Spaces between Us: Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization
10 best books like Spaces between Us: Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization (Scott L. Morgensen): Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law, Homos, Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture, Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality, Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times, Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking, Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence, Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect, Queer Indigenous Studies: Critical Interventions in Theory, Politics, and Literature, Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred
Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law
| Author | Dean Spade |
| ISBN | 0896087964 |
Wait—what’s wrong with rights?
Much of the legal advocacy for trans and gender nonconforming people in the US has reflected the civil rights and "equality" strategies of mainstream gay and lesbian organizations—agitating for legal reforms that would ostensibly guarantee equal...
| Author | Leo Bersani |
| ISBN | 0674406206 |
Acclaimed for his intricate, incisive, and often controversial explorations of art, literature, and society, Leo Bersani now addresses homosexuality in America.
Hardly a day goes by without the media focusing an often sympathetic beam on gay life--and, with AIDS, on gay death. Gay plays...
| Author | Siobhan B. Somerville |
| ISBN | 0822324431 |
Queering the Color Line transforms previous understandings of how homosexuality was “invented” as a category of identity in the United States beginning in the late nineteenth century. Analyzing a range of sources, including sexology texts, early cinema, and African American literature,...
Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality
| Author | Regina G. Kunzel |
| ISBN | 0226462269 |
Sex is usually assumed to be a closely guarded secret of prison life. But it has long been the subject of intense scrutiny by both prison administrators and reformers—as well as a source of fascination and anxiety for the American public. Historically, sex behind bars has evoked radically different...
In this pathbreaking work, Jasbir K. Puar argues that configurations of sexuality, race, gender, nation, class, and ethnicity are realigning in relation to contemporary forces of securitization, counterterrorism, and nationalism. She examines how liberal politics incorporate certain queer...
| Author | Tim Dean |
| ISBN | 0226139395 |
Barebacking—when gay men deliberately abandon condoms and embrace unprotected sex—has incited a great deal of shock, outrage, anger, and even disgust, but very little contemplation. Purposely flying in the face of decades of safe-sex campaigning and HIV/AIDS awareness initiatives, barebacking...
Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence
| Author | Christina B. Hanhardt |
| ISBN | 0822354705 |
Since the 1970s, a key goal of lesbian and gay activists has been protection against street violence, especially in gay neighborhoods. During the same time, policymakers and private developers have declared the containment of urban violence to be a top priority. In this important book, Christina...
| Author | Mel Y. Chen |
| ISBN | 0822352729 |
In Animacies, Mel Y. Chen draws on recent debates about sexuality, race, and affect to examine how matter that is considered insensate, immobile, or deathly, animates cultural lives. Toward that end, Chen investigates the blurry division between the living and the dead, or that which is beyond the...
Queer Indigenous Studies: Critical Interventions in Theory, Politics, and Literature
| Author | Qwo-Li Driskill |
| ISBN | 0816529078 |
This book is an imagining.” So begins this collection examining critical, Indigenous-centered approaches to understanding gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, and Two-Spirit (GLBTQ2) lives and communities and the creative implications of queer theory in Native studies. This book...
Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred
| Author | M. Jacqui Alexander |
| ISBN | 0822336456 |
M. Jacqui Alexander is one of the most important theorists of transnational feminism working today. Pedagogies of Crossing brings together essays she has written over the past decade, uniting her incisive critiques, which have had such a profound impact on feminist, queer, and critical race theories,...
Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics
| Author | José Esteban Muñoz |
| ISBN | 0816630151 |
There is more to identity than identifying with one’s culture or standing solidly against it. José Esteban Muñoz looks at how those outside the racial and sexual mainstream negotiate majority culture—not by aligning themselves with or against exclusionary works but rather by transforming...
Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture
| Author | Hortense Spillers |
| ISBN | 0226769801 |
Black, White, and in Color offers a long-awaited collection of major essays by Hortense Spillers, one of the most influential and inspiring black critics of the past twenty years. Spanning her work from the early 1980s, in which she pioneered a broadly poststructuralist approach to African American...
Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America
| Author | Saidiya V. Hartman |
| ISBN | 0195089847 |
In this provocative and original exploration of racial subjugation during slavery and its aftermath, Saidiya Hartman illumines the forms of terror and resistance that shaped black identity. Scenes of Subjection examines the forms of domination that usually go undetected; in particular, the encroachments...
Global Lockdown: Race, Gender, and the Prison-Industrial Complex
| Author | Julia Sudbury |
| ISBN | 0415950570 |
Global Lockdown is the first book to apply a transnational feminist framework to the study of criminalization and imprisonment. The distinguished contributors to this collection offer a variety of perspectives, from former prisoners to advocates to scholars from around the world. The book is a...
Against Equality: Don't Ask to Fight Their Wars
| Author | Ryan Conrad |
| ISBN | 0615518834 |
This anthology gathers together pieces by contemporary radical voices critical of the mainstream gay community's uncritical approach to Don't Ask Don't Tell. It features an introduction by the inimitable Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore and essays by writers from our digital archives on LGBT investments...
The Erotic Life of Racism
| Author | Sharon Patricia Holland |
| ISBN | 0822352060 |
A major intervention in the fields of critical race theory, black feminism, and queer theory, The Erotic Life of Racism contends that theoretical and political analyses of race have largely failed to understand and describe the profound ordinariness of racism and the ways that it operates as a quotidian...
| Author | Nestor Capoeira |
| ISBN | 1556434405 |
The book starts off by giving an in-depth history of the Brazilian art of Capoeira. The last half of the book deals with the movements and techniques of Capoeira, including: offensive and defensive movements, basic kicks, takedowns, advanced kicks and movements, head butts, hand strikes, and knee...
Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique
| Author | Roderick A. Ferguson |
| ISBN | 0816641293 |
The sociology of race relations in America typically describes an intersection of poverty, race, and economic discrimination. But what is missing from the picture--sexual difference--can be as instructive as what is present. In this ambitious work, Roderick A. Ferguson reveals how the discourses...
The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community
| Author | Mariarosa Dalla Costa |
| ISBN | 0950270245 |
The idea that unpaid care work (family, house etc.) actually helps keep capitalism going seemed like a great stretch to me when I first read this, about fifteen years ago. Now it just seems like common-sense and a truly useful insight into political economy. Activists and organizers who are truly concerned...
Decolonizing Anarchism: An Antiauthoritarian History of India's Liberation Struggle
| Author | Maia Ramnath |
| ISBN | 1849350825 |
Decolonizing Anarchism looks at the history of South Asian struggles against colonialism and neocolonialism, highlighting lesser-known dissidents as well as iconic figures. This approach reveals an alternate narrative of decolonization, in which achieving a nation-state is not the objective....
Black, Brown, Yellow, and Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles
| Author | Laura Pulido |
| ISBN | 0520245202 |
Laura Pulido traces the roots of third world radicalism in Southern California during the 1960s and 1970s in this accessible, wonderfully illustrated comparative study. Focusing on the Black Panther Party, El Centro de Acción Social y Autonomo (CASA), and East Wind, a Japanese American collective,...
Night-Vision: Illuminating War & Class on the Neo-Colonial Terrain
| Author | Butch Lee |
| ISBN | 1883780004 |
A foundational analysis of post-modern capitalism, the decline of u.s. hegemony, and the need for a revolutionary movement of the oppressed to overthrow it all.
From Night-Vision: "The transformation to a neo-colonial world has only begun, but it promises to be as drastic, as disorienting...
The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism
| Author | Jodi A. Byrd |
| ISBN | 0816676410 |
In 1761 and again in 1768, European scientists raced around the world to observe the transit of Venus, a rare astronomical event in which the planet Venus passes in front of the sun. In The Transit of Empire, Jodi A. Byrd explores how indigeneity functions as transit, a trajectory of movement that serves...
