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In "Concrete Colonialism," Diana Jean S. Martinez examines the US colonial project in the #Philippines through the innovative use of reinforced concrete in construction. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/G9emDm4 #Architecture

In "The Goddess in the Mirror," @TulasiSrinivas1 explores the dynamic and gendered world of beauty through the experiences of women in the intimate space of the contemporary Indian beauty salon. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/BTdJH1L

Save 30% on #NewBook "As If!" by Chase Gregory, which explores the stylistically strategic, often campy, and productively fraught cross-identifications of early queer criticism. buff.ly/9CMH1iw

In #jazz great Nnenna Freelon's lyrical #memoir, "Beneath the Skin of Sorrow," she outlines how #improvisation helped her deal with her #grief in the wake of losing her husband and her sister over the course of six months. Read the prelude for free now: buff.ly/TFfT9fe

"[D]ehumanizing the enemy ... as the embodiment of absolute evil poses a direct threat to the fundamental values of democratic states." From the latest issue of Critical Times, Leire Urricelqui on grievability and the figure of the terrorist: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-times…

In "Pierre Bourdieu’s Political Economy of Being," @anthroprofhage explores the great French social theorist’s work and revitalizes conventional and undertheorized aspects of his thinking. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/eSp8Mua #Philosophy #AnthroTwitter

You can read more of @MatthewRestall's work in HAHR via @DukePress here: doi.org/10.1215/001821…

"Yusoff’s deft—and distinctive—notational system peppers her arguments throughout and buttresses her commitment to forging new modes of thinking about matter." New in review, Eyad Houssami on Kathryn Yusoff's Geologic Life, from @DukePress: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/eyad_houssami_…

Today’s Featured Poem: “Theory” by Miller Oberman from Impossible Things published by @DukePress Read here: poems.com/poem/theory/

The original article was published in Positions: Asia Critique - Cultures of Labor in Contemporary China (@DukePress, 2023), available here: bit.ly/4kS0HYJ See the July 2025 issue of Writer magazine here: bit.ly/4lECkPv

I have enjoyed Louis A. Perez's work since I read _War of 1898_. I had a chance to sit down with Lou and chat about one of his new books _Colonial Reckoning_ @DukePress that looks at the Ten Years War and Independence War in Cuba. open.spotify.com/episode/4erLrg… podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/war…

Save 30% on #NewBook "Latin America in Debate" by @SvampaM & translated by Alejandro Reyes. It provides a broad and accessible overview of the key political and intellectual debates in #LatinAmerica since the early 20th century. buff.ly/urAioov

The Weekly Read is "Generative AI, Everyday Aesthetic Production, and the Imperial Mode of Living" by Jakko Kemper. The article, freely available through September 6, is in the most recent issue of Critical AI (3:1). Read it here: buff.ly/ROdfibJ

Save 30% on #NewBook "Foremother Love" by Dana Murphy, which examines the importance of eighteenth-century poet Phillis Wheatley as a foundational figure for Black feminist criticism. buff.ly/ArluZMm

In "The Elsewhere Is Black," Marisa Solomon @TrashLadyNYC traces the flow of trash and waste from Brooklyn to Virginia to examine how waste is a mundane part of poor Black survival and a condition of racial capitalism. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/nmdNHyj

Our data on #immigration attitudes was included in an article published by Demography (@DukePress). Tristan Ivory and Chuling Adam Huang (@Cornell 🇺🇸) assessed the role of marriages between natives and immigrants on the latter's occupational status. buff.ly/Zqngooz

I'm in the newest @AnthQuarterly with a review of Rachel Marie Niehuus' @DukePress book on healing and repair amid violence in Congo.

"I began to see that a central conflict of motherhood—the tension between obligations to others and obligations to the self—was also an essential conflict…at the crossroads of the artist's journey." —Jane Lazarre, RIP, Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness @DukePress

My review of Maria José de Abreu's excellent book, *The Charismatic Gymnasium: Breath, Media, & Religious Revivalism in Brazil* just came out in American Anthropologist! On religion & right-wing populism. So relevant in these harrowing times! @DukePress doi.org/10.1111/aman.2…

Book Review Forum — Juliet Nebolon’s “Settler Militarism: World War II in Hawai‘i and the Making of US Empire” antipodeonline.org/2025/07/11/set… @DukePress