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  • The Anthropology of White Supremacy

    A Reader

    Edited by Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús, Jemima Pierre, Junaid Rana ...
    An anthology of original essays that examine white supremacy around the globe through the lens of anthropologyWhite supremacy, an entrenched global system that emerged alongside European colonialism, is based on presumed biological and cultural differences, racist practices, the hypervaluation of whiteness, and the devaluation of nonwhites. Anthropology has been shaped by—and has helped to shape ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Technofuturos

    Critical Interventions in Latina/o Studies

    by Roman de la Campa, Nicole Guidotti-Hernández, Marcia Ochoa, Jossiana Arroyo, Karina Cespedes, Arturo Arias, Teresa Carrillo, Mari Paredes, Erica Marquez, Aisha Beliso, Priscilla Renta, Alberto Sandoval Sánchez, Esther Cuesta, Ramon Solorzano, Isabel Espinal, Lisa Sánchez González ...
    Technofuturos offers a critical and innovative exploration of the forms of representation found in Latina/o studies. The editors, Nancy Raquel Mirabal and Agustin La-Montes, challenge conventional notions of Latina/o identities, histories, and cultures by historicizing and differentiating the multiple discourses of Latinidad. The essays examine the temporality and spatiality of socio-historical ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • Excited Delirium

    Race, Police Violence, and the Invention of a Disease

    by Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús ...
    In 1980, Charles Wetli---a Miami-based medical examiner and self-proclaimed “cult expert” of Afro-Caribbean religions---identified what he called “excited delirium syndrome.” Soon, medical examiners began using the syndrome regularly to describe the deaths of Black men and women during interactions with police. Police and medical examiners claimed that Black people with so-called excited delirium ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Electric Santería

    Racial and Sexual Assemblages of Transnational Religion

    by Aisha Beliso-De Jesús ...
    Series series Gender, Theory, and Religion
    Santería is an African-inspired, Cuban diaspora religion long stigmatized as witchcraft and often dismissed as superstition, yet its spirit- and possession-based practices are rapidly winning adherents across the world. Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús introduces the term "copresence" to capture the current transnational experience of Santería, in which racialized and gendered spirits, deities, priests, ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

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    by Manuel Castells ...
    Series Book 14 - Information Age Series
    In this second volume of The Information Age trilogy, with an extensive new preface following the recent global economic crisis, Manuel Castells deals with the social, political, and cultural dynamics associated with the technological transformation of our societies and with the globalization of the economy.Extensive new preface examines how dramatic recent events have transformed the socio ... Read more

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  • Chasing the Scream

    The Inspiration for the Feature Film "The United States vs. Billie Holiday"

    by Johann Hari ...
    The New York Times BestsellerWhat if everything you think you know about addiction is wrong? Johann Hari's journey into the heart of the war on drugs led him to ask this question--and to write the book that gave rise to his viral TED talk, viewed more than 62 million times, and inspired the feature film The United States vs. Billie Holiday and the documentary series The Fix.One of Johann Hari's ... Read more

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  • Tell Me How It Ends

    An Essay in 40 Questions

    by Valeria Luiselli ...
    American Book Award Winner: A “moving, intimate” account of serving as a translator for undocumented children facing deportation (The New York Times Book Review). Nonfiction Finalist for the Kirkus PrizeFinalist for National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism Structured around the forty questions volunteer worker Valeria Luiselli translates from a court system form and asks undocumented Latin ... Read more

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  • Social and Cultural Foundations in Global Studies

    by Eve Stoddard, John Collins ...
    Series series Foundations in Global Studies
    From the Foundations in Global Studies series, this text offers students a fresh, comprehensive, multidisciplinary entry point to the study of the social and cultural aspects of global studies. After a brief introduction to global studies, the early chapters of the book survey the key concepts and processes of globalization as well as a critical look at the meaning and role globalization. Students ... Read more

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  • Still Life with Bones

    Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains

    by Alexa Hagerty ...
    New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • An anthropologist working with forensic teams and victims’ families to investigate crimes against humanity in Latin America explores what science can tell us about the lives of the dead in this haunting account of grief, the power of ritual, and a quest for justice.“Absorbing . . . multifaceted and elegiac . . . Still Life with Bones captures the ethos ... Read more

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  • Making Abolitionist Worlds

    Proposals for a World on Fire

    Edited by Abolition Collective ...
    Series Book 2 - Abolition: Journal of Insurgent Politics
    • Making Abolitionist Worlds discusses the radical intersectionality of today’s social movements from the abolition of prisons and police to feminism, queer liberation, and more.• Continues the work of Abolishing Carceral Society to offer a primer on what visionary activists mean when they connect the interlocking systems of repression, exploitation, and racism.• A powerful call to join ... Read more

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  • The African Diaspora

    Slavery, Modernity, and Globalization

    by Professor Toyin Falola ...
    The African diaspora is arguably the most important event in modern African history. From the fifteenth century to the present, millions of Africans have been dispersed -- many of them forcibly, others driven by economic need or political persecution--to other continents, creating large communities with African origins living outside their native lands. The majority of these communities are in ... Read more

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  • Invisible No More

    Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color

    by Andrea Ritchie ...
    “A passionate, incisive critique of the many ways in which women and girls of color are systematically erased or marginalized in discussions of police violence.” —Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim CrowInvisible No More is a timely examination of how Black women, Indigenous women, and women of color experience racial profiling, police brutality, and immigration enforcement. By placing the ... Read more

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