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Chicano Communists and the Struggle for Social Justice
The University of Arizona Press
Chicano Communists and the Struggle for Social Justice traces the early roots of the Chicano Movement. It follows the thread of radical activism of the 1930s and 1940s to today, showing the depth of its influence on Mexican Americans struggling to achieve social justice and equality.
Reformers, Teachers, Writers
Curricular and Pedagogical Inquiries
By Neal Lerner
Utah State University Press
Neal Lerner explores the distinction between curriculum and pedagogy in writing studies—and the ways in which failing to attend to that distinction results in the failure of educational reform.
United States Reconstruction across the Americas
Edited by William A. Link
University Press of Florida
Historians have examined the American Civil War and its aftermath for more than a century, yet little work has situated this important era in a global context. Contributors to this volume open up ways of viewing Reconstruction not as an insular process but as an international phenomenon.
Rhetorical Machines
Writing, Code, and Computational Ethics
University of Alabama Press
A landmark volume that explores the interconnected nature of technologies and rhetorical practice
Coloniality of the US/Mexico Border
Power, Violence, and the Decolonial Imperative
The University of Arizona Press
Based on more than twenty years of border activism in San Diego–Tijuana and El Paso–Ciudad Juárez, this book is an interdisciplinary examination that considers the 1984 McDonald’s massacre, Minutemen vigilantism, border urbanism, the ongoing murder of women in Ciudad Juárez, and anti-border music. It is a theoretical and pragmatic analysis of the future of violence at—and because of—national territorial borders, and it offers a call for epistemic and cartographic disobedience.
Athapaskan Migrations
The Archaeology of Eagle Lake, British Columbia
By R. G. Matson and Martin P. R. Magne
The University of Arizona Press
Alabama Creates
200 Years of Art and Artists
University of Alabama Press
A visually rich survey of two hundred years of Alabama fine arts and artists
Writing Across Cultures
Utah State University Press
Writing Across Culturesinvites both new and experienced teachers to examine the ways in which their training has—or has not—prepared them for dealing with issues of race, power, and authority in their writing classrooms.
Poetic Justice
An Anthology of Contemporary Moroccan Poetry
Edited by Deborah Kapchan
Ctr for Middle Eastern Studies UT-Austin
This anthology of Moroccan poetry by over seventy contemporary poets presents a significant contribution to the field of Moroccan literature in translation and will appeal to readers with an interest in Arabic poetry in general and the Moroccan dialect in
Japanese Brazilian Saudades
Diasporic Identities and Cultural Production
University Press of Colorado
Explores the self-definition of Nikkei discourse in Portuguese-language cultural production by Brazilian authors of Japanese ancestry and suggests an alternative model of postcoloniality, particularly as it pertains to the post–World War II experience of Nikkei people in Brazil.
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Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City"
Reshaping Justice, Social Hierarchy, and Political Culture in Colonial Peru
University Press of Colorado
Through newly unearthed texts virtually unknown in Andean studies, Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City" highlights the Andean intellectual tradition of writing in their long-term struggle for social empowerment and questions the previous understanding of the "lettered city" as a privileged space populated solely by colonial elites. Rarely acknowledged in studies of resistance to colonial rule, these writings challenged colonial hierarchies and ethnic discrimination in attempts to redefine the Andean role in colonial society.
Communities and Households in the Greater American Southwest
New Perspectives and Case Studies
University Press of Colorado
Presents new research on human organization in the American Southwest.
Two Women in One House and other Stories
By Cyntha Hariadi; Translated by Pamela Allen
The Lontar Foundation
Two Postmen and Other Poems
By Ni Made Purnama Sari; Translated by George A. Fowler
The Lontar Foundation
The Wedding Night and other Stories
By Dias Novita Wuri; Translated by Tjandra Kerton
The Lontar Foundation
The Mystical Path of Badrul Mustafa
By Heru Joni Putra; Translated by George A. Fowler
The Lontar Foundation
The Legacy of Rulership in Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl’s Historia de la nación chichimeca
University of New Mexico Press
In this book Leisa A. Kauffmann takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the writings of one of Mexico's early chroniclers, Fernando de Alva Ixtilxochitl, a bilingual seventeenth-century historian from Central Mexico.
Philosophies of Place
An Intercultural Conversation
Edited by Peter D. Hershock and Roger T. Ames
University of Hawaii Press
My Birthplace and Other Stories
By Sunlie Thomas Alexander; Translated by Isla Winarto
The Lontar Foundation
Mantra for Attacking the City
By F. Aziz Manna; Translated by John H. McGlynn
The Lontar Foundation
Indigenous Persistence in the Colonized Americas
Material and Documentary Perspectives on Entanglement
Edited by Heather Law Pezzarossi and Russell N. Sheptak
University of New Mexico Press
This scholarly collection explores the method and theory of the archaeological study of indigenous persistence and long-term colonial entanglement.
Igdrasil and Other Stories
By Dinar Rahayu; Translated by Bronwyn Duke
The Lontar Foundation
Extract from the novel All the Fish in the Sky
By Ziggy Zezsyazeoviennazabrizkie; Translated by Pamela Allen
The Lontar Foundation
Excerpts from the novel Arrived Before Departing
By Faisal Oddang; Translated by Marjie Suanda
The Lontar Foundation
E Hoʻi ka Uʻi
Perspectives on Placemaking in Hawaiʻi
Edited by Kelsy M. Y. Jorgensen
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Bui Ihi
The Cooling of the Harvest and Other Poems
By Mario F. Lawi; Translated by John H. McGlynn
The Lontar Foundation
A Forest of Pearls from the Dharma Garden
Volume II
Translated by Koichi Shinohara
BDK America
The End of International Adoption?
An Unraveling Reproductive Market and the Politics of Healthy Babies
By Estye Fenton
Rutgers University Press
Estye Fenton studies parents in the United States who adopted internationally in the past decade. She investigates the experiences of a cohort of adoptive mothers who were forced to negotiate their desire to be parents in the context of a growing societal awareness of international adoption as a flawed reproductive marketplace.
Millennials in Architecture
Generations, Disruption, and the Legacy of a Profession
University of Texas Press
The first book to explore the impact of the newest generation of architects—with a call for firms and educators to foster leadership in Millennials, tapping their innovative capacity to shape the twenty-first century.
Steve Gerber
Conversations
University Press of Mississippi
Collected interviews with the comics creator of Howard the Duck, Man-Thing, and Omega the Unknown
Stan Brakhage
Interviews
Edited by Suranjan Ganguly
University Press of Mississippi
Collected interviews with the director of such iconic films as Anticipation of the Night, Dog Star Man, Scenes from Under Childhood, Mothlight, and Text of Light
Robert Taylor
Male Beauty, Masculinity, and Stardom in Hollywood
University Press of Mississippi
The first in-depth study of one of Hollywood’s most popular but forgotten leading men
Peculiar Rhetoric
Slavery, Freedom, and the African Colonization Movement
University Press of Mississippi
A new engagement with the tangled, fraught antebellum debate surrounding black resettlement
Love, Anarchy, & Emma Goldman
A Biography
By Candace Falk
Rutgers University Press, Rutgers University Press Classics
More than an account of Emma Goldman’s legendary career as a political activist, this biography offers an intimate look into her tumultuous affair with Chicago activist and red-light-district gynecologist Ben Reitman. As it charts her twin passions for Reitman and for social reform, it provides new insights into a brilliant, complex woman.
Faulkner and Money
Edited by Jay Watson and James G. Thomas Jr.
University Press of Mississippi
A thorough assay of the Nobel Laureate through the lens of lucre
Faulkner and History
Edited by Jay Watson and James G. Thomas Jr.
University Press of Mississippi
A stimulating treatment of the intersection between history and literature in the Nobel Laureate’s work
Conversations with Paule Marshall
Edited by James C. Hall and Heather Hathaway
University Press of Mississippi
The first collection of interviews with the acclaimed African American/Afro-Caribbean author of Triangular Road; The Chosen Place, the Timeless People; and Brown Girl, Brownstones
Conversations with Gary Snyder
Edited by David Stephen Calonne
University Press of Mississippi
More than half a century of interviews with one of the most distinguished contemporary American poets
Conversations with Allen Ginsberg
Edited by David Stephen Calonne
University Press of Mississippi
Collected interviews with one of the most famous American poets of the twentieth century
Reconsidering Laura Ingalls Wilder
Little House and Beyond
Edited by Miranda A. Green-Barteet and Anne K. Phillips
University Press of Mississippi
A thoroughly researched and critical examination of Wilder’s entire body of work and problematic legacy
Partisans, Guerillas, and Irregulars
Historical Archaeology of Asymmetric Warfare
Edited by Steven D. Smith and Clarence R. Geier
University of Alabama Press
Essays that explore the growing field of conflict archaeology
Mortuary and Bioarchaeological Perspectives on Bronze Age Arabia
Edited by Kimberly D. Williams and Lesley A. Gregoricka
University of Florida Press
Graphic Memories of the Civil Rights Movement
Reframing History in Comics
By Jorge Santos
University of Texas Press
A study of five graphic novels or memoirs that have reshaped the narrative of civil rights in America—and an examination of the format’s power to allow readers to participate in the memory-making process.
Early Alabama
An Illustrated Guide to the Formative Years, 1798–1826
By Mike Bunn
University of Alabama Press
An illustrated guidebook documenting the history and sites of the state’s origins
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