Duke University Press
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Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra
$25.95 Add to cartConsidered by many to be a founder of Afrofuturism, Sun Ra-aka Herman Blount-was a composer, keyboardist, bandleader, philosopher, entrepreneur, poet, and self-proclaimed extraterrestrial from Saturn…. [more below]
- Author: Szwed, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1478008415
- Language: English
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Informatics of Domination
$38.93 Add to cartInformatics of Domination is an experimental collection addressing formations of power that manifest through technical systems and white capitalist patriarchy in the twenty-first century. The volume t… [more below]
- Author: Blas, Zach
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 147803100X
- Language: English
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The Dream of a Common Movement: Selected Writings of Urvashi Vaid
$26.95 Add to cartThe Dream of a Common Movement collects essays, interviews, and speeches by the late feminist and civil rights activist Urvashi Vaid, whose pioneering writing and organizing over the course of four de… [more below]
- Author: Vaid, Urvashi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 147803162X
- Language: English
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Excited Delirium: Race, Police Violence, and the Invention of a Disease
$28.95 Read moreIn 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 b… [more below]
- Author: Beliso-de Jes?s, Aisha M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1478030550
- Language: English
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The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume II: A Novel Volume 2
$28.95 Add to cartA major literary event, the publication of the second volume of Peter Weiss’s three-volume novel The Aesthetics of Resistance makes one of the towering works of twentieth-century German literature ava… [more below]
- Author: Weiss, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 1478006994
- Language: English
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What Had Happened Was
$23.95 Add to cartIn her debut poetry collection, What Had Happened Was, Ther? Alyce Pickens investigates the complex structures of Black storytelling. Addressing topics ranging from Black life, popular culture, and hi… [more below]
- Author: Pickens, Ther? Alyce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1478031492
- Language: English
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The Witch Studies Reader
$29.95 Add to cartStories about witches are by their nature stories about the most basic and profound of human experiences–healing, sex, violence, tragedies, aging, death, and encountering the mystery and magic of the… [more below]
- Author: Chaudhuri, Soma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1478031352
- Language: English
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Nuyorican and Diasporican Visual Art: A Critical Anthology
$34.95 Add to cartAlthough Puerto Rican artists have always been central figures in contemporary American and international art worlds, they have largely gone unrecognized and been excluded from art history canons. Nuy… [more below]
- Author: D?vila, Arlene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1478031212
- Language: English
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The Trauma Mantras: A Memoir in Prose Poems
$19.95 Add to cartThe Trauma Mantras is a memoir by medical anthropologist, teacher, and writer Adrie Kusserow, who has worked with refugees and humanitarian projects in Bhutan, Nepal, India, Uganda, South Sudan, and t… [more below]
- Author: Kusserow, Adrie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1478025573
- Language: English
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Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood: Coming of Age in the Sixties
$29.95 Add to cartJohn D’Emilio is one of the leading historians of his generation and a pioneering figure in the field of LGBTQ history. At times his life has been seemingly at odds with his upbringing. How does a boy… [more below]
- Author: D’Emilio, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1478015926
- Language: English
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Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality
$28.95 Add to cartLight in the Dark is the culmination of Gloria E. Anzald a’s mature thought and the most comprehensive presentation of her philosophy. Focusing on aesthetics, ontology, epistemology, and ethics, it co… [more below]
- Series: Latin America Otherwise
- Author: Anzaldua, Gloria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: September 30 2015
- ISBN10: 0822360098
- Language: English
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Medicine Stories: Essays for Radicals
$24.95 Add to cartIn this revised and expanded edition of Medicine Stories, Aurora Levins Morales weaves together insights and lessons learned over a lifetime of activism to offer a new theory of social justice. Callin… [more below]
- Author: Levins Morales, Aurora
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 26 2019
- ISBN10: 147800309X
- Language: English
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Five Banners: Inside the Duke Basketball Dynasty
$29.95 Add to cartOn an early morning in 1983, after the worst loss of his career (109-66 against Virginia) and amid the cries of powerful athletics boosters calling for him to be fired, Duke men’s basketball coach Mik… [more below]
- Author: Feinstein, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1478026715
- Language: English
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When Monsters Speak: A Susan Stryker Reader
$25.95 Add to cartSusan Stryker is a foundational figure in trans studies. When Monsters Speak showcases the development of Stryker’s writing from the 1990s to the present. It combines canonical pieces, such as “My Wor… [more below]
- Series: Asterisk
- Author: Stryker, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 30 2024
- ISBN10: 147803047X
- Language: English
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Nimrods: A Fake-Punk Self-Hurt Anti-Memoir
$19.95 Add to cartIn Nimrods, Kawika Guillermo chronicles the agonizing absurdities of being a newly minted professor (and overtired father) hired to teach in a Social Justice Institute while haunted by the inner ghost… [more below]
- Author: Guillermo, Kawika
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1478024925
- Language: English
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Vanishing Sands: Losing Beaches to Mining
$25.95 Read moreIn a time of accelerating sea level rise and increasingly intensifying storms, the world’s sandy beaches and dunes have never been more crucial to protecting coastal environments. Yet, in order to mee… [more below]
- Author: Pilkey, Orrin H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1478018798
- Language: English
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Mendings
$26.95 Read moreMendings tells an intimate story about family, selfhood, and the love and loss lodged in garments. In this narrative about making meaning of brokenness and grief, Megan Sweeney reflects on her childho… [more below]
- Author: Sweeney, Megan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1478019107
- Language: English
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Juggling
$15.95 Add to cartIn Juggling, Stewart Lawrence Sinclair explores the four-thousand-year history and practice of juggling as seen through his life as a juggler. Sinclair–who learned to juggle as a child and paid his w… [more below]
- Series: Practices
- Author: Sinclair, Stewart Lawrence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1478019603
- Language: English
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Crip Spacetime: Access, Failure, and Accountability in Academic Life
$26.95 Add to cartIn Crip Spacetime, Margaret Price intervenes in the competitive, productivity-focused realm of academia by sharing the everyday experiences of disabled academics. Drawing on more than three hundred in… [more below]
- Author: Price, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1478030372
- Language: English
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Impossible Things
$23.95 Add to cartOffering an intimate account of intergenerational grief, Miller Oberman’s new collection of poetry, Impossible Things, explores his experiences as both a transgender child and father. Oberman weaves i… [more below]
- Author: Oberman, Miller
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1478031093
- Language: English
