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Latinos and the Liberal City: Politics and Protest in San Francisco (Politics and Culture in Modern America)
Latinos and the Liberal City: Politics and Protest in San Francisco (Politics and Culture in Modern America)

The "Latino vote" has become a mantra in political media, as journalists, pundits, and social scientists regularly weigh in on Latinos' loyalty to the Democratic Party and the significance of their electoral participation. But how and why did Latinos' liberal orientation take hold? What has this political...

The Art of Statistics: Learning from Data (Pelican Books)
The Art of Statistics: Learning from Data (Pelican Books)

Statistics has played a leading role in our scientific understanding of the world for centuries, yet we are all familiar with the way statistical claims can be sensationalised, particularly in the media. In the age of big data, as data science becomes established as a discipline, a basic grasp of statistical literacy is more...

When Brooklyn Was Queer: A History
When Brooklyn Was Queer: A History

The never-before-told story of Brooklyn’s vibrant and forgotten queer history, from the mid-1850s up to the present day.

***An ALA GLBT Round Table Over the Rainbow 2019 Top Ten Selection***
***NAMED ONE OF THE BEST LGBTQ BOOKS OF 2019 by Harper's Bazaar***


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The World Computer: Derivative Conditions of Racial Capitalism (Thought in the Act)
The World Computer: Derivative Conditions of Racial Capitalism (Thought in the Act)
In The World Computer Jonathan Beller forcefully demonstrates that the history of commodification generates information itself. Out of the omnipresent calculus imposed by commodification, information emerges historically as a new money form. Investigating its subsequent financialization of daily life and colonization of semiotics,...
Hermeneutics as Critique: Science, Politics, Race, and Culture (New Directions in Critical Theory, 72)
Hermeneutics as Critique: Science, Politics, Race, and Culture (New Directions in Critical Theory, 72)
Hermeneutics has frequently been dismissed as useful only for literary and textual analysis. Some consider it to be Eurocentric or inherently relativistic and thus unsuited to social critique. Lorenzo C. Simpson offers a persuasive and powerful argument that hermeneutics is a valuable tool not only for critical theory but also for robustly...
Knowing Fictions: Picaresque Reading in the Early Modern Hispanic World (Haney Foundation Series)
Knowing Fictions: Picaresque Reading in the Early Modern Hispanic World (Haney Foundation Series)

European exploration and conquest expanded exponentially in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and as the horizons of imperial experience grew more distant, strategies designed to convey the act of witnessing came to be a key source of textual authority. From the relación to the captivity narrative, the...

Global Tabloid
Global Tabloid
At the risk of tempting fate or even history, we suggest that there is a spectre stalking the global mediasphere. This spectre is the tabloid. Like any good spectre, it is hard to pin down. Critical neglect has played a part in this. It is a tendency we aim to correct. For a time in the 1990s, discussions of the tabloid or the...
  
   
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