Community Organizing's Fight to Strengthen Democracy
Community-based organizing stands at a crossroads at a time when anti-democratic headwinds and authoritarian impulses threaten American society as never before. Robert T. Gannett Jr. draws on a forty-year career as a grassroots activist to make an impassioned plea for citizens to create the robust infrastructure of organizing that is necessary to ......
A Spatial History of Race, Ethnicity, and Displacement in Sao Paulo
In I'll Samba Someplace Else, Andrew G. Britt maps the interwoven histories of three of the city of Sao Paulo's most iconic ethnoracialized neighborhoods, popularly known as "African" Brasilandia, "Japanese" Liberdade, and "Italian" Bexiga. Following these spaces over the mid-twentieth century through inventive methods of spatial history, archival ......
In Everyday Erotics, Denise Tse-Shang Tang explores the lives of older women with same-sex desire in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan. Tang interviews women born in the 1930's through the 1960's, looking at how their lives differ across culture, class, and place, and how they lived and understood their own desires and social worlds. Through these ......
In Everyday Erotics, Denise Tse-Shang Tang explores the lives of older women with same-sex desire in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan. Tang interviews women born in the 1930's through the 1960's, looking at how their lives differ across culture, class, and place, and how they lived and understood their own desires and social worlds. Through these ......
A Spatial History of Race, Ethnicity, and Displacement in Sao Paulo
In I'll Samba Someplace Else, Andrew G. Britt maps the interwoven histories of three of the city of Sao Paulo's most iconic ethnoracialized neighborhoods, popularly known as "African" Brasilandia, "Japanese" Liberdade, and "Italian" Bexiga. Following these spaces over the mid-twentieth century through inventive methods of spatial history, archival ......
During the twentieth century's Great Migration, kitchenette apartments served as the primary homes for Black migrants to Chicago. These small one- and two-room units were often illegally converted from larger apartments and were concentrated on the city's densely populated, segregated South Side. Typically featuring a communal hallway bathroom, a ......
During the twentieth century's Great Migration, kitchenette apartments served as the primary homes for Black migrants to Chicago. These small one- and two-room units were often illegally converted from larger apartments and were concentrated on the city's densely populated, segregated South Side. Typically featuring a communal hallway bathroom, a ......
All-American City investigates the recent history of Wichita, Kansas, and illuminates the challenges-and opportunities-facing midsize cities throughout the nation. Distinctive. Unique. Authentic. These were the watchwords in the 2020 campaign to revitalize Wichita, Kansas, and to set it apart in the perpetual competition among American urban ......
Winner of the Barbara DiBernard Prize in Fiction Slow Guillotine follows three broke weirdos whose collective desire to make and think about art is constantly interrupted by their art-industry-adjacent minimum-wage jobs. Throughout the novel, the three friends' day jobs in a failing independent bookstore, a sterile gallery in downtown Manhattan, ......
