This article examines the advent of modeling as a profession for African American women. This new career resulted from two developments in early postwar America:…
When the Soviet Union fell, Cuba pedaled its way to independence–by bicycle. What has become of Havana’s sole-powered communities born out of the need to…
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have long been engaged in a tripartite polemical and intellectual tradition. An early modern example of this interaction appears in a…
Sovereignty is not a thing, but an action; it is a form of doing. An increasing amount of writing by Indigenous artists, curators, and scholars…
The representation of non-Western cultures in opera has long been a focus of critical inquiry. Within this field, the diverse relationships between opera and First…
Arts of Engagement focuses on the role that music, film, visual art, and Indigenous cultural practices play in and beyond Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) on…
This is a tribute to Franca Rame: activist, feminist, actress, artist and internationally renowned dramaturge. Because of her constant and coherent cultural, social and political commitment,…
The essays in Killing Women: The Visual Culture of Gender and Violence find important connections in the ways that women are portrayed in relation to violence,…
The Transformation of Republicanism in the Sister Republic, is a chapter within the volume The Political Culture of the Sister Republics. France, The Netherlands, Switzerland, and…
This special lecture was presented on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the publication of the Futurist Manifest, as part of the Istituto Italiano…