Collision Course
Economic Change, Criminal Justice Reform, and Work in America
Carrying On
Another School of Thought on Pregnancy and Health
Carrying All before Her
Celebrity Pregnancy and the London Stage, 1689-1800
Carrying All Before Her recovers the stories of six eighteenth-century celebrity actresses who performed during pregnancy, melding public and private, persona and person, domestic and professional labor and helping to shape wider social, medical, and political conversations about gender, sexuality, pregnancy, and motherhood. Their stories deepen our understanding of celebrity, repertory, and theatre’s connection to a wider social world, and challenge notions of women’s agency and power in and beyond the professional theatre.
Black Space
Negotiating Race, Diversity, and Belonging in the Ivory Tower
Protests against systemic racism have swept across elite colleges and universities, raising questions about what it means for Black students to belong on these campuses. Sherry L. Deckman takes us into the lives of students in the Kuumba Singers, a Black student organization with racially diverse members and a self-proclaimed safe space for anyone but particularly Black students, as a case study in exploring race, diversity, and safe space.
American Urbanist
How William H. Whyte's Unconventional Wisdom Reshaped Public Life
American Urbanist shares the remarkable life and wisdom of William H. Whyte, whose advocacy reshaped many of the places we know and love today—from New York’s bustling Bryant Park to preserved forests and farmlands around the country. Over his five decades of research and writing, his wide-ranging work changed how people thought about careers and companies, cities and suburbs, urban planning, open space preservation, and more. In a time when most Americans were eager to fit in, he advocated for oddball ideas and unconformity. His ideas influenced everything from corporate hiring practices to designs of city plazas. “We need the kind of curiosity that blows the lid off everything,” he once said. This fascinating biography offers a rare glimpse into the mind of an iconoclast whose healthy skepticism of the status quo can help guide our efforts to create the kinds of places we want to live in today.
Theatre History Studies 2021, Vol 40
Soldiers, Saints, and Shamans
Indigenous Communities and the Revolutionary State in Mexico's Gran Nayar, 1910–1940
Soldiers, Saints, and Shamans documents how and why the Indigenous Náayari, Wixárika, O’dam, and Mexicanero peoples took part in the Mexican Revolution as they struggled to preserve their cultures, lands, and political autonomy in the face of civil war, bandit raids, and radical political reform. In unpacking the ambiguities that characterize their participation in this tumultuous period, it sheds light on the inner contradictions of the revolution itself.
From the Ground Up
Local Efforts to Create Resilient Cities
Sant presents 12 case studies, drawn from research and over 90 interviews with people who are working in these communities to make a difference. These efforts show how US cities are reclaiming their streets from cars, restoring watersheds, growing forests, and adapting shorelines to improve people’s lives while addressing our changing climate.
From the Ground Up is a call to action. When we make the places we live more climate resilient, we need to acknowledge and address the history of social and racial injustice. Advocates, non-profit organizations, community-based groups, and government officials will find examples of how to build alliances to support and embolden this vision together.
The Drum Is a Wild Woman
Jazz and Gender in African Diaspora Literature
A repositioning, reinvention, and reclamation of jazz writing by powerful women writers
The Circus Is in Town
Sport, Celebrity, and Spectacle
A tracking of the most explosive collisions between athletic reputation and public scandal
Primitivism and Identity in Latin America
Essays on Art, Literature, and Culture
Performing Racial Uplift
E. Azalia Hackley and African American Activism in the Postbellum to Pre-Harlem Era
A groundbreaking rediscovery of a classically trained innovator and powerful teacher who set milestones for African American singers and musicians
Making Levantine Cuisine
Modern Foodways of the Eastern Mediterranean
Land Uprising
Native Story Power and the Insurgent Horizons of Latinx Indigeneity
Land Uprising reframes Indigenous land reclamation as a horizon to decolonize the settler colonial conditions of literary, intellectual, and activist labor. Simón Ventura Trujillo argues that land provides grounding for rethinking the connection between Native storytelling practices and Latinx racialization across overlapping colonial and nation-state forms.
Drawing the Past, Volume 2
Comics and the Historical Imagination in the World
The conclusion of a worldwide study that investigates the role comics play in historical memory
Drawing the Past, Volume 1
Comics and the Historical Imagination in the United States
The first installment of a tremendous exploration between comics and history
Conversations with Dave Eggers
A collection of thirty-four interviews with a publisher, editor, and bestselling writer who is known for his range of works and breadth of philanthropic pursuits
Black Man in the Netherlands
An Afro-Antillean Anthropology
A memoir and anthropological annunciation of how anti-racism is transforming the Caribbean and the Old World
Barbara Jordan
Speaking the Truth with Eloquent Thunder
A Historical Archaeology of Early Spanish Colonial Urbanism in Central America
Stories of Becoming
Demystifying the Professoriate for Graduate Students in Composition and Rhetoric
Based on findings from a multiyear, nationwide study of new faculty in the field of rhetoric and composition, Stories of Becoming provides graduate students—and those who train them—with specific strategies for preparing for a career in the professoriate.
Myofascial Induction™ Volume 1: The Upper Body
An Anatomical Approach to the Treatment of Fascial Dysfunction
Adapting to the Land
A History of Agriculture in Colorado
Slow Fuse of the Possible
A Memoir of Poetry and Psychoanalysis
An engrossing and beautifully crafted memoir of imagination, obsession, and disaster from the couch of old-fashioned four-times-a-week psychoanalysis.
The Japanese Buddhist World Map
Religious Vision and the Cartographic Imagination
Residues
Thinking Through Chemical Environments
Residues offers readers a new approach for conceptualizing the environmental impacts of chemicals production, consumption, disposal, and regulation. With detailed stories that span the globe, we introduce “residual materialism” as a way to track the, often invisible, impacts of chemicals through time and space and for explaining their world-making powers.