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Our virtual bookshelf features publications authored, translated, or edited by members of the L&S community. To submit a publication, please use this form or email lscomms@berkeley.edu. 

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Title Author Year Publication type
Nietzsche and Literary Studies Editor: James Porter 2024 Book
‘Ethiopia’ and the World, 330–1500 CE Yonatan Binyam 2024 Book
T. J. Clark on Bruegel T. J. Clark 2024 Book
Eclipse and Revelation: Total Solar Eclipses in Science, History, Literature, and the Arts Co-Editor: Henrike Lange 2024 Book
Historical Turns Weimar Cinema and the Crisis of Historicism Nicholas Baer 2024 Book

The Apollo Chronicles: Engineering America's First Moon Missions

2019
The moon landing of 1969 stands as an iconic moment for both the United States and humankind. The familiar story focuses on the journey of the brave astronauts, who brought home Moon rocks and startling photographs. But Apollo's full account includes the earthbound engineers, mounds of their...Read more about The Apollo Chronicles: Engineering America's First Moon Missions

#identity: Hashtagging Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Nation

2019

Since its launch in 2006, Twitter has served as a major platform for political performance, social justice activism, and large-scale public debates over race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and nationality. It has empowered minoritarian groups to organize protests, articulate often-...Read more about #identity: Hashtagging Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Nation

Culturally Responsive Strategies for Reforming STEM Higher Education

2019

By the end of this decade, the U.S. economy will annually create hundreds of thousands of new jobs requiring a bachelor's degree in STEM fields, particularly computer science. This increasing need for computer scientists, coupled with an inconsistent agenda for managing dramatic shifts in...Read more about Culturally Responsive Strategies for Reforming STEM Higher Education

America Street: A Multicultural Anthology of Stories

2019
When published in 1993, America Street was the very first collection of stories about young people growing up in our diverse society. It has informed and inspired hundreds of thousands of readers. Now this influential and much-loved anthology is expanded and updated...Read more about America Street: A Multicultural Anthology of Stories

Imagining World Order

2018

In early modern Europe, international law emerged as a means of governing relations between rapidly consolidating sovereign states, purporting to establish a normative order for the perilous international world. However, it was intrinsically fragile and uncertain,

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Global Raciality: Empire, PostColoniality, DeColoniality

2018

Global Raciality expands our understanding of race, space, and place by exploring forms of racism and anti-racist resistance worldwide. Contributors address neoliberalism; settler colonialism; race, class, and gender intersectionality; immigrant rights;

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Homage to the Black Arts Movement: A Handbook

2018

Homage to the Black Arts Movement: a handbook pays tribute to the father of that historic literary protest movement, Amiri Baraka (1934-2014), through the writing of Judy Juanita, who encountered him and emulated his work and activism when she was a twenty-year-old student at San...Read more about Homage to the Black Arts Movement: A Handbook

Persian Carpets : The Nation as a Transnational Commodity

2018

Persian Carpets: the Nation As a Transnational Commodity tracks the Persian carpet as an exotic and mythological object, as a commodity, and as an image from mid-

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Persian Carpets: Nation as a Transnational Commodity

2018

Persian Carpets: the Nation As a Transnational Commodity tracks the Persian carpet as an exotic and mythological object, as a commodity, and as an image from mid-nineteenth-century England to contemporary Iran and the Iranian diaspora. Following the journey of this single object, the...Read more about Persian Carpets: Nation as a Transnational Commodity

Oil Spell

2018

Oil Spell gathers many of today’s dark energies—US drone strikes, environmental disaster—and asks: what kind of tool is poetry to mirror these violences? Oil Spell animates diverse influences—Dorothy Wordsworth’s journals, environmental reports of extinction and endangerment, and the...Read more about Oil Spell