When Home Is a Photograph: Blackness and Belonging in the World by Leigh Raiford

“This invaluable reader makes Senghor’s thought directly available to an English-language audience, offering a very good overview of his philosophy, perfectly capturing his original text, and assembling selections with precision and care. It will become a touchstone for those in African studies, philosophy, art, and beyond.” - Souleymane Bachir Diagne, author of African Art as Philosophy: Senghor, Bergson and the Idea of Negritude

"This impressive collection of Gloria Wekker’s work is essential reading for scholars and activists who want to strengthen their understanding of the complex ways in which the cauldrons of colonialism and the slave trade ignited forces responsible for capitalism and for the accompanying and equally tenacious structures of racism."  - Angela Y. Davis, from the Foreword

“Close Writing is a book as much about Kathy Acker and Cookie Mueller as it is about the process of writing towards them. This allows a self-reflexive, painfully close analysis of what it is to pursue the objects of one’s critical affection, fanaticism, or love. Alice Butler is an excellent, compelling, and challenging writer. There’s magic here, in the precision and clarity, and in the imaginative entrance into her subjects’ writings and lives.” - Dominic Johnson, Professor of Performance and Visual Culture, Queen Mary University of London

“Daphne Brooks remains one of our most thoughtful and incisive thinkers when it comes to music and its impacts on corners of culture that might otherwise go overlooked. This book is rich with research, but even richer with language, and delivery of information that is warm, inviting, and feels like you are bearing witness to someone, eager and excited to share a world with you.” - Hanif Abdurraqib, author of A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance

“This remarkably original collection offers a much needed intervention, centering the role of rural spaces to media and infrastructure. The way the contributors engage with issues of uneven connections and energy transitions, and with rural entanglements within global supply chains and planetary mines, is superb.” - Rahul Mukherjee, author of Radiant Infrastructures: Media, Environment, and Cultures of Uncertainty

The last decade has witnessed an incredible and multidisciplinary engagement with contemporary South Asian trans-hijra-khwaja sira communities, and reckonings with the co-constitutive scripts of gender, sexuality, nation, region, language, kinship, class, caste, labor, and religion. This special issue grows out of the robust scholarship engaging such reckonings across South Asia and asks how regional conversations might further reimagine trans-hijra-khwaja sira possibility with, against, and beyond the state.

Queer Apocalypse explores the subcultural limits and pleasures of creating queer art, scholarship, and community across hostile terrains and turbulent times. This issue’s imaginative and engaged mix of approaches to the apocalyptic includes conversations, brief essays, and full-length articles–all of which reflect and mobilize the embodied stakes of queer studies today. 

“Interrogating the Future of Puerto Rican Studies is a work of both substantial scholarship and moral urgency. A multi-faceted examination of Puerto Ricans’ past and present, it is a call to challenge the silencing, a call that surfaces many questions. Students, journalists and activist networks will use it in thinking through the truths—and lies—about racial capitalism and imperial domination, as well as meanings of resistance and belonging.” - Arcadio Díaz-Quiñones, Emeritus Professor, Princeton University

“Marx for Cats is an undomesticated and indefinable meow de coeur. You can open this book anywhere---it's a Marxist Choose Your Own Adventure---and come away as unsettled, possessed, and reflective as any transportative encounter with a cat might leave you.” - Jordy Rosenberg, author of Confessions of the Fox

"Christina Sharpe brings everything she has to bear on her consideration of the violation and commodification of Black life and the aesthetic responses to this ongoing state of emergency. Through her curatorial practice, Sharpe marshals the collective intellectual heft and aesthetic inheritance of the African diaspora to show us the world as it appears from her distinctive line of sight. A searing and brilliant work." - Saidiya Hartman, author of Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route

“Black disabled genius is crucial to the work of creating a free present and future. In Black Disability Politics, Sami Schalk does so much absolutely brilliant Black queer disabled femme labor of surfacing buried Black disabled activist histories and organizing lessons. Her book is a Black queer disabled love offering, and reading it made me shout for joy and learn so much. I’m so grateful this book is in the world. Read it and give thanks that we get to share the world with the brilliance of Schalk and the organizers she writes about—then get to work putting into practice the lessons you’ve learned, so we can win.” - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, author of Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

“Passionately exploring queer rave culture, Raving is the fantasy and the moment. There are drugs and sex, tangled love affairs, rejection, the highs and lows of the dance floors, and all the messiness that makes up a rave evening. A potent book.” - madison moore, author of Fabulous: The Rise of the Beautiful Eccentric

“From the moment I received Sara Ahmed’s new work, Living a Feminist Life, I couldn’t put it down. It’s such a brilliant, witty, visionary new way to think about feminist theory. Everyone should read this book. It offers amazing new ways of knowing and talking about feminist theory and practice. And, it is also delightful, funny, and as the song says, ‘your love has lifted me higher.’ Ahmed lifts us higher.” - bell hooks

The Federal Sentencing Reporter explores in detail the complex sector of sentencing law, practice, and theory. Each issue is organized around a central topic or theme.

New Political Science, the official journal of the Caucus for a Critical Political Science, serves as a platform for critical scholarship dedicated to advancing the study of political science in the pursuit of a more democratic and egalitarian economic, social, and political system.

The Journal of Asian Studies, the flagship journal of the Association for Asian Studies, is the most authoritative and prestigious publication in the field of Asian studies.

Published since its inception in 1935 by Duke University Press, the Duke Mathematical Journal is one of the world's leading mathematical journals.

The Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic publishes original work in all areas of logic and the foundations of mathematics.

Founded in 1957, the Illinois Journal of Mathematics (IJM) featured in its inaugural volume the papers of many of the world’s leading mathematicians.

The Kyoto Journal of Mathematics publishes original research papers at the forefront of pure mathematics, including surveys that contribute to advances in pure mathematics.

Migration is shaped by shifting political forces, environmental pressures, cultural ties, and deeply personal motivations. Selections in this reading list explore how systems of control, labor, security, race, gender, and climate intersect with lived experiences of movement across borders.

This reading list brings together a curated selection of journal issues, peer-reviewed articles, and scholarly books that examine the cultural, ethical, political, and intellectual dimensions of artificial intelligence. Spanning disciplines across the humanities, this collection highlights questions of power, labor, race, language, authorship, and knowledge production in an era shaped by algorithms.

With Trump’s second term and the rise of right-wing leaders globally, the 2016 election appears less like an anomaly and more like part of a broader rightward shift. This reading list explores how to make sense of this shift by examining its historical context and significance. As these questions arise in many discussions, we offer a collection of books, journal issues, and articles to help readers navigate this political moment.