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Thinkers like W. E. B. Du Bois and Paul Gilroy have long championed sound as an affective register of Black subjectivity, particularly in the African Atlantic. Prior studies in this vein focus on the phonic contours of slavery and its afterlives in Anglophone or Caribbean contexts. The tendency furthers Mexico's marginalization within narratives of the Black and African diaspora and mutes Afrosonic traditions that date back to the sixteenth century. Indeed, the New Spanish archive contains whispers of the region's Black sound cultures, including monetary records for the voices of enslaved singers and representations of Afro-descendant music in the castas paintings. Despite such evidence, it is difficult to attend fully to these subaltern voices, for the cultural filters of the lettered elite often mute or misinterpret non-European sounds. Amplifications of Black Sound from Colonial Mexico: Vocality and Beyond is the first extensive study of Afro-descendant sonorities in New Spain or elsewhere in colonial Latin America. In the New Spanish context, Amplifications of Black Sound from Colonial Mexico attends to Afro-descendant sonorities through a filter of percussion. This framework remixes Jacques Derrida's reading of the ear's anatomy as antithetical to the philosophical voice with Afrosonic theories like Gilroy's lower frequencies or Fred Moten's phonic materiality. Its aim is to unsettle the divide between self and other so the auditory archive might emerge as a polyphonic record that exceeds dichotomies of sounding object/listening subject. Armed with percussive headphones and a historical DJ mindset, Amplifications of Black Sound from Colonial Mexico samples Afro-descendant sounds in the archive in order to amplify Black subjectivities from New Spain. It seeks to recover and rearticulate Afro-descendant voices and auditory practices in New Spain. As scholars like Gary Tomlinson, Ana María Ochoa Gautier and Kathryn de Luna have shown, Western writing is a limited mode for capturing non-European sounds in the early Americas.

Empathy and Performance advances a study of spectators and audiences by examining works from Latin American and Latinx underrepresented author-actors. Sández studies the dramatized dilemma of cultural understanding in "Our America," a term that refers to a collective political identity shared by Spanish-speaking Americans and their current struggles in the contemporary United States. Sández argues that to conceptualize empathy one needs to understand how subjects organize, classify, and limit themselves, not only as agents, but also as interpreters. What sort of affiliations do these performances promote? How do they break, reinforce, or queer societal expectations about the Latinx body, the white body, or simply, the staged body? To survey different answers to these queries, Sández analyzes performances such as "Indigurrito" (Nao Bustamante), "Dominicanish" (Josefina Baez), ¡Bienvenidos Blancos! or Welcome White People! (Alex Torra), and the apology delivered by the group Veterans Stand with Standing Rock on the Dakota Pipeline protest. In these artistic enactments, which range from 1992 to 2014, the, historical construct of boundaries and bodies becomes evident. Following recent work on empathy (Lanzoni, Maibom, Bloom, Hogan, among others), Sández examines the establishment of identity categories through performance and their ability to spur elaborative empathy from audiences.

The seismic social, economic, and cultural shifts that unfolded in the South in the twentieth century, as reflected through the history of SEC football fight songs

This fast-paced, richly detailed biography, based on more than eighty interviews, digs deep beneath the surface to reveal a more complicated and profound story of sports pioneering than we've come to expect from the genre. Perry Wallace's unusually insightful and honest introspection reveals his inner thoughts throughout his journey.

An intimate look at the Davies family plantation museum and the perpetuation of myths about slavery

Infuses the first, highly acclaimed edition with new material that deepens our understanding of this distinguished American philosopher.

When Nashville identified its first case of coronavirus in March 2020, the city was between Public Health Department directors and as unprepared as the rest of the world for what was to come. Dr. Alex Jahangir, a trauma surgeon acting at that time as chair of the Metro Nashville Board of Health, unexpectedly found himself head of the citys COVID-19 Task Force and responsible for leading it through uncharted waters. What followed was a year of unprecedented challenge and scrutiny. Jahangir, who immigrated to the US from Iran at age six, grew up in Nashville. He thought he knew the city well. But the pandemic laid bare ethnic, racial, and cultural tensions that daily threatened to derail what should have been a collective effort to keep residents healthy and safe.Hot Spot is Jahangirs narrative of the first year of COVID, derived from his op notes (the journal-like entries surgeons often keep following operations) and expanded to include his personal reflections and a glimpse into the inner sanctums of city and state governance in crisis.

A corrupt old Democrat.A surging Republican populist.The Democrat, hounded by corruption allegations; the Republican, dogged by business failures and ties to white supremacists.The Republican turned out thousands of screaming supporters for speeches blaming illegal immigrants and crime on the Democrats, and the Democrat plummeted in the polls.Sound familiar?The 91 Louisiana Governors race was supposed to be forgettable. But when former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke shocked the nation by ousting incumbent Republican Governor Buddy Roemer in the primary, the world took notice. Democrat Edwin Edwards, a former three-term governor and two-time corruption defendant, was left alone to face Duke in the general electionand he was going to lose.Then a little-known state committeewoman stepped in with evidence of Dukes nefarious past. Could her evidence be enough to sway the minds of fired-up voters, or would Louisiana welcome a far-right radical into the highest office in the state?Journalist Brian Fairbanks explores how the final showdown between Duke and Edwards in November 1991 led to a major shift in our national politics, as well as the rise of the radical right and white supremacist groups, and how history repeated itself in the 2016 presidential election. The story of these political wizards, almost forgotten by history, remains eerily prescient and disturbingly relevant, and a compulsive page-turner.

Through close readings of diverse genres (travel writing, essay, novel, short story, and film) Samurai in the Land of the Gaucho yields a multi-layered analysis in order to underline the role Japan has played in both defining and defying Argentine modernity from the twenty century to the present.

Translated from Spanish for the first time, and with a new introduction to the English edition, The Sky Is Incomplete: Travel Chronicles in Palestine is comprised of sixty short entries detailing life in and reflections on the Occupied Territories of Palestine in the twenty-first century.

Offers important insights into not only the topic of serialized storytelling, but to larger notions of how national identities are created through narrative, with crucial cultural and sometimes political implications.