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Neil S Forkey
Defending a Borderland

Tracing grassroots activism in response to a devastating transnational oil spillOn the morning of June 23, 1976, the NEPCO 140 barge, carrying 8.7 million gallons of thick crude oil, ruptured twice while …

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David Greenberg
John Lewis

New York Times Book ReviewTop 100 Books of 2024Explore the "comprehensive and compelling" (Jon Meacham) biography of civil rights leader John Lewis, celebrated as "the conscience of Congres…

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Gender and Contemporary Television in Iberia and Latin America

This transnational study explores gender and sexuality in television programming from across Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula.

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Albert M Camarillo
Compton in My Soul

"When Al Camarillo grew up in Compton, California, racial segregation was the rule. His relatives were among the first Mexican immigrants to settle there--in the only neighborhood where Mexicans were…

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Giancarlo Huapaya,
[Gamerover]

"A political, poetic excavation of the human landscape, charting the history of geography through the historic movement of its residents' bodies and complicated habits. Through intertextual intervent…

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Neil S Forkey
Defending a Borderland

Tracing grassroots activism in response to a devastating transnational oil spillOn the morning of June 23, 1976, the NEPCO 140 barge, carrying 8.7 million gallons of thick crude oil, ruptured twice while …

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Jessica Vasquez-Tokos
Burdens of Belonging

How systemic racism and settler colonialism shapes the lives of people in the US todayW.E.B. Du Bois famously pondered a question he felt society was asking of him as a Black man in America: "How doe…

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Albert M Camarillo
Compton in My Soul

"When Al Camarillo grew up in Compton, California, racial segregation was the rule. His relatives were among the first Mexican immigrants to settle there--in the only neighborhood where Mexicans were…

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Jesse Derber
Abraham Lincoln, Statesman Historian

"Abraham Lincoln drew upon history in his political career and particularly when crafting the rhetorical masterpieces that still resonate in the present day. Jesse Derber explores how Lincoln's views…

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Willa Cofield, Cynthia Samuelson, Mildred Sexton
The Nine O'Clock Whistle

The untold history of a small town where a stand for civil rights had lasting, wide impacts

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Megan Garber
Screen People

From the popular and award-winning staff writer for The Atlantic, an eye-opening look at how the current media landscape has incentivized us to see our fellow citizens as characters in an ongoing entertai…

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Kishore Mahbubani
Living the Asian Century

"Growing up in poverty in the 1950s, Kishore Mahbubani expected to become a common textile salesman after finishing high school. Instead, a government scholarship sent him to the University of Singap…

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Jimmy Carter: The Last Interview

"We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace. We can make these changes---and we must." ---Jimmy CarterJames Earl Carter Jr. came from a background of farming …

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Jeffrey H Cohen
Eating Grasshoppers

An approachable ethnography of how grasshoppers are harvested, sold, and consumed in Oaxaca.

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Martin Austin Nesvig
The Women Who Threw Corn

"This book tells the stories of women from Spain, North Africa, Senegambia, and Canaries accused of witchcraft in sixteenth-century Mexico for adapting native magic and healing practices. It will int…

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Jeffrey H Cohen
Eating Grasshoppers

An approachable ethnography of how grasshoppers are harvested, sold, and consumed in Oaxaca.

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David E Hoffman
Give Me Liberty

From the Pulitzer Prize--winning Washington Postreporter David E. Hoffman comes the riveting biography of Oswaldo Payá, a dissident who dared to defy Fidel Castro, inspiring thousands of Cubans to fight f…

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Mari Rodríguez Binnie
The São Paulo Neo-Avant-Garde

How artists challenged a military dictatorship through mass print technologies in 1970s and 1980s São Paulo.

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Derek Hyra
Slow and Sudden Violence

"By exposing the deep roots of contemporary racial unrest, Derek Hyra lays bare the failures of urban policy to overcome social inequalities as they have metastasized over time. His prescriptions for…

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Mike Hixenbaugh
They Came for the Schools

NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe urgent, revelatory story of how a school board win for the conservative right in one Texas suburb inspired a Christian nationalist campaign now threatening to undermine public educa…

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