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Xu Ma
Boundaries and Bodhisattvas

A striking new perspective on women, religious spaces, and literary culture during the Ming and Qing eras From the sixteenth to early nineteenth centuries, Neo-Confucian ideology sought to reinforce the s…

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Techno-Orientalism 2.0

Techno-Orientalism 2.0 addresses the impact of a volatile post-COVID present on speculative futures by and about Asians. The volume engages with techno-Orientalist inflections in recent high-profile and l…

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Ashish Koul
Reinventing Caste

This book reveals that caste, usually assumed to be a feature of Hindu society, was in fact a trans-religious phenomenon in colonial India, as it is today. Even in an Islamic religious milieu that was sup…

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Adrian de Leon,
Balikbayan

How migrants imagined a country through their acts of return What does it mean to go back home, especially when "home" is shaped by conquest, labor, and longing? This question has animated the e…

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Gordon H Chang
War, Race, and Culture

"Writing history, the systematic effort to understand the human past, is a demanding intellectual endeavor. For historian Gordon H. Chang, it has also been a personal and moral enterprise intimately …

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Jeongmin Kim
Black Market Intimacies

Black Market Intimacies reveals how illicit exchanges of money and commodities involving sexual encounters between Korean and Japanese women and US soldiers provided the material foundations of the region…

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Jeongmin Kim
Black Market Intimacies

Black Market Intimacies reveals how illicit exchanges of money and commodities involving sexual encounters between Korean and Japanese women and US soldiers provided the material foundations of the region…

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Antonia Hylton
Madness

In the tradition ofThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks , this New York Times bestseller is a page-turning account of one of the nation's last segregated asylums..."a book that left me breathless&quo…

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Ahmad Greene-Hayes
Underworld Work

A rethinking of African American religious history that focuses on the development and evolution of Africana spiritual traditions in Jim Crow New Orleans.When Zora Neale Hurston traveled to New Orleans, s…

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Techno-Orientalism 2.0

Techno-Orientalism 2.0 addresses the impact of a volatile post-COVID present on speculative futures by and about Asians. The volume engages with techno-Orientalist inflections in recent high-profile and l…

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Emily Mendenhall
Invisible Illness

"An incisive study that illuminates the myriad complexities of chronic illness."-- Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)"Movingly spotlights the struggles of chronically ill patients."-- Pub…

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Tia Noelle Pratt
Black and Catholic

Black and Catholic documents the exclusion, erasure, and systematic racism faced by Black Catholics, filling an essential gap in both Catholic and Black history.In the storied history of the U.S. Catholic…

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Anna Malaika Tubbs
Erased

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ¿ USA TODAY NATIONAL BESTSELLER ¿ AN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR 2025 The new book from the New York Times bestselling author of The Three Mothers. In Erased , An…

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Vincent T Davis
The Front Porch

Throughout his nearly thirty-year career at theSan Antonio Express-News , Vincent T. Davis has perfected his craft of finding the extraordinary in ordinary lives. The Front Porch: Stories from the Soul of…

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Christopher T Dole
Living on

"Living On centers around the unprecedented mobilization of mental health professionals in the wake of a massive earthquake that struck western Turkey in 1999--a disaster that left more than 20,000 p…

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Micah S Muscolino
Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People

State-led conservation transformed Gansu's landscape---rural communities bore the costsFrom the 1940s to the 1960s, soil and water conservation measures transformed both the arid, erosion-prone environmen…

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Andrea R Morrell
Prison Town

Andrea R. Morrell shows that despite the barriers aimed at separating incarcerated and free residents of Elmira, New York, the town's two prisons extended far beyond their walls, intricately connecting th…

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Richard Wright
Black Boy

"Superb. . . . A great American writer speaks with his own voice about matters that still resonate at the center of our lives."---New York Times Book ReviewCelebrating its eightieth anniversary,…

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The Mahele of Our Bodies

""They put up barriers, the same way with our bodies. Our bodies are meant for us to be very expressive. Hawaiians were like that. . . . To me it was an expression of the mahele of our bodies, t…

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A Cultural History of Plants in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Looks at the history and meanings of plants in the period from 1650-1800, a time of global exploration and the discovery of new species of plants and their potential uses.

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