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The Dual Enrollment Kaleidoscope

Reconfiguring Perceptions of First-Year Writing and Composition Studies

Utah State University Press
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The American Historical Imaginary

Contested Narratives of the Past

Rutgers University Press

The American Historical Imaginary: Contested Narratives of the Past in Mass Culture analyzes the shared understanding of America’s past that is formed through entertainment, education, and politics. Caroline Guthrie examines our historical imaginary and argues it is crucial to understanding our national identity.
 

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Stained Glass Ceilings

How Evangelicals Do Gender and Practice Power

Rutgers University Press

This book speaks to the intersection of gender and power within American evangelicalism by examining the formation of evangelical leaders at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and Asbury Theological Seminary, arguing that evangelical culture upholds male-centered structures of power even as it facilitates meaning and identity for both men and women.

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Powerful Devices

Prayer and the Political Praxis of Spiritual Warfare

Rutgers University Press

By analyzing spiritual warfare prayers, author Abimbola A. Adelakun shows how the rituals of prayer enable an apprehension of time, paradigms of self-enhancement, and the subversion of political authority. A critical intervention, Powerful Devices explores charismatic Christianity’s relationship to science and secular authority, technology and temporality, neoliberalism, and reactionary ideology.

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Port Newark and the Origins of Container Shipping

Rutgers University Press

Container shipping has changed how the whole world does business, but it was invented in New Jersey. This fascinating study reveals Port Newark’s role as the birthplace of containerization, then takes us behind the scenes to meet the pilots, crews, and Coast Guard officers who help this complex global operation run smoothly.

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On Transits and Transitions

Trans Migrants and U.S. Immigration Law

Rutgers University Press

Focusing on the intersection of immigration and trans rights, On Transits and Transitions examines the processes through which the category of transgender is incorporated into U.S. immigration law and policy. Using mobility as a critical lens, Josephson captures the insecurity and precarity created by U.S. immigration control and related processes of racialization to show how im/mobility conditions citizenship and national belonging for trans migrants in the United States.

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Making Choices, Making Do

Survival Strategies of Black and White Working-Class Women during the Great Depression

Rutgers University Press

Working-class white and black women practiced the same Depression survival strategies across race. Archived 1930s interviews with 1,340 Chicago, Cleveland, Philadelphia, and South Bend women, and letters from domestic workers articulate common resourcefulness in employment, housework, and acquisition of relief. Institutionalized racism in employment, housing, and relief, however, assured that Black women worked harder, but fared worse.

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Living Ruins

Native Engagements with Past Materialities in Contemporary Mesoamerica, Amazonia, and the Andes

University Press of Colorado
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In the Shadow of Tungurahua

Disaster Politics in Highland Ecuador

Rutgers University Press

In the Shadow of Tungurahua is about villagers learning to co-live with an active volcano while adapting to disasters largely produced by a protean state’s attempts to settle and govern its rural margins. It’s also about people responding creatively to cooperate, confront hardships, and craft new futures through locally derived disaster recovery projects and politics.
 

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Growing Gardens, Building Power

Food Justice and Urban Agriculture in Brooklyn

Rutgers University Press

Across the United States marginalized communities are organizing to address social, economic, and environmental inequities through building community food systems rooted in the principles of social justice.  But how exactly are communities doing this work, why are residents tackling these issues through food, what are their successes, and what barriers are they encountering?  This book dives into the heart of the food justice movement through an exploration of East New York Farms! (ENYF!), one of the oldest food justice organizations in Brooklyn.
 

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First-Generation Faculty of Color

Reflections on Research, Teaching, and Service

Rutgers University Press

Through a comprehensive collection of personal narratives, First-Generation Faculty of Color: Reflections on Research, Teaching, and Service is the first book to examine faculty diversity through the experiences of racially minoritized faculty who were also the first in their families to graduate college in the United States.
 

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First-Generation Faculty of Color

Reflections on Research, Teaching, and Service

Rutgers University Press

Through a comprehensive collection of personal narratives, First-Generation Faculty of Color: Reflections on Research, Teaching, and Service is the first book to examine faculty diversity through the experiences of racially minoritized faculty who were also the first in their families to graduate college in the United States.
 

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Drilled to Write

Becoming a Cadet Writer at a Senior Military College

Utah State University Press
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Aztec Antichrist

Performing the Apocalypse in Early Colonial Mexico

University Press of Colorado
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1980

America's Pivotal Year

Rutgers University Press

Examining how 1980, the year Reagan was elected in a landslide, was a turning point in American history, cultural historian Jim Cullen looks at the year’s most notable movies, television shows, songs, and books to garner surprising insights about how Americans’ attitudes were changing at this pivotal moment.

 

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Understanding Disaster Insurance

New Tools for a More Resilient Future

Island Press

The frequency and intensity of natural disasters is on the rise. Insurance, an often confusing and unpopular tool, will be critical to successfully emerging from the effects of these crises. Understanding Disaster Insurance provides an accessible introduction to the complexities—and exciting possibilities—of risk transfer markets in the U.S. and around the world. Carolyn Kousky, a leading researcher on disaster risk and insurance, explains how traditional insurance markets came to be structured and why they fall short in meeting the needs of a world coping with climate change. She then offers realistic, yet hopeful, examples of new approaches. 

Understanding Disaster Insurance is a useful guidebook for policymakers, innovators, students, and other decision makers working to secure a resilient future—and anyone affected by wind, fire, rain, or flood. 
 

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William Faulkner Day by Day

University Press of Mississippi

A fascinating and in-depth exploration into the life of one of America’s greatest authors

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Oaxaca in Motion

An Ethnography of Internal, Transnational, and Return Migration

University of Texas Press

An expansive survey of the cultural fluctuations experienced by Oaxacan migrants both inside and outside of Mexico.

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Joyce without Borders

Circulations, Sciences, Media, and Mortal Flesh

University Press of Florida
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Debating American Identity

Southwestern Statehood and Mexican Immigration

The University of Arizona Press

Debating American Identity is an innovative look at four national debates over the inclusion of the Mexican-origin population in the United States in the early twentieth century. Linda C. Noel explores different conceptions of American identity through disputes over Arizona and New Mexico statehood, temporary workers, immigration, and repatriation.

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Bountiful Deserts

Sustaining Indigenous Worlds in Northern New Spain

The University of Arizona Press

Set in the arid lands of northwestern Mexico, this book foregrounds the knowledge of Indigenous peoples who harvested the desert as bountiful in its material resources and sacred spaces. Author Cynthia Radding uses the tools of history, anthropology, geography, and ecology to re-create the means of defending Indigenous worlds through colonial encounters, the formation of mixed societies, and the direct conflicts over forests, grasslands, streams, and coastal estuaries that sustained wildlife, horticulture, foraging, hunting, fishing, and—after European contact—livestock and extractive industries. She returns in each chapter to the spiritual power of nature and the enduring cultural significance of the worlds that Indigenous communities created and defended.

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Baseball and Cultural Heritage

University Press of Florida

This is the first volume to explore the understudied side of baseball—how its heritage is understood, interpreted, commodified, and performed for various purposes today, ultimately showing how the performance of baseball heritage can reflect the culture and heritage of a nation.

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Every Wrong Direction

An Emigré’s Memoir

Rutgers University Press

Every Wrong Direction recreates and dissects the bitter education of Dan Burt, an American émigré who never found a home in America. Burt's memoir follows his wanderings through three countries and seven cities over 43 years, culminating in his emigration to Britain, the country where he finally found a home.

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State of Defiance

Challenging the Johns Committee's Assault on Civil Liberties

University Press of Florida
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My Haunted Home

Stories

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

Meditations on the ways grief is felt and harvested—the funny, the sorrowful, the surreal, and the unmentionable
 

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Maybe We'll Make It

A Memoir

University of Texas Press

Country music star Margo Price shares the story of her struggle to make it in an industry that preys on its ingenues while trying to move on from devastating personal tragedies.

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Life in a Mississippian Warscape

Common Field, Cahokia, and the Effects of Warfare

University of Alabama Press

Analyzes Mississippian daily life at Cahokia’s environs during wartime
 

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I've Had to Think Up a Way to Survive

On Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton

University of Texas Press

A moving memoir exploring how a poet found support and revival through Dolly Parton’s music and story.

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Celebrating Florida

Works of Art from the Vickers Collection

University Press of Florida
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Black Country Music

Listening for Revolutions

University of Texas Press

How Black musicians have changed the country music landscape and brought light to Black creativity and innovation.

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