Revised and updated edition of the groundbreaking book on Black women in comic art The 2018 release of Marvel's blockbuster Black Panther film catapulted African American comics and animation into the limelight, with strong Black women characters at the forefront. Black Women in Sequence showcases the deep history of women of African descent in ......
Revised and updated edition of the groundbreaking book on Black women in comic art The 2018 release of Marvel's blockbuster Black Panther film catapulted African American comics and animation into the limelight, with strong Black women characters at the forefront. Black Women in Sequence showcases the deep history of women of African descent in ......
Inequality and Ambivalence in Contemporary Scandinavian Culture
Is privilege a problem? Scandinavians ask, Is this okay? --and wrestle with the answer A twenty-first century paradox has emerged in contemporary Scandinavian societies: the region's deeply ingrained egalitarian ideals exist uneasily alongside its undeniable global privilege. In The Predicament of Privilege, Devika Sharma examines this ......
Inequality and Ambivalence in Contemporary Scandinavian Culture
Is privilege a problem? Scandinavians ask, Is this okay? --and wrestle with the answer A twenty-first century paradox has emerged in contemporary Scandinavian societies: the region's deeply ingrained egalitarian ideals exist uneasily alongside its undeniable global privilege. In The Predicament of Privilege, Devika Sharma examines this ......
Experiments in Conservation and Sovereignty in Southeast Myanmar
When spirits guard forests, conservation becomes revolution--and liberation grows from the soil In 2011 Myanmar emerged from what was by some counts the longest ongoing war in the world. Amid the flurry of ceasefires and constitutional reforms, Indigenous communities moved to reterritorialize land that was fiercely contested in the preceding ......
Experiments in Conservation and Sovereignty in Southeast Myanmar
When spirits guard forests, conservation becomes revolution--and liberation grows from the soil In 2011 Myanmar emerged from what was by some counts the longest ongoing war in the world. Amid the flurry of ceasefires and constitutional reforms, Indigenous communities moved to reterritorialize land that was fiercely contested in the preceding ......
Asian American and Pacific Islander Feminisms and the 1977 National Women's Conference
Illuminates a transformational event in the development of Asian American and Pacific Islander feminisms In November 1977, over twenty thousand participants, mostly women, gathered in Houston for the first and only US National Women's Conference, funded by the federal government with the goal of creating a national women's agenda. In Moving ......
Asian American and Pacific Islander Feminisms and the 1977 National Women's Conference
Illuminates a transformational event in the development of Asian American and Pacific Islander feminisms In November 1977, over twenty thousand participants, mostly women, gathered in Houston for the first and only US National Women's Conference, funded by the federal government with the goal of creating a national women's agenda. In Moving ......
Artists navigate faith, commerce, and gender as thangkas thrive beyond tradition Xue Ming offers a rare and deeply researched look into the lives of Rebgong thangka painters, whose sacred art is at once devotional, commercial, and political. Rebgong, a major center of thangka painting since at least the eighteenth century, has long been a site of ......
