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Ken Wissoker

@kwissoker.bsky.social

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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 · Jun 2

Here's a long thread on an issue dear to my heart. This Tuesday evening I’m doing an Intellectual Publics with Macarena Gomez-Barris on publishing. Like last year’s conversation with Denise Cruz, or the prior year’s with Racquel Gates, we will talk about how to find a publisher, turn a thesis... 1/

Intellectual Publics @intellpublics.bsky.social · May 12

Remember to register!
Ken Wissoker in conversation with Macarena Gómez-Barris
Tues June 3rd at 6:30pm ET via Zoom
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Chris Robinson @chris-robinson.bsky.social · 17h

My gig at @dukepress.bsky.social rules. I sell translation rights so our books end up translated all over the world, like these books on this table here. Japanese publishers make beautiful hardcovers with ribbon bookmarks, central and eastern European book designers are scary creative. Books are rad

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Lauren O'Neill-Butler @laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social · 3h

Managed to see many NYC gallery shows this week and did not take any photos! But here are my top 3:
1. @naylandblake.bsky.social @ Matthew Marks
2. Reggie Uluru @ D’Lan Contemporary
3. “Surreal America” @ Michael Rosenfeld

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Mark Rice @markricehistory.bsky.social · 1d

Arrived today from @dukepress.bsky.social!

A copy of the book, Modern Peru: A New History.

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Wazhmah Osman @wazhmah.bsky.social · 20h

Please join us for the launch of our edited volume Decolonizing Afghanistan! November 6, 5pm, at NYU. Link to register: tinyurl.com/mrafhcr6 , dukeupress.edu/decolonizing..., with @nyukevo.bsky.social , @sepoy.bsky.social , @dukepress.bsky.social

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote about how the road to fascism is paved with false equivalencies. lithub.com/the-real-thr...

The Real Threat to Free Speech in America is From the Right, Not the Left—Stop Pretending Otherwise

The road to fascism is paved with false equivalencies. For years we’ve been told that the censorious Left is a serious threat to free speech. If Simon & Schuster cancels one book because the pu…

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 1d

Save 30% on #NewBook "Crip Screens" by Olivia Banner, which provides a wide-ranging and ongoing history of Black, feminist-of-color, and crip resistance to psychiatry’s incorporation of hegemonic media technologies into treatment and research. #DisabilityStudies
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Cover of Crip Screens: Countering Psychiatric Media Technologies by Olivia Banner. The background features a black-and-white TV static pattern with large sweeping shadows that create a sense of depth and movement. The title is in clean white text at the top right. The subtitle title runs vertically along the left edge. The author's name appears vertically within a solid lavender circle at the lower right corner.

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michelelancione @michelelancione.bsky.social · 1d

Tomorrow, I will be in Berlin to participate in the "Idea(l)s of Home" workshop at the Technische Universität. I will deliver a keynote on my book For a Liberatory Politics of Home @dukepress.bsky.social

I am very thankful to my comrade Judith Keller for inviting & to all for organising.

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · Feb 10

Dr. Carter G. Woodson, born to enslaved parents, earned a PhD from Harvard in 1912 AND taught Spanish and French language.

DuBois recalled how Woodson had orchestrated an elaborate meal for them in flawless French when they were both in Paris.

And he was supervisor of schools in Philippines! #BHM

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lindsay thomas @lindsaythomas.net · 4d

All of these books are FANTASTIC. I was blown away — in different ways — by each one and they were each a joy to read. The world is dark but scholarship continues to amaze

Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present @asapartsnow.bsky.social · 7d

We are so excited to announce the shortlist for the ASAP/16 Book Prize!

Congratulations to all the nominees! We’ll announce the winner of the prize at the annual conference in a few weeks in Houston! See the ALT ID and thread for more information.

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Sarah Dimick- Unseasonable: Climate Change in Global Literatures (Columbia UP)

Kency Cornejo- Visual Disobedience: Art and Decoloniality in Central America (Duke UP)

Brooke Belisle- Depth Effects: Dimensionality from Camera to Computation (University of California Press)

Steven Swarbrick & Jean-Thomas Tremblay- Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction (Northwestern UP)

Amber Jamilla Musser- Between Shadows and Noise: Sensation, Situatedness, and the Undisciplined (Duke UP)

Christopher T. Fan- Asian American Fiction After 1965: Transnational Fantasies of Economic Mobility (Columbia UP)

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 1d

Updated the Blackademics starter pack again (!) to include Vincent Brown, Imani Perry, the Harare Review of Books and others. Stay tuned for more developments coming soon....

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Ken Wissoker @kwissoker.bsky.social · 1d

Good question! Would students prefer a book or two (a reader, I guess) or a course pack?

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Ken Wissoker @kwissoker.bsky.social · 1d

Where now with pdfs no one pays and presses are taking a huge hit.

Ken Wissoker @kwissoker.bsky.social · 1d

Yes! There was a big lawsuit which Kinkos lost, and the fees were paid through copyright clearing house. Small amounts but they would add up (both for costs passed on to students and in a needed way for presses).

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Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present @asapartsnow.bsky.social · 1d

Second up in our shortlist for the ASAP/16 Book Prize is Kency Cornejo’s VISUAL DISOBEDIENCE: ART AND DECOLONIALITY IN CENTRAL AMERICA from @dukepress.bsky.social. We will announce the winner at this year’s conference in Houston, TX. Please join us!

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Folkloring Jamaica @folkloringjamaica.blacksky.app · 2d

Happy to come across this reference, especially since it’s Caribbean Folklore Month. Bookmarked!

Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 2d

In "Bêtes Noires," Lauren Derby explores storytelling traditions among the people of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, focusing on shape-shifting spirit demons called baka/bacá. Read the introduction now for free: buff.ly/FMxVGtA

Cover of Bêtes Noires: Sorcery as History in the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands by Lauren Derby. A photograph of a crouching individual holding rope and wearing a covering with horns that hides their face in an empty room. Below the photograph the cover is black with a grey texture. The title appears on top of the photo and texture in a bold white sans-serif type. The subtitle is directly below aligned right in red. The author's name is above to the left of the title in a serif white type.

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i augustus durham @imeanswhatisays.bsky.social · 1d

This event is all the more worth your presence because it will be my first public presentation of work from my forthcoming monograph, Be Real Black for Me: About the Matter of Roberta Flack (@dukepress.bsky.social)

See you then!

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i augustus durham @imeanswhatisays.bsky.social · 1d

If you are in or around Toronto next Wednesday, October 15, 2025, from 12-2p, you are invited to attend an important upcoming event at the Centre for the Study of the United States.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 1d

Save 30% on #NewBook "Decolonizing Afghanistan," edited by @wazhmah.bsky.social and Robert D. Crews, which marks a decolonial turn in #Afghanistan and #AmericanStudies.
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Book cover of Decolonizing Afghanistan: Countering Imperial Knowledge & Power, edited by Wazhmah Osman and Robert D. Crews. The background is light blue with the title in large dark blue text at the top. Below the title, there is an illustration of armored soldiers in helmets and gear blended with soft, colorful flowers. The editors’ names are written in red text above the illustration.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 2d

Pleased to see Nnenna Freelon's "Beneath the Skin of Sorrow" and Robyn Maynard's @policingblack.bsky.social "Policing Black Lives" on @msmagazine.com's list of October books, by @karlajstrand.com: msmagazine.com/2025/10/07/b...

October 2025 Reads for the Rest of Us

The best feminist books written by women, Black, brown, AAPI, LGBTQ, Native, disabled, trans, nonbinary writers in October 2025.

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Ken Wissoker @kwissoker.bsky.social · 2d

Civil Rights Lawyer Bryan Stevenson on How America’s Story Should Be Told www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Civil Rights Lawyer Bryan Stevenson on How America’s Story Should Be Told

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danilynrutherford.bsky.social @danilynrutherford.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks to Abby J. Perry for this interview in Common Good Magazine! @dukepress.bsky.social @commongoodmag.bsky.social

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What It Means to Live a Meaningful Life | Common Good Magazine

Danilyn Rutherford discusses caring for her daughter with a disability, what a meaningful life really means, and why curiosity is a way forward for us all.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 3d

Great to see Uri McMillan's "Mavericks of Style" on Art in America's fall books list!
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8 Books We’re Looking Forward to in October

October brings an exciting, eclectic set of new book releases that dive into art, fashion, philosophy, and fiction.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 3d

Save 30% on #NewBook "Acoustic Colonialism" by Luis E. Cárcamo-Huechante, which examines the role of sound in Chilean and Mapuche cultural production over the last two centuries. #SoundStudies #LatinAmericanStudies
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Cover of Acoustic Colonialism: Acts of Mapuche Interference by Luis E. Cárcamo-Huechante. The cover art features a geometric textile design in an olive green and cobalt blue against a black background. The title appears in a cream sans-serif type centered at the top and bottom. Above the design and below the first word of the title sits the subtitle in a cream serif type. The author's name is directly below the design in a cream serif type.

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Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society @signsjournal.org · 3d

Rejected everywhere, staged as a hoax, and finally published in a lesbian sex mag — Sarah Schulman’s “A Short Story About a Penis” has quite a history. Rachel Corbman uncovers its fascinating legacy in Signs’ new issue: check it out here! (sub. req’d):

Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society | Vol 51, No 1

This introduction to “Lesbian Studies, Now” reflects on the affective, intellectual, and political stakes of invoking “lesbian” as a generative scholarly category in the present as well as the three…

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danilynrutherford.bsky.social @danilynrutherford.bsky.social · 3d

Beautiful Mystery in Stockholm! Excited to be in conversation with the wonderful writer Fanny Ambjörnsson on autoethnography and care. Thanks to the Department of Social Anthropology for hosting us! @dukepress.bsky.social

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Autoethnographies of Care: A Conversation with Fanny Ambjörnsson och Danilyn Rutherford - Department of Social Anthropology

Autoethnographies of Care: A Conversation with Fanny Ambjörnsson och Danilyn Rutherford

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