Provides encyclopedic coverage of female sexuality in 1940s popular culture.

Discusses how contemporary Iranian and Middle Eastern thinkers and artists are forging a new postmodern vision.

Tells the fascinating story of African American women who traveled to France to seek freedom of expression.

Employs a critical Afrocentric reading of Western constructions of knowledge so as to overcome the dehumanizing tendencies of modernity.

Explores how political activism, art, and popular culture challenge the discrimination and injustice faced by “illegal” and displaced peoples.

Analyzes theatrical texts and performances while providing political and historical mappings.

Considers the significance of female Chinese action stars in national and transnational contexts.

Examines the complexities and contradictions that arise when the monsters in the movies are children.

Explores how the trope of racial passing continues to serve as a touchstone for gauging public beliefs and anxieties about race in this multiracial era.

An interdisciplinary consideration of Paul Gilroy's contributions to cultural theory and understandings of modernity.

An interdisciplinary study of the rise of empirical observation in the Spanish arts and sciences as the principle vehicle for acquiring knowledge about the natural world.

Analyzes the author’s transformation from academic to figure competitor.

Develops a novel characterization of the pornographic as a cultural concept.

An ethnography of young, single women struggling to live independently in South Korea.

An interdisciplinary anthology exploring issues related to diversity, multiculturalism, and social justice.

Offers a critical history of the role of pain, suffering, and compassion in democratic culture.

A pioneering approach to social theory that rectifies overreliance on Western historical experience of development and modernization.

Examines the contemporary discourse on happiness through the lens of governmentality theory.

Explores the curating of “difficult knowledge” through the exhibition of lynching photographs in contemporary museums.

Examines how six writers reconfigure African American subjectivity in ways that recall postmodernist theory.

Demonstrates how written and visual representations worked to construct definitions of ethnicity in midcentury America.

Uses ethnography and cultural analysis to track scenes of intimate connection and disconnection among gay men across an array of media sites.

An interdisciplinary exploration of indigenous bodies.

Explores interactions between Europeans and Moroccans on both sides of the straits in the latter half of the nineteenth century.

Argues for the necessity of a new ethos for middle-class white anti-racism.