The past two decades have witnessed pervasive anxieties in US Muslim communities around a perceived crisis of faith. As Zaid Adhami argues in this richly textured ethnography, these concerns are fundamentally about the pressures and dilemmas of authenticity-what it really means to be a Muslim. While discussions about authenticity in Islam ......
Differential Geometry in Physics is a treatment of the mathematical foundations of the theory of general relativity and gauge theory of quantum fields. The material is intended to help bridge the gap that often exists between theoretical physics and applied mathematics. The approach is to carve an optimal path to learning this challenging field ......
This book offers a groundbreaking perspective on the 973 Chilean coup, highlighting Brazil's pivotal role in shaping the political landscape of South America during the Cold War. Shifting the focus from the United States to interregional dynamics, Mila Burns argues that Brazil was instrumental in the overthrow of Salvador Allende and the ......
This book offers a groundbreaking perspective on the 973 Chilean coup, highlighting Brazil's pivotal role in shaping the political landscape of South America during the Cold War. Shifting the focus from the United States to interregional dynamics, Mila Burns argues that Brazil was instrumental in the overthrow of Salvador Allende and the ......
Reagan's War on Immigrants and the Seeds of Resistance
The early 1980s marked a critical turning point for the rise of modern mass incarceration in the United States. The Mariel Cuban migration of 1980, alongside increasing arrivals of Haitian and Central American asylum-seekers, galvanized new modes of covert warfare in the Reagan administration's globalized War on Drugs. Using newly available ......
Reagan's War on Immigrants and the Seeds of Resistance
The early 1980s marked a critical turning point for the rise of modern mass incarceration in the United States. The Mariel Cuban migration of 1980, alongside increasing arrivals of Haitian and Central American asylum-seekers, galvanized new modes of covert warfare in the Reagan administration's globalized War on Drugs. Using newly available ......
The Interactive Museum Exhibition Official Field Guide
Desperate, NC is a collaboratively-written mosaic novella centered around the fictional town of Desperate, located in the backwoods of North Carolina. Told through a collection of found documents and tied together as a futuristic museum tour, this unconventional blend of multi-genre storytelling and historical speculative fiction gradually ......
Mujer vanguardia, exilio y existencialismo en La Sin Razon de Rosa Chacel
La sinrazon (1960), obra magna de Rosa Chacel, es uno de los testimonios mas importantes de la literatura del exilio y del siglo veinte en Espana. Desde un camino olvidado de todos recorre las conexiones de la novela con la vanguardia y con las dificultades que la escritora encontro en ese mundo cultural aspero y a menudo hostil hacia las mujeres ......
Mutantes y monstruos en la produccion cultural latinoamericana reciente
Desafios, diferencias y deformaciones de la ciudadania: mutantes y monstruos en la produccion cultural latinoamericana reciente se inserta dentro del creciente interes en los estudios sobre ciudadania al tener como objetivo el entender las diferentes formas en las que las politicas-economicas neoliberales cuestionan, controvierten e incluso mutan ......
