Travesti and Joteria Struggles Across the Americas
How trans and non-binary networks engage in decoloniality across hemispheres. A deeply informed, theoretically rich work of inquiry and critique, Sideways Selves learns from two communities of migrants as they contest their marginalization under the colonial regime of gender-colonial because, as PJ DiPietro affirms, Indigenous and ......
Racial Mixing and Foodways Across the United States
How cross-racial and ethnic communities have created new culinary traditions and food cultures in the United States. Culinary Mestizaje is about food, cooking, and community, but it's also about how immigrant labor and racial mixing are transforming established US food cultures from Hawai'i to the coast of Maine, South Philadelphia to the Pacific ......
Occult Modernism and the Spiritualization of Democracy
The forgotten history of the occult foundations of the early twentieth-century global city. War, revolution, genocide, rebellion, slump. The economic and political turmoil of the early twentieth century seemed destined to rip asunder the ties that bound colonizers and the colonized to one another. The upheaval represented an opportunity, and not ......
A comprehensive volume on historical mapping in Texas. The Texas General Land Office's map collection contains over 45,000 maps, some dating from the sixteenth century, making it one of the most important cartographic archives in Texas. As products and agents of history drawn by cartographers with motives and means as diverse as the places they ......
Climate Justice and Speculative Futures in Latinx Cultural Production
A critical examination of the environmental movement and the Latinx voices that are shifting how to think about a future shaped by climate change. In Decolonial Environmentalisms, David Vazquez argues that the mainstream environmental movement is implicated in racial capitalism, not least through its ignorance of environmental justice as it ......
A comparative, empire-wide study of the ceramics associated with the imperial Inca state, theorizing the role of these highly recognizable vessel forms in legitimizing Inca rule and establishing imperial identities. The beautiful polychrome ceramics of the imperial Inca state have long been noted for their seemingly repetitive nature but little ......
Prints and the Shaping of Devotional Networks from Lima to the Andes and Beyond
A study of the production and movement of prints in colonial South America. Printed images have had a central place in art-historical studies of colonial Spanish America, but scholars have typically focused on imported prints, designed and produced in Europe. The Mobile Image focuses instead on works printed in colonial Lima, generating there a ......
Popular Music in Contemporary Dominican/Dominicanyork Literature
How music depicted in literature shapes Dominican and Dominican New Yorkers' identities and links the homeland to the diaspora. Music has played a large role in recent Dominican literature, whether of the island or the diaspora. Bridging Sonic Borders explores this sonic connection linking the homeland and far-flung locales-especially New York, ......
Obscenity, Censorship, and Transgression in American Comics
Comics have long been a subject of moral panics, no doubt thanks to their in-your-face illustrations and their association with young readers. Indeed, the politicians and parents behind today's book-banning campaigns reserve special ire for graphic novels. What makes today's controversies different is the content of the alleged obscenity. Instead ......
