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CLIPPED WINGS

MOLLY MERRYMAN

This "excellent study" shines a light on America's pioneering women aviators and their forgotten contributions during WWII ( American Historical Review). During the Second World War, the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) program was unique among women's auxiliaries. It was made up entirely of women who undertook dangerous missions more commonly associated with men. WASPs cha...

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WHAT WORKS FOR WOMEN AT WORK

JOAN C. WILLIAMS / RACHEL DEMPSEY / ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER

A mother-daughter legal scholar team "offers unabashedly straightforward advice in a how-to primer for ambitious women . . . [A]ttention-grabbing revelations" (Debora L. Spar, The New York Times Book Review) What Works for Women at Work is a comprehensive and insightful guide for mastering office politics as a woman. Authored by Joan C. Williams, one of the nation's most-cite...

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SCENTS AND FLAVORS

CHARLES PERRY / CLAUDIA RODEN

Delectable recipes from the medieval Middle East This popular thirteenth-century Syrian cookbook is an ode to what its anonymous author calls the "greater part of the pleasure of this life," namely the consumption of food and drink, as well as the fragrances that garnish the meals and the diners who enjoy them. Organized like a meal, Scents and Flavors opens with appetizers and...

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BLACK MOSAIC

CANDIS WATTS SMITH

Historically, Black Americans have easily found common ground on political, social, and economic goals. Yet, there are signs of increasing variety of opinion among Blacks in the United States, due in large part to the influx of Afro-Latino, Afro-Caribbean, and African immigrants to the United States. In fact, the very definition of "African American" as well as who can self-ide...

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SENSATIONAL FLESH

AMBER JAMILLA MUSSER

This "lively and enlightening contribution to queer studies" investigates power, race, and gender through the lens of masochism (Darieck Scott, author of Extravagant Abjection). In everyday language, masochism is usually understood as the desire to abdicate control in exchange for sensation—pleasure, pain, or a combination thereof. Yet at its core, masochism is a site where ...

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FAITHFUL BODIES

HEATHER MIYANO KOPELSON

In the seventeenth-century English Atlantic, religious beliefs and practices played a central role in creating racial identity. English Protestantism provided a vocabulary and structure to describe and maintain boundaries between insider and outsider. In this path-breaking study, Heather Miyano Kopelson peels back the layers of conflicting definitions of bodies and competing pr...

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HANUKKAH IN AMERICA

DIANNE ASHTON

Explores the ways American Jews have reshaped Hanukkah traditions across the country In New Orleans, Hanukkah means decorating your door with a menorah made of hominy grits. Latkes in Texas are seasoned with cilantro and cayenne pepper. Children in Cincinnati sing Hanukkah songs and eat oranges and ice cream. While each tradition springs from its own unique set of cultural refe...

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UNFREEDOM

JARED ROSS HARDESTY

"The most significant contribution to slavery studies in New England since the publication of Joanne Pope Melish's seminal Disowning Slavery in 1998." —Harvey Amani Whitfield, University of Vermont Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year. Instead of relying on the traditional dichotomy of slavery and freedom, Hardesty argues we should understand slavery in Boston as part ...

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FIGHTING OVER THE FOUNDERS

ANDREW M SCHOCKET

Explores how politicians, screenwriters, activists, biographers, jurists, museum professionals, and reenactors portray the American Revolution. The American Revolution is all around us. It is pictured as big as billboards and as small as postage stamps, evoked in political campaigns and car advertising campaigns, relived in museums and revised in computer games. As the nation's...

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IN THE SHADOW OF ZION

ADAM L ROVNER

From the late nineteenth century through the post-Holocaust era, the world was divided between countries that tried to expel their Jewish populations and those that refused to let them in. The plight of these traumatized refugees inspired numerous proposals for Jewish states. Jews and Christians, authors and adventurers, politicians and playwrights, and rabbis and revolutionari...

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PREACHING ON WAX

LERONE A MARTIN

A multi-award-winning volume—the overlooked African American religious history of the phonograph industry. From 1925 to 1941, approximately one hundred African American clergymen teamed up with leading record labels such as Columbia, Paramount, and Victor-RCA to record and sell their sermons on wax. While white clerics of the era, such as Aimee Semple McPherson and Charles Full...

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HEAVEN'S GATE

BENJAMIN E ZELLER / ROBERT W BALCH

The captivating story of the religious group focused on transcending humanity and the Earth— and seeking salvation in the literal heavens on board a UFO. 2015 Best Book Award from the Communal Studies Association In March 1997, thirty-nine people in Rancho Santa Fe, California, ritually terminated their lives. To outsiders, it was a mass suicide. To insiders, it was a gradu...

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FORGOTTEN TRIALS OF THE HOLOCAUST

MICHAEL J BAZYLER / FRANK M TUERKHEIMER

Legal scholars shed light on the enormous impact of the Holocaust through analysis of ten important yet underreported Nazi trials. In the wake of the Second World War, the Allies faced the dilemma of how to respond to the unimaginable crime of the Holocaust. Even in an ideal world, it would have been impossible to bring all the perpetrators to trial. Nevertheless, an attempt wa...

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AGAINST WIND AND TIDE

OUSMANE K POWER-GREENE

How, and why, free blacks resisted relocation to Liberia: "A fine contribution to the story of African colonization movements in early American history" ( The Journal of American History). Against Wind and Tide tells the story of African Americans' battle against the American Colonization Society (ACS), founded in 1816 with the intention to return free blacks to its colony, L...

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THE DELECTABLE NEGRO

VINCENT WOODARD / DWIGHT MCBRIDE / JUSTIN A JOYCE / E. PATRICK JOHNSON

A groundbreaking study of the connections between homoeroticism, cannibalism, and cultures of consumption in American literature and US slave culture. Scholars of US and transatlantic slavery have largely ignored or dismissed accusations that Black Americans were cannibalized. Vincent Woodard takes the enslaved person's claims of human consumption seriously, focusing on both th...

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CARING ACROSS GENERATIONS

GRACE J YOO / BARBARA W KIM

More than 1.3 million Korean Americans live in the United States, the majority of them foreign-born immigrants and their children, the so-called 1.5 and second generations. While many sons and daughters of Korean immigrants outwardly conform to the stereotyped image of the upwardly mobile, highly educated super-achiever, the realities and challenges that the children of Korean ...

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EVERYONE EATS

E. N. ANDERSON

An illuminating anthropological study of the ways that cultures and political systems structure the edible environment. Everyone eats, but rarely do we investigate why we eat what we eat. Why do we love spices, sweets, coffee? How did rice become such a staple food throughout so much of eastern Asia? Everyone Eats examines the social and cultural reasons for our food choices an...

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REPRODUCING RACISM

DARIA ROITHMAYR

Argues that racial inequality reproduces itself automatically over time because early unfair advantage for whites has paved the way for continuing advantage This book is designed to change the way we think about racial inequality. Long after the passage of civil rights laws, blacks and Latinos possess barely a nickel of wealth for every dollar that whites have. Why have we made...

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THE PRICE OF PARADISE

DAVID DANTE TROUTT

American communities are facing chronic problems: fiscal stress, urban decline, environmental sprawl, mass incarceration, political isolation, disproportionate foreclosures and severe public health risks. In The Price of Paradise, David Troutt argues that it is a lack of mutuality in our local decision making that has led to this looming crisis facing cities and local governmen...

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RELIGION OUT LOUD

ISAAC WEINER

For six months in 2004, controversy raged in Hamtramck, Michigan, as residents debated a proposed amendment that would exempt the adhan, or Islamic call to prayer, from the city's anti-noise ordinance. The call to prayer functioned as a flashpoint in disputes about the integration of Muslims into this historically Polish-Catholic community. No one openly contested Muslims' righ...

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LIVING OUT ISLAM

SCOTT SIRAJ AL-HAQQ KUGLE

"An excellent contribution to the emerging literature on LBGTQ Muslims . . . facing both homophobia and Islamophobia." —Amina Wadud, Starr King School for the Ministry 2015 Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award presented by the Stonewall Books Awards of the American Library Association Muhsin is one of the organizers of Al-Fitra Foundation, a South African support group for lesbia...

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THE DIVIDED MIND OF THE BLACK CHURCH

RAPHAEL G WARNOCK

An "altar call to action" from the U.S. senator and senior pastor at Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church ( Publishers Weekly). What is the true nature and mission of the church? Is its proper Christian purpose to save souls, or to transform the social order? This question is especially fraught when the church is one built by an enslaved people and formed, from its beginning, at...

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A RACE SO DIFFERENT

JOSHUA CHAMBERS-LETSON

Winner of the 2014 Outstanding Book Award presented by the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Taking a performance studies approach to understanding Asian American racial subjectivity, Joshua Takano Chambers-Letson argues that the law influences racial formation by compelling Asian Americans to embody and perform recognizable identities in both popular aesthetic forms ...

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ISLAM IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY

ZAREENA GREWAL

"A moving and incisive account of Muslim immigrant experiences in the United States. It reveals a dimension of American life seldom genuinely understood." —Saba Mahmood, author of Politics of Piety In Islam Is a Foreign Country, Zareena Grewal explores some of the most pressing debates about and among American Muslims: What does it mean to be Muslim and American? Who has the ...

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BROWN BOYS AND RICE QUEENS

ENG-BENG LIM

Honorable Mention for the 2015 Cultural Studies Best Book presented by the Association of Asian American Studies Winner of the 2013 CLAGS Fellowship Award for Best First Book Project in LGBT Studies A transnational study of Asian performance shaped by the homoerotics of orientalism, Brown Boys and Rice Queens focuses on the relationship between the white man and the native boy....

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GENDER, VIOLENCE, AND HUMAN SECURITY

AILI MARI TRIPP / MYRA MARX FERREE / CHRISTINA EWIG

The nature of human security is changing globally: interstate conflict and even intrastate conflict may be diminishing worldwide, yet threats to individuals and communities persist. Large-scale violence by formal and informal armed forces intersects with interpersonal and domestic forms of violence in mutually reinforcing ways. Gender, Violence, and Human Security takes a criti...

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SERVANTS OF ALLAH

SYLVIANE A DIOUF

An illuminating study of how African Muslims drew on Islam while enslaved, and how their faith ultimately played a role in the African Disapora. It is widely assumed that the faith enslaved West African Muslims brought to the Americas was quickly absorbed into their new Christian milieu. Yet, as Sylviane A. Diouf demonstrates in this meticulously-researched, groundbreaking volu...

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HAVEN OF LIBERTY

HOWARD B ROCK

Haven of Liberty chronicles the arrival of the first Jews to New York in 1654 and highlights the role of republicanism in shaping their identity and institutions. Rock follows the Jews of NewYork through the Dutch and British colonial eras, the American Revolution and early republic, and the antebellum years, ending with a path-breaking account of their outlook and behavior dur...

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THE SUN NEVER SETS

VIVEK BALD / MIABI CHATTERJI / SUJANI REDDY / MANU VIMALASSERY

The Sun Never Sets collects the work of a generation of scholars who are enacting a shift in the orientation of the field of South Asian American studies. By focusing upon the lives, work, and activism of specific, often unacknowledged, migrant populations, the contributors present a more comprehensive vision of the South Asian presence in the United States. Tracking the change...

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CITIZENS OF ASIAN AMERICA

CINDY I-FEN CHENG

Winner, 2013-2014 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, Adult Non-Fiction presented by the Asian Pacific American Librarian Association During the Cold War, Soviet propaganda highlighted U.S. racism in order to undermine the credibility of U.S. democracy. In response, incorporating racial and ethnic minorities in order to affirm that America worked to ensure the rights o...

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