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Nahua Horizons

Writing, Persuasion, and Futurities in Colonial Mexico

The University of Arizona Press

Nahua Horizons: Writing, Persuasion, and Futurities in Colonial Mexico challenges the notion that the Spanish erased Nahua culture. Ezekiel Stear’s bold new approach sheds light on ways in which Nahua people forged paths ahead in times of uncertainty and sweeping change.

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Guilt and Finnegans Wake

From Original Sin to the Irredeemable Body

University Press of Florida

Approaching James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake with attention to the theme of guilt, Talia Abu presents a clear and thorough interpretation of the work that shows the importance of the theme to Joyce’s craft.

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Us According to Them

Stateside Portrayals of Puerto Ricans and Their Culture, 1898-2010

University Press of Mississippi

A thoughtful look at how mainland US observers perceive and portray Puerto Rico

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The Nine O'Clock Whistle

Stories of the Freedom Struggle for Civil Rights in Enfield, North Carolina

University Press of Mississippi

The untold history of a small town where a stand for civil rights had lasting, wide impacts

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Soul of the Court

The Trailblazing Life of Judge William Benson Bryant Sr.

University Press of Mississippi

The first full-length biography of a trailblazing DC attorney and judge

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Prophetic Peril

The Rhetoric of Nineteenth-Century African American Prophetic-Call Narratives

University Press of Mississippi

A study of the call narrative storytelling tradition centered on four influential Black leaders

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Our Story in Many Voices

The Alaska State Museum Catalog and Guide

University of Alaska Press

Alaska preserves and exhibits its own culture and history in the Andrew P. Kashevaroff Building in Juneau, the home of the State Library, Archives, and Museum. With this catalogue and guide, the meaning of the museum exhibits gains new depth. 

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Lloyd Kaufman

Interviews

University Press of Mississippi

An extensive deep-dive omnibus from one of cinema’s most indefatigably ardent auteurs

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Deep Roots, Broken Branches

A History and Memoir

University Press of Mississippi

A powerful, intimate portrait that weaves history across five generations of an American family

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Conversations with Ted Kooser

Edited by John Cusatis
University Press of Mississippi

Almost fifty years of interviews chronicling the Nebraska writer’s rise from a regional poet of the Great Plains to a Pulitzer Prize–winning artistic luminary

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Black Saturation

Selected Works of Stephen E. Henderson

University Press of Mississippi

The first full-length volume to showcase the critical corpus of an eminent scholar of Black literature

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Atravesados

Essays on Queer Latinx Young Adult Literature

University Press of Mississippi

A scholarly revelation of the Latinidades characters and works that have crossed multiple borders

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Animating the Victorians

Disney's Literary History

University Press of Mississippi

A thorough study of the many links between the Golden Age of children’s literature and a global storytelling powerhouse

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The Thin Edge of Innovation

Metro Vancouver’s Evolving Economy

UBC Press

The Thin Edge of Innovation charts the origins, potential, and pitfalls of Metro Vancouver’s entrepreneur-led innovation economy, including the tremendous growth of high-tech, apparel, and consumer-oriented life-style businesses in the city.

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The Shock of Colonialism in New England

Fragments from a Frontier

University of Alabama Press
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Physicians for the People

Black Doctors and the Struggle for Health-Care Equality in Alabama, 1870–1970

University of Alabama Press

In Physicians for the People, Jack D. Ellis illuminates the post-Civil War lives of Black physicians, dentists, pharmacists, nurses, and midwives, highlighting both the causes of health care disparities among African Americans and the reasons for their continued underrepresentation in medical professions.

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Countermemory

A Rhetoric of Resistance

University of Alabama Press
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Algorithmic Worldmaking

The Rhetorical Craft of Networked Order

University of Alabama Press
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Unearthing Forgotten Values

Toward a Meaningful Archaeological Practice

UBC Press, Purich Books

Unearthing Forgotten Values offers a practical corrective that restores human values to commercial archaeology by putting Indigenous communities first.

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The Rise of Tzu Chi

The Making of a Global Buddhist Movement

UBC Press

The Rise of Tzu Chi reveals a dynamic Asian religious movement that draws its global success from its capacity to incorporate diversity.

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Rewriting the Word "God"

In the Arc of Converging Lines between Innovative Theory, Theology, and Poetry

University of Alabama Press

Innovative poetry, philosophy, theology and new sciences converge in the project of rewriting the word “God”

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Caribbean Inhospitality

The Poetics of Strangers at Home

Rutgers University Press


Caribbean Inhospitality juxtaposes the Caribbean’s reputation for being hospitable to foreigners with the alienation of the Caribbean citizen-subject from nations they call home. Reading literary, cinematic, and digital texts, Natalie Lauren Belisle demonstrates that the inhospitality is institutionalized through the aesthetic, reproducing itself in the laws that condition belonging and membership in the Caribbean nation/state. 

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Ballots and Brawls

The 1867 Canadian General Election

UBC Press

Ballots and Brawls, the first book dedicated solely to Canada’s inaugural election in 1867, is an engaging look at the main players, regional concerns, and nationalistic ideals that characterized the country’s beginnings.

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After Redress

Japanese Canadian and Indigenous Struggles for Justice

Edited by Kirsten Emiko McAllister and Mona Oikawa; Associate editor Roy Miki
UBC Press
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The Archaeology of American Medicine and Healthcare

University Press of Florida

In this book, Meredith Reifschneider synthesizes archaeological research on healthcare and medicine to show how practices in the United States have evolved since the nineteenth century, demonstrating that historical archaeology can provide important insights into healthcare and modes of self-care in the past.

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Somos Tejanas!

Chicana Identity and Culture in Texas

University of Texas Press

An expansive volume on Tejana identity and Tejanidad told through personal narratives, poetry, and essays.

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Roman Bioarchaeology

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Life and Death in the Roman World

University of Florida Press

In this book, researchers use human skeletal remains uncovered from throughout the Roman world to portray how ordinary people lived and died, spanning the empire’s vast geography and 1,000 years of ancient history.

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Memorializing Violence

Transnational Feminist Reflections

Rutgers University Press

This volume brings together feminist reflections on the transnational lives of memorializations to colonial, imperial, militarized, and state violence. It asks what’s at stake in memorializing amidst and against ongoing harm and injustice produced by white supremacist global capitalist empire.

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Memorializing Violence

Transnational Feminist Reflections

Rutgers University Press

This volume brings together feminist reflections on the transnational lives of memorializations to colonial, imperial, militarized, and state violence. It asks what’s at stake in memorializing amidst and against ongoing harm and injustice produced by white supremacist global capitalist empire.

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