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    Essays on Race, Gender, and the Postmodern South

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    OutKast, the Atlanta-based hip-hop duo formed in 1992, is one of the most influential musical groups within American popular culture of the past twenty-five years. Through Grammy-winning albums, music videos, feature films, theatrical performances, and fashion, André “André 3000” Benjamin and Antwan “Big Boi” Patton have articulated a vision of postmodern, post–civil rights southern identity that ... Read more

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  • Thinking Through Crisis

    Depression-Era Black Literature, Theory, and Politics

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    Winner, 2020 William Sanders Scarborough Prize, Modern Language AssociationHonorable Mention, MSA First Book PrizeIn Thinking Through Crisis, James Edward Ford III examines the works of Richard Wright, Ida B. Wells, W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, and Langston Hughes during the 1930s in order to articulate a materialist theory of trauma. Ford highlights the dark proletariat’s emergence from ... Read more

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  • Systems of Life

    Biopolitics, Economics, and Literature on the Cusp of Modernity

    Series series Forms of Living
    Systems of Life offers a wide-ranging revaluation of the emergence of biopolitics in Europe from the mid– eighteenth to the mid–nineteenth century. In staging an encounter among literature, political economy, and the still emergent sciences of life in that historical moment, the essays collected here reopen the question of how concepts of animal, vegetable, and human life, among other biological ... Read more

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  • Gifted Education

    A Special Issue of Theory Into Practice

    A scholar's dream come true, 40 years of The Ohio State University's educational journal, Theory Into Practice. Every theme issue, thousands of articles, on a broad range of education-related topics, can be easily accessed. Edited and written by leading thinkers and practitioners in their fields, many of these theme issues are used in classes year after year as their message remains relevant ... Read more

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