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Shifting Sands

Landscape, Memory, and Commodities in China's Contemporary Borderlands

University of Texas Press

How China’s borderlands transformed politically and culturally throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

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Messy Ethics in Human Rights Work

UBC Press

Messy Ethics in Human Rights Work invites readers to engage reflexively in critical human rights practice by admitting discomfort and dilemma into conversations about ethics.

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Flight from Chile

An Oral History of Exile

University of New Mexico Press
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Drink in the Summer

A Memoir of Croatia

Athabasca University Press
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Circulating Culture

Transnational Cuban Networks of Exchange

University Press of Florida
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A Dream of Justice

The Story of Keyes v. Denver Public Schools

University Press of Colorado

A Dream of Justice is Colorado state senator and former teacher Pat Pascoe’s firsthand account of the decades-long fight to desegregate Denver’s public schools.

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A Culture of Justification

Vavilov and the Future of Administrative Law

UBC Press

A Culture of Justification examines how a groundbreaking case involving undercover spies and a man’s fight for citizenship helped the Supreme Court of Canada forge a consensus on the future of one of the most important areas in Canadian law.

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The Legacies of The Basin of Mexico

University Press of Colorado

This volume celebrates the continuing impact of the most notable contributions from The Basin of Mexico: The Ecological Processes in the Evolution of a Civilization by William T. Sanders, Jeffrey R. Parsons, and Robert S. Santley.

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Sylvia Plath Day by Day, Volume 1

1932-1955

University Press of Mississippi

A fascinating investigation into the life and art of one of America’s greatest poets

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The Prism of Human Rights

Seeking Justice amid Gender Violence in Rural Ecuador

Rutgers University Press

The Prism of Human Rights illustrates how women’s human rights campaigns have taken off in rural Ecuador. Drawing on two decades of research and activism, Friederic shows how the initial promises of legal empowerment often give way to self-blame, social isolation, and more extreme structural violence, and she demonstrates how one rural community is renegotiating beliefs about gender, the family, the meaning of violence, and even community development.

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The Outcast

A Novel

By Luigi Pirandello; Translated by Bradford A. Masoni; Foreword by Daniela Bini
Rutgers University Press

A tale of false accusations, social stigma, and adultery, The Outcast is an early masterwork from Nobel Prize–winning Italian author Luigi Pirandello. Combining elements of Zolaesque naturalism with emerging modernist aesthetics, the novel is notable for its deft use of irony and its resourceful and resilient heroine. 

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The Cyborg Caribbean

Techno-Dominance in Twenty-First-Century Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican Science Fiction

Rutgers University Press

The Cyborg Caribbean examines twenty-first-century Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican science fiction, showing how it negotiates legacies of techno-colonialism and techno-authoritarianism. It traces histories of four different technologies—electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), nuclear weapons, space exploration, and digital avatars—that have transformed corporality and humanity in the Caribbean.

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Oh, Serafina!

A Fable of Ecology, Lunacy, and Love

By Giuseppe Berto; Translated by Gregory Conti; Foreword by Matteo Gilebbi
Rutgers University Press

Newly translated into English, Giuseppe Berto’s 1973 novel Oh, Serafina! is a whimsical fable of ecology, lunacy, and love. One of the first environmentally-conscious works of Italian literature, it questions the destructive effects of industrial capitalism, the many forms spirituality might take, and the ways our society defines madness.
 

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Maid for Television

Race, Class, Gender, and a Representational Economy

Rutgers University Press

Maid for Television examines the racialized female domestic by tracing the maid’s representational and narrative function in American television. As domestic service has been a long-standing occupation for women of color, the figure of the maid in the employer’s home is a recurrent and patterned image, simultaneously enacting and revealing the nexus of race, class, and gender hierarchies in American culture.

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Islam and Me

Narrating a Diaspora

Rutgers University Press

In Islam and Me, Shirin Ramzanali Fazel tells her story of being a Somali immigrant in Italy and shares the experiences of other Muslim women in southern Europe. She reveals the common prejudices they encounter and explores how Italy might reimagine its national culture and identity to become more diverse, inclusive, and anti-racist. 

 

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City of Men

Masculinities and Everyday Morality on Public Transport

Rutgers University Press

How do men experience gender in the city? Through descriptions of autorickshaw and taxi operators and their interactions with traffic police and commuters in Kolkata, India, this book highlights the gendered logics of cooperation and everyday morality through which masculinities take up space in cities.  
 

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Calling Family

Digital Technologies and the Making of Transnational Care Collectives

Rutgers University Press

How do digital technologies shape how people care for each other and, through that, who they are? Calling Family explores how digital devices shape elder care at a distance and how it should be done in order to be considered good. Through Tanja Ahlin's ethnographic fieldwork among families of migrating nurses from Kerala, India, this book aspires to uncover the subtle workings of digital technologies beyond seeing them as tools of communication.

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Black Women in Latin America and the Caribbean

Critical Research and Perspectives

Rutgers University Press

This volume collects intellectual work by and about Black women while shedding light on the socio-political conditions that shape their participation and leadership in political struggles for citizenship rights and resources. Additionally, this volume explores the role of the social sciences in documenting anti-Black violence and forging hemispheric struggles against that violence.

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Asian American History

Rutgers University Press

A comprehensive survey, Asian American History places Asian immigration to America in international and domestic contexts, and explores the significant elements that define Asian America: imperialism and global capitalist expansion, labor and capital, race and ethnicity, immigration and exclusion, family and work, community and gender roles, assimilation and multiculturalism, panethnicity and identity, transnationalism and globalization, and new challenges and opportunities. It is an up-to-date and easily accessible resource for high school and college students, as well as anyone who is interested in Asian American history.
 

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Path to Grace

Reimagining the Civil Rights Movement

University Press of Mississippi

Remarkable narratives from the heretofore unsung champions of the civil rights movement

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