Just look at that gorgeous table of contents! Certain passages from this book have stuck in my mind like scenes from novels.

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💛💛💛 so grateful for you, allison!!!

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"What can matter such as gravel tell us about race, a characteristic often conceived as intrinsically human?"

"Racial Beings: Experiments in Asian American New Materialisms" by @nancyhelicopter.bsky.social (@dukepress.bsky.social) is dazzling and unforgettable, and I'm honored to have worked on it.

Congrats on this gorgeous, important book, @nancyhelicopter.bsky.social! 🤩🥳🎉

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Cover of Racial Beings: Experiments in Asian American New Materialisms by Michelle N. Huang. The cover shows layers of paint and textures featuring sunset hues of yellows, oranges, pinks, and blues. The title is written in all caps in a white sans serif type. The subtitle appears below in a solid hot pink circle. It is written in white in all lower case. The author’s name appears in the same font in the bottom right corner.

This March, we're releasing a terrific slate of new titles, including “Racial Beings,” by Michelle N. Huang @nancyhelicopter.bsky.social. See the full list of books coming from DUP this month on our blog: buff.ly/vFg3kgR

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Cover of Racial Beings: Experiments in Asian American New Materialisms by Michelle N. Huang. The cover shows layers of paint and textures featuring sunset hues of yellows, oranges, pinks, and blues. The title is written in all caps in a white sans serif type. The subtitle appears below in a solid hot pink circle. It is written in white in all lower case. The author’s name appears in the same font in the bottom right corner.

In "Racial Beings," Michelle N. Huang @nancyhelicopter.bsky.social brings a feminist new materialist lens to bear on contemporary Asian American literature’s innovative play with discourses of science and technology. #AsianAmericanStudies Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/eWFhHKY

Arthur Sze has been named the new U.S. poet laureate. He succeeds Ada Limón, who has held the position since 2022. During his term as poet laureate, Sze plans to have a special focus on translating poetry originally written in other languages. Read more: at.pw.org/ArthurSze

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I've RT'ed Shawn all day; please scroll through the thread.

ICE is everywhere in the Chicago area. They figured out in LA that splashy raids draw protests & media; here they've adopted a scattershot approach that lets them grab people, scare everyone, & meet much less resistance.

With the NIH cuts, there’s no longer any excuse for any professor, in any discipline, to not address the moment in their classes. You don’t even have to be “political” if that’s how you roll; this changes everything. You need only observe reality. 1/

“A study published last year in JAMA Network, a publication of the Journal of the American Medical Association, found that 22% of cancer patients did not receive the care their doctors prescribed because of authorization delays or outright denials.”