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Unveiling the Color Line
W. E. B. Du Bois on the Problem of Whiteness
University of Massachusetts Press
Tropical Time Machines
Science Fiction in the Contemporary Hispanic Caribbean
University of Florida Press
Exploring works of science fiction originating from Spanish-speaking parts of the Caribbean and their diasporas, this book shows how writers, filmmakers, musicians, and artists are using the language of the genre to comment on the region’s history and present-day realities.
The Archaeology of Arcuate Communities
Spatial Patterning and Settlement in the Eastern Woodlands
University of Alabama Press
Provides case studies of social dynamics and evolution of ring-shaped communities of the Eastern Woodlands
The Archaeology of Arcuate Communities
Spatial Patterning and Settlement in the Eastern Woodlands
University of Alabama Press
Provides case studies of social dynamics and evolution of ring-shaped communities of the Eastern Woodlands
Climate Action for Busy People
Island Press
As unprecedented heat waves, storms of the century, and devastating fires impact cities across the country, the time to create climate resilient communities is now. While large-scale innovations in policy and technology are necessary to preserve the planet, the wisest and most lasting adaptation solutions originate at the local level. Each chapter will help readers scale up their actions, from identifying climate solutions that an individual or small group can pull off in a handful of weekends, like tree plantings or depaving parties, to advocating for change at the municipal level through coalition-building and data collection. It’s not too late for people of all ages and skill levels to create climate safe neighborhoods.
Black Fire—This Time, Volume 2
University Press of Mississippi, University Press of Mississippi/Aquarius Press/Willow Books
The follow-up collection to the groundbreaking first anthology
Black Fire—This Time, Volume 1
Edited by Kim McMillon; Associate editor Kofi Antwi; Foreword by Ishmael Reed; Introduction by Margo Natalie Crawford
University Press of Mississippi, University Press of Mississippi/Aquarius Press/Willow Books
An anthology that explores all facets of the Black Arts Movement
Canada’s Prime Ministers and the Shaping of a National Identity
UBC Press
What is Canada? This new look at “Canada” shows how the country’s prime ministers have consciously worked to shape national identity through their speeches and rhetoric.
The Age of Subtlety
Nature and Rhetorical Conceits in Early Modern Europe
University of Delaware Press
The Age of Subtlety is the first book-length study to examine the seventeenth-century craze for rhetorical conceits in connection with scientific and technological debates. Focusing on Italy and Spain, it argues that these intricate and challenging metaphors became embodiments of a competition between natural and human ingenuity, as well as sites to reflect on the consequences of telescopic and microscopic vision, the boundaries between natural and artificial, and the generation of life.
Stronger Together / Kammanatut Atausigun / Iknaqataghaghluta Qerngaamta
Bering Strait Communities Respond to the COVID-19 Pandemic
University of Alaska Press
A collection of first-person narratives offering a vivid, nuanced look at the lived and shared experiences of Bering Strait communities in the COVID-19 era, Stronger Together is a unique collaboration between the Carrie M. McLain Memorial Museum in Nome, Alaska, and over forty community members, artists, and poets from across the Bering Strait region.
Smoothing the Jew
"Abie the Agent" and Ethnic Caricature in the Progressive Era
Rutgers University Press
Both the object of admiration and anxiety, Jewish immigrants to the United States at the turn of the nineteenth century were often depicted in derogatory caricatures. Smoothing the Jew investigates how Jewish artists of the time attempted to “smooth over” these demeaning images, focusing on the first Jewish comic strip published in English, Harry Hershfield’s Abie the Agent.
Rank-and-File Rebels
Theories of Power and Change in the 2018 Education Strikes
By Erin Dyke and Brendan Muckian-Bates
The WAC Clearinghouse
In spring 2018, a wave of rank-and-file rebellion swept schools across the south and southwest United States, among other places. Educators in West Virginia, Oklahoma, Kentucky, and Arizona pushed their trade unions, school boards, and school administrations to shut schools down to increase wages, halt rising healthcare costs, and restore public education funding.
Intelligent Action
A History of Artistic Research, Aesthetic Experience, and Artists in Academia
Rutgers University Press
Intelligent Action: A History of Artistic Research, Aesthetic Experience, and Artists in Academia explores how conceptual and performance artists of the long 1960s developed oppositional practices within and alongside the American university, an institution that registers the priorities of capitalism, technological change, and social justice movements in intensified ways.
Honest John Williams
U.S. Senator from Delaware
University of Delaware Press
Honest John Williams, written by noted Delaware historian Carol E. Hoffecker, examines the early life and political career of John J. Williams (1904-88), who served four terms as a U.S. senator between 1947 and 1970, and became an important advocate for fiscal probity and governmental integrity in the mid-twentieth century.
Home Is Where Your Politics Are
Queer Activism in the U.S. South and South Africa
Rutgers University Press
Home Is Where Your Politics Are is a vivid consideration of queer and trans activism in the US South and South Africa, situated in their own contexts and international narratives about those contexts. The book traverses international borders as boldly as the activists present in the text declare these spaces home.
Get Involved!
Stories of Bahamian Civil Society
Rutgers University Press
Using the Caribbean as a rich site of observance and concentrating on the island nation-state of The Bahamas, Get Involved! uncovers the hidden and under-documented practices of “philanthropy from below.” Williams-Pulfer shows the long history and continued significance of civil society and philanthropic engagement in The Bahamas, the circum-Caribbean, and the wider African Diaspora.
Feminist Comedy
Women Playwrights of London
By Willow White
University of Delaware Press
Feminist Comedy argues that the development of modern feminist thought is closely linked to theatrical comedy. Through analysis of plays by Catherine Clive, Frances Brooke, Frances Burney, Hannah Cowley, and Elizabeth Inchbald, the book demonstrates that these authors turned to comedy as a site of feminist critique, practice, and experimentation.
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Feeling Democracy
Emotional Politics in the New Millennium
Edited by Sarah Tobias and Arlene Stein
Rutgers University Press
The contributors to Feeling Democracy examine how both reactionary and progressive politics in the twenty-first century are driven largely by emotional appeals to the public. These essays cover everything from immigrants’ rights movements to white nationalist rallies to show how solidarities forged around gender, race, and sexuality become catalysts for a passionate democratic politics.
Cruel Destiny and The White Negress
Two Novels by Cléante Desgraves Valcin
Edited by Adam Nemmers and Jeanne Jégousso; By Cléante D. Valcin; Translated by Jeanne Jégousso; Foreword by Myriam J. A. Chancy
Rutgers University Press
Cruel Destiny (Cruelle Destinée) and The White Negress (La Blanche Négresse) are the first and second novels published by a Haitian woman, Cléante Valcin. Translated to English now for the first time by Jeanne Jégousso, these novels offer an incisive perspective on the fate, romance, and reversals of characters in Haiti, the Pearl of the Antilles, during the 1920s and 1930s.
Criminalized Lives
HIV and Legal Violence
Rutgers University Press
Criminalized Lives profiles people charged in Canada with the crime of not disclosing their HIV-positive status to sex partners. Examining how criminalization disproportionately punishes poor, Black and Indigenous people, gay men, and women in Canada, Alexander McClelland investigates the consequences of criminalizing illness, which results in people being subjected to state violence rather than treated with care.
Consuming Anxieties
Alcohol, Tobacco, and Trade in British Satire, 1660-1751
Bucknell University Press
Consuming Anxieties examines the varied representations of alcohol and tobacco products in literary satire from 1660-1751. Tracing the nuanced satirical treatments of these consumable items throughout the period, it considers understudied plays, poems, and essays alongside more canonical works, shedding light on critical responses to the rise of consumer culture.
Brotherhood University
Black Men's Friendships and the Transition to Adulthood
Rutgers University Press
In Brotherhood University, Brandon A. Jackson examines how a group of collegiate Black men form an emotion culture characterized by vulnerability, loyalty, and trust, which facilitated the creation of brotherhood. This enduring bond provided the men with the necessary social support to navigate the precarity of the transition to adulthood and gendered racism both during and after college.
American Anti-Pastoral
Brookside, New Jersey and the Garden State of Philip Roth
Rutgers University Press
Combining literary analysis with historical research, Thomas Gustafson examines how Philip Roth’s acclaimed 1997 novel American Pastoral draws upon the history of Brookside, New Jersey as its model for the fictional hamlet of Old Rimrock. American Anti-Pastoral peels back myths about the bucolic Garden State countryside to reveal deep fissures within the heart of American democracy.
Mississippian Women
University of Florida Press
This volume highlights the vital role women played within the diverse societies of the Mississippian world, which spanned the present-day United States South to the Midwest before the seventeenth century.
Latin American Comics in the Twenty-First Century
Transgressing the Frame
By James Scorer
University of Texas Press
How twenty-first-century Latin American comics transgress social, political, and cultural frontiers.
France and Algeria
A History of Decolonization and Transformation
University of Texas Press
An examination of the complicated history between France and Algeria since the latter’s independence.
Damming the Gila
The Gila River Indian Community and the San Carlos Irrigation Project, 1900–1942
The University of Arizona Press
The third in a series, this volume continues to chronicle the history of water rights and activities on the Gila River Indian Reservation. Centered on the San Carlos Irrigation Project and Coolidge Dam, this book details the history and development of the project, including the Gila Decree. Embedded in the narrative is the underlying tension between tribal growers on the Gila River Indian Reservation and upstream users. Told in seven chapters, the story underscores the idea that the Gila River Indian Community believed the San Carlos Irrigation Project was first and foremost for their benefit and how the project and the Gila Decree fell short of restoring their water and agricultural economy.
Fallen Comrade
A Story of the Korean War
University Press of Mississippi
A touching tribute to the sacrifice and friendship of three Mississippi soldiers in the Korean War
Killed by a Traffic Engineer
Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies our Transportation System
By Wes Marshall
Island Press
Fixing the carnage on our roadways requires a change in mindset and a dramatic transformation of transportation. This goes for traffic engineers in particular because they are still the ones in charge of our streets.
In Killed by a Traffic Engineer, civil engineering professor Wes Marshall shines a spotlight on how little science there is behind the way that our streets are engineered, which leaves safety as an afterthought. While traffic engineers are not trying to cause deliberate harm to anyone, he explains, they are guilty of creating a transportation system whose designs remain largely based on plausible, but unproven, conjecture.
Killed by a Traffic Engineer is ultimately hopeful about what is possible once we shift our thinking and demand streets engineered for the safety of people, both outside and inside of cars. It will make you look at your city and streets—and traffic engineers—in a new light and inspire you to take action.
In Killed by a Traffic Engineer, civil engineering professor Wes Marshall shines a spotlight on how little science there is behind the way that our streets are engineered, which leaves safety as an afterthought. While traffic engineers are not trying to cause deliberate harm to anyone, he explains, they are guilty of creating a transportation system whose designs remain largely based on plausible, but unproven, conjecture.
Killed by a Traffic Engineer is ultimately hopeful about what is possible once we shift our thinking and demand streets engineered for the safety of people, both outside and inside of cars. It will make you look at your city and streets—and traffic engineers—in a new light and inspire you to take action.
Juneteenth Rodeo
By Sarah Bird; Afterword by Demetrius Pearson
University of Texas Press
Timeless photos offer a rare portrait of the jubilant, vibrant, vital, nearly hidden, and now all-but-vanished world of small-town Black rodeos.
Invisibility and Influence
A Literary History of AfroLatinidades
University of Texas Press
A rich literary study of AfroLatinx life writing, this book traces how AfroLatinxs have challenged their erasure in the United States and Latin America over the last century.
Indigenous Health and Justice
Edited by Karen Jarratt-Snider and Marianne O. Nielsen
The University of Arizona Press
Indigenous communities are practicing de facto sovereignty to resolve public health issues that are a consequence of settler colonialism. This work delves into health and justice through a range of topics and examples and demonstrates the resilience of Indigenous communities.
Grief is a Sneaky Bitch
An Uncensored Guide to Navigating Loss
University of Texas Press
A comprehensive and compassionate guide to navigating loss.
Florida Trail Hikes
Top Scenic Destinations on Florida's National Scenic Trail
By Sandra Friend and John Keatley
University Press of Florida
A guide to the best scenic day hikes and overnight trips along the state-spanning Florida Trail, this book helps readers of all backgrounds and experience levels plan an adventure exploring natural Florida.
Fear and the First Amendment
Controversial Cases of the Roberts Court
By Kevin A. Johnson and Craig R. Smith
University of Alabama Press
A highly original account of the role that fear plays in key First Amendment cases ruled on by the Roberts Supreme Court
Chuco Punk
Sonic Insurgency in El Paso
By Tara López
University of Texas Press
An immersive study of the influential and predominantly Chicanx punk rock scene in El Paso, Texas.
The Secular Care of the Self
Discipline and Its Discontents across the Protestant Atlantic
University of New Mexico Press
The Chilean Dictatorship Novel
Memory, Postmemory, Affect, and Emotions
University of New Mexico Press
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