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Reel Kabbalah

Jewish Mysticism and Neo-Hasidism in Contemporary Cinema

Rutgers University Press

Reel Kabbalah studies representations of esoteric Jewish conceptual traditions known as Kabbalah and Hasidism in five important fictional films from the first decade of the twenty-first century.  The book considers how film both stands in continuity with those traditions and modifies them in the New Age, often mystical vein of what is known as neo-Kabbalah and neo-Hasidism.

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Performing the News

Identity, Authority, and the Myth of Neutrality

Rutgers University Press

Performing The News: Identity, Authority, & the Myth of Neutrality explores how journalists from historically marginalized groups have felt pressure to conform when performing for audiences and are increasingly challenging restrictive, supposedly neutral forms of self-presentation. Through in-depth interviews, this book suggests ways to make journalism more inclusive and representative of diverse audiences

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Moonlight Elk

One Woman's Hunt for Food and Freedom

University of New Mexico Press, High Road Books
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Looking for America on the New Jersey Turnpike, Second Edition

Rutgers University Press

This classic work reveals the fascinating history, iconography, and people behind the twelve-lane behemoth we call the New Jersey Turnpike. Now a special updated and expanded edition examines how the road has changed in the past thirty-five years yet still epitomizes America at its very best and very worst.  

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Laboring in the Shadow of Empire

Race, Gender, and Care Work in Portugal

Rutgers University Press

Laboring in the Shadow of Empire: Race, Gender and Care Work in Portugal examines the everyday lives of an African descendant care service workforce that labors in an ostensibly “anti-racial” Europe and against the backdrop of the Portuguese colonial empire. While much of the literature on global care work has focused on Asian and Latine migrant care workers, there is comparatively less research that explicitly examines African care workers and their migration histories to Europe. Sociologist Celeste V. Curington focuses on Portugal—a European setting with comparatively liberal policies around family settlement and naturalization for migrants. In this setting, rapid urbanization in the late twentieth century, along with a national push to reconcile work and family, have shaped the growth of paid home care and cleaning service industries.

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Isle of Rum

Havana Club, Cultural Mediation, and the Fight for Cuban Authenticity

Rutgers University Press

Focusing on Havana Club rum as a case study, Isle of Rum examines the ways in which western cultural producers, working in collaboration with the Cuban state, have assumed responsibility for representing Cuba to the outside world. Christopher Chávez focuses specifically on the role of advertising practitioners, musicians, filmmakers, and visual artists, who stand to benefit economically by selling an image of Cuba to consumers who desperately crave authentic experiences that exist outside of the purview of the marketplace.

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Gender Play

Boys and Girls in School

By Barrie Thorne; Introduction by Raewyn Connell and Michael A. Messner; Afterword by C.J. Pascoe
Rutgers University Press

A detailed and perceptive ethnography told with compassion and humor, Gender Play immerses readers in children’s everyday lives to examine the social interactions that shape their gender identities.  This new edition contains an introduction by Michael A. Messner and Raewyn Connell that highlights the book’s innovative approach, and an afterword by C.J. Pascoe on its lasting legacy. 
 

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Decentering Epistemologies and Challenging Privilege

Critical Care Ethics Perspectives

Rutgers University Press

This book discusses the ways care ethics contributes to the decentering of dominant epistemologies and to the challenging of privilege, and considers how to decenter care ethics itself via an encounter with non-Western philosophical traditions and alternative epistemologies. Written by scholars from different countries, disciplines and intellectual traditions, the volume offers original care ethics contributions on epistemic injustice, privileged irresponsibility, ecofeminism, settler colonialism, social movements such as BLM, and on various racialized and gendered inequities tied to care work.

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Decentering Epistemologies and Challenging Privilege

Critical Care Ethics Perspectives

Rutgers University Press

This book discusses the ways care ethics contributes to the decentering of dominant epistemologies and to the challenging of privilege, and considers how to decenter care ethics itself via an encounter with non-Western philosophical traditions and alternative epistemologies. Written by scholars from different countries, disciplines and intellectual traditions, the volume offers original care ethics contributions on epistemic injustice, privileged irresponsibility, ecofeminism, settler colonialism, social movements such as BLM, and on various racialized and gendered inequities tied to care work.

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Blessings Beyond the Binary

Transparent and the Queer Jewish Family

Rutgers University Press

Blessings Beyond the Binary: Transparent and the Queer Jewish Family brings together leading scholars to analyze and offer commentary on the groundbreaking streaming series Transparent. The book explores the show’s depiction of Jewish life, religion, and history, as well as Transparent’s scandals, criticisms, and how it fits and diverges from today’s transgender and queer politics. 

 

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Working en comunidad

Service-Learning and Community Engagement with U.S. Latinas/os/es

The University of Arizona Press

This edited volume showcases examples of service-learning practices and pedagogies for working alongside Latina/o/e communities. The contributors tackle three major themes: ethical approaches to working with Latina/o/e communities within language courses and beyond; preparing Latina/o/e students for working with their own communities in different environments; and ensuring equitable practices and building relationships that are mutually beneficial for students and community. Written by scholars, practitioners, and researchers, the collection’s six chapters offer case studies of how to carry out service-learning work that is culturally informed and provides a guide to help others do the same.

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Thunderbird

Book Three

By Sonia Nimr; Translated by M. Lynx Qualey
Ctr for Middle Eastern Studies UT-Austin

The third book in a fast-paced time-traveling fantasy adventure trilogy centered on a young orphaned Palestinian girl who starts in the present and must go back in time to save the world.

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Through Her Lens

The Photojournalism of Diana Walker

Briscoe Ctr for Amer History UT-Austin

An exhibition catalog celebrating a storied photographer’s career.

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The Storm

An Antebellum Tale of Key West

University Press of Florida

This book publishes for the first time a newly discovered nineteenth-century manuscript titled The Storm, making widely available what may be the first novella written by a woman in Florida.

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Sunset Colonies

A Visual Elegy to South Florida's Mobile Home Communities

University Press of Florida

In a collection of photographs accompanied by essays, this book portrays the vulnerabilities experienced by residents of South Florida’s mobile home communities amid rapid urban transformation and the threat of economic displacement.

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Sarah Oppenheimer

C-010106

Landmarks UT-Austin
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Fighting Shirley Chisholm

University of Florida Press, Library Press at UF
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City of Hope, City of Rage

Miami, 1968–1994

University of Alabama Press

Examines Miami’s turbulent transformation from a segregated vacation destination to a global, multicultural metropolis

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Band People

Life and Work in Popular Music

University of Texas Press

A close look at the lives of working musicians who aren’t the center of their stage.

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Atlas of a Threatened Planet

150 Infographics to Help Anyone Save the World

Island Press

How does our climate actually work? Should we worry about the global supply of drinking water? And can technology help reverse the damage we’ve done to the Earth? In Atlas of a Threatened Planet, award-winning book and graphic designer Esther Gonstalla digs into these questions and many more through her attractive and easy-to-understand infographics.  Gonstalla turns her designer’s eye to the most critical threats to our environment, from shrinking glaciers and declining biodiversity to shifting ocean currents. These accessible and fun illustrations will show readers that, although the threats are grave, not all is lost. Changes in technology, infrastructure, and our outlook can still help us protect the places we love.

Atlas of a Threatened Planet will spark your curiosity and invite you to see the Earth in a new way. It is written for all who want to understand the interlocking pieces of our home—and fight for the best ideas and strategies to save it.

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The Story Quilts of Yvonne Wells

University of Alabama Press

A comprehensive and richly illustrated survey of one of the most significant and intriguing quilters of the 21st century, featuring 109 color plates of Wells's narrative quilts with intimate commentaries by Wells herself

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Troubles Online

Ableism and Access in Higher Education

Athabasca University Press
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Triumph and Solidarity

BC Communists in the Early Years of the Great Depression

Athabasca University Press
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Tracings

Writing Art, 1975–2020

By Ian Carr-Harris; Introduction by Dan Adler
Concordia University Press
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The Thin Edge of Innovation

Metro Vancouver’s Evolving Economy

UBC Press

The Thin Edge of Innovation charts the origins, potential, and pitfalls of Metro Vancouver’s entrepreneur-led innovation economy, including the tremendous growth of high-tech, apparel, and consumer-oriented life-style businesses in the city.

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The Lights on the Tipple Are Going Out

Fighting Economic Ruin in a Canadian Coalfield Community

UBC Press

The Lights on the Tipple Are Going Out documents the tumultuous struggle of one coal-mining region to stave off economic ruin in the face of changing times and technologies.

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The Half-Life of Guilt

A Novel

University of New Mexico Press, High Road Books
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The Burning Plain

University of Texas Press

A new translation of El Llano en llamas, an iconic collection of short stories that changed the course of Mexican and Latin American literature.

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Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol. 77

Social Sciences

University of Texas Press

A new volume of the benchmark bibliography of Latin American Studies, compiled by the Library of Congress.

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Forging a Sustainable Southwest

The Power of Collaborative Conservation

The University of Arizona Press

Forging a Sustainable Southwest is the story of how diverse groups of citizens in the Southwest have worked collaboratively to develop visions for land use that harmonize ecological, economic, cultural, and community needs.

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Florida Spectacular

Extraordinary Places and Exceptional Lives

University Press of Florida

Explaining why the state is more than the “Florida Man” stories and other stereotypes, this book celebrates what makes Florida worth a deeper understanding in a lively trip through the state’s natural beauty and fascinating history.

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Becoming Object

The Sociopolitics of the Samuel George Morton Cranial Collection

University of Florida Press

This book considers the vast collection of skulls amassed by Samuel Morton in the first half of the nineteenth century, using a biohistoric approach to take a close look at the times in which Morton lived, his work, and its complicated legacy.

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Transforming the Prairies

Agricultural Rehabilitation and Modern Canada

UBC Press

Transforming the Prairies critically reassesses Canada’s Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration in light of its involvement in ecological changes and its role in consolidating colonialism and racism.

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Shifting Gears

Canadian Autoworkers and the Changing Landscape of Labour Politics

UBC Press

Shifting Gears tells the story of how Canada’s largest private-sector union shifted its political strategy from an emphasis on transformative activism to transactional partnerships.

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Report from a Last Survivor

University of New Mexico Press
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Love Letter to Ramah

Living Beside New Mexico's Trail of the Ancients

University of New Mexico Press
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Enclosure Architect

A Novel

West Virginia University Press
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Beyond My Adobe Schoolhouse

My Life in Education

University of New Mexico Press
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