''The perfect beach read'' Harriet Tyce, Blood Orange''Wonderfully escapist and nail-bitingly suspenseful'' Laura Marshall, Friend Request-----WELCOME TO PARADISE! Or so the staff…
Koritha Mitchell analyzes canonical texts by and about African American women to lay bare the hostility these women face as they invest in traditional domesticity. Instead of the…
Black vaudevillians and entertainers joked that T.O.B.A. stood for “tough on black artists.†But the Theater Owner’s Booking Association (T.O.B.A.) played a foundational…
A traveling salesman with little formal education, Max Hunter gravitated to song catching and ballad hunting while on business trips in the Ozarks. Hunter recorded nearly 1600…
Scholars, journalists, and policymakers have long argued that the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act dramatically reshaped the demographic composition of the United States. In A…
Nitzan Lebovic claims that political melancholy is the defining trait of a generation of Israelis born between the 1960s and 1990s. This cohort came of age during wars, occupation…
Even though the Irish child sex abuse scandals in the Catholic Church have appeared steadily in the media, many children remain in peril. In The Child Sex Scandal and Modern…
At age 16, Dipita's mother, Mbila was trafficked into Europe, supporting herself and her son as a prostitute in Geneva. Dipita, now a young, black, gay man serving a five-year…
In 1815, F. W. J. Schelling presented a lecture titled "On the Deities of Samothrace" to the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. The lecture offered a startlingly original reading of…
A series of photographic diptychs that investigate the behavior of images and offer an account of American precarity.Ambulance Chasers offers a series of photographic diptychs by…
A lively, informative, and engaging guide to gender by an author-illustrator who helps readers understand the multiplicity of answers to “What even is gender?”Queer, cisgender,…
