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Until its dismantling in October 2016, this precarious site,...
Until its dismantling in October 2016, this precarious site, intended to make its inhabitants as invisible as possible, was instead the focal point of international concern about the plight of migrants and refugees.
This activism confronted a “tough on crime”...
This activism confronted a “tough on crime” political agenda and clashed with the mainstream women’s movement’s strategy of resorting to the criminal legal system as a solution to sexual and domestic violence.
While differing widely in their approaches to diet and eating,...
While differing widely in their approaches to diet and eating, they uniformly made the cultivation of “proper” food habits a significant dimension of their work and their conceptions of racial and national belonging. Tracing their quests for literal sustenance brings together the race, food, and intellectual histories of America.
Who says women don’t go to war? From Vikings and African...
Who says women don’t go to war? From Vikings and African queens to cross-dressing military doctors and WWII Russian fighter pilots, these are the stories of women for whom battle was not a metaphor.
Yanyi’s arresting and straightforward poems weave...
Yanyi’s arresting and straightforward poems weave experiences of immigration as a Chinese American, of racism, of mental wellness, and of gender from a queer and trans perspective.
What counts as sexual consent? How do we teach consent to...
What counts as sexual consent? How do we teach consent to impressionable youth, potential predators, and victims? How can we make consent sexy? What if these are all the wrong questions? What if our preoccupation with consent is hindering a safer and better sexual culture?
These writers, and the many others in this urgent collection,...
These writers, and the many others in this urgent collection, share powerful personal stories of living between cultures and languages while struggling to figure out who they are and where they belong
This engaging history documents the country’s financial...
This engaging history documents the country’s financial crises, focusing on those of the 1920s, the 1980s, and the 2000s, and reveals how the two more recent crises arose from the neglect of this fundamental bargain, and how taxpayers have been left with the bill.
Mind-Brain-Gene describes the feedback loops between the...
Mind-Brain-Gene describes the feedback loops between the multiple systems contributing to the emergence of the mind and the experience of the self. It explains how our mental operating networks “self”-organize, drawing from and modifying our memory systems to establish and maintain mental health.
Meaning Making in Early Childhood Research asks readers to...
Meaning Making in Early Childhood Research asks readers to rethink research in early childhood education through qualitative research practices reflective of arts-based pedagogies. This collection explores how educators and researchers can move toward practices of meaning making in early childhood education.
It might seem that there’s an obvious reason that true...
It might seem that there’s an obvious reason that true beliefs matter: false beliefs will hurt you. But if that’s right, then why is it (apparently) irrelevant to many people whether they believe true things or not?
Political interest is the strongest predictor of ‘good...
Political interest is the strongest predictor of ‘good citizenship’, yet hardly anything is known about it. For the first time in over three decades, here is a study explaining what political interest is, where it comes from, and why it matters.
Despite the multiplicity of slavery’s manifestations,...
Despite the multiplicity of slavery’s manifestations, many scholars have used a simple binary to categorize slave-holding groups as either ‘genuine slave societies’ or 'societies with slaves’.
In Contesting the Myths of Samurai Baseball Keaveney analyzes...
In Contesting the Myths of Samurai Baseball Keaveney analyzes the persistent appeal of such mythologizing, arguing that the sport has been serving as a repository for traditional values, to which the Japanese have returned time and again in epochs of uncertainty and change.
How did mindfulness become mainstream? In The Mindful Elite,...
How did mindfulness become mainstream? In The Mindful Elite, Jamie Kucinskas reveals who is behind the mindfulness movement, and the engine they built to propel mindfulness into public consciousness.
Recently, the economic motives of intercollegiate athletic...
Recently, the economic motives of intercollegiate athletic programs and academic indiscretions have unveiled behaviors that stand to tarnish the images of institutions of higher education and reinforce racial stereotypes about the intellectual inabilities of Black males.
When Marie Marvingt decided to ride the 1908 Tour de France she...
When Marie Marvingt decided to ride the 1908 Tour de France she was told “absolument, non!” Instead, she rode each stage fifteen minutes after the official racers had departed and finished all 4,488 kms of the parcours–a feat that only 36 of the 110 men who entered the race could equal.
Framing this story within anthropology’s development in...
Framing this story within anthropology’s development in Britain and America, Peter Hempenstall recounts Freeman’s mission to turn the discipline from its cultural-determinist leanings toward a view of human culture underpinned by biological and behavioral drivers.
Focusing at local level on either a province or a single...
Focusing at local level on either a province or a single village, the authors analyse the conflict as a “total social phenomena” involving all elements of society and impacting on every aspect of life across the country
Humanity, the unlikely product of uncountable coincidences on...
Humanity, the unlikely product of uncountable coincidences on unimaginable scales, inhabits a tumultuous universe that extends from our immediate environs to the most distant galaxies and beyond. But when the mind balks at the vertiginous complexity of the universe, science unveils the elegance amid the chaos.
Last updated by Susan M. Birkenseer on July 19, 2019