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Winnie Wong explores how the function, norms, and meaning of artists’ names in Chinese modernity have been misunderstood.

Challenging contemporary procedures for establishing attribution, chronology, and authenticity in Chinese art, Winnie Wong explores the means,...Read more about The Many Names of Anonymity: Portraitists of the Canton Trade

Recapitulating the three ages of urban ethnography born in Chicago a century ago, this book puts into historical and analytical perspective a controversy over the ethnography of the nexus of race, class, and morality in and around the black American ghetto in the age of triumphant...Read more about The Poverty of the Ethnography of Poverty

By Hannah Zeavin: An essential history for understanding how we mother now, and how motherhood itself became a medium—winner of the Brooke Hindle Award from the Society for the History of Technology.

From the nursery to the prison, from the...Read more about Mother Media: Hot and Cool Parenting in the Twentieth Century

By David Cohen and Carole Joffe:

How hard-working individuals have kept abortion afloat in the wake of Roe v. Wade’s destruction, and the continued help needed if we want to sustain it

When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade...Read more about After Dobbs: How the Supreme Court Ended Roe but Not Abortion

By Yan Long: Authoritarian Absorption portrays the rebuilding of China's pandemic response system through its anti-HIV/AIDS battle from 1978 to 2018. Going beyond the conventional domestic focus, Yan Long analyzes the influence of foreign interventions which challenged...Read more about Authoritarian Absorption: The Transnational Remaking of Epidemic Politics in China

By Arlie Russell Hochschild: For all the attempts to understand the state of American politics and the blue/red divide, we’ve ignored what economic and cultural loss can do to pride. What happens, Arlie Russell Hochschild asks, when a proud people in a...Read more about Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right

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

By Loïc Wacquant. Race is arguably the single most troublesome and volatile concept of the social sciences in the early 21st century. It is invoked to explain all manner of historical phenomena and current issues, from slavery to police brutality to...Read more about Racial Domination

By Loïc Wacquant. We associate the notion of caste with Brahmanical India but, in the South of the United States between the 1890s and 1960s, blacks, descendants of slaves, were treated as a sub-caste, true “untouchables” in the country...Read more about Jim Crow. Le terrorisme de caste en Amérique

By: Charles L. Briggs

In Incommunicable, Charles L. Briggs examines the long-standing presumptions that medical discourse translates easily across geographic, racial, and class boundaries. Bringing linguistic and medical anthropology into conversation...Read more about Incommunicable: Toward Communicative Justice in Health and Medicine

By: Netta Avinerid and Patricia Baquedano-López

This innovative, interdisciplinary course textbook is designed to provide the who, what, where, when, why, and how of the intersections of language, inequality, and social justice in North America, using the...Read more about An Introduction to Language and Social Justice What Is, What Has Been, and What Could Be