An analysis of the literary strategies wielded by Black women during the oppressive Jim Crow years

The first scholarly volume dedicated to French Creole music and its contribution to the development of jazz in New Orleans

Drawing from personal experience, Sarah Milne looks inside the black box of mainstream conservation NGOs and finds that corporate behavior and technical thinking dominate global efforts to save nature, opening the door to unethical conduct and failure on the ground.

Hard-to-find interviews with the ten-time Bram Stoker Award-winning writer of the Hap and Leonard short stories, Bubba Ho-Tep, and episodes of Batman: The Animated Series and Superman: The Animated Series

A critical exploration of space in children’s literature and how those spaces affect child characters and readers

A critical examination of authenticity as a strategy of whiteness in popular media

After revolutionary cooperation between Dominican and Haitian majorities produced independence across Hispaniola, Dominican elites crafted negative myths about this era that contributed to anti-Haitianism.

Reckoning with Racism is a riveting account of Canada’s most momentous race case, which drew in the country’s first Black female judge and spotlighted racist police practices.

Nuclear Nuevo México recovers the voices and stories that have been lost or ignored in the telling of U.S. nuclear history. By recuperating these narratives, Myrriah Gómez tells a new story of New Mexico, one in which the nuclear history is not separate from the collective colonial history of Nuevo México but instead demonstrates how earlier eras of settler colonialism laid the foundation for nuclear colonialism in New Mexico.

Writing the Classroom explores how faculty compose and use pedagogical documents to establish classroom expectations and teaching practices, as well as to articulate the professional identities they perform both inside and outside the classroom.

Carl Todd presents a complete management strategy for manual practitioners to use when dealing with issues pertaining to the spino-pelvic-hip complex. This book includes bio-psychosocial analysis models that can be used as diagnostic tools and includes strategies to complement treatments for active lifestyle management and more.

This ADHD guide gives strategic advice on how to deal with issues young adults with ADHD may face, including: budgeting plans for impulsive spending, advice on rejection sensitive dysphoria, and body scans and CBT exercises, this book gives you everything you need to feel confident and supported throughout your ADHD diagnosis and beyond.

Visualizing Genocide engages the often sparse and biased discourses of genocidal violence against Indigenous communities documented in exhibits, archives, and museums. Essayists and artists from a range of disciplines identify how Native knowledge can be effectively incorporated into memory spaces.

This work is the first English translation of the complete text of the Title of Totonicapán, one of the most important documents composed by the K’iche’ Maya in the highlands of Guatemala, second only to the Popol Vuh.

Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry collects personal and academic writing from Latino, Latin American, Latinx, and Luso poets about the nature of poetry and its practice.

Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of the trailblazing restaurant Mother Courage of New York City, Ingredients for Revolution is the first history of the more than 230 feminist and lesbian-feminist restaurants, cafes, and coffeehouses that existed in the United States from 1972 to the present.

Born with a Copper Spoon tells the fascinating and far-reaching story of one of the world’s most important metals.

The story of Catawba women who experienced sweeping changes to their world but held onto traditional customs that helped them create and preserve a Catawba identity and build a nation

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 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.

 

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 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 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.