Juxtaposes Antonio Gramsci’s work and critical race theory to offer a new understanding of tactics as a transformative practice.

Argues that the photographic negative gives a new way of understanding Victorian debates surrounding origins and copies as well as reality and representation.

An innovative comparative study of the role of racial stereotypes in expressing state power under globalization.

Drawing on the film-philosophies of Stanley Cavell and Gilles Deleuze, argues that skepticism is an ethical problem that pervades contemporary film.

Investigates how depictions of young people in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century America use artifice to destabilize pre-existing narratives of truth, news, and fact.

An interdisciplinary analysis of gender, race, empire, and colonialism in fin-de-siècle Spanish literature and culture across the global Hispanic world.

Analyzes parallel developments in post–Cold War literature and film from Cuba and Angola to trace a shared history of revolutionary enthusiasm, disappointment, and solidarity.

Offers a feminist theory of ignorance that sheds light on the misunderstood or overlooked epistemic practices of women in literature.

Biography of the early years of A. Bartlett Giamatti, who would become Yale University’s first non-Anglo-Saxon Protestant president and commissioner of Major League Baseball.

Diagnoses our contemporary spatial experience as fundamentally totalitarian through a multilayered critical theory of space.

Draws from the work of Jacques Lacan to provide innovative readings of Romantic literature in the long nineteenth century.

Considers the impact of neo-racism during the Obama presidency.

Explores how journalists think and talk about changes in the news environment, with a focus on the increase in opinion and commentary.

Analyzes six films as allegories of capitalism’s precarious state in the early twenty-first century.

Compares the political activities of African Americans who settled in Ghana in the 1950s and 1960s with those who settled in the 1980s to the present.

The first in-depth analysis of the radical feminist theory and coalitional praxis of scholar-activist María Lugones.

Analyzes the breadth of representations of the mythic figure of Māra in Buddhism to reveal how closely tied such narratives are to the social and historical concerns of Buddhist communities.

Explores why past generations of radical ecological and social justice scholarship have been ineffective, and considers the work of a new wave of scholarship that aims to reinvent the radical project and combat injustice.

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

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

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

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.

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

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