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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “jodi a byrd”
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  • The Transit of Empire

    Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism

    by Jodi A. Byrd ...
    Series series First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies
    In 1761 and again in 1768, European scientists raced around the world to observe the transit of Venus, a rare astronomical event in which the planet Venus passes in front of the sun. In The Transit of Empire, Jodi A. Byrd explores how indigeneity functions as transit, a trajectory of movement that serves as precedent within U.S. imperial history. Byrd argues that contemporary U.S. empire expands ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Indigenomicon

    American Indians, Video Games, and the Structures of Dispossession

    by Jodi A. Byrd ...
    Series series Power Play: Games, Politics, Culture
    Settler colonial studies and Indigenous studies are often assumed to be the same intellectual project. In Indigenomicon, Jodi A. Byrd examines the differences between the two fields by bringing video game studies and Indigenous studies into conversation with Black studies, queer studies, and Indigenous feminist critique. Byrd theorizes “the image of the law of the Indigenous” as structuring ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Colonial Racial Capitalism

    Edited by Susan Koshy, Lisa Marie Cacho, Brian Jordan Jefferson, Jodi A. Byrd ...
    The contributors to Colonial Racial Capitalism consider anti-Blackness, human commodification, and slave labor alongside the history of Indigenous dispossession and the uneven development of colonized lands across the globe. They demonstrate the co-constitution and entanglement of slavery and colonialism from the conquest of the New World through industrial capitalism to contemporary financial ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

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    by la paperson ...
    Series series Forerunners: Ideas First
    A Third University is Possible unravels the intimate relationship between the more than 200 US land grant institutions, American settler colonialism, and contemporary university expansion. Author la paperson cracks open uncanny connections between Indian boarding schools, Black education, and missionary schools in Kenya; and between the Department of Homeland Security and the University of ... Read more

    $4.95 USD

  • Elite Capture

    How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

    by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò ...
    “Identity politics” is everywhere, polarizing discourse from the campaign trail to the classroom and amplifying antagonisms in the media, both online and off. But the compulsively referenced phrase bears little resemblance to the concept as first introduced by the radical Black feminist Combahee River Collective. While the Collective articulated a political viewpoint grounded in their own position ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

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  • Coming of Age in Second Life

    An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human

    by Tom Boellstorff, Tom Boellstorff ...
    Millions of people around the world today spend portions of their lives in online virtual worlds. Second Life is one of the largest of these virtual worlds. The residents of Second Life create communities, buy property and build homes, go to concerts, meet in bars, attend weddings and religious services, buy and sell virtual goods and services, find friendship, fall in love--the possibilities are ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Mystery of Capital

    Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else

    by Hernando De Soto ...
    A renowned economist argues for the importance of property rights in "the most intelligent book yet written about the current challenge of establishing capitalism in the developing world" (Economist)"The hour of capitalism's greatest triumph," writes Hernando de Soto, "is, in the eyes of four-fifths of humanity, its hour of crisis." In The Mystery of Capital, the world-famous Peruvian economist ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Rights for Robots

    Artificial Intelligence, Animal and Environmental Law

    by Joshua C. Gellers ...
    Bringing a unique perspective to the burgeoning ethical and legal issues surrounding the presence of artificial intelligence in our daily lives, the book uses theory and practice on animal rights and the rights of nature to assess the status of robots.Through extensive philosophical and legal analyses, the book explores how rights can be applied to nonhuman entities. This task is completed by ... Read more

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  • Invitation to Law & Society

    An Introduction to the Study of Real Law

    by Kitty Calavita ...
    Series series Chicago Series in Law and Society
    Research and real-life examples that "lucidly connect some of the divisive social issues confronting us today to that thing we call 'the law'" ( Law and Politics Book Review).Law and society is a rapidly growing field that turns the conventional view of law as mythical abstraction on its head. Kitty Calavita brilliantly brings to life the ways in which law is found not only in statutes and ... Read more

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  • Afrofuturism 2.0

    The Rise of Astro-Blackness

    by Esther Jones, Nettrice Gaskins, Lonny Avi Brooks, Grace Gipson, Andrew Rollins, Jeff Lohr, Qiana Whitted, Tiffany E. Barber, tobias c. van Veen, David DeIuliis, Ricardo Guthrie, Ken McLeod ...
    The ideas and practices related to afrofuturism have existed for most of the 20th century, especially in the north American African diaspora community. After Mark Dery coined the word "afrofuturism" in 1993, Alondra Nelson as a member of an online forum, along with other participants, began to explore the initial terrain and intellectual underpinnings of the concept noting that “AfroFuturism has ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • On Critical Race Theory

    Why It Matters & Why You Should Care

    by Victor Ray ...
    **What exactly is critical race theory? This concise and accessible exploration demystifies a crucial framework for understanding and fighting racial injustice in the United States.“A clear-eyed, expert field guide.”—Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom, author of Thick**From renowned scholar Dr. Victor Ray, On Critical Race Theory explains the centrality of race in American history and politics, and how ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • On Microfascism

    Gender, Death, and War

    by Jack Z. Bratich ...
    Key selling points:Avoids rehashing histories already available elsewhere; will address the contemporary fascist resurgence in the most up-to-date possible fashion, including recent spectacular mobilizations.Goes deeper than accounts that focus on organized movements and leaders, examining what needs to happen before these movements can emerge and revealing that the seeds of embryonic fascism are ... Read more

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