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Difficult Attachments

Anxieties of Kinship and Care

Rutgers University Press

Anthropologists have long considered kinship as the basis for social solidarity. But, what about when it is not? What about instances when kinship is characterized by neglect, violence, negative affect, or a lack of care? This edited volume, featuring slim and cutting-edge essays from a diverse group of anthropologists at different career stages, explores situations when kinship is experienced as difficult and ambivalent.   

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Difficult Attachments

Anxieties of Kinship and Care

Rutgers University Press

Anthropologists have long considered kinship as the basis for social solidarity. But, what about when it is not? What about instances when kinship is characterized by neglect, violence, negative affect, or a lack of care? This edited volume, featuring slim and cutting-edge essays from a diverse group of anthropologists at different career stages, explores situations when kinship is experienced as difficult and ambivalent.   

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Care and Agency

The Andean Community through the Eyes of Children

Rutgers University Press

This book describes the lives of children in rural communities of the Andes Mountains of Peru. It foregrounds the children’s own perceptions and feelings, so far as they can be known by researchers using ethnographic methods. It shows the great variety of Andean childhoods – some happy, others harsh and demanding – and suggests the options children face: follow the many to migrate to the city or risk their hopes on a better future in the rural setting. 
 

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Biomythography Bayou

Bucknell University Press

More than just a book of memoir, Biomythography Bayou is a ritual for conjuring queer embodied knowledges and decolonial perspectives. Showcasing the nature, folklore, dialect, foodways, music, and art of the Gulf South communities in which she is rooted, Mel Michelle Lewis finds poetic ways to celebrate their power and wisdom.
 

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Background Artist

The Life and Work of Tyrus Wong

Rutgers University Press

Background Artist tells the inspiring story of Tyrus Wong, a Chinese immigrant who eventually became a best-selling greeting card designer, Warner Bros. sketch artist, and instrumental influence on the beloved Disney animated film, Bambi. Covering his remarkable 106-year life, this book celebrates a multi-talented and pioneering Asian-American artist whose work shaped the American imagination.

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Oligarchy in America

Power, Justice, and the Rule of the Few

University of Alabama Press

A fascinating survey of the history of political and economic ideas in the US that have led to an increasingly entrenched ultra-rich class of oligarchs

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Technified Muses

Reconfiguring National Bodies in the Mexican Avant-Garde

University of Florida Press

In this volume, Sara Potter uses the idea of the muse from Greek mythology and the cyborg from posthuman theory to consider the portrayal of female characters and their bodies in Mexican art and literature from the 1920s to the present, examining genres including science fiction, cyberpunk, and popular fiction.

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Meet Me at the Library

A Place to Foster Social Connection and Promote Democracy

Island Press

America is facing an epidemic of loneliness and isolation, with troubling effects on our mental and physical health. How do we create spaces for people to come together—to open our minds, understand our differences, and exchange ideas?
 
Shamichael Hallman argues that the public library may be our best hope for bridging these divides and creating strong, inclusive communities. While public libraries have long been thought of as a place for a select few, increasingly they are playing an essential role in building social cohesion, promoting civic renewal, and advancing the ideals of a healthy democracy. Many are reimagining themselves in new and innovative ways, actively reaching out to the communities they serve.
 
Meet Me at the Library offers us a revealing look at one of our most important civic institutions and the social and civic impact they must play if we are to heal our divided nation.
 

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Illegalized

Undocumented Youth Movements in the United States

The University of Arizona Press

Illegalized situates undocumented youth movements’ trajectories in the twenty-first century. It invites readers to explore how undocumented youth activists changed the way immigrant rights are discussed in the United States today.

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House of Grace, House of Blood

Poems

The University of Arizona Press

An innovative collection of archival poetry, House of Grace, House of Blood weaves images and documents from the 1782 massacre of pacifist Delawares in Gnadenhutten, Ohio into poems that explore contradictions: settler colonists and Indigenous people; violence and reconciliation; body and spirit; history and silence. Ultimately, these poems not only reconstruct an important historical event, but they also put pressure on the archive, asking us to question not only what is remembered, but how history is remembered—and who is forgotten from it.

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For Dear Life

Art, Medicine, and Disability

Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

A visual study of how artists have shaped responses to disability from the 1960s to the Covid era.

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Five Hundred Years of LGBTQIA+ History in Western Nicaragua

The University of Arizona Press

This groundbreaking book reframes five hundred years of western Nicaraguan history by giving gender and sexuality the attention they deserve. González-Rivera decenters nationalist narratives of triumphant mestizaje and argues that western Nicaragua’s LGBTQIA+ history is a profoundly Indigenous one.

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Dry Tortugas

Stronghold of Nature

University Press of Florida

An immersive journey into the stunning beauty, rich biodiversity, and fragile ecosystems of Dry Tortugas National Park, this book combines captivating photographs with insightful narratives to highlight a remote archipelago that has profound ecological significance.

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Books Are Made Out of Books

A Guide to Cormac McCarthy's Literary Influences

University of Texas Press

A new edition of this groundbreaking exploration of Cormac McCarthy’s literary archive, which identifies over 150 writers and thinkers who influenced McCarthy, now including analysis of McCarthy’s final works.

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Vital Issues

Charlotte Perkins Gilman in the Boston Woman’s Journal, 1904

University of New Mexico Press
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Virginia's Apple

Collected Memoirs

Oregon State University Press

The fourteen literary memoirs collected in Virginia’s Apple explore pivotal episodes across poet and writer Judith Barrington’s life. Artfully crafted, each one stands alone yet they are linked—characters reappear and, taken together, the pieces create a larger narrative.

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Truth or Consequences

Improbable Adventures, a Near-Death Experience, and Unexpected Redemption in the New Mexico Desert

University of New Mexico Press, High Road Books
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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.

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The Wild East

A Biography of the Great Smoky Mountains

University Press of Florida

The Wild East explores the social, political, and environmental changes in the Great Smoky Mountains during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This revised edition is updated with information about new research and initiatives that are restoring native plants and wildlife populations in the twenty-first century.

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The Way to Hell

Machiavelli for Catastrophic Times

University of Alabama Press

An incisive and erudite survey of Machiavelli, the catastrophes of his times and ours, and his counsel for responding to an era of constant crises

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