The Secular Care of the Self
Discipline and Its Discontents across the Protestant Atlantic
The Chilean Dictatorship Novel
Memory, Postmemory, Affect, and Emotions
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
Technified Muses
Reconfiguring National Bodies in the Mexican Avant-Garde
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.
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
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