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Comics and Modernism
History, Form, and Culture
Edited by Jonathan Najarian
University Press of Mississippi
The first collection to engage with the fascinating overlap between comics and modernism
A Trumpet around the Corner
The Story of New Orleans Jazz
University Press of Mississippi
From the first raucous chorus to the aftermath of Katrina, the saga of the Big Easy’s signature music
Woven from the Center
Native Basketry in the Southwest
The University of Arizona Press
Woven from the Center presents breathtaking basketry from some of the greatest weavers in the Greater Southwest. Each sandal and mat fragment, each bowl and jar, every water bottle and whimsy is infused with layers of aesthetic, cultural, and historical meanings. This book offers stunning photos and descriptions of woven works from Indigenous communities across the U.S. Southwest and Northwest Mexico.
NASA and the American South
Edited by Brian C. Odom and Stephen P. Waring
University of Florida Press
This volume examines NASA’s strong ties to the American South, exploring how the space program and the region have influenced each other since NASA’s founding in 1958.
Imagining the Method
Reception, Identity, and American Screen Performance
University of Texas Press
A revisionist history of Method acting that connects the popular reception of “methodness” to entrenched understandings of screen performance still dominating American film discourse today.
Empathic Design
Perspectives on Creating Inclusive Spaces
Edited by Elgin Cleckley
Island Press
How do you experience a public space? Do you feel safe? Seen? Represented? The response to these questions may differ based on factors including your race, age, ethnicity, or gender identity. In Empathic Design, designer and architecture professor Elgin Cleckley brings together leaders and visionaries in architecture, urban design, planning, and design activism to explore what it means to design with empathy. Empathic designers work with and in the communities affected. They acknowledge the full history of a place and approach the lived experience and memories of those in the community with respect.
Contributors explore broader conceptual approaches and highlight design projects including the Harriet Tubman Memorial in Newark, which replaced a long-standing statue of Christopher Columbus; and restoration of the Freedom Center in Oklahoma City, first built by civil activist Clara Luper to provide a safe place for gathering and youth education; and The Camp Barker Memorial in Washington, D.C., which commemorates a “contraband camp” used to house former slaves who had been captured by the Union Army.
Empathic Design provides essential approaches and methods from multiple perspectives, meeting the needs of our time and holding space for readers to find themselves.
Contributors explore broader conceptual approaches and highlight design projects including the Harriet Tubman Memorial in Newark, which replaced a long-standing statue of Christopher Columbus; and restoration of the Freedom Center in Oklahoma City, first built by civil activist Clara Luper to provide a safe place for gathering and youth education; and The Camp Barker Memorial in Washington, D.C., which commemorates a “contraband camp” used to house former slaves who had been captured by the Union Army.
Empathic Design provides essential approaches and methods from multiple perspectives, meeting the needs of our time and holding space for readers to find themselves.
Ancient Light
Poems
The University of Arizona Press
Ancient Light is a timely and innovative collection by renowned Anishinaabe poet Kimberly Blaeser. It looks squarely at pressing social issues of our time while simultaneously invoking Indigenous pathways of kinship, healing, and renewal.
American Examples
New Conversations about Religion, Volume Three
Edited by Michael J. Altman, Erik Kline, Dana Lloyd, and Cody Musselman; Preface by Michael J. Altman; Introduction by Erik Kline, Dana Lloyd, and Cody Musselman
University of Alabama Press
Fresh perspectives on the study of religion, ranging from #RadTrad to the “FeeJee Mermaid”
A Body of One's Own
A Trans History of Argentina
University of Texas Press
A history of Argentina that examines how trans bodies were understood, policed, and shaped in a country that banned medically assisted gender affirmation practices and punished trans lives.
Feminist Technical Communication
Apparent Feminisms, Slow Crisis, and the Deepwater Horizon Disaster
By Erin Clark
Utah State University Press
Feminist Technical Communication introduces readers to technical communication methodology, demonstrating how rhetorical feminist approaches are vital to the future of technical communication.
The Politics of Potential
Global Health and Gendered Futures in South Africa
Rutgers University Press
In The Politics of Potential, physician-anthropologist Michelle Pentecost investigates The First 1000 Days, an early life intervention project that seeks to end child malnutrition in South Africa, the ways in which this program has been adopted, and how it impacts child-bearing women in South Africa in powerfully gendered and racialized ways.
Strictly Observant
Amish and Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Women Negotiating Media
Rutgers University Press
Strictly Observant presents a compelling ethnographic study of the complex dynamic between women in both the Pennsylvanian Old Order Amish and Israeli Ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities and contemporary media technologies. These women exhibit a deep awareness of how to manage their usage of media as tools to increase their social and religious capital.
Reflections on the Pandemic
COVID and Social Crises in the Year Everything Changed
Edited by Teresa Politano
Rutgers University Press
Reflections on the Pandemic: COVID and Social Crises in the Year Everything Changed is a collection of essays, poems, and artwork that captures the raw energy and emotion of 2020 from the perspective of the Rutgers University community. This book, through its rich and imaginative storytelling at the intersection of scholarly expertise and personal narrative brings readers into the hearts and minds of not just the Rutgers community, but the world.
Reflections on the Pandemic
COVID and Social Crises in the Year Everything Changed
Edited by Teresa Politano
Rutgers University Press
Reflections on the Pandemic: COVID and Social Crises in the Year Everything Changed is a collection of essays, poems, and artwork that captures the raw energy and emotion of 2020 from the perspective of the Rutgers University community. This book, through its rich and imaginative storytelling at the intersection of scholarly expertise and personal narrative brings readers into the hearts and minds of not just the Rutgers community, but the world.
Happy Days
Images of the Pre-Sixties Past in Seventies America
Rutgers University Press
Happy Days investigates how 1970s popular culture was obsessed with America’s past, but offered radically different interpretations of the same historical events and icons. Looking at representations of 1950s teenagers, the noir detective, America’s bicentennial, and neo-slave narratives, Benjamin Alpers examines how American history provoked both nostalgia and deep soul searching.
Forbes Burnham
The Life and Times of the Comrade Leader
Rutgers University Press
As Premier of British Guiana, Forbes Burnham led the country to independence in 1966 and spent two decades as its head of state. This biography examines how he rose to power by combining nationalist rhetoric, socialist policies, and Pan-Africanist philosophies, leading to a rule that was frequently dictatorial and corrupt, yet also sometimes surprisingly progressive.
Checkbook Zionism
Philanthropy and Power in the Israel-Diaspora Relationship
By Eric Fleisch
Rutgers University Press
Through their approximately $2.5 billion in donations each year to Israel, American Jews have profoundly impacted the direction of Israeli society. Checkbook Zionism uncovers how tensions over potential influence have been mediated and offers a new paradigm for evaluating philanthropic power sharing today.
Being Human
Political Modernity and Hospitality in Kurdistan-Iraq
By Fazil Moradi
Rutgers University Press
Being Human: Political Modernity and Hospitality in Kurdistan-Iraq is a unique work of anthropological hospitality that draws on historical sources, eyewitness testimonies, perpetrator testimony, archival documents, trial records, artwork, novels, and poetry, to engage with one of political modernity’s acts of genocide in Iraq under the Iraqi Baʿth state.
Odyssey of a Wandering Mind
The Strange Tale of Sara Mayfield, Author
University of Alabama Press
A carefully rendered portrait of a brilliant but troubled daughter of the Old South who struggled against the conventions of gender, class, family, and ultimately of sanity, yet survived to define a creative life of her own
Robots and Gadgets
Aging at Home
Les Presses de l'Université Laval, Laval University Press
Voices in Aerosol
Youth Culture, Institutional Attunement, and Graffiti in Urban Mexico
University of Texas Press
How a city government in central Mexico evolved from waging war on graffiti in the early 2000s to sanctioning its creation a decade later, and how youth navigated these changing conditions for producing art.
The Materialization of Time in the Ancient Maya World
Mythic History and Ritual Order
University Press of Florida
This book discusses the range of ways the ancient Maya people expressed timekeeping in daily life through their architecture, arts, writing, beliefs, and practices.
The History of a Periphery
Spanish Colonial Cartography from Colombia's Pacific Lowlands
University of Texas Press
An exploration of Colombian maps in New Granada.
Emergent Quilombos
Black Life and Hip-Hop in Brazil
By Bryce Henson
University of Texas Press
How disenfranchised Black Brazilians use hip-hop to reinvigorate the Black radical tradition.
The Houseboat Veronica
A Novel
By Josh Bell
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
A mythopoetic journey to the edge of the world and to the edges of reason, horror, and beauty with a witch and her young ward.
The City Aroused
Queer Places and Urban Redevelopment in Postwar San Francisco
By Damon Scott
University of Texas Press
A history of San Francisco that studies change in the postwar urban landscape in relation to the city's queer culture.
Portable Postsocialisms
New Cuban Mediascapes after the End of History
By Paloma Duong
University of Texas Press
A study of Cuban culture and media in the twenty-first century as both a global phenomenon and a local reality, at a time when the declared death of socialism coexists in tension with emerging anticapitalist movements worldwide.
Francisco López de Gómara's General History of the Indies
Translated by Ángela Helmer and Clayton Miles Lehmann
University Press of Colorado
This work is the first English translation of the entire text of part one of sixteenth-century Spanish historian Francisco López de Gómara’s General History of the Indies.
Borrowed Time
Survivors of Nazi Terezín Remember
University of Texas Press
Documentation, through photographs and interviews, of those who survived the unique Nazi ghetto/camp located at Terezín, Czech Republic.
Blessed Are the Activists
Catholic Advocacy, Human Rights, and Genocide in Guatemala
University of Alabama Press
Documents the history of Catholic activists to mitigate human rights abuses in Guatemala and the failed US policies in the country and region during the 1970s and 1980s
Identity, Diplomacy and Design
A Study of Canada’s Embassies in the Age of Reconciliation
By David Fortin
Riverside Architectural Press
God of River Mud
A Novel
By Vic Sizemore
West Virginia University Press
Grappling with innate desires and LGBTQ identity, a family struggles under the oppressive expectations foisted on them by fundamentalist Christianity.
Understanding and Reducing Methane Emissions in Southeast Asia
By Qiu Jiahui and Ryan Wong
ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute
The Unrealized Mahathir-Anwar Transitions
Social Divides and Political Consequences
ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute
The National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN)
A New Arrangement for Research in Indonesia
ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute
The Jokowi-Prabowo Elections 2.0
Edited by Hui Yew-Foong and Made Supriatma
ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute
Stability, Growth and Sustainability
Catalysts for Socio-economic Development in Brunei Darussalam
ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute
Public Perceptions of the Election Commission, Election Management and Democracy in Malaysia
ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute
Naquib Al-Attas’ Islamization of Knowledge
Its Impact on Malay Religious Life, Literature, Language and Culture
ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute
Muslim Sectarianism versus the De-escalation of Sectarianism in Malaysia
ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute
Inequality and Exclusion in Southeast Asia
Old Fractures, New Frontiers
Edited by Lee Hwok Aun and Christopher Choong
ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute
Financial Technology Adoption in Greater Jakarta
Patterns, Constraints and Enablers
ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute
Extracting Development
Contested Resource Frontiers in Mainland Southeast Asia
Edited by Oliver Tappe and Simon Rowedder
ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute
Democratizing Luxury
Name Brands, Advertising, and Consumption in Modern Japan
University of Hawaii Press
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