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Enslaved Archives: Slavery, Law, and the Production of the Past by Maria R. Montalvo Maria R. Montalvo is Assistant Professor in the Department of History. In Enslaved Archives, Maria R. Montalvo investigates the legal records, including contracts and court records, that American antebellum enslavers produced and preserved to illuminate enslavers’ capitalistic motivations for shaping the histories of […]

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Finding God in All the Black Places: Sacred Imaginings in Black Popular Culture by Beretta E. Smith-Shomade Beretta E. Smith-Shomade is a Professor of Film and Media in the Department of Film and Media. In Finding God in All the Black Places, Beretta E. Smith-Shomade contends that Black spirituality and Black church religiosity are the […]

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Sin miedo a las ruinas: Anarquismo, vanguardias artísticas y la crisis de representación en España (1930-1937) Luis González Barrios Luis González Barrios es Profesor Asociado de Lengua y Literatura Hispana en Spelman College. Al hablar de “vanguardias artísticas”, o “vanguardias históricas”, no es extraño el empleo del adjetivo calificativo “anárquico” que, a veces ambiguamente, alude […]

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The Power of Practice: How Music and Yoga Transformed the Life and Work of Yehudi Menuhin by Kristin Wendland Kristin Wendland is Professor of Pedagogy in the Department of Music. The Power of Practice showcases the pioneering achievements of renowned violinist Yehudi Menuhin (1916-99) and how both disciplines transformed his life and practice. Menuhin’s contributions as a […]

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The Problem of Literary Value by Robert Meyer-Lee Robert Meyer-Lee is Professor of English at Agnes Scott College. This book was supported by our TOME Atlanta program. This book addresses the vexed status of literary value. Unlike other approaches, it pursues neither an apologetic thesis about literature’s defining values nor, conversely, a demystifying account of […]

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Enslaved Archives: Slavery, Law, and the Production of the Past by Yanna Yannakakis Yanna Yannakakis is Associate Professor in the Department of History. In Since Time Immemorial Yanna Yannakakis traces the invention of Native custom, a legal category that Indigenous litigants used in disputes over marriage, self-governance, land, and labor in colonial Mexico. She outlines […]

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Deudas coloniales: el caso de Puerto Rico by Rocío Zambrana Rocío Zambrana is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy. This book is a Spanish-language edition of Colonial Debts, which was also supported by the Digital Publishing in the Humanities progam. En Deudas coloniales: el caso de Puerto Rico, Rocío Zambrana ofrece una robusta conversación con pensadorxs, creadorxs […]

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Seeing the Unseen by Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi is Associate Professor in the Art History Department. How do arts convey the existence of potent knowledge without revealing details of that knowledge? In Seeing the Unseen, art historian Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi examines tensions between the seen and unseen that makers, patrons, and audiences of arts […]

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Karel van Mander and his Foundation of the Noble, Free Art of Painting by Walter S. Melion   Walter S. Melion is the Asa Griggs Professor of Art History. Written by the poet-painter Karel van Mander, who finished it in June 1603, the Grondt der edel, vry schilderconst (Foundation of the Noble, Free Art of Painting) was the […]

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Obeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad by Dianne Marie Stewart Dianne Marie Stewart is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Religion and African American Studies. Obeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad is an expansive two-volume examination of social imaginaries concerning Obeah and Yoruba-Orisa from colonialism to the present. Analyzing their entangled histories and systems of […]

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