Reading Towards Anti-Racism: Challenging Preconceptions with New Suns

Reading Towards Anti-Racism: Challenging Preconceptions with New Suns Leigha McReynolds One of the responses to the increased urgency and visibility of the Black Lives Matter movement in June 2020 was a call for white people to expand their perspective and interrogate their privilege by reading the work of Black authors. In the field of speculative … Continue reading Reading Towards Anti-Racism: Challenging Preconceptions with New Suns

Scientizing White Supremacy: Review of Possessing Polynesians by Maile Arvin

Scientizing White Supremacy: Review of Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai`i and Oceania by Maile Arvin Gregory Pōmaikaʻi Gushiken Under Review: Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai`i and Oceania. Maile Arvin. Duke University Press. 2019. Native Hawaiian feminist scholar Maile Arvin’s history of social science and its … Continue reading Scientizing White Supremacy: Review of Possessing Polynesians by Maile Arvin

Whose “Bro” Is It Anyway? Review of Beowulf: A New Translation by Maria Dahvana Headley

Whose “Bro” Is It Anyway? Review of Beowulf: A New Translation by Maria Dahvana Headley Samira Nadkarni Under Review: Beowulf: A New Translation. Translated by Maria Dahvana Headley. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2020. Author’s note: Warnings on this review for discussions of gendered violence, transphobic language, and racism. My thanks to Erin Horáková and Sean … Continue reading Whose “Bro” Is It Anyway? Review of Beowulf: A New Translation by Maria Dahvana Headley

Review Copy Received: Maile Arvin’s Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai’i and Oceania

ARB regularly posts updates about review copies—print and digital—received by the editors and available for review. We receive this as a result of editor-direct outreach to presses to inquire about specific books and topics, as well as via our page describing review copy policy, available here. Update (9.22.2020): A reviewer has been secured for this … Continue reading Review Copy Received: Maile Arvin’s Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai’i and Oceania