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Black Song

A Manifesto for Music and Justice

By Singing Justice Collective, Louise Toppin, Naomi Andre, Stephen A. Berrey, Tyrese Byrd, Mark Allan Clague, Caroline Helton, Traci L. Lombré, Samantha Williams, Cody Jones, Christie Finn, and Thomas Hampson
Subjects: Music, Ethnomusicology, American Studies, African American Studies
Series: Music and Social Justice

Connecting music and history to engage more deeply and respectfully with Black musical traditions

Queer and Trans Aesthetics

By Lloyd Whitesell
Subjects: Sexuality Studies, Art, Music

A study devoted to queer meaning in cultural expression

Feeling Yellow

Asian Americans and Yellowface in Twenty-First-Century Musical Theatre

By Donatella Galella
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Asian American Studies, American Studies, Race and Ethnicity
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

A contemporary history of the usage of yellowface in musical theatre

Performance Beyond the Pale

Meditations on Art, Activism, and Bodies in Extremis

By James M. Harding
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Cultural Studies, Activism

The performative logic of political and cultural acts dismissed as too extreme or excessive

Music at the Margins of Sense

By Jessica A. Holmes
Subjects: Music, Disability Studies
Series: Music and Social Justice

Challenging misconceptions of musical experience in deaf, hard-of-hearing, and hearing disabled musicians and listeners

Pain in Relation

On Causality, Chronicity, and (Crip) Evidence

By Alyson Patsavas
Subjects: Disability Studies, American Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Exposes the dominant narratives of pain

Theatre Things

Material Theories and Histories

Edited by Andrew Friedman & Eero Laine
Subjects: Theater and Performance

Objects and spaces shaping theatre as we know it

Youth Activism in Asia

A New Wave

Edited by Colm Anthony Fox, Meredith L. Weiss, and Edward Aspinall
Subjects: Political Science, Comparative Politics, Asian Studies, Political Communication
Series: Emerging Democracies

A dramatic look at the diversity of contemporary youth activism in the world’s most populous region

Black Power Praxis

Theory, Practice, and Activist Intellectuals in Detroit's Black Power Movement

By Matt Birkhold
Subjects: African American Studies, History, African American History, Cultural Studies, Activism

A close look at how social movements rise and fall

Gender Is a Weapon

Liberalism, Difference, and US Counterinsurgency

By Elizabeth Mesok
Subjects: Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Queer Studies, American Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Critical Ethnic Studies, Political Science, International Relations, Cultural Studies, Critical Militarization Studies
Series: Critical Militarization Studies

A sobering account of the strategic leveraging of women for counterinsurgency and impossible promises of inclusion

Class Politics and the Creation of the American State

By James Parisot
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics

A new, critical interpretation of how lower and middle class consent was historically built for elite class rule

Hungry Subjects

Mapping Appetites in the African Cultural Landscape

By Njeri Githire
Subjects: African Studies, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Diaspora Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies
Series: African Perspectives

Interrogating the plate, palate, and African literary imagination of food and eating

The Great Separation

The Chinese Cultural Revolution and the Political Origins of Ordoeconomism

By Xiaohong Xu
Edited by Roi Livne, Robert S. Jansen, and Yang Zhang
Foreword by Ho-fung Hung
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, History, Chinese History, Economics, Economic Theory, Sociology, Political Science, Political Economy
Series: China Understandings Today

Upending the understandings of the Chinese Cultural Revolution and the market reforms that followed

The Strategy of Sanctions

From Antiquity to the 21st Century

Edited by S. C. M. Paine & Anand Toprani
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations

Evaluating the short- and long-term effectiveness of sanctions alone or in combination with other instruments of national power

Fictions of the Real

Synergies Between Screen and Stage in Argentine Performance

By Brenda Werth
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Latin American Studies, Media Studies, Cinema Studies

Re-centers the impact of the real on the praxis of art in Argentine performance

Beyond the Fourth Wall of War

Theater and Therapy for Embodied Trauma

By Elise R. Morrison
Subjects: Theater and Performance

How contemporary theater represents and responds to war trauma

Home Team Away

Watching European Football in Urban China

By Yuan Gong
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Media Studies, T.V. & Radio, Sports, Sociology, Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Urban Studies
Series: China Understandings Today

European football fandom as a cultural process in urban middle-class China

Out of Line

Reading and Writing Protest in West Germany, 1968

By Peter Schweppe
Subjects: History, German History, German Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

How the politics of print transformed protest in West Germany's Global Sixties

Aesthetics of Displacement

Movement, Archives, and Performance in Contemporary Colombia

By Melissa Blanco Borelli
Subjects: Dance, Latinx Studies, Latin American Studies, Theater and Performance

Movement and performance as a means of resistance and identity formation in contemporary Colombia

Across Continents

Writing Goans, Making Worlds

By R. Benedito Ferrão
Subjects: African Studies, Asian Studies, South Asia, Diaspora Studies, Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature
Series: African Perspectives

A dialogue between postcolonial literature and Afro-Asiatic studies through an analysis of Goan characters

Out for Glamour in Africa

A History of Black Urban Femininities in Drum Magazine

By Wanjiru G. Mbure
Subjects: African Studies, Media Studies, Journalism, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, African American Studies, Urban Studies, Caribbean Studies
Series: African Perspectives

Renegotiating Black femininities through Drum magazine

Dissenting Through Dance

Folk Dance, Gender, and Political Protest in Turkey

By Sevi Bayraktar
Subjects: Dance, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Sexuality Studies
Series: Studies in Dance: Theories and Practices

How femme activists transform folk dance to a potent form of resistance in Turkey

A Century of International Crisis Behavior

Edited by Jonathan Wilkenfeld, Kyle Beardsley, and Patrick James
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations

Examining times of crisis through the lens of 100 years of data

Claiming Impartiality

Peacebuilding Organizations as Actors in Multiple Fields of Global Governance

By Andrea Warnecke
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, Peace and Conflict Studies
Series: Configurations: Critical Studies of World Politics

Uncovering the foundational dilemma between the objectives and the institutional mandates of peacebuilding agencies

China’s Date Debate

How Manchurian Scholars Rewrote World War II

By Emily Matson
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, History, Chinese History
Series: China Understandings Today

How the “date debate” rewrote Chinese history

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