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ICYMI: New & Notable Articles (5 Feb 2024)
Occupied Joy: The Politics of Skateboarding in Palestine
Ruba H. Akkad
American Quarterly
Volume 75, Number 3, September 2023
Explore the Palestinian youth skateboarding subculture as a site of quotidian anticolonial and anti-imperialist resistance, which Ruba H. Akkad calls “Occupied Joy”
Free to read in American Quarterly through 16 February.
Urgent Archives: A How-To Guide
Ted Kerr
Feminist Formations
Volume 35, Issue 3, Winter 2023
“What does it mean to be the one who remembers?” asks Ted Kerr in Feminist Formations. What do we mean when we say ‘archives,’ and how do those archives relate to the future of BIPOC world-making, HIV/AIDS movements, and others?
Read free through 16 February.
"The Total Subversion of All Rule": Countering Slavery in Colonial and Imperial Contexts
Crystal Eddins and Zach Sell
Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History
Volume 24, Number 3, Winter 2023
The new Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History is a special issue focused on “Subversion, Slavery, and the Work of Empire.” Read the intro from guest editors Crystal Eddins and Zach Sell for free through 16 February
Fernando Gomez Herrero and Frank B. Wilderson III
Diacritics
Volume 50, Number 4, 2022
New in Diacritics: A conversation with Frank Wilderson III, author of the monograph Afropessimism (2020), on the struggle of being a subject that can never travel from dispossession to redemptive recovery. Read free through 16 February.
The Makings and Meanings of Childhood: Parents and the Juvenile Justice System in Interwar Palestine
Julia Shatz
Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth
Volume 17, Number 1, Winter 2024
In the new Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, Julia Shatz studies the ways childhood was the political capital through which colonial power was both constructed and contested in the juvenile justice system of interwar Palestine.
Read free through 16 February.
In Defense of Punks and Monsters: Julia Ducournau and Titane
Michèle Bacholle
The French Review
Volume 97, Number 2, December 2023
Julia Ducournau’s Titane won the Palme d’Or in 2021 for its portrayal of Alexia, a "monstrous" punk resisting normative limits. In The French Review, Michèle Bacholle considers Alexia as a character proposing a fluid, inclusive and caring society.
Read free through 16 February.
Andrew Kettler
Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas
Volume 22, Number 1, January 2024
Early Modern English literature frequently invoked sulfur as the aroma of hell, demons and wickedness — until this perception began to shift with the Industrial Revolution “Dispersing the Devil’s Stench,” new in Partial Answers.
Read free through 16 February.
Zora Neale Hurston, Anthropometrist
Steven Nathaniel
MFS Modern Fiction Studies
Volume 69, Number 4, Winter 2023
Many know Zora Neale Hurston best for her work in fiction, but she began her career as a physical anthropologist and an acute critic of eugenic methods who anticipated the racism built in to modern facial recognition algorithms.
Read more at MFS Modern Fiction Studies, free thru 16 February
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Callaloo: A Reading List Across the Decades
To accompany our podcast interview with Callaloo executive editor Kyla Kupferstein Torres, we took a survey to collect some of the memorable entries Callaloo has published over the years. Callaloo, the premier journal of literature, art, and culture of the...
Top 20 Articles of November 2024
The Top 20 most-read Hopkins Press journal articles in November on Project MUSE features an array of topics, from who defines democracy to the ways wealth impacted women's suffrage. This month's list follows below!
Featured Readings on Democracy
On DemocracyHopkins Press is dedicated to publishing and disseminating information on the importance of preserving democracy. Explore our rich catalog of academic resources on the study of democracy below. These texts offer rigorous scholarship that engages...
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