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Demonically honest and sometimes violently funny, Living with Snakes tells of a world where love is at best a touch-and-go sort of thing, where sometimes men and women are bound together not so much by affection as by mutual loss, mutual pain.

This collection of seventeen funny stories explores the territory separating what we feel and what we express through a series of middle class characters who are drifting aimlessly through the their lives or plotting an exit from one life to another.

In Amina Gautier's Brooklyn, some kids make it and some kids don't, but not in simple ways or for stereotypical reasons. Gautier's stories explore the lives of young African Americans who might all be classified as "at-risk," yet who encounter different opportunities and dangers in their particular neighborhoods and schools and who see life through the lens of different family experiences.

With Latining America, Claudia Milian proposes that the economies of blackness, brownness, and dark brownness summon a new grammar for Latino/a studies that she names "Latinities." Milian's innovative study argues that this ensnared economy of meaning startles the typical reading practices deployed for brown Latino/a embodiment.

Faced with Eudora Welty's preference for the oblique in literary performances, some have assumed that she was not concerned with issues of race. This collection counters those assumptions as it examines Welty's handling of race, the colour line, and Jim Crow segregation and sheds new light on her views about the patterns, insensitivities, blindness, and atrocities of whiteness.

Poetry, for Jed Rasula, bears traces of our entanglement with our surroundings. In this work he surveys both the convictions asserted by American poets and the poetics they develop in their craft, all with an eye toward an emerging ecological worldview. A range of different poets is examined.

Poetry without frontiers, unmoored from expectations, and sometimes even written in imaginary languages; Bruns shows us why, for the sake of all poetry, we should embrace its anarchic, vitalizing ways.

Cottrol takes the reader on a journey from the origins of New World slavery in colonial Latin America to current debates and litigation over affirmative action in Brazil and the United States, as well as contemporary struggles against racial discrimination and Afro-Latin invisibility in the Spanish-speaking nations of the hemisphere.

The story of the largest racial job discrimination class action lawsuit of its time, involving the Shoney's restaurant chain in 1988, and serving as a stark refutation that the civil rights movement eliminated systemic discrimination from the workplace.

Examining the science of stream restoration, Rebecca Lave argues that the neoliberal emphasis on the privatization and commercialization of knowledge has fundamentally changed the way that science is funded, organised, and viewed in the United States.

Farmers markets have become essential to the movement for food-system reform and are a shining example of a growing green economy where consumers can shop their way to social change. Black, White, and Green brings new energy to this topic by exploring dimensions of race and class as they relate to farmers markets and the green economy.

Argues that southern literary studies has been over-idealized and dominated by intellectual history for too long. In Reading for the Body, Jay Watson calls for the field to be rematerialized and grounded in an awareness of the human body as the site where ideas, including ideas about the US South itself, ultimately happen.

Essex offers a sophisticated study of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), examining the separate but intertwined discourses of geopolitics and geoeconomics. Providing a unique geographical analysis of American development policy, he traces the agency's growth from the Cold War into an era of neoliberal globalization.

Eleven stories set in San Francisco chronicle the lives of characters who avoid middle class lifestyles while clinging to their idealism about love and life.

To be untethered in the waking world, to have the feeling that perhaps we are sleepwalking-that's what life can be like for the people in these eleven stories by Peter LaSalle, known to readers of leading literary magazines for his luminous prose style and narrative daring.

Covering an era from the early twentieth century to the present, this volume features twenty-seven South Carolina women of varied backgrounds whose stories reflect the ever-widening array of activities and occupations in which women were engaged in a transformative era that included depression, world wars, and dramatic changes in the role of women.

Covering an era from the early twentieth century to the present, this volume features twenty-seven South Carolina women of varied backgrounds whose stories reflect the ever-widening array of activities and occupations in which women were engaged in a transformative era that included depression, world wars, and dramatic changes in the role of women.

Argues that by delineating the need for cheap, flexible farm labour as a problem and solving it via the importation of relatively disempowered migrant workers, an alliance of growers and government actors committed the United States to an agricultural system that is, in important respects, still in existence.

This is Jill Christman's account of her first 30 years. Her story runs the gamut of dramatic life events, including childhood sexual abuse, accidental death and psychological trauma, but her memoir is more than a litany of horrors: it is an open-eyed, wide-hearted look at a life worth surviving.

In 1818, Edmund Ruffin, then a young Virginia planter, began conducting chemical and rotational experiments on his Coggin's Point plantation on the James River. Tracing Ruffin's passionate advocacy of both agricultural reform and slavery, William M. Mathew pinpoints in this book many of the contradictions that underlay the economic and social structures of the antebellum South.

The centerpiece of this generously annotated book is the diary kept by the celebrated agricultural reformer Edmund Ruffin during the eight months in 1843 when, at the request of Governor James Henry Hammond, he conducted an economic survey of South Carolina, traveling to every corner of the state to examine the different farming methods in use and the resources available for their improvement.

One of the most influential modern poets, Anthony Hecht (1923-2004) was awarded virtually every major American prize for poetry. Written mostly by other poets, in styles ranging from the informal to the scholarly, these essays explore Hecht's image and poetic devices, his debts to other poets, and his place in the study of modern poetry.

In Sydney Lea's poems, purest joy and woe flash amid the mundane, and beauty knows the full range of nature - from the plumed tension of a newborn child twisting away from the ready breast to bright birds lying dead on the winter lawn.

Alan Watson argues that a close examination of the Gospels in their historic and religious context reveals St. Mark's text as the most plausible account of how Jesus saw himself and how he was perceived by his contemporaries. In the gospel of Mark, Watson says that we see a Jesus who was basically apolitical, hostile to dogma, and deliberately incomprehensible to his followers and enemies.

Studies the first Christian martyr, who was stoned to death by a mob outside of Jerusalem around AD36 during his trial by the supreme rabbinic court for blasphemy against the Jewish faith. Alan Watson focuses on Stephen's enthralling defense speech, as found solely in the Acts of Apostles, which is both the pivotal and, until now, least understood part of the fatal proceedings.

Measures the success of Jesus's ministry by explaining his attitude toward, and knowledge of, certain laws and legal customs. Alan Watson argues that Jesus engendered harsh responses from his fellow Jews by his apparently contemptuous or insensitive behaviour that stemmed from a lack of knowledge or concern about legal and rabbinic strictures.

Argues that by virtue of Jesus's conviction and crucifixion at the hands of the Romans he failed to fulfil the prophecy of his messiahship in the manner he had intended. Jesus's destiny, as he saw it, was to be condemned by the Jewish authorities to death by stoning. This is just one of the provoking insights in Alan Watson's fresh interpretation of the arrest, trial, and conviction of Jesus.

In Jesus and the Jews, Alan Watson reveals and substantiates a central yet previously unrecognized source for the composition of the Gospel of John. Strikingly antithetical to John's basic message, this source originated from an anti-Christian tradition promulgated by the Pharisees, the powerful and dogmatic teachers of Jewish law. The aims of this Pharisaic tradition, argues Watson, included discrediting Jesus as the Messiah, minimizing his historical importance, and justifying the Jewish authorities' role in his death. Jesus and the Jews joins three other works by Watson--The Trial of Jesus, Jesus and the Law, and Jesus: A Profile--to examine the early dynamism of western religion through refocused attention on biblical texts and other historical sources.