... of the pachuco, and the second investigates the use of the grotesque in the work of James Baldwin. Martin F. Manalansan IV is associate professor in the departments of anthropology and Asian American studies and is a Conrad Professorial Humanities Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana...

... of Illinois , Urbana-Champaign . Jones Jennifer . 2014 . “ ‘The Fruits of Mixing’: Homosexuality and the Politics of Racial Empowerment, 1945 – 1975 .” PhD diss ., Princeton University . Snorton C. Riley . 2017 . Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity . Minneapolis...

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... on a book exploring the pre- carities and possibilities around aging in America. Toby Beauchamp is assistant professor in gender and women’s studies at the Univer- sity of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign. micha cárdenas is assistant professor of interdisciplinary arts and sciences and interactive...

.... Martin F. Manalansan IV is professor of women's, gender, and sexuality studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. He has taught at the University of Minnesota, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, New York University, New School University, and the University of the Philippines. He...

...Elliott H. Powell Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures , Stallings L. H. , Urbana : University of Illinois Press , 2015 . xi + 270 pp. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 References Morgan Joan . 2015 . “ Why We Get Off: Moving Towards...

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... Press . Rose Tricia . 2008 . The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk about When We Talk about Hip Hop — and Why It Matters . New York : Civitas . Stallings L. H. 2015 . Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures . Urbana : University of Illinois Press . ...

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...), an ethnographic study of call center agents’ “migration through time.” T. J. Tallie is a PhD candidate in the history department at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. As a critical historian of the British Empire, he works spe- cifically on the relationship between race, masculinity...

... : Routledge . Spillers Hortense J. 1987 . “ Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book .” Diacritics 17 , no. 2 : 65 – 81 . Stallings L. H. 2015 . Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures . Urbana : University of Illinois Press . Stryker Susan...

... Jackson Peter Yue Audrey , 235 – 50 . Urbana : University of Illinois Press . Liu Lydia H. 1995 . Translingual Practice: Literature, National Culture, and Translated Modernity: China, 1900–1937 . Stanford : Stanford University Press . Liu Petrus . 2010 . “Why Does Queer...

... State University, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-­Champaign, where inspiration for this special issue origi- nated.)8 We must also ask: What are the stakes of recent critiques of the telos of rural to urban migration? Is it possible to mount this critique without...

...Mark Johnson Out in the Field: Reflections of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists; Taboo:Sex, Identity, and Erotic Subjectivity in Anthropological Fieldwork Ellen Lewin and William L. Leap, eds. Urbana: University of Illinois Press,1996. xi + 315 pp. $39.95 cloth, $16.95 paper Don Kulick...

... on an illustrated encyclopedia of the island of Dominica titled The Effect of Tropical Light on White Men. Cris Mayo is assistant professor of educational policy studies and women’s studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her areas of research are gen- der and sexuality studies...

... at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is finishing his dissertation, “Nei- ther Here Nor There: Queer Palestinians, the Israeli State, and the Paradoxes of Belonging,” which is based on eighteen months of ethnographic fieldwork in Israel-Palestine. Samira Saraya...

..., emotional, and mental world of Dutch East India Company employees and slaves at the Cape dur- ing this period. Siobhan B. Somerville is associate professor in the Department of English and the Gender and Women’s Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana...

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..., Play, and Games . Urbana : University of Illinois Press . Cárdenas Micha . 2015 . “ Shifting Futures: Digital Trans of Color Praxis .” Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology 6 , n.p. Cassell Justine Jenkins Henry , eds. 1998 . From Barbie to Mortal Kombat...