The Eyes of the World focuses on the lives and experiences of Eastern Congolese people involved in extracting and transporting the minerals needed for digital devices. This book examines how Eastern Congolese understand the work in which they are engaged, the forces pitted against them, and the complicated process through which substances in the earth and forest are converted into commodified resources.
While it is clear what those attracted to fascism today are against, it is less clear what they are for. Not in the sense of how they want to remake society—this is usually clear enough. What is less clear is the fundamental values that are driving their desire to create a different kind of order.
Arab Americans contributed to strike practices we see as quintessentially American. In her book, Unmentionables: Textiles, Garment Work, and the Syrian American Working Class, Fahrenthold unravels the history of Lebanese, Syrian and Palestinian immigrants’ activism in the global textile industry and labor strikes.
Hip hop is a global form of creative expression. Situated at the critical intersection of sound studies and Afro-diasporic poetics, Break and Flow draws on years of ethnographic fieldwork and collaboration, as well as an archive of hundreds of songs by more than sixty hip hop artists.
This book studies the life and thoughts of a sixteenth-century slave in India named Jawhar Aftabachi (d. after 1587), who served as the water-carrier for the Mughal Emperor Humayun (d. 1556), and chronicled his reign in a Persian text.
Elisa Joy White investigates the contemporary African Diaspora communities in Dublin, New Orleans, and Paris and their role in the interrogation of modernity and social progress. Through the consideration of three contemporaneous events, White reveals a shared quest for social progress in the face of stark retrogressive conditions.
What We Lose, by Zinzi Clemmons, is a novel about a young African-American woman coming of age—a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, family, and country. Through exquisite and emotional vignettes, Clemmons creates a stunning portrayal of what it means to choose to live, after loss.
In the book The Black Middle Ages, Matthew X. Vernon examines the influence of medieval studies on African-American thought. This book engages disparate discourses to reassess African-American positionalities in time and space and reflects on medieval studies as a discipline built upon a contended set of ideologies.
"Radical Solidarity" tells the riveting story of Ruth Reynolds (1916–89), a white pacifist from South Dakota who became a stalwart ally of nationalist revolutionaries during Puerto Rico's long struggle for independence. Reynolds dedicated her life to ending US control of the archipelago.
Where's Jukie? uses poems by Dr. Andy Jones and essays by Kate Duren to present the joys and challenges of raising their son Jukie, a boy with autism and Smith-Lemli-Opitz Syndrome. The authors of this book -- the parents of three children, including Jukie -- together have more than 50 years experience reading and communicating emotions with deft and wit, and counseling parents and children with special challenges.
