Duke University Press: 2463 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2001
Bringing together new articles and essays from the controversial Berkeley conference of the same name, The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness presents a fascinating range of inquiry into the nature of whiteness. Representing academics, independent scholars, community organizers, and antiracist activists,...
by Sonia Sanchez
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2010
Sonia Sanchez is a prolific, award-winning poet and one of the most prominent writers in the Black Arts movement. This collection brings her plays together in one volume for the first time. Like her poetry, Sanchez’s plays voice her critique of the racism and sexism that she encountered as a young...
Other Planes of There
Selected Writings
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
For more than two decades, the artist Renée Green has created an impressive body of work in which language is an essential element. Green is also a prolific writer and a major voice in the international art world. Other Planes of There gathers for the first time a substantial collection of the work...
What We Made
Conversations on Art and Social Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
In What We Made, Tom Finkelpearl examines the activist, participatory, coauthored aesthetic experiences being created in contemporary art. He suggests social cooperation as a meaningful way to think about this work and provides a framework for understanding its emergence and acceptance. In a series...
Haydée Santamaría, Cuban Revolutionary
She Led by Transgression
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015
Taking part in the Cuban Revolution's first armed action in 1953, enduring the torture and killings of her brother and fiancé, assuming a leadership role in the underground movement, and smuggling weapons into Cuba, Haydée Santamaría was the only woman to participate in every phase of the Revolution....
Portrait of a Young Painter
Pepe Zuniga and Mexico City's Rebel Generation
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
In Portrait of a Young Painter, the distinguished historian Mary Kay Vaughan adopts a biographical approach to understanding the culture surrounding the Mexico City youth rebellion of the 1960s. Her chronicle of the life of painter Pepe Zúñiga counters a literature that portrays post-1940 Mexican...
Becoming Reinaldo Arenas
Family, Sexuality, and The Cuban Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Becoming Reinaldo Arenas explores the life and work of the Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas (1943–1990), who emerged on the Latin American cultural scene in the 1960s and quickly achieved literary fame. Yet as a political dissident and an openly gay man, Arenas also experienced discrimination and persecution;...
by Margaret Randall
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Che on My Mind is an impressionistic look at the life, death, and legacy of Che Guevara by the renowned feminist poet and activist Margaret Randall. Recalling an era and this figure, she writes, "I am old enough to remember the world in which [Che] lived. I was part of that world, and it remains...
Brazilian Art under Dictatorship
Antonio Manuel, Artur Barrio, and Cildo Meireles
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2012
Brazilian Art under Dictatorship is a sophisticated analysis of the intersection of politics and the visual arts during the most repressive years of Brazil's military regime, from 1968 until 1975. Raised in Rio de Janeiro during the dictatorship, the curator and art historian Claudia Calirman describes...
Art and Social Movements
Cultural Politics in Mexico and Aztlán
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
Art and Social Movements offers a comparative, cross-border analysis of the role of visual artists in three social movements from the late 1960s through the early 1990s: the 1968 student movement and related activist art collectives in Mexico City, a Zapotec indigenous struggle in Oaxaca, and the...
The Fierce Urgency of Now
Improvisation, Rights, and the Ethics of Cocreation
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
The Fierce Urgency of Now links musical improvisation to struggles for social change, focusing on the connections between the improvisation associated with jazz and the dynamics of human rights struggles and discourses. The authors acknowledge that at first glance improvisation and rights seem to...
Audible Empire
Music, Global Politics, Critique
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
Audible Empire rethinks the processes and mechanisms of empire and shows how musical practice has been crucial to its spread around the globe. Music is a means of comprehending empire as an audible formation, and the contributors highlight how it has been circulated, consumed, and understood through...
Gesture and Power
Religion, Nationalism, and Everyday Performance in Congo
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
In Gesture and Power Yolanda Covington-Ward examines the everyday embodied practices and performances of the BisiKongo people of the Lower Congo to show how their gestures, dances, and spirituality are critical in mobilizing social and political action. Conceiving of the body as the center of analysis,...
Mexican American Mojo
Popular Music, Dance, and Urban Culture in Los Angeles, 1935–1968
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2008
Stretching from the years during the Second World War when young couples jitterbugged across the dance floor at the Zenda Ballroom, through the early 1950s when honking tenor saxophones could be heard at the Angelus Hall, to the Spanish-language cosmopolitanism of the late 1950s and 1960s, Mexican...