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Book Reviews

Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense by  Ann Laura Stoler

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As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance by Leanne Simpson 

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Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

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Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence and the Archive by  Marisa Fuentes

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Entry Denied: Controlling Sexuality at the Border by Luibheid Eithne

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Environmental Justice In A Moment of Danger by  Julie Sze

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Gore Capitalism by Sayek Valencia 

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Inter/Nationalism - Decolonizing Native America and Palestine by Steven Salaita

 

Listening to Images by Tina. M. Campt 

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Movements, Movimientos, and Movidas: Alternative Archives and Technologies of Struggle Chicana Movidas: New Narratives of Activism and Feminism in the Movement Era Edited by Dionne Espinoza, Maria Eugenia Cotera and Maylei Blac

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Performing Remains:  Art and War in Times of Theatrical Reenactment by Rebecca Schneider

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Queer Indigenous Studies: Critical Interventions in Theory, Politics and Literature edited by Qwo-Li Driskill, Chris Finley, Brian Joseph Gilley, and Scott Lauria Morgensen

 

Race and America’s Long War by Nikhil Pal Singh

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Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science and US Imperialism in Puerto Rico by  Laura Briggs

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Soldiering through Empire: Race and the Making of the Decolonizing Pacific by Simeon Man

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Standing with Standing Rock: Voices from the #NoDAPL Movement - Edited by Nick Estes and Jaskiran Dhilion

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Territories of the Soul: Queered Belonging in the Black Diaspora by Nadia Ellis 

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The Anarchy of Empire in the making of U by Amy Kaplan

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The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas By Diana Taylor

 

The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability by Jasbir Puar 

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The Undocumented everyday: Migrant lives and the politics of Visibility by Rebecca M. Screiber

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Two-Spirit People  edited by Sue-Ellen Jacobs, Wesley Thomas, and Sabine Lang

 

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: intimate Histories of Social Upheaval by Saidiya Hartman

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In Review

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Back to Africa by Louise Bennett

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Colonial Unknowing and Relations of Study by Alyosha Goldstein, Manu Vimalassery and Juliana Hu Pegues and A response to “on Colonial Unknowing” by Alex Trimble Young

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Military Occupation by Dionne Brand

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Puerto Rican Obituary by Pedro Pietri

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Racial Capitalism by J,  Melamed;  Making People Illegal by  C (1)

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The Danger of a Single Story by Chimamanda Adichie;  Home by Warsan Shire, The Hierarchy of Refugee Stories by Caitlin Chandler and  The Gangster We Are All Looking For by Le Thi Diem Thuy

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Time and Other_ How Anthropology Makes its Objects by  Johannes Fabian; Nervous Conditions by Allaine Cerwonka and Anthropology and Human Rights Administrations: Expert Observation and Representation After the Fact by Iris Jean-K

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