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How Schools Meet Students' Needs

Inequality, School Reform, and Caring Labor

Rutgers University Press

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.
 

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The "Puerto Rican Problem" in Postwar New York City

Rutgers University Press

This book presents the first comprehensive examination of the campaign and narrative of the "Puerto Rican problem" in New York City from 1945 to 1960. It looks at how this campaign influenced the incorporation of Puerto Ricans to the US, the policies of the governments of Puerto Rico and New York, and the ways Puerto Ricans were perceived by Americans for decades.
 

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Spirits in the Consulting Room

Eight Tales of Healing

Rutgers University Press

The book shows how trained transcultural mediators help to redress the power imbalance between doctors and the migrants they treat, providing patients with advocates who respect the authority of their experiences. Its groundbreaking insights can be applied to any medical situation where doctors and patients find themselves speaking different languages. 

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Reading Homer's Iliad

Bucknell University Press

Reading Homer’s "Iliad" is a book-by-book commentary on the epic’s major themes, meant to inform students new to the work. Endnotes elaborate on myths Homer leaves unfinished, explain terms and phrases, and provide background information. The volume includes a general bibliography, in addition to bibliographies accompanying each book’s commentary.

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Prestige Television

Cultural and Artistic Value in Twenty-First-Century America

Rutgers University Press

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.

 

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Prestige Television

Cultural and Artistic Value in Twenty-First-Century America

Rutgers University Press

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.

 

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Photo-Attractions

An Indian Dancer, an American Photographer, and a German Camera

Rutgers University Press

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.

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Opting Out

Women Messing with Marriage around the World

Rutgers University Press

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.
 

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Opting Out

Women Messing with Marriage around the World

Rutgers University Press

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.
 

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Intoxication

An Ethnography of Effervescent Revelry

Rutgers University Press

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.

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Families We Need

Disability, Abandonment, and Foster Care’s Resistance in Contemporary China

Rutgers University Press

Families We Need is an ethnography of the temporary, yet transformative relationships between disenfranchised, older foster mothers and disabled, orphaned foster children in China, and the power of these seemingly marginal relationships to confront state power, disrupt intercountry adoption, and challenge our assumptions about the limits of foster kinship.

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Families of the Heart

Surrogate Relations in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel

Bucknell University Press

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.

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Eighteenth-Century Environmental Humanities

Edited by Jeremy Chow
Bucknell University Press

This groundbreaking interdisciplinary collection demonstrates how eighteenth-century studies can be taught through the lens of the environmental humanities. Activating topics such as climate change, new materialisms, the blue humanities, indigeneity and decoloniality, and green utopianism to interpret eighteenth-century literature and culture, each essay includes recommendations for innovative teaching and learning.

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Creole Soul

Zydeco Lives

By Burt Feintuch; Edited by Jeannie Banks Thomas; Photographs by Gary Samson
University Press of Mississippi

A vividly photographed journey through the world of zydeco music

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Migrant Feelings, Migrant Knowledge

Building a Community Archive

Edited by Robert Irwin
University of Texas Press

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.

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Maximum Vantage

New Selected Columns

University Press of Florida
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Going Up the Country

Adventures in Blues Fieldwork in the 1960s

University Press of Mississippi

A fascinating collaboration from two scholars working in the South during a crucial point in blues history

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Cornerstone at the Confluence

Navigating the Colorado River Compact's Next Century

The University of Arizona Press

Forty million people rely on the Colorado River system’s flows. Commemorating the Colorado River Compact’s 2022 centennial, this volume explores the past, present, and future of the “Law of the River” and its cornerstone, amid a twenty-two-year megadrought and ongoing negotiations over new water management rules that must be completed by 2026.

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The Chouteaus

First Family of the Fur Trade

University of New Mexico Press

The story of the family that founded St. Louis and contributed to opening the West to American expansion.

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A Peculiar Paradise

A History of Blacks in Oregon, 1788-1940

Oregon State University Press

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.

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You're with Stupid

kranky, Chicago, and the Reinvention of Indie Music

University of Texas Press

An insider’s look at how Chicago’s underground music industry transformed indie rock in the 1990s.

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The Political Party in Canada

UBC Press

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.

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The Material Culture of Writing

Utah State University Press

The Material Culture of Writing opens up avenues for understanding writing through scholarship in material culture studies.

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The Color Pynk

Black Femme Art for Survival

University of Texas Press

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.

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Revival and Change

The 1957 and 1958 Diefenbaker Elections

UBC Press

Revival and Change is a compelling account of the elections, accomplishments, challenges, failures, and ultimate end of the Diefenbaker era.

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Reimagining History from an Indigenous Perspective

The Graphic Work of Floyd Solomon

By Joyce M. Szabo; Introduction by Siegfried Halus
University of New Mexico Press

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.

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Picture a Professor

Interrupting Biases about Faculty and Increasing Student Learning

West Virginia University Press

A collection of evidence-based insights and intersectional teaching strategies to inspire transformative student learning and interrupt stereotypes about what a professor looks like.
 

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Love, Loosha

The Letters of Lucia Berlin and Kenward Elmslie

University of New Mexico Press, High Road Books
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Guarded by Two Jaguars

A Catholic Parish Divided by Language and Faith

The University of Arizona Press

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.

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Canadian Labour Policy and Politics

Edited by John Peters and Don Wells
UBC Press

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.

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Bratwurst Haven

Stories

West Virginia University Press

Linked stories trace the vocational and emotional bargains made by workers at a Colorado sausage factory.

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The Grandmothers of Pikitea Street

Ngā Kuia o te Tiriti o Pikitea

Oratia Books
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Only the Names Have Been Changed

Dragnet, the Police Procedural, and Postwar Culture

University of Texas Press

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.

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Memory and Landscape

Indigenous Responses to a Changing North

Athabasca University Press
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Little Wet-Paint Girl

Athabasca University Press
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Freedom of Religion in Malaysia

The Situation and Attitudes of “Deviant” Muslim Groups

ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute
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Footprints on the Land

How Humans Changed New Zealand

Oratia Books
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Class Warrior

The Selected Works of E. T. Kingsley

Athabasca University Press
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Building and Remembering

An Archaeology of Place-Making on Papua New Guinea’s South Coast

University of Hawaii Press
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Beyond Bollywood

2000 Years of Dance in the Arts of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Himalayan Region

Edited by Forrest McGill
Asian Art Museum
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Playing God in the Meadow

How I Learned to Admire My Weeds

Bright Leaf
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Organizing Women

Home, Work, and the Institutional Infrastructure of Print in Twentieth-Century America

University of Massachusetts Press
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A Poison Like No Other

How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies

Island Press

“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. 
 

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Heritage and Hoop Skirts

How Natchez Created the Old South

University Press of Mississippi

How Depression-era women rallied for preservation and manufactured a lasting tourism mythos

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Writing Islands

Space and Identity in the Transnational Cuban Archipelago

University of Florida Press
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Raven's Echo

The University of Arizona Press

In Raven’s Echo, Tlingit artist and poet Robert Davis Hoffmann’s poetry grapples with reconstructing a life within Tlingit tradition and history. The destructiveness of colonialism brings a profound darkness to some of the poems in Raven’s Echo, but the collection also explores the possibility of finding spiritual healing in the face of historical and contemporary traumas.

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Still, the Small Voice

Narrative, Personal Revelation, and the Mormon Folk Tradition

Edited by Tom Mould
Utah State University Press
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A Force for Nature

Nancy Russell's Fight to Save the Columbia Gorge

Oregon State University Press

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.

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Cripping Intersex

UBC Press

Cripping Intersex explores the political, discursive, and embodied connections between intersex and disability to develop a radically innovative approach to intersex studies and activism.

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