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My Race Is My Gender
Portraits of Nonbinary People of Color
My Race is My Gender is the first anthology by nonbinary writers of color to include photography and visual portraits, centering their everyday experiences of negotiating intersectional identities. Bringing together Black, Indigenous, Latine, and Asian perspectives, its six contributors share their personal stories of working for racial justice and the recognition of queer gender identities.
Locker Room Talk
A Woman’s Struggle to Get Inside
Melissa Ludtke offers a compelling account of her courtroom quest to do what her male sportswriter colleagues took for granted: to talk with players in Major League Baseball’s locker rooms. She reveals how, as a 26-year-old woman, she took MLB Commissioner Bowie Kuhn to federal court—and won.
Alien Soil
Oral Histories of Great Migration Newark
The Georgia of the North
Black Women and the Civil Rights Movement in New Jersey
Soviet-Born
The Afterlives of Migration in Jewish American Fiction
Latin* Students in Engineering
An Intentional Focus on a Growing Population
Latin* Students in Engineering examines the state of Latin* engineering education at present as well as considerations for policy and practice regarding engineering education aimed at enhancing opportunity and better serving Latin* students. The essays in this volume first consider, theoretically and empirically, the experiences of Latin* students in engineering education and then expand beyond the student level to focus on institutional and social structures that challenge Latin* students' success and retention.
Film Noir and the Arts of Lighting
An Ordinary Landscape of Violence
Women Loving Women in Guyana
Smoothing the Jew
"Abie the Agent" and Ethnic Caricature in the Progressive Era
