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The Activist Collector
Lida Clanton Broner’s 1938 Journey from Newark to South Africa
“After twenty-eight years of desire and determination, I have visited Africa, the land of my forefathers.” So wrote Lida Clanton Broner (1895–1982), an African American housekeeper and hairstylist from Newark, New Jersey, upon her return from an extraordinary nine-month journey to South Africa in 1938. This epic trip was motivated not only by Broner’s sense of ancestral heritage, but also a grassroots resolve to connect the socio-political concerns of African Americans with those of Black South Africans under the segregationist policies of the time. During her travels, this woman of modest means circulated among South Africa’s Black intellectual elite, including many leaders of South Africa’s freedom struggle. Her lectures at Black schools on “race consciousness and race pride” had a decidedly political bent, even as she was presented as an “American beauty specialist.”
Unsafe Words
Queering Consent in the #MeToo Era
Seton Hall University
A History, 1856–2006
In this vivid and elegantly written history, Dermot Quinn examines how Seton Hall University was able to develop as an institution while keeping faith with its founder’s vision. It also tells the stories of the people who shaped the university and were shaped by it: the presidents, the priests, the faculty, the staff, and of course, the students.
Poetries - Politics
A Celebration of Language, Art, and Learning
Matchmaking in the Archive
19 Conversations with the Dead and 3 Encounters with Ghosts
Making Uncertainty
Tuberculosis, Substance Use, and Pathways to Health in South Africa
Building Financial Empowerment for Survivors of Domestic Violence
A Path to Hope and Freedom
A Pill for Promiscuity
Gay Sex in an Age of Pharmaceuticals
A History of Horror, 2nd Edition
To Defend This Sunrise
Black Women’s Activism and the Authoritarian Turn in Nicaragua
To Defend This Sunrise
Black Women's Activism and the Authoritarian Turn in Nicaragua
Reversing the Gaze
What If the Other Were You?
Perfect Copies
Reproduction and the Contemporary Comic
My Language Is a Jealous Lover
In Praise of Disobedience
Clare of Assisi, A Novel
Gray Love
Stories About Dating and New Relationships After 60
Global Child
Children and Families Affected by War, Displacement, and Migration
A World of Many
Ontology and Child Development among the Maya of Southern Mexico
Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization
Transnational Cultural Flow from Home
Korean Community in Greater New York
Radical Hospitality
American Policy, Media, and Immigration
Radical Hospitality centers hospitality as a primary metaphor and ethical framework governing the relationship of the migrant to both the “native” population and the host nation. The book examines the history of US immigration policy and media coverage to evaluate hospitality or hostility towards immigrants, and the impact this may have for immigrants’ sense of home and belonging within the nation.
Just Like Us
Digital Debates on Feminism and Fame
In Just Like Us: Digital Debates on Feminism and Fame, Caitlin E. Lawson examines the rise of celebrity feminism, its intersections with digital culture, and its complicated relationships with race, sexuality, capitalism, and misogyny. Through in-depth analyses of online debates, Lawson demonstrates how networked negotiations of celebrity culture and feminism are transforming popular engagements with the movement.
Global Visions of Violence
Agency and Persecution in World Christianity
From Protest to President
A Social Justice Journey through the Emergence of Adult Education and the Birth of Distance Learning
From Popular to Insurgent Intellectuals
Peasant Catechists in the Salvadoran Revolution
From Popular to Insurgent Intellectuals explains how a group of Catholic lay catechists educated in liberation theology became early regional protagonists in El Salvador’s revolutionary war (1980-92). The book chronicles the steps by which state violence led peacful men of God to join a revolutionary organization in which they came to play important roles for the duration of the twelve-year military conflict.
Digital Me
Trans Students Exploring Future Possible Selves Online
The Internet is a potent site from which to theorize, but also imagine, invest in, and explore the prismatic possibilities for life. Digital Me explores how transgender people use the internet in myriad ways. The book explores online life--from cultivating identity to creating community and everything in between.
How Schools Meet Students' Needs
Inequality, School Reform, and Caring Labor
The "Puerto Rican Problem" in Postwar New York City
Spirits in the Consulting Room
Eight Tales of Healing
Prestige Television
Cultural and Artistic Value in Twenty-First-Century America
Prestige Television
Cultural and Artistic Value in Twenty-First-Century America
Photo-Attractions
An Indian Dancer, an American Photographer, and a German Camera
A groundbreaking study of global modernity and the cultural interchange between America and South Asia, Photo-Attractions uses a rare and unpublished set of 1938 photographs taken by the photographer Carl Van Vechten of the Indian dancer Ram Gopal in exotic costumes to raise provocative questions about race, sexual identity, photographic technology, colonial histories, and transcultural desires.
Opting Out
Women Messing with Marriage around the World
Opting Out
Women Messing with Marriage around the World
Intoxication
An Ethnography of Effervescent Revelry
Why do people across cultures gather regularly to intoxicate themselves? Vivid and at times deeply personal, Intoxication offers new insights into a wide variety of intoxicating experiences, from the intimate feeling of connection among concertgoers to the adrenaline-fueled rush of a fight to the thrill of jumping off a balcony into a swimming pool. Sébastien Tutenges shows what it means and feels to move beyond the ordinary into altered states in which the transgressive, spectacular, and unexpected takes place.