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A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability
Häftad, 2018
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This title is part of American Studies Now and available as an e-book first. Visit ucpress.edu/go/americanstudiesnow to learn more. In the last decade, public discussions of transgender issues have increased exponentially. However, with this increased visibility has come not just power, but …
Anticolonial Eruptions
Racial Hubris and the Cunning of Resistance
Av Geo Maher
Häftad, 2022
175 kr
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This incisive study reveals the fundamental, paradoxical weakness of colonialism and the enduring power of anticolonial resistance.Resistance is everywhere, but everywhere a surprise, especially when the agents of struggle are the colonized, the enslaved, the wretched of the earth. Anticolonial …
Making All Black Lives Matter
Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century
Inbunden, 2018
823 kr
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This title is part of American Studies Now and available as an e-book first. Visit ucpress.edu/go/americanstudiesnow to learn more. In the wake of the murder of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin in 2012 and the exoneration of his killer, three black women activists launched a hashtag and social media …
Making All Black Lives Matter
Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century
Häftad, 2018
170 kr
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This title is part of American Studies Now and available as an e-book first. Visit ucpress.edu/go/americanstudiesnow to learn more. In the wake of the murder of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin in 2012 and the exoneration of his killer, three black women activists launched a hashtag and social media …
We Demand
The University and Student Protests
Häftad, 2017
165 kr
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This title is part of American Studies Now and available as an e-book first. Visit ucpress.edu/go/americanstudiesnow to learn more. In the post-World War II period, students rebelled against the university establishment. In student-led movements, women, minorities, immigrants, and indigenous people …
Imagining the Future of Climate Change
World-Making through Science Fiction and Activism
Inbunden, 2018
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This title is part of American Studies Now and available as an e-book first. Visit ucpress.edu/go/americanstudiesnow to learn more. From the 1960s to the present, activists, artists, and science fiction writers have imagined the consequences of climate change and its impacts on our future. Authors …
Imagining the Future of Climate Change
World-Making through Science Fiction and Activism
Häftad, 2018
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This title is part of American Studies Now and available as an e-book first. Visit ucpress.edu/go/americanstudiesnow to learn more. From the 1960s to the present, activists, artists, and science fiction writers have imagined the consequences of climate change and its impacts on our future. Authors …
Mean Girl
Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed
Av Lisa Duggan
Häftad, 2019
195 kr
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"Astute."—New York Times Ayn Rand’s complicated notoriety as popular writer, leader of a political and philosophical cult, reviled intellectual, and ostentatious public figure endured beyond her death in 1982. In the twenty-first century, she has been resurrected as a serious reference point for …
Boycott!
The Academy and Justice for Palestine
Inbunden, 2018
847 kr
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This title is part of American Studies Now and available as an e-book first. Visit ucpress.edu/go/americanstudiesnow to learn more. The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement (BDS) has expanded rapidly though controversially in the US in the last five years. The academic boycott of Israeli …
Boycott!
The Academy and Justice for Palestine
Häftad, 2018
175 kr
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This title is part of American Studies Now and available as an e-book first. Visit ucpress.edu/go/americanstudiesnow to learn more. The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement (BDS) has expanded rapidly though controversially in the US in the last five years. The academic boycott of Israeli …
Fifty-Year Rebellion
How the U.S. Political Crisis Began in Detroit
Häftad, 2017
250 kr
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This title is part of American Studies Now and available as an e-book first. Visit ucpress.edu/go/americanstudiesnow to learn more. On July 23, 1967, the eyes of the world fixed on Detroit, as thousands took to the streets to vent their frustrations with white racism, police brutality, and …
Beyond the Pink Tide
Art and Political Undercurrents in the Americas
Inbunden, 2018
847 kr
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How can we create a model of politics that reaches beyond the nation-state, and beyond settler-colonialism, authoritarianism, and neoliberalism? In Beyond the Pink Tide, Macarena Gómez-Barris explores the alternatives of recent sonic, artistic, activist, visual, and embodied cultural production. By …
Beyond the Pink Tide
Art and Political Undercurrents in the Americas
Häftad, 2018
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How can we create a model of politics that reaches beyond the nation-state, and beyond settler-colonialism, authoritarianism, and neoliberalism? In Beyond the Pink Tide, Macarena Gómez-Barris explores the alternatives of recent sonic, artistic, activist, visual, and embodied cultural production. By …
Never-Ending War on Terror
Av Alex Lubin
Inbunden, 2021
847 kr
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A concise primer to the political, cultural, and social consequences of the perpetual US global war on terror.An entire generation of young adults has never known an America without the War on Terror. This book contends with the pervasive effects of post-9/11 policy and myth-making in every corner …
Never-Ending War on Terror
Av Alex Lubin
Häftad, 2021
175 kr
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A concise primer to the political, cultural, and social consequences of the perpetual US global war on terror.An entire generation of young adults has never known an America without the War on Terror. This book contends with the pervasive effects of post-9/11 policy and myth-making in every corner …
Dirty South Manifesto
Sexual Resistance and Imagination in the New South
Inbunden, 2019
847 kr
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From the shutdown of Planned Parenthood clinics and rising rates of HIV to opposition to marriage equality and bathroom bills, the New South is the epicenter of the new sex wars. Antagonism toward reproductive freedom, partner rights, and transgender rights has revealed a new and unacknowledged era …
Dirty South Manifesto
Sexual Resistance and Imagination in the New South
Häftad, 2019
175 kr
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From the shutdown of Planned Parenthood clinics and rising rates of HIV to opposition to marriage equality and bathroom bills, the New South is the epicenter of the new sex wars. Antagonism toward reproductive freedom, partner rights, and transgender rights has revealed a new and unacknowledged era …
Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger
Av Julie Sze
Häftad, 2020
175 kr
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“Let this book immerse you in the many worlds of environmental justice.”—Naomi KleinWe are living in a precarious environmental and political moment. In the United States and in the world, environmental injustices have manifested across racial and class divides in devastatingly disproportionate …
Being Brown
Sonia Sotomayor and the Latino Question
Av Lázaro Lima
Inbunden, 2019
873 kr
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Being Brown: Sonia Sotomayor and the Latino Question tells the story of the country’s first Latina Supreme Court Associate Justice’s rise to the pinnacle of American public life at a moment of profound demographic and political transformation. While Sotomayor’s confirmation appeared to signal the …
Being Brown
Sonia Sotomayor and the Latino Question
Av Lázaro Lima
Häftad, 2019
163 kr
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Being Brown: Sonia Sotomayor and the Latino Question tells the story of the country’s first Latina Supreme Court Associate Justice’s rise to the pinnacle of American public life at a moment of profound demographic and political transformation. While Sotomayor’s confirmation appeared to signal the …
Red Scare
The State's Indigenous Terrorist
Inbunden, 2021
847 kr
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How the rhetoric of terrorism has been used against high-profile movements to justify the oppression and suppression of Indigenous activists. New Indigenous movements are gaining traction in North America: the Missing and Murdered Women and Idle No More movements in Canada, and the Native Lives …
Red Scare
The State's Indigenous Terrorist
Häftad, 2021
175 kr
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How the rhetoric of terrorism has been used against high-profile movements to justify the oppression and suppression of Indigenous activists. New Indigenous movements are gaining traction in North America: the Missing and Murdered Women and Idle No More movements in Canada, and the Native Lives …
Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary
Understanding U.S. Immigration for the Twenty-First Century
Inbunden, 2020
847 kr
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Days after taking the White House, Donald Trump signed three executive orders—these authorized the Muslim Ban, the border wall, and ICE raids. These orders would define his administration’s approach toward noncitizens. An essential primer on how we got here, Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary shows that …
Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary
Understanding U.S. Immigration for the Twenty-First Century
Häftad, 2020
175 kr
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Days after taking the White House, Donald Trump signed three executive orders—these authorized the Muslim Ban, the border wall, and ICE raids. These orders would define his administration’s approach toward noncitizens. An essential primer on how we got here, Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary shows that …
Anticolonial Eruptions
Racial Hubris and the Cunning of Resistance
Av Geo Maher
Inbunden, 2022
847 kr
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This incisive study reveals the fundamental, paradoxical weakness of colonialism and the enduring power of anticolonial resistance.Resistance is everywhere, but everywhere a surprise, especially when the agents of struggle are the colonized, the enslaved, the wretched of the earth. Anticolonial …
Disability, Revolution
Inbunden, 2026
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What revolutionary disability politics look like today, with lessons for larger liberatory movements.In recent political times, disability identity has been mobilized in ways that paradoxically compound bodily injury and disability. This single-issue approach obscures the oppression of disabled …
Disability, Revolution
Häftad, 2026
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What revolutionary disability politics look like today, with lessons for larger liberatory movements.In recent political times, disability identity has been mobilized in ways that paradoxically compound bodily injury and disability. This single-issue approach obscures the oppression of disabled …
Black Apocalypse
Afrofuturism at the End of the World
Inbunden, 2025
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Juxtaposing the world-building of afrofuturism and the world-negating of afropessimism to show how both movements have offered us critical resources of hope. Science fiction imagines aliens and global crises as world-unifying events, both a threat and promise for the future. Black Apocalypse is an …
Black Apocalypse
Afrofuturism at the End of the World
Häftad, 2025
195 kr
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Juxtaposing the world-building of afrofuturism and the world-negating of afropessimism to show how both movements have offered us critical resources of hope. Science fiction imagines aliens and global crises as world-unifying events, both a threat and promise for the future. Black Apocalypse is an …
Teaching Solidarity
Critical Race Reading
Häftad, 2026
170 kr
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A call for critical race reading as a step towards creating progressive and democratic politics.Critical race theory (CRT) has been targeted for bans in forty-nine US states and subjected to a flurry of legislative acts surveilling its teaching at all levels of education. Malini Johar Schueller …
