... colonialism social movements activist scholarship Maoism racial formation ...

... Xtravaganza Cubilette Polanco, and others. It highlights the precarity of Black women in the face of systemic oppression and delves into the intersectional perspectives offered by decolonial scholarship and activism. The chapter showcases how these frameworks provide crucial interventions with which...

... then moves to position the book in conversation with several bodies of literature, most centrally scholarship concerned with Chinese political communication with foreign groups, twentieth century black leftist internationalism, and works that challenge previous scholarship’s masculinist framing of Cold War...

... This chapter situates Léopold Sédar Senghor in relation to existing scholarship and his activities during World War II. It discusses the impact that his time in German POW camps had on his writing and thinking about how African cultural specificity, transcontinental hospitality, and human...

... to understand the balance in his own life between activism and scholarship. He draws from The Black Jacobins lessons deployed in almost all of his written works of history, either covertly or overtly. Mumia Abu-Jamal’s text ends with reference to the continued influence of James’s work in his life and work...

... In “Transgender Studies: Queer Theory's Evil Twin,” the author argues that the field of transgender studies is often marginalized within the broader framework of queer theory, despite the fact that transgender issues have been an important part of queer activism and scholarship for decades. Like...

... in creating the image? And how does racialization figure in this setup? The chapter recuperates feminist scholarship on practices of looking; while some surveillance technologies may be new, the forms of oppression reproduced by them are not. In the popular press, Cyrus, constructed as white, is situated...

... society and postcolonial feminist scholarship, the chapter’s analysis steers clear of binary explanations of power and resistance. It finds that the outcomes of black organizing are contradictory and contingent on different factors. Afro-Colombians have gained remarkable national and global visibility...

... This chapter critically examines the strategies and achievements of Afro-Colombian social movements from the late 1980s to 2000. Informed by Gramsci’s insights about the relationship between the state and civil society and postcolonial feminist scholarship, the chapter’s analysis steers clear...

... of queer theory, despite the fact that transgender issues have been an important part of queer activism and scholarship for decades. Like Frankenstein's monster, the evil twin is a common narrative trope, found everywhere from daytime soaps to Pasolini. As queer theory's evil twin, transgender studies...

...The Social and the Aesthetic In this mainly conceptual, ground-clearing chapter, the author develops thinking on the articulation between music and the social. This task responds to the long-standing demand issued by scholarship in popular music studies, ethnomusicology, and music sociology...

... Gramsci Law 70 conjunctures Afro-Colombian postcolonial feminist scholarship social exclusion black communities ...

... the ways in which this account of the heroism of the Haitian people allowed him to understand the balance in his own life between activism and scholarship. He draws from The Black Jacobins lessons deployed in almost all of his written works of history, either covertly or overtly. Mumia Abu-Jamal’s text...

... this account of the heroism of the Haitian people allowed him to understand the balance in his own life between activism and scholarship. He draws from The Black Jacobins lessons deployed in almost all of his written works of history, either covertly or overtly. Mumia Abu-Jamal’s text ends with reference...

... in the largely Brahmanized scholarship on Sikhism. A vibrant religion, Sikhism has witnessed high and low points in its journey of five hundred years. And so have the Dalits of Punjab. In the process of its growth and expansion from 1750 to 1850, the Sikh body politic came to be afflicted by casteism...

... critique. While incorporating crip analytics into scholarship gets closer to a “queer, crip” anthropology, taking these analytics seriously requires that anthropologists dismantle and reconstruct the methodologies of their work. Current methods in queer anthropology adhere to the norms of sociocultural...

... women are presented as complicit in the creation of the images that put them on display, where the recipient of the gaze is a participant in creating the image? And how does racialization figure in this setup? The chapter recuperates feminist scholarship on practices of looking; while some surveillance...

... that shapes the urban fabric. monastic communities socioeconomic activities land reclamation Using de’ Barbari’s View of Venice as its framing device, chapter 17 joins other recent scholarship in challenging the notion of a neat public/private, male/female divide in Venetian space. Women...

... –and the communities and practices of play surrounding them–give new shape to ongoing conversations in K-Pop fandom and scholarship about fan labor, the ownership of digital assets, the relationship between idols and their images, and the limits of intimacy between fans and idols. video games fan edits...

..., especially as the voluminous scholarship on the Civil War, ambient culture, and wartime literature continues to grow. What follows is an effort to “walk chalk,” as Twain’s Aunt Rachel might say, from the war’s prelude to its aftermath. For the antebellum clash at homesteads like “The Cabin at Pharaoh’s...