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Cover of Sweatshop Capital: Profit, Violence, and Solidarity Movements in the Long Twentieth Century, by Beth Robinson. The cover features an pink and blue-tinted image of women marching in protest, holding signs. The title appears across the top of the cover and the author's name in the bottom right-hand corner. The subtitle is set in smaller text between two protest signs, as if itself a sign.

Have you seen our post on #NewBooks coming this November? Featuring "Sweatshop Capital" by @bethdrobinson.bsky.social and many more, all 50%-off in our fall sale! buff.ly/KsghzeM

Cover of After Transformation: A Lyrical History of Christian Late Antiquity by Maia Kotrosits. The design features a textured beige background with a large dark inkblot-style print of a tree or leaf in the center, mirrored near the top of the cover. The title appears above the central image, and the author’s name is at the bottom right.

We have a great lineup of new titles this month, such as "After Transformation" by @maiakotro.bsky.social. All are included in our 50%-off fall sale, running through Nov 9! buff.ly/KsghzeM

Fall sale underway @dukepress.bsky.social What a lot of prizewinning, relevant books. Check this out: t.e2ma.net/message/dh88...

Cover of Racial Care: On Asian American Suffering and Survival by James McMaster. Features an illustration of a dark starry sky background featuring a large, glowing pink rectangular frame in the center. Inside the frame, the subtitle is in white text. Around the frame, there are silhouettes of people walking along a winding, illuminated path through a colorful landscape with mountains and red lanterns floating in the air. The title is at the top in large white letters, and the author's name is at the bottom. Red petals are scattered throughout the scene.

Check out our #NewBooks released this month, including "Racial Care" by @jmcmaster29.bsky.social. Our fall sale takes 50% with coupon FALL25 off through Nov 9! buff.ly/KsghzeM

Love Us Back: Queer Commitment After Institutional Betrayal Podcast Episode · Nothing Never Happens · 11/01/2025 · 1h 20m

This interview (about Shadow of My Shadow) is the most open I’ve been about the origins of my writing about harassment: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

My book, Torn, is available for pre-order 🌪️

If you place an order before Nov 9, you can take advantage of the
@dukepress.bsky.social fall sale (use code FALL25 to get 50% off). Torn drops March 2026!

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Cover of Cleansing the Nation: India, the Hindu Modern & Mediations of Gender by Raka Shome. The cover features a photograph of people gathered holding red and white flags. There is smoke around the crowd and a dark cloud of smoke rising in the background. The cloud of smoke continues as a pixelated pattern in solid grey against a solid black background. The title appears at the top in a bold orange sans-serif text. The subtitle is under the title aligned right in a white sans-serif text. To the left, the author's name appears small in a yellow serif type.

Cover of Bêtes Noires: Sorcery as History in the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands by Lauren Derby. A photograph of a crouching individual holding rope and wearing a covering with horns that hides their face in an empty room. Below the photograph the cover is black with a grey texture. The title appears on top of the photo and texture in a bold white sans-serif type. The subtitle is directly below aligned right in red. The author's name is above to the left of the title in a serif white type.

Today on our blog: all of our new books coming this November, including "Cleansing the Nation" by Raka Shome and "Bêtes Noires" by Lauren Derby. Save 50% on these and all titles in our fall sale with coupon FALL25! buff.ly/KsghzeM

Stuart Hall and Us in the Global South - Progress in Political Economy (PPE) How does reading and rereading Stuart Hall’s work bring out his stunning intellectual agility and the “this-worldliness” of his thinking for the Global South as a master dialectician?

Brilliant piece by @alfnilsen.bsky.social on Stuart Hall as a master dialectician from and for the Global South @dukepress.bsky.social
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Volume 62 Issue 5 | Demography | Duke University Press

The October issue is up, comprising 3 notes & 11 articles on immigrant morbidity & disability, Black/White life expectancy disparities across states, dementia risk & education, fertility decline & educational progress in Africa, polygyny & fertility in SSA & more. read.dukeupress.edu/demography/i...

*Radical Histories of Palestine and Palestinians* – A new Call for Proposals from Radical History Review. Abstract proposals due November 30, 2025: www.radicalhistoryreview.org/radical-hist...

Cover of The Goddess in the Mirror: An Anthropology of Beauty by Tulasi Srinivas. The image shows a woman applying makeup to another woman in front of a large round mirror. The scene captures both the women directly and their reflections. The title is printed in bold red, pink, and purple text at the bottom, and the author’s name appears in red at the top right against a black background.

Among November's fantastic #NewBooks is "The Goddess in the Mirror," by Tulasi Srinivas. The fall sale runs through Nov 9, so you have a few days to get the new titles at 50% off with coupon FALL25: buff.ly/KsghzeM

Cover of The Red Riviera: Gender, Tourism, and Postsocialism on the Black Sea by Kristen Ghodsee. Cover features a red-tinged photo of a woman standing in front of a shelf of towels, holding one in her hands. The title is below the image in a tan rectangle.

On the 20th anniversary of the publication of her first book, "The Red Riviera," anthropologist Kristen Ghodsee looks back on lessons she learned about listening to and empathizing with her research subjects, and what that means for our politics today.
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Cover of Architecture and the Right to Heal: Resettler Nationalism in the Aftermath of Conflict and Disaster. The cover features a photograph of rock-cut Cappadocian architecture. In the bottom-right corner, a building made from naked gray bricks with an arched window and door opening is visible. The surrounding rock is light grey with a rough surface and various hollowed-out chambers.

"Architecture and the Right to Heal" by @esraakcan.bsky.social is just one of the timely new books we're publishing this month. See the full list on our blog--and get 50% off with code FALL25 through Nov 9! buff.ly/KsghzeM

Shadow of My Shadow

Run, don't walk, to read Jennifer Doyle's *Shadow of My Shadow.* You've still got time to order it during Duke UP's biannual 50% off sale. @dukepress.bsky.social

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Cover of The City of Our Dreaming by Laleh Khalili, V. Mitch McEwen, Gabriela Leandro Pereira, & Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. With an introduction by Christina Sharpe. The title and authors are in a black capsule shape that is slightly offset in the middle, surrounded by a red background. On the left side the words The Alchemy Lecture appear vertically.

Cover of Rwanda’s Genocide Heritage: Between Justice and Sovereignty by Delia Duong Ba Wendel. The cover features a bluish-tinted photograph of Rwandans gathered in a rural field. Some of the people are standing, while others are seated on the ground. One woman leans against a metal barrel. There is a thicket of trees in the background of the photo.

Cover of A Thousand Paper Cuts: US Empire and the Bureaucratic Life of War by Anjali Nath. Features a textured background in shades of pink, orange, and green with faint abstract floral and geometric patterns. The title is prominently displayed in bold black letters on a lighter background. Below it, the subtitle is similarly presented with black bars suggesting redaction. The author's name appears at the bottom in black letters on a lighter background.

Check out our list of #NewBooks coming this month, including "The City of Our Dreaming," "Rwanda's Genocide Heritage" by Delia Duong Ba Wendel, and "A Thousand Paper Cuts" by Anjali Nath. Everything is 50% off until Nov 9! buff.ly/KsghzeM

Cover of Indigenomicon: American Indians, Video Games, and the Structures of Dispossession by Jodi Byrd. The cover art features a stylized, pixelated landscape that transitions into a painted forest scene. A river runs along the bottom, where a figure sits in a canoe. In the background, a wooden palisade, tall trees, and two stork-like birds in flight are depicted.

We have a terrific slate of #NewBooks coming out this November, including "Indigenomicon" by Jodi A. Byrd @arsavium.bsky.social. See all November titles and save 50% with coupon FALL25 during our fall sale! buff.ly/KsghzeM

Cover of Basketball Trafficking Stolen Black Panamanian Dreams by Javier Wallace. The cover image features a dimly lit, foggy outdoor basketball court at night, with two basketball hoops illuminated by a spotlight. The title is positioned in the upper left in white and green text, and the author's name is in orange text on the right-hand side of the cover, adjacent to one of the basketball hoops.

Cover of Senghor: Writings on Politics by Léopold Sédar Senghor, edited and translated by Yohann C. Ripert. The background resembles textured parchment. The background resembles textured parchment. The title “Senghor” appears in large red serif font at the top. Below, a green, sketch-like illustration shows Senghor writing at a desk.

Cover of Inhabitants of the Deep: The Blueness of Blackness by Jonathan Howard. The cover features a dark blue background with a painted image of a Black figure in a sheer white garment on the right-hand side. The figure appears to be deep underwater, based on the patterns of refracted light on the figure's body. On the left-hand side is a distorted reflection of the figure, as though seen from above the water's surface.

Check out our #NewBooks this November, including "Basketball Trafficking" by Javier Wallace, "Senghor: Writings on Politics," edited by Yohann C. Ripert, and "Inhabitants of the Deep" by Jonathan Howard. All titles are 50% until Nov 9! buff.ly/KsghzeM

You can read more of Dr. López's work on the history of Mexico in HAHR here via @dukepress.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1215/0018...

It's a collection of his writings on politics, and a second volume, on philosophy & aesthetics, publishes in the spring.

Cover of Degas at the Gas Station by Thomas Beller. The background is a solid mustard yellow with bold, navy blue typography. The title is in large, overlapping serif letters. The author's name is displayed in large, bold letters at the bottom of the page. A horizontal line separates the space between the title and byline. The subtitle, "Essays," appears in capitalized letters in the middle of the space break line.

Among our #NewBooks this November is "Degas at the Gas Station," by @thomasbeller.bsky.social. See the full list, all available at 50% off in our fall sale running through Nov 9: buff.ly/KsghzeM

Graphic reading NEW BOOKS out this month and featuring the covers of Degas at the Gas Station, Basketball Trafficking, Inhabitants of the Deep, Indigenomicon, and Senghor. Duke University Press logo is in the bottom right corner.

Check out our November new releases, perfect for your own TBR pile or for giving to friends and colleagues. Now through November 9, they are all 50% off with coupon FALL25.
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THATS THE READ

I just got my two half-off choices, so many more great ones on sale!

Holding up a book, whose cover shows a White House with ‘homesick’ written underneath.

Very excited for Homesick by Nick Shapiro.
It tells a story of formaldehyde exposure from prefab trailers, which does some heavy, complex lifting itself. But what I love most is how it chronicles multiple approaches to activist research & how to let the research lead you. @dukepress.bsky.social

Coming up this Wednesday! I'm really looking forward to being in conversation with the wonderful writer and thinker, Rachel Adams. Friends in New York, I'd love it if you could join us! @dukepress.bsky.social

Yellow graphic with dark blue text reading Fall Sale. 50% off with code FALL25. Available Books & Journal Issues. Oct 20-Nov 9. Duke University Press logo is in bottom right corner.

Today would be a good day to shop our 50% off sale! Use coupon FALL25 to save on in-stock and pre-order books and journal issues.
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Cover of Archival Irruptions: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica by Katharine Gerbner. Features an image of an old handwritten ledger or registry page with rows and columns filled with cursive names and annotations and what appears to be an ink smudge at the bottom. The title is overlaid in large black serif font with the subtitle below in smaller black text and the author's name is at the bottom. A vertical red stripe runs along the left edge of the cover.

The Weekly Read is "Archival Irruptions" by @ktgerbs.bsky.social, which traces how British colonial authorities in mid-eighteenth-century Jamaica came to criminalize Obeah, a religious practice held by enslaved Africans. Read the entire book now, for free!
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Cover of My Studio is a Dungeon is the Studio by Nayland Blake, edited by Jarrett Earnest. A photograph shows the author wearing a black leather cap and vest, glasses, and pink underwear with a furry tail attachment. They are at an easel with a black rabbit mask hanging on a corner. They have an intricate tattoo sleeve on their left arm. The book title is in large purple text on a black background at the top.

Save 50% in our fall sale on #NewBook "My Studio Is a Dungeon Is the Studio," which gathers forty years of the writing and thought of artist, writer, curator, and teacher @naylandblake.bsky.social. #QueerStudies buff.ly/3LhoPgT

Lauren Berlant: A Michaelmas Reading Group - CRASSH In an early talk about Cruel Optimism, Lauren Berlant describes their critical object: namely, the “desire”, which they perceive as endemic to capitalism, “to have a cluster of feelings in lieu of hav...

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I will be hosting a reading group on the work of Lauren Berlant Oct.-Nov. @crasshlive.bsky.social. Berlant's writing on sentimentality and the public sphere has lots to say to the current moment we're living through + anyone in Cambridge should please join us!

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