... This chapter focuses on grocery stores in the San Francisco Bay Area that sell “Indian” commodities. These stores are fraught social spaces that enable customers, owners, and community members to emplace themselves along a sedimented landscape shaped by race, class, gender, and ethnicity: unlike...

... “Renaissance and Apocalypse: Notes on the Bay Area's Transsexual Arts Scene” sets the scene for the emergence of distinctively trans artists and art practices within a wider queer culture. Renaissance implies rebirth, and the text hints at pasts in which something like what we now call...

... Chapter 1 presents juxtaposed scenes of study and struggle in Medina by the Bay from the 1950s to present-day to consider how Islamic knowledge practices informed and transformed selves and social relations. These scenes are not an exhaustive history; rather, they are demographic, geographic...