Weaving together histories of Black communities (in the US and the Americas more broadly), Native Americans, and multiple Latin Americans countries, Briggs tells us how taking of children has been used as a strategy to terrorize communities that demand social justice and change...

We think that we live in democracies: in fact, we live in mediarchies...

Gerth details how the state created brands, promoted and advertised particular products, set up department stores, and facilitated the promotion of certain luxury consumer products in the Mao era....

Together, Chomsky and Pollin show how the forecasts for a hotter planet strain the imagination: vast stretches of the Earth will become uninhabitable, plagued by extreme weather, drought, rising seas, and crop failure....

Klein explores the relationship between music and money, from the early years of the pop industry to contemporary society’s ‘promotional culture’...

Sikkink puts forward a framework of rights and responsibilities; moving beyond the language of rights that has come to dominate scholarship and activism...

Both a professor of philosophy and a committed political leftist, Burgis wades through a host of contemporary examples, arguing that the common arguments for capitalism and against socialism often rely on questionable logic that can be debated...

Menozzi offers to look at literature and literary processes through the prism of non-synchronism...

French offers a comprehensively researched and finely argued book that traces Barthes engagement with questions of cinema from early research pre-dating the publication of Mythologies to his last work, Camera Lucida,,,

How are algorithms changing journalism?

Capitalism seems to many to be in a sort of constant crisis, leaving many struggling to make ends meet...

Whyte uncovers the place of human rights in neoliberal attempts to develop a moral framework for a market society....

How should we understand the role of cultural industries in contemporary society?

Kapadia theorizes the world-making power of contemporary art responses to US militarism in the Greater Middle East....

An incisive new look at the black diaspora, examining the true roots of antiblackness and its destructive effects on all of society.

Mahdi offers a comparative analysis of the portrayals of Arab Americans in film and interrogates how such representations have been, and continue to be, disrupted and challenged...

Jackson demonstrates that cultural appropriation (especially of Black culture by white artists) is prevalent and deeply rooted in America’s history of inequality...

Gomez illuminates the fascinating race-making, unmaking, and re-making of Latino identity that has spanned centuries, leaving a permanent imprint on how race operates in the United States today...

Knafo and Lo Bosco survey modern sex culture and suggests ways psychoanalysis can update its theories and practice to meet the novel needs of today’s generations...

The book focuses on the intersection of racecraft around Muslims and imperial projects of domination by gathering committed scholars and activists to reflect on how we’ve gotten here and how we can move forward...

Tlostanova traces how contemporary post-Soviet art mediates this human condition...

How have we used twentieth- and twenty-first-century sound technologies to carve out sonic space out of the hustle and bustle of contemporary life?

By analyzing the impact and importance of social media, the book offers an important insight into how inequality functions even where technology seems to offer an end to cultural hierarchy...

Gentry argues that mainstream Terrorism Studies must contend with the growing misogynist and racialized violence against women...

How are algorithms shaping our experience of the internet?