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  • Race-ing Masculinity

    Identity in Contemporary U.S. Writings

    by John Christopher Cunningham ...
    Series series Studies in American Popular History and Culture
    This study explores the intersection of race and gender identity in writings by contemporary American men of color, showing how ostensibly sexist or homophobic texts coexist with or are engendered by articulations of anti-racism. Conversely, certain articulations of gender concerns produce reactionary ideas about race. The author examines Asian American identity in the works of Frank Chin, John ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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  • Disidentifications

    Queers of Color And The Performance of Politics

    by José Esteban Muñoz ...
    Series Book 2 - Cultural Studies of the Americas
    There is more to identity than identifying with one’s culture or standing solidly against it. José Esteban Muñoz looks at how those outside the racial and sexual mainstream negotiate majority culture—not by aligning themselves with or against exclusionary works but rather by transforming these works for their own cultural purposes. Muñoz calls this process “disidentification,” and through a study ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • On the Inconvenience of Other People

    by Lauren Berlant ...
    Series series Writing Matters!
    In On the Inconvenience of Other People Lauren Berlant continues to explore our affective engagement with the world. Berlant focuses on the encounter with and the desire for the bother of other people and objects, showing that to be driven toward attachment is to desire to be inconvenienced. Drawing on a range of sources, including Last Tango in Paris, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Claudia Rankine, ... Read more

    $18.69 USD

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  • Black Looks

    Race and Representation

    by bell hooks ...
    In the critical essays collected in Black Looks, bell hooks interrogates old narratives and argues for alternative ways to look at blackness, black subjectivity, and whiteness. Her focus is on spectatorship—in particular, the way blackness and black people are experienced in literature, music, television, and especially film—and her aim is to create a radical intervention into the way we talk ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Appropriate

    A Provocation

    by Paisley Rekdal ...
    A timely, nuanced work that dissects the thorny debate around cultural appropriation and the literary imagination.How do we properly define cultural appropriation, and is it always wrong? If we can write in the voice of another, should we? And if so, what questions do we need to consider first? In Appropriate, creative writing professor Paisley Rekdal addresses a young writer to delineate how the ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Intersectionality

    An Intellectual History

    by Ange-Marie Hancock ...
    Intersectionality theory has emerged over the past thirty years as a way to think about the avenues by which inequalities (most often dealing with, but not limited to, race, gender, class and sexuality) are produced. Rather than seeing such categories as signaling distinct identities that can be adopted, imposed or rejected, intersectionality theory considers the logic by which each of these ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Seeing Differently

    A History and Theory of Identification and the Visual Arts

    by Amelia Jones ...
    Seeing Differently offers a history and theory of ideas about identity in relation to visual arts discourses and practices in Euro-American culture, from early modern beliefs that art is an expression of an individual, the painted image a "world picture" expressing a comprehensive and coherent point of view, to the rise of identity politics after WWII in the art world and beyond.The book is both a ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Slanting I, Imagining We

    Asian Canadian Literary Production in the 1980s and 1990s

    by Larissa Lai ...
    Series Book 9 - TransCanada
    The 1980s and 1990s are a historically crucial period in the development of Asian Canadian literature. Slanting I, Imagining We: Asian Canadian Literary Production in the 1980s and 1990s contextualizes and reanimates the urgency of that period, illustrates its historical specificities, and shows how the concerns of that moment—from cultural appropriation to race essentialism to shifting models of ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • Black Trans Feminism

    by Marquis Bey ...
    Series series Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study
    In Black Trans Feminism Marquis Bey offers a meditation on blackness and gender nonnormativity in ways that recalibrate traditional understandings of each. Theorizing black trans feminism from the vantages of abolition and gender radicality, Bey articulates blackness as a mutiny against racializing categorizations; transness as a nonpredetermined, wayward, and deregulated movement that works ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

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  • Methodology of the Oppressed

    by Chela Sandoval ...
    Series series Theory Out of Bounds
    A new approach to feminist thought that challenges current critical theories.In a work with far-reaching implications, Chela Sandoval does no less than revise the genealogy of theory over the past thirty years, inserting what she terms "U.S. Third World feminism" into the narrative in a way that thoroughly alters our perspective on contemporary culture and subjectivity.What Sandoval has identified ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Time Binds

    Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories

    by Elizabeth Freeman, Judith Halberstam, Lisa Lowe ...
    Series series Perverse modernities
    Time Binds is a powerful argument that temporal and sexual dissonance are intertwined, and that the writing of history can be both embodied and erotic. Challenging queer theory’s recent emphasis on loss and trauma, Elizabeth Freeman foregrounds bodily pleasure in the experience and representation of time as she interprets an eclectic archive of queer literature, film, video, and art. She examines ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Critical Terms for the Study of Gender

    Edited by Catharine R. Stimpson, Gilbert Herdt ...
    "Gender systems pervade and regulate human lives—in law courts and operating rooms, ballparks and poker clubs, hair-dressing salons and kitchens, classrooms and playgroups. . . . Exactly how gender works varies from culture to culture, and from historical period to historical period, but gender is very rarely not at work. Nor does gender operate in isolation. It is linked to other social ... Read more

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