How Spanish and Portuguese colonialism shaped our conception of whiteness A landmark treatment of a pivotal historical question, Reckoning with Race in New Worlds reveals how the empires of Spain and Portugal debated and came to determine who was white and who was not during their colonial era. How did free people with partial Native American, ......
Republican Alarms, Southern Terrors, and the Plunge Into Civil War
A dramatic reappraisal and retelling of the destruction of the American Union To Save Us All from Slavery's Power is a novel assessment of the culmination of the sectional crisis before the Civil War. It is a story of mutual misunderstanding, journalistic mendacity, and irreconcilable visions of the country's future. With threats of disunion and ......
Republican Alarms, Southern Terrors, and the Plunge Into Civil War
A dramatic reappraisal and retelling of the destruction of the American Union To Save Us All from Slavery's Power is a novel assessment of the culmination of the sectional crisis before the Civil War. It is a story of mutual misunderstanding, journalistic mendacity, and irreconcilable visions of the country's future. With threats of disunion and ......
Arts, Activism, and Transdisciplinary Futures in Latin America and the Latinx Worlds
Reframing traditional conceptions of ecology Ecologies of Resistance brings together fourteen groundbreaking studies on Latin American and Latinx writing, visual and performing arts, film, and activism that propose alternatives to prevailing colonial and neocolonial conceptions of ecology. The contributors question the artificially imposed ......
Arts, Activism, and Transdisciplinary Futures in Latin America and the Latinx Worlds
Reframing traditional conceptions of ecology Ecologies of Resistance brings together fourteen groundbreaking studies on Latin American and Latinx writing, visual and performing arts, film, and activism that propose alternatives to prevailing colonial and neocolonial conceptions of ecology. The contributors question the artificially imposed ......
Nonhuman Intelligence and Narrative Form in American Fiction
How a fascination with animal consciousness, perception, and intelligence shaped American fiction in the twentieth century Animal Minds, Other Minds upends a common assumption: that the minds encountered in fiction are always in some sense fundamentally human. Readers, writers, critics, and narrative theorists have surmised that when fiction ......
Nonhuman Intelligence and Narrative Form in American Fiction
How a fascination with animal consciousness, perception, and intelligence shaped American fiction in the twentieth century Animal Minds, Other Minds upends a common assumption: that the minds encountered in fiction are always in some sense fundamentally human. Readers, writers, critics, and narrative theorists have surmised that when fiction ......
A compelling new analysis of the insights and the illusions embedded in writings from the New World Perceived in Print uses the published writings of adventurers and churchmen in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries to unlock the impressions Americans and French expressed about each other-what people from a diverse range of Indigenous ......
A compelling new analysis of the insights and the illusions embedded in writings from the New World Perceived in Print uses the published writings of adventurers and churchmen in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries to unlock the impressions Americans and French expressed about each other-what people from a diverse range of Indigenous ......