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New Book Tuesday! Rewriting Indie Cinema, Residual Futures, Threatening Property, and More! (Mar 26, 2019)
Our list of new books is now available! Rewriting Indie Cinema Improvisation, Psychodrama, and the Screenplay J. J. Murphy What Is Japanese Cinema? A History Yomota Inuhiko. Translated by Philip Kaffen. Residual Futures The Urban Ecologies of Literary and Visual Media of 1960s and 1970s Japan Franz Prichard A Haven and a Hell The Ghetto
Q&A: Sarah Tyson on Where Are the Women?: Why Expanding the Archive Makes Philosophy Better (Mar 25, 2019)
“In this bold book, Sarah Tyson revamps the feminist reclamation project to redress not merely exclusion, but all manners of exclusive inclusion. Whether you have never thought of, are inclined not to think of, or are enthusiastic about the thought of Sojourner Truth in the same philosophical frame as Diotima or Socrates, you should read
In the Black: A Brief History of Early Black Women Investors (Mar 22, 2019)
“Moving fluidly from the change purse to the bank vault, Banking on Freedom offers the first full accounting of the financial sector, womanhood, and Afro-America simultaneously transformed. Rich and brilliant.” ~ N. D. B. Connolly, author of A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida Black women have historically played a role
Book Excerpt! Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal (introduction and chapter 2) (Mar 21, 2019)
“Shennette Garrett-Scott’s compelling and highly original account demonstrates that, for black people, banks were more than financial institutions. In the hands of black women, capital accumulation, credit, and insurance became community building practices, mutual aid, strategies for collective survival, and sources of contestation. Banking on Freedom offers a new perspective on the entire community and the nation.”
Book Excerpt! Unbinding The Pillow Book: The Many Lives of a Japanese Classic (chapter 1) (Mar 20, 2019)
“Ivanova’s work is a fascinating exploration of the reception, reproduction, and reimagination of Sei Shōnagon’s The Pillow Book over time, focusing in particular on book history and publishing cultures of the seventeenth through early twentieth centuries.” ~Keller Kimbrough, University of Colorado, Boulder On Monday you read about Sei Shōnagon, a highly educated woman who felt the weight of

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The Fly
A Year Without a Winter
The Damned
Doing Democracy Differently
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