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More Than Words

Promoting Race Equality and Tackling Racism in Schools

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Racism must be confronted in schools as it is during these formative years that young people develop their value systems. More Than Words is a practical tool to do just that. For educators — teachers, senior leaders, governors and support staff — it aims to help them look beyond fire-fighting racist incidents to create long-term systemic changes.

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Gay Man Talking

All the Conversations We Never Had

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Combining anecdotes, interviews and practical advice, this wise, witty and poignant book unpacks modern gay relationships, from parents, siblings and friends, to lovers, enemies and ourselves, to unpick stereotypes and explore how these relationships define gay men.

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World of Our Mothers

Mexican Revolution–Era Immigrants and Their Stories

The University of Arizona Press

World of Our Mothers highlights the largely forgotten stories of forty-five women immigrants in the early twentieth century. Through interviews in Arizona mining towns, Phoenix barrios, and selected areas of California, Texas, and the Midwest, we learn how they negotiated their lives with their circumstances.

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Women Who Invented the Sixties

Ella Baker, Jane Jacobs, Rachel Carson, and Betty Friedan

University Press of Mississippi

A riveting new biography exploring four women’s fundamental roles in creating the 1960s as we know them today and their lasting legacies

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Songs, Stories, and Reflections of Duncan Williamson, Scottish Traveller

University Press of Mississippi

An exploration into the life, family, and art of one of the world’s premier storytellers

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The LGBTQ+ Comics Studies Reader

Critical Openings, Future Directions

University Press of Mississippi

An essential volume that acknowledges and celebrates the power of LGBTQ+ comics

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The Letters of Minerva Mirabal and Manolo Tavárez

Love and Resistance in the Time of Trujillo

By Minou Tavárez Mirabal; Translated by Heather Hennes; Introduction by Heather Hennes
University of Florida Press
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The Cinema of Stephanie Rothman

Radical Acts in Filmmaking

University Press of Mississippi

An examination of the directorial labor of one of the only women filmmakers working in second-wave exploitation

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Key West on the Edge

Inventing the Conch Republic

University Press of Florida
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Encountering Pennywise

Critical Perspectives on Stephen King’s IT

Edited by Whitney S. May
University Press of Mississippi

A scholarly study focused on one of Stephen King’s most beloved and frightening novels

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Blues and Trouble

Twelve Stories

University Press of Mississippi

Now back in print, the debut story collection from a celebrated American writer

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Men without Work

Post-Pandemic Edition (2022)

Templeton Press

Nicholas Eberstadt’s landmark 2016 study, Men without Work, cast a spotlight on the collapse of work for men in modern America. Rosy reports of low unemployment rates and “full or near full employment” conditions, he contends, were overlooking a quiet, continuing crisis: Depression-era work rates for American men of “prime working age” (twenty-five to fifty-four).

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The Politics of Genocide

From the Genocide Convention to the Responsibility to Protect

Rutgers University Press

Since the adoption of the Genocide Convention in 1948 and through the present day, the United Nations' P-5 have ensured that holding any of them accountable for genocide would be practically impossible. The Politics of Genocide is the first book to explicitly demonstrate how the permanent member nations have exploited the Genocide Convention to isolate themselves from the reach of the law, marking them as "outlaw states."

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The Perils of Populism

Rutgers University Press

Featuring interdisciplinary essays about politics in the United States, the Middle East, Europe, and India from a variety of acclaimed theorists and activists, The Perils of Populism shows how a feminist lens can help diagnose the factors behind the global rise of right-wing populism and teach us how to resist the threat it presents to democracy.

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Social Exchange

Barter as Economic and Cultural Activism in Medellín, Colombia

Rutgers University Press

Social Exchange examines alternative economies activism in Medellín, Colombia, using twenty-five years of grassroots experimentation with barter markets and community currencies to develop new insights about capitalist culture, social movement strategy, community-building, and the transformation of subjectivities. Hopeful yet critical, this book serves as a useful think-piece for activists and scholars alike.

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Preventing Child Maltreatment in the U.S.: The Latinx Community Perspective

Rutgers University Press

This book examines core concepts relevant to Latinx families as they relate to child maltreatment. Utilizing cases of three families, child maltreatment in Latinx families is contextualized within the pervasive structural racism and inequality in the United States while the resilience and strengths of Latinx families are highlighted.

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Preventing Child Maltreatment in the U.S.: The Black Community Perspective

Rutgers University Press

Child maltreatment occurs in the Black community at higher rates than any other racial group. Through a feminist and womanist lens, the authors unpack the factors impacting the Black community that lead to maltreatment of Black children. This book offers resources and guidance for preventing maltreatment, promoting health and wellness, and to empower Black children.
 

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Preventing Child Maltreatment in the U.S.: Multicultural Considerations

Rutgers University Press

This book examines core multicultural concepts (e.g., intersectionality, acculturation, spirituality, oppression) as they relate to child maltreatment in the United States. Specifically, this book examines child maltreatment through the interaction of feminist, multicultural and prevention/wellness promotion lenses. Five case studies, which are introduced early on are revisited to help the readers make important and meaningful connections between theory and practice.

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Preventing Child Maltreatment in the U.S.: American Indian and Alaska Native Perspectives

Rutgers University Press

This book embraces a decolonizing praxis that emphasizes a broader understanding of Native American/Alaska Native child maltreatment and utilizes an Indigenous-feminist lens to conceptualize, treat, intervene, and promote wellness. Specifically, this book examines child maltreatment through the intersection of feminist, multicultural, and prevention/wellness promotion lenses. This state of the art text interconnects Native elders/scholars' stories (brief case studies) with historical context, theory, and culturally-informed as well as trauma-informed approaches of treating Native Americans/Alaska Native populations.

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Islamic Divorce in the Twenty-First Century

A Global Perspective

Rutgers University Press

Islamic Divorce in the 21st Century takes a close look at the ways that Muslims from West Africa to Southeast Asia engage with and navigate Islamic law and other relevant norms during times of marital breakdown in light of twenty-first century challenges and development.
 

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Islamic Divorce in the Twenty-First Century

A Global Perspective

Rutgers University Press

Islamic Divorce in the 21st Century takes a close look at the ways that Muslims from West Africa to Southeast Asia engage with and navigate Islamic law and other relevant norms during times of marital breakdown in light of twenty-first century challenges and development.
 

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In the Crossfire of History

Women's War Resistance Discourse in the Global South

Rutgers University Press

This book incorporates literary works, testimonies, autobiographies, women’s resistance movements, and films that add to the conversation on the resilience of women in the global south. The essays question historical accuracy and politics of representation that usually undermine women’s role during conflict, and they reevaluate how women participated, challenged, sacrificed, and vehemently opposed war discourses that work on obliterating women’s role in shaping resistance movements.
 

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In the Crossfire of History

Women's War Resistance Discourse in the Global South

Rutgers University Press

This book incorporates literary works, testimonies, autobiographies, women’s resistance movements, and films that add to the conversation on the resilience of women in the global south. The essays question historical accuracy and politics of representation that usually undermine women’s role during conflict, and they reevaluate how women participated, challenged, sacrificed, and vehemently opposed war discourses that work on obliterating women’s role in shaping resistance movements.
 

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From Honolulu to Brooklyn

Running the American Empire’s Base Paths with Buck Lai and the Travelers from Hawai’i

Rutgers University Press

Arguably the most famous baseball team outside of the major leagues in the early twentieth century, the Travelers from Hawaiʻi barnstormed the American mainland from 1912 to 1916. During their journeys and after, team leader and star Buck Lai and his teammates encountered racism and colonialism while asserting their humanity in a variety of ways.

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Chinese Americans in the Heartland

Migration, Work, and Community

Rutgers University Press

Focused on the Heartland cities of Chicago, Illinois and St. Louis, Missouri, this book draws rich evidences from various government records, personal stories and interviews, and media reports, and sheds light on the commonalities and uniqueness of the region, as compared to the Asian American communities on the East and West Coast and Hawaii. Some of the poignant stories such as “the Three Moy Brothers,” “Alla Lee,” and “Save Sam Wah Laundry” told in the book are powerful reflections of Asian American history.

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Racing Translingualism in Composition

Toward a Race-Conscious Translingualism

Edited by Tom Do and Karen Rowan
Utah State University Press

Racing Translingualism provides both theoretical and pedagogical reconsiderations of the translingual approach to language diversity by addressing the intersections of race and translingualism.



 

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Our Body of Work

Embodied Administration and Teaching

Utah State University Press

Our Body of Workinvites administrators and teachers to consider how physical bodies inform everyday work and labor as well as research and administrative practices in writing programs.

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Lessons in Legitimacy

Colonialism, Capitalism, and the Rise of State Schooling in British Columbia

UBC Press

Lessons in Legitimacy examines the relationship between settler capitalism, state schooling, and the making of British Columbia.

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Confronting the "Good Death"

Nazi Euthanasia on Trial, 1945-1953

University Press of Colorado

Years before Hitler unleashed the “Final Solution” to annihilate European Jews, he began a lesser-known campaign to eradicate the mentally ill, which facilitated the gassing and lethal injection of as many as 270,000 people and set a precedent for the mass murder of civilians. In Confronting the “Good Death” Michael Bryant analyzes the U.S. government and West German judiciary’s attempt to punish the euthanasia killers after the war.

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