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Under the White Gaze

Solving the Problem of Race and Representation in Canadian Journalism

UBC Press, Purich Books

Blending research with a reporter’s journey through the industry, Under the White Gaze takes a pointed look at how people of colour are routinely missing, marginalized, or misrepresented in Canadian journalism, and explores what can be done to make our media more inclusive.

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Uncommon Weather

Alaska Stories

University of Alaska Press
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Through Jamaican Lenses

A Memoir

University Press of Mississippi
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The Carey Act and Conservation in Colorado

University Press of Colorado

The Carey Act and Conservation in Colorado is an environmental history of the endless missteps and unforeseen consequences that characterized Colorado’s participation in the Carey Act—an 1894 federal law that granted one million acres of desert-classified public land to each western state for private irrigation development and settlement.

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The American Southeast at the End of the Ice Age

University of Alabama Press

The definitive book on what is known about the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene archaeological record in the Southeast
 

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Systems Shift

Creating and Navigating Change in Rhetoric and Composition Administration

The WAC Clearinghouse

This collection extends the discourse on systems within the field of rhetoric and composition by drawing connections among the administrative work we do, the values we hold, and the systems that shape our work and our selves.

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One Tough Dame

The Life and Career of Diana Rigg

By Herbie J Pilato; Foreword by Rupert Macnee; Introduction by Ray Austin
University Press of Mississippi

A detailed biography of the esteemed actress, before, during, and after The Avengers

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Larry Brown

A Writer's Life

University Press of Mississippi

The first biography of Mississippi’s beloved blue-collar writer who redefined southern fiction

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In Silence or Indifference

Racism and Jim Crow Segregated Public School Libraries

University Press of Mississippi

An unflinching history critiquing librarianship during the Jim Crow era

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Geographies of the Heart

Stories from Newcomers to Canada

UBC Press, Purich Books

In Geographies of the Heart, eighteen newcomers to Canada share their journeys, reveal the conditions that necessitated them leaving their homes, and challenge assumptions about newcomers’ lives in Canada.

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Film by Design

The Art of the Movie Poster

University Press of Mississippi

A beautifully illustrated study of the crucial role movie posters play in shaping the trajectory of films

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Cabin Boys, Milkmaids, and Rough Seas

Identity in the Unexpurgated Repertoire of Stan Hugill

University Press of Mississippi

The first analysis of a long-missing collection of ribald songs of the sea

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All the Things We Didn't Say

Two Memoirs

University Press of Mississippi

Reflections of family, life, and love in Mississippi between grandmother and granddaughter

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Alan J. Pakula

Interviews

Edited by Tom Ryan
University Press of Mississippi

A concise yet comprehensive overview of the director’s illustrious career, from his early days in Hollywood to his rise as a major filmmaker

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We Take Care of Our Own

Faith, Class, and Politics in the Art of Bruce Springsteen

Rutgers University Press

We Take Care of Our Own traces the evolution of Bruce Springsteen’s beliefs, beginning with his New Jersey childhood and ending with his most recent works from Springsteen on Broadway to Letter to You. The author follows the singer’s life, examining his albums and a variety of influences (both musical and non-musical), especially his Catholic upbringing and his family life, to show how he became an outspoken icon for working-class America; indeed for working class life throughout the world.
 

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Tales from the Sharp End

A Portrait of Chile

University of New Mexico Press
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Opulent Nosh

A Cookbook for Audacious Appetites

University of Alabama Press

Foodie-scholar extraordinaire Ken Albala offers adventurous cooks a treasury of innovative recipes to transform noshing

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Into the Unknown

High Adventure and Hard Lessons Exploring the World’s Great, Lost Wilderness Rivers

University of New Mexico Press
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The Joyce of Everyday Life

Bucknell University Press

Through a close examination of Joyce’s joyous, musical prose, Vicki Mahaffey shows how language provides us with a means of revitalizing daily experience and social interactions across a huge, diverse, everchanging world. A book for everyone who loves words, The Joyce of Everyday Life is a lyrical romp through quotidian existence.

 

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The Bravest Pets of Gotham

Tales of Four-Legged Firefighters of Old New York

Rutgers University Press

The Bravest Pets of Gotham takes readers on a fun historical tour of Old New York, sharing more than 100 touching, thrilling and amusing stories about the bond between FDNY firefighters and their four-legged friends. You’ll meet countless brave and intelligent firehouse pets, from horses, dogs, and cats to monkeys and goats. 
 

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Singular Sensations

A Cultural History of One-Panel Comics in the United States

Rutgers University Press

Michelle Ann Abate examines what The Family CircusZiggy, and The Far Side all have in common—they’re single-panel comics, a seemingly simple form that presents cartoonists with a wide range of possibilities. Covering everything from nineteenth-century political cartoons to twenty-first-century web comics, she reveals their complexity, artistry, and influence.  

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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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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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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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