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UPP Announces New Scholarly Series: Afrasia: Contours, Crossings, Connections

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UPP Announces New Scholarly Series: Afrasia: Contours, Crossings, Connections

The University of Pittsburgh Press is pleased to announce the launch of Afrasia: Contours, Crossings, Connections (ACCC), a new scholarly book series that will examine how African and Asian peoples have encountered each other across diverse geographical and cultural contexts, in the past and present, with a focus on the frictions and solidarities of these encounters as catalyzed by contemporary trends in global migration, movement, and interrelation. ACCC takes Afrasia as the conceptual and contingent space—historical and contemporary; sociocultural, political economic, and ideological; interpersonal, collective, and mass-mediated, among others—through which African and Asian peoples, as well as peoples of African…

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UPP Announces Between Asias and Americas Series

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UPP Announces Between Asias and Americas Series

The University of Pittsburgh Press is pleased to announce the launch of a new scholarly series: Between Asias and Americas. This ambitious new series will feature scholarship that bridges Asian studies and American studies (conceived hemispherically to include Latin American studies and Asian American studies), while bringing into closer dialogue “area studies” and “ethnic studies” approaches to timely topics in a range of disciplines, foregrounding work in the social sciences while also welcoming boundary-crossing research in the humanities. The series intends to become a platform for work that explores the flows and fluxes of populations, affects, cultures, ideas, technologies, and…

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