This book explores the historical archaeology of the past four hundred years in Michigan, illustrating how the state’s history reflects the broader American experience through themes of entrepreneurship, immigration, capitalism, and civil rights.

Through a comparative analysis of different cases of repair for political violence, colonial dispossession, and environmental harm in the region, The Futures of Reparations In Latin America draws a new light onto the imaginative potentials of reparations, their undesired and unforeseeable consequences in intimate and public life, and the new forms of belonging to and beyond the nation state that they enable.
 

In 1867 Kusakabe Taro, a young samurai from Fukui, Japan, began studying at Rutgers as its first foreign student. Three years later, in 1870, his former tutor, friend, and Rutgers graduate, William Elliot Griffis, left for Japan to teach English and science. Griffis and Kusakabe were a small piece of a vast transnational network of leading modernizers of Japan in the 1860s and 70s. Through contributions from scholars and archivists in the U.S., Canada, and Japan, Rutgers Meets Japan aims to reconstruct these early Rutgers-Japan connections.

This book examines how the label and identity of Down syndrome is gaining increasing cohesiveness in Jordan’s capital city of Amman. Focused on the experiences of mothers, who serve as an entry point for understanding broader family dynamics and choices, the book argues that practices and ideologies of care play a central role in making Down syndrome’s lived realities through the momentum of kinship futures.
 

Graphic War introduces graphic border poetics to the field of comics, which enables a methodological response to nationalist, empirical, and gendered ideologies. It registers a shift from the persistent Jewish identification with 20th-century oppression toward a Jewish belonging based in transnational agency and activism in the 21st Century.
 

This beautifully illustrated volume weaves together personal stories, photographs, drawings, poems of students who have experienced insecurity during childhood into a tapestry of memories about the meaning of home.

This book explores how mindful, myofascial-based movement practices can profoundly enhance the quality and efficiency of everyday movement. It uniquely integrates myofascial anatomy with practical movement techniques, bridging the gap between scientific insight and hands-on application.

A captivating guidebook that explores diverse and unique burial grounds across Arkansas

An exploration of the various literary and artistic influences of a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance

A new edition of the classic, unflinching account of Mississippi’s reckoning during Freedom Summer

Interviews with the revered creator of the long-running comic strip For Better or For Worse

Collected interviews with the National Book Award-winning author of Victory Over Japan and many other critically acclaimed works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry

A chronicle of the harrowing experiences of one family surviving the perilous homefront of Missouri in the Civil War

Explorations of the harmonies and dissonance between music and the American polity

The Live-Action Animated Film looks at the history of movies that combine live action with animation to hallucinogenic effect. From Technicolor musicals and creature features to remakes, reboots, and mash-ups, this history suggests that the mixed pictures of the twentieth century paved the way for the mainstream blockbusters of the twenty-first.
 

Through Dagbaŋ epistemologies and knowledge systems, this book examines media by highlighting how African languages, cultures and traditions can shift how we think of knowledge. By focusing on Ghana, the book demonstrates the potential that African language media hold as tools of cultural and epistemological decolonization.
 

This book offers a history of the most critically-derided subgenre in American comics: the ‘bad girl’ comics of the 1990s. Situating these works in relation to the popular feminism of the period, it explores how the ‘bad girl’ anti-heroine arose, and the commercial and ideological factors that brought its rapid rise and fall.