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Entry Points
The Vera List Center Field Guide on Art and Social Justice No. 1
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
Providing a lively snapshot of the state of art and social justice today on a global level, Entry Points accompanies the inaugural Vera List Center Prize for Art and Politics, launched at The New School on the occasion of the center’s twentieth anniversary. This book captures some of the most significant...
by James Williams, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2001
This book brings back into print, for the first time since the 1830s, a text that was central to the transatlantic campaign to fully abolish slavery in Britain’s colonies. James Williams, an eighteen-year-old Jamaican “apprentice” (former slave), came to Britain in 1837 at the instigation of...
The Tyranny of Opinion
Honor in the Construction of the Mexican Public Sphere
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2010
In the mid-to-late nineteenth century, as Mexico emerged out of decades of civil war and foreign invasion, a modern notion of honor—of one’s reputation and self-worth—became the keystone in the construction of public culture. Mexicans gave great symbolic, social, and material value to honor....
Transatlantic Fascism
Ideology, Violence, and the Sacred in Argentina and Italy, 1919-1945
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2010
In Transatlantic Fascism, Federico Finchelstein traces the intellectual and cultural connections between Argentine and Italian fascisms, showing how fascism circulates transnationally. From the early 1920s well into the Second World War, Mussolini tried to export Italian fascism to Argentina, the...
Days on Earth
The Dance of Doris Humphrey
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 1993
Now available in paperback, Days on Earth--originally published in 1988 (Yale University Press)--traces the dance career and artistic development of one of the founders of American modern dance. In this biography of dance pioneer Doris Humphrey, Marcia B. Siegel follows Humphrey's career from her...
This Land Is Ours Now
Social Mobilization and the Meanings of Land in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2010
In This Land Is Ours Now, Wendy Wolford presents an original framework for understanding social mobilization. She argues that social movements are not the politically coherent, bounded entities often portrayed by scholars, the press, and movement leaders. Instead, they are constantly changing mediations...
Dissing Elizabeth
Negative Representations of Gloriana
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 1998
Dissing Elizabeth focuses on the criticism that cast a shadow on the otherwise celebrated reign of Elizabeth I. The essays in this politically and historically revealing book demonstrate the sheer pervasiveness and range of rhetoric against the queen, illuminating the provocative discourse of disrespect...
Sex in Revolution
Gender, Politics, and Power in Modern Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2007
Sex in Revolution challenges the prevailing narratives of the Mexican Revolution and postrevolutionary state formation by placing women at center stage. Bringing to bear decades of feminist scholarship and cultural approaches to Mexican history, the essays in this book demonstrate how women seized...
Ernst Jünger and Germany
Into the Abyss, 1914-1945
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
For most of his life, Ernst Jünger, one of Europe's leading twentieth-century writers, has been controversial. Renowned as a soldier who wrote of his experience in the First World War, he has maintained a remarkable writing career that has spanned five periods of modern German history. In this first...
The Life of Captain Cipriani
An Account of British Government in the West Indies, with the pamphlet The Case for West-Indian Self Government
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
The Life of Captain Cipriani (1932) is the earliest full-length work of nonfiction by the Trinidadian writer C. L. R. James, one of the most significant historians and Marxist theorists of the twentieth century. It is partly based on James's interviews with Arthur Andrew Cipriani (1875–1945). As...
Second Wounds
Victims’ Rights and the Media in the U.S.
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2011
The U.S. victims’ rights movement has transformed the way that violent crime is understood and represented in the United States. It has expanded the concept of victimhood to include family members and others close to direct victims, and it has argued that these secondary victims may be further traumatized...
Burn This House
The Making and Unmaking of Yugoslavia
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2000
With Muslim, Croatian, and Serbian journalists and historians as contributors, Burn This House portrays the chain of events that led to the recent wars in the heart of Europe. Comprised of critical, nonnationalist voices from the former Yugoslavia, this volume elucidates the Balkan tragedy while directing...
Violence As Obscenity
Limiting the Media’s First Amendment Protection
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 1996
This timely and accessible volume takes a fresh approach to a question of increasing public concern: whether or not the federal government should regulate media violence. In Violence as Obscenity, Kevin W. Saunders boldly calls into question the assumption that violent material is protected by the...
The Ailing City
Health, Tuberculosis, and Culture in Buenos Aires, 1870–1950
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2011
For decades, tuberculosis in Buenos Aires was more than a dangerous bacillus. It was also an anxious state of mind shaped not only by fears of contagion and death but also by broader social and cultural concerns. These worries included changing work routines, rapid urban growth and its consequences...