The 2020 University Press Week Gallery features publications and projects that elevate authors, subjects, and whole disciplines, bringing new perspectives, ideas, and voices to readers around the globe.

1. Raise UP
A Gallery of Works to #ReadUP

2. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
NEVERTHELESS
Ashley Boggan Dreff
ISBN: 9781945935770
GBHEM PUBLISHING
I M A G E H E R E
2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment
and this book tells the story of American Methodist women’s
efforts to raise up women of all races and fight for equality
and equity, beginning with the Women’s Christian
Temperance Union and ending with #MeToo. Dreff
documents Methodist women and shows how their faith
emboldened them to reach beyond their social confines to
find avenues of social justice. They sought not simply fix
social ills but to prevent them and address the causes of
oppression. By stepping out of their place, they made a place
for all of us.
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3. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
PERMUTATIONS OF A SELF
Thomas V. Nguyen
ISBN: 9781680032147
TEXAS REVIEW PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
This is a book of poems by a PhD medical student on issues
of community, family, and belonging from the perspective of a
Vietnamese immigrant. Not only does Nguyen have the
perspective of a doctor in confronting and assimilating the
2020 pandemic, he does so as an immigrant.
Nguyen studied poetry and neuroscience as an
undergraduate, earned an MS in Narrative Medicine from
Columbia, and is currently a medical student at Texas A&M
University School of Medicine.
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4. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF
READING
Dionne Brand
ISBN: 9781772125085
UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
Internationally acclaimed poet and novelist Dionne Brand
reflects on her early reading of colonial literature and how it
makes Black being inanimate. She explores her encounters
with colonial, imperialist, and racist tropes; the ways that
practices of reading and writing are shaped by those
narrative structures; and the challenges of writing a narrative
of Black life that attends to its own expression and its own
consciousness.
“The geopolitics of empire had already prepared me for
this....Coloniality constructs outsides and insides—worlds to
be chosen, disturbed, interpreted, and navigated—in order to
live something like a real self.”—Dionne Brand
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5. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
THE FULLNESS OF FREE
TIME
Conor M. Kelly
ISBN: 9781647120146
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
In the work-centric culture of today’s world, it is easy to view
free time as indulging laziness or extravagance. Conor M.
Kelly, however, argues that free time possesses enormous
potential for good, if exercised in accordance with theological
ethics. By examining pursuits such as television, digital media
use, sports, and travel from the perspective of Catholic
solidarity, Kelly demonstrates how individuals can choose
new free time activities or restructure current pursuits to be
more relational and socially conscious.
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6. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
STORIES OF STRUGGLE
Claudia Smith Brinson
ISBN: 9781643361079
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
In this pioneering study of the arduous struggle for civil rights
in South Carolina, longtime journalist Claudia Smith Brinson
details the lynchings, beatings, bombings, cross burnings,
death threats, arson, and venomous hatred that Black South
Carolinians endured—as well as the astonishing courage,
devotion, dignity, and compassion of those who risked their
lives for equality. Through extensive research and interviews
with more than one hundred fifty civil rights activists, many of
whom had never shared their stories with anyone, Brinson
chronicles the twenty pivotal years that altered the landscape
of civil rights in South Carolina and reverberated throughout
the South.
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7. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
CUT IN STONE
Ryan Andrew Newson
ISBN: 9781481312165
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
Released less than a month after George Floyd’s death, Cut
in Stone: Confederate Monuments and Theological
Disruption represents how research and academic
investigation can powerfully coincide with current events and
public sentiment. Ryan Andrew Newson contends that we
cannot fully understand or disrupt Confederate statues
without attending to the convictions that give them their
power. If Confederate monuments are theologically weighted
in their allure, then it stands to reason that they must also be
contested at this level—precisely as sacred symbols. The
volume represents the first detailed theological investigation
of Confederate monuments, a resource for the larger
collective task of determining how to memorialize problematic
pasts and how to shape public space amidst contested
memory.
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8. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
BALLAD OF AN AMERICAN
Sharon Rudahl, artist
Paul Buhle and Lawrence Ware, editors
ISBN: 9781978802070
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
The first-ever graphic biography of Paul Robeson, Ballad of
an American charts Robeson’s career as a singer, actor,
scholar, athlete, and a tireless campaigner for
internationalism, peace, and human rights. Through his films,
concerts, and records, he became a potent symbol
representing the promise of a multicultural, multiracial
American democracy at a time when, despite his stardom, he
was denied personal access to his many audiences. Later in
life, he embraced the civil rights and antiwar movements with
the hope that new generations would attain his ideals of a
peaceful and abundant world.
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9. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
POST-IRELAND?
Jefferson Holdridge and Brian Ó Conchubhair, editors
ISBN: 9781930630765
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
Written by established and emerging scholars, Post-Ireland?
recognizes both the perpetual search for a sustaining national
concept of Ireland and a sense that long-established
definitions no longer apply. The poets discussed include
those who write in the shadow of Irish history cast by the
Northern Troubles and those who feel that connections to a
wider culture are equally significant. Migration continues to be
an issue. As Irish society has changed and continues to
change, so too has Irish poetry entered into a time of
transition. This volume of essays charts these transitions and
sets coordinates for future critical endeavors.
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10. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
MAKING HISTORY
Institute of American Indian Arts
Nancy Marie Mithlo, editor
ISBN: 9780826362094
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
A unique contribution to the fields of visual culture, arts
education, and American Indian studies, Making History
guides students, educators, collectors, and the public in how
to learn about Indigenous cultures as visualized in creative
endeavors. By highlighting the rich resources and history of
the Institute of American Indian Arts, the only tribal college in
the nation devoted to the arts whose collections reflect the full
tribal diversity of Turtle Island, these essays present a best-
practices approach to understanding Indigenous art from a
Native-centric point of view. Featuring two original poems, ten
essays authored by senior scholars, nearly two hundred
works of art, and twenty-four archival photographs, this book
offers an opportunity to engage the contemporary Native Arts
movement.
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11. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
LIVING PAPER:
CORONAVIRUS COVID-19
Anne-Mieke Vandamme, Andreas De Block, and Griet Ceulemans,
journal editors
DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4002408
LEUVEN UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E On some specific topics, over a specific period, research
efforts can be so intense that the field evolves at a very rapid
pace. Classical review papers cannot capture such evolution
of the knowledge and soon become outdated. To address this
issue, the Transdisciplinary Insights journal supports Living
Papers, a novel dynamic document format which allows for
regular updates. Living papers should be considered non-
peer reviewed manuscripts, open to comments and additions
from readers. Their objective is to foster a spirit of open
collaboration and sharing of knowledge.
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12. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
OTHERS OF MY KIND
Alex Bakker, Rainer Herrn, Michael Thomas Taylor, and Annette F. Timm
ISBN: 9781773851211
UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
From the turn of the twentieth century to the 1950s, a group
of transgender people on both sides of the Atlantic created
communities that profoundly shaped the history and study of
gender identity. By exchanging letters and pictures among
themselves they established private networks of affirmation
and trust, and by submitting their stories and photographs to
medical journals and popular magazines they sought to
educate both doctors and the public. Others of My Kind tells
the story of these remarkable people, uncovering threads of
connection that cross countries and cultures and bringing
little-known history to light.
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13. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
HOPE FOR JUSTICE AND
POWER
Kathleen Staudt
ISBN: 9781574417944
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
Built on the ideas, principles, and actions of the late Saul
Alinsky, Texas-based affiliates in the Industrial Areas
Foundation (IAF) offer a strong, mature model for community
organizing. Kathleen Staudt examines the twenty-first-century
activities of the IAF in multiple Texas cities and towns,
drawing on forty years of academic teaching and twenty
years of active leadership in the IAF. She identifies major
contradictions, tensions, and resolutions in IAF organizing—
including centralism versus local control, reformist versus
radical goals, stable revenue generation, and greater gender
balance in leadership—and traces evolving IAF principles,
shedding light on community-based leadership, Mexican
American and women’s politics, civic-capacity building in
education, political socialization, and Texas as well as urban
politics.
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14. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
WE ARE NOT DREAMERS
Leisy J. Abrego and Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales, editors
ISBN: 9781478010838
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
The “Dreamer narrative” celebrates the educational and
economic achievements of undocumented youth to justify a
path to citizenship. While a well-intentioned, strategic tactic to
garner political support of undocumented youth, it has
promoted the idea that access to citizenship and rights
should be granted only to a select group of “deserving”
immigrants. The contributors to We Are Not Dreamers—
themselves currently or formerly undocumented—poignantly
counter this narrative. Theorizing those excluded from the
Dreamer category—academically struggling students,
transgender activists, and queer undocumented parents—the
contributors call for an expansive articulation of immigrant
rights and justice that recognizes the full humanity of
undocumented immigrants while granting full and
unconditional rights.
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15. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
#HASHTAGACTIVISM
Sarah J. Jackson, Brooke Foucault Welles, and Moya Bailey, authors
Doug Sery, editor
ISBN: 9780262043373
MIT PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
The power of hashtag activism became clear in 2011, when
#IranElection served as an organizing tool for Iranians
protesting a disputed election and offered a global audience a
front-row seat to a nascent revolution. Since then, activists
have used a variety of hashtags, including
#JusticeForTrayvon, #BlackLivesMatter, #YesAllWomen, and
#MeToo to advocate, mobilize, and communicate. This book
explores how and why Twitter has become an important
platform for historically disenfranchised populations, including
Black Americans, women, and transgender people. Its
authors show how marginalized groups, long excluded from
elite media spaces, have used Twitter hashtags to advance
counternarratives, preempt political spin, and build diverse
networks of dissent.
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16. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
THE GRIOT PROJECT
BOOK SERIES
Cymone Fourshey, interim series editor
BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
Founded by the late Carmen Gillespie, this interdisciplinary
series, associated with Bucknell’s Griot Institute for the Study
of Black Lives and Cultures, publishes monographs,
collections of essays, and poetry exploring the aesthetics, art,
history, and culture of African America and the African
diaspora. Recent titles include African American Arts:
Activism, Aesthetics, and Futurity, edited Sharrell D. Luckett
and with a visual foreword by Carrie Mae Weems; a
translation of Frieda Ekotto’s novellas Don’t Whisper Too
Much and Portrait of a Young Artiste from Bona Mbella,
translated by Corine Tachtiris; and a paperback reprint of
Postracial America? An Interdisciplinary Study, edited by
Vincent L. Stephens and Anthony Stewart. Forthcoming
books include a profoundly moving volume of found poetry
from the transcripts of the Special Court for Sierra Leone.
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17. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
EMERALD STREET
Daudi Abe
Foreword by Sir Mix-a-Lot
ISBN: 9780295747569
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
This book is the premier narrative to date of how hip hop
developed and succeeded in a city outside of the traditional
major U.S. hip hop markets. Daudi Abe shows how Seattle
hip-hop culture goes beyond art and music, influencing
politics, the relationships between communities of color and
law enforcement, the changing media scene, and youth
outreach and educational programs. The result is a rich
narrative of a dynamic and influential force in Seattle music
history and beyond.
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18. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
THEY WERE HER
PROPERTY
Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
ISBN: 9780300251838
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
Bridging African American history, women’s history, and the
history of the South, They Were Her Property makes a bold
argument about the role of white women in American slavery.
Women typically inherited slaves as a primary source of
wealth and often refused to cede ownership to their
husbands. They actively participated in the slave market,
profited from it, and used it for economic and social
empowerment. By examining the economically entangled
lives of enslaved people and slave-owning women, Jones-
Rogers’s award-winning narrative “makes a vital contribution
to our understanding of our past and present” (Parul Sehgal,
New York Times).
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19. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
SISTUHS IN THE
STRUGGLE
La Donna L. Forsgren
ISBN: 9780810142565
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
Sistuhs in the Struggle reclaims a vital yet under-researched
chapter in African American, women’s, and theater history.
This groundbreaking study documents how Black women
theater artists and activists—many of whom worked behind
the scenes as directors, designers, producers, stage
managers, and artistic directors—disseminated the Black
aesthetic and emboldened their communities. Drawing on
nearly thirty original interviews with well-known artists such
as Ntozake Shange and Sonia Sanchez as well as less-
studied figures including distinguished lighting designer
Shirley Prendergast, dancer and choreographer Halifu
Osumare, and three-time Tony-nominated writer and
composer Micki Grant, Forsgren centers Black women’s
cultural work as a crucial component of civil rights and Black
power activism.
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20. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
AFRICAN POETRY BOOK
SERIES
Kwame Dawes, series editor
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
Currently there is no press in the United States, or elsewhere,
that devotes itself entirely to the publication of African poetry
written in English. The African Poetry Book Series, under the
direction of series editor Kwame Dawes and an editorial
board of gifted and internationally regarded poets, looks to
rectify this gap. It seeks to discover and highlight works of
African poetry with a wide-ranging scope, from classic works
to modern and contemporary voices, aiming to publish two to
three new titles per year.
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21. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
COVID-19 AND WORLD
ORDER
Hal Brands and Francis J. Gavin, editors
ISBN: 9781421440736
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
What will be the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic,
and what will a post-COVID world order look like? No
institution is better suited to address these issues than Johns
Hopkins University, which has convened experts from within
and outside of the university to discuss world order after
COVID-19. In a series of essays, international experts in
public health and medicine, economics, international security,
technology, ethics, democracy, and governance imagine a
bold new vision for our future. COVID-19 and World Order is
a fast-to-publish and timely collection made possible through
partnership and collaboration among the University, the
Press’s books division, and Project MUSE. Its existence
informs thought-leaders and policymakers whose goal is to
create a better, safer future for us all.
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22. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
JAPANESE BRAZILIAN
SAUDADES
Ignacio López-Calvo
ISBN: 9781607328490
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF COLORADO
I M A G E H E R E
Japanese Brazilian Saudades: Diasporic Identities and
Cultural Production explores the self-definition of Nikkei
discourse in Portuguese-language cultural production by
Brazilian authors of Japanese ancestry. This book contributes
to the literature criticizing the “cognitive injustice” that fails to
acknowledge the value of the global South and non-Western
ways of knowing and being in the world.
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23. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
CALL MY NAME, CLEMSON
Rhondda Robinson Thomas
ISBN: 9781609387402
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
Documenting the Black experience at a public university and
college town in South Carolina, this book is based on a public
history project that helped convince the university to
reexamine and reconceptualize its complex story, from the
origins of its land as Cherokee territory and then a plantation
in 1825, through its campus construction by a predominately
African American convict crew between 1890 and 1915, to
integration in 1963 and its transformation into an increasingly
diverse higher-education institution in the twenty-first century.
Threading together communal history and conversation,
student protests, white supremacist terrorism, and personal
and institutional reckoning with Clemson’s past, this book
helps us better understand the inextricable link between the
history and legacies of slavery and the development of higher
education institutions in America.
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24. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
A CENTURY OF POPULIST
DEMAGOGUES
Ivan T. Berend
ISBN: 9789633863336
CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
Renowned historian Ivan T. Berend discusses populist
demagoguery through the presentation of eighteen politicians
from twelve European countries from World War I to the
present. Mussolini and Hitler are only briefly discussed, as is
the election of Donald Trump. The detailed portraits run from
Béla Kun, leader of the Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919,
through Codreanu and Gömbös in the 1930s, Stahremberg
and Haider in Austria, Ceaușescu, Milošević, Tuđjman,
Izetbegović, Berlusconi, Wilders, the two Le Pens, Farage
and Boris Johnson, up to Orbán and the two Kaczyńskis.
Berend warns us of the continuing threat of populist
demagogues both for their subjects and for history itself. He
insists on the crucial importance for Europe to understand the
reality behind their promises and persuasive language in
order to impede their success.
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25. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
CONSTRUCTING THE
OUTBREAK
Katherine A. Foss
ISBN: 9781625345288
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
Constructing the Outbreak demonstrates how news reporting
on epidemics communicates more than just information about
pathogens; rather, prejudices, political agendas, religious
beliefs, and theories of disease also shape the message.
Analyzing seven epidemics spanning more than two hundred
years—from Boston’s smallpox epidemic and Philadelphia’s
yellow fever epidemic in the eighteenth century to outbreaks
of diphtheria, influenza, and typhoid in the early twentieth
century—Katherine A. Foss discusses how shifts in
journalism and medicine influenced the coverage,
preservation, and fictionalization of different disease
outbreaks. Through this investigation into what has been
preserved and forgotten in the collective memory of disease,
Foss sheds light on current health care debates and crises.
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26. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
PUSSY HATS, POLITICS,
AND PUBLIC PROTEST
Rachelle Hope Saltzman, editor
ISBN: 9781496831576
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI
I M A G E H E R E
The 2016 US presidential campaign and its aftermath
provoked an array of protests notable for their use of humor,
puns, memes, and graphic language. During the campaign, a
video surfaced of then-candidate Donald Trump’s lewd use of
the word “pussy”; in response, many women have made the
issue and the term central to the public debate about
women’s bodies and their political, social, and economic
rights. Focusing on the women-centered aspects of the
protests that started with the 2017 Women’s March, this
edited collection uses a folkloristic lens to consider the very
public nature of that surprising, grassroots spectacle and to
explore the relationship between the personal and the
political in the protests.
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27. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
PALESTINE ON THE AIR
Karma R. Chávez
Foreword by Michael Ezra
ISBN: 9780252084850, ISSN: 2378-4253
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
This volume in the Common Threads series is a supplement
to the Journal of Civil and Human Rights. The conversations
within took place on a radio program Chávez hosted from
2013 to 2016. There, journalists, activists, academic figures,
authors, and Palestinian citizens of Israel shared a wide
range of thoughts and experiences. Participants covered
topics that include everyday life for Palestinians in the West
Bank and in Israel; the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS)
movement that arose in response to Israel’s ongoing actions;
the Steven Salaita controversy at the University of Illinois; the
pro-Palestine social movement on college campuses; Israel’s
pink-washing of human rights abuses; the aftermath of the
2014 attack on Gaza; and Chávez’s 2015 visit to the West
Bank.
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28. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
ABLEISM IN ACADEMIA
Nicole Brown and Jennifer Leigh, editors
ISBN: 9781787354975
UCL PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
Ableism in Academia provides a unique interdisciplinary
outlook on ableism in our community. Through reporting
research data and exploring personal experiences, the
contributors conceptualize what it means to be and work
outside the stereotypical norm.
This open access volume brings together a range of
perspectives, including feminism, post-structuralism, crip
theory and disability theory, and draws on a number of
related disciplines. Contributors raise awareness and
increase understanding of the marginalized, that is, those
academics who are not perfect. They argue that ableism is
not just a disability issue and explore how the marginalized
can be raised up.
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29. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
AFRO-LATINX FUTURES
Vanessa K. Valdés, series editor
SUNY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
The Afro-Latinx Futures series is committed to publishing
books that center Blackness and Afrolatinidad from a variety
of theoretical and methodological perspectives in the
humanities and social sciences. Taking a hemispheric
approach, it includes works that foreground the lives and
contributions of Afro-Latinx peoples across Latin America, the
Caribbean, and the diasporic US and Canada. By centering
Blackness and Afrolatinidad, this series aims to challenge the
racial and ethnic frameworks, national imaginaries, and
disciplinary constraints that continue to dominate study of the
Americas and Caribbean and, more ambitiously, to help
shape the future of such fields as Latin American Studies,
African American Studies, Black Studies, Latinx Studies,
Chicanx Studies, and American Studies.
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30. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
DISABLED FUTURES
Milo W. Obourn
ISBN: 9781439917312
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
Disabled Futures makes an important intervention in disability
studies by taking an intersectional approach to race, gender,
and disability. Milo Obourn theorizes the concept of
“racialized disgender”—to describe the ways in which
racialization and gendering are social processes with
disabling effects—thereby offering a new avenue for
understanding race, gender, and disability as mutually
constitutive. What emerges is not only a more complex and
deeper understanding of the intersections between ableism,
racism, and (cis)sexism, but also possibilities for imagining
alternate and more radically inclusive futures in which all of
our identities, experiences, freedoms, and oppressions are
understood as interdependent and intertwined.
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31. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
THE DESEGREGATION OF
PUBLIC LIBRARIES IN THE
JIM CROW SOUTH
Wayne A. Wiegand and Shirley A. Wiegand
ISBN: 9780807168677
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
This book tells the story of the integration of southern public
libraries. As in other efforts to integrate civic institutions in the
1950s and 1960s, the determination of local activists won the
battle against segregated libraries. The willingness of young
Black community members to participate in organized
protests and direct actions ensured that local libraries would
become genuinely free to all citizens. Although local groups
often took direction from larger civil rights organizations, the
energy, courage, and determination of younger Black
community members ensured the eventual desegregation of
Jim Crow public libraries.
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32. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
BLACK WOMAN IN GREEN
Gloria D. Brown and Donna L. Sinclair
ISBN: 9780870710018
OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
From an unlikely beginning as an agency transcriptionist in
her hometown of Washington, DC, Gloria Brown became the
first African American woman to attain the rank of forest
supervisor at the US Forest Service. As scholars awaken to
the racist history of public land management and the ways
that people of color have been excluded from contemporary
notions of nature and wilderness, Brown’s story provides
valuable insight into the roles that African Americans have
carved out in the outdoors generally and in the field of
environmental policy and public lands management
specifically.
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33. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
UVA PRESS PRESENTS
Suzanne Morse Moomaw
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
UVA Press Presents offers podcast interviews with frontlist
authors, including Daniel Mendelsohn, Howard Rambsy, and
Helen Horowitz, offering insider access to how they fell in
love with their subjects and what they find most exciting
about their new books from their living rooms. .
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34. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
HEARING HAPPINESS
Jaipreet Virdi
ISBN: 9780226690612
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
Through lyrical history and personal memoir, Hearing
Happiness: Deafness Cures in History raises pivotal
questions about deafness in American society and the
endless quest for a cure. Taking us from the 1860s up to the
present, Jaipreet Virdi combs archives and museums in order
to understand the long history of curious cures: ear trumpets,
violet ray apparatuses, vibrating massagers, electrotherapy
machines, airplane diving, bloodletting, skull hammering, and
many more. Hundreds of procedures and products have
promised grand miracles but always failed to deliver a
universal cure—a harmful legacy that is still present in
contemporary biomedicine. Weaving Virdi’s own experiences
of deafness together with her exploration into the fascinating
history of deafness cures, Hearing Happiness is a powerful
story that America needs to hear.
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35. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
A PEOPLE’S ATLAS OF
DETROIT
Linda Campbell, Andrew Newman, Sara Safransky, Tim Stallmann, editors
ISBN: 9780814342978
WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
Widely known as the Motor City, Detroit has also given rise to
some of the world’s most important urban social movements.
Developed from a community-based participatory project, this
book features fifty contributions from activists, farmers,
students, educators, scholars, not-for-profit and city
government workers, and members of neighborhood block
clubs. It speaks to the challenges of fighting for land and
housing justice, food sovereignty, economic democracy,
accountable governance, and the right to the city, elucidating
radical visions for change. By drawing upon the collective
analyses of Detroiters engaged in the front lines of struggle,
this book argues that it is only by confronting racial injustice
and capitalism head-on that communities can overcome the
depths of economic and ecological crises afflicting cities
today.
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36. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
GREEN COMMUNICATION
AND CHINA
Jingfang Liu and Phaedra C. Pezzullo, editors
Stephen J. Hartnett, series editor
ISBN: 9781611863673
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
How does China speak for nature? Green Communication
and China—part of the US-China Relations in the Age of
Globalization series—is the first volume to identify the
importance of studying environmental communication in,
about, and with China, a rising global environmental leader
whose ecological and political controversies often make
international headlines.
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37. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
THE OTHER BOSTON
BUSING STORY
Susan E. Eaton
ISBN: 9781684580293
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
METCO, America’s longest-running voluntary school
desegregation program, buses Black children from Boston’s
city neighborhoods to predominantly white suburban schools.
To see how this program has affected people’s lives, Eaton
gathers sixty-five graduates who recall their stories and
assess the benefits and hardships of crossing racial and
class lines on their way to school. Especially important now,
as policymakers today are forcing the abandonment of
desegregation, this book offers an accessible and moving
account of a rare program that, despite serious challenges,
provides a practical remedy for the persistent inequalities in
American education and allows the voices of those who
participated in the program to be raised up.
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38. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
FEMALE HUSBANDS
Jen Manion
ISBN: 9781108483803
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
The first book-length history of female husbands: people
assigned female at birth who transed gender to live fully as
men in the United States and United Kingdom. In Female
Husbands, Jen Manion draws on a wealth of sources to offer
a dynamic, varied, and complex history of the LGBTQ past.
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39. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
UNDERSTANDING AND
TEACHING THE CIVIL
RIGHTS MOVEMENT
Hasan Kwame Jeffries, editor
ISBN: 9780299321901
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
The civil rights movement transformed the United States in
such fundamental ways that exploring it in the classroom can
pose real challenges for instructors and students alike.
Speaking to the critical pedagogical need to teach civil rights
history accurately and effectively, this volume goes beyond
the usual focus on iconic leaders of the 1950s and 1960s to
examine the broadly configured origins, evolution, and
outcomes of Black Americans’ struggle for freedom. With
contributions from leading historians, this volume provides
high school and introductory college-level instructors with
ample resources and strategies for better engaging students.
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40. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
FOOD IN THE TIME OF
COVID-19
Gastronomica’s Editorial Collective: Daniel Bender, Simone Cinotto,
James Farrer, Melissa Fuster, Lisa Haushofer, Paula J. Johnson, Josée
Johnston, Eric C. Rath, Krishnendu Ray, Signe Rousseau, Amy B. Trubek,
Robert T. Valgenti, and Helen Zoe Veit
ISSN: 1529-3262
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
The idea for this issue arose in the wake of the World Health
Organization’s declaration on March 11, 2020, that COVID-19
was a pandemic. As scholars and members of local and
global communities, Gastronomica’s editorial collective
believed that it was important to respond to this moment and
to find some order in the chaos, through mutual support,
storytelling, and analysis. These pages contain potential
cures and welcome placebos: impassioned storytelling,
pointed analyses, and testaments to mutual aid.
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41. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
WHAT WOULD NATURE
DO?
Ruth DeFries
ISBN: 9780231199421
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
Ruth DeFries argues that a surprising set of time-tested
strategies from the natural world can help humanity weather
contemporary crises. Exploring the lessons that life on Earth
can teach us about coping with complexity, What Would
Nature Do? offers timely options for civilization to reorganize
for a safe and prosperous future.
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42. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
I USED TO LOVE TO
DREAM
A. D. Carson
ISBN: 9780472999033
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
i used to love to dream by A.D. Carson is the first peer-
reviewed rap album, or mixtap/e/ssay, to be published by an
academic press. Through music tracks, liner notes, a
documentary film, and personal and scholarly essays, it
explores notions of race, home, and authenticity in American
culture—specifically, the experience of growing up as a Black
man in the Midwest. (Carson is from Decatur, Illinois.) This
open access, exclusively digital title pushes the academy and
the publishing industry to not only consider but critically
engage with non-traditional scholarship.
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43. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
MUP ARMCHAIR EVENTS
MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Armchair Events came together as a result of the
pandemic, not only to elevate authors and their work but also
to keep people connected and create a sense of community
at an uncertain time. The events, which were free and open
to all and featured leading scholars discussing their new and
exciting books, were designed to offer a mixture of much
needed distraction, familiarity, and insight during these
challenging times.
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44. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
RETHINKING CAREERS,
RETHINKING ACADEMIA
Joseph Fruscione and Erin Bartram, series editors
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF KANSAS
I M A G E H E R E
As more scholars are exploring different options for work
outside the professoriate, changes to academia are causing a
rethinking of both the curricula and the ethics of PhD
programs. This new series aims to redefine what success
means for current and former PhD students, providing
resources to guide them along alternate career paths. Topics
will speak to graduate students, recent and experienced
PhDs, university faculty and administrators, and the growing
alt-ac and post-ac community. Projects could be analyses of
the academic and alt-ac or post-ac landscapes; how-to
guides about dealing with a PhD program or transitioning into
various professions; memoirs about different stages of an
academic journey; (re)examinations of the purpose, structure,
and ethics of graduate education in the twenty-first century.
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45. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
AU PRESS READING
PLATFORM
ATHABASCA UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
In partnership with Manifold Scholarship, Athabasca
University Press has launched an innovative and interactive
platform for open access e-books. Readers are now able to
seamlessly navigate to free online versions of AU Press
books directly through the AU Press website. The platform
offers the ability to annotate, share, and comment as well as
the opportunity to discover additional resources such as
video, photos, and more. This platform elevates AU Press’s
commitment to bringing the work of emerging and established
scholars to the public by reducing barriers to knowledge and
increasing access to scholarship..
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46. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
POPULATION,
AGRICULTURE, AND
BIODIVERSITY
J. Perry Gustafson, Peter H. Raven, and Paul R. Ehrlich, editors
ISBN: 9780826222022
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI PRESS
I M A G E H E R E This timely collection of 15 original essays written by
scientists the world over addresses the relationships between
human population growth, the need to increase food supplies,
and the chances for avoiding the extinction of a major
proportion of the world’s plant and animal species that
collectively makes our survival on Earth possible. The essays
in this collection, written by experts for laypersons, present
the problems we face with clarity and assess our prospects
for solving them, calling for action and holding out viable
solutions.
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47. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
REFLECTIONS
Søren Mogensen Larsen, editorial director
Heidi Flegal, translator and language editor
AARHUS UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
Reflections is a series of pocket-sized monographs from top
researchers at Aarhus University, Denmark. Each explores a
specific topic from an academic perspective, and the
engaging, reader-friendly style conveys each author’s
passion for their field. The English titles are selected from the
81 Tænkepauser so far published in Danish—a remarkable
success with 1.5 million books printed to date.
A distinctive visual profile, relatable messages, and salient
points have made the series resonate with a wide audience,
in and outside academia. Collaborating with theatres, media
service providers, museums, unions, and businesses, the
series has also taken research far beyond the printed page.
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48. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
FEMINIST CONNECTIONS
Katherine Fredlund, Kerri Hauman, and Jessica Ouellette, editors
ISBN: 9780817320645
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
Feminist Connections: Rhetoric and Activism across Time,
Space, and Place reconsiders feminist rhetorical strategies
as linked, intergenerational, and surprisingly consistent
despite the emergence of new forms of media and
intersectional considerations. Contributors to this volume
highlight continuities in feminist rhetorical practices that are
often invisible to scholars, obscured by time, new media, and
wildly different cultural, political, and social contexts. Taken
together, these essays explain how feminist rhetorical
practices (past and present) rely on similar but diverse
methods to create change and fight oppression. Identifying
these strategies not only helps us rethink feminist rhetoric
from an academic perspective but also allows us to enact
feminist activist rhetorics beyond the academy during a time
in which feminist scholarship cannot afford to remain behind
its hallowed yet insular walls.
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49. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
DEMAGOGUE FOR
PRESIDENT
Jennifer Mercieca
ISBN: 9781623499068
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
Political communication expert Jennifer Mercieca shows how
the 2016 Trump campaign expertly used the common
rhetorical techniques of a demagogue, a word with two
contradictory definitions: “a leader who makes use of popular
prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain
power” or “a leader championing the cause of the common
people in ancient times” (Merriam-Webster, 2019). Mercieca
analyzes rhetorical strategies such as argument ad hominem,
argument ad baculum, argument ad populum, paralipsis, and
more to equip readers with knowledge to decide which
definition of demagogue is most applicable and how to pay
closer attention to political discourse.
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50. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
OUR HEARTS ARE AS ONE
FIRE
Jerry Fontaine
ISBN: 9780774862882
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
In recounting the stories of three Ota’wa, Shawnee, and
Ojibway-Anishinabe leaders who challenged aggressive
colonial expansion, this book effectively reframes the history
of Manitou Aki (North America). It’s a vision shared, of how
Anishinabe spiritual, cultural, legal, and political principles will
support the leaders of today and tomorrow. Its publication
rests on reciprocity: as the book was ushered into the press,
the editors were invited into the Indigenous ceremonial
space, to meet the descendants of these historical leaders
and enjoin the protocols that guide how family stories are
customarily told and shared. The publication emerges as a
community honoring and offering.
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51. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
THE GOODYEAR TIRE &
RUBBER COMPANY
S. Victor Fleischer
ISBN: 9781629220468
UNIVERSITY OF AKRON PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
Founded in Akron in 1898, the Goodyear Tire & Rubber
Company became the world’s largest tire company and
largest rubber manufacturer. Its people, places, and products,
portrayed in the company’s extensive corporate photo
archives that is one of the flagship collections of the
University of Akron Archival Services, were the secrets of its
success. This book visually chronicles the rich and
fascinating history of Goodyear, highlighting the products that
helped make Goodyear a household name and Akron the
“Rubber Capital of the World”: tires that supported winning
race cars in first Indy 500s; blimps that advertised the
Goodyear brand; figure balloons that graced the Macy’s
parades; conveyors used to build the Shasta and Grand
Coulee dams; and balloons and airplane components that
were critical assets in both world wars.
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52. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
LIGHT IN DARK TIMES
Alisse Waterston and Charlotte Corden
ISBN: 9781487526405
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
A profound work of anthropology and art, this book is for
anyone yearning to understand the darkness and hoping to
hold onto the light. It is a powerful story of encounters with
writers, philosophers, activists, and anthropologists whose
words are as meaningful today as they were during the times
in which they were written. This book is at once a lament over
the darkness of our times, an affirmation of the value of
knowledge and introspection, and a consideration of truth,
lies, and the dangers of the trivial. This book is a call to action
to change the future.
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53. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
RACISM IN AMERICA
ISBN: 9780674251656
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
Racism in America has been the subject of serious
scholarship for decades, and Harvard University Press has
had the honor of publishing some of the most influential
books on the subject. The excerpts in this free e-book—
culled from works of history, law, sociology, medicine,
economics, critical theory, philosophy, art, and literature—are
an invitation to understand anti-Black racism through the
eyes of our most incisive commentators. Contributors include
Toni Morrison, Walter Johnson, Stuart Hall, Khalil Gibran
Muhammad, Elizabeth Hinton, Anthony Abraham Jack,
Mehrsa Baradaran, Nicole Fleetwood, and Joshua Bennett.
Because the experiences of non-White people are integral to
the history of racism and often bound up in the story of Black
Americans, writers who focus on the struggles of Native
Americans, Latinos, and Asians are included as well.
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54. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
TOSSED TO THE WIND
María T. Padilla and Nancy Rosado
ISBN: 9781683401506
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF FLORIDA
I M A G E H E R E
Tossed to the Wind presents the stories of Puerto Ricans who
navigated the wreckage, despair, and displacement left in the
wake of Hurricane Maria, which hit the island in September
2017 as a high-end Category 4. María Padilla and Nancy
Rosado interview evacuees from all walks of life who now live
in central Florida and are still fighting every day to pick up the
pieces of their world. Told from the midst of chaos and
incomprehensible loss, these stories—filled with pain and
wisdom, sadness and laughter—showcase the strength and
resolve of a community.
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55. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
THE EVENING OF LIFE
Joseph E. Davis and Paul Scherz, editors
ISBN: 9780268108021
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
Our responses to the pandemic show that we, as a society,
are deeply ambivalent toward the oldest and most vulnerable
among us. Our inattention to the distinct circumstances of the
aged has left nursing facilities and care homes exposed,
while at the same time realizing some of the greatest fears of
the elderly: social isolation and a lonely death. Bringing
together the work of sociologists, anthropologists,
philosophers, theologians, and medical practitioners, this
collection of essays develops an interrelated set of
conceptual tools to discuss the current challenges posed to
aging and dying well, such as flourishing, temporality,
narrative, and friendship. Above all, it proposes a positive
understanding of thriving in old age that is rooted in our
shared vulnerability as human beings.
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56. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
WHY TRUST SCIENCE?
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
Do doctors really know what they are talking about when they
tell us vaccines are safe? Should we take climate experts at
their word when they warn us about the perils of global
warming? Why should we trust science when our own
politicians don’t? In this landmark book, Naomi Oreskes
offers a bold and compelling defense of science, revealing
why the social character of scientific knowledge is its greatest
strength-and the greatest reason we can trust it.
Based on the Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Princeton
University, this timely and provocative book features critical
responses by climate experts Ottmar Edenhofer and Martin
Kowarsch, political scientist Jon Krosnick, philosopher of
science Marc Lange, and science historian Susan Lindee, as
well as a foreword by political theorist Stephen Macedo.
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Naomi Oreskes
ISBN: 9780691179001

57. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
LITERATURES,
COMMUNITIES, AND
LEARNING
Aubrey Jean Hanson
ISBN: 9781771124492
WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
This book features conversations with Indigenous writers in
what is now Canada, including Tenille Campbell, Warren
Cariou, Marilyn Dumont, Daniel Heath Justice, Lee Maracle,
Sharron Proulx-Turner, David Alexander Robertson, Richard
Van Camp, and Katherena Vermette. Each conversation is a
nuanced examination of one writer’s concerns, critiques, and
craft. Influenced by generations of colonization; surrounded
by discourses of Indigenization, reconciliation, appropriation,
and representation; and swept up in the rapid growth of
Indigenous publishing and Indigenous literary studies, these
writers are navigating the beautiful challenge of storying their
communities within politically charged terrain.
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58. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
DISMANTLING RACISM
ONE BOOK AT A TIME
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
Fordham University Press has a robust history of publishing
underrepresented and marginalized voices, tying into the
mission of the university to educate for justice. Today’s
political and cultural environment has made us more aware of
how important it is to raise up and offer a platform to a
diversity of authors. During July and August 2020, the press
offered a free e-book from our race collection, to support our
continued efforts at dismantling racism one book at a time
and collaborating with our parent institution to encourage
equity and inclusion. A targeted online campaign was
launched to promote the collection with the purpose of
encouraging new levels of thinking, belief, and
understanding.
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59. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
WITH GRIT AND
DETERMINATION
Suzanne Eskenazi and Nicole M. Herzog, editors
ISBN: 9781647690045
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
Spanning more than one hundred years of women’s careers
and lives, this collection illuminates what it was and is to be a
female archaeologist. These personal accounts of
researchers, ethnographers, and field archaeologists in the
private, public, and academic sectors highlight the unique
role women have played in the development of American and
Great Basin archaeology. By sharing their stories, the women
inspire us to look at challenges not as roadblocks, but as
opportunities for lifelong growth and success.
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60. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
A HISTORY OF ARAB
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Bahia Shehab and Haytham Nawar
ISBN: 9789774168918
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
Spanning a century of artistic output, this stunningly
illustrated book traces the people and events that were
integral to the shaping of a field of graphic design in the Arab
world. With over 600 color images and featuring the work of
leading designers from Morocco to Iraq, it is at once an
invaluable resource tool for graphic designers and a dazzling
visual record of a period of immense social and political
change.
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61. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
VETERANS WRITING
AWARD
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
In keeping with Syracuse University’s longstanding
commitment to serving the interests of veterans and their
families, Syracuse University Press had established a
Veterans Writing Award. This contest is open to US veterans
and active duty personnel in any branch of the US military
and their immediate family members. This includes spouses,
domestic partners, and children. Although work submitted for
the contest need not be about direct military experience, we
seek original voices and fresh perspectives that will expand
and challenge readers’ understanding of the lives of veterans
and their families.
The inaugural winner of the award is Dewaine Farria’s novel
Revolutions of All Colors.
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62. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
ETEL ADNAN POETRY
SERIES
Hayan Charara and Fady Joudah, series editors
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
Every year the University of Arkansas Press together with the
Radius of Arab American Writers accepts submissions for the
Etel Adnan Poetry Series and awards the $1,000 Etel Adnan
Poetry Prize to a first or second book of poetry, in English, by
a writer of Arab heritage. Since its founding in 1996 the
Radius of Arab American Writers has celebrated and fostered
the writings and writers that make up the vibrant and diverse
Arab American community; and the University of Arkansas
Press has long been committed to publishing diverse kinds of
poetry by a diversity of poets.
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63. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
THE WORLD DOESN’T
WORK THAT WAY, BUT IT
COULD
Yxta Maya Murray
ISBN: 9781948908696
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
Yxta Maya Murray’s biting collection is fueled by the heat of
the current political moment and magnifies the hidden
dialogue of many Americans struggling within a fractured
country. Murray grapples with racism, gentrification, the
federal response to Hurricane Maria, corruption at the EPA,
sexual assault within the halls of power, California wildfires,
fracking, abortion bans, the immigration crisis, family
separation policies, mass shootings, and the prison-industrial
complex. The stories explore not only our distressing human
capacity for moral numbness in the face of evil, but also
reveal our surprising stores of compassion and forgiveness.
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64. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
ADVANCING U.S. LATINO
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Marlene Orozco, Alfonso Morales, Michael J. Pisani, and Jerry I. Porras,
editors
ISBN: 9781557539373
PURDUE UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
Advancing U.S. Latino Entrepreneurship examines business
formation and success among Latinos by identifying
arrangements that enhance entrepreneurship and by
understanding the sociopolitical contexts that shape
entrepreneurial trajectories. While it is well known that
Latinos make up one of the largest and fastest growing
populations in the United States, Latino-owned businesses
are now outpacing this population growth and the startup
business growth of all other demographic groups in the
country.
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65. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
THE SOVEREIGN STREET
Carwil Bjork-James
ISBN: 9780816540150
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
Taking the streets of Cochabamba, Sucre, and La Paz,
Bolivia, as its vantage point, The Sovereign Street offers a
rare look at political revolution as it happens. It documents a
critical period in Latin American history, when protests made
headlines worldwide, where a generation of pro-globalization
policies were called into question, and where the Indigenous
majority stepped into government power for the first time in
five centuries.
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66. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
AFRICAN AMERICAN
CONNECTICUT EXPLORED
Elizabeth Normen, Stacey Close, Katherine Harris, and Wm. Frank
Mitchell, editors
ISBN: 9780819573995
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
The numerous essays by many of the state’s leading
historians in African American Connecticut Explored
document an array of subjects, beginning from the earliest
years of the state’s colonization around 1630 and continuing
well into the 20th century. Topics include Black Governors of
Connecticut, nationally prominent Black abolitionists like the
reverends Amos Beman and James Pennington, the African
American community’s response to the Amistad trial, the
letters of Joseph O. Cross of the 29th Regiment of Colored
Volunteers in the Civil War, the Civil Rights work of baseball
great Jackie Robinson (a twenty-year resident of Stamford),
and more.
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67. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
VOTING IN INDIAN
COUNTRY
Jean Reith Schroedel
ISBN: 9780812252514
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
Voting in Indian Country uses conflicts over voting rights to
understand the centuries-long fight for Native self-
determination, employing ethnographic data and weaving
together history, politics, and law to provide a robust view of
this often-ignored struggle for social justice. As such,
Schroedel’s work raises up both a community’s story and
serves as a call to action.
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68. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
VRYSAKI
Sylvie Dumont
ISBN:9780876619698
AMERICAN SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STUDIES
AT ATHENS
I M A G E H E R E
In the 1930s, central Athens was transformed by the
expropriation and demolition of the Vrysaki neighborhood at
the foot of the Acropolis. More than 5,000 inhabitants were
displaced and 348 properties were destroyed so that the
American School of Classical Studies at Athens could
excavate the ancient Agora. Using a large collection of
contemporary photographs, the author gives this exiled
community a new home, anchoring it in a place of
permanence. Detailed discussions of the negotiations, the
expropriations, and most importantly, Vrysaki itself, elevate
and reanimate the neighborhood that once existed here—its
streets, shops, houses, names, and faces.
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69. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
RENEWING OUR HOPE
Robert Barron
ISBN: 9780813233055
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
In a time of discouragement, how can the Church renew itself
and its outreach to all people? Bishop Robert Barron,
Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, insists
that a “dumbed down” Catholicism cannot succeed in today’s
highly educated society. Instead, the Church needs to draw
upon its great theological heritage in order to renew its hope
in Christ.
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70. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
FROM HERE TO EQUALITY
William A. Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen
ISBN: 9781469654973
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
Racism and discrimination have choked economic
opportunity for African Americans at nearly every turn. In
From Here to Equality, William Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten
Mullen confront these injustices head-on and make the most
comprehensive case to date for economic reparations for US
descendants of slavery. After opening the book with a stark
assessment of the intergenerational effects of white
supremacy on Black economic well-being, Darity and Mullen
look to both the past and the present to measure the
inequalities borne of slavery. Ultimately, they offer a detailed
roadmap for an effective reparations program.
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71. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
MODERN AFRICAN
WRITING
Laura T. Murphy and Ainehi Edoro, series editors
OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
The Modern African Writing series brings the best African
writing to an international audience. These groundbreaking
novels, memoirs, and other literary works showcase the most
talented writers of the African continent. The series also
features works of significant historical and literary value
translated into English for the first time. Moderately priced,
the books chosen for the series are well-crafted, original, and
ideally suited for African studies classes, world literature
classes, or any reader looking for compelling voices of
diverse African perspectives.
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72. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
KO AOTEAROA TĀTOU
WE ARE NEW ZEALAND
Michelle Elvy, Paula Morris, and James Norcliffe, editors
David Eggleton, art editor
ISBN: 9781988592527
OTAGO UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
In the aftermath of the Christchurch terrorist attacks in 2019,
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern declared: “We are all New
Zealanders.” These words resonated, asserting our national
diversity and inclusiveness, while also rebuking hatred and
divisiveness. This book is bursting with new works of fiction,
nonfiction, poetry, and visual art created in response to the
editors’ questions: What is New Zealand now, in all its rich
variety and contradiction, darkness and light? Who are New
Zealanders? Aotearoa’s many faces are represented here—
well-known names and new voices, from Kerikeri to Bluff. In a
society where the arts are under threat, this anthology shows
that creative work can explore, document, interrogate, re-
imagine—and celebrate—who we are as citizens of this
diverse country, in a diverse world.
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73. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
PENNSYLVANIA STORIES
PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
Launched in June 2020, the PSU Press Presents virtual
event series highlights recent books and gives the authors
the opportunity to share their work with an online audience
and each other.
July’s event, “Pennsylvania Stories: Community & Activism in
the Keystone State,” moderated by acquisitions editor
Kathryn Yahner, featured the authors of Sewn in Coal
Country: An Oral History of the Ladies’ Garment Industry in
Northeastern Pennsylvania, 1945-1995, Out in Central
Pennsylvania: The History of an LGBTQ Community, and
Pennhurst and the Struggle for Disability Rights, three books
that share stories of community building, organizing, and
activism in Pennsylvania’s history.
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74. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
MANIFESTO FOR A DREAM
Michelle Jackson
ISBN: 9781503614154
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
A searing critique of contemporary US policy agenda, and a
call to implement radical change.
In Manifesto for a Dream Michelle Jackson asserts that we
will never make strides toward equality if we do not start to
think radically. It is the structure of social institutions that
generates and maintains social inequality, and it is only by
attacking that structure that progress can be made. Jackson
makes a scientific case for large-scale institutional reform,
drawing on examples from other countries to demonstrate
that reforms that have been unthinkable in the United States
are considered to be quite unproblematic in other contexts.
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75. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
HOW TO MAKE A SLAVE
AND OTHER ESSAYS
Jerald Walker
ISBN: 9780814255995
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
For the Black community, acclaimed essayist Jerald Walker
asserts, “anger is often a prelude to a joke, as there is broad
understanding that the triumph over this destructive emotion
lies in finding its punchline.” It is on the knife’s edge between
fury and farce that the essays gathered here balance.
Whether confronting the medical profession’s biases,
considering Michael Jackson’s complicated legacy, or
attempting to break free of personal and societal stereotypes,
Walker blends personal revelation and cultural critique into a
bracing examination of what it is to grow, parent, and exist as
a Black American male.
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76. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
WE SHALL OVERCOME
Kathryn E. Delmez, editor
Foreword by John Lewis
ISBN: 9780826522214
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
We Shall Overcome features 100 photographs, taken by
photojournalists between 1957 and 1968, documenting the
struggle for racial equality in Nashville. The images—many
never before published—raise a spotlight on overlooked acts
of bravery and trauma during civil rights struggles in
Nashville, a city that has often embraced a myth of itself as
peaceful and benign during the civil rights movement era.
In the words of the New York Times’ Margaret Renkl, the
book and its related exhibition at Nashville’s Frist Art Museum
“expose such mythmaking for what it is.”
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77. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
FIGHTING FOR A HAND TO
HOLD
Samir Shaheen-Hussain
ISBN: 9780228003601
MCGILL-QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
Launched by healthcare providers in January 2018, the
#aHand2Hold campaign confronted the Quebec
government’s practice of separating children from their
families during medical evacuation airlifts, disproportionately
affecting remote and northern Indigenous communities.
Pediatric emergency physician Samir Shaheen-Hussain’s
captivating narrative of this successful campaign seeks to
answer lingering questions about this cruel practice. Through
meticulously gathered government documentation, historical
scholarship, media reports, public inquiries, and personal
testimonies, he illuminates the pervasive, systemic anti-
Indigenous racism that persists in the Canadian public health
care system—and in settler society at large—preventing
Indigenous communities from attaining internationally
recognized measures of health and social well-being.
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78. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
CHANGING THE SUBJECT
Lisa Blankenship
ISBN: 9781607329091
UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
A much-needed book in the current political
climate, Changing the Subject explores ways of engaging
across difference. In this first book-length study of the
concept of empathy from a rhetorical perspective, Lisa
Blankenship frames the classical concept of pathos in new
ways and makes a case for rhetorical empathy as a means of
ethical rhetorical engagement. The book elevates the ideas
that empathy can be a deliberate, conscious choice to try to
understand others through deep listening and that language
and other symbol systems play a role in this process that is
both cognitive and affective.
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79. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
THE COST OF FREEDOM
Susan J. Erenrich, editor
Foreword by Kenneth Hammond
ISBN: 9781606354018
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
As the current state of affairs in America demonstrates,
movements to seek justice are ever-ongoing. The Cost of
Freedom: Voicing a Movement after Kent State 1970 brings
together various voices to record and reflect on the unrest
and violence in that place and time, but more importantly to
issue a clarion call to continue the quest for peace and
conflict resolution. As editor Susie Erenrich notes, we must
always move forward as we learn from the past.
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80. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
DEAR AMERICA
Simmons Buntin, Elizabeth Dodd, and Derek Sheffield, editors
ISBN: 9781595349125
TRINITY UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
America is at a crossroads. Conflicting political and social
perspectives reflect a need to collectively define our moral
imperatives, clarify cultural values, and inspire meaningful
change. In that patriotic spirit, nearly two hundred writers,
artists, scientists, and political and community leaders have
come together since the 2016 presidential election to offer
their impassioned letters to America, in a project envisioned
by the online journal Terrain.org and collected, with 50 never-
before-published letters, in Dear America: Letters of Hope,
Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy. In turn, Trinity University
Press has been holding virtual town halls to read and discuss
some of the pieces in the book featuring such writers as
Alison Hawthorne Deming, Naomi Shihab Nye, Robin Wall
Kimmerer, Ellen Bass, Francisco Cantu, Diana Babineau,
Jane Hirshfield, and Drew Lanham.
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81. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
THE HIDDEN TREASURE
OF BLACK ASL
Carolyn McCaskill, Ceil Lucas, Robert Bayley, and Joseph Hill
In collaboration with Roxanne Dummett, Pamela Baldwin, and Randall
Hogue
ISBN: 9781944838720
GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
The publication of this paperback edition of The Hidden
Treasure of Black ASL comes on the heels of the recently
released documentary film Signing Black in America, in which
it is featured. The 2011 edition of the book was
groundbreaking for its research on the language and
experiences of the African American Deaf community in the
United States, and now the updated paperback edition aims
to spark interest in a new generation of scholars who want to
probe more deeply into the Black ASL dialect and celebrate
the culture and heritage of its users.
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82. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
KNOW YOUR PRICE
Andre M. Perry
ISBN: 9780815737278
BROOKINGS INSTITUTION PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
The deliberate devaluation of Black people and their
communities has had far-reaching, negative economic and
social effects. In Know Your Price, noted educator, journalist,
and scholar Andre Perry takes readers on a tour of six Black-
majority cities and proposes a new means of determining the
value of Black communities, rejecting policies shaped by the
flawed perspectives of the past while embracing the personal
strengths, real property, and traditional institutions found in
Black communities.
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83. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 2 0 R A I S E U P
Opal Palmer Adisa, editor-in-chief, and Juleus Ghunta, issue editor
ISSN: 0799-6047 /eISSN: 0799-6055
UNIVERSITY OF WEST INDIES PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
Interviewing the Caribbean is a creative peer-reviewed
composition of poetry, non-fiction and the visual arts in all
media that celebrates everything Caribbean. Founded by the
exceptionally talented playwright, cultural activist, and
professor of gender studies Opal Palmer Adisa, the journal
showcases Caribbean intellectuals, writers, artists, culture
and artistic expressions at home and in the diaspora.
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INTERVIEWING THE
CARIBBEAN