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Juneteenth Rodeo

By Sarah Bird; Afterword by Demetrius Pearson
University of Texas Press

Timeless photos offer a rare portrait of the jubilant, vibrant, vital, nearly hidden, and now all-but-vanished world of small-town Black rodeos.

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Invisibility and Influence

A Literary History of AfroLatinidades

University of Texas Press

A rich literary study of AfroLatinx life writing, this book traces how AfroLatinxs have challenged their erasure in the United States and Latin America over the last century.

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Indigenous Health and Justice

The University of Arizona Press

Indigenous communities are practicing de facto sovereignty to resolve public health issues that are a consequence of settler colonialism. This work delves into health and justice through a range of topics and examples and demonstrates the resilience of Indigenous communities.

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Grief is a Sneaky Bitch

An Uncensored Guide to Navigating Loss

University of Texas Press

A comprehensive and compassionate guide to navigating loss.

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Florida Trail Hikes

Top Scenic Destinations on Florida's National Scenic Trail

University Press of Florida

A guide to the best scenic day hikes and overnight trips along the state-spanning Florida Trail, this book helps readers of all backgrounds and experience levels plan an adventure exploring natural Florida.

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Fear and the First Amendment

Controversial Cases of the Roberts Court

University of Alabama Press

A highly original account of the role that fear plays in key First Amendment cases ruled on by the Roberts Supreme Court
 

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Chuco Punk

Sonic Insurgency in El Paso

University of Texas Press

An immersive study of the influential and predominantly Chicanx punk rock scene in El Paso, Texas.

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The Archaeology of Arcuate Communities

Spatial Patterning and Settlement in the Eastern Woodlands

University of Alabama Press

Provides case studies of social dynamics and evolution of ring-shaped communities of the Eastern Woodlands

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The Archaeology of Arcuate Communities

Spatial Patterning and Settlement in the Eastern Woodlands

University of Alabama Press

Provides case studies of social dynamics and evolution of ring-shaped communities of the Eastern Woodlands

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Imagining Progress

Science, Faith, and Child Mortality in America

University of Alabama Press

Explores the intellectual history of Americans’ divergent assumptions about God, nature, and science
 

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A Face Out of Clay

University Press of Colorado, Center for Literary Publishing
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The Secular Care of the Self

Discipline and Its Discontents across the Protestant Atlantic

University of New Mexico Press
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The Chilean Dictatorship Novel

Memory, Postmemory, Affect, and Emotions

University of New Mexico Press
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Slime Line

A Novel

West Virginia University Press
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Discovering Nothing

In Pursuit of an Elusive Northwest Passage

UBC Press

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.

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Borderland Brutalities

Violence and Resistance along the US-Mexico Borderlands in Literature, Film, and Culture

University of New Mexico Press
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The Specter and the Speculative

Afterlives and Archives in the African Diaspora

Rutgers University Press

The Specter and the Speculative examines how historical subjects and texts within the African Diaspora are re-fashioned, re-animated, and re-articulated, as well as parodied, nostalgized, and defamiliarized. The essays, by emergent and established scholars, explore how “living” archives circulate and haunt the popular imagination, engendering afterlives and liberating prior narratives from their original context.

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The Specter and the Speculative

Afterlives and Archives in the African Diaspora

Rutgers University Press

The Specter and the Speculative examines how historical subjects and texts within the African Diaspora are re-fashioned, re-animated, and re-articulated, as well as parodied, nostalgized, and defamiliarized. The essays, by emergent and established scholars, explore how “living” archives circulate and haunt the popular imagination, engendering afterlives and liberating prior narratives from their original context.

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Poems and Stories for Overcoming Idleness

P’ahan chip by Yi Illo

Translated by Dennis Wuerthner; Series edited by Robert E. Buswell, Jr.
University of Hawaii Press
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Hyakunin’shu

Reading the Hundred Poets in Late Edo Japan

University of Hawaii Press
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Emplacing East Timor

Regime Change and Knowledge Production, 1860–2010

University of Hawaii Press
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Cult, Culture, and Authority

Princess Lieu Hanh in Vietnamese History

University of Hawaii Press
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Climate Justice and Public Health

Realities, Responses, and Reimaginings for a Better Future

University of Massachusetts Press
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Chasing Traces

History and Ethnography in the Uplands of Socialist Asia

University of Hawaii Press
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Basic Okinawan

From Conversation to Grammar

University of Hawaii Press
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Alternative Politics in Contemporary Japan

New Directions in Social Movements

University of Hawaii Press
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Watershed

Herman Murrah and the Pascagoula River Swamp

University Press of Mississippi

How one heroic preservationist saved a natural wonder from destruction

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Shaolin Brew

Race, Comics, and the Evolution of the Superhero

University Press of Mississippi

A thorough examination of Blaxploitation and Kung Fu comics

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