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A Blueprint for Worker Solidarity: Class Politics and Community in Wisconsin
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Author: Naomi R. Williams
Author Affiliation: Rutgers University
Discipline: Labor & Employment Relations

Description:
A Blueprint for Worker Solidarity is the story of the Racine, Wisconsin, labor community from the 1940s to the 1980s. It details the ways workers built a community of activists across racial lines, employment sectors, and public and private workforces. Workers used their collective power and history of resistance to reshape the local political economy in the interests of expanding access to the postwar liberal agenda of workplace democracy and economic freedom.

A Debt of Gratitude: How Jimmy Carter Put Vietnam Veterans’ Issues on the National Agenda
Publisher: Press: University Press of Kansas
Author: Glenn Robins
Discipline: Public Policy & Administration

Description:
By addressing Vietnam veterans’ issues and by communicating his positions and views, Jimmy Carter made a substantial political investment in moving these items from the level of public debate to the level of policy prescriptions, thereby raising awareness, generating concern, and promising government attention to honor and thank Vietnam veterans.

An Efficient Womanhood: Women and the Making of the Universal Negro Improvement Association
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Author: Natanya Duncan
Author Affiliation: Queens College CUNY
Discipline: African American Studies

Description:
The women of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) helped build and sustain the largest social justice organization of the twentieth century, creating an activist framework that has served as a model into the present day. This collective biography allows the women of the UNIA to speak for themselves, revealing the complexities of their choices as active members of Black nation-building.

Ancient Maritime Loan Contracts
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Author: Peter Candy
Discipline: Classical Studies

Description:
This book is the first comprehensive study of maritime contracts and their significance to the economic and legal development in the ancient Mediterranean world. Maritime contracts, or nautikai syngraphai, were documents recording the terms of agreement on which a creditor lent a sum of money to a merchant or carrier to finance the purchase of a cargo for a trading expedition overseas. They were the lifeblood of emporia, the long-distance trade in commodities that flourished in the Mediterranean and Black Seas from about the seventh century B.C.E., very likely from its inception.

Animal-Assisted Counseling and Psychotherapy: A Clinician’s Guide
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Authors: Linda Chassman Craddock and Ellen Kinney Winston
Author Affiliation: Animal Assisted Therapy Programs of Colorado
Discipline: Psychology

Description:
The Clinical Application of Animal Assisted Counseling and Psychotherapy is a guidebook and resource for clinical mental health professionals who hope to integrate animals into their professional work. This book is a unique reference guide that includes information about legal and ethical issues unique to this field; the interventions clinicians can do with animals; and how different animals can be helpful at different times in treatment and assist with varied populations.

Beyond Orientalism: Sir William Jones (1746-1794), A Journey of Understanding
Publisher: Leiden University Press
Author: Hadi Baghaei Abchooyeh
Discipline: Language & Literature

Description: 
This book is a deep dive into the intricate interweaving of Oriental mysticism, religion, science, and literature. It presents a unique challenge for scholars, especially when it comes to comparing Eastern and Western mysticism. A pivotal figure in this comparison is Sir William Jones (1746–1794), a linguist, poet, and judge who delved into Persian mysticism and emerged as a key interpreter of Indo-Persian literature, particularly Sufism. His works on poets like Rumi, Sadi, and Hafez earned him the moniker ‘Persian Jones’ and significantly influenced the Romantic depictions of the Orient in European literature.

Enchantment in Romantic Literature
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Author: Gavin Hopps
Discipline: Language & Literature
Author Affiliation: University of St Andrews

Description: 
At the end of ‘Ode to a Nightingale’, Keats’s speaker famously asks of the foregoing reverie: ‘Was it a vision, or a waking dream?’ This book is concerned with such ‘enchanted’ imaginings and the intimations of transcendence they convey, along with the suspicions they reflexively engender and the uncertainties with which they invite us to dwell. The book argues that it is necessary to think anew about the Romantics’ ‘imaginative metaphysics’ on account of recent theoretical developments — to do with such things as affect theory, eco-theology, new materialism and the re-enchantment of the West — but also due to a lingering allergy to ideas of transcendence, which can be traced back to the ‘demystifying’ materialist approaches to Romanticism that dominated post-1960s criticism. It is further suggested that under the gaze of these critical approaches, Romantic literature has been consciously cut off from the life of the reader and its affective, epiphanic and utopian dimensions have been neglected.

Experiments in Silence: The Urdu Short Story After 1947
Publisher: Clemson University Press
Author: Sana R. Chaudhry
Discipline: Language & Literature

Description: 
The Partition of India in 1947 has come to occupy a central space in the timeline of modern trauma studies and states of exception. However, within the field of Partition studies, little has been written about Urdu literature. And, within Urdu literature, even less has been written about the Urdu short story, or afsana. This book intervenes in the current scholarship on Partition trauma by foregrounding the Urdu short story as a literary manifestation and exploration of collective cultural trauma, unspeakability, silence and the fraught historical (post)memory of Partition. Placing Urdu literature in dialogue with European thought, this book bridges fields of study and intellectual as well as historical and critical contexts that have not been put in conversation with each other before.

Fighting for Control: Power, Reproductive Care, and Race in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Author: Lina-Maria Murillo
Author Affiliation: University of Iowa
Discipline: Gender Studies

Description:
The first birth control clinic in El Paso, Texas opened in 1937. Since then, Mexican-origin women living in the border cities of El Paso and Ciudad Juarez have been confronted by a heavily funded international population control campaign led, on one end, by Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA)—with leaders like Margaret Sanger and Clarence Gamble—and actors such as the Catholic Church and Mexican American activists on the other. Uncovering nearly one hundred years of struggle, Lina-Maria Murillo here provides a nuanced historical analysis of reproductive control and justice in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands and how Mexican-origin women fought back to reclaim autonomy and care for themselves and their communities.

Hip Hop Civics: Connected Learning In the Rap Classroom
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Author: Jabari Evans
Discipline: Music

Description:
Prior to moving into academia, the author enjoyed a career as a songwriter and producer performing under the moniker of “Naledge” in the rap group Kidz in the Hall. In 2014, he founded a nonprofit organization called The Brainiac Project, Inc., to leverage the combination of social media and a burgeoning local hip hop scene as a means for violence prevention in Chicago’s South Side communities. This book is based on a three-year ethnographic study Evans conducted while serving as a mentor, evaluator, and teaching artist working with a hip hop based music program in Chicago Public Schools called Foundations of Music’s Songwriting and Production (SWP). Evans looks at how youth participating in SWP challenge traditional forms of music education and extract critical lessons about mainstream media, relational currency, and race and racism within their classroom experiences, and argues that these lessons unintentionally provide students with training in civic reasoning, media literacy, public voice, and identity development.

Inventing the Boston Game: Football, Soccer, and the Origins of a National Myth
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Author: Kevin Tallec Marston and Mike Cronin
Discipline: History

Description:
This is a compelling history about how a group of elite Boston men claimed to be the inventors of football to secure their socio-economic status during a period of massive cultural and economic change. For example, in 1906, an Oneida player named James D’Wolf Lovett published a book titled Old Boston Boys and the Games They Played about his time playing an early version of football in the 1860s, and that book helped create the impression that he and his co-players had invented the game.

Minor Troubles: Racial Figurations of Youth Sexuality and Childhood’s Queerness
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Author: Erin J. Rand
Discipline: Gender Studies

Description: 
In Minor Troubles, Erin J. Rand investigates a series of controversies about youth sexuality and queerness from the early twenty-first century: adult concerns about teen sexting, the bullying and suicides of queer kids, trans youths’ access to gender-segregated bathrooms at school, and sex education. In the public deliberation and mediation of each of these controversies, the imagined qualities of childhood—innocence, vulnerability, nonsexuality, and, crucially, whiteness—are deployed by adults to justify the protection of children. However, these rhetorical figurations of childhood often produce material precarities for actual young people, especially youth of color and queer, trans, and gender-nonconforming youth. Rand foregrounds the fundamental role of racialization in forming ideas about childhood, arguing that the image of innocent white childhood depends upon the dehumanization of racialized youth.

Reassessing the Aztatlán World: Ethnogenesis and Cultural Continuity in Northwest Mesoamerica
Publisher: University of Utah Press
Editors: Michael D. Mathiowetz and John M. D. Pohl
Discipline: Archaeology

Description: 
Detailed archaeological and ethnographic investigations into the understudied Aztatlán culture of northwest Mexico, a Postclassic culture lying between (and connecting) central Mexico and the North American Southwest.

Sense and Uncertainty: A Phenomenology of Rational Actions in an Uncertain World
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Author: Esteban Marín-Ávila
Discipline: Philosophy 

Description: 
Drawing primarily on the phenomenological work of Edmund Husserl and Luis Villoro, Sense and Uncertainty explores the possibility and conditions of rational, practical agency in our non-ideal world, characterized by forms of irrationality, violence, and oppression.

The Duplex Nature of Indigeneity: Navigating Identity in the Ahuehuepan Diaspora
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Author: Frans J. Schryer
Author Affiliation: University of Guelph
Discipline: Anthropology

Description: 
The Duplex Nature of Indigeneity is a detailed account of a Mexican town in the Alto Balsas region of the state of Guerrero, and the dozen Nahuatl-speaking communities within it. The exodus of more than half the population of towns in this region to the United States and other parts of Mexico has altered both livelihoods and social identities, and Schryer traces the families, descendants, and people who locate their identity in Alto Balsas, a place they may never have seen. Schryer presents a new paradigm—duplexity—that requires the use of multiple techniques of data collection, not as a matter of triangulation (e.g., where qualitative methods help to enrich findings from a quantitative study), but rather as a way of generating contradictory findings to better understand social life. 

The Historical Archaeology of the Pacific Northwest
Publisher: University of Florida Press
Author: Douglas C. Wilson 
Author Affiliation: Portland State University
Discipline: Archaeology

Description:
Using historical archaeology’s unique perspective, this book examines the North American Pacific Northwest from the late 17th to 20th centuries, illuminating the extraordinary confluence of places, people and conflict that has shaped the region.

Thoughts for the Times on Groups and Masses: A Sigmund Freud Museum Symposium
Publisher: Leuven University Press 
Authors: Daniela Finzi and Jeanne Wollf Bernstein
Discipline: Psychology
Author Affiliations: University of Texas; Dell Medical School; British Psychoanalytic Society; International Psychoanalytical Association; Technical University of Darmstadt; University College Ghent; Sigmund Freud Foundation; Sigmund Freud Museum; Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California; American Group Psychotherapy Association; John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute; Duke University; Williams College; New York University 

Description: 
“In groups the most contradictory ideas can exist side by side and tolerate each other, without any conflict arising from the logical contradiction between them”, wrote Freud in his 1921 book Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego. One hundred years later, in an age of war, social networks, and ubiquitous threats to democracy, the questions raised by Freud are as relevant as ever. In today’s mass and group formations, psychological processes and mechanisms can be recognized as they were described by Freud a century ago: compliance, hypnotization, regression, idealization, identification, and fusion with the Other. This anthology is the result of an interdisciplinary conference organized by the Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna. In their contributions, scholars from psychoanalysis, philosophy, sociology and literary studies present critical re-readings of the text and focus on current issues such as the rise of right-wing populist movements, the role of the narcissistic leader, and mass phenomena in the digital age. —- This book is part of the Figures of the Unconscious series

Traces of the Real: The Absent Presence of Photography in South Asian Literature
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Author: Bidisha Banerjee
Author Affiliation: University of Hong Kong
Discipline: Language & Literature

Description: 
In Traces of the Real: The Absent Presence of Photography in South Asian Literature, Bidisha Banerjee brings together cutting edge photography studies, postcolonial and diaspora studies to explore the status of the photograph in contemporary South Asian literature. Playing on the dual meaning of trace – both as index and imprint, a copy or stencil of the real as well as inadequate remains of the original – she argues that the absent presence of photography affords postcolonial writers opportunities to enhance the themes of their novel in ways that the inclusion of actual photographs may not allow. This practice critiques photography’s “truth-event” (Roberts) and instead considers the power of photographic erasures and absences in engaging the civil imagination (Azoulay) in the postcolonial moment. Banerjee makes connections between the absent presence of photography and themes of postcolonial literature such as memory, trauma, diasporic loss and mourning, agency and identity, demonstrating the ways in which the absent images powerfully undercut the apparent messages of the text. 

Unmentionable Madness: Gender, Disability, and Shame in the Malaria Treatment of Neurosyphilis
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Author: Christin L. Hancock
Author Affiliation: University of Portland
Discipline: Feminist & Women’s Studies

Description: 
In the 1920s-1930s, devastating neurosyphilis infections resulted in the institutionalization of a significant number of women and men at insane asylums across the country. In their attempts at finding a cure not only for the illness, but also for the shame that accompanied it, psychiatrists advocated for increasingly radical therapies, with malaria therapy gaining prominence among them. Central State Hospital for the Insane (CSH) in Indianapolis became one of the leading research sites for the experimental malaria treatment in 1924.