Diana Taylor offers the theory of presente as a model of standing by and with victims of structural and endemic violence by being physically and politically present in situations where it seems that nothing can be done.

Nahum Dimitri Chandler examines W. E. B. Du Bois's early thought and its continued relevance, demonstrating that Dub Bois must be re-read, appreciated, and studied anew as a philosophical writer and thinker contemporary to our time.

In A Part of the Heart Can't Be Eaten, award-winning author, sex educator, speaker, and podcast host Tristan Taormino shares her coming-of-age story in which she reveals how the roots of her radical sexuality and career grew out of an extraordinary queer father-daughter relationship.

Leticia Alvarado explores how Latino artists and cultural producers have developed and deployed an irreverent aesthetics of abjection to resist assimilation and disrupt respectability politics.

Examining abjection in a range of visual and material culture, the contributors to Abjection Incorporated move beyond critiques of abjection as a punitive form of social death to theorizing how it has become a means to acquire political and cultural capital in the twenty-first century.

Anjali Arondekar refuses the historical common sense that archival loss is foundational to a subaltern history of sexuality, by theorizing the radical abundance of sexuality through the archives of a caste-oppressed Devadasi collective in South Asia.

Anjali Arondekar refuses the historical common sense that archival loss is foundational to a subaltern history of sexuality, by theorizing the radical abundance of sexuality through the archives of a caste-oppressed Devadasi collective in South Asia.

Filled with advice from over fifty contributors, this revised and expanded edition of The Academic's Handbook guides academics at every career stage, whether they are first entering the job market or negotiating post-tenure challenges of accepting leadership and administrative roles.

Renisa Mawani charts the story of the Komagata Maru-a steamship that left Hong Kong for Vancouver in 1914 carrying 376 Punjabi immigrants who were denied entry into Canada-to illustrate imperialism's racial, legal, spatial, and temporal dynamics and how oceans operate as sites of jurisdictional and colonial contest.

Arseli Dokumaci draws on ethnographic work with differently disabled people whose ingenuity, labor, and artfulness allows them to achieve seemingly daily tasks like lifting a glass of water or taking clothes off.

Arseli Dokumaci draws on ethnographic work with differently disabled people whose ingenuity, labor, and artfulness allows them to achieve seemingly daily tasks like lifting a glass of water or taking clothes off.

Anthropologist Shalini Shankar explores how racial and ethnic differences are created and commodified through advertisements and marketing. Focusing on Asian American ad firms, she describes the day-to-day process of creating ads and argues that advertising has framed Asian Americans as "model consumers," thereby legitimizing their presence in American popular culture.