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Post-Crisis Leadership
Resilience, Renewal, and Reinvention in the Aftermath of Disruption
Rutgers University Press
Crisis leadership—which takes account of leading before, during, and after crisis—is an imperative for leaders at all levels. Often relegated as an afterthought in crisis scholarship and practice, the ability to navigate the post-crisis period can distinguish highly effective leaders and organizations. This book introduces a research-informed framework for this critical, and often neglected, phase of crisis leadership.
Portuguese Jews and New Christians in Colonial Brazil, 1500-1822
A New Geography of the Atlantic World
University of New Mexico Press
Persisting Pandemics
Syphilis, AIDS, and COVID
Rutgers University Press
Syphilis, AIDS, and COVID disprove any belief that scientific discoveries have ended the period of acute epidemic diseases that once defined 19th century life and replaced them with chronic cardiovascular diseases and cancers. Today, we cope with a greater array of epidemics than those who lived during the 19th century, even though we have the biomedical means to control them. Our cumulative experience with epidemic diseases, together with our attempts to eliminate them, remains a continued component of our existence.
Pentecostal Preacher Woman
The Faith and Feminism of Bernice Gerard
UBC Press
Evangelical pastor, talk-show host, politician, musician. Pentecostal Preacher Woman explores the complex life of Bernice Gerard, one of the most influential spiritual figures of twentieth-century British Columbia.
Otrarse
Ladino Poems
By Juan Gelman; Edited and translated by Ilan Stavans
University of New Mexico Press
Memory Work
White Ignorance and Black Resistance in Popular Magazines, 1900-1910
University Press of Mississippi
How post-Reconstruction periodicals used opposing rhetorical strategies to shape public memory
Making the Human
Race, Allegory, and Asian Americans
Rutgers University Press
Making the Human grapples with the interactions between narrative, materiality, and Asian American racialization. Examining contemporary debates over the role of Asian Americans in affirmative action, media representation, police brutality, and public health discourses, Sugino argues media and cultural narratives about Asian Americans shape contemporary ideas about humanity, justice, family, and nation in ways that naturalize hierarchy.
Living Design
The Writings of Clara Porset
Edited by Zoë Ryan and Valentina Sarmiento Cruz
Concordia University Press
Lifting the Shadow
Reshaping Memory, Race, and Slavery in U.S. Museums
By Amy Sodaro
Rutgers University Press
Lifting the Shadow examines how the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Montgomery’s Legacy Museum and Tulsa’s Greenwood Rising are challenging the national narrative on slavery and race by placing racial oppression at the center of American history and linking historical slavery to contemporary racial injustice.
Jane Austen and Masculinity
Edited by Michael Kramp
Bucknell University Press
Essays in this wide-ranging collection consider representations of men and masculinity in Jane Austen’s fiction and popular adaptations of her novels. As the first volume to specifically address this topic, Jane Austen and Masculinity makes an important critical intervention, and invites further research on gender and sexuality within Austen’s corpus.
Inside Tenement Time
Suss, Spirit, and Surveillance
By Kezia Page
Rutgers University Press
Inside Tenement Time is a study of Jamaican literary and cultural texts presenting surveillance in the Caribbean. The project introduces two Afro-Indigenous variations on surveillance--sussveillance and spiritveillance--as exemplars of vernacular arts and shows that Caribbean hegemonies are flexible. The book reads the Smile Jamaica concert (1976) and the Tivoli Incursion (2010) as states of high surveillance emergency.
Inaccessible Access
Rethinking Disability Inclusion in Academic Knowledge Creation
Edited by Kelly Fagan Robinson, Mark T. Carew, and Nora Ellen Groce; Illustrated by Indigo Ayling; Introduction by Kelly Fagan Robinson; Preface by Mark T. Carew; Afterword by Michele Friedner
Rutgers University Press
Inaccessible Access ethnographically addresses barriers to inclusion within knowledge-making. It focuses on the social, environmental, communicative, and epistemological barriers that people with disabilities confront and embody throughout the course of their learning, living and in the specific context of their Higher Education Institutions and in research.
Inaccessible Access
Rethinking Disability Inclusion in Academic Knowledge Creation
Edited by Kelly Fagan Robinson, Mark T. Carew, and Nora Ellen Groce; Illustrated by Indigo Ayling; Introduction by Kelly Fagan Robinson; Preface by Mark T. Carew; Afterword by Michele Friedner
Rutgers University Press
Inaccessible Access ethnographically addresses barriers to inclusion within knowledge-making. It focuses on the social, environmental, communicative, and epistemological barriers that people with disabilities confront and embody throughout the course of their learning, living and in the specific context of their Higher Education Institutions and in research.
Frankie McIntosh and the Art of the Soca Arranger
By Frankie McIntosh and Ray Allen
University Press of Mississippi
A richly contextualized memoir from a celebrated soca arranger and musician
Conversations with Lenard D. Moore
Edited by John Zheng
University Press of Mississippi
A fundamental collection of sixteen interviews with the esteemed writer and former president of the Haiku Society of America
Cinema under National Reconstruction
State Censorship and South Korea’s Cold War Film Culture
Rutgers University Press
Drawing upon primary documents from the Korean Film Archive’s digitized database and framing South Korean film censorship from a transnational perspective, Cinema Under National Reconstruction redefines censorship as a productive feedback system where both state regulators and filmmakers played active roles in shaping the new narrative or sentiment of the nation on the big screen.
Cinema under National Reconstruction
State Censorship and South Korea's Cold War Film Culture
Rutgers University Press
Drawing upon primary documents from the Korean Film Archive’s digitized database and framing South Korean film censorship from a transnational perspective, Cinema Under National Reconstruction redefines censorship as a productive feedback system where both state regulators and filmmakers played active roles in shaping the new narrative or sentiment of the nation on the big screen.
Children as Social Butterflies
Navigating Belonging in a Diverse Swiss Kindergarten
Rutgers University Press
Children as Social Butterflies offers an analysis of how children negotiate social belonging. Ursina Jaeger followed the children of a kindergarten class in a stigmatized and diverse neighborhood for several years, both inside and outside of school. Along with giving vivid insights into the children's everyday lives, she examines how social differentiation is learned in diverse societies.
Black Feminist Anthropology, 25th Anniversary Edition
Theory, Politics, Praxis, and Poetics
By Irma McClaurin; Foreword by Johnnetta Betsch Cole
Rutgers University Press
Black Feminist Anthropology: Theory, Politics, Praxis and Poetics established a new canon that guaranteed the voices, theorizing, and experiences of Black Feminist anthropologists could shine out loud in ways that 25 years later are still “healing,” “life-saving,” and an affirmation of these transformative and decolonized contributions. It is both an archive and a legacy for the next generation.
Bayou Dilemma
Louisiana in Crisis and Change
Edited by Samuel C. Hyde Jr.
University Press of Mississippi
Powerful perspectives on the historical and present-day challenges facing the state of Louisiana
The Tensaw River
Alabama's Hidden Heritage Corridor
By Mike Bunn
University of Alabama Press
An introduction to the rich history of the Tensaw River
The Flat Woman
A Novel
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Asks who gets the right to call themselves a good person in a morally bankrupt world
Savages and Citizens
How Indigeneity Shapes the State
The University of Arizona Press
This book takes the provocative view that Indigenous people have been fundamental to how contemporary state sovereignty was imagined, theorized, and practiced. By tracing indigeneity from European philosophers conceptualizing sovereignty during the Enlightenment to Indigenous President Evo Morales in Bolivia, this volume offers new analytical tools to explore indigeneity in contemporary world politics.
Redrawing the Western
A History of American Comics and the Mythic West
University of Texas Press
A history of American Western genre comics and how they interacted with contemporaneous political and popular culture.
Maya Christian Murals of Early Modern Yucatán
By Amara Solari and Linda K. Williams
University of Texas Press
The first study of Christian murals created by indigenous artists in sixteenth and seventeenth century Yucatán.
Cold War Anthropologist
Isabel Kelly and Rural Development in Mexico
The University of Arizona Press
This book explores the changing nature of U.S.-Mexican relations, development programs, state efforts of assimilation, the field of anthropology, and gendered experiences in mid-twentieth-century Mexico through the international work of Dr. Isabel T. Kelly (1906–1983).
Brazil's Sex Wars
The Aesthetics of Queer Activism in São Paulo
University of Texas Press
An ethnography and media analysis of LGBT+ activism in São Paulo during Brazil’s conservative turn from 2010 to 2018.
Bordering on War
A Social and Political History of Khuzestan
University of Texas Press
A study of transnational identity, migration, and state loyalties told through the social and political history of Iran’s Khuzestan province.
Seviyye Talip
By Halide Edib Adivar; Translated by Iclal Vanwesenbeeck
Ctr for Middle Eastern Studies UT-Austin
A new translation of a best-selling novel about love, liberty, and exile in the final years of the Ottoman Empire.
Pleasure and Pain in US Public Culture
University of Alabama Press
Unraveling the intricate dance of pleasure and pain in contemporary American culture
Kids in Cages
Surviving and Resisting Child Migrant Detention
The University of Arizona Press
This book provides an interdisciplinary perspective of child migrant detention by bringing together voices from the legal realm, the academic world, and the on-the-ground experiences of activists and practitioners. The chapters explore the harms of detention while also looking at survival in and resistance to this violent institution.
For the Bees
A Handbook for Happy Beekeeping
By Tara Dawn Chapman; Illustrated by Caroline Brown
University of Texas Press
A handbook for what to expect the first year of beekeeping and beyond.
Cuba on the Labels
A Selection of Cuba-Themed Cigar Labels Printed Outside of Cuba
By Emilio Cueto
University of Florida Press, Library Press at UF
Cuba on the Labels: A Selection of Cuba-Themed Cigar Labels Printed Outside of Cuba is Emilio Cueto’s third book in his Inspired by Cuba! series. Cueto explores how the island of Cuba and one of the island’s top exports, the Cuban cigar, have been immortalized in cigar labels created outside of Cuba. Seen through the eyes of these cigar label makers, Cuba itself serves as the book’s protagonist.
Caracoleando Among Worlds
Reconstructing Maya Worldviews in Chiapas
By Silvia Soto
The University of Arizona Press
This book focuses on the analysis of the contemporary literary movement of Maya writers of Chiapas. At the heart of this examination is a journey into the trajectory of this literary movement and its connection to the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (or EZLN) insurgency. This work shows two movements that are rooted in shared visions of rescuing, reclaiming, and recentering Maya worldviews.
Transforming the Prairies
Agricultural Rehabilitation and Modern Canada
UBC Press
Transforming the Prairies critically reassesses Canada’s Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration in light of its involvement in ecological changes and its role in consolidating colonialism and racism.
Substance of the Ancient Maya
Kingdoms and Communities, Objects and Beings
Edited by Andrew K. Scherer and Thomas G. Garrison
University of New Mexico Press
Pueblo Bonito and Chaco Canyon Revisited
The Published versus the Unpublished Record
University of New Mexico Press