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Outliving the White Lie

A Southerner's Historical, Genealogical, and Personal Journey

University Press of Mississippi

An unflinching chronicle of one Mississippian’s reckoning with history

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Monsters and Saints

LatIndigenous Landscapes and Spectral Storytelling

University Press of Mississippi

Writings and artwork that examine the concept of home through the ghost stories of Latinx and Indigenous cultures

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Macrolichens of the Pacific Northwest

Oregon State University Press

A key component in healthy ecosystems, lichens can be found in almost any natural habitat in the Pacific Northwest. This comprehensive guide to the region’s macrolichens is intended for use by beginners as well as specialists: weekend naturalists will be able to identify specimens and recognize the great diversity of lichens, while lichenologists and mycologists will gain greater knowledge of the distribution and abundance of various species.

This updated third edition of Macrolichens of the Pacific Northwest includes 95 additional species and an expanded introduction. It features keys to 109 genera and 681 species of Oregon and Washington macrolichens—all the macrolichens known or expected to occur in the two states. The keys also provide excellent coverage for lichens of Idaho and Montana, inland to the Continental Divide. Color photographs and detailed descriptions emphasize lichens prevalent in forested ecosystems.

The illustrated glossary and introductory material cover the terminology needed to identify macrolichens and provide information on collection and handling. The biology, ecology, and air-quality sensitivity of lichens are discussed; regional air-quality sensitivities are provided for nearly 200 species.

Macrolichens of the Pacific Northwest will prove invaluable to anyone seeking to identify lichens or to better understand these organisms and their vital role in the natural world.

 

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Inventing Benjy

William Faulkner’s Most Splendid Creative Leap

By Frédérique Spill; Translated by Arby Gharibian; Foreword by Taylor Hagood
University Press of Mississippi

The newly translated analysis of one of the most innovative protagonists ever created in American modernism

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Democracy and Time in Cuban Thought

The Elusive Present

University of Florida Press

In this analysis of political discourse in Cuban culture, María de los Ángeles Torres focuses on how the concept of time has been employed by different political projects, arguing that an emphasis on human actions in the present is important for a democratic political culture.

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Conversations with Sarah Schulman

Edited by Will Brantley
University Press of Mississippi

Thirty years of interviews spanning the career of the novelist, screenwriter, and gay activist whose works include After Delores and Maggie Terry

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Black Hibiscus

African Americans and the Florida Imaginary

University Press of Mississippi

An exploration of the significant literary and cultural contributions from African Americans in the Sunshine State

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Bayou Harvest

Subsistence Practice in Coastal Louisiana

University Press of Mississippi

An in-depth study of the power and pride of cooking, hunting, harvesting, foraging, and thriving in coastal Louisiana

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The Education of Things

Mechanical Literacy in British Children's Literature, 1762–1860

University of Massachusetts Press
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Writing Against Reform

Aesthetic Realism in the Progressive Era

University of Massachusetts Press
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Making the Radical University

Identity and Politics on the American College Campus, 1966–1991

University of Massachusetts Press
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The Delta in the Rearview Mirror

The Life and Death of Mississippi's First Winery

University Press of Mississippi

A firsthand account of the splendid rise and frightening fall of Mississippi’s first winery

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Paid to Care

Domestic Workers in Contemporary Latin American Culture

University of Texas Press

An insight into the struggles of paid domestic workers in Latin America through an exploration of films, texts, and digital media produced since the 1980s in collaboration with them or inspired by their experiences.

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Women and Girls on the Autism Spectrum, Second Edition

Understanding Life Experiences from Early Childhood to Old Age

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

A cradle-to-grave guide to female autistic experience combining personal accounts with academic research, with chapters on childhood, education, employment, healthcare, gender identity and ageing.

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Tending to the Past

Selfhood and Culture in Children's Narratives about Slavery and Freedom

University Press of Mississippi

How Black writers have circumvented stereotypes to positively portray Black survival, creativity, and autonomy to young readers

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Sports and the Racial Divide, Volume II

A Legacy of African American Athletic Activism

University Press of Mississippi

New perspectives on the ways Black athletes wield their sports platform to address inequalities

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Sounding Our Way Home

Japanese American Musicking and the Politics of Identity

University Press of Mississippi

A generation-spanning history of music making and the sense of belonging it engenders

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See Justice Done

The Problem of Law in the African American Literary Tradition

University Press of Mississippi

An analysis of the fraught relations between Black writing and the law

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PDA in the Family

Life After the Lightbulb Moment

Jessica Kingsley Publishers
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Dorothy Arzner

Interviews

University Press of Mississippi

Insights into the career of one of Golden Age Hollywood’s first and most prolific female directors who was best known for The Bride Wore Red

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Conversations with Orhan Pamuk

University Press of Mississippi

Thirty interviews with the Nobel Prize-winning Turkish novelist best known for My Name Is Red, Snow, and The Museum of Innocence

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Comics and Modernism

History, Form, and Culture

University Press of Mississippi

The first collection to engage with the fascinating overlap between comics and modernism

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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

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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.

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NASA and the American South

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.

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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.

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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. 
 
 

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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.

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American Examples

New Conversations about Religion, Volume Three

University of Alabama Press

Fresh perspectives on the study of religion, ranging from #RadTrad to the “FeeJee Mermaid”
 

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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.

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Feminist Technical Communication

Apparent Feminisms, Slow Crisis, and the Deepwater Horizon Disaster

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. 

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Brooke at the Bar

Inside Our Legal System

By Brooke Wunnicke; Compiled by Diane B. Wunnicke; Foreword by Thomas J. Noel
University Press of Colorado
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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.

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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.
 

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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.

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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.

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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. 

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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.  

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Checkbook Zionism

Philanthropy and Power in the Israel-Diaspora Relationship

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.
 

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Being Human

Political Modernity and Hospitality in Kurdistan-Iraq

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.
 

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