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The Archaeology of American Medicine and Healthcare
Publisher: University of Florida Press
Author: Meredith Reifschneider
Discipline: Archaeology

Description:
In this book, Meredith Reifschneider synthesizes archaeological research on healthcare and medicine to show how practices in the United States have evolved since the nineteenth century, demonstrating that historical archaeology can provide important insights into healthcare and modes of self-care in the past.

The Archaeology of Early Colonial Manila: A Hybrid City in Global History
Publisher: University of Florida Press
Author: Ellen Hsieh
Discipline: Archaeology

Description:
This book uses archaeological, historical, and ethnographic resources to document the ways Manila was transformed by the arrival of Spanish colonists in 1571 and how the city in turn shaped the modern world.

Archaeology, Heritage, and Reactionary Populism
Publisher: University of Florida Press
Author: Randall H. McGuire; Alfredo González-Ruibal
Discipline: Archaeology

Description:
Amid the increasing influence of reactionary populism, seen in radical anti-intellectual movements around the globe, the social role of archaeology is more relevant but also more difficult. This volume explores how populist politics present new challenges to public archaeologists in North America, South America, and Europe.

The Art of Memes in Feminist Digital Culture
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Author: Shana MacDonald
Discipline: Feminist & Women’s Studies

Description:
Examines feminist and queer activist memes as a form of digital resistance, demonstrating that countercultural meme makers intervene in the status quo and offer cultural critiques with potentially broad circulation.

Black Citizens and American Democracy: Fighting for the Soul of a Nation
Publisher: University of Florida Press
Author: Reginald K. Ellis; Jeffrey L. Littlejohn; Peter B. Levy
Discipline: African American Studies

Description:
This collection examines the important work of Black men and women to shape, expand, and preserve a multiracial American democracy from the mid-twentieth century to the present.

Black Prison Intellectuals: Writings from the Long Nineteenth Century
Publisher: University of Florida Press
Author: Andrea Stone
Discipline: African American Studies

Description:
Recovering critical, understudied writings from early archives, this book calls into question the idea that the Black prison intellectual movement began in the twentieth century, tracing the arc of Black prison writing from 1795 to 1901.

Critical Data Storytelling in the Composition Classroom
Publisher: Utah State University Press
Author: Angela Laflen
Discipline: Communication Studies

Description:
Laflen offers a model for critical data literacy in multimodal composition that is adaptable for changing technological and educational circumstances. She provides multiple examples and activities to illustrate how to apply the model and provide needed skills for data literacy.

Critical Perspectives on Latino Education in Massachusetts
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Author: Lorna Rivera; Melissa Colón (eds.)
Discipline: Education

Description:
In Massachusetts, the Latino population increased by 475 percent between 1980 and 2017, marking a dramatic growth. Recent research at the Mauricio Gastón Institute for Latino Community Development and Policy reveals that Latino students in Massachusetts are more likely to attend public schools, in communities with significant academic achievement and opportunity gaps as well as other challenges, from food scarcity to higher rates of unemployment. This collection of essays, from those working inside the classroom as well as researchers taking a broader look at policy, addresses the array of issues facing Latino students in Massachusetts. These perspectives paint a complex picture of the educational experience for Latinos, and offer expert suggestions for improving classrooms, school environments, and ultimate educational outcomes for an important growing demographic in the Commonwealth.

The Dean Disordered: Jonathan Swift and Humoral Medicine
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Author: Paul William Child
Discipline: Language & Literature

Description:
This book bridges biography and literary criticism to examine the chronic afflictions suffered by the great Irish satirist Jonathan Swift, investigating not only how these ailments affected his day-to-day social life and ambitions but also how he represented them in his correspondence and imaginative writings. By historicizing Swift’s medical issues, Paul William Child returns the creator of the iconic character of Gulliver (a surgeon, notably) to the humoral body that he knew. Child situates Swift’s complaints within the theory of illness as an imbalance of fluid humors that had persisted since classical days, considering how Swift tried to make sense of and contain his own humors through narrative explanation, medical interventions and regimen, performances in the “sick role,” and imaginative representations. Rather than accepting modern diagnoses of Swift’s illnesses, The Dean Disordered reconstructs the medical culture of his time.

The Environment in Brazilian Culture: Literature, Cinema, and the Arts
Publisher: University of Florida Press
Author: Patricia Vieira
Discipline: Latin American Studies

Description:
This book explores the centrality of the environment in shaping Brazilian literature, cinema, and art since 1900. Exceptional in its geographic and cultural representation within Brazil as well as its scope of artistic mediums, this collection paints a portrait of the human connection to nature in the most biodiverse country in the world.

Fantastic Spaces
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Author: Matthew J. Fee
Discipline: Irish Studies

Description:
While the connection between Ireland and the otherworldly has long been a staple of literature and the arts, it finds its most consistent and compelling expression in the medium of cinema. In the first comprehensive scholarly study of the fantastic in Irish film, Fantastic Spaces explores how the spatial dimensions of supernatural phenomena in Irish cinema interpret and engage with the dynamic changes that have swept across Ireland over the past four decades. Drawing on a wide range of both canonical and lesser-known Irish films, Matthew J. Fee closely examines how the fantastic—including a multiplicity of supernatural occurrences and creatures drawn from Irish folklore as well as global popular culture—functions to make meaning across a period of profound social, political, and cultural transformation in Ireland. From providing platforms for female agency and interrogating rural heritage and nostalgia, to articulating anxieties over modernization and globalization and questioning national identities, the fantastic spaces of Irish cinema reveal a sophisticated capacity to grapple with the complexities and contradictions of historical change.

Fathers, Masculinity, and Authoritarianism in Latin American Cinema
Publisher: University of Florida Press
Author: Irina Dzero
Discipline: Latin American Studies

Description:
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.

Freethinkers and Labor Leaders: Women, Social Change, and Politics in Modern Mexico
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Author: María Teresa Fernández Aceves; Translator: Tanya Huntington
Discipline: Latin American Studies

Description:
The interpretation of the revisionist historiography of the Mexican Revolution (1910–17) has focused primarily on revolutionary leaders who were men, pushing the heroines of the war to the sidelines. If women happened to be mentioned, they appeared only as symbols, not as social agents. However, the role of the Adelitas, the Cristeras, the Hijas del Anáhuac, and the women of the Ácrata Group were essential to the revolution. In Freethinkers and Labor Leaders María Teresa Fernández Aceves tells the stories of five militant feminist women who aided in the creation of a modern culture in revolutionary and postrevolutionary Mexico and, in some ways, Latin America as a whole: Belén de Sárraga Hernández (1872–1950), Atala Apodaca Anaya (1884–1977), María Arcelia Díaz (1896–1939), María Guadalupe Martínez Villanueva (1906–2002), and María Guadalupe Urzúa Flores (1912–2004). Based on original, pathbreaking research, Freethinkers and Labor Leaders demonstrates how five women transformed Latin American society’s ideas of citizenship, femininity, masculinity, and politics.

Grievous Entanglement: Consumption, Connection, and Slavery in the Atlantic World
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Author: Erin Pearson
Discipline: African American Studies

Description:
This book explores the most common way that people in the Atlantic world came to understand their personal connection to, and complicity with, slavery at its peak at the dawn of the nineteenth century: consumption. Consumption became a formidable trope that tied the evils of the slave system to individuals’ behavior through their purchase of slave-produced commodities like cotton or sugar. With her groundbreaking analysis of this dominant conceptual framework, Erin Pearson provides new insight into both the motivation behind and the functioning of antislavery activism. Strategic disgust, Pearson shows, proved effective in inciting abolitionist action: consumption-as-connection leveraged aversion to inspire people to sever their ties with an evil institution. Examining a wide variety of media, including poetry, political cartoons, blackface minstrelsy, slave narratives, and novels, this interdisciplinary study reveals how aversive consumption powerfully shaped ideas about slavery to both positive and pernicious effect.

Guilt and Finnegans Wake: From Original Sin to the Irredeemable Body
Publisher: University of Florida Press
Author: Talia Abu
Discipline: Language & Literature

Description:
Approaching James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake with attention to the theme of guilt, Talia Abu presents a clear and thorough interpretation of the work that shows the importance of the theme to Joyce’s craft.

Lumbee Pipelines: American Indian Movement in the Residue of Settler Colonialism
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Author: David Shane Lowry
Discipline: American Indian Studies

Description:
In Lumbee Pipelines David Shane Lowry (Lumbee) examines the historical and modern paths, or “pipelines,” through which members of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina maintain Lumbee national identity, community practices, and tribal sovereignty. Through extensive ethnographic research and contextualization, Lowry explores these pipelines: the programs and traditions through which the Lumbee people engineer the settler-colonial conditions that define life in North Carolina and the United States as a whole. Even as the Lumbee community depends on the economics, politics, and histories of settler colonialism, those realities at once threaten Lumbee life, freedom, and community. Despite that conflict, Lumbee people use these pipelines to protect their interests and to influence the world in the realms of public infrastructure and education, healthcare services, humanitarian networks, fossil fuel pipelines, environmental degradation, and artificial intelligence. Lowry paints an intimate portrait of how individual Lumbees define their identities and sense of being, revealing the disputes and affinities between Lumbee community members in various states of accepting and rejecting settler-colonial circumstances.

Patient Sense: Rhetorical Body Work in the Age of Technology
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Author: Lillian Campbell
Discipline: Communication Studies

Description:
Technological innovations are rapidly changing the healthcare landscape. When nurses can complete portions of their clinical hours in virtual simulations and medical assistants might spend their entire careers providing patient care mediated by a screen, their understanding of their professional roles change. Rhetoric is at the heart of this education, as future providers learn how to communicate with their patients and reframe their understanding of expertise in collaboration with a range of new technologies and patient interactions. In Patient Sense, Lillian Campbell introduces a theory of rhetorical body work and applies it to three distinct healthcare contexts: clinical nursing simulations, physical therapy labs, and tele-observation in a Virtual Intensive Care Unit. Drawing on sociological frameworks, she defines rhetorical body work as paid physical, emotional, or discursive labor performed at the material or technological interface of worker-client bodies. Sociological theories of body work highlight how such work is devalued within social and institutional systems and often gendered and racialized—in contrast to medicine, which maintains prestige by cordoning off certain bodily parts and care. Campbell captures how embodied exchanges between practitioner and patient are discursively communicated and intervenes in conversations about the future of healthcare training.

The Peace Script: Framing Violence in US Anti-War Dissent
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Author: Dominic J. Manthey
Discipline: Communication Studies

Description:
The Peace Script demonstrates that anti-war movements, while petitioning for peace, often inadvertently create new justifications for violence.

A Political Anthropology of Yemen
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Author: Ross Porter
Discipline: Anthropology

Description:
At a time when Yemen has been ravaged by a decade of war and subject to myriad political and military interventions, the essays in this collection serve as a timely reminder of the need for grounded anthropological study in even the harshest of circumstances. From tribesmen to refugees, revolutionaries to farmers, state workers to charity workers, intellectuals to the unemployed and the destitute, we learn of the everyday political languages through which people in the country live their lives. This volume is a call for a political anthropology sensitive not just to different notions of the political, but to the ways in which people challenge their own worlds, confront and reorient concepts, and engage the political imagination in a spirit of abiding critique. This concise collection is the fruit of decades of ethnographic fieldwork in Yemen and will be of interest to students and scholars seeking an intimate and nuanced account of life in the country.

Remediating Cartographies of Erasure: Anthropology, Indigenous Epistemologies, and the Global Imaginary
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Author: Bernard C. Perley (ed.); with contributors
Discipline: Anthropology

Description:
Remediating Cartographies of Erasure brings together leading sociocultural and linguistic anthropologists to explore the moral imperatives of anthropology as a discipline to contribute to the self-determination and equality of Indigenous peoples around the globe. This engaged collaboration highlights the partnerships between Indigenous communities and anthropology as a mutually respectful and emancipatory practice of Indigenous and anthropological epistemologies. Indigenous scholars from New Zealand, the United States, and Canada and non-Indigenous scholars from Australia, the United States, and Canada each provide concrete examples of how researchers actualize the moral imperative to work with Indigenous peoples in ways that foster their human rights and self-determination. The contributors discuss anthropological work done in Canada, the United States, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Honduras, Australia, Sardinia, and New Zealand.

Sex and Love in Porfirian Mexico City: A Social History of Working-Class Courtship
Publisher: University of Florida Press
Author: Michael Matthews
Discipline: Latin American Studies

Description:
This social history explores the romantic and sexual lives of the poor and working class in Mexico City during the rule of dictator Porfirio Díaz from 1876 to 1911. By analyzing sexually based crime cases and stories in the penny press, Michael Matthews sheds light on everyday struggles, joys, and desires, arguing that the sexual lives of lower-class individuals were influenced by the city’s growth and cultural changes.

Southwestern National Monuments: Frank Pinkley and the Rise of the National Park System
Publisher: University of Utah Press
Author: Will Moore
Discipline: History

Description:
A history of the Southwestern National Monuments created by the Antiquities Act and managed by Frank “Boss” Pinkley from 1923 to 1940. The story of the monuments under Pinkley is the story of the creation of a national park system.

Syria, Revolt and War in the Digital Age
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Author: Cécile Boëx; Agnès Devictor (eds.)
Discipline: Anthropology

Description:
This book explores the vast territory of images and sounds, taking a fresh look at forms, temporalities and imaginaries of the Syrian conflict. More broadly, it offers a new approach to understanding the revolt movements and the conflict in Syria and questions the new use of images in contemporary conflicts.

Ties That Bind: People and Perception in U.S. and Korean Transnational Relations, 1905–1965
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Author: Hannah Kim
Discipline: Cultural Studies

Description:
Ties That Bind narrates five stories of how a transnational community helped shape American perceptions and understandings of Korea and Koreans, from a time when only a small number of Americans knew anything about Korea to a time when most Americans were aware of Korea’s geopolitical significance. Three of the moments took place when Korea was a colony of Japan: the so-called conspiracy case in 1911, the independence movement of 1919, and the efforts to recognize Korean independence during World War II. The other two moments transpired in the context of the Cold War, when Korean orphans and Korean exchange students came to the United States in the 1950s. In these five stories, the interplay of people, perceptions, and official and unofficial policy can be seen in the work of people who tried to influence U.S. and Korean relations by binding Americans and Koreans through shared values and experiences. They did so by portraying Koreans as Christian converts, as supporters of democracy and democratic ideals, and as people embracing western or American cultural norms. The actors in this book did not always succeed in their goals but, through their endeavors, they facilitated policy discussions, forged ties between the United States and Korea, and began to break down cultural barriers between Koreans and Americans.

Unleashing Black Power: Grassroots Organizing in Harlem and the Advent of the Long, Hot Summers
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Author: Peter D. Blackmer
Discipline: African American Studies

Description:
This book explores the local dynamics, national connections, and global context of the Black freedom movement in Harlem from 1954 to 1964, illuminating how activists, organizers, and ordinary people mounted their resistance to systemic racism in the Jim Crow North. By tracing the dual evolution of Black radicalism and white resistance, Peter Blackmer offers a new framework for analyzing the epochal urban uprisings in the 1960s. He documents both the richness of Black radical thought and action that made Harlem a key battleground in the national civil rights movement, transformed local Black grassroots politics, and facilitated the rise of Black Power in New York City. At the same time, he shows how the city’s attempts to clamp down on activists revealed the repressive nature of Northern liberalism and heralded the expansion of the carceral state. As Blackmer narrates in vivid detail, the decade of confrontations between Black communities and white state power caused Harlem residents and activists to seek “new means” for achieving freedom within a city, state, and nation determined to deny it.

The Visionary Art of Franco-Belgian Comics, 1930s to 1960s
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Author: Hugo Frey; Maaheen Ahmed
Discipline: Cultural Studies

Description:
The Van Passen comics collection at Ghent University offers the opportunity for a unique new reading of the history of comics. Scattered through the millions of panels and magazine pages collected by Alain Van Passen, there is a secret and long forgotten history of vibrant, surrealist, breath-taking, even ‘visionary’ images. Focusing on popular magazines published between 1935 and 1965 this catalogue reveals for the first time a lost world of French and Belgian comics and their translations and reworkings of American, British and Italian imports. Through their visual style and page design the comics displayed here created a unique art form that not only entertained young readers but also imagined an entirely unique visual universe where fact and fantasy blur into colourful and chiaroscuro pages of truly amazing comic art. The collection adds to the growing history of European comics beyond, outside, and around the dominant (and now parodied) ligne claire tradition and the present-day economy of transnational importation and imitation and more experimental graphic novels. Instead of showcasing the best-known artists of the field (Hergé, Jacobs, Cuvelier), the volume seeks to recover traces of a counter history of French comics in which new stars will be born and images long forgotten unveiled for the 2020s.