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On the ShelfFACULTY PUBLICATIONSThe Black Hole of EmpirePartha Chatterjee, Political SciencePartha Chatterjee explores how the story of the“black hole of Calcutta”—in which 123 Europeanprisoners died in cramped conditions— fosteredthe ideological foundations for the British imperialrule and territorial control in India.At the Violet HourSarah Cole, English and Comparative LiteratureSarah Cole argues that modernism emerged as animaginative response to the devastating eventsthat defined the period, including the chaos ofanarchist bombings, World War I, the Irish uprising,and the Spanish Civil War. Combining historicaldetail with resourceful readings of fiction, poetry,journalism, photographs, and other cultural materials,At the Violet Hour explores the strange intimacybetween modernist aesthetics and violence in the latenineteenth and early twentieth centuries.RacecraftBarbara Fields, HistoryWriting with sociologist Karen E. Fields,Barbara J. Fields argues, contrary to thereceived narrative that racism stems fromthe perception of human difference, that insteadthe practice of racism produces the illusion of race,through a process they call “racecraft.”IgnoranceStuart Firestein, BiologyStuart Firestein examines how ignorance drivesscientific progress, showing how scientists useignorance to program their work, to identify whatshould be done, what the next steps are, and wherethey should concentrate their energies to look forconnections to other research and revisit apparentlysettled questions.Link back to contents page30 Superscript