... In Left Turns in Brown Study , Sandra Ruiz proposes “the turn” as a heuristic, a new methodology for emancipatory directives for study. Guiding readers on a theoretical journey marked by Brownness, mourning, and the poetics of citation, Ruiz enacts Brown study shaped by the musicality...

... This chapter is a meditation on the meaning of being brown in America. It focuses on the unusual ease with which “dark-skinned males” were assumed to be the culprits behind the Boston Marathon bombings. The easy attribution of blame is a part of a long history of suspicion—and the essay takes up...

... This chapter features D. Soyini Madison’s interview with Cuban Hustle creator Cedric Brown. Madison and Brown discuss the political implications of the play’s depictions of black gay male sexuality and U.S.-Cuban relations. Brown ultimately asserts that the play is a metaphor...

... The introduction provides the conceptual starting points to understand the complex raced, casteized, and gendered labor stratifications that emerge as brown saviors conduct their work. Specifically, Shankar argues that the brown savior actually reproduces many of the same racialized values...

...Advocates, Judges, and the Making of <italic>Brown</italic> ...