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Conversations with Lenard D. Moore

Edited by John Zheng
University Press of Mississippi

A fundamental collection of sixteen interviews with the esteemed writer and former president of the Haiku Society of America

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Cinema under National Reconstruction

State Censorship and South Korea’s Cold War Film Culture

Rutgers University Press

Drawing upon primary documents from the Korean Film Archive’s digitized database and framing South Korean film censorship from a transnational perspective, Cinema Under National Reconstruction redefines censorship as a productive feedback system where both state regulators and filmmakers played active roles in shaping the new narrative or sentiment of the nation on the big screen.

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Cinema under National Reconstruction

State Censorship and South Korea's Cold War Film Culture

Rutgers University Press

Drawing upon primary documents from the Korean Film Archive’s digitized database and framing South Korean film censorship from a transnational perspective, Cinema Under National Reconstruction redefines censorship as a productive feedback system where both state regulators and filmmakers played active roles in shaping the new narrative or sentiment of the nation on the big screen.

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Children as Social Butterflies

Navigating Belonging in a Diverse Swiss Kindergarten

Rutgers University Press

Children as Social Butterflies offers an analysis of how children negotiate social belonging. Ursina Jaeger followed the children of a kindergarten class in a stigmatized and diverse neighborhood for several years, both inside and outside of school. Along the vivid insights into the children's everyday lives, she examines how social differentiation is learned in diverse societies.

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Captain Paul Cuffe, Yeoman

A Biography

University of Massachusetts Press
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Black Feminist Anthropology, 25th Anniversary Edition

Theory, Politics, and Poetics

Rutgers University Press
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Bayou Dilemma

Louisiana in Crisis and Change

University Press of Mississippi

Powerful perspectives on the historical and present-day challenges facing the state of Louisiana

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The Tensaw River

Alabama's Hidden Heritage Corridor

University of Alabama Press

An introduction to the rich history of the Tensaw River

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The Flat Woman

A Novel

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
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Silm Da’axk / To Revive and Heal Again

Historical Ecology and Ethnobotany in Laxyuubm Gitselasu

Athabasca University Press
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Redrawing the Western

A History of American Comics and the Mythic West

University of Texas Press
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Cold War Anthropologist

Isabel Kelly and Rural Development in Mexico

The University of Arizona Press

This book explores the changing nature of U.S.-Mexican relations, development programs, state efforts of assimilation, the field of anthropology, and gendered experiences in mid-twentieth-century Mexico through the international work of Dr. Isabel T. Kelly (1906–1983).

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Brazil's Sex Wars

The Aesthetics of Queer Activism in São Paulo

University of Texas Press

An ethnography and media analysis of LGBT+ activism in São Paulo during Brazil’s conservative turn from 2010 to 2018.

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Bordering on War

A Social and Political History of Khuzestan

University of Texas Press
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The University of Arizona

A History in 100 Stories

The University of Arizona Press, Sentinel Peak Books

The University of Arizona: A History in 100 Stories is a celebration of the people, ideas, inventions, teaching, and structures that have been part of the school’s evolution from a small land-grant institution to an internationally renowned research institution.

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Seviyye Talip

Ctr for Middle Eastern Studies UT-Austin

A new translation of a best-selling novel about love, liberty, and exile in the final years of the Ottoman Empire.

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Pleasure and Pain in US Public Culture

University of Alabama Press

Unraveling the intricate dance of pleasure and pain in contemporary American culture

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Kids in Cages

Surviving and Resisting Child Migrant Detention

The University of Arizona Press

This book provides an interdisciplinary perspective of child migrant detention by bringing together voices from the legal realm, the academic world, and the on-the-ground experiences of activists and practitioners. The chapters explore the harms of detention while also looking at survival in and resistance to this violent institution.

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