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Presents scholarly essays devoted solely to the histories and legacies of this subject on North American campuses and in their Atlantic contexts. The collection features broadly themed essays on religion, economy, and the regional slave trade of the Caribbean. It also includes case studies of slavery's influence on specific institutions.

Offers the first critical history of the influential Southern Newspaper Syndicate, from its roots in the 1930s through its end in the 1950s. At its heyday, more than 240 papers were associated with the Syndicate, making it one of the biggest organs of the black press during the period leading up to the classic civil rights era (1955-68).

Presents scholarly essays devoted solely to the histories and legacies of this subject on North American campuses and in their Atlantic contexts. The collection features broadly themed essays on religion, economy, and the regional slave trade of the Caribbean. It also includes case studies of slavery's influence on specific institutions.

Provides the first account of art and politics under the brutal Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. James A. Tyner repositions Khmer Rouge artworks within their proper political and economic context: the materialization of a political organisation in an era of anticolonial and decolonization movements.

Border control continues to be a highly contested and politically charged subject around the world. This collection of essays challenges reactionary nationalism by making the positive case for the benefits of free movement for countries on both ends of the exchange.

Brings together forty-six American and British women essayists whose work spans nearly four centuries. Their contributions prove that women have been significant participants in the essay tradition since the genre's modern beginnings in the sixteenth century. Collectively they represent a missing piece in the larger history of the essay.

Border control continues to be a highly contested and politically charged subject around the world. This collection of essays challenges reactionary nationalism by making the positive case for the benefits of free movement for countries on both ends of the exchange.

Drawing on a detailed case study of the struggles that have come to define public transportation in California's East Bay, Rights in Transit offers a challenge to contemporary scholarship on transportation equity. Rather than focusing on civil rights alone, this book argues for engaging the more radical notion of the right to the city.

With An Uncommon Faith Eddie S. Glaude Jr. makes explicit his pragmatic approach to the study of African American religion. He insists that scholars take seriously what he calls black religious attitudes, that is, enduring and deep-seated dispositions tied to a transformative ideal that compel individuals to be otherwise - no matter the risk.

Examines the local boosters, gentlemen farmers, historical preservationists, and nature-seeking suburbanites who abandoned the city to live in the metropolitan countryside during the twentieth century. These property owners formed the vanguard of the antigrowth movement that has defined metropolitan fringe politics across America.

Places sexuality at the centre of slavery studies in the Americas. While scholars have marginalized or simply overlooked the importance of sexual practices in most mainstream studies of slavery, Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie M. Harris argue here that sexual intimacy constituted a core terrain of struggle between slaveholders and the enslaved.

Places sexuality at the centre of slavery studies in the Americas. While scholars have marginalized or simply overlooked the importance of sexual practices in most mainstream studies of slavery, Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie M. Harris argue here that sexual intimacy constituted a core terrain of struggle between slaveholders and the enslaved.

Examines the patterns of migration flows during the post-World War II period, with particular attention to crises or shocks to the international system, as in the case of migration following the recent conflicts in Afghanistan and Syria. The authors' analysis makes several important contributions to this debate.

As the first book-length investigation of Thomas Pynchon's writing to put the topics of sex and gender at its core, this book moves beyond binary debates about whether to see Pynchon as liberatory or conservative, instead examining how his preoccupation with sex and gender conditions his fiction's whole worldview.

As the first book-length investigation of Thomas Pynchon's writing to put the topics of sex and gender at its core, this book moves beyond binary debates about whether to see Pynchon as liberatory or conservative, instead examining how his preoccupation with sex and gender conditions his fiction's whole worldview.

The stories in Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum's new collection are about finding resilience in the face of adversity. Lunstrum asks: How do we keep going in the face of grief or disappointment when love fails or disaster strikes? How do we maintain the stamina to carry on in an uncertain world? The characters in her stories are living these questions.

Analyses the fraught location of Appalachians within the southern and American imaginaries, building on studies of race in literary and cinematic characterizations of the American South. Not only do we know what ""rednecks"" are, Meredith McCarroll argues, we rely on the use of such categories in fashioning our broader sense of self and other.

Examines how the recurrent use of Native American history in southern cultural and literary texts produces ideas of "feeling southern" that have consequences for how present-day conservative political discourses resonate across the United States.

Deeply moving and exquisitely written, Invisible Sisters is an extraordinary story of coming of age as the odd one out - as the daughter of progressive Jewish parents who moved to the South to participate in the civil rights movement of the 1960s, as the healthy sister among sick, and eventually, as the only sister left standing.

Explores the ways in which Appalachia served as a laboratory for the exploration and practice of American conceptions of nature. With chapters dedicated to microhistories focused on particular commodities, Drew Swanson builds on recent Appalachian studies scholarship, emphasizing the diversity of a region long considered a homogenous backwater.

These private writings by a prominent white southern lawyer offer insight into his state's embrace of massive white resistance following the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling. They offer an insider's view of Virginia's shift toward extremism in defiance of school desegregation.

A bold reconceptualization of black freedom during the Civil War that uncovers the political claims made by African American women. By analysing the actions of women in St. Louis and rural Missouri, Romeo uncovers the confluence of military events, policy changes, and black agency that shaped the gendered paths to freedom and citizenship.

Explores through sculpture, painting, pornography, and performance art changing views on gender and sexuality. The elegiac meditations throughout this collection link the objectification of women in art and life to personal narratives of heartbreak, urban estrangement, and suicide.

Uses imaginings of the South to illuminate the recent American past. Zachary Lechner bridges the fields of southern studies, southern history, and post- World War II American cultural and popular culture history in an effort to discern how conceptions of a tradition-bound, "timeless" South shaped Americans' views of themselves and their society.

One of the most extensive records of the political climate on a historically black college in 1960s America, Howard Zinn's diary offers an in-depth view. It is a fascinating historical document of the free speech, academic freedom, and student rights battles that rocked Spelman and led to Zinn's dismissal from the college in 1963.

Explores the influence Sicilian immigrants have had on New Orleans foodways. Justin Nystrom's culinary journey follows these immigrants from their first impressions on Louisiana food culture in the mid-1830s. Each chapter touches on events that involved Sicilian immigrants and the relevancy of their lives and impact on New Orleans.

Long recognised as a master teacher at writing programs, with A Stranger's Journey, David Mura has written a book on creative writing that addresses an increasingly diverse American literature. Mura argues for a more inclusive definition of craft, particularly in relationship to race.

Using the lens of environmental history, William D. Bryan provides a sweeping reinterpretation of the post-Civil War South by framing the New South as a struggle over environmental stewardship. Bryan writes the region into the national conservation movement for the first time and shows that business leaders played a key role shaping the ideals of American conservationists.

Garden writing is not just a place to find advice about roses; it also contains hidden histories of desire, hope, and frustration and tells a story about how Americans have invested grand fantasies in the common soil of everyday life. Gardenland chronicles the development of this genre across key moments in American literature and history.

The poems in Hummingbird Sleep move associatively between Coleman Barks's personal experience and his extensive reading, weaving together a wild and eclectic range of material. New poems from the best-selling translator of Rumi successfully achieve intimacy and expansiveness at the same time.