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Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to @ktgerbs.bsky.social —her new book tracing how British colonial authorities in mid-18th c. Jamaica came to criminalize Obeah, a religious practice held by enslaved Africans, is out this month. Can’t wait to read and assign it!!

Katharine Gerbner @ktgerbs.bsky.social · Aug 27

I'm excited to share that my new book ARCHIVAL IRRUPTIONS: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica is coming out with
@dukepress.bsky.social in October!

Book cover of Archival Irruptions: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 14h

Save 30% on #NewBook "Racial Care" by @jmcmaster29.bsky.social, which studies the forms of care that Asian Americans have taken up to survive the suffering they experience under neoliberal capitalism and white supremacy in the United States. #AsianAmericanStudies
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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.

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Caribbean Philosophical Association @caribphil.bsky.social · 4d

Forthcoming (April 2026): The Essential Senghor: African Philosophy and Black Aesthetics - Edited by Doyle D. Calhoun, Alioune B. Fall, and Cheikh Thiam | Duke University Press | More information can be found here: www.dukeupress.edu/the-essentia...

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Hispanic American Historical Review @hahr21.bsky.social · 18h

You can read some of Prof. Velasco's work on the history of Venezuela in HAHR here via @dukepress.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1215/0018...

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Ideas on Fire @ideasonfirephd.bsky.social · 17h

Major props to Ideas on Fire author Bimbola Akinbola, whose new book Transatlantic Disbelonging: Unruliness, Pleasure, and Play in Nigerian Diasporic Women’s Art is out now from @dukepress.bsky.social. 🎉

www.dukeupress.edu/transatlanti...

#IoFAuthors

Cover of Transatlantic Disbelonging, with collage art showing women's faces, a jaguar in a suit, and metal fencing

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 18h

Today on the blog, Robyn Maynard @policingblack.bsky.social discusses the new revised & expanded edition of her book "Policing Black Lives," explaining its continued relevance to students, scholars, & activists around the world.
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A brown skinned woman with long dreadlocs parted to one side looks at the camera without smiling. She wears a white tank top and a pendant necklace.

Cover of Policing Black Lives by Robyn Maynard. The background features a grainy, black-and-white image of a Black individual facing a wall. The person's posture and the ruler markings adjacent to the figure suggest that the image is a mugshot. The entire cover has a gritty feel and is overlaid with a grainy, stippled texture. The title text is bold and distressed.

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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 1d

“We need to understand border enforcement & borders as ensembles mixing the social & technical in the management of inclusion and exclusion.”

New at PB: Iván Chaar López introduces a series that responds to "The Cybernetic Border" (@dukepress.bsky.social).

Borders Are War by Other Means - Public Books

The border today is and is made through sociotechnical arrangements centering data in the regulation of racial difference.

www.publicbooks.org

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 1d

Read the Editor's Introduction and "Policing and the Carceral State in Brazil and the United States: Conceptualizing, Tracking, and Resisting Anti-Black Violence," both freely available: buff.ly/DtgmUre

Buy this issue: buff.ly/0HuYdcv

Milestones and Momentum: The Meridians Project at Twenty-Five

An issue of: Meridians

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 1d

"Milestones and Momentum: The Meridians Project at Twenty-Five" solidifies Meridians as a vital platform for transnational feminist scholarship by addressing critical and timely topics, including racial capitalism, queer poetics, and feminist resistance. View the TOC: buff.ly/DtgmUre

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 1d

Save 30% on #NewBook "Performances of Spiral Time" by famed Afro-Brazilian thinker Leda Maria Martins. It's translated by Bruna Barros and Jess Oliveira & has a foreword by Fred Moten. #Philosophy
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Cover of Performances of Spiral Time by Leda Maria Martins. The background is solid black, with two abstract spiral designs composed of repeating curved lines and letters forming partial circular patterns. The patterns spell out the title and author's name respectively. The translators' names, Bruna Barros and Jess Oliveira, appear vertically along the right side of the design. On the bottom left, "With a Foreword by Fred Moten" appears vertically.

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Hispanic American Historical Review @hahr21.bsky.social · 1d

A podcast with HAHR author and former senior editor Matthew Restall on Christopher Columbus. open.spotify.com/episode/6JYI...

What Was Columbus REALLY Like?

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a good day to read some contemporary accounts of Columbus's voyages to the Americas & their consequences, such as those of Bartolomé de Las Casas & Fray Ramón Pané, who both condemned the treatment of Indigenous peoples.
www.dukeupress.edu/another-face...
www.dukeupress.edu/an-account-o...

Cover of Another Face of Empire: Bartolomé de Las Casas, Indigenous Rights, and Ecclesiastical Imperialism by Daniel Castro

Cover of An Account of the Antiquities of the Indians
A New Edition, with an Introductory Study, Notes, and Appendices by José Juan Arrom

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 1d

Read an excerpt from Uri McMillan's new book "Mavericks of Style" in @artnews.com.web.brid.gy:

ARTnews.com @artnews.com.web.brid.gy · 1d

How Grace Jones and Ming Smith Met as Models and Became Artistic Allies

A sense of triumph is evident in the photographic magic Smith and Jones conjured.

www.artnews.com

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danilynrutherford.bsky.social @danilynrutherford.bsky.social · 2d

Beautiful Mystery in New York! I have three events coming up -- on October 30, I'll be at the Graduate Center in conversation with my brilliant friend, Dagmar Herzog. Thanks to Jeff Maskovsky for setting this up! @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social
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danilynrutherford.bsky.social @danilynrutherford.bsky.social · 2d

Excited to be giving an Anthropologies of Tomorrow Lecture at Purdue on October 27. I'll be talking about Beautiful Mystery with Sherri Briller. It's open to the public! Thanks to Kali Rubaii for the kind invitation!
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danilynrutherford.bsky.social @danilynrutherford.bsky.social · 2d

And on November 5, I'll be in conversation with the brilliant writer and thinker Rachel Adams at Columbia!
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danilynrutherford.bsky.social @danilynrutherford.bsky.social · 2d

Beautiful Mystery, New York again! On November 10, I'll be speaking with my dear friend and colleague, the wonderful Elayne Oliphant, at NYU.
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Martín Doblas @martindoblas.bsky.social · 2d

"like a courtyard in a monastery where an even and serene surface sprinkled and carefully raked with white rubble might calm a pair of deeply startled eyes or an expression plunged into madness and a few precariously stable minds"

Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 5d

We extend congratulations to László Krasznahorkai on his receipt of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature. Read his short work, "A Mountain from the North," published in Common Knowledge 20:3, made freely available: buff.ly/nt5tyEr

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 2d

"This kind of historical amnesia .. about Columbus's role in the slave trade and the way that conquest invented Blackness as a form of abjection..

Even leftist critiques .. are focused on Columbus the murderer, not Columbus the enslaver."
- Tiffany L. King

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · Oct 14

I encourage everyone with interest in the intersection of Black and Native struggles, similarities, conflicts, and contradictions to read Tiffany Lethabo King's "The Black Shoals" &

"Otherwise Worlds" ed. by Tiffany Lethabo King, Jenelle Navarro, Andrea Smith

Both from @dukepress.bsky.social

Cover image for "The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies" by Tiffany Lethabo King

Cover image for "Otherwise Worlds: Against Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness" by Tiffany Lethabo King, Jenelle Navarro, Andrea Smith

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 3d

The Weekly Read is "The Raven and the Sea: The Lost Intertidal World of Eighteenth-Century Ornithology," by Sarah Rivett. The article appears in "The Epistemological Turn in Early American Literary Studies," a special issue of American Literature (97:2). Read it for free: buff.ly/Lo0QIKT

Cover of American Literature, Vol. 97, No. 2, June 2025. Features an illustration of a scholar in historical attire using a compass to examine a celestial globe, surrounded by books and scientific instruments. The title appears vertically on the left in large yellow text. Below the image is the issue theme: “The Epistemological Turn in Early American Literary Studies,” edited by Alexander Mazzaferro and Ralph Bauer.

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Mare Nostrum Group @marenostrumgroup.bsky.social · 4d

Eating Is an English Word argues that social scientists should let go of the dream of universal concepts.

📚 mngbookshop.co.uk/978147803086...

Browse Anthropology: mngbookshop.co.uk/mng-subject-...

@dukepress.bsky.social #Anthropology

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 4d

What did Africa mean to Okwui Enwezor? @eflux.bsky.social reviews his new 2-volume Selected Writings: www.e-flux.com/notes/678340...

What Did Africa Mean to Okwui Enwezor? - Notes - e-flux

Serubiri Moses reviews two recent essays collections by Okwui Enwezor.

www.e-flux.com

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 4d

Save 30% on #NewBook "Degas at the Gas Station," by @thomasbeller.bsky.social, a collection of essays that interrogate the randomness and contingencies that separate sadness from joy, death from life. buff.ly/L6G8EpH

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.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 4d

The Q2 section features articles on Queer Aging, all made freely available until 1/10/26!

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