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New Path to Open Titles Published from November 1 – November 30, 2025
A Brief History of Violence in Mexico
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Author: Pablo Piccato
Author Affiliation: Columbia University
Discipline: Latin American Studies
Description:
Political rhetoric often portrays Mexico as an inherently violent nation. Available now for the first time in English, Pablo Piccato’s essential work cuts through the noise to contextualize violence as a historical phenomenon. Piccato shows us that violence is not unique to Mexico but, just as anywhere else, has erupted there in many forms. Attending to multiple histories of violence, Piccato reveals how violence emerges as a resource that people mobilize to various ends—not an uncontrollable impulse or the simple result of corrupt political power.
Alterhumanism: Becoming Human on a Conservation Frontier
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Author: Piergiorgio Di Giminiani
Author Affiliation: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Discipline: Anthropology
Description:
On the conservation frontier of southern Chile, the lives of smallholding settlers, Indigenous Mapuche farmers, environmental activists, entrepreneurs, and conservation scientists all grapple with the enduring impacts of settler-caused environmental depletion, aspirations for a new ethics of care, and the promises of an ecotourism boom. Here, the question of what it means to be human is not simply an existential concern but the reflexive result of experiences of becoming human through and with nonhuman others in an increasingly uncertain world.
The Archaeology of American Protests
Publisher: University of Florida Press
Author: April M. Beisaw and Dania Jordan-Talley
Author Affiliation: Vassar College; Oakland Museum of California
Discipline: Archaeology
Description:
In this book, April Beisaw and Dania Jordan-Talley use historical and contemporary archaeology to explore the past 400 years of American protest history. This book reveals how ideals such as equality, prosperity, and self-determination have been challenged and negotiated through protests, connecting today’s protest movements to those that came long before.
Becoming St. Louis: Family, Faith, and the Politics of Citizenship, 1820-1920
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Author: Sharon Hartman Strom
Author Affiliation: University of Rhode Island
Discipline: African American Studies
Description:
St. Louis was the pivot of the free states and slave states and the border of the settled East and frontier West. Sharon Hartman Strom draws on disparate and previously untapped sources to weave the personal and public lives of women and both free and enslaved African Americans into city history.
Between Guns and Butter: The Modern Presidency and the Politics of Warfare and Welfare
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Author: Jeremy L. Strickler
Discipline: Political Science
Description:
In Between Guns and Butter, Jeremy Strickler simultaneously examines two significant developments in the modern presidency: the rise of the national security presidency and the emergence of the executive as steward of the public welfare. Strickler calls this pattern of governance the “warfare-welfare nexus.” Analyzing the administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson, Strickler shows how each, under the pressure of emergencies both at home and abroad, navigated their governing environment by expressing ideas on the relationship between guns and butter.
Contested Taiwan: Sovereignty, Social Movements, and Party Formation
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Author: Lev Nachman
Discipline: Asian Studies
Description:
Despite maintaining de facto sovereignty, states like Ukraine, Nagorno Karabakh, and Somaliland find themselves unrecognized or unwelcomed in today’s international system because another power claims them as part of their own territory. Representing many of the world’s critical geopolitical flashpoints, there is a dire need to understand how the “contested” status of these places, a term generally reserved for the international sphere, impacts domestic politics. Political scientist Lev Nachman delves into Taiwan’s political landscape following the 2014 Sunflower Movement, a watershed moment for pro-independence activism, to consider how international and domestic forces have shaped political participation. Blending quantitative and qualitative material, including interviews with pro-independence groups, Nachman reveals that when it comes to what he terms “contested states,” one cannot rely on existing theory to determine why some social movements become political parties and others do not.
The Counterrevolutionary Shadow: Race, Democracy, and the Making of the American People
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Author: Michael Gorup
Discipline: Political Science
Description:
Michael Gorup provides a novel account of the relationship between race and democratic politics in the United States, arguing that racial politics in the US has always been a politics of peoplehood. Racism is what he calls a politics of popular enclosure: it limits the scope of democratic power by circumscribing who is said to belong to “the people.” In doing so, it contains democratization from within. Racism is, in short, American democracy’s “counterrevolutionary shadow.”
Decolonisation and Postcolonial Migration: Citizenship and Empire
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Author: Frank Abumere
Discipline: Political Science
Description:
Decolonisation and Postcolonial Migration reconceptualises the relational approach to global justice to analyse what and why former colonial states owe their former colonies. While arguments for lifting restrictions on a former empire’s citizens right to enter the metropolis are usually based on cosmopolitan egalitarian grounds (the universal equality of persons) and humanitarian grounds, Abumere’s postcolonial relational approach bases the argument for lifting such restrictions on the grounds of: the colonial historical relationship between former colonial states and their former colonies; and specifically, the historical injustice that characterised the relationship.
Dispelling Fantasies: Authors of Color Reimagine a Genre
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Author: Joy Sanchez-Taylor
Discipline: Cultural Studies
Description:
In Dispelling Fantasies, Joy Sanchez-Taylor examines how authors of color, such as R. F. Kuang, N. K. Jemisin, Nnedi Okorafor, Tomi Adeyemi, Tasha Suri, Aiden Thomas, Nghi Vo, and Marlon James, among others, offer critical counterpoints to the history of white-dominated, Eurocentric fantasy. The traditional fantasy that these authors are writing against reinforces Christian virtues and colonial, white supremacist structures; Sanchez-Taylor argues that its racial tropes are tied to a history of colonization and Christian missionary practices, with popular fantasy narratives often depicting Indigenous groups as primitive, deviant peoples in need of salvation. Such representations are based on a Western binary of rational versus magical and are influenced by tenets of Christianity, ultimately contributing to depictions of “the dark fantastic” or fantasy worlds where dark and othered characters are implicitly portrayed as evil and irredeemable.
Dreams of a Young Republic: The American Vincentians in China
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Author: John J. Harney
Author Affiliation: University of Texas at Austin; Centre College
Discipline: Religion
Description:
In Dreams of a Young Republic, John J. Harney examines the perceptions and expectations of this group of American Catholic missionaries between the 1911 revolution that created the Republic of China and the communist revolution of 1949 that led to the collapse of that republic on the Chinese mainland. The Vincentians experienced warlordism, Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek’s partial unification of the country, Japanese invasion during World War II, and communist revolution. Through all this they clung to a vision of a free, democratic China friendly to the West. As Harney contextualizes the Vincentians’ observations and desires, he provides insight into the China that came to be and offers a history of a Sino-American relationship with much deeper roots than the antagonisms of the Cold War and the decades that have followed.
EU Public Construction Law
Publisher: Masaryk University Press
Author: Vojtěch Vomáčka
Discipline: Law
Description:
The monograph traces the degree of indirect harmonisation of spatial planning and planning permission in EU law and the scope of the relevant requirements. It focuses on the gradual development of EU law, the relationships, differences and synergies between the different conditions in order to provide a more comprehensive picture, and then concentrates on the most critical issues identified, namely the interpretation of the general concepts used in environmental legislation and the explanation of the content of the public participation requirements. It also examines the relationship between the Aarhus Convention and EU law, highlighting the fundamental guarantees of participation in decision-making and access to justice. Furthermore, the monograph analyses the requirements for planning and construction arising from so-called non-environmental EU policies. It focuses in particular on the development of cohesion policy and the urban agenda, maritime spatial planning, the development of the TEN-T and TEN-E networks, requirements for building materials, energy efficiency in buildings and the promotion of renewable energy.
Fitness for Freedom: Disability, Degeneration, and Modern Irish Writing
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Author: Marion Quirici
Author Affiliation: Kennesaw State University
Discipline: Language & Literature
Description:
Fitness for Freedom explores the legacy of intersectional stereotypes of disability, race, gender, sexuality, class, and religion that justified imperial rule of Ireland and the forms of oppression that continued after independence. Marion Quirici identifies, in Irish modernist literature, models of citizenship and creative autonomy that valorize vulnerability over ability, and interdependence over independence. She uncovers a history in which an entire nation, Ireland, was characterized as disabled and therefore “not fit for freedom.” Beyond symbolism, the Famine and decades of emigration led to a perception, in line with degeneration theories of the time, that Ireland’s racial stocks were depleted, and that those who remained were feeble and few. The fraught relationship between disability and Irishness provides context for Quirici’s analysis of modernist Irish literature.
The Forgotten Debate: The Korean War and the Roots of America’s Ideological Divisions
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Author: Dane J. Cash
Discipline: History
Description:
Description:
Cash argues that the “forgotten war” in Korea marks the origins of the current political divisions in the United States between liberals and conservatives. The factions as we know them today were forged in the response to that war, with left liberals and hawkish liberals dividing over foreign policy and conservatives reacting to the perceived timidity about prosecuting the war.
Kinflix: Adoption and Assisted Reproductive Technology in Film
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Author: Marina Fedosik
Discipline: Film Studies
Description:
In this monograph, Marina Fedosik examines adoption and non-traditional reproduction in 20th and 21st century films, demonstrating how the persistent thinking about kinship through the metaphor of the heterocoital family impacts identities of those involved in non-traditional methods of reproduction and the larger social lives of everyone else.
Living Through Capitalism: Resisting Devastation Through Communities of Life
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Author: James A. Chamberlain
Discipline: Political Science
Description:
Living Through Capitalism explores how capitalism uses and abuses life, and presents communities of life as a practical means of resistance. In particular, the book shows how capitalism exploits life’s capacity for self-production across myriad species, enlists us in environmentally damaging behaviour, inflicts immense physical and mental suffering in unjust and avoidable ways, and undermines the ethical quality of life for all.
Mother Tongues of the High Andes: Gender, Language, and Indigenous Difference in Peru
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Author: Sandhya K. Narayanan
Author Affiliation: University of Nevada
Discipline: Linguistics
Description:
Anthropologist Sandhya Krittika Narayanan begins with these challenges, and asks: What does it mean to be a Quechua or Aymara speaker in Puno today? What does it mean to be an Indigenous ethnic Quechua or Aymara individual? Mother Tongues of the High Andes opens with these questions, exploring what Quechua and Aymara languages and identities mean for Indigenous puneños as they navigate their past and present. Narayanan argues that understanding inter-Indigenous linguistic and social differences involves examining Indigenous gender roles, responsibilities, and linguistic practices, particularly those of Indigenous puneña women. She shows how these practices have contributed to the maintenance of Indigenous multilingualism and continuity in local modes of understanding Indigenous identity and difference.
Northern Indo-European pre-Christian religions: A critical humanities perspective on Celtic, Germanic and Baltic traditions
Publisher: Masaryk University Press
Author: Jan Reichstäter
Author Affiliation: Masaryk University
Discipline: Religion
Description:
The book offers analytical insights into the pre-Christian religions of the northern Indo-Europeans, meaning the Celtic, Germanic and Baltic peoples. In three thematic chapters, the author presents, through the perspectives of archaeology, philology, and ethnology, a critical synthesis of current knowledge about the pantheons, rituals, and mythologies that once formed the ‘pillars’ of these religious cultures. In addition to the possibilities of reconstructing these systems, rejected by their adherents in late antiquity or in the Middle Ages with the adoption of Christianity, he attentively addresses the ambiguities, complexities, and challenges of interpreting their particular structures or elements. Through this balanced combination of logical constructivism and critical deconstruction, the book provides the reader with credible outlines of the archaic traditions that influenced – as a substratum legacy – not only Western Christianity, but also the subsequent secularised cultures of northern Europe.
Queer Genealogies in Dominican Literature and Culture
Publisher: University of Florida Press
Author: Maja Horn
Author Affiliation: Barnard College
Discipline: Language & Literature
Description:
In this book, Maja Horn examines the evolution of queer Dominican literary and cultural production from the 1950s to the present, challenging simplistic developmental narratives of LGBTIQ+ progress. Through an analysis of literature, theater, and activism, Horn traces how same-sex desire and gender non-conformity have been negotiated both tacitly and overtly across the years.
The Paradox of Protection: The Making of Indirect Rule in Southern Sierra Leone, 1850-1915
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Author: Trina Leah Hogg
Author Affiliation: Oregon State University
Discipline: African Studies
Description:
The Paradox of Protection: The Making of Indirect Rule in Southern Sierra Leone, 1850–1915 charts the history of protection to tell a new story about indirect rule in West Africa. Hogg uncovers how promises of protection on the frontier interacted with African bids for security and legitimacy, paradoxically producing insecurity and an unstable framework of colonial law and rule well into the twentieth century.
Philosophy of human rights: Concept and Justification Theories
Publisher: Masaryk University Press
Author: Martin Hapla
Author Affiliation: Masaryk University
Discipline: Philosophy
Description:
In practical terms, the concept of human rights is a very successful one. They are at the centre of discussions among lawyers, politicians and journalists. In the realm of theory, however, they remain a source of doubt. In particular, the question arises as to what grounds justify them. This book seeks to answer this question by linking them to utilitarian ethics. As controversial as this connection is sometimes perceived to be, it was already sought by John Stuart Mill and is still the subject of lively debate today. The book sets these within the broader framework of human rights theory and the problems associated with it. In doing so, the book not only introduces the reader to utilitarianism itself and the various ways in which it can be applied in this area, but also provides a representative overview and critical analysis of the most debated approaches to justifying human rights today.
The Poetic Way of Xie Lingyun: Literary Expression and the Natural World
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Author: Ping Wang
Author Affiliation: University of Washington
Discipline: Asian Studies
Description:
During the dark centuries between the fall of the Han dynasty in 220 CE and the golden age of reunified China under the Tang and Song dynasties (618–1279), the shi poetic form embraced new themes and structure. In this meticulously constructed study, Ping Wang traces the social conditions that sparked innovation and marked a significant turn in intellectual history. Segueing among biography, social history, and literary analysis, she demonstrates how this form came to dominate classical Chinese poetry, making possible the works of the great poets of later dynasties and influencing literary development in Korea and Japan as well. Focusing on the life of the poet Xie Lingyun謝靈運(385-433), she traces the exile of aristocratic families in the wild south, which led to their thematic use of “mountains and water” (shanshui) landscapes over the pastoral ones that had interested earlier writers and artists.
Raising the Redwood Curtain: Labor Landscapes and Community Violence in a Pacific Littoral
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Author: Michael T. Karp
Author Affiliation: California State University
Discipline: Environmental Studies
Description:
Raising the Redwood Curtain explores how the growth of state power and the expansion of capitalism promoted migrations across the Pacific, instances of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and labor struggles in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By analyzing the history of three episodes of labor and racial violence in Humboldt County, California, Michael T. Karp spans nearly a century in a detailed examination of the causes and interconnections between the Indian Island massacre of 1860, the expulsion of Chinese and Japanese people from the county between 1885 and 1906, and the killing and persecution of eastern Europeans during the Great Lumber Strike of 1935.
Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People: The Burden of Conservation in Modern China
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Author: Micah S. Muscolino
Discipline: Asian Studies
Description:
Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People explores how terracing, afforestation, and other management measures undertaken in Gansu, China, between the 1940s and the 1960s remade the biophysical environment and the lives of the rural people who depended on water and soil for their survival. The manuscript focuses on Gansu’s Tianshu Prefecture, detailing over the course of seven chapters how environmental changes played out in villages, on farms, and within households, how the Chinese state imposed the burden of conservation on these communities, and how their inhabitants navigated these demands. Based on extensive research in Chinese archives and oral history interviews conducted with elderly villagers, historian Micah Muscolino argues that water and soil conservation altered patterns of control over land and resources in ways that contributed to the marginalization of China’s rural populace.
Restless Ecologies: Climate Change and Socioecological Futures in the Peruvian Highlands
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Author: Allison Caine
Author Affiliation: University of Wyoming
Discipline: Environmental Studies
Description:
This book explores how Quechua alpaca herders in the Peruvian highlands sense and make sense of climate change through subtle shifts in their interactions with humans, animals, and landscapes. It draws our attention to complicated practices of being-in-relation in a time of global instability. By analyzing climate change from the ground up, this book asks what the alpaca herders of the Andes can tell us about the state of the planet.
Sacred Sisterhoods: A Celebration of Black Women’s Friendships on Television and in Film
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Editor: Imani M. Cheers
Discipline: African American Studies
Description:
The dramatic expansion of Black women into creative positions in television and film industries since the 1990s has incorporated a range of themes in Black women’s lives and friendships previously invisible in mainstream media. To date, however, neither their work nor their impact on the Black female audience has been examined in the academic community. In Sacred Sisterhoods, Imani M. Cheers gathers an array of analytical essays by scholars and media experts celebrating Black women’s creative authority that has emphasized friendships and other themes central to Black women’s lives on television and film from 1993 to 2023. Each essay centers the critical-cultural commentary and personal reflections of some of the Black community’s most informative voices across academia, the arts, journalism, and activism. The three decades this volume explores in mainstream media will examine the evolution of Black women content creators—specifically directors, writers, producers and showrunners.
Scrap Theory: Reproductive Injustice in the Black Feminist Imagination
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Author: Mali D. Collins
Discipline: African American Studies
Description:
In Scrap Theory, Mali D. Collins examines cultural objects and productions that Black mothers have created to document the generational trauma of mother-child separation through state-sanctioned violence. Collins deploys Black feminist methodologies to elevate what she terms archival scraps, or sources otherwise thought to be “interstitial, fragmented, or unimportant.” She focuses on creative work from the late-twentieth century through the present, including the writings of Toni Cade Bambara, M. NourbeSe Philip, and Edwidge Danticat, the critical activism of Erica Garner, and visual/material art by Samaria Rice and Elizabeth Catlett. By taking seriously the creative scraps of maternal dispossession, the book brings together archival injustice and reproductive injustice, two rich areas of inquiry in Black feminist theory that, together, can illuminate how the archival erasure of Black motherhood is an urgent concern for the movement for reproductive justice.
Toward a Small Data Archaeology: Otomí, Aztec Imperial, and Spanish Colonial Xaltocan, Mexico
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Author: Lisa Overholtzer
Author Affiliation: McGill University
Discipline: Archaeology
Description:
Toward a Small Data Archaeology presents an interpretive and methodological framework—a “small data” archaeology—elucidated through a case study at Xaltocan, Mexico. Aligned closely with Indigenous feminist principles by engaging directly with descendant communities that resist abstract, large-scale syntheses and instead emphasize deep, localized understanding of ancestral lives intertwined with their landscapes, this framework repositions archaeological inquiry by focusing on individual household contexts.
Transatlantic Majoritarianism: How Murder, Migration, and Modernity Transformed Nineteenth Century Legislatures
Publisher: Clemson University Press
Author: Lauren C. Bell
Discipline: Language & Literature
Description:
In 1890, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Thomas Brackett Reed used the authority his position afforded to him to permanently hobble legislative minorities in the House and to usher in the practice of simple majority rule. Legislative scholars have long lauded Reed as a transformational leader, whose singular actions established majoritarianism as standard in democratic legislatures. But despite the credit given to Reed, his actions were not entirely of his own invention; Reed was deeply influenced by the actions of Speaker of the British House of Commons Henry Bouverie William Brand, who in 1881 implemented the first closure of debate in the Commons in response to extreme, obstructive behavior by Irish members of Parliament. This book explores the questions of why and how two national legislatures located on two different continents and established hundreds of years apart were forced to respond to obstructive behavior within the same decade.
Transnational Humans and Transnationalisms in the Humanities: Crossing Boundaries in the Americas
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Author: Max Paul Friedman, Stefan Rinke, Núria Vilanova
Discipline: Latin American Studies
Description:
Are we living in a transnational world? The 900 percent rise in the use of “transnationalism” in publications since 1995 testifies to a defining phenomenon. International migration has increased two-thirds since 1980, and the global circulation of capital, media, and culture has intensified, provoking nationalist political backlash worldwide. This collection of studies on exile, social science, indigeneity, gender activism, music and dance, gangs, sex work, narcofiction, and cinema examines how transnational forces influence racial difference, national identity, immigrant exclusion, state power, and cultural expression in the Americas. It explores how the physical and symbolic movement of humans and their artifacts shapes ideas and challenges accepted notions of national and conceptual boundaries among them. By addressing the impact of digital technologies on spatialization, by challenging emerging conventions on transnationalism, and by fostering interdisciplinary exchange, the book enriches our understanding of transnational lives and provides tools for exploring the transnational turn.
Trauma and Meaning in French Concentration Camp Poetry (1943-1945)
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Author: Belle Marie Joseph
Author Affiliation: Australian National University
Discipline: Language & Literature
Description:
From 1942 to 1944, approximately 160,000 people were deported from France to concentration camps under the German occupation. Despite the horrific conditions, some political prisoners deported for Resistance activities, in addition to a small number of Jewish prisoners, managed to write poetry secretly in the camps between 1943 and 1945. Concentration camp poetry from over a hundred French prisoners survives to this day in archives, family collections, and published books. This book examines the poetry of eight French prisoners, as well as poems composed and shared within a group of friends in Ravensbrück. Through close readings, it explores prisoners’ efforts to identify transcendent meaning in their traumatic circumstances.
Understanding Latin America’s Economy in the Twenty-First Century
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Author: Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Discipline: Latin American Studies
Description:
Latin America’s economic performance is often depicted as a long sequence of repeated failures, including its contribution to global financial crises as well as its slow growth and intractable inequalities. Its experience in the twenty-first century, however, reveals considerable and underappreciated successes. Understanding those successes—as well as setbacks—is critical to understanding both the region’s prospects and the rapidly changing global economic order. Jeff Dayton-Johnson’s Understanding Latin America’s Economy in the Twenty-First Century provides a comprehensive, comparative, and region-wide perspective on Latin American economic development that spans the last quarter century.
Urban Saniscapes: Slums, Housing and Everyday Sanitation in Accra and Nairobi, 1908-1963
Publisher: MIchigan State University Press
Author: Waseem-Ahmed Bin-Kasim
Author Affiliation: Elon University
Discipline: African Studies
Description:
Urban Saniscapes demonstrates that the slum-like conditions found in high-density neighborhoods were vital to the development of modern cities. In this study, Bin-Kasim examines environmental sanitation in the historical development of Accra and Nairobi, and traces the approaches to sanitation during colonial rule and urban growth throughout the first half of the twentieth century and beyond.
Wanderings of Modernism: Errancy, Identity, and Aesthetics in Interwar Modernist Literature
Publisher: Clemson University Press
Author: Yasna Bozhkova, Diane Drouin, and Olivier Hercend
Author Affiliation: Université Paris; Sorbonne Université
Discipline: Language & Literature
Description:
This volume brings together scholars of English-speaking literary modernism, around the notion of wandering, both as a spatial concept and as a broader notion involving the loss of identity and social, political as well as philosophical questions. It addresses the crucial importance of wandering after the First World War, at a time of acceleration in transports and communication, coupled with a sense of fragmentation and loss, which are posited as a crucial set of experiences for modernist artists. The collected articles encompass the material aspects of wandering lifestyles, the social and cultural institutions of modern travels, from tourism to exile, as well as the politics of localization and displacement in a world dominated by imperialism and caught in nationalist and ideological struggles. They explore the interconnections between these forces, on different scales, and the personal and artistic trajectories of canonical modernist figures likes James Joyce, Virginia Woolf or William Carlos Williams, and others who have received more recent recognition like Jean Rhys or Katherine Mansfield, as well as lesser-known movements like the American “Hobohemia.”
Winning Our Wonder: Rhetorical Re/constructions of Women in the American Civil War
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Author: Patty Wilde
Author Affiliation: Washington State University
Discipline: Communication Studies
Description:
This book examines how public memories inform our understanding of gender and race in the Civil War and beyond. In Winning Our Wonder Patricia Wilde traces how Civil War stories involving women have evolved, charting how depictions of gender and race have been obscured, augmented, and amplified in print and online. She offers four case studies that focus on the memories of six women who feature prominently in popular conversations about the war: Rose O’Neal Greenhow, Belle Boyd, Harriet Tubman, Sarah Emma Edmonds, Loreta Janeta Velazquez, and Susie King Taylor. Wilde argues that these visions of the past inform popular memory of the war, an event that continues to haunt contemporary social, political, and cultural contexts.
Writing Groups in the Writing Center: Negotiating Authority and Expertise in Collaborative Learning
Publisher: Utah State University Press
Author: Sara Wilder
Author Affiliation: University of Maryland
Discipline: Communication Studies
Through 3 group case studies, Wilder uses qualitative methods to analyze how students learn together to write in new genres and for new audiences, theorizing the processes by which writing groups negotiate authority and expertise in academic writing by centering group writing.
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