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The American hemisphere is now more tightly interconnected than ever before, with the trend toward greater economic, social and cultural integratio...

During the 1980s, university-based intellectuals came under heavy fire from both radicals and conservatives. They were accused by the former of bet...

Founded in 1970, the journal Socialist Review has played a uniquely important role in the recent history and intellectual development of the Americ...

Circus Americanus is a riotous excursion through America’s changing visual landscape. Exploring its remote corners and bizarre byways, Ralph Rugoff...

In a world tour that touches down in Havana, Port-au-Prince, Kingston, Budapest, Paris, London, New York, Los Angeles and Tokyo, George Lipsitz exp...

Combining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis, and the new labor history pioneered by E. P. Thompson and Herbert Gutman, David Roediger’s widely accl...

In this comprehensive study of current labour relations worldwide, Kim Moody surveys both sides of the picket lines. He provides a measured assessm...

First published in 1990, Michele Wallace’s Invisibility Blues is widely regarded as a landmark in the history of black feminism. Wallace’s consider...

Once at the forefront of progressive social change in the US, Black activism has been eclipsed in the past quarter century by dramatic changes in t...

Mass culture: pro or con? From the time of Adorno and Horkheimer’s seminal essay on “the culture industry,” cultural studies has stood in the shado...

This collection of original essays brilliantly interrogates the often ambivalent place of Africa in the imaginations, cultures and politics of its ...

Mechanic Accents is a widely acclaimed study of American popular fiction and working-class culture. Combining Marxist literary theory with American...

“The implied narrative of this collection is the journalist’s background, the imperial myths that helped to shape him, the impulse to exile and his...

A searing analysis of health and illness under capitalism from hosts of the hit podcast “Death Panel” In this fiery, theoretical tour-de-force, Bea...

When James Joyce called the Irish “the most belated race in Europe,” he stated a complex truth about the history of his people and the nation they ...

The great French Marxist philosopher weighs up the contributions of the three major critics of modernityWith the translation of Lefebvre's philosop...

How did we come to live in a world dominated by big tech and finance? Today power is in the hands of Wall Street and Silicon Valley. How do we und...

Henri Lefebvre’s was the major theorist of space and of the urban. This is the definitive book on Lefebvre.Shortlisted for the Deutscher Memorial P...

First collection on filmmaker and poet Pasolini's passion for paintingOne of Europe's most mythologized Marxist intellectuals of the 20th century, ...

How freedom from binary thinking about sexual difference liberates us allWhen a baby is born whose reproductive organs do not fit neatly into a bin...

This searing book has become the authoritative account of the new British art of the 1990s, its legacy in the 21st century, and what it tells us ab...

In this short, highly readable book, the master of world-systems theory provides a succinct anatomy of capitalism over the past five hundred years....