Bangtan Remixed: A Critical BTS Reader
Edited By: Patty Ahn, Michelle Cho, Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez, Rani Neutill, Mimi Thi Nguyen, Yutian Wong - Bangtan Remixed delves into the cultural impact of celebrated K-Pop boy band BTS, exploring their history, aesthetics, fan culture, and capitalist moment...Read more about Bangtan Remixed: A Critical BTS Reader
Terracene: A Crude Aesthetics
By: Salar Mameni
In Terracene Salar Mameni historicizes the popularization of the scientific notion of the Anthropocene alongside the emergence of the global war on terror. Mameni theorizes the Terracene as an epoch marked by a convergence of racialized...Read more about Terracene: A Crude Aesthetics
The Creativity Complex: Art, Tech, and the Seduction of an Idea
“Creativity” is a word that excites and dazzles us. It promises brilliance and achievement, a shield against conformity, a channel for innovation across the arts, sciences, technology, and education, and a mechanism for economic revival and personal success. But it has not always evoked...Read more about The Creativity Complex: Art, Tech, and the Seduction of an Idea
Crip Genealogies
Editors: Mel Y. Chen, Alison Kafer, Eunjung Kim, Julie Avril Minich. The contributors to Crip Genealogies reorient the field of disability studies by centering the work of transnational feminism, queer of color critique, and trans scholarship and activism....Read more about Crip Genealogies
Globalization and Civil Society in East Asia
Edited by: Khatharya Um and Chiharu Takenaka
This book critically examines the impact of globalization, changing power dynamics, migration, and evolving rights regimes on regional order, discourse of national governance, state and society relations, and...Read more about Globalization and Civil Society in East Asia
Asian American Histories of the United States
By Catherine Ceniza Choy - Original and expansive, Asian American Histories of the United States is a nearly 200-year history of Asian migration, labor, and community formation in the US. Reckoning with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the surge...Read more about Asian American Histories of the United States
After Marx: Literature, Theory and Value in the Twenty-First Century
After Marx: Literature, Theory and Value demonstrates the importance of Marxist literary and cultural criticism for an era of intersectional politics and economic decline. The volume includes fresh approaches to reading poetry, fiction, film and drama, from Shakespeare to contemporary...Read more about After Marx: Literature, Theory and Value in the Twenty-First Century
Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley
By Carolyn Chen - Silicon Valley is known for its lavish perks, intense work culture, and spiritual gurus. Work Pray Code explores how tech companies are bringing religion into the workplace in ways that are replacing traditional places of worship, blurring the...Read more about Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley
Customs: Poems
By Solmaz Sharif: In Customs, Solmaz Sharif examines what it means to exist in the nowhere of the arrivals terminal, a continual series of checkpoints, officers, searches, and questionings that become a relentless experience of America. With resignation and austerity,...Read more about Customs: Poems
Love Dances: Loss and Mourning in Intercultural Collaboration
Love Dances: Loss and Mourning in Intercultural Collaboration explores global relationality within the realm ofintercultural collaboration in contemporary dance. Author SanSan Kwan looks specifically at duets, focusing on "East" "West" pairings, and how dance artists from different...Read more about Love Dances: Loss and Mourning in Intercultural Collaboration
Unburied Lives: The Historical Archaeology of Buffalo Soldiers at Fort Davis, Texas, 1869–1875
According to the accounts of two white officers, on the evening of November 20, 1872, Corporal Daniel Talliafero, of the segregated Black 9th cavalry, was shot to death by an officer's wife while attempting to break into her sleeping apartment at the military post of Fort Davis, Texas....Read more about Unburied Lives: The Historical Archaeology of Buffalo Soldiers at Fort Davis, Texas, 1869–1875
The Right of Sovereignty: Jean Bodin on the Sovereign State and the Law of Nations
Sovereignty is the vital organizing principle of modern international law. The Right of Sovereignty examines the origins of that principle in the legal and political thought of its most influential theorist, Jean Bodin (1529/30–1596). As Daniel Lee argues in this study, Bodin’s most...Read more about The Right of Sovereignty: Jean Bodin on the Sovereign State and the Law of Nations
Sisters in the Mirror: A History of Muslim Women and the Global Politics of Feminism
By Elora Shehabuddin: Western feminists, pundits, and policymakers tend to portray the Muslim world as the last and most difficult frontier of global feminism. Challenging this view, Elora Shehabuddin presents a unique and engaging history of feminism as a story of...Read more about Sisters in the Mirror: A History of Muslim Women and the Global Politics of Feminism
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
By Cathy Park Hong: Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose fresh truths about racialized consciousness in America. Part memoir and part cultural criticism, this collection is vulnerable,...Read more about Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
Empire's Mistress, Starring Isabel Rosario Cooper
In Empire's Mistress Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez follows the life of Filipina vaudeville and film actress Isabel Rosario Cooper, who was the mistress of General Douglas MacArthur. If mentioned at all, their relationship exists only as a salacious footnote in MacArthur's biography—a failed...Read more about Empire's Mistress, Starring Isabel Rosario Cooper
Developmental Social Work: Dialogue with Social Innovation
Edited by Julian Chow, Pei-shan Yang, and Eden Social Welfare Foundation: Developmental social work emphasizes interdisciplinary collaborations and believes it can accurately respond to the issues and the needs of our society. Therefore, more and more non-profit...Read more about Developmental Social Work: Dialogue with Social Innovation
Citizenship Reimagined: A New Framework for State Rights in the United States
By Allan Colbern and Karthick Ramakrishnan: The United States is entering a new era of progressive state citizenship, with California leading the way. A growing number of states are providing expanded rights to undocumented immigrants that challenge conventional...Read more about Citizenship Reimagined: A New Framework for State Rights in the United States
Strange Likeness: Description and the Modernist Novel
The modern novel, so the story goes, thinks poorly of mere description—what Virginia Woolf called “that ugly, that clumsy, that incongruous tool.” As a result, critics have largely neglected description as a feature of novelistic innovation during the twentieth century. Dora Zhang argues...Read more about Strange Likeness: Description and the Modernist Novel
Chinese Diaspora: Its Development in Global Perspective
By Lok Siu and Khachig Tölölyan: This volume provides important insights into the Chinese diaspora through a mix of disciplinary approaches and a wide range of topics, historical periods, thematic foci, and geographical sites. In this way, the...Read more about Chinese Diaspora: Its Development in Global Perspective
Edward Said and Education
This volume offers a deep interpretation of Edward Said’s literary thought towards the development of educational criticism. Insofar as Said’s academic career was built around the contours of literary analysis, Leonardo demonstrates how Said’s work propels scholarship on schooling in ways...Read more about Edward Said and Education
Comintern Aesthetics
Edited by Amelia Glaser and Steven S. Lee: Founded by Vladimir Lenin in 1919 to instigate a world revolution, the Comintern sought to advance not only the proletarian struggle but also a wide variety of radical causes, including fighting against imperialism and racism in...Read more about Comintern Aesthetics
Circuit Listening: Chinese Popular Music in the Global 1960s
Focusing on the introduction of the transistor in revolutionary China and its Cold War counterpart in Taiwan, Circuit Listening reveals the hidden parallels between music as seemingly disparate as rock and roll and Maoist anthems. It offers groundbreaking studies of Mandarin diva Grace...Read more about Circuit Listening: Chinese Popular Music in the Global 1960s
Giving Form to an Asian and Latinx America
Crossing distinct literatures, histories, and politics, Giving Form to an Asian and Latinx America reveals the intertwined story of contemporary Asian Americans and Latinxs through a shared literary aesthetic. Their transfictional literature creates expansive imagined worlds in which...Read more about Giving Form to an Asian and Latinx America
Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawai'i
Many people first encounter Hawai‘i through the imagination—a postcard picture of hula girls, lu‘aus, and plenty of sun, surf, and sea. While Hawai‘i is indeed beautiful, Native Hawaiians struggle with the problems brought about by colonialism, military occupation, tourism, food insecurity...Read more about Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawai'i
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