Duke University Press: 2463 books
Strange Future
Pessimism and the 1992 Los Angeles Riots
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2005
Sometime near the start of the 1990s, the future became a place of national decline. The United States had entered a period of great anxiety fueled by the shrinking of the white middle class, the increasingly visible misery of poor urban blacks, and the mass immigration of nonwhites. Perhaps more...
Queer in Russia
A Story of Sex, Self, and the Other
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 1999
In Queer in Russia Laurie Essig examines the formation of gay identity and community in the former Soviet Union. As a sociological fieldworker, she began her research during the late 1980s, before any kind of a public queer identity existed in that country. After a decade of conducting interviews,...
The Rule of Rules
Morality, Rules, and the Dilemmas of Law
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2001
Rules perform a moral function by restating moral principles in concrete terms, so as to reduce the uncertainty, error, and controversy that result when individuals follow their own unconstrained moral judgment. Although reason dictates that we must follow rules to avoid destructive error and controversy,...
Chinese Visions of World Order
Tianxia, Culture, and World Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
The Confucian doctrine of tianxia (all under heaven) outlines a unitary worldview that cherishes global justice and transcends social, geographic, and political divides. For contemporary scholars, it has held myriad meanings, from the articulation of a cultural imaginary and political strategy to...
Politics without a Past
The Absence of History in Postcommunist Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 1999
In Politics without a Past Shari J. Cohen offers a powerful challenge to
common characterizations of postcommunist politics as either a resurgence of
aggressive nationalism or an evolution toward Western-style democracy. Cohen
draws upon extensive field research to paint a picture of postcommunist
political...
Critically Sovereign
Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Critically Sovereign traces the ways in which gender is inextricably a part of Indigenous politics and U.S. and Canadian imperialism and colonialism. The contributors show how gender, sexuality, and feminism work as co-productive forces of Native American and Indigenous sovereignty, self-determination,...
High Stakes
Florida Seminole Gaming and Sovereignty
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2008
In 1979, Florida Seminoles opened the first tribally operated high-stakes bingo hall in North America. At the time, their annual budget stood at less than $2 million. By 2006, net income from gaming had surpassed $600 million. This dramatic shift from poverty to relative economic security has created...
Muslims in Central Asia
Expressions of Identity and Change
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Central Asia is distinctive in its role as a frontier region in which a unique diversity of cultural, religious, and political traditions exist. This collection of essays by expert scholars in a range of disciplines focuses on the formation of ethnic, religious, and national identities in Muslim societies...
The Brain's Body
Neuroscience and Corporeal Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
In The Brain's Body Victoria Pitts-Taylor brings feminist and critical theory to bear on new development in neuroscience to demonstrate how power and inequality are materially and symbolically entangled with neurobiological bodies. Pitts-Taylor is interested in how the brain interacts with and is...
Parallax Visions
Making Sense of American–East Asian Relations at the End of the Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 1999
In a work that synthesizes crucial developments in international relations at the close of the twentieth century, Bruce Cumings—a leading historian of contemporary East Asia—provides a nuanced understanding of how the United States has loomed over the modern history and culture of East Asia. By...
Who Killed John Clayton?
Political Violence and the Emergence of the New South, 1861-1893
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 1998
In 1888 a group of armed and masked Democrats stole a ballot box from a small town in Conway County, Arkansas. The box contained most of the county’s black Republican votes, thereby assuring defeat for candidate John Clayton in a close race for the U.S. Congress. Days after he announced he would...
Working Out Egypt
Effendi Masculinity and Subject Formation in Colonial Modernity, 1870–1940
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2011
Working Out Egypt is both a rich cultural history of the formation of an Egyptian national subject in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth and a compelling critique of modern Middle Eastern historiography. Wilson Chacko Jacob describes how Egyptian men of a class akin to the cultural bourgeoisie...
by Devorah Heitner
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
In Black Power TV, Devorah Heitner chronicles the emergence of Black public affairs television starting in 1968. She examines two local shows, New York's Inside Bedford-Stuyvesant and Boston's Say Brother, and the national programs Soul! and Black Journal. These shows offered viewers radical and innovative...
Inherent Vice
Bootleg Histories of Videotape and Copyright
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2009
In an age of digital technology and renewed anxiety about media piracy, Inherent Vice revisits the recent analog past with an eye-opening exploration of the aesthetic and legal innovations of home video. Analog videotape was introduced to consumers as a blank format, essentially as a bootleg technology,...