Authors:Robert C. Post, K. Anthony Appiah, Judith Butler, Tho
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Keywords: antidiscrimination, law, american, logic, appearances, prejudicial
Number of Pages: 169
Published: 2001-01
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0822327139
ISBN-13: 9780822327134

In Prejudicial Appearances noted legal scholar Robert C. Post argues modern American antidiscrimination law should not be conceived as protecting the transcendental dignity of individual persons but instead as transforming social practices that define and sustain potentially oppressive categories like race or gender. Arguing that the prevailing logic of American antidiscrimination law is misleading, Post lobbies for deploying sociological understandings to reevaluate the antidiscrimination project in ways that would render the law more effective and just.Four distinguished commentators respond

Authors:Chris Berry, Fran martin, Audrey Yue,
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Keywords: console, ing, passions, asia, queer, cultures, new, media, mobile
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2003-03-28
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0822330873
ISBN-13: 9780822330875

Mobile Cultures provides much-needed, empirically grounded studies of the connections between new media technologies, the globalization of sexual cultures, and the rise of queer Asia. The availability and use of new media—fax machines, mobile phones, the Internet, electronic message boards, pagers, and global television—have grown exponentially in Asia over the past decade. This explosion of information technology has sparked a revolution, transforming lives and lifestyles, enabling the creation of communities and the expression of sexual identities in a region notorious for the regulation

Authors:Nicollò di Bernado dei Machiavelli, Allan Gilbert,
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Keywords: vol, others, works, chief, machiavelli
Number of Pages: 499
Published: 1989-07-27
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0822309467
ISBN-13: 9780822309468

From praise for the 1965 edition:Allan Gilbert is unquestionably the most accurate and reliable translator of Machiavelli into English; the publication of this edition is an altogether happy occasion. Students of the history of political thought owe a particular debt of gratitude to Allan Gilbert.”—Dante Germino, The Journal of Politics“A most remarkable achievement.”—Felix Gilbert, Renaissance Quarterly

Author: Paul Gilmore
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Keywords: literary, manhood, new, americanists, american, culture, article, race, mass, genuine
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2001-11-07
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0822327643
ISBN-13: 9780822327646

In The Genuine Article Paul Gilmore examines the interdependence of literary and mass culture at a crucial moment in U. S. history. Demonstrating from a new perspective the centrality of race to the construction of white manhood across class lines, Gilmore argues that in the years before the Civil War, as literature increasingly became another commodity in the capitalist cultural marketplace, American authors appropriated middle-brow and racially loaded cultural forms to bolster their masculinity. From characters in Indian melodramas and minstrel shows to exhibits in popular museums and dague

Author: Michael Kent Curtis
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Keywords: bill, rights, amendment, fourteenth, abridge, state
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1990-01-01
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 082231035X
ISBN-13: 9780822310358

“The book is carefully organized and well written, and it deals with a question that is still of great importance—what is the relationship of the Bill of Rights to the states.”—Journal of American History“Curtis effectively settles a serious legal debate: whether the framers of the 14th Amendment intended to incorporate the Bill of Rights guarantees and thereby inhibit state action. Taking on a formidable array of constitutional scholars, . . . he rebuts their argument with vigor and effectiveness, conclusively demonstrating the legitimacy of the incorporation thesis. . . . A bold, f

Author: Frank Salomon
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Keywords: village, latin, america, otherwise, peruvian, life, keepers, khipus, cultural, cord
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2004-10-08
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0822333902
ISBN-13: 9780822333906

None of the world’s “lost writings” have proven more perplexing than the mysterious script in which the Inka Empire kept its records. Ancient Andean peoples encoded knowledge in knotted cords of cotton or wool called khipus. In The Cord Keepers, the distinguished anthropologist Frank Salomon breaks new ground with a close ethnography of one Andean village where villagers, surprisingly, have conserved a set of these enigmatic cords to the present day. The “quipocamayos,” as the villagers call them, form a sacred patrimony. Keying his reading to the internal life of the ancient kin gro

Author: Victor Segalen
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Keywords: contemporary, interventions, post, diversity, exoticism, aesthetics, essay
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 2001-12-13
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0822328224
ISBN-13: 9780822328223

The “Other”—source of fear and fascination; emblem of difference demonized and romanticized. Theories of alterity and cultural diversity abound in the contemporary academic landscape. Victor Segalen’s early attempt to theorize the exotic is a crucial reference point for all discussions of alterity, diversity, and ethnicity. Written over the course of fourteen years between 1904 and 1918, at the height of the age of imperialism, Essay on Exoticism encompasses Segalen’s attempts to define “true Exoticism.” This concept, he hoped, would not only replace nineteenth-century notions of