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The intro chapter of my book is now available to access for free. See link 👇🏼

Cover of The Business of Racism: Labor and Environment in Brazil's Racial Capitalism by Ian Carrillo. The cover photograph depicts workers in a sugarcane field under a sky of fluffy clouds. The cut canes fill the bottom half of the image, and the sky the top half. The title appears in all-caps centered green text in the top third of the cover, and the subtitle in a black italicized font immediately below. The author's name appears on white text on top of the canes.

In "The Business of Racism," Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social draws from his extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Brazil’s agribusiness sector to show how racial capitalism is promulgated and maintained through politics and business. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/9dd4fNe

Our new Read to Respond reading list, "Critical Perspectives on AI in the Humanities," brings together books, journal articles, and issues that examine the cultural, ethical, political, and intellectual dimensions of AI.

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Cover of Everyday Erotics: Older Chinese Women and Same-Sex Desire by Denise Tse-Shang Tang. The black-and-white cover illustration on a blue background depicts the backs of two women with short hair, one turned slightly towards the other with an arm across her back. The title appears in large, centered serif type, with the author's name and subtitle in smaller type above and below the title.

Denise Tse-Shang Tang's "Everyday Erotics" explores the lives and social worlds of older Chinese women with same-sex desire in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan and how they found intimacy and community in a time of stigmatization. Read the intro for free: buff.ly/mVoKheM

Cover of Strange Tastes: Aesthetics and the Public in Latin American and Latinx Feminisms by Monique Roelofs. The cover features hot pink plastic. Flames appear at the left border and in the top right corner melting the material. The title is aligned left central on the cover in a sans serif font. The title is a gradient of white to yellow to white mirroring the flames. The subtitle is below in a sans serif grey font. The author's name is written vertically in all caps in a white serif font.

"Strange Tastes" by Monique Roelofs explores aesthetic experience, the strange, decolonial practice, and the public through the works of contemporary Latin American and Latinx women writers and artists. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/gBsgcs4

An interview with Raúl Necochea López, whose article “Dra. Edelmira Will See You Now: Cancer Care and Informal Healing in Early Twentieth-Century Colombia” was published in the November issue of HAHR via @dukepress.bsky.social. hahr-online.com/an-interview...

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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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#AWP26 kicks off today in Baltimore! Check out our blog to details on how to save on our latest books and journal issues in #literature #LiteraryStudies or any other discipline. buff.ly/3iWiTK7

In memoriam William E. Connolly 1938-2026 A career-spanning reading list, including “Symposium: William Connolly at 80” from Theory & Event in 2019 All articles free @ Project MUSE thru 31 March press.jhu.edu/newsroom/memoriam-william-e-connolly Illustrated with a photo of William E. Connolly from his JHU faculty page and cover art from Theory & Event and Social Research

Political theorist William E. Connolly passed last week, leaving behind an influential body of work studying democracy, capitalism & culture

To celebrate his legacy, we're unlocking his contributions to our journals thru 31 March on Project MUSE

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Put 4 paragraphs of Eve Sedgwick's "Touching Feeling" in front of my grad seminar today and they returned an hour+ of excellent discussion. Could have easily gone for another hour if I'd let them.

That book is pure pedagogical gold

👀 The intro of Inventing Nadar is now up online for free!

The lessons of the so-called "Great Protein Fiasco" remain valid, as the fetishization of bigger bodies and bigger markets that underpinned protein’s appeal then continues to do so today. (3/3)

#protein @dukepress.bsky.social

There was no gap. But protein supplementation was still mobilized as a market-friendly, technocratic solution to social, agricultural, and labor conditions driving malnourishment in the Global South. (2/3)

#protein @dukepress.bsky.social

In the 1950s and 60s, Western governments poured resources into fixing an alleged “protein gap” between the world’s rich and poor. (1/3)

#protein @dukepress.bsky.social

Musician Jesse Paris Smith outlines her connections to Tibet and highlights Tibetan culture including the work of @woeser.bsky.social and many artists.

Mentions "Ocean, as Much as Rain" from @dukepress.bsky.social

Read the whole piece here: jesseparissmith.substack.com/p/new-beginn...

Cover of Wild Tides: Media Infrastructure and Financial Crisis in Ireland by Patrick Brodie. At the bottom of the cover there is a photograph of three empty houses in disrepair with abandon building materials and gravel in the foreground. The sky is dark and stormy. Above this, the cover is a solid dark teal green. The title is written in a white sans-serif type in all caps. The subtitle is below in the same type. The author’s name is below in a white serif font.

Save 30% on #NewBook "Wild Tides" by Patrick Brodie, which traces Ireland’s shift from reckless pre-2008 real estate development to a post-crisis investment in media infrastructure, revealing how financialization alters the daily life of a nation. buff.ly/NVSBjbJ

Cover of Before the Fire Dogs Steal the Sun: An Elegy by Crystal Mun-hye Baik. The cover features a room with cylinders covering the floor and floating casting shadows on the walls. There appears three solid overlapping circles aligned vertically and centered on the cover in golden yellow, dark olive green, and peachy red. The title is written in white across the circles in all caps. The subtitle is in the red circle in the same sans serif font. The author’s name appears in the yellow circle in black italics.

In "Before the Fire Dogs Steal the Sun," @crysbaik.bsky.social blends genres from narrative prose to epistles to ancestral mourning rites to offer an intimate cultural history of war, illness, and estrangement through the experiential lens of her family. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/JwH6zTE

More books to add to my reading list!

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

Racial Economies: Black and Indigenous Politics and the Making of the Colombian Left, 1930–1948 Abstract. In the 1930s and 1940s, Indigenous and Black activists in Colombia mobilized through the Left to challenge what the prominent Black socialist Diego Luis Córdoba called racial economies. Scho...

In the newest HAHR from @dukepress.bsky.social, Laura Correa Ochoa traces the participation of Black and Indigenous people in multiracial class movements in 1930s and 1940s Colombia. doi.org/10.1215/0018...

So excited for this new book by Kathi Weeks!!

Cover of Abolition Archives, Feminist Futures by Kathi Weeks. The cover features rectangles and other geometric shapes overlapping each other in red, pink, and black. The title is written in all caps in a bold sans serif white font. The title is written diagonally. The author’s name appears below in the same font and direction but in hot pink. Where the author’s name overlaps with the red rectangle in the background, the text appears black.

Save 30% on #NewBook "Abolition Archives, Feminist Futures" by Kathi Weeks, which examines the works of Angela Davis, Shulamith Firestone, and Donna Haraway to build a case for the abolition of prison and family and the refusal of work. buff.ly/WNQyfxY

Cover of Inventing Nadar: A History of Photographic Firsts by Emily Doucet. A sepia colored old photograph of Paris from above showing a landscape of buildings and a fading horizon. Landmarks such as the “Arc de Triomphe” and “Les Ternes” are marked in a red script. The title is centered at the top in white. “Inventing’ is in a sans serif font and ‘Nadar’ is written larger in an italicized script. The subtitle is below in a white serif font with the author’s name directly below.

Tracking the nineteenth-century photographer Félix Nadar’s many claims to technical priority, "Inventing Nadar" by @emilygdoucet.bsky.social examines the photographic first as a cultural and material process that has shaped the history of photography. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/QFkDG4j

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#AAS2026 is coming up, and we'll be attending! Ken Wissoker and Rob Dilworth are joining you in Vancouver, and you can browse our books at the Ingram Academic booth (#507) in the exhibit hall. #AsianStudies buff.ly/2hOr05t

Just read through the intro chapter preview and to say I'm excited seems like a massive understatement. Can't wait for it to come out in April!

Cover of Torn: Asian/white Life and the Intimacy of Violence by Anna M. Moncada Storti. The cover is in black and white and features a double exposed photograph of a person holding two thin long tubes up to each eye. The title is written in a black narrow sans serif font vertically above the individual's head. The subtitle is positioned directly below the individual. Below this is the author's name written in all caps in red.

Check out our blog for previews of all the great new books coming from DUP this month, including “Torn” by Anna Storti @storti.bsky.social. buff.ly/vFg3kgR

Happy 3rd birthday Running!! 🥳
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Cover of Breaking the World: Black Insecurity and the Horizons of Speculative Fiction by Justin L. Mann. The cover features the Pillars of Creation, a star forming region in the galaxy, in orange and warm hues against a brilliant star-filled sky. The title is directly over the image in a bold, white sans-serif italicized text. The subtitle is smaller in the same white type in the bottom right corner. The author's name appears in the top left corner in the same type.

Today's blog post highlights all the great new titles coming from DUP this month, such as “Breaking the World,” by Justin L. Mann @scottsvisor.bsky.social. Check out the full list here: buff.ly/vFg3kgR