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Dream and Legacy, Volume II

Revisiting King in the Post-Civil Rights Era

University Press of Mississippi

An examination of race and politics since 2020 through the lens of Martin Luther King’s vision

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Doing Difference Differently

Chinese International Students’ Literacy Practices and Affordances

Utah State University Press

Doing Difference Differently ethnographically recounts the stories of four Chinese international students navigating the complex socio-academic environment of a North American institution for higher education. 

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Doing Difference Differently

Chinese International Students' Literacy Practices and Affordances

Utah State University Press

Doing Difference Differently ethnographically recounts the stories of four Chinese international students navigating the complex socio-academic environment of a North American institution for higher education. 

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Cripping Labor-Based Grading for More Equity in Literacy Courses

The WAC Clearinghouse

Writing in response to recent work by Kathleen Kryger, Griffin X. Zimmerman, and Ellen C. Carillo, Asao B. Inoue offers an expanded and compassionate discussion of labor-based grading, a practice that involves negotiating a set of classroom agreements with all of the students in a course to determine how much labor will be expected of students and how it will be accounted for or identified to earn particular final course grades.

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Burnin' Daylight

Building a Principle-Driven Writing Program

Utah State University Press

Rooted in contemporary understandings of social action, informed by up-to-date research on writing program administration, and attentive to the needs of value-driven decision-making, Burnin’ Daylight enables writing program administrators (WPAs) to shape writing programs that help people create the lives they envision.

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Broken Boxes

A Decade of Art, Action, and Dialogue

University of New Mexico Press
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A Walk with Frank O'Hara

Poems

University of New Mexico Press
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Motion Picture Paradise

A History of Florida's Film and Television Industry

University Press of Florida

This book is a sweeping story of filmmaking in Florida, chronicling the state’s importance to producers throughout 125 years by looking at the many iconic films and television shows made across the peninsula.

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American Tacos

A History and Guide

University of Texas Press

The first history of tacos developed in the United States, now revised and expanded, this book is the definitive survey that American taco lovers must have for their own taco explorations.

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Art during Wartime

Painting Everyday Life in the Civil War North

University of Massachusetts Press
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The Rise of Newport’s Catholics

From Colonial Outcasts to Gilded Age Leaders

University of Massachusetts Press
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The Calusa and Their Legacy

South Florida People and Their Environments

University Press of Florida

Rich with photographs and colorful drawings, this history of south Florida’s Calusa people presents a vivid picture of the natural environment and teeming estuaries along Florida’s coasts that sustained the Calusa.

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Some Nightmares Are Real

The Haunting Truth Behind Alabama’s Supernatural Tales

By Kelly Kazek; Illustrated by Sarah Cotton
University of Alabama Press

Southern writer and folklorist Kelly Kazek’s collection of eerie and enigmatic Alabama ghost stories

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Official Guide to Texas State Parks and Historic Sites

New Edition

University of Texas Press

The essential guide to Texas’s state parks and historic sites.

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Civil Rights in Bakersfield

Segregation and Multiracial Activism in the Central Valley

University of Texas Press

A multiracial history of civil rights coalitions beyond the farm worker movement in twentieth-century Bakersfield, California.

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Local Governance in Transition

Toward Sustainable Canadian Communities

UBC Press

Local Governance in Transition presents a framework for conversations around technological, ecological, and economic challenges – and encourages innovative thinking for those interested in exploring sustainable solutions.

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Circle of Wonder

A Native American Christmas Story

University of New Mexico Press
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Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan

Feminists, Lesbians, and Girls‘ Comics Artists and Fans

University of Hawaii Press
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Mobile and Havana

Sisters across the Gulf

University of Alabama Press

A sumptuously illustrated and vivid account of the deep ties that bridge the histories and cultures of two colorful and storied port cities
 

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Early Ryukyuan History

A New Model

University of Hawaii Press
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Confronting Christianity

The Protestant Mission and the Buddhist Reform Movement in Nineteenth-Century Thailand

University of Hawaii Press
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Chinese Colonial Entanglements

Commodities and Traders in the Southern Asia Pacific, 1880–1950

University of Hawaii Press
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Seasons at Lakeside Dairy

Family Stories from a Black-Owned Dairy, Louisiana to California and Beyond

University Press of Mississippi

A brilliant storytelling showcase of the enduring legacy of a Black-owned dairy and its impact across generations

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Accompaniment with Im/migrant Communities

Engaged Ethnography

The University of Arizona Press

This edited volume is a collective conversation between anthropologists, activists, students, im/migrants, and community members about accompaniment—a feminist care-based, decolonial mode of ethnographic engagement. Across the chapters, contributors engage with accompaniment with im/migrant communities in a variety of ways that challenge traditional boundaries between researcher-participant, scholar-activist, and academic-community member to explicitly address issues of power, inequality, and well-being for the communities they work with and alongside.

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The Secret Life of Rose

Jessica Kingsley Publishers
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Rewriting Work

Edited by Lora Anderson
The WAC Clearinghouse

Because of its centrality to the professional identity of any communications-focused discipline, the workplace has for decades been a focus of practice and scholarship in technical and professional communication. The contributors to Rewriting Workexamine workplace writing through the lenses of identity and changing communication practices, arguing that place can be viewed as a productive frame for understanding how technical and professional communication has changed over the last two decades.

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Mesoamerican Osteobiographies

Revealing the Lives and Deaths of Ancient Individuals

University of Florida Press

Drawing from a variety of sites throughout Mesoamerica, this volume presents a collection of osteobiographies, which analyze skeletons and their surroundings alongside historical, archaeological, ethnographic, and other contextual data to better understand the life experiences of individuals.

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Clicas

Gender, Sexuality, and Struggle in Latina/o/x Gang Literature and Film

University of Texas Press

How Latina/o/x gang literature and film represent women and gay gang members’ challenges to gendered, sexual, racial, and class oppression.

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Young, Autistic and ADHD

Moving into adulthood when you’re multiply-neurodivergent

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Autistic ADHDer Sarah Boon opens the door on what it’s like as a young autistic ADHDer. Sharing invaluable tips and tricks that she has picked up along the way, this book is a companion guide to thriving when multiply neurodivergent.

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This is Who I Am

The Autistic Woman’s Creative Guide to Belonging

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

An explorative guide for women to help them work through the challenges arising from late autism discovery including understanding past behaviours, accessing support and developing a positive identity. Interweaving stories of lived experience with practical activities, this is the ideal dip-in/dip-out guide to achieving autistic self-acceptance.

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