Books from Duke University Press Books
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The Communist and the Communist's Daughter: A Memoir
By Jane LazarreThis is also the story of Jane as she grew up, married an African American civil rights activist, and became a mother and a writer while coming to terms with her father’s legacy.
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The Apartment Plot: Urban Living in American Film and Popular Culture, 1945 to 1975
By Pamela Robertson WojcikWojcik suggests that the apartment plot presents a philosophy of urbanism related to the theories of Jane Jacobs and Henri Lefebvre.
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Sensing Sound: Singing and Listening as Vibrational Practice
By Nina Sun EidsheimIn Sensing Sound Nina Sun Eidsheim offers a vibrational theory of music that radically re-envisions how we think about sound, music, and listening.
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Critique of Black Reason
By Achille MbembeTracing the conjunction of Blackness with the biological fiction of race, he theorizes Black reason as the collection of discourses and practices that equated Blackness with the nonhuman in order to uphold forms of oppression.
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Remnants: A Memoir of Spirit, Activism, and Mothering
By Rosemarie Freeney Harding, Rachel Elizabeth HardingRemnants, a multigenre memoir, demonstrates how Freeney Harding's spiritual life and social justice activism were integral to the instincts of mothering, healing, and community-building.
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Pipe Politics, Contested Waters: Embedded Infrastructures of Millennial Mumbai
By Lisa BjörkmanIn Pipe Politics, Contested Waters, Lisa Björkman shows how an elite dream to transform Mumbai into a "world class" business center has wreaked havoc on the city’s water pipes.
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Everyday Conversions: Islam, Domestic Work, and South Asian Migrant Women in Kuwait
By Attiya AhmadWhy are domestic workers converting to Islam in the Arabian Peninsula and Persian Gulf region? In Everyday Conversions Attiya Ahmad presents us with an original analysis of this phenomenon.
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The FBI in Latin America: The Ecuador Files
By Marc BeckerMarc Becker interrogates a trove of FBI documents from its Ecuador mission to uncover the history and purpose of the SIS’s intervention in Latin America and for the light they shed on leftist organizing efforts in Latin America.
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Archipelagic American Studies
By Michelle Ann Stephens, Brian Russell RobertsThey trace these planet-spanning archipelagic connections in essays on topics ranging from Indigenous sovereignty to the work of Édouard Glissant, from Philippine call centers to US militarization in the Caribbean, and from the great ...
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Archipelagic American Studies
By Michelle Ann Stephens, Brian Russell RobertsThey trace these planet-spanning archipelagic connections in essays on topics ranging from Indigenous sovereignty to the work of Édouard Glissant, from Philippine call centers to US militarization in the Caribbean, and from the great ...
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Illegible Will: Coercive Spectacles of Labor in South Africa and the Diaspora
By Hershini Bhana YoungIn Illegible Will Hershini Bhana Young engages with the archive of South African and black diasporic performance to examine the absence of black women's will from that archive.
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Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology
By Mae G. Henderson, E. Patrick JohnsonWhile over the past decade a number of scholars have done significant work on questions of black lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered identities, this volume is the first to collect this groundbreaking work and make black queer studies ...
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Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents
By Lisa GitelmanPaper Knowledge is a remarkable book about the mundane: the library card, the promissory note, the movie ticket, the PDF (Portable Document Format).
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Art for People's Sake: Artists and Community in Black Chicago, 1965-1975
By Rebecca ZorachIn Art for People's Sake Rebecca Zorach traces the little-told story of the visual arts of the Black Arts Movement in Chicago, showing how artistic innovations responded to decades of racist urban planning that left Black neighborhoods ...
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National Manhood: Capitalist Citizenship and the Imagined Fraternity of White Men
By Dana D. NelsonUsing political, scientific, medical, personal, and literary texts ranging from the Federalist papers to the ethnographic work associated with the Lewis and Clark expedition to the medical lectures of early gynecologists, Nelson explores ...
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Unreasonable Histories: Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa
By Christopher J. LeeAt the book's core are the experiences of multiracial Africans in British Central Africa—contemporary Malawi, Zimbabwe, and Zambia—from the 1910s to the 1960s.
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Body and Nation: The Global Realm of U.S. Body Politics in the Twentieth Century
By Emily S. Rosenberg, Shanon FitzpatrickBy considering bodies as complex, fluctuating, and interrelated sites of meaning, the contributors to this collection offer new insights into the workings of both soft and hard power. Contributors.
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Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness
By Simone BrowneIn Dark Matters Simone Browne locates the conditions of blackness as a key site through which surveillance is practiced, narrated, and resisted.
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Roll With It: Brass Bands in the Streets of New Orleans
By Matt SakakeenyRoll With It is a firsthand account of the precarious lives of musicians in the Rebirth, Soul Rebels, and Hot 8 brass bands of New Orleans.
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Networked Reenactments: Stories Transdisciplinary Knowledges Tell
By Katie KingAs Katie King describes in Networked Reenactments, science-styled television—such as the Secrets of Lost Empires series shown on the PBS program Nova—demonstrates how new technical and collaborative skills are honed by television ...