Archaeologists, anthropologists, and classicists discuss how urbanization first emerged in strikingly different sociopolitical contexts in North America, Europe, and the Near East.

Examines the role that Japanese girls’ magazine culture played during the twentieth century in the creation and use of the notion of shōjo, the cultural identity of adolescent Japanese girls.

Explores the wide-ranging impact of the Mexican Revolution on global cinema and Western intellectual thought.

Examines the effects of culturally specific interpretations of refugeehood with an ethnographic focus on Cyprus

Presents an updated account of Hong Kong and its culture two decades after its reversion to China.

Analyzes literary and cultural representations of iconic Mexican women to explore how these reimaginings can undermine or perpetuate gender norms in contemporary Mexico.

A multidimensional approach captures the complexities of African American racial identity.

Offers an innovative reading of Plato, analyzing his metaphysical, ethical, and political commitments in connection with feminist critiques.

Comprehensive examination of how Indigenous peoples have been represented in Argentine film.

Uses cultural representations to investigate how two religious minority communities came to be incorporated into the Mexican nation.

Assesses how cinematic biographies of key figures reflect and shape what it means to be British.

An interdisciplinary examination of French fashion, modernity, and materiality from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries.

Essays that examine globalization's effects with an emphasis on the interplay of race and rurality as it occurs across diverse geographies and peoples.

Investigates how Argentine cinema has represented rural spaces and urban margins from the 1910s to the present.

Offers a new framework for reading American literatures that critically links African American and Latinx traditions and struggles for liberation.

Focuses on Black women’s experiences and expertise in order to advance educational philosophy and provide practical tools for social justice pedagogy.

Explores a growing number of films and filmmakers that challenge the strict boundaries between belief and unbelief.

The first book-length study of Bersani’s work, tracing the unfolding of his onto-ethics/aesthetics amidst numerous literary, artistic, and philosophical influences.

Engages with Chinese philosophy to offer new conceptual models for reframing gender, bodies, and aesthetics.

The first in-depth study of a range of literature written by Native Americans who attended government-run boarding schools.

How films of the 1960s and early 1970s framed therapeutic issues as problems of human communication, and individual psychological problems as social ones.

Anthology of recent, cutting-edge work in psychoanalysis and philosophy on the concept of inheritance.

Macro-level study of the South Atlantic throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries demonstrating how Brazil’s emergence was built on the longest and most intense slave trade of the modern era.

Challenges the monolithic view of Hinduism in the nineteenth century, and instead offers a vision of India that contains a rich multiplicity of Hinduisms, women’s stories, and cultural histories.

Examines how African American jazz music was received in Germany both as a racial and cultural threat and as a partner in promoting the rise of Nazi totalitarian cultural politics.