A scholarly exploration of the tension of spaces in African American Great Migration novels

How Black women practicing yoga create spaces that allow for bodies and experiences to be centered and celebrated

How Indigenous artists in Panama utilized urban art forms to assert their cultural presence and political agency

In his poetry collection, Flatfish, Moon Tae-jun offers an aesthetic that emphasizes the author’s exploration of the inner self. At times sparse and allusive, his poems use blank space and other stylistic considerations to convey a voice and thought that ranges from the contemplative to the surreal and absurd. Moon’s poems suggest Buddhist ideologies, natural images, and Korean temples.

A stunning sketch of the life and career of the little-known American actress and socialite

A thoughtful compilation that chronicles a nearly fifty-year friendship with the renowned Mississippi writer

A thorough assessment of the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative and the scientific legacy it left behind

The first collection of conversations with the acclaimed filmmaker, and one that spans his career to date

A biography revealing as never before Poe’s southern gentility and his vast influence on literature and letters

An in-depth look at author Kiese Laymon as an educator, creative writer, activist, family member, and Mississippian

Collected interviews with the recipient of numerous major literary awards and fellowships, including two National Book Awards, for Salvage the Bones and Sing, Unburied, Sing

An exploration of why comics are so good at confronting the bad

Unpacking My Father’s Bookstore brings to life the history of J. Roth / Bookseller of Fine & Scholarly Judaica, which was a microcosm of the Los Angeles Jewish community from 1966 to 1994 and one of the premier Jewish bookstores in the United States.

A powerful resource for classrooms and individual readers alike, The Nursing Clio Reader invites reflection on how the past informs current debates, urging us to engage deeply with the history of reproductive justice in a time of unprecedented change.

The Black Body is the story of Anna Maria Gehnyei, also known as singer Karima 2G. Anna was born in Rome to Liberian parents. Wherever Anna goes in Rome, there is always something or someone to remind her that she is Black, so she finds herself continually negotiating two cultures, the Italian one which does not accept her and the African one to which she does not fully belong. Originally published in Italian as Il corpo nero, this new English-language translation by Eilis Kierans and Sandra Waters brings this moving memoir to an Anglophone audience for the first time.

On the Frontlines of Crisis by Jason Rodriquez is a powerful and deeply human account of the experiences of healthcare workers during one of the most harrowing periods in modern history—the COVID-19 pandemic. As hospitals around the globe became overwhelmed by the influx of critically ill patients, those working in intensive care units (ICUs) were thrust into an unprecedented battle against a new, deadly virus about which little was understood. Rodriquez takes readers into the heart of two Massachusetts ICUs to learn about the people who put their lives on the line and faced unimaginable challenges as they treated critically ill patients at the peak of the pandemic.
 

Families for Mobility documents elite Korean transnational families, focusing on how they use elite education abroad as a tool for class reproduction. Drawing on interviews with parents and children at elite U.S. colleges, the book argues that gendered transnational parenting—by both mothers and fathers—plays a crucial role in the intergenerational transmission of mobility and cosmopolitan lifestyles.

Through an analysis of twenty-first-century films created in Latin America, this book makes the case that contemporary filmmakers are using the figure of the father as a metaphor for political leadership and that their work reflects a growing rejection of predatory and coercive authority in the region.

Written for movement professionals, this book is packed full of research and practices that take a whole body approach to working with pregnant clients.

A comprehensive guide to the many extraordinary works of public art available on the UT-Austin campus.

An important and extensive addition to contemporary proverb studies