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Songbooks: The Literature of American Popular Music, Hardcover - Eric Weisbard

986,99 RON 1.056,99 RON

Reducere. In Songbooks, critic and scholar Eric Weisbard offers a critical guide to books on American popular music from William Billings's 1770 New-England ...

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Selected Writings on Race and Difference, Hardcover - Stuart Hall

905,99 RON 969,99 RON

Reducere. In Selected Writings on Race and Difference, editors Paul Gilroy and Ruth Wilson Gilmore gather more than twenty essays by Stuart Hall that highlig...

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The Future of Fallout, and Other Episodes in Radioactive World-Making, Hardcover - Joseph Masco

904,99 RON 968,99 RON

Reducere. In The Future of Fallout, and Other Episodes in Radioactive World-Making Joseph Masco examines the strange American intimacy with and commitment to...

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Complete Lives of Camp People. Colonialism, Fascism, Concentrated Modernity, Hardback - Rudolf Mrazek

881,99 RON

Rudolf Mrazek presents a sweeping study of the material and cultural lives of internees of two twentieth-century concentration camps and the multip...

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Black Diamond Queens: African American Women and Rock and Roll, Hardcover - Maureen Mahon

865,99 RON 926,99 RON

Reducere. African American women have played a pivotal part in rock and roll--from laying its foundations and singing chart-topping hits to influencing some ...

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American Blockbuster: Movies, Technology, and Wonder, Hardcover - Charles R. Acland

864,99 RON 925,99 RON

Reducere. Ben-Hur (1959), Jaws (1975), Avatar (2009), Wonder Woman (2017): the blockbuster movie has held a dominant position in American popular culture for...

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Selected Writings on Marxism, Hardcover - Stuart Hall

863,99 RON 924,99 RON

Reducere. Throughout his career Stuart Hall engaged with Marxism in varying ways, actively rethinking it to address the political and cultural exigencies of ...

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Critical Ethnic Studies. A Reader, Hardback - Critical Ethnic Studies Editorial Collective

846,99 RON

Building on the possibilities opened up by Ethnic Studies, this volume promotes open dialogue, discussion, and debate regarding Critical Ethnic Stu...

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Black Bodies, White Gold: Art, Cotton, and Commerce in the Atlantic World, Hardcover - Anna Arabindan-Kesson

829,99 RON 888,99 RON

Reducere. In Black Bodies, White Gold Anna Arabindan-Kesson uses cotton, a commodity central to the slave trade and colonialism, as a focus for new interpret...

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Policing Protest: The Post-Democratic State and the Figure of Black Insurrection, Hardcover - Paul A. Passavant

825,99 RON 883,99 RON

Reducere. In Policing Protest Paul A. Passavant explores how the policing of protest in the United States has become increasingly hostile since the late 1990...

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Divided Bodies: Lyme Disease, Contested Illness, and Evidence-Based Medicine, Hardcover - Abigail A. Dumes

824,99 RON 882,99 RON

Reducere. While many doctors claim that Lyme disease--a tick-borne bacterial infection--is easily diagnosed and treated, other doctors and the patients they ...

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The Ruse of Repair: US Neoliberal Empire and the Turn from Critique, Hardcover - Patricia Stuelke

823,99 RON 881,99 RON

Reducere. Since the 1990s, literary and queer studies scholars have eschewed Marxist and Foucauldian critique and hailed the reparative mode of criticism as ...

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Chemical Heroes: Pharmacological Supersoldiers in the Us Military, Hardcover - Andrew Bickford

822,99 RON 880,99 RON

Reducere. In Chemical Heroes Andrew Bickford analyzes the US military's attempts to design performance enhancement technologies and create pharmacological "s...

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To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship, Hardcover - Elizabeth McHenry

822,99 RON 880,99 RON

Reducere. In To Make Negro Literature Elizabeth McHenry traces African American authorship in the decade following the 1896 legalization of segregation. She ...

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A Mass Conspiracy to Feed People: Food Not Bombs and the World-Class Waste of Global Cities, Hardcover - David Boarder Giles

822,99 RON 880,99 RON

Reducere. In A Mass Conspiracy to Feed People, David Boarder Giles explores the ways in which capitalism simultaneously manufactures waste and scarcity. Illu...

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Henry Cow. The World Is a Problem, Hardback - Benjamin Piekut

821,99 RON

Benjamin Piekut tells the story of the English experimental rock band Henry Cow and how it linked its improvisational musical aesthetic with a coll...

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Latter-day Screens. Gender, Sexuality, and Mediated Mormonism, Hardback - Brenda R. Weber

812,99 RON

Brenda R. Weber examines how the mediation of Mormonism through film, TV, blogs, YouTube videos, and memoirs functions as a means to understand con...

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Affective Justice. The International Criminal Court and the Pan-Africanist Pushback, Hardback - Kamari Maxine Clarke

812,99 RON

Kamari Maxine Clarke explores the African Union's pushback against the International Criminal Court in order to theorize affect's role in shaping f...

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No Tea, No Shade. New Writings in Black Queer Studies, Hardback - ***

812,99 RON

No Tea, No Shade brings together nineteen essays from the next generation of black queer studies scholars, activists, and community leaders who bui...

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Race on the Line. Gender, Labor, and Technology in the Bell System, 1880-1980, Hardback - Venus Green

812,99 RON

Addresses the convergence of race, gender, and technology in the telephone industry. This book shows how, as technology changed from a manual proce...

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Meaning in Motion. New Cultural Studies of Dance, Hardback - ***

812,99 RON

Dance, whether considered as an art form or embodied social practice, as product or process, is a prime subject for cultural analysis. This title b...

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There's a Disco Ball Between Us. A Theory of Black Gay Life, Hardback - Jafari S. Allen

809,99 RON

Jafari S. Allen offers a sweeping and lively ethnographic and intellectual history of Black queer politics, culture, and history in the 1980s as th...

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Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic, Hardcover - Jennifer L. Morgan

787,99 RON

In Reckoning with Slavery Jennifer L. Morgan draws on the lived experiences of enslaved African women in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to...

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Making The Black Jacobins. C. L. R. James and the Drama of History, Hardback - Rachel Douglas

786,99 RON

Rachel Douglas traces the genesis, transformation, and afterlives of the different versions of C. L. R. James's landmark The Black Jacobins across ...

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Savage Ecology. War and Geopolitics at the End of the World, Hardback - Jairus Victor Grove

786,99 RON

Jairus Victor Grove offers an ecological theorization of geopolitics in which he contends that contemporary global crises are better understood whe...

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Stolen Life, Hardback - Fred Moten

786,99 RON

In Stolen Life-the second volume in his landmark trilogy consent not to be a single being-Fred Moten engages with the work of thinkers ranging from...

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Latinx Art: Artists, Markets, and Politics, Hardcover - Arlene Dávila

782,99 RON 837,99 RON

Reducere. In Latinx Art Arlene D vila draws on numerous interviews with artists, dealers, and curators to explore the problem of visualizing Latinx art and a...

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At Penpoint: African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, and the Cold War, Hardcover - Monica Popescu

782,99 RON 837,99 RON

Reducere. In At Penpoint Monica Popescu traces the development of African literature during the second half of the twentieth century to address the intertwin...

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Black Aliveness, or a Poetics of Being, Hardcover - Kevin Quashie

781,99 RON 836,99 RON

Reducere. In Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being, Kevin Quashie imagines a Black world in which one encounters Black being as it is rather than only as it...

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Millennials Killed the Video Star: MTV's Transition to Reality Programming, Hardcover - Amanda Ann Klein

781,99 RON 836,99 RON

Reducere. Between 1995 and 2000, the number of music videos airing on MTV dropped by 36 percent. As an alternative to the twenty-four-hour video jukebox the ...

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The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience Since the 1960s, Hardcover - Emily J. Lordi

779,99 RON 834,99 RON

Reducere. In The Meaning of Soul, Emily J. Lordi proposes a new understanding of this famously elusive concept. In the 1960s, Lordi argues, soul came to sign...

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Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness, Hardcover - Simone Browne

779,99 RON 834,99 RON

Reducere. In Dark Matters Simone Browne locates the conditions of blackness as a key site through which surveillance is practiced, narrated, and resisted. Sh...

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Coloman, King of Galicia and Duke of Slavonia (1208-1241). Medieval Central Europe and Hungarian Power, New ed, Hardback - Gabor Barabas

779,99 RON

Publisher: Arc Humanities PressAuthor(s): Gabor BarabasIllustration(s): 11 Maps; 10 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 160Collection: B...

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Surrealism at Play, Hardback - Susan Laxton

778,99 RON

Susan Laxton writes a new history of surrealism in which she traces the centrality of play to the movement and its ongoing legacy, showing how its ...

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For a Pragmatics of the Useless, Hardback - Erin Manning

778,99 RON

Drawing on the radical black tradition, process philosophy, and Felix Guattari's schizoanalysis, Erin Manning explores the links between neurotypic...

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Reading Sedgwick, Hardback - ***

769,99 RON

The contributors to Reading Sedgwick reflect on the long and influential career of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, whose pioneering work in queer theory has...

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Biocapital. The Constitution of Postgenomic Life, Hardback - Kaushik Sunder Rajan

769,99 RON

An argument that contemporary biotechnologies such as genomics can only be understood in relation to the economic markets within which they emerge

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How Art Can Be Thought. A Handbook for Change, Hardback - Allan deSouza

769,99 RON

Allan deSouza examines the popular terminology through which art is discussed, valued, and taught, showing how pedagogical language and practices w...

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Futureproof. Security Aesthetics and the Management of Life, Hardback - ***

769,99 RON

The contributors to Futureproof examine the affective and aesthetic dimensions of security infrastructures and technology with studies ranging from...

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Under Construction. Technologies of Development in Urban Ethiopia, Hardback - Daniel Mains

752,99 RON

Daniel Mains explores the intersection of infrastructural development and governance in contemporary Ethiopia by examining the conflicts surroundin...

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Asian Biotech. Ethics and Communities of Fate, Hardback - ***

744,99 RON

Ethnographic analyses of emerging bioscientific enterprises in Asia, including genetically modified foods in China, clinical trials in India, and s...

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Bright Signals. A History of Color Television, Hardback - Susan Murray

744,99 RON

Susan Murray traces four decades of technological, cultural, and aesthetic debates about the possibility, use, and meaning of color television with...

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Indirect Subjects. Nollywood's Local Address, Hardback - Matthew H. Brown

744,99 RON

Matthew H. Brown explores the connections between Nigeria's booming film industry, state television, and colonial legacies that together involve sp...

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Constructing the Pluriverse. The Geopolitics of Knowledge, Hardback - ***

744,99 RON

The contributors to this volume explore how non-Western, pluriversal approaches to core questions in the social sciences and humanities can help to...

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Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity and Diaspora, Hardcover - Stuart Hall

744,99 RON

DescriptionFrom his arrival in Britain in the 1950s and involvement in the New Left, to founding the field of cultural studies and examining race a...

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AIDS and the Distribution of Crises, Hardback - ***

744,99 RON

The contributors to AIDS and the Distribution of Crises outline the myriad ways that the AIDS pandemic exists within a network of varied historical...

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Disordering the Establishment. Participatory Art and Institutional Critique in France, 1958-1981, Hardback - Lily Woodruff

744,99 RON

Lily Woodruff examines the development of artistic strategies of political resistance in France in the decades following World War II, showing how ...

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The Borders of "Europe". Autonomy of Migration, Tactics of Bordering, Hardback - ***

744,99 RON

This volume's contributors examine the perceptions of the staggering refuge and migration crisis in Europe, demonstrating how it stems from migrant...

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Improvisation and Social Aesthetics, Hardback - ***

744,99 RON

Addressing a diverse set of improvised art and music forms-from jazz and cinema to dance and literature-this volume traces how the social, politica...

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Sins against Nature. Sex and Archives in Colonial New Spain, Hardback - Zeb Tortorici

744,99 RON

Drawing on over 300 prosecutions of sex acts in colonial New Spain between 1530 and 1821, Zeb Tortorici shows how courts used the concept "against ...

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Discorrelated Images, Hardback - Shane Denson

739,99 RON

Shane Denson examines the ways in which computer-generated digital images displace and transform the traditional spatial and temporal relationships...

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Afterlife of Images. Translating the Pathological Body between China and the West, Hardback - Ari Larissa Heinrich

735,99 RON

An investigation of the creation and circulation of Western medical discourses linking ideas about disease to Chinese identity, beginning in the ei...

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Aesthetics of Excess. The Art and Politics of Black and Latina Embodiment, Hardback - Jillian Hernandez

718,99 RON

Analyzing the personal clothing, makeup, and hairstyles of working-class Black and Latina girls, Jillian Hernandez examines how cultural discourses...

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Work!. A Queer History of Modeling, Hardback - Elspeth H. Brown

718,99 RON

Elspeth H. Brown traces modeling's history from the advent of photographic modeling in the early twentieth century to the rise of the supermodel in...

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Embodying Black Religions in Africa and Its Diasporas, Hardback - ***

718,99 RON

The contributors to Embodying Black Religions in Africa and Its Diasporas investigate the complex intersections between the body, religious express...

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Soundscapes of Liberation. African American Music in Postwar France, Hardback - Celeste Day Moore

718,99 RON

Celeste Day Moore traces the popularity of African American music in postwar France to outline how it came to signify both state power and liberati...

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Bomb Children. Life in the Former Battlefields of Laos, Hardback - Leah Zani

718,99 RON

Leah Zani considers how the people and landscape of Laos have been shaped and haunted by the physical remains of unexploded ordnance from the CIA's...

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Aesthetic Revolutions and Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde Movements, Hardback - ***

718,99 RON

This collection categorizes aesthetic avant-garde art as art that seeks to politically transform society and argues that such art is essential for ...

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Technocrats of the Imagination. Art, Technology, and the Military-Industrial Avant-Garde, Hardback - Ryan Bishop

709,99 RON

John Beck and Ryan Bishop explore the 1960s interdisciplinary art and technology collaborations between American avant-garde artists and the milita...

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Mafalda: A Social and Political History of Latin America's Global Comic, Hardcover - Isabella Cosse

709,99 RON

Since its creation in 1964, readers from all over the world have loved the comic Mafalda, primarily because of the sharp wit and rebellious nature ...

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Red Hangover. Legacies of Twentieth-Century Communism, Hardback - Kristen Ghodsee

709,99 RON

Kristen Ghodsee examines the legacies of twentieth-century communism on the contemporary political landscape twenty-five years after the Berlin Wal...

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Invisibility by Design. Women and Labor in Japan's Digital Economy, Hardback - Gabriella Lukacs

709,99 RON

Gabriella Lukacs traces how young Japanese women's unpaid labor as bloggers, net idols, "girly" photographers, online traders, and cell phone novel...

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Marshall Plan Modernism. Italian Postwar Abstraction and the Beginnings of Autonomia, Hardback - Jaleh Mansoor

709,99 RON

Focusing on the work of Italian artists Lucio Fontana, Alberto Burri, and Piero Manzoni, Jaleh Mansoor demonstrates and reveals how abstract painti...

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Queer in Translation. Sexual Politics under Neoliberal Islam, Hardback - Evren Savci

709,99 RON

Drawing from ethnographic work with queer activist groups in contemporary Turkey, Evren Savci explores how Western LGBT politics are translated and...

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Queer African Cinemas, Hardback - Lindsey B. Green-Simms

709,99 RON

Lindsey B. Green-Simms examines films produced by and about queer Africans in the first two decades of the twenty-first century, showing how these ...

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Poetic Operations. Trans of Color Art in Digital Media, Hardback - micha cardenas

709,99 RON

Artist and theorist micha cardenas considers contemporary digital media, artwork, and poetry in order to articulate trans of color strategies of sa...

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Color of Violence. The INCITE! Anthology, Hardback - ***

705,99 RON

Presenting the fierce and vital writing of organizers, lawyers, scholars, poets, and policy makers, Color of Violence radically repositions the ant...

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Trans Exploits: Trans of Color Cultures and Technologies in Movement, Hardcover - Jian Neo Chen

701,99 RON

DescriptionIn Trans Exploits Jian Neo Chen explores the cultural practices created by trans and gender nonconforming artists and activists of color...

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Comfort Measures Only. New and Selected Poems, 1994-2016, Hardback - Rafael Campo

701,99 RON

Gathered from Rafael Campo's over twenty year career as a poet-physician, these eighty-eight poems-thirty of which have never been previously publi...

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Jugaad Time. Ecologies of Everyday Hacking in India, Hardback - Amit S. Rai

684,99 RON

Amit S. Rai shows how urban South Asians employ low-cost technological workarounds and hacks known as jugaad to solve problems, navigate, and resis...

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