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Lovable Racists, Magical Negroes, and White Messiahs

Ikard David

ISBN: PB: 9780226492636, ISBN: HB: 9780226492469, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this incredibly timely book, David Ikard dismantles popular white supremacist tropes, which effectively devalue black life and trivialize black oppression".Lovable Racists, Magical Negroes, and White Messiahs" investigates the tenacity and cultura...

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Revolutionizing Repertoires The Rise of Populist Mobilization in Peru

Jansen Robert S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226487441, ISBN: HB: 9780226487304, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 1 map, 2 line drawings, 4 tables

Politicians and political parties are for the most part limited by habit – they recycle tried-and-true strategies, draw on models from the past, and mimic others in the present. But in rare moments politicians break with routine and try something new...

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Anthropology

Islam

Ethnologia Europaea 46:1 Special Issue: Muslim Intimacies

Stark Laura

ISBN: PB: 9788763544870, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, October 2017
131 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm

In every society, individual choice and freedom are shaped at least to some degree by the needs of familial and marital institutions. Currently, negotiations between individuals and families are undergoing transformations due to late modern processes...

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Biography & Memoires

Gender Studies

Very Queer Family Indeed Sex, Religion, and the Bensons in Victorian Britain

Goldhill Simon

ISBN: PB: 9780226527284, ISBN: HB: 9780226393780, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

"We can begin with a kiss, though this will not turn out to be a love story, at least not a love story of anything like the usual kind". So begins "A Very Queer Family Indeed", which introduces us to the extraordinary Benson family. Edward White Bens...

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Gender Studies

Ethno-erotic Economies Sexuality, Money, and Belonging in Kenya

Meiu George Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780226491172, ISBN: HB: 9780226491035, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones

"Ethno-erotic Economies" explores a fascinating case of tourism focused on sex and culture in coastal Kenya, where young men deploy stereotypes of African warriors to help them establish transactional sexual relationships with European women. In bars...

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Political Science

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Go Back to Where You Came From The Backlash Against Immigration and the Fate of Western Democracy

Polakow-Suransky Sasha

ISBN: HB: 9781849049092, Hurst Publishers, October 2017
376 pp., 22.5x14.5 cm

For sale in CIS only! From Europe to the United States and beyond, opportunistic politicians have exploited economic crisis, terrorist attacks and an influx of refugees to bring hateful and reactionary views from the margins of political discourse i...

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Social Theory Now

Benzecry Claudio E., Krause Monika, Reed Isaac Ariail

ISBN: PB: 9780226475288, University of Chicago Press, September 2017
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings

The landscape of social theory has changed significantly over the three decades since the publication of Anthony Giddens and Jonathan Turner's seminal "Social Theory Today". Sociologists in the twenty-first century desperately need a new agenda cente...

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Media Studies

Gender Studies

(Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love Gender, Social Media, and Aspirational Work

Duffy Brooke Erin

ISBN: HB: 9780300218176, Yale University Press, August 2017
320 pp., 21x14 cm, 8 black&white illus.

An illuminating investigation into a class of enterprising women aspiring to "make it" in the social media economy but often finding only unpaid work. Profound transformations in our digital society have brought many enterprising women to social med...

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Women Studies

Health & Wellbeing

Working Woman's Handbook Ideas, Insights, and Inspiration for a Successful Creative Career

ISBN: HB: 9783791383149, Prestel Publishing, August 2017
176 pp., 19x13 cm, 130 black&white illus.

"The Working Woman's Handbook" is a detailed, practical guide that covers the spectrum of establishing and growing a self-made career: from choosing a path and finding clarity, to obtaining clients and setting up a workspace. Author Phoebe Lovatt off...

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Gay and Lesbian Studies

Homintern How Gay Culture Liberated the Modern World

Woods Gregory

ISBN: PB: 9780300228748, Yale University Press, August 2017
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

In a hugely ambitious study which crosses continents, languages, and almost a century, Gregory Woods identifies the ways in which homosexuality has helped shape Western culture. Extending from the trials of Oscar Wilde to the gay liberation era, this...

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