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Reclaiming the Americas

Latinx Art and the Politics of Territory

University of Texas Press

How Latinx artists around the US adopted the medium of printmaking to reclaim the lands of the Americas.

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Predatory Economies

The Sanema and the Socialist State in Contemporary Amazonia

University of Texas Press

A study of the modes of predation used by and against the Sanema people of Venezuela.

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From Mammies to Militants

Domestics in Black American Literature from Charles Chesnutt to Toni Morrison

University of Alabama Press

Focuses on the issue of stereotypes of Black women
 

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Foodways of the Ancient Andes

Transforming Diet, Cuisine, and Society

The University of Arizona Press

Exploring the multiple social, ecological, cultural, and ontological dimensions of food in the Andean past, this book offers a diverse set of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches that reveal the richness, sophistication, and ingenuity of Andean peoples. With forty-six contributors from ten countries, the studies presented in this volume employ new analytical methods, integrating different food data and interdisciplinary research to show how food impacts sociopolitical relationships and ontologies that are otherwise invisible in the archaeological record.

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Circumcision and Medicine in Modern Turkey

University of Texas Press

An investigation of how the expansion of modern medicine in Turkey transformed young boys’ experiences of circumcision.

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Black Women and da ’Rona

Community, Consciousness, and Ethics of Care

The University of Arizona Press

Deliberately writing against archival erasure and death-driven logics of anti-Blackness, this volume chronicles Black women’s aliveness, ethics of care, and rituals of healing. The nineteen contributors from interdisciplinary fields and diverse backgrounds situate Black women’s multidimensional experiences with COVID-19 and other violences that affect their lives. The stories they tell are connected and interwoven, bound together by anti-Black gendered COVID necropolitics and commitments to creating new spaces for breathing, healing, and wellness.
 

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Trouble Will Save You

Three Novellas

University of Alaska Press
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Thicker Than Water

Blood, Affinity, and Hegemony in Early Modern Drama

University of Alabama Press

Examines the discourses around the role of bloodlines and kinship in the social hierarchies of early modern Europe

 

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Forced Out

A Nikkei Woman's Search for a Home in America

University Press of Colorado

Forced Out: A Nikkei Woman’s Search for a Home in America offers insight into “voluntary evacuation,” a little-known Japanese American experience during World War II, and the lasting effects of cultural trauma.

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We Shall Persist

Women and the Vote in the Atlantic Provinces

UBC Press

We Shall Persist is the first book to detail the distinctive political contexts and common problems that characterized campaigns for women’s suffrage and other rights in Atlantic Canada.

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UFOhs!

Mysteries in the Sky

University of New Mexico Press
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Translingual and Transnational Graduate Education in Rhetoric and Composition

Utah State University Press

Translingual and Transnational Graduate Education in Rhetoric and Composition investigates the implications of composition studies’ changing terminological and ideological landscape around language and nation for the professionalization of future university writing teachers-scholars.

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The Making of the Northwest Forest Plan

The Wild Science of Saving Old Growth Ecosystems

Oregon State University Press
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Protest City

Photographing Portland's Summer of Rage

Oregon State University Press
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Cherokee Earth Dwellers

Stories and Teachings of the Natural World

UBC Press

Cherokee Earth Dwellers offers a rich understanding of nature grounded in Cherokee creature names, oral traditional stories, and reflections of knowledge holders.

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At the Heart of the Borderlands

Africans and Afro-Descendants on the Edges of Colonial Spanish America

University of New Mexico Press
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Arizona Family Outdoor Adventure

An All-Ages Guide to Hiking, Camping, and Getting Outside

University of New Mexico Press
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W. E. B. Du Bois Souls of Black Folk

A Graphic Interpretation

Rutgers University Press

Artist Paul Peart-Smith offers the first graphic adaptation of W.E.B. Du Bois’ influential 1903 work The Souls of Black Folk, providing historical and cultural contexts for his thoughts on the racial terror, sorrows, and hopes of the post-Reconstruction era. It vividly conveys the book’s continuing legacy, effectively updating it for the age of Black Lives Matter.


 

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Undoing Motherhood

Collaborative Reproduction and the Deinstitutionalization of U.S. Maternity

Rutgers University Press

In 1978 the world’s first IVF baby was born, ushering in a paradigm shift in reproductive medicine. IVF and collaborative reproduction (egg/embryo donation, gestational surrogacy) create new opportunities and conflicts about reproduction and parentage. Undoing Motherhood examines the connected issues of fragmented and uncertain maternity in the post-IVF reproductive era.

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The Waxing of the Middle Ages

Revisiting Late Medieval France

University of Delaware Press

Johan Huizinga’s much-loved and much-contested Autumn of the Middle Ages, first published in 1919 and in print ever since, encouraged an image of the Late French Middle Ages as a flamboyant but empty period of decline and nostalgia. This collection sets out to provide a rich, complex, and diverse study showing that this often maligned and frequently ignored period is crucial in its own right.

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The Waxing of the Middle Ages

Revisiting Late Medieval France

University of Delaware Press

Johan Huizinga’s much-loved and much-contested Autumn of the Middle Ages, first published in 1919 and in print ever since, encouraged an image of the Late French Middle Ages as a flamboyant but empty period of decline and nostalgia. This collection sets out to provide a rich, complex, and diverse study showing that this often maligned and frequently ignored period is crucial in its own right.

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Gendering the Renaissance

Text and Context in Early Modern Italy

University of Delaware Press

The essays in Gendering the Renaissance offer a nuanced picture of gender in early modern Italian literature and culture through overlapping lenses that bring into focus myriad issues, from race and religion to schooling and storytelling. Read in dialogue with one another, these interventions provide a multifaceted view of currents in gender studies and early modern Italy.

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Garbage in the Garden State

Rutgers University Press

New Jersey is sometimes imagined, particularly by non-New Jerseyans, as a giant garbage dump for New York and Philadelphia. But every place has had to struggle with the challenges of waste management. New Jersey's trash history is in fact more interesting and more important than most. New Jersey’s waste history includes intensive planning, deep-seated political conflict, organized crime, and literally every level of state and federal judiciary. It is a colorful history, to say the least, and one that includes a number of firsts with regard to recycling, comprehensive planning, and the challenging economics of trash.

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Enduring Polygamy

Plural Marriage and Social Change in an African Metropolis

Rutgers University Press

Enduring Polygamy explores sweeping social changes in urban Africa through the lens of plural marriage. The book offers insights into gender dynamics and the cultural, economic, and political factors affecting how, when, and why people marry. The bookoffers an open-minded but unflinching perspective on a contested but resilient form of marriage.

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Dying Green

A Journey through End-of-Life Medicine in Search of Sustainable Health Care

Rutgers University Press

Dying Green considers the environmental costs of common healthcare practices, raising an urgent question: in striving to improve the health outcomes of individual patients, are we damaging human health on a global scale? Offering a comparative analysis of the care provided to terminally ill patients in different settings, it envisions a more sustainable approach to healthcare. 

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Dall Sheep Dinner Guest:

Inupiaq Narratives of Northwest Alaska

University of Alaska Press
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Caribes 2.0

New Media, Globalization, and the Afterlives of Disaster

Rutgers University Press

Caribes 2.0 looks at the Caribbean mediasphere in the twenty-first century. It argues that we have seen a return to tropes such as blackface, cultural and ethnic stereotypes, and violent representations of the marginalized. The booklooks at these tropes and the work of Caribbean media figures and examines how they are challenging and negotiating these media representations.

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Cancer Entangled

Anticipation, Acceleration, and the Danish State

Rutgers University Press

This book explores the shifts that took place in Denmark around the millennium, when health promoters set out to minimize delays in cancer diagnoses in hope of improving cancer survival. Through rich ethnographic cases on the first cancer vaccine, cancer signs and symptoms, social class and care seeking, public discourses on delays, cancer suspicion in the clinic, and fast-track referral the authors situate cancer control in an ethical registrar involving attention to acceleration and time.

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Cancer Entangled

Anticipation, Acceleration, and the Danish State

Rutgers University Press

This book explores the shifts that took place in Denmark around the millennium, when health promoters set out to minimize delays in cancer diagnoses in hope of improving cancer survival. Through rich ethnographic cases on the first cancer vaccine, cancer signs and symptoms, social class and care seeking, public discourses on delays, cancer suspicion in the clinic, and fast-track referral the authors situate cancer control in an ethical registrar involving attention to acceleration and time.

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1650-1850

Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 28)

Bucknell University Press

1650–1850 combines fresh considerations of prominent authors and artists with searches for overlooked or offbeat elements of the Enlightenment legacy. Packed with essays by prominent as well as upcoming scholars, volume 28 delivers two innovative special features: one venturing around the delightfully futuristic world of adaptation and digitization, with special emphasis on the legacy of Laurence Sterne, and one probing the elusively entertaining, energetically enigmatic legacy of philosopher-poet Bernard Mandeville. Enlivening the volume is a cavalcade of full-length book reviews.

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The Unequal Ocean

Living with Environmental Change along the Peruvian Coast

The University of Arizona Press

Based on a decade of ethnographic and archival research in Peru, this volume reveals how prevailing representations of the ocean obscure racialized disparities and the ways that different people experience the impacts of the climate crisis. The book also addresses expanding scholarly interest in the world’s oceans as sites for thinking about social inequities, environmental politics, and multispecies relationships.

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The Thirty-first of March

An Intimate Portrait of Lyndon Johnson

University of Texas Press

An intimate retelling of Lyndon B. Johnson’s politics and pre.sidency by one of his closest advisors.

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The Mexican American Experience in Texas

Citizenship, Segregation, and the Struggle for Equality

University of Texas Press

A historical overview of Mexican Americans’ social and economic experiences in Texas, told through the lens of their fight for civil rights, from the Spanish period to the present.

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Nested Ecologies

A Multilayered Ethnography of Functional Medicine

University of Texas Press

How functional medicine leverages systems biology and epigenetic science to treat the microbiome and reverse chronic disease.

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Ecosublime

Environmental Awe and Terror from New World to Oddworld

University of Alabama Press

Explores 19th-century, modern, postmodern, and millennial texts as they portray the changing ecological face of America

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Dinosaurs and Other Ancient Animals of Big Bend

University of Texas Press

A time-traveling field guide to the ancient version of Big Bend National Park.

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Carbon Sovereignty

Coal, Development, and Energy Transition in the Navajo Nation

The University of Arizona Press

This deep dive into the coal industry and the Navajo Nation captures a pivotal moment in the history of energy shift and tribal communities. Geographer Andrew Curley spent more than a decade documenting the rise and fall coal, talking with those affected most by the changes—Diné coal workers, environmental activists, and politicians.

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Backpacking Florida

University Press of Florida

Featuring 40 overnight trail adventures covering a total of 600 miles across the state, this guide provides readers with the tools and information they need to experience the perfect Florida backpacking trip.

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