Providing a critical history of Tandem Productions, the company behind nearly all the hit Black sitcoms of the 1970s, including Good Times, The Jeffersons, Sanford and Son, and Diff’rent Strokes, Adrien Sebro explores how their sitcom plots paralleled what was happening behind the scenes, as talented African-Americans devised strategies to gain creative agency and fair financial compensation.   
 

Making Modern Spain: Religion, Secularization, and Cultural Production is a scholarly work on Spanish religious and cultural history. It is an interdisciplinary study that offers fresh insights into political and religious changes in nineteenth-century Spain by foregrounding social experiences through historical analysis and literary criticism.

How girls of color from eight global communities strategize on questions of identity, social issues, and political policy through spoken word poetry.

Writing Centers and Racial Justice responds to renewed and invigorated interest in racial justice and antiracism across writing centers and in writing studies, providing practical ways to enact racial justice in and through the writing center. 

The Consolations of Humor and Other Folklore Essays unfolds as a series of questions, commentaries, and criticisms of the analysis, interpretation, and explanation of folklore.

Environment, craft, and meaning in the work of Appalachian instrument makers.

Composition and Rhetoric in Contentious Times poses critical questions of representation, accessibility, social justice, affect, and labor to better understand the entwined future of composition and rhetoric.

In March 2011, people in a coastal Japanese city stood atop a seawall watching the approach of the tsunami that would kill them. They believed—naively—that the huge concrete barrier would save them. Instead, they perished, betrayed by the very thing built to protect them.

Academics call it maladaptation; in simple terms, it’s about solutions that backfire. Over the Seawall tells the stories behind these unintended consequences and the fixes that do more harm than good. From seawalls in coastal Japan, to reengineered waters in the Ganges River Delta, to the ribbon of water supporting both farms and cities in parched Arizona, we visit engineering marvels once deemed too smart and too big to fail. After each we better understand how complicated, grandiose schemes fail. Ultimately, we learn that if we are to adapt successfully to climate change, we must recognize that working with nature is not surrender but the only way to assure a secure future.
 

Our Hidden Landscapes introduces people to eastern North America’s Indigenous ceremonial stone landscapes (CSLs)—sacred sites whose principal identifying characteristics are built stone structures that cluster within specific physical landscapes. This volume presents these often unrecognized sites as significant cultural landscapes in need of protection and preservation. Chapters from Indigenous community members, archaeologists, and anthropologists provide a variety of approaches for better understanding, protecting, and preserving these important sacred spaces.

This anthology of essays offers Diné perspectives on the experiences, observations, and examinations of their homeland. Together, the contributors thoughtfully illustrate the complex state of nihikéyah, “our land,” as viewed by Diné people.

A fun-filled survey of the women who topped the charts in jazz, blues, R&B, and rock ’n’ roll

Narratives of the good, the bad, and the outlandish in legal tangles along Mississippi’s borders

An entertaining and thorough introduction to the power of punk’s hybrid evolution

The first book dedicated to exploring the comics of Ben Katchor