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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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?

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

What do medieval knights, suicide bombers and "victimhood culture" have in common?

The authors move beyond simple critiques of abjection as a punitive form of social death, illustrating how it has become a contested mode of political and cultural capital—empowering for some but oppressive for others...

How are algorithms shaping our experience of the internet?

Rectenwald returns with his characteristic sharp wit and incisive analysis and continues to fine tune his critique of modern leftism...

Hussain explores ways in which Sayyid Ahmad Khan’s thought on profound questions of moral obligations, knowledge, Jihad, and time disrupts a politics of “either/or” ...

How can we understand the legacy of colonialism within contemporary society?

Design justice demands a deep understanding of the community and its needs, engagement with community members, and a recognition of their expertise, along with reciprocation of value....

Rose argues that failure should be welcomed as a core element of Christian identity....

Kettler charts the impact that smell had on the making of race and justifications for enslavement in the Atlantic world....

Gomer illustrates the myriad of ways that Hollywood relied on and helped solidify an emerging ideology of colorblindness in the wake of the civil rights movement...