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Titlesort descending Author Year Publication type
#identity: Hashtagging Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Nation Abigail De Kosnik (Editor); Keith P. Feldman (Editor) 2019 Book
Afro-Atlantic Catholics: America's First Black Christians Jeroen Dewulf 2022 Book
America Street: A Multicultural Anthology of Stories Edited by Brice Particelli and Anne Mazer 2019 Book
Asian American Histories of the United States Catherine Ceniza Choy 2022 Book
Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life Dacher Keltner 2023 Book

The Flesh Between Us

2021

In The Flesh Between Us the speaker explores our connections to each other, whether they be lovely or painful, static or constantly shifting, or, above all, unavoidable and necessary. Intensely and unapologetically homoerotic in content and theme, The Flesh

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Love Dances: Loss and Mourning in Intercultural Collaboration

2021

Love Dances: Loss and Mourning in Intercultural Collaboration explores global relationality within the realm of intercultural collaboration in contemporary dance

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Unburied Lives The Historical Archaeology of Buffalo Soldiers at Fort Davis, Texas, 1869–1875

2021

According to the accounts of two white officers, on the evening of November 20, 1872, Corporal Daniel Talliafero, of the segregated Black 9th cavalry, was shot to death by an officer's wife while attempting to break into her sleeping apartment at the military post of Fort Davis, Texas....Read more about Unburied Lives The Historical Archaeology of Buffalo Soldiers at Fort Davis, Texas, 1869–1875

Blue in Green

2021

Collaboration runs through the heart of this collection. Human relationships—particularly in families—shape the poems in Blue in Green, as they consider how the question of what we expect from one another evolves into a question of what we owe. When cancer overshadows the ordinary—engrossing the...Read more about Blue in Green

Redistributing the Poor: Jails, Hospitals, and the Crisis of Law and Fiscal Austerity

2021

This book argues that the changes taking place in the United States’ largest jails and public hospitals have been drastically misunderstood. And more generally, the way that states govern urban poverty at the turn of the twenty-first century has been misunderstood as well. It is widely

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Unlearning Rethinking Poetics, Pandemics, and the Politics of Knowledge

2021

A provocative theoretical synthesis by renowned folklorist and anthropologist Charles L. Briggs, Unlearning questions intellectual foundations and charts new paths forward. Briggs argues, through an expansive look back at his own influential works as well as critical readings of the field...Read more about Unlearning Rethinking Poetics, Pandemics, and the Politics of Knowledge

Turkey: A Past Against History

2021

From its earliest days, the dominant history of the Turkish Republic has been one of national self-determination and secular democratic modernization. The story insisted on total rupture between the Ottoman Empire and the modern Turkish state and on the absolute unity of the Turkish nation. In...Read more about Turkey: A Past Against History

The August Trials: The Holocaust and Postwar Justice in Poland

2021

The first account of the August Trials, in which postwar Poland confronted the betrayal of Jewish citizens under Nazi rule but ended up fashioning an alibi for the past.

When six years of ferocious resistance to Nazi occupation came to an end in 1945, a devastated Poland could agree with...Read more about The August Trials: The Holocaust and Postwar Justice in Poland

The Feeling of History Islam, Romanticism, and Andalusia

2020

In today’s world, the lines between Europe and the Middle East, between Christian Europeans and Muslim immigrants in their midst, seem to be hardening. Alarmist editorials compare the arrival of Muslim refugees with the “Muslim conquest of 711,” warning that Europe will be called on to...Read more about The Feeling of History Islam, Romanticism, and Andalusia

wyrd] bird

2020

In times fraught with ecological and individual loss, Claire Marie Stancek’s wyrd] bird grapples with both the necessity and apparent impossibility of affirming mystical experience. It is at once a book-length lyric essay on the 12th-century German mystic Hildegard of Bingen,...Read more about wyrd] bird