How building codes shaped material, social, and environmental landscapes in American cities. Almost every American city contains neighborhoods dominated by wood frame construction-light, cheap, combustible, and requiring the lowest upfront investment of labor and material in the building industry. Known as a Type V (five) construction in the ......
The Parsi Community of India and the Making of Modern Iran
Honorable Mention, Hamid Naficy Iranian Studies Book Award from the Association of Iranian Studies In the aftermath of the seventh-century Islamic conquest of Iran, Zoroastrians departed for India. Known as the Parsis, they slowly lost contact with their ancestral land until the nineteenth century, when steam-powered sea travel, the increased ......
How Latina voices in commercial radio and podcasting subvert cultural norms and bring feminism to the fore of their work. What does Latina feminism sound like in popular culture? Drawing on case studies of commercial radio programs and podcasts hosted by Latinas and oriented toward Latinx listenership, Esther DIaz MartIn explores how Latina ......
Melding the rural and the urban with the local, regional, and global, Levantine cuisine is a mElange of ingredients, recipes, and modes of consumption rooted in the Eastern Mediterranean. Making Levantine Cuisine provides much-needed scholarly attention to the region's culinary cultures while teasing apart the tangled histories and knotted ......
A study of women's lives in the public sphere of the ancient city of Pompeii. Pompeii's well-preserved remains provide a unique opportunity for the close study of ancient lives. Drawing on statues, inscriptions, graffiti, wall paintings, and the architecture of tombs, sanctuaries, houses, and public spaces, The Lives and Deaths of Women in ......
A study of the ancient practice of Andean head shaping and its cultural connotations. In the late sixteenth century, Spanish conquerors in Peru's Colca Valley encountered the Collaguas and Cavanas, Indigenous people who undertook a striking form of body modification: Collaguas bound the heads of infants and children so that their skulls grew ......
Travesti and Joteria Struggles Across the Americas
How trans and non-binary networks engage in decoloniality across hemispheres. A deeply informed, theoretically rich work of inquiry and critique, Sideways Selves learns from two communities of migrants as they contest their marginalization under the colonial regime of gender-colonial because, as PJ DiPietro affirms, Indigenous and ......
Climate Justice and Speculative Futures in Latinx Cultural Production
A critical examination of the environmental movement and the Latinx voices that are shifting how to think about a future shaped by climate change. In Decolonial Environmentalisms, David VAzquez argues that the mainstream environmental movement is implicated in racial capitalism, not least through its ignorance of environmental justice as it ......
In Arab culture, at the ineffable point where music meets emotion, lies ?arab. Often glossed as the ecstasy experienced and expressed when performing or listening to singing, instrumental works, and recitations of poetry, ?arab is both a practice and an orienting concept central to musical aesthetics and spirituality characteristic of Middle ......
