In The Coloniality of the Secular, An Yountae investigates the collusive ties between the modern concepts of the secular, religion, race, and coloniality in the Americas. Drawing on the work of Edouard Glissant, Frantz Fanon, Aime Cesaire, Sylvia Wynter, and Enrique Dussel, An maps the intersections of revolutionary non-Western thought with ......
This 15th anniversary edition has been updated to include new materials and analysis, a review of developments in the field, prospects for new research, and new illustrations.
What role did sexual assault play in the conquest of America? How did American attitudes toward female sexuality evolve, and how was sexuality regulated in the early Republic? Sex and sexuality have always been the subject of much attention, both scholarly and popular. Yet, accounts of the early years of the United States tend to overlook the ......
How the US Food System Cultivates, Conceals, and Consumes Its Violence
Geographer Stian Rice demonstrates how the current solutions to fix our broken food system miss the point. He argues that our food system isn't broken--in fact, it's working just fine as a capitalist system that generates wealth--and that the harms it inflicts are intentional. Elsewhere examines the 250-year history of the US food system, ......
The Impact and Legacy of Eric Williams's Trailblazing Work
Reexamining a seminal work on British capitalism and Caribbean slavery and its continuing reverberations in the twenty-first century Eric Williams's Capitalism and Slavery (1944), with its insightful and provocative theses about the relationship between Caribbean slavery and the growth of the British economy and the Industrial Revolution, has ......
The Impact and Legacy of Eric Williams's Trailblazing Work
Reexamining a seminal work on British capitalism and Caribbean slavery and its continuing reverberations in the twenty-first century Eric Williams's Capitalism and Slavery (1944), with its insightful and provocative theses about the relationship between Caribbean slavery and the growth of the British economy and the Industrial Revolution, has ......
This first full account of Amelia Stone Quinton (1833-1926) and the organization she cofounded, the Women's National Indian Association (WNIA), offers a nuanced insight into the intersection of gender, race, religion, and politics in our shared history. Author Valerie Sherer Mathes shows how Quinton, like Helen Hunt Jackson, was a true force for ......
Arts, Activism, and Transdisciplinary Futures in Latin America and the Latinx Worlds
Reframing traditional conceptions of ecology Ecologies of Resistance brings together fourteen groundbreaking studies on Latin American and Latinx writing, visual and performing arts, film, and activism that propose alternatives to prevailing colonial and neocolonial conceptions of ecology. The contributors question the artificially imposed ......
