The Armenian Woman, Minoritarian Agency, and the Making of Iranian Modernity

Talinn Grigor and Houri Berberian

Houri Berberian and Talinn Grigor offer the first history of Armenian women in modern Iran. Foregrounding the work of Armenian women's organizations, the authors trace minoritarian politics and the shifting relationships among doubly minoritized Armenian female subjects, Iran's central nodes of power, and the Irano-Armenian patriarchal institutions of church and political parties.

Egyptian Colloquial Poetry in the Modern Arabic Canon

Noha M. Radwan

Noha Radwan offers the first book-length study of the emergence, context, and development of modern Egyptian colloquial poetry, recently used as a vehicle for communications in the revolutionary youth movement in Egypt on January 25th 2011, and situates it among modernist Arab poetry.

Boycott!

Sunaina Marr Maira

Boycott! situates the academic boycott in the broader history of boycotts in the United States as well as in Palestine and shows how it has evolved into a transnational social movement that has spurred profound intellectual and political shifts. It explores the movement's implications for antiracist, feminist, queer, and academic labor organizing and examines the boycott in the context of debates about Palestine, Zionism, race, rights-based politics, academic freedom, decolonization, and neoliberal capitalism.

The Eyes of the World

James H. Smith

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.

Analytical Fascism

Mark R. Reiff

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.

Unmentionables

Stacy D. Fahrenthold

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.

Break and Flow

Charlie D. Hankin

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.

Slavery in the Early Mughal World

Ali Anooshahr

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.

Modernity, Freedom, and the African Diaspora

Elisa Joy White

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

Zinzi Clemmons

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.