Publications
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The Possible Form of an Interlocution
(2025)
Nahum Dimitri Chandler analyzes the correspondence between W. E. B. Du Bois and Max Weber in which they discussed Du Bois’s famous formulation “the problem of the color line.”
Queer Traffic
(2025)
Jennifer Tyburczy traces how sexual dissidents across the Mexico-Canada-US borderlands transport the objects and experiences that nourish their sexual and social lives.
The Aesthetic Character of Blackness
(2025)
Jemma DeCristo shows how black aesthetics beautifies an anti-black world that wields black art and culture as a weapon against black life.
The Noise Silence Makes
(2025)
Mariam Goshadze traces the history of noise regulation in Accra, Ghana, showing how the 1990s and 2000s conflicts between the Ga people and Pentecostal/Charismatic churches during the annual city-wide ban on drumming ...
When the Bones Speak
(2025)
Christopher T. Nelson examines how ordinary Okinawans have struggled to live with the unbearable legacies of war, Japanese nationalism, and American imperialism and how they experience and remember sacrifice.
Forest Lost
(2024)
Forest Lostis an ethnography of forest carbon offsets and the wider effort to make the living rainforest valuable in the Brazilian Amazon. Unlike other forest commodities, forest carbon offsets do not involve resource ...
The Climate Trial
(2026)
The Climate Trial is a gripping journey through a landmark climate lawsuit that links a Peruvian mountain guide with a German energy giant in court, revealing how global warming reshapes moral responsibility in a changing world.
When Home Is a Photograph
(2026)
When Home Is a Photograph asks how Black people use photography to make home in the world. Leigh Raiford explores the practices of Black American activists and artists to understand the complex relationship between their ...
Protein
(2026)
In Protein, Samantha King and Gavin Weedon explore the contemporary obsession with this nutritional superstar, tracing how protein moves through food systems and fitness cultures, strengthening some bodies and environments ...
Fugitive Time
(2023)
Matthew Omelsky theorizes the embodied experience of time in twentieth- and twenty-first-century black art to outline the distinct utopian desire directed at the moment when pain vanishes from the body and mind, bringing ...
Indenture Aesthetics
(2025)
Jordache A. Ellapen examines the visual and performance art practices of feminist, queer, femme, and gender nonconforming Afro-Indian and South African black artists to understand the paradoxes of freedom in contemporary ...
Before the Fire Dogs Steal the Sun
(2026)
In Before the Fire Dogs Steal the Sun, Crystal Mun-hye Baik blends different genres, from narrative prose to epistles to ancestral mourning rites, to offer an intimate cultural history of war, illness, and estrangement ...
Floating Power
(2026)
Floating Power uses the development of a Turkish-built floating power plant in Ghana as a vehicle to analyze how inventive infrastructure shapes South-South relations and embodies broader imaginations of energy futures.
Transpacific Nonencounters
(2026)
Transpacific Nonencounters works across the seemingly unconnected histories of race and nation in modern Mexico and Japan, showing the commonalities in the way race figures in their state and social formations through a ...