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The Peace Script

Framing Violence in US Anti-War Dissent

University of Alabama Press
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Seeing to See

The Non-Teleological Poetics of Dickinson and Thoreau

University of Massachusetts Press
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The Storytelling State

Performing Lives in Singapore

University of Hawaii Press
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Rebranding North Korea

Changes in Consumer Culture and Visual Media

University of Hawaii Press
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Dougong

The Cultural Geometry of the Chinese Bracket Set

By Alexandra Harrer; Series edited by Ronald G. Knapp and Xing Ruan
University of Hawaii Press
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Diary of a Farmer at the Foot of Mt. Kanpū

Living off the Land in Northern Japan, 1935–1936

University of Hawaii Press
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Crafting Everyday Food

Technology, Tradition, and Transformation in Modern East Asia

University of Hawaii Press
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Tarab

Music, Ecstasy, Emotion, and Performance

University of Texas Press
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Sideways Selves

Travesti and Jotería Struggles Across the Américas

University of Texas Press
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Culinary Mestizaje

Racial Mixing and Foodways across the United States

University of Texas Press
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A Movement Educator's Guide to Pregnancy and Childbirth 

Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Handspring Publishing

Written for movement professionals, this book is packed full of research and practices that take a whole body approach to working with pregnant clients.

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Transcendent Woman

Margaret Fuller’s Art and Achievement

University of Massachusetts Press
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Emerson’s Daughters

Ellen Tucker Emerson, Edith Emerson Forbes, and Their Family Legacy

University of Massachusetts Press
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Undocumented in the U.S. South

How Youth Navigate Racialization in Policy and School Contexts

Rutgers University Press

Undocumented in the U. S. South is a rare look into the everyday realities of undocumented youth in K-12 public schools. In an anti-immigrant policy context, youth and their families navigate historical and current legacies and realities of segregation, racial discrimination and inequality. With a deep three-year ethnographic study, hundreds of hours of observational research, interviews, and policy analysis, Rodriguez traces the lives of undocumented youth across multiple public school settings, calling for policies that are humanizing and rooted in youth experience.

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Though There Be Giants

The Ghetto Pastoral Mode in Black Migration Novels

University Press of Mississippi

A scholarly exploration of the tension of spaces in African American Great Migration novels

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The Mountain Embodied

Head Shaping and Personhood in the Ancient Andes

University of Texas Press
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Techno-Orientalism 2.0

New Intersections and Interventions

Rutgers University Press

Techno-Orientalism 2.0 addresses the impact of a volatile post-COVID present on speculative futures by and about Asians. The volume engages with techno-Orientalist inflections in recent high-profile and lesser-known Asian and Asian American speculative fiction, film, television, anime, art, music, journalism, architecture, state-sponsored policy and infrastructural projects, and the now-dominant China Panic.

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Techno-Orientalism 2.0

New Intersections and Interventions

Rutgers University Press

Techno-Orientalism 2.0 addresses the impact of a volatile post-COVID present on speculative futures by and about Asians. The volume engages with techno-Orientalist inflections in recent high-profile and lesser-known Asian and Asian American speculative fiction, film, television, anime, art, music, journalism, architecture, state-sponsored policy and infrastructural projects, and the now-dominant China Panic.

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Steven Spielberg's Children

Rutgers University Press

Steven Spielberg’s Children is the first book to investigate children, childhood, and Spielberg’s employment of child actors together and in depth. Through lively readings of both the celebrated performances he elicits from his young stars as well as less discussed roles this book shows children to be key players in the director’s articulation of childhood since the 1970s.
 

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Stand the Storm

Spiritual Quartet Singing in the Struggle for Black Education

University Press of Mississippi

An invaluable history of spiritual singing groups and how their tours helped build historically Black colleges and universities in the South

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Six Women Who Shaped What Americans Eat

Food Choice in an Age of Abundance

University of Alabama Press
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Race and Place

School Desegregation in Prince George's County, Maryland

Rutgers University Press

Race and Place considers the everyday experiences of community members throughout the process of school desegregation and how race, place, and truth came to matter in this process in Prince George’s County, Maryland from 1945 through 1973.

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Out of the Gutters

Obscenity, Censorship, and Transgression in American Comics

University of Texas Press
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Firefly in a Box

An Anthology of Soviet Kid Lit

University Press of Mississippi

An in-depth exploration of popular Russian-language Soviet children’s texts and illustrations

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Decolonial Care

Reimagining Caregiving in the French Caribbean

Rutgers University Press

Decolonial Care examines the relationship between the legacies of colonialism and the dynamics of caregiving that have emerged from the French Caribbean. Putting in dialogue postcolonial studies and care studies, this book elucidates how caring and uncaring have been historically shaped by colonialism and shows how media and narratives help develop decolonial approaches to care that sustain human life and livable environments.

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