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In a manufacturing metropolis in south China lies Dafen, an urban village that famously houses thousands of workers who paint van Goghs, Da Vincis, Warhols, and other Western masterpieces for the world market, producing an astonishing five million paintings a year. To write about work and...Read more about Van Gogh on Demand: China and the Readymade

This is a comprehensive introduction to the main frameworks for thinking about, conducting research on, and teaching about race and racism in education. Renowned theoretician and philosopher Zeus Leonardo surveys the dominant race theories and, more specifically, focuses on those...Read more about Race Frameworks: A Multidimensional Theory of Racism and Education

In Securing Paradise, Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez shows how tourism and militarism have functioned together in Hawai`i and the Philippines, jointly empowering the United States to assert its geostrategic and economic interests in the Pacific. She does so by interpreting fiction, closely...Read more about Securing Paradise: Tourism and Militarism in Hawai'i and the Philippines

By Shōson Nagahar. Translated by Andrew Way Leong. Lament in the Night collects two remarkable novels by the author Shōson Nagahara, translated from the Japanese for the first time. The title novel, originally published in...Read more about Lament in the Night

In Animacies, Mel Y. Chen draws on recent debates about sexuality, race, and affect to examine how matter that is considered insensate, immobile, or deathly animates cultural lives. Toward that end, Chen investigates the blurry division between the living and the dead, or that which is...Read more about Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect

The soap opera, one of U. S. television's longest-running and most influential formats, is on the brink. Declining ratings have been attributed to an increasing number of women working outside the home and to an intensifying competition for viewers' attention from cable and the Internet....Read more about The Survival of Soap Opera: Transformations for a New Media Era

The Lost Boys of Zeta Psi takes us inside the secret, amusing, and sometimes mundane world of a California fraternity around 1900. Gleaning history from recent archaeological excavations and from such intriguing sources as oral histories, architecture, and photographs, Laurie A. Wilkie...Read more about The Lost Boys of Zeta Psi: A Historical Archaeology of Masculinity in a University Fraternity

An exciting new work on how black and Asian racial structures were woven together within US theatrical practices in the run up to the Second World War, Steen uses this history to model how we might use performance histories to more carefully assess how racial formation occurs on the...Read more about Racial Geometries of the Black Atlantic, Asian Pacific and American Theatre

An intellectual event, Derrida and the Time of the Political marks the first time since Jacques Derrida’s death in 2004 that leading scholars have come together to critically assess the philosopher’s political and ethical writings. Skepticism about the import of deconstruction for...Read more about Derrida and the Time of the Political

Carolyn Chen - What does becoming American have to do with becoming religious? Many immigrants become more religious after coming to the United States. Taiwanese are no different. Like many Asian immigrants to the United States, Taiwanese frequently convert to Christianity...Read more about Getting Saved in America: Taiwanese Immigration and Religious Experience

Rich with details of everyday life, this multifaceted social and cultural history of China's leading metropolis in the twentieth century offers a kaleidoscopic view of Shanghai as the major site of Chinese modernization. Engaging the entire span of Shanghai's modern history from the Opium...Read more about Shanghai Splendor: A Cultural History, 1843-1945