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Painting History: The Murals of Northern Ireland, 1908–2024

Tony Crowley

Painting History: The Murals of Northern Ireland, 1908–2024 is the first book-length study of the oldest and most enduring tradition of political wall art. Tony Crowley shows how muralism became an important medium for the unionist and loyalist community in its political domination of public space before and after Partition.

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Constructed Latinx(s) Identities: Racialized Bodies in Visual and Textual Culture

José I. Lara

Constructed Latinx(s) Identities: Racialized Bodies in Visual and Textual Culture explores recent forms and interpretations of Latinx communities present in film, literature, television, and other cultural expressions. Using specific case studies, the authors of this collection delve into the intersections of identity in Latinx production and representation and challenge the colonial and modern power structures that have continuously racialized and gendered Latinx bodies.

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Expressive Networks: Poetry and Platform Cultures

Matthew Kilbane

Expressive Networks convenes an urgent conversation on digital media and the social life of contemporary poetry. Tracing how poems circulate through online spaces and how capitalized platforms have come to pattern the reading and writing of poetry, contributors emphasize both the expressivist cast of digital literary culture and the deep-running ambivalence that characterizes aesthetic and critical responses to platformed cultural production.

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Boundless: Native American Abundance in Art and Literature

Lisa A. Crossman and Heid E. Erdrich

Boundless expands conversations on Native and Indigenous art and literature by presenting words and images in kinship. Starting in the collections of the Mead Art Museum and the Collection of Native American Literature at Amherst College and centered on the creative production of Native peoples of the Northeast, the project follows relationships between Indigenous authors and artists across the United States and beyond borders.

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Open Access Books for a Democratic Future

Titles to read for understanding threats to US democracy

Published December 4th, 2024

What is Virtual Reality Good For?

Brian Beams on the past, present, and future potential of VR

Published October 16th, 2024

New Series Announcement: Urgent Knowledges

Translation series that highlights Indigenous, Afro-descendant, and similarly marginalized intellectual traditions in the geocultural area known as Latin America, including the Caribbean.

Published September 12th, 2024