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A front view of the A U Presses exhibit space, flanked to 2 large floor banners, with tables and chairs in the center, and books and promotional materials arranged on shelving on the back wall.

It’s the final day of the London Book Fair! Please do visit AUPresses—and our member presses exhibiting with us—at booth 7B71 before you depart. And don’t forget to pay a visit to the other AUPresses members exhibiting at #LBF26. #ReadUP

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Thank you to all attendees of today's book launch event for "Ocean, as Much as Rain" by @woeser.bsky.social at SOAS London @dukepress.bsky.social Such a great turnout and engagement!

Thank you to @jemimahsteinfeld.bsky.social for moderating @indexoncensorship.org 🙏🏽

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Hanno Brankamp's important new book: Occupied Refuge: Humanitarian Colonization and the Camp in Kenya!

Marking a much-needed shift within refugee studies, it situates the politics of refugee camps + their neoliberalization in a broader discussion of colonialism, postcolonialism, and decolonization.

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Cover of Raising the Bottom: Bounce Music and Black Queer Performance in Post-Katrina New Orleans by Alix Chapman. A black and white photograph is at the top of the cover featuring three Black individuals in movement. One person is standing with arms out, another is in the air, and the third is on the ground with their bottom lifted. The title is in a white bold sans-serif type that takes up most of the cover. Smaller and to the left is the subtitle in lime green. The author's name is written vertically to the right of the title also in lime green.

Save 30% on #NewBook "Raising the Bottom," by Alix Chapman, which explores the queer bounce music scene in post-Katrina New Orleans. #ethnomusicology
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Brown graphic featuring a desk in front of a window, with several stack of books on it, reading: "Fredric Jameson and the Future of Critical Theory. April 10-12, 2026, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA. Keynotes by Michael Denning, Jane Gaines, Achille Mbembe, Toril Moi, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak"

Join us at Duke University next month for "Fredric Jameson and the Future of Critical Theory," a 3-day symposium featuring keynotes by Michael Denning, Jane Gaines, Achille Mbembe, Toril Moi, & Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Register by 3/31.
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Cover of Erotic Knowledge: Toward a Lesbian Feminist Political Theory by Elena Gambino. The title appears at the top left in large black type on an orange background. Inset is a sketch of a powerful-looking nude woman angled away from the viewer with one arm outstretched. The author's name appears to the left of the woman's head and the subtitle, rotated ninety degrees, runs vertically down the cover from her hand.

Elena Gambino's "Erotic Knowledge" makes the case that US lesbian feminist writers and activists from the 1970s and 80s offer resources for rethinking questions of sexual freedom in the present. Read the intro for free now: bit.ly/40qespF

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You can read more of Dr. Hecht's work on Brazilian history here via @dukepress.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1215/0018...

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The Audacity to Strong-Arm the Generals: Paulo Maluf and the 1978 São Paulo Gubernatorial Contest AbstractIn 1978, as striking metalworkers, students, and a revitalized political opposition challenged the Brazilian military regime from without, a stunning rebellion by the regime’s civilian allies ...

And you can read more of Dr. Pitts's work on Brazil's history here via @dukepress.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1215/0018...

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That essay is more than worth your time: contemporary Germany's descent into open McCarthyism. Kind of shocking to read when you encounter all of the various facts and events bundled together.

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PLATFORM: Resettler Nationalism Makes Rental Babies The following is an excerpt from a chapter in Esra Akcan’s book Architecture and the Right to Heal: Resettler Nationalism in the Aftermath of Conflict and Disaster (Duke University Press, 20...

An excerpt from my book "Architecture and the Right to Heal" is published in PLATFORM. Thank you PLATFORM editors and especially Kishwar Rizvi for this opportunity: "Resettler Nationalism Makes Rental Babies" @dukepress.bsky.social @cornellaap.bsky.social
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Launching #EmergentGenders @dukepress.bsky.social in Singapore🇸🇬
Hosted by the Gender & Sexuality Research Cluster #NUS

Discussant: Prof SHIMIZU Akiko @akishmz.bsky.social @utokyoofficial.bsky.social

📅 Apr 16 (Thu)
⏰ 4pm
📍 AS8 04-04 (in person only)
🔗 tinyurl.com/emergentgend... (sign up!)

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Elena Gambino's "Erotic Knowledge" makes the case that US lesbian feminist writers and activists from the 1970s and 80s offer resources for rethinking questions of sexual freedom in the present. Read the intro for free now:

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Cover of I’ll Samba Someplace Else: A Spatial History of Race, Ethnicity, and Displacement in São Paulo by Andrew G. Britt. The cover features a yellow and orange duotone of a crowd of people walking down a dirt road. This photograph overlays a yellow and orange map that is fully visible in the top right corner. A circle appears on the right side, inverting the image, making the yellow map orange. The title is written in a bold white aligned left. The subtitle is directly below in a smaller white font, separated from the title by a thick yellow line. The author’s name is in the top left in a burnt orange.

Save 30% on #NewBook "I’ll Samba Someplace Else" by Andrew G. Britt, which maps the histories of three São Paulo neighborhoods to chart how spatial projects sustain popular ideologies of post-racialism despite enduringly high levels of racialized inequity. buff.ly/ZcIRBMy

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Cover of Transpacific Nonencounters: Racial Disconnects Across Twentieth-Century Japan and Mexico by Andrea Mendoza. The cover artwork depicts human and insect figures in blue on a background of yellow irregular squares edged in red. The author's name, title, and subtitle each appear in white text overlaid on a square red background, stacked vertically in the center of the cover.

"Transpacific Nonencounters" by Andrea Mendoza works across the seemingly unconnected histories of race and nation in modern Mexico and Japan, showing the commonalities in how race figures in their state and social formations. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/grYwrqk

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Collage of mass protests highways crowds cityscapes and drones layered over a globe suggesting global unrest and movement

"Bandung's Cultural Afterlives," a special issue of boundary 2, edited by Hala Halim and Ziad Dallal, is now available. View the TOC and read the editor's introduction, freely available: buff.ly/H8s9S30

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Cover of Postcolonial Imperialism: Critique of the Society of Dazzlements by Joseph Tonda, translated by Cheryl Smeall. The cover features a watercolor of a man standing on one hand, legs in a split. An orange halo circles his head. At the top the author and translator's names appear in white text on a black bar. The title appears above the man in orange and black text and the subtitle to his side, in black and red.

Joseph Tonda's "Postcolonial Imperialism," translated by Cheryl Smeall, critiques the inability to distinguish between reality and fiction—what Tonda calls “dazzlement”—as a key condition of contemporary life. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/R8BEbzM

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New book from @dukepress.bsky.social:

I’ll Samba Someplace Else: A Spatial History of Race, Ethnicity, and Displacement in São Paulo by Andrew G. Britt

www.dukeupress.edu/ill-samba-so...

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Available today 👇
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Maroon patterned cover with overlapping white and orange speech bubbles containing text about dialect differentiation in North American English

"Incipient and Established Dialect Differentiation and Segmentation in North American English," the centennial supplement to American Speech, is now available: buff.ly/FjqRUbu

Buy this issue and use code SAVE30 for a 30% discount: buff.ly/5cZh3Ju

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Making Your Book Public Promoting your book starts before you’ve even finished writing. In this workshop, publishing insiders talk about the practical things scholarly authors can do to ensure the greatest impact for their ideas and how their publisher can help.

What goes into promoting your book, and how can you as an author help? Check out this video featuring insights from marketing professionals @illinoispress.bsky.social and @uofmpress.bsky.social, hosted by Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions.

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Presentación de libro | “The Bajío RevolutionRemaking Capitalism, Community, and Patriarchy in Mexic YouTube video by El Colegio de México A.C.

A roundtable discussion at El Colegio de México on John Tutino's work on the history of the Bajío. www.youtube.com/live/G5sHGJY...

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You can read more of this research in HAHR here via @dukepress.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1215/0018...

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Please join us tomorrow for a virtual event celebrating Women’s History month with @centropr.bsky.social! Prof. Vanessa Perez Rosario and I wI’ll be discussing our recently published books.

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Joburg folks! Hope to see you at @bridgebooksjoburg.bsky.social on Saturday for a book talk about Sally Gross

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Beige textured cover with black English and Chinese calligraphy text and a small red seal stamp near the bottom right

Volume 12, Issue 2, of the Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture is now available. View the full TOC: buff.ly/UCKTVak

Learn more, sign up for issue alerts, and subscribe: buff.ly/2umCMuw

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Cover of The New Kingdom of Granada: The Making and Unmaking of Spain's Atlantic Empire by Santiago Muñoz-Arbeláez. The cover features patterns from ancient Muisican (pre-Colombian) art, now displayed in the British Museum. The background is a dark red and black pattern featuring geometric shapes, circular motifs, and stylized figures. The title is displayed in large, bold, yellow capital letters, and the author's name appears in smaller white text at the bottom.

Congratulations to Santiago Muñoz-Arbeláez, whose book "The New Kingdom of Granada" has been named a co-winner of the Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize, given by the Renaissance Society of America @rsaorg.bsky.social. buff.ly/YKVMmGP buff.ly/HaLls9u

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Cover of Domesticating Brown: Movements of Racial Imagination by Christopher B. Patterson. The cover has painted patches of browns and creams. A semi transparent photograph of a family with young children is overlayed. The title is centered in a sans serif font with 'Domesticating' in white and 'Brown' in a dark brown. The subtitle is in the bottom left corner in an italicized serif font. The author's name is in the top left corner in white.

Save 30% on #NewBook "Domesticating Brown" by Christopher B. Patterson, which traces how racial imaginings of brownness have shifted across transpacific histories and contemporary empires. buff.ly/znCklFB

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You can read some more of this research in HAHR here via @dukepress.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1215/0018...

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Thanks to @meganposco.bsky.social for talking with me about P FKN R! @dukepress.bsky.social @aupresses.bsky.social #badbunny

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Please join our book conversation with the incredible @costsofwar.bsky.social project to discuss the #CostsOfWar at Brown University @dukepress.bsky.social. Register events.brown.edu/watson/event...

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