Discovering Nothing
In Pursuit of an Elusive Northwest Passage
Quests to discover a navigable or usable Northwest Passage ended in failure, but as Discovering Nothing shows, the many attempts to find what nature did not provide led to the construction of its transcontinental equivalent, changing the landscape of North America forever.
Borderland Brutalities
Violence and Resistance along the US-Mexico Borderlands in Literature, Film, and Culture
The Specter and the Speculative
Afterlives and Archives in the African Diaspora
The Specter and the Speculative
Afterlives and Archives in the African Diaspora
Poems and Stories for Overcoming Idleness
P’ahan chip by Yi Illo
Emplacing East Timor
Regime Change and Knowledge Production, 1860–2010
Cult, Culture, and Authority
Princess Lieu Hanh in Vietnamese History
Climate Justice and Public Health
Realities, Responses, and Reimaginings for a Better Future
Chasing Traces
History and Ethnography in the Uplands of Socialist Asia
Basic Okinawan
From Conversation to Grammar
Alternative Politics in Contemporary Japan
New Directions in Social Movements
A Brief History of Early Okinawa Based on the Omoro Sōshi
Watershed
Herman Murrah and the Pascagoula River Swamp
How one heroic preservationist saved a natural wonder from destruction
Shaolin Brew
Race, Comics, and the Evolution of the Superhero
A thorough examination of Blaxploitation and Kung Fu comics
Oregon Indians
Voices from Two Centuries
In this deeply researched volume, Stephen Dow Beckham brings together commentary by Native Americans about the events affecting their lives in Oregon. Now available in paperback for the first time, this volume presents first-person accounts of events threatening, changing, and shaping the lives of Oregon Indians, from “first encounters” in the late eighteenth century to modern tribal economies.
The book's seven thematic sections are arranged chronologically and prefaced with introductory essays that provide the context of Indian relations with Euro-Americans and tightening federal policy. Each of the nearly seventy documents has a brief introduction that identifies the event and the speakers involved. Most of the book's selections are little known. Few have been previously published, including treaty council minutes, court and congressional testimonies, letters, and passages from travelers’ journals.
Oregon Indians opens with the arrival of Euro-Americans and their introduction of new technology, weapons, and diseases. The role of treaties, machinations of the Oregon volunteers, efforts of the US Army to protect the Indians but also subdue and confine them, and the emergence of reservation programs to “civilize” them are recorded in a variety of documents that illuminate nineteenth-century Indian experiences.
Twentieth-century documents include Tommy Thompson on the flooding of the Celilo Falls fishing grounds in 1942, as well as Indian voices challenging the "disastrous policy of termination," the state's prohibition on inter-racial marriage, and the final resting ground of Kennewick Man. Selections in the book's final section speak to the changing political atmosphere of the late twentieth century, and suggest that hope, rather than despair, became a possibility for Oregon tribes.
Mosquito Warrior
Yellow Fever, Public Health, and the Forgotten Career of General William C. Gorgas
A timely biography of General William C. Gorgas, the US Army doctor whose pioneering fight against infectious disease around the world set the stage for the American Century
In with the In Crowd
Popular Jazz in 1960s Black America
An overdue amendment to the conventional history and study of jazz
In Transition
Young Adult Literature and Transgender Representation
How the young adult book market has shifted in favor of transgender inclusivity
Growing Up in the Gutter
Diaspora and Comics
Growing Up in the Gutter: Diaspora & Comics is the first book-length exploration of contemporary graphic coming-of-age narratives written in the context of diasporic and immigrant communities in the United States by and for young, BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and diasporic readers. The book analyzes the complex identity formation of first- and subsequent-generation diasporic protagonists in globalized rural and urban environments and dissects the implications that marginalized formative processes have for the genre in its graphic version.
George Pérez
The first in-depth look at one of the most influential creators of comics’ Bronze Age
From the Projects to the Presidencies
My Journey to Higher Education Leadership
The compelling story of a self-made, driven, and industrious higher education professional
Family and Justice in the Archives
Historical Perspectives on Intimacy and the Law
Exploring Ontologies of the Precontact Americas
From Individual Bodies to Bodies of Social Theory
Copyright Vigilantes
Intellectual Property and the Hollywood Superhero
A thrilling investigation of superhero comics and films through the lens of copyright law
A Place to Live in Peace
Free People of Color in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana
A fascinating history that centers the experiences of free people of color in rural Louisiana
A New Deal for Navajo Weaving
Reform and Revival of Diné Textiles
One Second at a Time
My Story of Pain and Reclamation
A deeply personal history of colonialism’s corrosive effects on an Ojibway-Anishinabe woman who survives a traumatic childhood, becomes a teen mother, and eventually escapes unrelenting domestic violence to find hope and healing, dedicating herself to helping women and children like her former self.
Bicycle City
Riding the Bike Boom to a Brighter Future
Piatkowski offers pragmatic lessons drawn from the latest research along with interviews, anecdotes, and case studies from around the world. Electric bikes are demonstrating the ability of bikes to replace cars in more places and for more people. Cargo bikes are replacing SUVs for families and delivery trucks for freight. At the same time, mobility startups are providing new ownership models to make these new bikes easier to use and own, ushering in a new era of pedal-powered cities.
Bicycle City is about making cities better with bikes rather than for bikes.
Unruly Domestication
Poverty, Family, and Statecraft in Urban Peru
Physicians of the Future
Doctor-Influencers, Patient-Consumers, and the Business of Functional Medicine
Kneeling Before Corn
Recuperating More-than-Human Intimacies on the Salvadoran Milpa
Focusing on the intimate relations that develop between plants and humans in the northern rural region of El Salvador, this book explores the ways in which more-than-human intimacies travel away from and return to the milpa through human networks. The chapters present innovative methodological and conceptual contributions to the study of relationships that form between plants and people.
It Ain't Over Til the Bisexual Speaks
An Anthology of Bisexual Voices
An essay collection exploring the diversity of bisexual identity - as it relates to class, religion, ethnicity, religion, sex and politics - and how it can disrupt and challenge binary and exclusionary ways of thinking. Erudite, provocative, and wide-ranging, this is both a call to action and a middle finger to bi-erasure.
Indigenous Science and Technology
Nahuas and the World Around Them
Indigenous Science and Technology focuses on how Nahuas have explored, understood, and explained the world around them in pre-invasion, colonial, and contemporary time periods.
How to Raise Happy Neurofabulous Children
A Parents' Guide
Parenting any child is filled with its own wonders and challenges. This is an invaluable resource to gain insight and advice into raising autistic children, from a fellow parent. Easy to follow, supportive and refreshingly direct, this guide empowers you to explore what works best for you and your child.
Forging Queer Leaders
How the LGBTQIA+ Community Creates Impact from Adversity
An inspirational guide to LGBTQ+ leadership, with a history of queer leadership, an exploration of how adversity can develop management superpowers and inspirational stories from queer leaders in diverse careers.
Corporeal Readings of Cuban Literature and Art
The Body, the Inhuman, and Ecological Thinking
Examining how Cuban writers and artists have depicted racial, gender, and species differences throughout the past century, this book discusses how their works have emphasized the shared materiality of bodies across diverse media, time periods, and ideologies.
Armchair Conversations on Love and Autism
Secrets of Happy Neurodiverse Couples
ACS counselling expert Eva Mendes takes us on a journey through 20 neurodiverse relationships and the unique strengths that drive them. Offering best practice advice and strategies on how to thrive in your relationship, Eva works to identify common themes amongst autistic relationships and irons out the widespread myths surrounding them.
Wake
Why the Battle over Diverse Public Schools Still Matters
Wake: Why the Battle Over Diverse Public Schools Still Matters tells the story of the aftermath of the 2009 Wake County school board election in favor of "neighborhood schools," including the fierce public debate that ensued during school board meetings and in the pages of the local newspaper, and the groundswell of community support that voted in a pro-diversity school board in 2011. What was at stake in those years was the fundamental direction of the largest school district in North Carolina and the 14th largest in the U.S. Would it maintain a commitment to diverse schools, and if so, how would it balance that commitment with various competing interests and demands? Through hundreds of published opinion articles and several in depth interviews with community leaders, Wake examines the substance of that debate and explores the community’s vision for public education.
The United States and the Armenian Genocide
History, Memory, Politics
This is the first book to examine how and why the United States refused to officially acknowledge the 1915-17 Armenian Genocide until the early 2020s. Drawing from congressional records, rare newspapers, and interviews with lobbyists and decision-makers, historian Julien Zarifian reveals how genocide recognition became such a complex, politically sensitive issue.
The Sheep Industry of Territorial New Mexico
Livestock, Land, and Dollars
The Sheep Industry of Territorial New Mexico offers a detailed account of the New Mexico sheep industry during the territorial period (1846–1912) when it flourished.
The Other Jersey Shore
Life on the Delaware River
Surviving Alex
A Mother’s Story of Love, Loss, and Addiction
Patricia Roos was a professor of sociology at Rutgers University when she lost her 25-year-old son Alex to a heroin overdose. Turning her grief into action, she began to research the social factors and institutional failures that contributed to his death. Surviving Alex tells her moving story while describing a more compassionate approach that would provide proper care to substance users and reduce addiction.
Redreaming the Renaissance
Essays on History and Literature in Honor of Guido Ruggiero
Meltdown Expected
Crisis, Disorder, and Upheaval at the end of the 1970s
Jewish Education
Jewish education has been dominated by two concerns: What ought to be taught? And what is the best way to teach it? This book upends the conventional approaches by asking a different question: How do people learn to engage in Jewish life?
