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Voices and Visions
Essays on New Orleans's Literary History
Edited by Nancy Dixon and Leslie Petty
University Press of Mississippi
An insightful survey tracing the influence of New Orleans writers, past and present, on the literary canon
Unpalatable
Stories of Pain and Pleasure in Southern Cookbooks
University Press of Mississippi
An examination of how narratives of suffering balance the conventions of joy and success in the southern cookbook tradition
Reading LGBTQ+ Children's Picture Books
Edited by Jennifer Miller and Sara Austin
University Press of Mississippi
An engaging collection of original scholarship on LGBTQ+ children’s picture books
Radical Advocate
Ida B. Wells and the Road to Race and Gender Justice
University of Alabama Press
On the Very Edge
Bidentities in Michelle Cliff’s Fiction
By Ian Kinane
University Press of Mississippi
The first book-length study of Michelle Cliff’s entire literary corpus
Intersecting Worlds
Colonial Liminality in US Southern and Icelandic Literatures
University Press of Mississippi
An innovative global resituating of two literatures that intersect in revealing ways
Comics Art in Korea
By John A. Lent
University Press of Mississippi
The definitive volume on the rich and dynamic field of Korean comics
Urban Bikeway Design Guide, Third Edition
By National Association of City Transportation Officials
Island Press
“The guide will serve as an essential blueprint for safe, active, multi-modal streets.”
—Gabe Klein, former Chicago Transportation Commissioner
The completely revised and updated third edition of the NACTO Urban Bikeway Design Guide sets a new standard for street design in North America. Developed for cities, by cities, the new guide is more than a permission slip for better street design—it's a prescription for safe, connected, equitable bike networks. It captures lessons learned and emerging practices to set a new bar for the design of city streets. Every transportation professional, from design to maintenance and from field staff to executives, needs a copy for their daily work.
—Gabe Klein, former Chicago Transportation Commissioner
The completely revised and updated third edition of the NACTO Urban Bikeway Design Guide sets a new standard for street design in North America. Developed for cities, by cities, the new guide is more than a permission slip for better street design—it's a prescription for safe, connected, equitable bike networks. It captures lessons learned and emerging practices to set a new bar for the design of city streets. Every transportation professional, from design to maintenance and from field staff to executives, needs a copy for their daily work.
The Dressing Room
Backstage Lives and American Film
Rutgers University Press
A recurrent and popular setting in American cinema, the dressing room has captured the imagination of audiences for over a century. In the only book-length study of the space, Desirée J. Garcia explores how dressing rooms are dynamic realms in which a diverse cast of performers are made and exposed.
The Archaeology of Early Colonial Manila
A Hybrid City in Global History
By Ellen Hsieh
University Press of Florida
This book uses archaeological, historical, and ethnographic resources to document the ways Manila was transformed by the arrival of Spanish colonists in 1571 and how the city in turn shaped the modern world.
Supervillains
The Significance of Evil in Superhero Comics
Rutgers University Press
This book provides a savvy investigation of the supervillains that appear in superhero comics. Exploring villainous archetypes and Otherness in relation to the notion of evil, the book investigates how supervillains uphold and solidify but also trouble hegemonic ideals expressed by the heroism of superheroes.
Strength through Diversity
Harlem Prep and the Rise of Multiculturalism
Rutgers University Press
In Strength Through Diversity, Barry M. Goldenberg traces the inspiring, uncharted history of Harlem Prep, a unique multicultural institution that became an educational phenomenon in the iconic Black neighborhood of Harlem and nationwide. From 1967 to 1974, Harlem Prep sent to college many hundreds of students who had previously been labeled as “dropouts,” demonstrating how a multicultural educational program centered on diversity can provide a blueprint for schools today.
Rewriting Television
Rutgers University Press
Rewriting Television suggests that it is time for a radical overhaul of television studies. It offers a new model for doing television (or film, or media) studies through the synthesis of production studies, screenwriting studies and “writing otherwise”. With a focus on form, story and voice, this book is an opportunity to imagine our work, and the work of others, differently.
Raritan on War
An Anthology
Edited by Jackson Lears and Karen Parker Lears
Rutgers University Press
On War gathers together some of the finest writing on that troubling subject published in Raritan between 2003 and 2022. The editors, Jackson Lears and Karen Parker Lears, have selected work that typifies Raritan’s wide-ranging sensibility--focusing on a topic that is aesthetically rich, intellectually challenging, and morally disturbing. It is also all too timely.
Public Catastrophes, Private Losses
Rutgers University Press
The essays in this collection expand the definition of catastrophe to include not only events like pandemics, hurricanes, and wildfires but also slower-moving phenomena that have equally disastrous long-term consequences—like environmental degradation and structural racism. This book is a feminist intervention that challenges the binary between public and private, personal and political.
Public Catastrophes, Private Losses
Rutgers University Press
The essays in this collection expand the definition of catastrophe to include not only events like pandemics, hurricanes, and wildfires but also slower-moving phenomena that have equally disastrous long-term consequences—like environmental degradation and structural racism. This book is a feminist intervention that challenges the binary between public and private, personal and political.
Moving Blackness
Black Circulation, Racism, and Relations of Homespace
Rutgers University Press
Moving Blackness explores the centrality of circulation within the framework of western modernity and the racially structured regulations of mobility. Storytelling emerges as the primary mode through which blackness is conveyed: it serves as a means of circulating the lived experiences of being Black while also functioning as acts of resistance and solidarity performed by blackened individuals who were (once) colonized and enslaved.
Monuments and Memory
Archaeological Perspectives on Commemoration
University Press of Florida
This volume examines many different public monuments, exploring the cultural factors behind their creation, their messages and evolving meanings, and the role of such markers in conveying the memory of history to future generations.
John Banville
By Neil Murphy
Bucknell University Press
John Banville offers a close analysis of most of Banville’s major novels, his Quirke crime novels, and his dramatic adaptations of Heinrich von Kleist’s plays. It asserts that Banville’s fiction can be viewed both as an extended interrogation of the meaning and status of art, and that it is itself representative of the type of art admired in the pages of the novels.
Icons Axed, Freedoms Lost
Russian Desecularization and a Ukrainian Alternative
Rutgers University Press
In the years between the Soviet collapse and the Russo-Ukrainian war, Russia went from persecuting believers to jailing irreligionists, while Ukraine solidified religious pluralism and tolerance. The book richly documents and explains the development of this contrast while offering an original theoretical and methodological perspective on desecularization (the resurgence of religion’s societal role).
Black Sporting Resistance
Diaspora, Transnationalism, and Internationalism
By Joseph N. Cooper; Foreword by Gerald Horne
Rutgers University Press
In this text, the Black Sporting Resistance Framework (BSRF) is introduced to examine how resistance actions in and through sport have contributed to the advancement of local and global racial justice efforts. Key concepts such as African (Black) diaspora, transnationalism, internationalism, sporting resistance typology, and sport activism typology are presented.
Black Freedom and Education in Nineteenth-Century Cuba
University of Florida Press
In this book, Raquel Otheguy argues that Afro-descended teachers and activists were central to the development of a national education system in Cuba and influenced the trajectory of public school systems in the broader Americas.
Ben Hecht's Theatre of Jewish Protest
Rutgers University Press
A critical and historical study of Ben Hecht’s forgotten controversial plays championing Jewish causes during the World War II era. Includes the full texts of four works - We Will Never Die (1943), A Jewish Fairy Tale (1944), A Flag is Born (1946), and The Terrorist (1947) - which are republished here for the first time along with production details and full performance histories.
Ancient Indigenous Cuisines
Archaeological Explorations of the Midcontinent
University of Alabama Press
New essays from foodways archaeology related to cuisine in social, cultural, and environmental contexts
Ancient Indigenous Cuisines
Archaeological Explorations of the Midcontinent
University of Alabama Press
Undoing Modernity
Linguistics, Higher Education, and Indigeneity in Yucatan
University of Texas Press
An ethnography of the decolonization of Maya-ness.
The Interior
Recentering Brazilian History
Edited by Frederico Freitas and Jacob Blanc
University of Texas Press
A new history of Brazil told through the lens of the often-overlooked interior regions.
Sports through the Lens
Essays on 25 Iconic Photographs
University of Texas Press
The stories behind and legacies of important sports photos from the last 130 years.
Lookout Cave
The Archaeology of Perishable Remains on the Northern Plains
By John H. Brumley; Photographs by James Marshall
Athabasca University Press
This fully illustrated volume sheds new light on Plains culture and the centuries old use of the well-hidden space at Lookout Cave.
Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol. 77
Social Sciences
University of Texas Press
A new volume of the benchmark bibliography of Latin American Studies, compiled by the Library of Congress.
Child Martyrs and Militant Evangelization in New Spain
Missionary Narratives, Nahua Perspectives
University of Texas Press
Examines the many iterations of a story of child martyrdom in colonial Mexico.
Arretium (Arezzo)
Edited by Ingrid Edlund-Berry and Cristiana Zaccagnino
University of Texas Press
A comprehensive examination of the history and excavation of the Etruscan city of Arretium.
American Examples
New Conversations about Religion, Volume Four
Edited by Michael J. Altman, Candace Lukasik, and Joshua D. Urich; Introduction by Candace Lukasik and Joshua D. Urich; Preface by Michael J. Altman
University of Alabama Press
Case studies that vividly reimagine the meaning and applications of American religious history
The Nature of Kingship
The Weather-World in Nineteenth-Century Vietnam
By Kathryn Dyt
University of Hawaii Press