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ALT Cover of Afromodernism: Six Turning Points by Kobena Mercer. The cover has an abstract painting with bold black brustrokes over shades of blue and white. The texture of the cover art is painterly and mottled. The title, subtitle, and author's name are spaced out across the top. The title and subtitle are in white, with the title bolded. The author's name is in bolded blue.

ALT Cover of Making Peace with Property: Traces of Post-Conflict Colombia by Meghan L. Morris. The cover features a layered, double-exposed photograph of a misty green and blue mountainside with dense forest and tall palms, fading to dark brown and black at the bottom. The title is in large cream serif capitals, with “with” in italics. The subtitle is smaller, to the right. The author’s name is in cream at the top left.

ALT Cover of Smut & Sandwiches: A History of Stag Film by Russell Sheaffer. The cover features a cream-colored, speckled background with overlapping rectangular blocks of muted colors. The title is in bold black and white typography across the center, with “SMUT” in large black letters and a large white ampersand above “SANDWICHES.” A vintage black-and-white illustration of a reclining figure is on the right side.

ALT Covers of The Absent Stone, Concrete Colonialism, Visualizing Latinx, Sex Isn't Real, Personal Demons, Making Gay History, Out of Sync, Wild Tongue, Notes from the Sex Worker Left, and Insufferable Tools, arranged in at 5x5 grid.

ALT Cover of Asylum: The Concept and the Practice by Ranjana Khanna. The cover features a pale gray-white background with a three-dimensional shape of thin, vertical black lines of varying heights, forming a cage-like structure. The title appears in large, red serif capitals across the center. The subtitle is in black italic text at the lower right, and the author's name appears in black capitals at the bottom left.

ALT Covers of The Absent Stone, Concrete Colonialism, Visualizing Latinx, Sex Isn't Real, Personal Demons, Making Gay History, Out of Sync, Wild Tongue, Notes from the Sex Worker Left, and Insufferable Tools, arranged in at 5x5 grid.

ALT Cover of Transplanetary Americas: Art, Outer Space, and the Latinx Imagination by Robb Hernández. It features an image of Leo Villareal’s Star Ceiling, installed in a plaza with tall columns and benches. 2 people stroll below. The text is in a retro sci-fi font in bright lime-green and yellow.

ALT A graphic displaying the book cover on the left, the DUP logo in the bottom right, the headline "Congratulations," and the title of the book and the award.

ALT Text reads, "American Studies Association 2026 Conference Exhibit. Use code ASA26 for 40% off when you order from dukeupress.edu." Background features assorted American studies book and journal covers arranged in columns.

ALT Green cover with Ethnohistory title and historical illustration featuring figures and text from an old manuscript

ALT Abstract coral and teal artwork with layered sketchlike figures and flowing lines divided into two contrasting horizontal panels