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All Work Is Cultural Work

Diasporic Haitian Women, Paid Labor, and Cultural Citizenship

Rutgers University Press

All Work is Cultural Work examines how Haitian women living in diaspora find belonging through their work outside the home. Sociologist Nikita Carney uses an intersectional analysis to illuminate how the workplace serves as a central site in which Haitian women become raced, gendered, and classed within their new nations. Ultimately, Carney concludes, culture is indivisible from labor and labor from culture.

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Light in Dark Places

Briscoe Ctr for Amer History UT-Austin

A photojournalist and physician documents his remarkable career.

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Cosmosexuals

Screen Acting, Stardom, and Male Sex Appeal

University of Texas Press

An examination of male screen sex appeal and the ways that race, ethnicity, and national origin combine with performance tools and film and television style to aid or inhibit actors’ circulation on an increasingly global stage.

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Worldly Engagements

Buddhist Monasticism and Masculinity among the Tai Lue of Southwest China

By Roger Casas; Series edited by Mark Michael Rowe
University of Hawaii Press
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Chasing Traces

History and Ethnography in the Uplands of Socialist Asia

University of Hawaii Press
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Bold Breaks

Japanese Women and Literary Narratives of Divorce

Edited by Anne Sokolsky
University of Hawaii Press
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Alternative Politics in Contemporary Japan

New Directions in Social Movements

University of Hawaii Press
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Every Revolution Was First a Thought

The Civil War and Transcendentalism in Transatlantic Context

University of Massachusetts Press
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Wrangling Pelicans

Military Life in Texas Presidios

University of Texas Press

A richly detailed history of daily life for colonial Spanish soldiers surviving on the eighteenth-century Texas Gulf Coast.

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Flows of Violence

Water, Infrastructures, and the State in Buenaventura, Colombia

The University of Arizona Press

Flows of Violence offers a profound ethnographic exploration of the intricate relationship between violence and water infrastructure in one of Colombia’s most marginalized cities. This timely contribution underscores the urgent need for equitable infrastructure development and social justice, making it a pivotal text for understanding urban poverty and state dynamics in Latin America and beyond.

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