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race

Playing Mimesis: Engendering Understanding Via Experience of Social Discrimination with an Interactive Narrative Game
Feminism, Geography, and Chandra Mohanty

Julie Cupples reviews a retrospective collection of essays by Chandra Mohanty on the geopolitics of gender and race.

Finding the Human in “the messy, contingent, emergent mix of the material world”: Embodiment, Place, and Materiality in Stacy Alaimo’s Bodily Natures

In this review Veronica Vold charts the posthuman environmental ethic in Stacy Alaimo's Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self and notes how the text draws together issues of race, (dis)ability, and the environment in a way that disrupts the boundaries between bodies and places.

Blackness and the Migratory Drive

Walton Muyumba reviews Randall Kenan's massive meditation on race and introduces a new word into the discourse on African American literature: zugenruhe.

Enthralled by Systems

Chris Messenger reviews Tom LeClair's first novel, Passing Off (1996).

Racial Remix

Regarding a monumental work on race, time, and classical music that does not lose sight of individual, localized lives.