How Schools Meet Students' Needs
Inequality, School Reform, and Caring Labor
Drawing on conversations with teachers and classroom observations in two elementary schools, How Schools Meet Students' Needs explores the factors that enable and constrain teachers in their efforts to meet students' needs and the consequences of how schools organize this work on teachers' labor and students' learning.
The "Puerto Rican Problem" in Postwar New York City
Spirits in the Consulting Room
Eight Tales of Healing
Reading Homer's Iliad
Prestige Television
Cultural and Artistic Value in Twenty-First-Century America
Prestige Television explores how an array of 21st century US programming is produced and received in ways that elevate select series above the competition in a saturated market. Essays focusing on diverse series, ranging from widely recognized constituents such as The Americans to contested examples like Queen of the South highlight how contributing authors extend conceptions of the genre beyond expected parameters.
Prestige Television
Cultural and Artistic Value in Twenty-First-Century America
Prestige Television explores how an array of 21st century US programming is produced and received in ways that elevate select series above the competition in a saturated market. Essays focusing on diverse series, ranging from widely recognized constituents such as The Americans to contested examples like Queen of the South highlight how contributing authors extend conceptions of the genre beyond expected parameters.
Photo-Attractions
An Indian Dancer, an American Photographer, and a German Camera
A groundbreaking study of global modernity and the cultural interchange between America and South Asia, Photo-Attractions uses a rare and unpublished set of 1938 photographs taken by the photographer Carl Van Vechten of the Indian dancer Ram Gopal in exotic costumes to raise provocative questions about race, sexual identity, photographic technology, colonial histories, and transcultural desires.
Opting Out
Women Messing with Marriage around the World
Opting Out offers sensitive and powerful ethnographic portrayals of women in Africa, Asia, and Latin America who are quietly opting out of marriage. Across these diverse geographic contexts,this edited volume shows that women are the (often unwitting, mostly unacknowledged) protagonists of profound changes in marriage, gender, and kinship.
Opting Out
Women Messing with Marriage around the World
Opting Out offers sensitive and powerful ethnographic portrayals of women in Africa, Asia, and Latin America who are quietly opting out of marriage. Across these diverse geographic contexts,this edited volume shows that women are the (often unwitting, mostly unacknowledged) protagonists of profound changes in marriage, gender, and kinship.
Intoxication
An Ethnography of Effervescent Revelry
Why do people across cultures gather regularly to intoxicate themselves? Vivid and at times deeply personal, Intoxication offers new insights into a wide variety of intoxicating experiences, from the intimate feeling of connection among concertgoers to the adrenaline-fueled rush of a fight to the thrill of jumping off a balcony into a swimming pool. Sébastien Tutenges shows what it means and feels to move beyond the ordinary into altered states in which the transgressive, spectacular, and unexpected takes place.
Families We Need
Disability, Abandonment, and Foster Care’s Resistance in Contemporary China
Families of the Heart
Surrogate Relations in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel
Families of the Heart introduces surrogate families as a new literary device for analyzing a set of novels by Defoe, Richardson, Haywood, and Burney. This radical convention with its feminist and egalitarian potential, Campbell argues, allowed female protagonists to navigate the social world before and beyond marriage across the long eighteenth century.
Eighteenth-Century Environmental Humanities
Creole Soul
Zydeco Lives
A vividly photographed journey through the world of zydeco music
Migrant Feelings, Migrant Knowledge
Building a Community Archive
A collection of digital stories from the Humanizing Deportation project that reveals a uniquely expert point of view of Mexican and Central American migrant experiences: those of the migrants themselves.
Going Up the Country
Adventures in Blues Fieldwork in the 1960s
A fascinating collaboration from two scholars working in the South during a crucial point in blues history
Cornerstone at the Confluence
Navigating the Colorado River Compact's Next Century
The Chouteaus
First Family of the Fur Trade
The story of the family that founded St. Louis and contributed to opening the West to American expansion.
A Peculiar Paradise
A History of Blacks in Oregon, 1788-1940
Published in cooperation with Oregon Black Pioneers
A Peculiar Paradise: A History of Blacks in Oregon, 1788–1940, remains the most comprehensive chronology of Black life in Oregon more than forty years after its original publication in 1980. Elizabeth McLagan’s work reveals how in spite of those barriers, Black individuals and families made Oregon their home and helped create the state’s modern Black communities. A longtime resource for those seeking information on the legal and social barriers faced by people of African descent in Oregon, the book is available again through this co-publication with Oregon Black Pioneers, Oregon’s statewide African American historical society. The revised second edition includes additional details for students and scholars, an expanded reading list, a new selection of historic images, and a new foreword by Gwen Carr and afterword by Elizabeth McLagan.
You're with Stupid
kranky, Chicago, and the Reinvention of Indie Music
An insider’s look at how Chicago’s underground music industry transformed indie rock in the 1990s.
The Political Party in Canada
The Political Party in Canada provides a comprehensive exploration of contemporary Canadian political party composition and organization and draws on rich original data to consider where power lies and how it is exercised.
The Material Culture of Writing
The Material Culture of Writing opens up avenues for understanding writing through scholarship in material culture studies.
The Color Pynk
Black Femme Art for Survival
A celebration of the distinctive and politically defiant art of Black queer, cis-, and transfemmes, from the work of Janelle Monáe and Janet Mock to that of Indya Moore and Kelsey Lu.
Revival and Change
The 1957 and 1958 Diefenbaker Elections
Revival and Change is a compelling account of the elections, accomplishments, challenges, failures, and ultimate end of the Diefenbaker era.
Reimagining History from an Indigenous Perspective
The Graphic Work of Floyd Solomon
In Reimagining History from an Indigenous Perspective, Joyce M. Szabo positions Solomon among his contemporaries, making this vibrant artist and his remarkable vision broadly available to audiences both familiar with his work and those seeing it for the first time.
Picture a Professor
Interrupting Biases about Faculty and Increasing Student Learning
A collection of evidence-based insights and intersectional teaching strategies to inspire transformative student learning and interrupt stereotypes about what a professor looks like.
Love, Loosha
The Letters of Lucia Berlin and Kenward Elmslie
Guarded by Two Jaguars
A Catholic Parish Divided by Language and Faith
This ethnography examines the role of language and embodied behaviors in producing a congregational split in a Catholic parish serving Guatemala’s Q’eqchi’ Maya people. Drawing on a range of methods from linguistic and cultural anthropology, author Eric Hoenes del Pinal examines how the introduction of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal movement in the parish produced a series of debates between parishioners that illustrate the fundamentally polyvocal nature of Catholic Christianity.
Canadian Labour Policy and Politics
Canadian Labour Policy and Politics is essential reading for students seeking to understand the politics of inequality in Canada’s labour market and the policy agenda needed for greater economic equality and a sustainable green recovery.
Bratwurst Haven
Stories
Linked stories trace the vocational and emotional bargains made by workers at a Colorado sausage factory.
Only the Names Have Been Changed
Dragnet, the Police Procedural, and Postwar Culture
In the postwar era, the police procedural series Dragnet informed Americans on the workings of the criminal justice system and instructed them in their responsibilities as citizens.
Memory and Landscape
Indigenous Responses to a Changing North
Little Wet-Paint Girl
Freedom of Religion in Malaysia
The Situation and Attitudes of “Deviant” Muslim Groups
Building and Remembering
An Archaeology of Place-Making on Papua New Guinea’s South Coast
Beyond Bollywood
2000 Years of Dance in the Arts of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Himalayan Region
Organizing Women
Home, Work, and the Institutional Infrastructure of Print in Twentieth-Century America
A Poison Like No Other
How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies
“Informed, utterly blindsiding account.” - Booklist, starred review
It’s falling from the sky and is in the air we breathe. It’s in our food, our clothes, and our homes. It’s microplastic and it’s everywhere—including our own bodies. Scientists are just beginning to discover how these tiny particles threaten health, but the studies are alarming.
A Poison Like No Other is the first book to fully explore this new dimension of the plastic crisis. Matt Simon follows the intrepid scientists who travel to the ends of the earth and the bottom of the ocean to understand the consequences of our dependence on plastic. Unlike other pollutants that are single elements or simple chemical compounds, microplastics represent a cocktail of toxicity linked to diseases ranging from diabetes to cancer.
There is no easy fix, Simon warns. But we will never curb our plastic addiction until we begin to recognize the invisible particles all around us.
Heritage and Hoop Skirts
How Natchez Created the Old South
How Depression-era women rallied for preservation and manufactured a lasting tourism mythos
Writing Islands
Space and Identity in the Transnational Cuban Archipelago
Raven's Echo
Still, the Small Voice
Narrative, Personal Revelation, and the Mormon Folk Tradition
A Force for Nature
Nancy Russell's Fight to Save the Columbia Gorge
A Force for Nature is a biography of a person and a place. It describes how Nancy Russell, a woman with no political, fundraising, or organizing experience, mounted a national campaign to overcome eighty years of conflict—some of it later directed at her through slashed tires and death threats—to protect the Columbia River Gorge, one of the nation’s most scenic, historic, and threatened landscapes.
Cripping Intersex
Cripping Intersex explores the political, discursive, and embodied connections between intersex and disability to develop a radically innovative approach to intersex studies and activism.