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Hurt, Baby, Hurt

By William Walter Scott
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, Race and Ethnicity, African American Studies

Starting the 1967 Detroit Rebellion

Cosmopolitan Imaginaries and International Disorder

By Aaron C McKeil
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, Political Theory
Series: Configurations: Critical Studies of World Politics

Exploring why attempts to construct a cosmopolitan order tend to be followed by greater forces of division and disorder

The International Politics of Communication

Representing Community in a Globalizing World

By Alan Chong
Subjects: Political Science, Political Communication, International Relations, Media Studies, New Media

Revealing the constant communication that affects politics around the world

Speaking Our Selves

New Plays by African Women

Foreword by Esi Sutherland-Addy

Edited by Asiimwe Deborah Kawe & Robert H Vorlicky
Subjects: Theater and Performance, African Studies, Women's Studies

Bringing African drama to an English-speaking audience

Shipping Out

Race, Performance, and Labor at Sea

By Anita Gonzalez
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Dance, American Studies, Class Studies

How race, performance, and labor interconnect on Caribbean cruise ships through the lens of a destination lecturer

Dancing on the Fault Lines of History

Selected Essays

By Susan Manning
Subjects: Dance, Theater and Performance
Series: Studies in Dance: Theories and Practices

Encapsulating a career of studying modern dance

Decentralization, Local Governance, and Inequality in the Middle East and North Africa

Edited by Ellen Marie Lust & Kristen Kao
Subjects: Political Science, Governance, Middle and Near Eastern Studies
Series: Emerging Democracies

Examines how decentralization affects local communities

Readying the Revolution

African American Theater and Performance from Post-World War II to the Black Arts Movement

By Jonathan Shandell
Subjects: Theater and Performance, African American Studies, American Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

A critical history of Black culture post-World War II that helped cultivate the spirit of Black revolutionary theater

The Postdevelopmental State

Dilemmas of Economic Democratization in Contemporary South Korea

By Jamie Doucette
Subjects: Asian Studies, Korea, History, Labor History, Economics, Economic Theory
Series: Perspectives on Contemporary Korea

Examining the struggle to align high-growth economic models with the egalitarian promises of democracy

The Revolution Will Be Improvised

The Intimacy of Cultural Activism

By Elizabeth Rodriguez Fielder
Subjects: African American Studies, American Studies, Theater and Performance

An examination of revolutionary intimacy-making, experimental performance, and art activism during the civil rights movement

Hold Me Down

By Ben Lauren
Subjects: Writing, Music, Music Composition
Series: Music and Social Justice

How the concept of feel is used to write songs

Contemporary Opera in Flux

Edited by Yayoi U Everett
Subjects: Music, Musicology

A collection of essays examining operas that push the conventional boundaries of opera and advance the work of underrepresented composers

Edited by Olivia R. Lucas & Laura Moore Pruett
Subjects: Music, Musicology, Ethnomusicology, Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, American Studies, African American Studies
Series: Music and Social Justice

Reflections from college music instructors offering various approaches to inclusive, supportive pedagogy in the classroom.

Between HIV Prevention and LGBTI Rights

The Political Economy of Queer Activism in Ghana

By Ellie Gore
Subjects: African Studies, Health & Medicine, Health Policy & Management, Gender Studies, Gay and Lesbian Studies
Series: African Perspectives

Examining the impacts of global development processes and HIV response on queer politics and activism in Ghana

Fantasies of Ito Michio

By Tara Rodman
Subjects: Dance, Asian Studies, Japan, Theater and Performance, Biography
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Chronicles Ito Michio’s career and explores how fantasy sustains a life disrupted by war, racialization, and imperialism

In Search of Admiration and Respect

Chinese Cultural Diplomacy in the United States, 1875–1974

By Yanqiu Zheng
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Political Science, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, Cultural Studies, History, Chinese History, Art, Art History, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Theater and Performance
Series: China Understandings Today

Reframes cultural diplomacy as part of China's ongoing quest for modernity beyond wealth and power

Queer Chimerica

A Speculative Auto/Ethnography of the Cool Child

By Shana Leodar Ye
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Sexuality Studies, Gender Studies, Gay and Lesbian Studies
Series: Global Queer Asias

Examining the intersections of queer theory and the rise of China to reveal how queerness is “produced”

Beyond the River, Under the Eye of Rome

By Timothy C Hart
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, History, European History

Explores how Roman perceptions of Danubian peoples influenced some of the most politically and socially significant events of Roman antiquity

Geographies of Relation

Diasporas and Borderlands in the Americas

By Theresa Delgadillo
Subjects: Latinx Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory, 20th Century Literature, Latin American Studies, American Studies, Theater and Performance, Poetry and Poetry Criticism

How diaspora and borderlands subjects from across the Americas have represented and performed their interrelationship

Down Syndrome Culture

Life Writing, Documentary, and Fiction Film in Iberian and Latin American Contexts

By Benjamin Fraser
Subjects: Disability Studies, Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Literary Studies, Modern Literature, Latinx Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Looking at Down syndrome representation from a global perspective

Autocrats Can't Always Get What They Want

State Institutions and Autonomy under Authoritarianism

By Nathan J Brown, Steven D Schaaf, Samer Anabtawi, and Julian G Waller
Subjects: Political Science, Governance, Comparative Politics
Series: Emerging Democracies

Discovering why autocrats may not be in total control

The Troubling State of India's Democracy

Edited by Dinsha Mistree, Šumit Ganguly, and Larry Diamond
Subjects: Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia, Political Science, Governance, Political Communication
Series: Emerging Democracies

Assessing the condition and potential trajectories of India’s democracy

Mass–Elite Representation Gap in Old and New Democracies

Critical Junctures and Elite Agency

Edited by Jaemin Shim
Subjects: Political Science, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, Public Policy, Political Theory
Series: New Comparative Politics

How can we explain policy preference mismatch between voters and their representatives?

Bateson's Alphabet

The ABC's of Gregory Bateson’s Ecology of Mind

By Jacob Smith
Subjects: Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Social Anthropology, American Studies

Connecting Bateson’s ecology of mind with the environmental humanities

Making Sense of the Arab State

Edited by Steven Heydemann & Marc Lynch
Subjects: Middle and Near Eastern Studies, Political Science, Comparative Politics, Governance
Series: Emerging Democracies

Exploring the surprising strengths and weaknesses of the Arab state

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