New Books in Critical Theory

Michelle D. Commander, “Afro-Atlantic Flight: Speculative Returns and the Black Fantastic” (Duke UP, 2017)

In Afro-Atlantic Flight: Speculative Returns and the Black Fantastic (Duke University Press,...

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Mark Banks, “Creative Justice: Cultural Industries, Work and Inequality” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017)

How can we address inequity and injustice in cultural and creative industries? In Creative...

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Bruno Perreau, “Queer Theory: The French Response” (Stanford UP, 2016)

At once wonderfully clear and bursting with complexity, the title of Bruno Perreau‘s book, Queer...

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Michael J. Turner” Radicalism and Reputation: The Career of Bronterre O’Brien” (Michigan State UP, 2017)

From humble beginnings James Bronterre O’Brien became one of the leading figures in British...

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Ralph Young, “Dissent: The History of an American Idea” (NYU Press, 2015)

Ralph Young is a professor of history at Temple University. His book Dissent: The History of an...

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Ashon T. Crawley, “Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility” (Fordham UP, 2016)

Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility (Fordham University Press, 2016) is...

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Sharrona Pearl, “Face/On: Face Transplants and the Ethics of the Other” (U. Chicago Press, 2017)

Sharrona Pearl‘s new book is an absolute pleasure to read. Face/On: Face Transplants and the...

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Stanley Corkin, “Connecting the Wire: Race, Space, and Postindustrial Baltimore” (U. Texas Press, 2017)

Critically acclaimed as one of the best television shows ever produced, the HBO series The Wire...

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Clea Bourne, “Trust, Power and Public Relations in Financial Markets” (Routledge, 2017)

Almost 10 years after the great financial crisis, how has the finance industry regained its...

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Lizabeth Cohen, “Making A New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939” (Cambridge UP, 2014)

Lizabeth Cohen‘s Making A New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 was originally...

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Benjamin Fondane, “Existential Monday” (NYRB Classics, 2016)

Benjamin Fondane, a Franco-Romanian writer and contributor to the development of existential...

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Marie Hicks, “Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing” (M...

How did gender relations change in the computing industry? And how did the UK go from leading the...

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Danielle Knafo and Rocco Lo Bosco, “The Age of Perversion: Desire and Technology in Psychoanalysis and Culture” (...

The wish to transcend ones mortality, and the anxiety associated with being unable to do so, are...

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Todd McGowan, “Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets” (Columbia UP, 2016)

Todd McGowan‘s Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets (Columbia University...

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Emily K. Hobson, “Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left” (U. Cal Press, 2016)

In Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left (University of...

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Nancy Wang Yuen, “Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism” (Rutgers UP, 2017)

How can we challenge the way film and television represents the world around us? In Reel...

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Christopher Lowen Agee, “The Streets of San Francisco: Policing and the Creation of a Cosmopolitan Liberal Politics...

Policing tactics have recently been the subject of lively political debates and the target of...

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Andre Carrington, “Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction” (U. Minnesota Press, 2016)

Have you ever watched a futuristic movie and wondered if there will actually be any black people...

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Leilah Danielson, “American Gandhi: A.J. Muste and the History of Radicalism in the 20th Century” (U. Penn Press,...

During a life that stretched from the Progressive era to the 1960s, A. J. Muste dedicated himself...

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Ryan Vieira, “Time and Politics: Parliament and the Culture of Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the Brit...

How did the idea of time change during the nineteenth century? In Time and Politics: Parliament...

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