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Ken Wissoker
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Senior Executive Editor, Duke University Press. Director, Intellectual Publics, CUNY Graduate Center. Book doula/curator. Art lover, record accumulator. All opinions my own-ish.
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Ken Wissoker @kwissoker.bsky.social · Nov 7
I was interviewed by Lisa Regan on the The Academic Publishing Podcast about publishing finances -- everything from why a press might want a subvention to why the system as a whole in in big trouble if everyone goes for the free pdf and no one is paying for the books themselves. She had smart Q's!
Ken Wissoker on Finances
Ken Wissoker is Senior Executive Editor at Duke University Press where, since arriving in 1991, he has published over 1400 books. Ken acquires books across the humanities, social sciences, and the art...
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"Lyric beyond Containment," a special issue of differences edited by Sarah Dowling and Claire Grandy, is now available. View the TOC, read the intro, and "The Americanity of the 'American Lyric',"all freely available: buff.ly/3RkT2Hv
Cover of Differences journal issue with yellow background, horizontal gray band, title Lyric beyond Containment, and contributor names listed.
December 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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"In sum, Guariglia’s book is an important contribution to the history of policing, setting a standard about how to highlight the crucial role of race and ethnicity for future research." @sarahfren.bsky.social on @mguariglia.bsky.social's Police and the Empire City
Policing NYC: A Review of “Police and the Empire City: Race and the Origins of Modern Policing in New York”
Guariglia, Matthew. Police and the Empire City: Race and the Origins of Modern Policing. Duke University Press, 2023. Editor’s note: In the interest of full disclosure, Matthew Guariglia form…
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December 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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A new analysis found that 80% of 45 anti-trans groups in the U.S. have received funding from fossil fuel companies or billionaires, including Shell and Anschutz.

www.ehn.org/fossil-f...

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
Fossil fuel wealth fuels surge in anti-trans legislation, new analysis shows - EHN
A recent investigation reveals that most major anti-trans organizations in the U.S. receive financial support from fossil fuel interests, intertwining climate obstruction with attacks on LGBTQIA+ rights.Yessenia Funes reports for HEATED and Atmos.In short:A new analysis found that 80% of 45 anti-tra...
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December 10, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Focusing on Frederick Douglass’s “A Trip to Hayti” (1861) and the first installment of James Theodore Holly’s “Thoughts on Hayti” (1859), this essay examines the strategic idealization of Haiti in mid-nineteenth-century African American propaganda.

Read @ Duke tinyurl.com/37wzebzz
December 5, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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have been super stoked to read this one.
As If!: Queer Criticism Across Difference
dukeupress.edu
December 9, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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"Crossing the Indian Ocean: The Oceanic Flow of Cultures and Ideas," a special issue of Monsoon, is now available. View the TOC and read "Carved Doors as Afro-Arab-Asian Creative Congruence" made freely available: buff.ly/hti16pc
Cover of Monsoon showing a blue and green seascape with a collage of figures on a tilting boat and text about crossing the Indian Ocean.
December 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Save 30% on #NewBook "In the Mood for Texture" by Arnika Fuhrmann, which considers the revival of Chinese pasts and the aesthetics of colonial modernity in contemporary Southeast Asian cultural production. #FilmStudies #AsianStudies
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Cover of In the Mood for Texture by Arnika Fuhrmann. The cover photograph depicts two people dressed simply in black and white seated at a metal table and chairs in the courtyard of a glass and concrete building. The title appears in large white letters at the top left of the cover, and the subtitle in smaller black text just below. The author's name appears to the right of the subtitle in capitalized white letters.
December 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Enormous gratitude to our colleagues on the selection committee at the MLA for their fine taste!

Seriously tho, I never in a million years expected my translation to receive a mention or a prize. Feeling grateful 😊
Screenshot of a webpage from the Modern Language Association announcing the Lois Roth Award for a Translation of a Literary Work 2024 Winners.
December 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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dukepress.bsky.social
Save 30% on #NewBook "Indigenous Archives," by Floridalma Boj Lopez, which examines how Mayas in diaspora actively forge Indigenous belonging in the face of displacement from their ancestral homelands. #IndigenousStudies #LatinxStudies buff.ly/l9Oclko
Cover of Indigenous Archives: The Maya Diaspora and Mobile Cultural Production by Floridalma Boj Lopez. The cover features a photograph of two young Mayan women wearing traditional clothing sitting on steps. Below this is solid purple with the title written in white in all caps. A yellow line separates the title and subtitle. The subtitle is written smaller in white. Below is the author's name italicized and written in all caps.
December 8, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Also, am still slowly making my way through the immense Peter Weiss trilogy THE AESTHETICS OF RESISTANCE published by @dukepress.bsky.social but in the meantime, you absolutely need to read it
December 8, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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In addition to all of the other benefits already reported about NYC congestion pricing, "In the first six months of the program, air pollution – in the form of particulate matter 2.5 micrometers and smaller – dropped by 22% in the Congestion Relief Zone (CRZ)"

news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
Congestion pricing improved air quality in NYC and suburbs | Cornell Chronicle
Cornell researchers tallied the environmental benefits of New York City’s congestion pricing program and found air pollution dropped by 22% in Manhattan, with additional declines across the city’s fiv...
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December 9, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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dukepress.bsky.social
In 1964, the Mexican government forcefully relocated the largest stone sculpture in the Americas from the town of Coatlinchan to a Mexico City museum. Sandra Rozental's "The Absent Stone" traces how the monolith continues to affect Coatlinchan. Read the intro for free on our website: buff.ly/PxoxFxd
Cover of The Absent Stone: Mexican Patrimony and the Aftershocks of State Theft by Sandra Rozental. The cover features a close up photograph of part of the Piedra de los Tecomates, a large stone monument. The photo shows three holes in the stone in a horizontal line as well as the letters 'EM' and 'D' carved into the stone. The title appears in a translucent bold sans serif font aligned left in the center of the cover. The author’s name appears above in yellow. The subtitle is below the 3 holes and the title in the same yellow font.
December 8, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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A book I'm looking forward to reading when it comes out with @dukepress.bsky.social
Rescuing the Enlightenment from the Europeans: Critical Theories of Decolonization
dukeupress.edu
December 5, 2025 at 6:05 PM
kwissoker.bsky.social
Tonight!! Still time to register!!
intellpublics.bsky.social Intellectual Publics @intellpublics.bsky.social · 23d
Insurgent Visions: Feminism, Justice, Solidarity
A conversation with Chandra Talpade Mohanty and Linda Martin Alcoff
Monday, December 8, 2025
6:30pm ET online
bit.ly/insurgent_vi...
December 8, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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brian-goldstone.bsky.social
I've been blown away by the generosity shown to my book this year, and wanted to take a moment to highlight some of the books that meant the most to me in 2025—along with a few I'm especially excited to see out in the world in the new year.

THREAD
December 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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emilygdoucet.bsky.social
Honoured to be in very good company here!
dukepress.bsky.social Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 5d
The Spring 2026 catalog is live! We're featuring #NewBooks by @rtrodrig.bsky.social, @beansvelocci.bsky.social, @amynbooks.bsky.social, @lalehkhalili.bsky.social, @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social, @santiaaurora.bsky.social, and so many more. Check it out now: buff.ly/eJyyixc
Cover of Duke University Press catalog. The background features the Puerto Rican flag colors—red, white, and blue. "Duke University Press" is written in yellow and white in the blue triangular section and "Spring and Summer 2026" is in the red and white section on the left. Features an illustration of Bad Bunny wearing a yellow outfit and a large straw hat, holding a microphone with yellow lightning bolts emanating from it is in the lower half. The DUP logo is in the lower right.
December 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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mjsdc.bsky.social
During ratification of the 14th Amendment, senators discussed whether the Citizenship Clause would apply to the children of immigrants and resoundingly concluded that it did. The text and history all point in one direction and the counter-arguments are patently fraudulent. I am going to lose my mind
anthonymkreis.bsky.social Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 3d
The evidence is the text. All you have to do is read the Constitution.
December 7, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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intellpublics.bsky.social
"The transnational insurgencies [Mohanty] advocates demand a future free of racism, transphobia, and the fascism that threatens us all.” - Angela Y. Davis

Link to register: bit.ly/insurgent_vi...
December 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
kwissoker.bsky.social
Coming up tomorrow (Monday) night at @intellpublics.bsky.social !! Chandra Mohanty and Linda Alcoff. This is going to be timely, smart, and great. Online with link below!!
intellpublics.bsky.social Intellectual Publics @intellpublics.bsky.social · 6d
"The transnational insurgencies [Mohanty] advocates demand a future free of racism, transphobia, and the fascism that threatens us all.” - Angela Y. Davis

Link to register: bit.ly/insurgent_vi...
December 7, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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New book review:
Heberling on Smith, Jen Rose: _Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race and Indigeneity in the Arctic_. Duke University Press, 2025. Published by H-Environment.
Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20134468
Smith, Jen Rose. Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race and Indigeneity in the Arctic. : Duke University Press, 2025. 248 pp. $28.00 (paper), ISBN 9781478031772. Reviewed by Lydia Heberling (California Polytechnic State University) Published on H-Environment (December, 2025) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
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December 5, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Writing “The Red Riviera” in 2005, Ghodsee argued something almost unsayable in the triumphalist post–Cold War moment:

For ordinary people in the former Soviet bloc… capitalism often made life worse.

And she had the data, the interviews, and the stories to back it up.
Kristen Ghodsee is the author of “The Red Riviera: Gender, Tourism, and Postsocialism on the Black Sea,” published by Duke University Press.
December 6, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Save 30% on "The City of Our Dreaming," which collects the third #AlchemyLectures with contributions from @lalehkhalili.bsky.social, @biidaasamose.bsky.social,
@hystericalblkns.bsky.social, V. Mitch McEwen, & Gabriela Leandro Pereira.
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Cover of The City of Our Dreaming by Laleh Khalili, V. Mitch McEwen, Gabriela Leandro Pereira, & Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. With an introduction by Christina Sharpe. The title and authors are in a black capsule shape that is slightly offset in the middle, surrounded by a red background. On the left side the words The Alchemy Lecture appear vertically.
December 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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One of my clients has a book in this catalog, and although I can't tell you which one it is without their permission, I can promise you that it's DAZZLING
dukepress.bsky.social Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 5d
We're excited to reveal our Spring 2026 catalog, featuring books being published between January and June 2026. Many of them are available for pre-order on our website. Download your copy now!
bit.ly/48Ltv25
Cover of Duke University Press catalog. The background features the Puerto Rican flag colors—red, white, and blue. "Duke University Press" is written in yellow and white in the blue triangular section and "Spring and Summer 2026" is in the red and white section on the left. Features an illustration of Bad Bunny wearing a yellow outfit and a large straw hat, holding a microphone with yellow lightning bolts emanating from it is in the lower half. The DUP logo is in the lower right.
December 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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That debut single was the only one to provoke backlash, but he had a string of regionally successful releases with the precursor to Chess Records. https://bit.ly/3MhAJCs
Bluesman Andrew Tibbs called out white bigotry in 1947 - Chicago Reader
Andrew Tibbs's debut was his only single to provoke racist backlash, but he had a string of regionally successful records through Aristocrat.
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December 7, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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alondra.bsky.social
On January 1, Illinois begins to regulate employer use of AI, making it a civil rights violation to use AI tools that result in discrimination based on protected characteristics in hiring, promotion, discipline, termination, or other employment terms and requiring notice of AI use. #AIBillofRights
chicagoblacksky.bsky.social Chicago Black Sky @chicagoblacksky.bsky.social · 8d
Illinois becomes one of the few states to regulate employer use of AI. House Bill 3773 amends the Illinois Human Rights Act to make it a civil rights violation for employers to use AI tools that result in discrimination based on race, gender, age, or disability.
www.mystateline.com/news/local-n...
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December 6, 2025 at 10:49 PM