DNA, Race, and Reproduction helps readers inside and outside of academia evaluate and engage with the current genomic landscape. It brings together expertise in law, medicine, religion, history, anthropology, philosophy, and genetics to examine how scientists, medical professionals, and laypeople use genomic concepts to construct racial identity and make or advise reproductive decisions, often at the same moment.
America Under the Hammer follows this ubiquitous but largely overlooked institution to reveal how, across the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, price became an accepted expression of value.
Liza Grandia chronicles how diverse coalitions in Mexico and Guatemala have defended their sacred maize against corporate threats to privatize it. Rather than just "voting with their forks" like the consumer-driven US food movement, Mesoamerican farmers and their allies have voted with their feet through direct action.
'Radical Solidarity' tells the riveting story of Ruth Reynolds (1916–89), a white pacifist from South Dakota who became a stalwart ally of nationalist revolutionaries during Puerto Rico's long struggle for independence. Reynolds dedicated her life to ending US control of the archipelago.
Where's Jukie? uses poems by Dr. Andy Jones and essays by Kate Duren to present the joys and challenges of raising their son Jukie, a boy with autism and Smith-Lemli-Opitz Syndrome. The authors of this book -- the parents of three children, including Jukie -- together have more than 50 years experience reading and communicating emotions with deft and wit, and counseling parents and children with special challenges.
In the Almond Orchard: Coming Home from War represents the experiences of American veterans who have served overseas, and who are readjusting to life in the United States, especially California, after their service. With power and bravery, Dr. Andy Jones speaks to the struggle of those who must hold within themselves two people, and exchange one life for another.
This open-hearted book is the gorgeous collection of a visionary Hmong poet whose radiant language and natural eloquence has offered us the dark and light of his soul. Karst Mountains Will Bloom is a landmark achievement: ascendant, transcendent, visionary. This poet is a treasure and a light. What an important collection for Asian American literature.
Two decades into the twenty-first century, contemporary Latinx writers have established themselves within an evolving literary tradition. Imaginative Possibilities collects interviews with some of these authors to explores the writers’ processes, aesthetics, creative trajectories, and places within the larger body of Latinx literature.
In "Riding Like the Wind," renowned biographer Iris Jamahl Dunkle revives the groundbreaking voice of Sanora Babb. Dunkle follows Babb from her impoverished childhood in eastern Colorado to California. There, she befriended the era's literati, including Ray Bradbury and Ralph Ellison; entered into an illegal marriage; and was blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee. It was Babb's field notes and oral histories of migrant farmworkers that Steinbeck relied on to write his novel. "Riding Like the Wind" reminds us with fresh awareness that the stories we know—and who tells them—can change the way we remember history.
For Professor Fiamma Montezemolo, as for Fred Murdock, this rite of passage is a break and a crossing: a break from anthropology’s traditional forms of expression and a crossing into the realm of visual art. Hidden in Plain Sight is an auto-anthology carefully curated to reveal the rich tapestry of Montezemolo’s diverse work.
