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Thomas Aiello traces the complicated and fascinating life of pioneering journalist, television host, bestselling author, and important yet overlooked civil rights figure Louis Lomax, who became one of the most influential voices of the civil rights movement despite his past as an ex-con, serial liar, and publicity-seeking provocateur.

Luise White examines the contentious war memoirs published after the Zimbabwean liberation struggle (1964-1979) by white soldiers who fought for Rhodesia.

Focusing on artists and art collectives in Argentina, Mexico, and the United States, Jennifer Ponce de Leon examines how experimental artistic practices in the visual, literary, and performing arts have been influenced by and articulated with leftist politics, popular uprisings, and social struggles that resist neoliberal capitalism.

Rinaldo Walcott posits that Black people globally live in the time of emancipation and that emancipation is definitely not freedom, showing that wherever Black people have been emancipated from slavery and colonization, a potential freedom became thwarted.

Operation Valhalla collects eighteen texts by German media theorist Friedrich Kittler on the close connections between war and media technology.

Selected Writings on Race and Difference gathers more than twenty essays by Stuart Hall that highlight his extensive and groundbreaking engagement with race, representation, identity, difference, and diaspora.

Rafico Ruiz uses the Grenfell Mission in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, to theorize how settler colonialism establishes itself through the building, maintenance, and mediation of site-specific infrastructure.

This collection of Stuart Hall's key writings on Marxism surveys the formative questions central to his interpretations of and investments in Marxist theory and practice.

Right Here, Right Now collects the powerful first-person stories of dozens of men who are living on death row in the United States, offering a glimpse into the lives of some of the most marginalized people in America.

Right Here, Right Now collects the powerful first-person stories of dozens of men who are living on death row in the United States, offering a glimpse into the lives of some of the most marginalized people in America.

Drawing on Black feminism, Afro-pessimism, and critical race theory, the contributors to Antiblackness trace the forms of antiblackness across time and space, showing how the dehumanization of Black people has been foundational to the establishment of modernity.

A concise, easy-to-understand reference book, the revised and updated second edition of the bestselling All about Your Eyes tells you what you need to know to care for your eyes, various eye diseases and treatments, and what to expect from your eye doctor.

The contributors to Religion, Secularism, and Political Belonging examine how the new political worlds that are emerging-from Trump's America to the post-Arab-Spring Middle East-intersect with locally specific articulations of religion and secularism.

Drawing on Black feminism, Afro-pessimism, and critical race theory, the contributors to Antiblackness trace the forms of antiblackness across time and space, showing how the dehumanization of Black people has been foundational to the establishment of modernity.

The contributors to Media Crossroads examine space and place in media as they intersect with sexuality, race, ethnicity, age, class, and ability.

The contributors to Media Crossroads examine space and place in media as they intersect with sexuality, race, ethnicity, age, class, and ability.

The contributors to Meat! examine the transnational politics of various manifestations and understandings of meat as well as meat's entanglement with power, politics, culture, race, gender, sexuality.

Lauren Steimer examines how Hong Kong-influenced action movie aesthetics and stunt techniques have been taken up, imitated, and reinvented in other locations and production contexts around the globe.

Candace Fujikane draws upon Hawaiian legends about the land and water and their impact upon Native Hawai'ian struggles to argue that Native economies of abundance provide a foundation for collective work against climate change.

In Coed Revolution Chelsea Szendi Schieder examines the campus-based New Left in Japan by exploring the significance of women's participation in the protest movements of the 1960s.

Theodore D. Segal narrates the fraught and contested fight for racial justice at Duke University-which accepted its first black undergraduates in 1963-to tell both a local and national story about the challenges that historically white colleges and universities throughout the country continue to face.

Ma Vang examines the experiences of Hmong refugees who migrated to the United States following the secret war in Laos (1961-1975) to theorize "history on the run" as a framework for understanding refugee histories, in particular those of the Hmong.

Nick Bromell examines how Frederick Douglass forged a distinctively black political philosophy out of his experiences as an enslaved and later nominally free man in ways that challenge Anglo-Continental traditions of political thought.

Jazz critic and historian Cisco Bradley tells the story of the life and music of bassist and composer William Parker, who for fifty years has been a monumental figure in free jazz.

Jonathan Beller traces the history of the commodification of information and the financialization of everyday life, showing how contemporary capitalism is based in algorithms and the quantification of value that intensify social inequality.

Erica Rand uses multiple meanings of hip check-an athlete using their hip to throw an opponent off balance and the inspection of racialized gender-to consider the workings of queer gender, race, and writing.

Marc Becker draws on recently released US government surveillance documents on the Ecuadorian left to chart social movement organizing efforts during the 1950s, showing how the local patterns and dynamics that shaped the development of the Ecuadorian left could be found throughout Latin American during the cold war.

Drawing from ethnographic work with queer activist groups in contemporary Turkey, Evren Savci explores how Western LGBT politics are translated and reworked there in ways that generate new spaces for resistance and solidarity.

Drawing on interviews with industry workers from MTV programs such as The Real World and Teen Mom, Amanda Ann Klein examines the historical, cultural, and industrial factors leading to MTV's shift away from music videos to reality programming in the early 2000s and 2010s.