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Pride and Joy

A Story About Becoming an LGBTQIA+ Ally

Jessica Kingsley Publishers
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If You Should Go at Midnight

Legends and Legend Tripping in America

University Press of Mississippi

A fun and thorough investigation of the captivating world of legend tripping

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Ace and Aro Journeys

A Guide to Embracing Your Asexual or Aromantic Identity

Jessica Kingsley Publishers
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Accepting Gender

An ACT Workbook for Trans and Non-Binary People

Jessica Kingsley Publishers
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Abbas Kiarostami

Interviews

Edited by Monika Raesch
University Press of Mississippi

A well-rounded picture of the late Iranian filmmaker through his conversations with journalists, film scholars, critics, students, and audience members

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The Biocultural Consequences of Contact in Mexico

Five Centuries of Change

University of Florida Press
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Revealing Rebellion in Abiayala

The Insurgent Poetics of Contemporary Indigenous Literature

The University of Arizona Press

From the Pan-Maya Movement in Guatemala and the Zapatista uprising in Mexico to the Water and Gas Wars in Bolivia and the Idle No More movement in Canada, the twenty-first century has witnessed a notable surge in Indigenous political action. Meanwhile, numerous authors use fiction and poetry to combat their invisibility and envision alternatives to coloniality. Revealing Rebellion in Abiayala provides a powerful starting point for rethinking inter-American studies through the lens of literature and Indigenous sovereignty.
 

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Reclaiming the Americas

Latinx Art and the Politics of Territory

University of Texas Press

How Latinx artists around the US adopted the medium of printmaking to reclaim the lands of the Americas.

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Predatory Economies

The Sanema and the Socialist State in Contemporary Amazonia

University of Texas Press

A study of the modes of predation used by and against the Sanema people of Venezuela.

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From Mammies to Militants

Domestics in Black American Literature from Charles Chesnutt to Toni Morrison

University of Alabama Press

Focuses on the issue of stereotypes of Black women
 

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Foodways of the Ancient Andes

Transforming Diet, Cuisine, and Society

The University of Arizona Press

Exploring the multiple social, ecological, cultural, and ontological dimensions of food in the Andean past, this book offers a diverse set of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches that reveal the richness, sophistication, and ingenuity of Andean peoples. With forty-six contributors from ten countries, the studies presented in this volume employ new analytical methods, integrating different food data and interdisciplinary research to show how food impacts sociopolitical relationships and ontologies that are otherwise invisible in the archaeological record.

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Circumcision and Medicine in Modern Turkey

University of Texas Press

An investigation of how the expansion of modern medicine in Turkey transformed young boys’ experiences of circumcision.

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Black Women and da ’Rona

Community, Consciousness, and Ethics of Care

The University of Arizona Press

Deliberately writing against archival erasure and death-driven logics of anti-Blackness, this volume chronicles Black women’s aliveness, ethics of care, and rituals of healing. The nineteen contributors from interdisciplinary fields and diverse backgrounds situate Black women’s multidimensional experiences with COVID-19 and other violences that affect their lives. The stories they tell are connected and interwoven, bound together by anti-Black gendered COVID necropolitics and commitments to creating new spaces for breathing, healing, and wellness.
 

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Trouble Will Save You

Three Novellas

University of Alaska Press
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Thicker Than Water

Blood, Affinity, and Hegemony in Early Modern Drama

University of Alabama Press

Examines the discourses around the role of bloodlines and kinship in the social hierarchies of early modern Europe

 

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Forced Out

A Nikkei Woman's Search for a Home in America

University Press of Colorado

Forced Out: A Nikkei Woman’s Search for a Home in America offers insight into “voluntary evacuation,” a little-known Japanese American experience during World War II, and the lasting effects of cultural trauma.

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We Shall Persist

Women and the Vote in the Atlantic Provinces

UBC Press

We Shall Persist is the first book to detail the distinctive political contexts and common problems that characterized campaigns for women’s suffrage and other rights in Atlantic Canada.

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UFOhs!

Mysteries in the Sky

University of New Mexico Press
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Translingual and Transnational Graduate Education in Rhetoric and Composition

Utah State University Press

Translingual and Transnational Graduate Education in Rhetoric and Composition investigates the implications of composition studies’ changing terminological and ideological landscape around language and nation for the professionalization of future university writing teachers-scholars.

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The Making of the Northwest Forest Plan

The Wild Science of Saving Old Growth Ecosystems

Oregon State University Press
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Protest City

Photographing Portland's Summer of Rage

Oregon State University Press
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Cherokee Earth Dwellers

Stories and Teachings of the Natural World

UBC Press

Cherokee Earth Dwellers offers a rich understanding of nature grounded in Cherokee creature names, oral traditional stories, and reflections of knowledge holders.

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At the Heart of the Borderlands

Africans and Afro-Descendants on the Edges of Colonial Spanish America

University of New Mexico Press
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Arizona Family Outdoor Adventure

An All-Ages Guide to Hiking, Camping, and Getting Outside

University of New Mexico Press
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W. E. B. Du Bois Souls of Black Folk

A Graphic Interpretation

Rutgers University Press

Artist Paul Peart-Smith offers the first graphic adaptation of W.E.B. Du Bois’ influential 1903 work The Souls of Black Folk, providing historical and cultural contexts for his thoughts on the racial terror, sorrows, and hopes of the post-Reconstruction era. It vividly conveys the book’s continuing legacy, effectively updating it for the age of Black Lives Matter.


 

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Undoing Motherhood

Collaborative Reproduction and the Deinstitutionalization of U.S. Maternity

Rutgers University Press

In 1978 the world’s first IVF baby was born, ushering in a paradigm shift in reproductive medicine. IVF and collaborative reproduction (egg/embryo donation, gestational surrogacy) create new opportunities and conflicts about reproduction and parentage. Undoing Motherhood examines the connected issues of fragmented and uncertain maternity in the post-IVF reproductive era.

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The Waxing of the Middle Ages

Revisiting Late Medieval France

University of Delaware Press

Johan Huizinga’s much-loved and much-contested Autumn of the Middle Ages, first published in 1919 and in print ever since, encouraged an image of the Late French Middle Ages as a flamboyant but empty period of decline and nostalgia. This collection sets out to provide a rich, complex, and diverse study showing that this often maligned and frequently ignored period is crucial in its own right.

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The Waxing of the Middle Ages

Revisiting Late Medieval France

University of Delaware Press

Johan Huizinga’s much-loved and much-contested Autumn of the Middle Ages, first published in 1919 and in print ever since, encouraged an image of the Late French Middle Ages as a flamboyant but empty period of decline and nostalgia. This collection sets out to provide a rich, complex, and diverse study showing that this often maligned and frequently ignored period is crucial in its own right.

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