“Through a wide-ranging consideration of memorials, this book makes important contributions to the study of materiality and remembrance. Particularly valuable are its authors’ international perspectives; their attention to articulations among power, race, and gender; and their sophisticated analyses of roles that authority, contestation, silencing, and protest play in representing collective memory through large-scale artifacts.”—Alison Bell, … Continue reading Monuments and Memory
Black Freedom and Education in Nineteenth-Century Cuba
“Otheguy’s insightful analysis is engaging and persuasive; it represents an original and significant contribution to the scholarship on the history of education. This book offers important context for understanding how pivotal moments in education shaped Cuban history, especially amid the transition from slavery to freedom.”—Kabria Baumgartner, author of In Pursuit of Knowledge: Black Women and … Continue reading Black Freedom and Education in Nineteenth-Century Cuba
Black Prison Intellectuals
“Stone transforms our understanding of the prisoner as intellectuals and thought leaders.”—Jodi Schorb, author of Reading Prisoners: Literature, Literacy, and the Transformation of American Punishment, 1700–1845 “Provides a bracing history of the criminalization of Black people while underscoring the strong connections between Black incarceration and the development of Black thought and knowledge.”—Robert S. Levine, author … Continue reading Black Prison Intellectuals
Social Inequality and Difference in the Ancient Greek World
“Avoiding an Athenocentric approach, this volume will be a very welcome source. It should serve to encourage historians of the period and region to more fully engage with the bioarchaeological record and the unique perspectives it offers on questions of population relationships, disease, and regionality when considering inequality and social differentiation.”—Linda Fibiger, coeditor of The … Continue reading Social Inequality and Difference in the Ancient Greek World
The Historical Archaeology of the Pacific Northwest
“A welcome and needed resource. Provides a clear and thorough summary and analysis of archaeological research into settler colonialism, global diaspora, and capitalism, and how these topics intersect in the Pacific Northwest.”—Mark Tveskov, coeditor of Conflict Archaeology, Historical Memory, and the Experience of War: Beyond the Battlefield Bordered by the Rocky Mountains to the east … Continue reading The Historical Archaeology of the Pacific Northwest
Archaeology in a Living Landscape
“Weaving together archaeological evidence, oral histories, and Indigenous knowledge, this volume breathes life into landscapes and objects that otherwise might have been unjustly robbed of their animate status.”—Dagmara Zawadzka, Okanagan College Archaeology in a Living Landscape: Envisioning Nonhuman Persons in the Indigenous Americas explores the diverse range of other-than-human persons that inhabited and affected the … Continue reading Archaeology in a Living Landscape
More Voices of Civil Rights Lawyers
“An inspiring book that brings to life a part of our national history and does so through voices everyone can relate to. The authors of these essays are ordinary people who have seized an opportunity to do extraordinary things.”—Armand Derfner, civil rights litigator “This book helps us ask what we should do now that will … Continue reading More Voices of Civil Rights Lawyers
Digital Satire in Latin America
“In this fascinating transnational project, Alonso writes the next chapter in satire studies. He introduces us to the digital natives across Latin America who are reworking satire for the post-TV era. Rich in local context, each of Alonso’s penetrating case studies explores the contours of new forms of DIY satire and examines the provocative ways … Continue reading Digital Satire in Latin America
Bound Labor in the Turpentine Belt
“Aiello’s microhistory of peonage and convict labor in south Georgia shows how integral bound Black labor was to white supremacy in this corner of the postbellum South. No one else has shown how deeply entangled the illegal system of peonage was with a state-sanctioned carceral regime of forced labor.”—Alex Lichtenstein, coauthor of Marked, Unmarked, Remembered: … Continue reading Bound Labor in the Turpentine Belt
Modern Cuban
“Ana has not only created a beautiful book of traditional and delicious recipes, but she has also made it accessible to people who would perhaps never cook Cuban food at all.”—From the foreword by Gloria Estefan“It’s rare to find a place where the flavors of food and life intersect. Ana always finds a way to … Continue reading Modern Cuban
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