Stare in the Darkness: The Limits of Hip-hop and Black Politics

Stare in the Darkness: The Limits of Hip-hop and Black Politics

Rap’s critique of police brutality in the 1980s. The Hip Hop Political Convention. The rise (and fall) of Kwame Kilpatrick, the “hip-hop mayor” of Detroit. Barack Obama echoing the body […]


A World Becoming

A World Becoming

In A World of Becoming William E. Connolly outlines a political philosophy suited to a world whose powers of creative evolution include and exceed the human estate. This is a world composed […]


Immigration and Citizenship in Japan

Immigration and Citizenship in Japan

Japan is currently the only advanced industrial democracy with a fourth-generation immigrant problem. As other industrialized countries face the challenges of incorporating postwar immigrants, Japan continues to struggle with the […]


Do the Jews Have a Future in America?

Do the Jews Have a Future in America?

Powerful but Vulnerable Jews wield a good deal of power in contemporary America but cannot assume this to be a permanent state of affairs. Despite their power, many Jews feel […]


Moses of South Carolina: A Jewish Scalawag During Radical Reconstruction

Moses of South Carolina: A Jewish Scalawag During Radical Reconstruction

Franklin Moses Jr. is one of the great forgotten figures in American history. Scion of a distinguished Jewish family in South Carolina, he was a firebrand supporter of secession and […]


Rethinking Violence: States and Non-State Actors in Conflict; BCSIA Studies in International Security Series

Rethinking Violence: States and Non-State Actors in Conflict; BCSIA Studies in International Security Series

States, nationalist movements, and ethnic groups in conflict with one another often face a choice between violent and nonviolent strategies. Although major wars between sovereign states have become rare, contemporary […]


Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things

Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things

In Vibrant Matter the political theorist Jane Bennett, renowned for her work on nature, ethics, and affect, shifts her focus from the human experience of things to things themselves. Bennett […]


The Queer Politics of Television

The Queer Politics of Television

This is a radical book, which brings together the fields of political theory and television studies. In one of the first books to do so, Samuel A. Chambers exposes and explores […]


German Thought and International Relations

German Thought and International Relations

The Rise and Fall of a Liberal Project A fundamental question for IR is whether the value system of liberalism can be universalized, or if, in fact, the illiberal reality […]


States of Violence: War, Capital Punishment, and Letting Die

States of Violence: War, Capital Punishment, and Letting Die

The book brings together scholarship on three different forms of state violence, examining each for what it can tell us about the conditions under which states use violence and the […]