3 291 pages, 21 illustrations Available 408 pages, 71 illustrations
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african american studies / black diaspora
“Transcending Blackness is unique in the field of multiracial studies and a “Sites of Slavery is a meticulously researched, persuasively argued, beauti-
truly groundbreaking and brilliant book. It is also a pleasure to read. Ralina fully written, and intellectually daring study of contemporary narratives of
L. Joseph is a rigorous interdisciplinarian, well versed in a number of fields, slavery. Through her dazzling readings of fiction, drama, dance, cinema,
and she meticulously analyzes and cites these literatures throughout this visual art, heritage tourism, reparations legal cases, and critical race histori-
important work.”—IMANI PERRY, author of More Beautiful and More ographies, Salamishah Tillet demonstrates how a range of African American
Terrible: The Embrace and Transcendence of Racial Inequality in the United artists, writers, and intellectuals respond to the contemporary ‘crisis of citi-
States zenship’ by foregrounding a ‘democratic aesthetic’ in their representations of
slavery. This book will transform the way we think about the place of African
American cultural production in relation to ‘post–civil rights era’ political
Representations of multiracial discourse.”—VALERIE SMITH , author of Toni Morrison: Writing the Moral
Americans, especially those Imagination
with one black and one white
parent, appear everywhere in
contemporary culture, from More than forty years after the major
reality shows to presidential victories of the civil rights movement,
politics. Some depict mul- African Americans have a vexed rela-
tiracial individuals mired in tion to the civic myth of the United
Film still from Mixing Nia, 1998. painful confusion; others States as the land of equal opportunity
equate them with progress, and justice for all. In Sites of Slavery,
as the embodiment of a postracial utopia. In Transcending Blackness, Salamishah Tillet examines how con-
Ralina L. Joseph critiques both depictions as rooted in—and still temporary African American artists
defined by—the racist notion that blackness is a deficit that must be and intellectuals—including Annette
overcome. Gordon-Reed, Barbara Chase-Riboud,
Bill T. Jones, Carrie Mae Weems,
Analyzing emblematic representations of multiracial figures in popular
and Kara Walker—turn to the sub-
culture—Jennifer Beals’s character in the The L Word; the protagonist
ject of slavery to understand and
in Danny Senza’s novel Caucasia; the title character in the independent
challenge the ongoing exclusion of
film Mixing Nia; and contestants in a controversial episode of the reality
African Americans from the founding narratives of the United States.
show America’s Next Top Model, who had to “switch ethnicities”
She explains how they reconstruct “sites of slavery”—contested figures,
for a photo shoot—Joseph identifies the persistence of two widespread
events, memories, locations, and experiences related to chattel
stereotypes about mixed-race African Americans: those of “new mil-
slavery—such as the allegations of a sexual relationship between
lennium mulattas” and “exceptional multiracials.” The former inscribes
Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, the characters Uncle Tom and
multiracial African Americans as tragic figures whose blackness pre-
Topsy in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, African
destines them for misfortune; the latter rewards mixed-race African
American tourism to slave forts in Ghana and Senegal, and the legal
Americans for successfully erasing their blackness. Addressing ques-
challenges posed by reparations movements. By claiming and recasting
tions of authenticity, sexuality, and privilege, Transcending Blackness
these sites of slavery, contemporary artists and intellectuals provide
refutes that idea that in American society, race no longer matters.
slaves with an interiority and subjectivity denied them in American his-
Ralina L. Joseph is Associate Professor of Communication at the tory, register the civic estrangement experienced by African Americans
University of Washington.
in the post–civil rights era, and envision a more fully realized American
democracy.
Salamishah Tillet is Assistant Professor of English and Africana Studies
at the University of Pennsylvania.
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african american studies / black diaspora
“Against the Closet is an important and much-needed book, a significant In this special double issue of GLQ,
contribution to African American literature, cultural studies, sexuality stud- queer theory meets critical race
ies, and critical race theory. Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman’s close readings of theory, transnationalism, and Third
fictional representations of race and sex are nuanced and illuminating, World feminisms in analyses of the
and the history of racial thought and sexual science that she presents is Black queer diaspora. Contributors
indispensable.”—MAURICE O. WALLACE , author of Constructing the apply social science methodologies
Black Masculine: Identity and Ideality in African American Men’s Literature to theories born out of the humani-
and Culture, 1775–1995 ties to produce innovative, humane,
and expansive readings of on-the-
ground social conditions around
In Against the Closet, Aliyyah I. Abdur-
the world.
Rahman interrogates and challenges
cultural theorists’ interpretations of The contributors to this issue draw
sexual transgression in African American on radical Black and women-of-color
literature. She argues that, from the mid- feminisms to examine the embodied
nineteenth century through the twentieth, experience of the Black queer diaspora. One contributor elaborates on
black writers used depictions of erotic the work of Black Atlantic scholarship to imagine a story of the Black
transgression to contest popular theories Pacific experience and how shipboard life shapes the relationships
of identity, pathology, national belong- formed during travel and migration. Ethnographic fieldwork among Black
ing, and racial difference in American queer citizens in postapartheid South Africa, read through the lens of
culture. Connecting metaphors of sexual a popular local radio show, illustrates the distinction between citizen-
transgression to specific historical periods, ship and belonging. In Trinidad, where men who have sex with men have
Abdur-Rahman explains how tropes such faced particular hostility, the bonds of friendship and affection emerge
as sadomasochism and incest illuminated as crucial tools of activism and survival in a community threatened by
the psychodynamics of particular racial injuries and suggested forms of HIV/AIDS .
social repair and political redress from the time of slavery, through post- Contributors
Reconstruction and the civil rights and black power movements, to the Vanessa Agard-Jones, Jafari S. Allen, Lyndon K. Gill, Ana-Maurine Lara,
late twentieth century. Xavier Livermon, Matt Richardson, Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley
Abdur-Rahman brings black feminist, psychoanalytic, critical race, and Jafari S. Allen is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African American
poststructuralist theories to bear on literary genres from slave narra- Studies at Yale University. He is the author of ¡Venceremos? Sexuality, Gender
tives to science fiction. Analyzing works by African American writers, and Black Self-Making in Cuba, also published by Duke University Press.
including Frederick Douglass, Pauline Hopkins, Harriet Jacobs, James
Baldwin, and Octavia Butler, she shows how literary representations
of transgressive sexuality expressed the longings of African Americans
for individual and collective freedom. Abdur-Rahman contends that
those representations were fundamental to the development of African
American forms of literary expression and modes of political interven-
tion and cultural self-fashioning.
Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman is Assistant Professor of English at Brandeis
University.
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african american studies / black diaspora political theory / social theory
“Black France / France Noire is the most comprehensive and urgent anthol- Bourdieu’s extraordinarily rich oeuvre for the theoretical analysis of histori-
ogy regarding the questions of citizenship and belonging in France since cal transformations.”—ROGERS BRUBAKER , author of Ethnicity without
Pierre Bourdieu’s The Weight of the World. There’s also a salutary combi- Groups
“The strength of this book is the way that it remedies the scholarly neglect
of Henri Bergson’s political and religious thought, especially as found in his “This inspired and rigorous engagement with Gilles Deleuze’s concept of
last book, The Two Sources of Morality and Religion. Together, these essays immanence raises fresh new problems and questions. Joshua Ramey reads
provide a more well-rounded view of Bergson’s complete project and show Deleuze as a philosopher who both causes thought to happen and inquires
how he can contribute to rethinking a number of current issues in sociologi- how it happens; he philosophizes about philosophizing. As such, Ramey
cal, political, and religious thought.”—JOHN PROTEVI , author of Political presents Deleuze as a philosophical demiurge, which is both exciting and
Affect: Connecting the Social and the Somatic provoking. This is an important book and a valuable contribution to the
field.”—IAN BUCHANAN , editor of the journal Deleuze Studies
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Contributors
José Batista Gonçalves Afonso, Sonia Maria P. P. Bergamasco, Sue Branford, Elena
Calvo-González, Miguel Carter, Horacio Martins de Carvalho, Guilherme Costa Delgado,
Bernardo Mançano Fernandes, Leonilde Servolo de Medeiros, George Mészáros, Luiz
Antonio Cabello Norder, Gabriel Ondetti, Ivo Poletto, Marcelo Rosa, Lygia Maria Sigaud,
Emmanuel Wambergue, Wendy Wolford
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“River of Hope not only documents the history of the Rio Grande area in the “Jeremy Ravi Mumford’s gracefully written study is a major contribution
late eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries, it also provides a model for not only to the history of the Andes and colonial Latin America, but also
integrating the concerns of Chicana/o studies scholars, historians of the to the history of colonialism. The most detailed examination of the project
American West, scholars of gender and ethnicity, theorists of state forma- to date, Vertical Empire adds new depth and dimension to what many
tion, and political scientists who study ‘everyday forms of resistance.’ regard as one of the greatest feats of social engineering in modern his-
An extraordinary contribution, the book opens up a wide-ranging discus- tory: the resettlement of the Andean population ordered by Francisco de
sion about the interplay between local and national discourses, particularly Toledo, fifth viceroy of Peru.”—KAREN SPALDING , author of Huarochirí:
in places located on the peripheries of power, and especially at times of An Andean Society Under Inca and Spanish Rule
rapid social, cultural, legal, and political change. This is a genuinely origi-
nal piece of scholarship.”—SUSAN LEE JOHNSON , author of Roaring
Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush In 1569 the Spanish viceroy
Francisco de Toledo ordered
more than one million native
In River of Hope, Omar S. Valerio- people of the central Andes to
Jiménez examines state formation, move to newly founded Spanish-
cultural change, and the con- style towns called reducciones.
struction of identity in the Lower This campaign, known as the
Rio Grande region during the General Resettlement of Indians,
Anonymous woodcut showing Pikemen,
eighteenth and nineteenth cen- represented a turning point in the
Augsburg, 1533. Courtesy of the Anne S. K.
turies. He chronicles a history of Brown Military Collection, Brown University history of European colonialism:
Library.
School children enacting a patriotic war play, violence resulting from multiple a state forcing an entire con-
circa 1890. Courtesy of Brownsville Historical conquests, of resistance and quered society to change its way of life overnight. But while this radical
Association.
accommodation to state power, restructuring destroyed certain aspects of indigenous society, Jeremy
and of changing ethnic and political identities. The redrawing of borders Ravi Mumford’s Vertical Empire reveals the ways that it preserved
neither began nor ended the region’s long history of unequal power others. The campaign drew on colonial ethnographic inquiries into
relations. Nor did it lead residents to adopt singular colonial or national indigenous culture and strengthened the place of native lords in colo-
identities. Instead, their regionalism, transnational cultural practices, nial society. In the end, the General Resettlement added another layer
and kinship ties subverted state attempts to control and divide the to a complex web of settlement—a web that the Spaniards glimpsed
population. and that the Andeans defended fiercely—rather than displacing or
destroying it.
Diverse influences transformed the borderlands as Spain, Mexico,
and the United States competed for control of the region. Indian slaves Jeremy Ravi Mumford is Visiting Assistant Professor of History at
joined Spanish society; Mexicans allied with Indians to defend river Brown University.
communities; Anglo Americans and Mexicans intermarried and collabo-
rated; and women sued to confront spousal abuse and secure divorces.
Drawn into multiple conflicts along the border, Mexican nationals and
Mexican Texans (tejanos) took advantage of their transnational social
relations and ambiguous citizenship to escape criminal prosecution,
secure political refuge, and obtain economic opportunities. To confront
the racialization of their cultural practices and their increasing criminal-
ization, tejanos claimed citizenship rights within the United States
and, in the process, created a new identity for themselves.
Omar S. Valerio-Jiménez is Assistant Professor of History at the
University of Iowa.
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Sarah Bay-Cheng, Annie Dorsen, Miriam Felton-Dansky, Jacob Gallagher-Ross,
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Alexis Soloski
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