After Canaan : Essays on Race, Writing, and Region 9781551523873, 9781551523743

"Compton pushes us to look beneath the surface—past those comforting tales of nationhood and racial solidarity—to t

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After Canaan : Essays on Race, Writing, and Region
9781551523873, 9781551523743

Sometime in her twenties, Jennifer De Leon asked herself, "What would you do if you just gave yourself permission?&

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Charles Mills makes visible in the world of mainstream philosophy some of the crucial issues of the black experience. Ra

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In Writing Anthropology, fifty-two anthropologists reflect on scholarly writing as both craft and commitment, offering i

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In Writing Anthropology, fifty-two anthropologists reflect on scholarly writing as both craft and commitment. These shor

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In this book, ethnographer and poet Michael Jackson addresses the interplay between modes of writing, modes of understan

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Further investigations of what race and racism mean in America. After Race pushes us beyond the old "race vs. cla

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Racial Subjects heralds the next wave of writing about race and moves discussions about race forward as few other books

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Examining theater, performance art, music, sports, dance, and photography, the contributors to Race and Performance afte

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Prominent participants in the development of queer theory explore the field in relation to their own intellectual itiner

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A collection of essays arguing for a global and economically based modernity driven by capitalist development.

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