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Anything But Mexican

by Rodolfo F. Acuña
“Will stand amongst the classics in Chicano Studies.”—Teresa Cordova, University of New Mexico
8 posts
Infancy and History

by Giorgio Agamben
A profound meditation on language and philosophy, nature and culture, and the birth of the subject.
7 posts
Islams and Modernities

by Aziz Al-Azmeh
Challenges ahistorical and erroneous conceptions of Islam and the West.
12 posts
The Invention of the White Race, Volume 1

by Theodore W. Allen
Groundbreaking analysis of the birth of racism in America.
23 posts

The Invention of the White Race, Volume 2

by Theodore W. Allen
Groundbreaking analysis of the birth of racism in America.
20 posts
Annihilation of Caste

by B.R. Ambedkar

The classic analysis of the caste system with an extensive introduction by Arundhati Roy

10 posts
The Future as Cultural Fact

by Arjun Appadurai

Acclaimed author presents a decade's research toward creating an anthropology of the future.

4 posts
Adam Smith in Beijing

by Giovanni Arrighi
Acclaimed exploration of China’s emergence as the most dynamic center of current economic expansion.
15 posts

The Long Twentieth Century

by Giovanni Arrighi

A comprehensive analysis of the development of world capitalism over seven hundred years.

15 posts
Non-Places

by Marc Augé
A provocative study of the 'non-space' which defines our age's love for excess of information and space.
Reflections on Anti-Semitism

by Alain Badiou, Eric Hazan, et al.

Dissecting how facile accusations of “anti-Semitism” are used to stifle dissent.

46 posts
Antagonistics

by Gopal Balakrishnan
A striking intervention from one of the most original young radical thinkers of today.
5 posts

Race, Nation, Class

by Etienne Balibar and Immanuel Wallerstein
The modernity of racism and its relationship to contemporary capitalism.
51 posts
Cinema and Desire

Edited by Tani E. Barlow and Jing Wang

Dal Jinhau's commentary on Chinese cinema, culture and politics.

7 posts
The Anti-Social Family

by Michèle Barrett and Mary McIntosh

Sensitive but uncompromising socialist-feminist critique of the nuclear family

29 posts
Feminist Radical Thinkers

by Michèle Barrett, Mary McIntosh, et al.
A collection of extracts from leading second-wave feminists, including Michèle Barrett, Mary McIntosh, Lynne Segal, Sheila Rowbotham and Juliet Mitchell
8 posts

Women’s Oppression Today

by Michèle Barrett

“This book is a school of thought.” – Frigga Haug, Das Argument

25 posts
Modern Times, Ancient Hours

by Pietro Basso
Working ever more intensely, at a faster pace and for longer hours, the modern working class needs to renew its struggle.
America

by Jean Baudrillard
“A sharp-shooting Lone Ranger of the post-Marxist left.”—New York Times
5 posts
Passwords

by Jean Baudrillard
In the spirit of Gilles Deleuze’s Abécédaire, Passwords offers us twelve entry points into Baudrillard’s thought.
1 post

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