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  • Love, the Magician

    by Brian Bouldrey, Miriam Wolf ...
    In April of 1997, Tristan Broder makes a pilgrimage of sorts from San Francisco to the prickly desert and scalped mountains around Tucson, Arizona, the place where he helped bury his partner Joe five years before. Guided by a comet that crossed the spring sky that year, he wanders toward renewal and resurrection, memory and mystery, deadly secrets and dark intentions.There are plenty of people in ... Read more

    $7.95 USD

  • Theorizing Folklore from the Margins

    Critical and Ethical Approaches

    by Solimar Otero, Mintzi Auanda Martínez-Rivera, Rachel V. González-Martin, Juan Eduardo Wolf, Miriam Melton-Villanueva, Sheila Bock, Rhonda R. Dass, Cheikh Tidiane Lo, Katherine Borland0, Itzel Guadalupe Garcia1, Mabel Cuesta2, Gloria M. Colom Braña3, Martin A. Tsang4, Xóchitl Chávez5, Cory W. Thorne6, Phyllis M. May-Machunda7, Alexander Fernández8 ...
    Series series Activist Encounters in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
    The study of folklore has historically focused on the daily life and culture of regular people, such as artisans, storytellers, and craftspeople. But what can folklore reveal about strategies of belonging, survival, and reinvention in moments of crisis?The experience of living in hostile conditions for cultural, social, political, or economic reasons has redefined communities in crisis. The ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Holocaust Testimonies

    Reassessing Survivors' Voices and Their Future in Challenging Times

    Edited by Boaz Cohen, Wolf Gruner, Miriam Offer, Thomas Pegelow Kaplan ...
    Close to a time when there will be no more survivors to speak about their suffering, this innovative study takes much-needed stock of the past, present and future of Holocaust testimony.Drawing from a vast range of witness accounts – including a never-before-published survivor interview – and carefully situating analysis within broader historical and political discourses, this international team ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

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  • Of Women and Salt

    A Novel

    by Gabriela Garcia ...
    AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICKA sweeping, masterful debut about a daughter's fateful choice, a mother motivated by her own past, and a family legacy that begins in Cuba before either of them were bornIn present-day Miami, Jeanette is battling addiction. Daughter of Carmen, a Cuban immigrant, she is determined to learn more about her family history from ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Circulation of Children

    Kinship, Adoption, and Morality in Andean Peru

    by Jessaca B. Leinaweaver, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    In this vivid ethnography, Jessaca B. Leinaweaver explores “child circulation,” informal arrangements in which indigenous Andean children are sent by their parents to live in other households. At first glance, child circulation appears tantamount to child abandonment. When seen in that light, the practice is a violation of international norms regarding children’s rights, guidelines that the ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Survivors

    Children's Lives After the Holocaust

    by Rebecca Clifford ...
    **Shortlisted for the 2021 Wolfson History Prize and a finalist for the 2021 Cundill History PrizeTold for the first time from their perspective, the story of children who survived the chaos and trauma of the Holocaust—named a best history book of 2020 by the Daily Telegraph**?"Impressive, beautifully written, judicious and thoughtful. . . . Will be a major milestone in the history of the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Painting the Future

    A Tales of Everyday Magic Novel

    by Louise Hay, Lynn Lauber ...
    Jonathan Langley's life took a devastating turn when he lost his eyesight to a rare illness.Once a successful painter and printmaker, Jonathan now lives in complete darkness, rarely leaving his apartment and angry at the world. When he encounters his precocious 11-year-old neighbor, Lupe, the two form an unlikely friendship. Her cheerful presence shatters his hardened exterior, revealing a gentle ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Tacit Subjects

    Belonging and Same-Sex Desire among Dominican Immigrant Men

    by Carlos Ulises Decena ...
    Tacit Subjects is a pioneering analysis of how gay immigrant men of color negotiate race, sexuality, and power in their daily lives. Drawing on ethnographic research with Dominicans in New York City, Carlos Ulises Decena explains that while the men who shared their life stories with him may self-identify as gay, they are not the liberated figures of traditional gay migration narratives. Decena ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Fascism

    by Roger Griffin ...
    Series series Key Concepts in Political Theory
    The word ‘fascism’ sometimes appears to have become a catch-all term of abuse, applicable to anyone on the political right, from Hitler to Donald Trump and from Putin to Thatcher. While some argue that it lacks any distinctive conceptual meaning at all, others have supplied highly elaborate definitions of its ‘essential’ features. It is therefore a concept that presents unique challenges for any ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • Behind the Mask

    Gender Hybridity in a Zapotec Community

    by Alfredo Mirandé ...
    The image of biologically male people dancing while dressed in the traditional, colorful attire of Zapotec, Juchiteca, females stands in sharp contrast to the prevailing view of Mexico as the land of charros, machismo, and unbridled ranchero masculinity. These indigenous people are called los muxes, and they are neither man nor woman, but rather a hybrid third gender.After seeing a video of a muxe ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Sexual Violence against Jewish Women during the Holocaust

    Edited by Sonja M. Hedgepeth, Rochelle G. Saidel ...
    Series series HBI Series on Jewish Women
    Using testimonies, Nazi documents, memoirs, and artistic representations, this volume broadens and deepens comprehension of Jewish women’s experiences of rape and other forms of sexual violence during the Holocaust. The book goes beyond previous studies, and challenges claims that Jewish women were not sexually violated during the Holocaust. This anthology by an interdisciplinary and international ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • A Contested Caribbean Indigeneity

    Language, Social Practice, and Identity within Puerto Rican Taíno Activism

    by Sherina Feliciano-Santos ...
    Series series Critical Caribbean Studies
    A Contested Caribbean Indigeneity is an in-depth analysis of the debates surrounding Taíno/Boricua activism in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean diaspora in New York City. Drawing on in-depth ethnographic research, media analysis, and historical documents, the book explores the varied experiences and motivations of Taíno/Boricua activists as well as the alternative fonts of authority they draw on to ... Read more

    $21.59 USD