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  • VIDA ZOO-CIAL
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    VIDA ZOO-CIAL
    ASHLEY ELIZABETH KERR
    In late nineteenth- and early twentieth‑century Buenos Aires, elites attempted to tackle growing poverty and social problems with a suite of social, educational, and medical reforms, hoping to make the city and larger nation more “modern” and “progressive” on the world stage. Known as the “social question,” this turn-of-the-century preoccupation with the future of the city and ...

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  • VIDA ZOO-CIAL
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    VIDA ZOO-CIAL
    ASHLEY ELIZABETH KERR
    In late nineteenth- and early twentieth‑century Buenos Aires, elites attempted to tackle growing poverty and social problems with a suite of social, educational, and medical reforms, hoping to make the city and larger nation more “modern” and “progressive” on the world stage. Known as the “social question,” this turn-of-the-century preoccupation with the future of the city and ...

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  • BLACK GURL RELIABLE
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    BLACK GURL RELIABLE
    DOMINIQUE C. HILL
    Black Gurl Reliable does the original work of curating Black girls’ and women’s experiences and experiential knowledge, indexing sociocultural tactics (schooling) that foreclose Black girl aliveness, while advancing embodiment as a key ingredient of Black mattering. Elevating Black Girlhood Studies as an ethos, narratives presented offer redress to inequities and hauntings of r...

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  • BLACK GURL RELIABLE
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    BLACK GURL RELIABLE
    DOMINIQUE C. HILL
    Black Gurl Reliable does the original work of curating Black girls’ and women’s experiences and experiential knowledge, indexing sociocultural tactics (schooling) that foreclose Black girl aliveness, while advancing embodiment as a key ingredient of Black mattering. Elevating Black Girlhood Studies as an ethos, narratives presented offer redress to inequities and hauntings of r...

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  • MAPPING DIVERSITY IN LATIN AMERICA
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    MAPPING DIVERSITY IN LATIN AMERICA
    MABEL MORAÑA
    Mapping Diversity in Latin America offers ample critical coverage of recent approaches to the historical study of race and ethnicity in Latin America since the arrival of Spanish and Portuguese colonizers to the present. Bringing together the work of leading scholars, this volume presents readers with a thorough and updated examination of the formation and evolution of ideas su...

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  • MAPPING DIVERSITY IN LATIN AMERICA
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    MAPPING DIVERSITY IN LATIN AMERICA
    MABEL MORAÑA AND MIGUEL A. VALERIO
    Mapping Diversity in Latin America offers ample critical coverage of recent approaches to the historical study of race and ethnicity in Latin America since the arrival of Spanish and Portuguese colonizers to the present. Bringing together the work of leading scholars, this volume presents readers with a thorough and updated examination of the formation and evolution of ideas su...

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  • CHANGES IN THE LANDSCAPE
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    CHANGES IN THE LANDSCAPE
    STEPHANIE NIU
    Changes in the Landscape is a collection of timely essays that bring the methodologies and commitments of ecocriticism to bear on the study of Latin American literature and cultural production. The book’s eleven chapters, written by some of the leading voices in the field, invite readers to consider how the relationship between humans and nonhuman nature was fundamentally trans...

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  • CHANGES IN THE LANDSCAPE
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    CHANGES IN THE LANDSCAPE
    JENNIFER L. FRENCH
    Changes in the Landscape is a collection of timely essays that bring the methodologies and commitments of ecocriticism to bear on the study of Latin American literature and cultural production. The book’s eleven chapters, written by some of the leading voices in the field, invite readers to consider how the relationship between humans and nonhuman nature was fundamentally trans...

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  • THE REALMS OF OBLIVION
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    THE REALMS OF OBLIVION
    ANDREW C. ROSS
    Winner of the American Association for State and Local History’s Award of Excellence—Large-Press Publication, 2025 Winner of the Tennessee History Book Award (Tennessee Historical Society and Tennessee Historical Commission), 2024 The Realms of Oblivion explores the complexities involved in reconciling competing versions of history, channeled through Davies Manor, a historic si...

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  • CENTENARY SUBJECTS
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    CENTENARY SUBJECTS
    SHAWN MCDANIEL
    Centenary Subjects examines the ideological debates and didactic exercises in subject formation during the centenary era of independence (the decade of the 1910s)—the peak of arielismo—and proposes a new reading of the arielista archive that brings into focus the racial anxieties, epistemological and spiritual fissures, and iconoclastic agendas that structure, and at times smot...

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  • BORGES
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    BORGES
    JULIO PREMAT
    This book, available for the first time in English, offers a thorough introductory reading of Jorge Luis Borges, one of the most remarkable and influential writers of the twentieth century. Julio Premat, a specialist in the field of Borges studies, presents the main questions posed by Borges's often paradoxical writing, and leads the novice through the complexity and breadth of...

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  • WOMEN, MYSTICISM, AND HYSTERIA IN FIN-DE-SIÈCLE SPAIN
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    WOMEN, MYSTICISM, AND HYSTERIA IN FIN-DE-SIÈCLE SPAIN
    JENNIFER SMITH
    Women, Mysticism, and Hysteria in Fin-de-Siècle Spain argues that the reinterpretation of female mysticism as hysteria and nymphomania in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Spain was part of a larger project to suppress the growing female emancipation movement by sexualizing the female subject. This archival-historical work highlights the phenomenon in medical, social...

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  • WOMEN, MYSTICISM, AND HYSTERIA IN FIN-DE-SIÈCLE SPAIN
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    WOMEN, MYSTICISM, AND HYSTERIA IN FIN-DE-SIÈCLE SPAIN
    JENNIFER SMITH
    Women, Mysticism, and Hysteria in Fin-de-Siècle Spain argues that the reinterpretation of female mysticism as hysteria and nymphomania in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Spain was part of a larger project to suppress the growing female emancipation movement by sexualizing the female subject. This archival-historical work highlights the phenomenon in medical, social...

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  • I'LL TAKE YOU THERE
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    I'LL TAKE YOU THERE
    AMIE THURBER AND LEAROTHA WILLIAMS JR.
    Before there were guidebooks, there were just guides—people in the community you could count on to show you around. I'll Take You There is written by and with the people who most intimately know Nashville, foregrounding the struggles and achievements of people's movements toward social justice. The colloquial use of "I'll take you there" has long been a response to the call of ...

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  • BIOETHICS MEDIATION
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    BIOETHICS MEDIATION
    NANCY NEVELOFF DUBLER / CAROL B. LIEBMAN
    Bioethics Mediation offers stories about patients, families, and health care providers enmeshed in conflict as they wrestle with decisions about life and death. It provides guidance for those charged with supporting the patient's traditional and religious commitments and personal wishes. Today's medical system, without intervention, privileges those within shared cultures of co...

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  • LIVING QUIXOTE
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    LIVING QUIXOTE
    ROGELIO MINANA
    The 400th anniversaries of Don Quixote in 2005 and 2015 sparked worldwide celebrations that brought to the fore its ongoing cultural and ideological relevance. Living Quixote examines contemporary appropriations of Miguel de Cervantes's masterpiece in political and social justice movements in the Americas, particularly in Brazil. In this book, Cervantes scholar Rogelio Miñana e...

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  • FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD
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    FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD
    PATRICIA ANTONIELLO
    For the Public Good details the role of the Comprehensive Rural Health Project (CRHP), a groundbreaking, internationally recognized primary health care model that uses local solutions to solve intractable global health problems. Emphasizing equity and community participation, this grassroots approach recruits local women to be educated as village-based health workers. In turn, ...

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  • WHAT THE SIGNS SAY
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    WHAT THE SIGNS SAY
    SHONNA TRINCH / EDWARD SNAJDR
    Although we may not think we notice them, storefronts and their signage are meaningful, and the impact they have on people is significant. What the Signs Say argues that the public language of storefronts is a key component to the creation of the place known as Brooklyn, New York. Using a sample of more than two thousand storefronts and over a decade of ethnographic observation...

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  • SEX, SKULLS, AND CITIZENS
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    SEX, SKULLS, AND CITIZENS
    ASHLEY ELIZABETH KERR
    PROSE Awards Subject Category Finalist—Biological Anthropology, Ancient History, and Archaeology, 2021 Best Nineteenth-Century Book Award, Latin American Studies Association Nineteenth-Century Section, 2021​ Analyzing a wide variety of late-nineteenth-century sources, Sex, Skulls, and Citizens argues that Argentine scientific projects of the era were not just racial encounters,...

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  • WRITING REVOLUTION IN LATIN AMERICA
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    WRITING REVOLUTION IN LATIN AMERICA
    JUAN E. DE CASTRO
    PROSE Awards Literature Subject Category Winner, 2020 In the politically volatile period from the 1960s through the end of the twentieth century, Latin American authors were in direct dialogue with the violent realities of their time and place. Writing Revolution in Latin America is a chronological study of the way revolution and revolutionary thinking is depicted in the fictio...

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  • CARTOGRAPHIES OF MADRID
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    CARTOGRAPHIES OF MADRID
    SILVIA BERMUDEZ AND ANTHONY L. GEIST
    One of this book's goals is to evaluate the complex ways that Madrid has served as the political, economic, and cultural capital of the Global South from the end of the Franco dictatorship to the present. The other is to examine the city as lived experience, where citizens contest capital's push to shape urban space in its own image through activities of the imagination. Schola...

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  • FROM FILMMAKER WARRIORS TO FLASH DRIVE SHAMANS
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    FROM FILMMAKER WARRIORS TO FLASH DRIVE SHAMANS
    RICHARD PACE
    From Filmmaker Warriors to Flash Drive Shamans broadens the base of research on Indigenous media in Latin America through thirteen chapters that explore groups such as the Kayapó of Brazil, the Mapuche of Chile, the Kichwa of Ecuador, and the Ayuuk of Mexico, among others, as they engage video, DVDs, photography, television, radio, and the internet. The authors cover a range of...

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  • TRANSFORMING THERAPY
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    TRANSFORMING THERAPY
    WHITNEY L. DUNCAN
    Oaxaca is known for many things--its indigenous groups, archaeological sites, crafts, and textiles--but not for mental health care. When one talks with Oaxacans about mental health, most say it's a taboo topic and that people there think you "have to be crazy to go to a psychologist." Yet throughout Oaxaca are signs advertising the services of psicólogos; there are prominent co...

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  • PROHIBITION ERA AND POLICING
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    PROHIBITION ERA AND POLICING
    WESLEY M. OLIVER
    Legal precedents created during Prohibition have lingered, leaving search-and-seizure law much better defined than limits on police use of force, interrogation practices, or eyewitness identification protocols. An unlawful trunk search is thus guarded against more thoroughly than an unnecessary shooting or a wrongful conviction. Intrusive searches for alcohol during Prohibition...

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  • WASTED WOMBS
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    WASTED WOMBS
    ERICA VAN DER SIJPT
    Central to this book are Gbigbil women's experiences with different "reproductive interruptions": miscarriages, stillbirths, child deaths, induced abortions, and infertility. Rather than consider these events as inherently dissimilar as women do in Western countries, the Gbigbil women of eastern Cameroon see them all as instances of "wasted wombs" that leave their reproductive ...

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  • RISE OF EUROSKEPTICISM
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    RISE OF EUROSKEPTICISM
    LUIS MARTÍN-ESTUDILLO
    Electronic open-access edition funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Covering from 1915 to the present, this book deals with the role that artists and intellectuals have played regarding projects of European integration. Consciously or not, they partake of a tradition of Euroskepticism. Because Euroskepticism is often associated with the discourse of political el...

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  • HOW FAILED ATTEMPTS TO AMEND THE CONSTITUTION MOBILIZE POLITICAL CHANGE
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    HOW FAILED ATTEMPTS TO AMEND THE CONSTITUTION MOBILIZE POLITICAL CHANGE
    ROGER C. HARTLEY
    Since the Constitution's ratification, members of Congress, following Article V, have proposed approximately twelve thousand amendments, and states have filed several hundred petitions with Congress for the convening of a constitutional convention. Only twenty-seven amendments have been approved in 225 years. Why do members of Congress continue to introduce amendments at a pace...

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  • LETHAL DECISIONS
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    LETHAL DECISIONS
    ARTHUR J. AMMANN
    This first-person account by one of the pioneers of HIV/AIDS research chronicles the interaction among the pediatric HIV/AIDS community, regulatory bodies, governments, and activists over more than three decades. After the discovery of AIDS in a handful of infants in 1981, the next fifteen years showed remarkable scientific progress in prevention and treatment, although blood b...

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  • PRICE OF SAFETY
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    PRICE OF SAFETY
    SARA SHOENER
    Specialized public resources for survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) are increasingly common and diverse--from protection order courts and dedicated domestic violence units in police precincts to a vast network of community-based emergency shelters and counseling services. Yet little consensus exists regarding which resources actually work to reduce violence and help s...

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  • POWER TO HEAL
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    POWER TO HEAL
    DAVID BARTON SMITH
    In less than four months, beginning with a staff of five, an obscure office buried deep within the federal bureaucracy transformed the nation's hospitals from our most racially and economically segregated institutions into our most integrated. These powerful private institutions, which had for a half century selectively served people on the basis of race and wealth, began equal...

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