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Considers the complications of race, religion, sexuality, and gender in Europeanizing from below

Grace Kyungwon Hongutilizes "difference" as theorized by women of color feminists to analyze worksof cultural production by people of color as expressing a powerful antidote tothe erasures of contemporary neoliberalism. Death beyond Disavowal findsthe memories of death and precarity that neoliberal ideologies attempt toerase.

When is a war not a war? When it is undertaken in the name of democracy, against the forces of racism, sexism, and religious and political persecution? This is the new world of warfare that Neda Atanasoski observes in "Humanitarian Violence," different in name from the old imperialism but not so different in kind. In particular, she consider

It is all too easy to assume that social service programs respond to homelessness, seeking to prevent and understand it. "The Value of Homelessness," however, argues that homelessness today is an effect of social services and sciences, which shape not only what counts as such but what will--or ultimately won't--be done about it.Through a history of

A stinging critique of the link between global capitalism and U.S. multiculturalisms

How a preoccupation with charismatic leadership in African American culture has influenced literature from World War I to the present

Indonesian court dance is famed for its sublime calm and stillness, yet this peaceful surface conceals a time of political repression and mass killing. Rachmi Diyah Larasati reflects on her own experiences as an Indonesian national troupe dancer from a family of persecuted female dancers and activists, examining the relationship between female dancers and the Indonesian state since 1965.

Farm WorkerFuturism reveals that thehistorical role of technology has had much to do with depicting the lives offarm laborers-Mexican migrants in particular-in the United States. This bookexplores the friction between agribusiness and farm workers through the lens ofvisual culture.