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East of East
The Making of Greater El Monte
An Athletic Director’s Story and the Future of College Sports in America
After Authority
Global Art Cinema and Political Transition
Dialogues
Ilya Kabakov and Viktor Pivovarov, Stories about Ourselves
Those Were the Days
Why All in the Family Still Matters
The Journey Before Us
First-Generation Pathways from Middle School to College
The George Washington Bridge
Poetry in Steel
Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body
Materialisms, Technologies, Ecologies
Pyrrhic Progress
The History of Antibiotics in Anglo-American Food Production
Phenomenal Justice
Violence and Morality in Argentina
Intervention Narratives
Afghanistan, the United States, and the Global War on Terror
Implementing Inequality
The Invisible Labor of International Development
Guilty People
Global Mental Health
Latin America and Spanish-Speaking Populations
Dreaming the Graphic Novel
The Novelization of Comics
Courting Desire
Litigating for Love in North India
Collaborating for Change
A Participatory Action Research Casebook
Queer Objects
Holocaust Graphic Narratives
Generation, Trauma, and Memory
Holocaust Graphic Narratives examines Holocaust graphic novels and memoirs, analyzing the genre as one that enables intergenerational transmission of trauma and memory. Here, the graphic novel becomes a medium uniquely positioned to create a sense of felt immediacy, urgency, and authenticity at the intersection of history and the imagination.