Cultural Studies
The Serpent's Plumes
Draws on Nahua concepts to explore Nahua literary production and contributions to cultural activism from the 1980s to the present.
Through a Nuclear Lens
Examines the increasingly reciprocal nature of Franco-Japanese cultural exchange through films that center on nuclear issues.
Between Care and Justice
Proposes a form of moral education that joins care and justice to nurture and develop the desirable moral sentiments for a more just world at the interpersonal, social, political economic, and environmental levels.
The Recursive Frontier
Shows how the myth of the American frontier persists as an ever-present, oppressive set of ideas about space, mobility, and race in the mid-twentieth-century literature of Los Angeles.
Geophilosophy of the Mediterranean
Aims to rethink Europe under the sign of openness and hospitality, starting from the Mediterranean—the sea that is so important for the history of the entire West—a sea of differences with a deep unitary root conceived as a paradigm for rethinking new and original forms of social and political coexistence.
When History Returns
Turns to theories and cultural representations of psychosocial life to reflect on, and better understand, the challenges of learning in times of social strife.
Utopian Imaginings
Challenges readers to use utopian thinking and practice to counter the conditions of the present and create an alternative future.
Tracking Capital
Offers new ways to read the relationship between culture, ecology, and capitalism.
From Blues to Beyoncé
Explores how Black women have continually used sound to convey stories and forge community across generations.
Resonances against Fascism
Makes a case for the power of music and sound in the face of fascistic forces, from modernism to the present.
Jazz with a Beat
The neglected small group swing sound of the 1940s–60s takes its place in the pantheon of jazz literature.
Masculine Pregnancies
Examines literary depictions of “mannish” pregnant women and metaphors of male pregnancy to reframe the relationship between creativity and gender in modernism.
Damned Agitator
The most comprehensive collection of writings by an important twentieth-century radical writer.
Reclaiming Time
Offers an interdisciplinary feminist framework for conceptualizing time and temporal justice as a form of reparation.
Italian Trans Geographies
Provides a remapping of Italian and Italian American culture by retracing trans and gender-variant experiences within Italy and along diasporic routes.
Spanish American Literature in the Age of Machines and Other Essays
Brings together and makes available in English for the first time some of Ángel Rama’s most important essays.
Bay Lodyans
Considers how popular Haitian films not only provide entertainment but also help audiences in Haiti and the diaspora think through daily challenges.
Works like a Charm
Breaks the spell of economic thought by interrogating the widespread language and logic of “incentives” in public life from a Lacanian perspective.
Haight-Ashbury, Psychedelics, and the Birth of Acid Rock
Illuminates the beginnings, downfall, and legacy of the acid-inspired, spontaneous, and playful approach to life and music in Haight-Ashbury from 1964–1967.
Reauthoring Savage Inequalities
Offers rich, wide-ranging counternarratives to social, political, and educational discourses that characterize urban schools and communities as places of despair, revealing the resources and strategies of resistance that teachers, students, and families use to succeed and thrive.
Rethinking Interiority
A philosophical investigation of the concept of interiority, presenting readers with its unmined aspects and senses.
Black in Print
Explores the role of print media in conversations about race and belonging across Central America.
Casseroles, Can Openers, and Jell-O
An “all-you-can-eat” tour of American life in the postwar period, told through the foods we loved.
The Motorcycle Industry in New York State, Second Edition
The compelling chronicle of 120 years of motorcycle making in the Empire State.
Equality and Excellence in Ancient and Modern Political Philosophy
Interpretations of critically important texts in political philosophy from Greek antiquity to modern times on the tension between human excellence and equality and its possible resolution.