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Black Women in Latin America and the Caribbean
Critical Research and Perspectives
Asian American History
Stepping Away
Returning to the Faculty After Senior Academic Leadership
Senior leadership transitions in higher education are inevitable. Given their ubiquity, those who work in colleges and universities share the responsibility to make these changing of the guard moments beneficial both for institutions and leaders. Moving beyond the well-worn cliché of "stepping down," Stepping Away identifies policies that institutions, administrators, chairs, and members of governing boards can enact as leaders assume a new place in the social architecture of their campus.
Murder Town, USA
Homicide, Structural Violence, and Activism in Wilmington
Defiant Bodies
Making Queer Community in the Anglophone Caribbean
Bishops and Bodies
Reproductive Care in American Catholic Hospitals
Four out of the ten largest U.S. health care systems follow the policies of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops that forbid abortion, sterilization, and related treatments in their hospitals. Drawing on rich interviews with patients and providers, Bishops and Bodies shows how these opaque restrictions conflict with medical standards, producing unjust and unequal reproductive care.
Between Self and Community
Children’s Personhood in a Globalized South Korea
Aspiring in Later Life
Movements across Time, Space, and Generations
This book is also freely available online as an open-access digital edition.
Aloha Compadre
Latinxs in Hawai'i
Dead Funny
The Humor of American Horror
Rockin' in the Ivory Tower
Rock Music on Campus in the Sixties
Historian James Carter takes a close look at how the rock music of the 1960s played an integral role in the lives of American college students. He traces connections between rock fandom and the civil rights protests, free speech activism, radical ideas, lifestyle transformations, and anti-war movements that revolutionized universities.
Risk and Adaptation in a Cancer Cluster Town
Race and Role
The Mixed-Race Asian Experience in American Drama
Mary Climbs In
The Journeys of Bruce Springsteen's Women Fans
Mammography Wars
Analyzing Attention in Cultural and Medical Disputes
Mammography is a routine health screening performed 40 million times each year in the United States, yet it remains one of the most deeply contested topics in medicine. In Mammography Wars, sociologist Asia Friedman uses the sociology of attention to map the cognitive structure of the “mammography wars.”