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Duke University Press Both the Chronicle of Higher Education and Publishers Weekly ran pieces on S. Ann Dunham, President Obama's mother, and her book Surviving against the Odds today. Publishers Weekly interviewed our Editorial Director, Ken Wissoker, and the Chronicle interviewed Maya Soetoro-Ng, Dunham's daughter.
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The scholarly book getting the most buzz at the American Anthropological Association's annual conference next week is likely to be a doctoral dissertation published 15 years after its author's death. Surviving Against the Odds: Village Industry in Indonesia is by S. ...
Duke University Press Are TV makeover shows one of your guilty pleasures? Then you'll want to read Brenda Weber's new Makeover TV: Selfhood, Citizenship, and Celebrity. Want to win a leftover ARC? Tell us what your favorite makeover show is, and why.
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In 2004, roughly 25 makeover-themed reality shows aired on U.S. television. By 2009, there were more than 250, from What Not to Wear and The Biggest Loser to Dog Whisperer and Pimp My Ride. In Makeover TV, Brenda R. ...
Duke University Press Monica Miller's Slaves to Fashion is reviewed in the new issue of the San Francisco Bay Guardian. They say it's full of "uncanny feats of scholarship."
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Duke University Press Thomas Glave, editor of Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles, has been nominated one Out Magazines's Out 100.
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With its nameless protagonists, unusual punctuation, poetic breaks, and graphic depictions of genocide and antigay violence, Glave’s The Torturer’s Wife is about as far as you’ll get from a breezy beach read. ...
Duke University Press Hey fans in Texas: Patrick Weil, author of How to Be French, and one of the foremost experts on the history of citizenship and immigration in France, will be in Texas this week, giving 3 talks at UT, Texas A&M, and Rice.
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Patrick Weil is senior research fellow at CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research) and serves as the director of CEPIC (Center for the Study of Immigration, Integration and Citizenship Policies) at the University of Paris 1-Sorbonne. ...
Duke University Press The folks over at Obamafoodorama discover that Obama's mother, S. Ann Dunham, taught cooking while living in Indonesia and also delivered food to villagers in rural Java.
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More than thirty years ago, President Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, zoomed through the Indonesian jungle in a jeep loaded with one hundred pounds of rice, sweets and school supplies for the villagers who lived in a remote part of rural Java...and now the modern media is doing likewise--sort of...
Duke University Press Wonderful podcast by Daylight Magazine with Jennette Williams, photographer/author of The Bathers. Wonderful to hear the artist's narration over the gorgeous pics of women in Eastern European bathhouses. Williams goal was to capture women "living in rather than fighting against their bodies."
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In collaboration with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, the November 2009 Daylight podcast proudly features images from Jennette Williams' The Bathers. For this collection, made within European and Turkish bathhouses, Williams was
Duke University Press Two Duke authors will appear on KPFA's Against the Grain today. Cari Carpenter, a contributor to Racially Writing the Republic, will talk about Sarah Winnemucca's book Life Among the Piutes. And Andrea Smith, author of Native Americans and the Christian Right, will talk about the role of indigenous notions in anti-viol...ence movement theorizing. Check it out at noon P.T.
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Cari Carpenter finds in Sarah Winnemucca's book Life Among the Piutes both an alternative origin story of the US and a direct challenge to the myth of the vanishing Indian. Also, Andrea Smith talks about the role of indigenous notions in anti-violence movement theorizing.
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Pedagogy and Duke University Press invite you to a party celebrating the journal’s tenth-anniversary!
Please join us for cake and coffee as we celebrate the journal’s special tenth-anniversary issue, ”To Delight and Instruct: Celebrating Ten Years of Pedagogy,” edited by Jennifer L. Holberg and Marcy Taylor.
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Duke University Press The Sunday Times (London) sends a reporter back to Java to revisit the site of Barack Obama's mother, S. Ann Dunham's research there. Many of the residents of Kajar remember Dunham fondly but had no idea she was President Obama's mother.
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Duke University Press Bob Hoover of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette takes along Steven Kaplan's book Good Bread is Back when he travels to Paris. He encounters both Kaplan's friends and foes along the way.
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PARIS -- Spring in this renowned city means rainy and gray and then suddenly, the glare of sunshine from the tall apartment windows when the clouds break. It also means keeping the baguettes dry.
Duke University Press We're packing up our offices for a major painting project and have to get rid of some stuff, so more giveaways today! Check out The Intimate University: Korean American Students and the Problems of Segregation by Nancy Abelmann. It's an ethnography of students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. To win a...n ARC, tell us about your campus. Is segregation a problem?
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The Intimate University: Korean American Students and the Problems of Segregation Nancy Abelmann 216 pages (November 2009) 0
See MoreDuke University Press Today's giveaway is The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader, edited by AnaLouise Keating. We hope you'll use it in your women's studies classes, your Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies classes, and in many other disciplines. To win an advance copy, please share something you've learned from Anzaldúa's writings or in person or something you hope to teach.
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Born in the Río Grande Valley of south Texas, independent scholar and creative writer Gloria Anzaldúa was an internationally acclaimed cultural theorist. As the author of Borderlands / La ...
Duke University Press Tim Lawrence's Hold On to Your Dreams is reviewed in the new issue of Bookforum. Reviewer John Rockwell says you should read it even if you aren't an Arthur Russell fan.
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