Sax Expat
Don Byas
The riveting biography of one of the world’s greatest yet lesser-known jazz musicians
Reframing Paquimé
Community Formation in Northwest Chihuahua
Based on twenty-five years of survey and excavation work in the Casas Grandes region, this book presents an interpretation of Paquimé that differs greatly from the traditional ideas that have dominated the literature for the last half-century. This massive reinterpretation of the inner workings of the Casas Grandes region tackles the essential question of how Paquimé affected its near neighbors and also addresses the enigmatic end to the great city. An essential archaeological text, Reframing Paquimé will generate debate for a generation of future scholars of Northwest Mexico and the adjacent U.S. Southwest.
Public Loves, Private Troubles
Migration, Technology, and Intimacy in Rural Indigenous Guatemala
Examines the role of digital technologies in the lives of Kaqchikel Maya women whose husbands work abroad
Producing Children
Critical Studies in Childhood Creativity
Children’s culture is not only culture for children; it’s culture by children — yet scholars of children’s culture overwhelmingly center work by adults for children. Producing Children acknowledges and theorizes children as cultural producers, underscoring how such creativity empowers children as active participants in their own culture, and helps us to reconceive our understandings of children themselves.
Producing Children
Critical Studies in Childhood Creativity
Children’s culture is not only culture for children; it’s culture by children — yet scholars of children’s culture overwhelmingly center work by adults for children. Producing Children acknowledges and theorizes children as cultural producers, underscoring how such creativity empowers children as active participants in their own culture, and helps us to reconceive our understandings of children themselves.
Organizing Professionals
Academic Employees Negotiating a New Academy
Academic employees are organizing and negotiating for respect for workers, their work, and the public value of higher education. Scholar and labor activist Gary Rhoades analyzes how academic employees are shifting the imbalance of power between labor and management, reducing the internal professional stratification between segments of the academic workforce, and intersecting workplace issues with broader issues of equality, public value, and social justice, and in the process organizing and negotiating for a new, more progressive academy.
Net Values
Environmental, Economic, and Social Entanglements in the Gulf of California
In Net Values, Nicole D. Peterson provides new perspectives around fishing, conservation, and community well-being effectively. The book uses narratives and examples to challenge the current approaches toward rational individual choices and offers suggestions about better directions for understanding choice in real-world contexts.
Latinx Comics Studies
Critical and Creative Crossings
Latinx Comics Studies considers the role of comics and graphic narrative in picturing the rich realities of Latinx communities. It brings together groundbreaking critical essays, practical reflections, original and republished short comics to explore how comics by, for, and about Latinx peoples creatively and conceptually experiment with the very boundaries of “Latinx.”
Latinx Comics Studies
Critical and Creative Crossings
Latinx Comics Studies considers the role of comics and graphic narrative in picturing the rich realities of Latinx communities. It brings together groundbreaking critical essays, practical reflections, original and republished short comics to explore how comics by, for, and about Latinx peoples creatively and conceptually experiment with the very boundaries of “Latinx.”
King Noir
The Crime Fiction of Stephen King
The first critical study to trace the hardboiled detective inheritance of America’s Storyteller
Hustles for Humanists
Build a Business with Purpose
Discover your full potential.Hustles for Humanists helps you unlock the value of your humanities practice and explore exciting new pathways to achieving economic stability both within and beyond academia.
Global Indigenous Horror
The first critical collection to unsettle the horror genre through a contemporary Indigenous gaze
Faulkner On and Off the Page
Essays in Biographical Criticism
Fresh perspectives on one of literature’s most willfully enigmatic figures
Faith and the Fragility of Justice
Responses to Gender-Based Violence in South Africa
Faith and the Fragility of Justice illuminates the role of religion in the intersection of race, gender, and power by showing how South African Christian organizations’ responses to apartheid follow a clear path for their attention to gender-based violence in the democracy, arguing that theologies that promote racial justice can facilitate or constrain the pursuit of gender justice.
Crossings
Creative Ecologies of Cruising
A creative dialogue between a queer artist and a queer academic reminiscing about and thinking with their cruising experiences, Crossing takes queer sex practices seriously as ways of knowing and world-making. The result is an erotic hybrid form hovering between scholarship and avant-garde experimentation, between critical manifesto and sex memoir.
Contested Curriculum
LGBTQ History Goes to School
Contested Curriculum recounts the fight for LGBTQ-inclusive K-12 history education in the United States. Historian Don Romesburg makes a powerful case for why teaching about LGBTQ lives in schools can help us produce more informed, more thoughtful, and more compassionate citizens.
Chester Brown
A concise overview of the renowned comics creator of Yummy Fur, Ed the Happy Clown, I Never Liked You, Louis Riel, and Paying for It
Chemical Lands
Pesticides, Aerial Spraying, and Health in North America's Grasslands since 1945
Brown Bears in Alaska's National Parks
Conservation of a Wilderness Icon
Brown bears are powerful symbols of wilderness, thriving in the vast, untamed ecosystems of Alaska’s remote national parks. Brown Bears in Alaska’s National Parks is a unique and thorough exploration of the conservation, ecology, and management of brown bears in these parks, including examinations of bear biology, human-bear interactions, population estimation methods, and the effects of climate change on bear populations.