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  • A Time of Youth by William Gedney

    “William Gedney had the great insight to be in San Francisco at the height of the hippie culture of the 1960s. His elegant photographs document their lives and circumstances with sympathy and grace. They are important pictures, made by an artist whose work deserves to be more widely known.” —Sandra Phillips

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  • Meridians 20th Anniversary Reader

    This critical anthology consists of 30 of Meridians'​ most frequently cited, downloaded, and anthologized scholarly essays, activist reports, memoirs, and poems.

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  • Point of Reckoning by Theodore D. Segal

    "[A] remarkable and unforgettable story that traces the white racial foundations of Duke University while uncovering how whiteness actively resists change in the face of Black dehumanization. Segal renders the unremarkable existence of racism remarkable and painfully reveals what happens to a dream deferred—it explodes."—George Yancy

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  • Demography: A Platinum Open-Access Journal

    Now published by Duke University Press, Demography will be Open Access starting in 2021.

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Left of Queer - New

Left of Queer

David L. Eng and Jasbir K. Puar, issue editors

Taking a position that is politically left of the current academic and political mainstreaming of queerness, the essays in this issue examine what is left of queer—what remains outside of the political, economic, and cultural mandates of the state and the liberal individual as its prized subject.
Black Utopias: Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds - New

Black Utopias: Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds

Jayna Brown

“Jayna Brown studies centuries of strange Black diviners and offers a map over the universe that is not about the stars but about a Blackness that births and rebirths life in contradicting quantum multiplicity.” —Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Dear Science and Other Stories - New

Dear Science and Other Stories

Katherine McKittrick

“Drawing from black anticolonial thought and study, black poetics, music, and expressive arts, [this book] is an experiment in materializing black method and black wonder in stories of black livingness and relation, in spite of conditions of racial colonial violence and antiblack science of maps, algorithms, and life chances.” —Lisa Lowe
Old/Age - New

Old/Age

Amanda Ciafone and Devin McGeehan Muchmore, issue editors

Because responses to the COVID-19 pandemic seem to reinforce understandings of older adults as naturally vulnerable and in decline, contributors to this special issue examine the histories and politics of old age.
Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future: Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler Cartographies in Hawai'i - New

Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future: Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler Cartographies in Hawai'i

Candace Fujikane

"Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future slays settler colonial cartographies that diminish life. The book breathes with the voices of Hawaiian communities, lands, movements, elements, and Fujikane herself, at her best." —Noelani Goodyear-Ka‘opua
Universal Tonality: The Life and Music of William Parker - New

Universal Tonality: The Life and Music of William Parker

Cisco Bradley

"We have precious few monographic works on creative musicians, fewer still on living ones, and none quite like Cisco Bradley's fascinating biography of bassist, bandleader, organizer, and composer William Parker.” —John Corbett
Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being - New

Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being

Kevin Quashie

“Decentering the focus on ‘social death’ in current black studies, Black Aliveness is the first book to push us to the next step when we start with the feeling of aliveness rather than with black death as a way of understanding black life. There is magical thinking and writing in this paradigm-shifting book.” —Margo Natalie Crawford
Economics and Engineering: Institutions, Practices, and Cultures - New

Economics and Engineering: Institutions, Practices, and Cultures

Pedro Garcia Duarte and Yann Giraud, issue editors

The contributors examine the interactions between economists and engineers as they collaborate or compete to solve complex socio-technical problems, such as warfare, the design and improvement of communication systems, and the pricing of electricity.
A Time of Youth: San Francisco, 1966–1967 - New

A Time of Youth: San Francisco, 1966–1967

William Gedney

“William Gedney was a great photographer, and the work he made in San Francisco is among his best. It amounts to a kind of visual archaeology whereby the documentary record is unearthed from the psychedelic aesthetic and glow in which it has been preserved." —Geoff Dyer

Best Sellers

Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning - Best Sellers

Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning

Karen Barad

“[A]n elegant mesh of detailed explanations of social theories, scientific concepts and new pathways of technological innovation; all explored and then rewoven to form the carefully constructed foundation for her theory of agential realism.” — Jennifer M. Wilson
The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex - Best Sellers

The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex

INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence

"Powerfully demonstrate[s] what we too often forget: our attempts at securing safety for ourselves and our communities are subject to much more powerful attempts by the state and society to make itself safe—including to make itself safe from us and our most radical, challenging, revolutionary, feminist ideas." — Ruthann Robson
Radical Care - Best Sellers

Radical Care

Hi′ilei Hobart and Tamara Kneese, editors

Situating discussions of care within a historical trajectory of feminist, queer, and Black activism, contributors to this special issue consider how individuals and communities receive and provide care in order to survive in environments that challenge their very existence.
Necropolitics - Best Sellers

Necropolitics

Achille Mbembe

"This book establishes Achille Mbembe as the leading humanistic voice in the study of sovereignty, democracy, migration, and war in the contemporary world."—Arjun Appadurai
Living a Feminist Life - Best Sellers

Living a Feminist Life

Sara Ahmed

"Living a Feminist Life makes visible the continuous work of feminism. … Playful yet methodical, the book tries to construct a living feminism that is neither essentialist nor universalist."—Bookforum
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene - Best Sellers

Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene

Donna J. Haraway

"Staying with the Trouble is Haraway at her most accessible. … This is a work to provoke and inspire. It is a call to arms (or pseudopods as the case may be)!" —Savage Minds
Queer Inhumanisms - Best Sellers

Queer Inhumanisms

Mel Y. Chen and Dana Luciano, issue editors

This issue features a group of leading theorists from multiple disciplines who decenter the human in queer theory, exploring what it means to treat “the human” as simply one of many elements in a queer critical assemblage.
In the Wake: On Blackness and Being - Best Sellers

In the Wake: On Blackness and Being

Christina Sharpe

"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. … A searing and brilliant work."—Saidiya Hartman

Featured Journals

Demography - Featured Journals

Demography

Mark D. Hayward, editor

Since its founding in 1964, the population research journal Demography has mirrored the vitality, diversity, high intellectual standard, and wide impact of the field on which it reports. Now published by Duke University Press. Open access.
Archives of Asian Art - Featured Journals

Archives of Asian Art

Patricia Berger, editor

Since its establishment in 1945, Archives of Asian Art has been devoted to publishing new scholarship on the art and architecture of South, Southeast, Central, and East Asia.
Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art - Featured Journals

Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art

Salah M. Hassan and Chika Okeke-Agulu, editors

Nka focuses on publishing critical work that examines contemporary African and African Diaspora art within the modernist and postmodernist experience and therefore contributes significantly to the intellectual dialogue on world art and the discourse on internationalism and multiculturalism in the arts.
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - Featured Journals

Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law

Jonathan Oberlander, editor

Recent and forthcoming issues address the politics of the opioid epidemic, an appraisal of the ACA after 10 years, and a first look at responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mathematics

Illinois Journal of Mathematics - Mathematics

Illinois Journal of Mathematics

Steven Bradlow, editor

The Illinois Journal of Mathematics publishes new, peer-reviewed articles in all areas of mathematics research and has published works by many of the world's leading mathematicians.
Duke Mathematical Journal - Mathematics

Duke Mathematical Journal

Richard Hain and Jonathan Wahl, editors

Duke Mathematical Journal is one of the world's top ten mathematics journals, emphasizing the most active and influential areas of current mathematics.
Kyoto Journal of Mathematics - Mathematics

Kyoto Journal of Mathematics

Koji Fujiwara and Atsushi Moriwaki, editors

The Kyoto Journal of Mathematics has a long and distinguished history of publishing high-quality, original mathematics research papers and surveys at the forefront of pure mathematics.
Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic - Mathematics

Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic

Michael Detlefsen and Anand Pillay, editors

Since 1960, the Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic has published original work in all areas of logic and the foundations of mathematics.

Syllabi

Elections in Global History Syllabus - Syllabi

Elections in Global History Syllabus

This syllabus features scholarship on historical elections. Topics include the study of past election events, voting inequity, election quotas, media politics, protests during election times, and more.
Political Protests and Movements of Resistance Syllabus - Syllabi

Political Protests and Movements of Resistance Syllabus

These articles, books, and journal issues tackle topics of political protest, resistance, and activism. Subjects include transnational social movements, spatial reclamation, student occupation, protest literature, and more.
Revisiting Queer Studies Syllabus - Syllabi

Revisiting Queer Studies Syllabus

This syllabus lists articles and books that revisit queer studies topics, including decolonizing queerness, queerness and antinormativity, queer migration, and contemporary coming-out stories.
Labor and Precarity Syllabus - Syllabi

Labor and Precarity Syllabus

These books and articles consider the many faces of precarity around the world, including roles such as gig workers, warehouse workers, day laborers, and sanitation workers.
Catastrophe and Its Aftermath Syllabus - Syllabi

Catastrophe and Its Aftermath Syllabus

This syllabus explores the ways disasters affect us and how we emerge from them changed. These lessons might help us conceptualize potential shapes for a post-COVID-19 world.
Care in Uncertain Times Syllabus - Syllabi

Care in Uncertain Times Syllabus

As we collectively deal with the implications of a global pandemic, care and self-care have become ever more important. These books, issues, and articles investigate different ways that care can bind together individuals and communities where larger institutions or governments fail to intervene.
Navigating the Threat of Pandemic Syllabus - Syllabi

Navigating the Threat of Pandemic Syllabus

Amid the worldwide spread of COVID-19, it’s a challenging time, and our thoughts are with those affected by this disease. In support and solidarity, we present books and journal articles that help build knowledge and understanding of how we navigate the spread of communicable diseases.
Environmentalism and Climate Change Syllabus - Syllabi

Environmentalism and Climate Change Syllabus

This syllabus features books and journal articles about environmentalism and climate change. Topics include climate change, environmental crisis, climate fiction, and environmental racism.
Feminist Politics and Women’s Rights Syllabus - Syllabi

Feminist Politics and Women’s Rights Syllabus

This syllabus lists articles and books that tackle feminist and women’s rights topics, including reproductive justice, women’s marches, and transnational feminism.
Global Immigration Syllabus - Syllabi

Global Immigration Syllabus

This syllabus focuses on areas of tension within and between nations over issues of immigration. It examines how sovereignty and humanitarianism intersect with cultural, ethnic, and economic issues.
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