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Book Reviews

Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense by  Ann Laura Stoler

As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance by Leanne Simpson 

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence and the Archive by  Marisa Fuentes

Entry Denied: Controlling Sexuality at the Border by Luibheid Eithne

Environmental Justice In A Moment of Danger by  Julie Sze

Gore Capitalism by Sayek Valencia 

Inter/Nationalism - Decolonizing Native America and Palestine by Steven Salaita

 

Listening to Images by Tina. M. Campt 

Movements, Movimientos, and Movidas: Alternative Archives and Technologies of Struggle Chicana Movidas: New Narratives of Activism and Feminism in the Movement Era Edited by Dionne Espinoza, Maria Eugenia Cotera and Maylei Blac

Performing Remains:  Art and War in Times of Theatrical Reenactment by Rebecca Schneider

Queer Indigenous Studies: Critical Interventions in Theory, Politics and Literature edited by Qwo-Li Driskill, Chris Finley, Brian Joseph Gilley, and Scott Lauria Morgensen

 

Race and America’s Long War by Nikhil Pal Singh

Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science and US Imperialism in Puerto Rico by  Laura Briggs

Soldiering through Empire: Race and the Making of the Decolonizing Pacific by Simeon Man

Standing with Standing Rock: Voices from the #NoDAPL Movement - Edited by Nick Estes and Jaskiran Dhilion

Territories of the Soul: Queered Belonging in the Black Diaspora by Nadia Ellis 

The Anarchy of Empire in the making of U by Amy Kaplan

The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas By Diana Taylor

 

The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability by Jasbir Puar 

The Undocumented everyday: Migrant lives and the politics of Visibility by Rebecca M. Screiber

Two-Spirit People  edited by Sue-Ellen Jacobs, Wesley Thomas, and Sabine Lang

 

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: intimate Histories of Social Upheaval by Saidiya Hartman

In Review

Back to Africa by Louise Bennett

Colonial Unknowing and Relations of Study by Alyosha Goldstein, Manu Vimalassery and Juliana Hu Pegues and A response to “on Colonial Unknowing” by Alex Trimble Young

Military Occupation by Dionne Brand

Puerto Rican Obituary by Pedro Pietri

Racial Capitalism by J,  Melamed;  Making People Illegal by  C (1)

The Danger of a Single Story by Chimamanda Adichie;  Home by Warsan Shire, The Hierarchy of Refugee Stories by Caitlin Chandler and  The Gangster We Are All Looking For by Le Thi Diem Thuy

Time and Other_ How Anthropology Makes its Objects by  Johannes Fabian; Nervous Conditions by Allaine Cerwonka and Anthropology and Human Rights Administrations: Expert Observation and Representation After the Fact by Iris Jean-K

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