... Third World women (organic) intellectuals led the search for a new language to express and a theory to explain their everyday experiences as women of color, queers, poor, and migrants. The complexity of intersecting oppressions, they believed, better explained their condition than race alone...

... The introduction explains how Ahmed is thinking of feminist theory as homework, as what we are doing when we are navigating restrictions we encounter in everyday life. She suggests that we need to repose feminism as a life question. She explains how the book relates to her previous work, as well...

...Prologue The prologue describes the author's path to writing the book, which grew out of a community-based participatory research project called Uniting Detroiters. The prologue also explains the methodological approach to the study. positionality methodology community-based research...

... The introduction sets the scene for the book by presenting and explaining two concepts that are central to this study of the transimperial Greater Caribbean: spatial configurations and geopolitical imagination. The explanation of the first key term emphasizes the book’s approach to the role...

... This chapter explains how Rosemarie and her husband, Vincent, founded Mennonite House. Describes the experience of creating an interracial community in Atlanta in 1961, how it worked, who became involved, and how people reacted to what they were doing (some positively, some negatively...

... This chapter explains the rationales for indigenous slavery in the sixteenth century and why it continued despite laws to the contrary. It also reflects on what it meant to be an indio, including the construct’s precariousness and its associations with the unfree labor of slaves from other parts...

... Carlo Galli’s preface explains why the ancient Roman god Janus provides a fitting metonym for his systematic interpretation of Schmitt’s political thought. Janus was the god of thresholds and passages, of beginnings that double as ends. As such, he was famously two-faced: he looked forward...

... to the recent scholarship on the deployment of women’s and gay rights against migrant (and particularly Muslim) communities, the introduction explains the novel contribution of the book in its focus upon political economy. It then moves to define the key concept through which the book puts forward the political...

... applications. The importance of political economy in shaping anthropological theory is stressed. The organization and core arguments of the book are explained. dual use science political economy anthropological theory ...

... Imperialism, both discursive and material, extended European rule over space-time, land and water, and peoples. Geographical and biological determinism explained superior and inferior varieties (races), and taxonomy segregated, assigned natures, and ranked all of the planet’s life forms. Those...

... The introduction locates the editors’ shared political investments in the activist work of Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson, explaining that the book stages a dialogue between queer black and brown performance works and critical traditions. The editors explicate the project’s key terms...