The dangerous lives of wildlife officers in backcountry Florida Imagine yourself alone in the wilderness holding two lawbreaking suspects at gunpoint. No onlookers, no backup. Just you in the dark, in the middle of nowhere, with suspects who would cheerfully kill you if they thought they could get away with it. Veteran wildlife officer Bob Lee ......
Confraternities and Social Mobility for Afro-Mexicans
Tracing the histories of Afro-Mexican religious brotherhoods organized in seventeenth-century New Spain Celebrating the African contribution to Mexican culture, this book shows how religious brotherhoods in New Spain both preserved a distinctive African identity and helped facilitate Afro-Mexican integration into colonial society. Called ......
Essays from scholars of labor and migration that examine changes in the Southern workplace after World War II In the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, the American South became very diverse very quickly. New businesses and job opportunities in the region drove this growth, brought an influx of capital, and attracted residents from ......
An on-the-ground, intimate tour of the human toll of the nation's record-breaking foreclosure crisis While working to help his father's small company "trash out"-enter and empty-foreclosed homes in Florida during the 2008 housing crash, Paul Reyes wrote Exiles in Eden, a hard-hitting, personal, and poetic portrayal of the people and communities ......
Digital Heritage and Engagement on the Disappearing Island
Documenting and interpreting the intersecting pasts of a historic island before they vanish under rising tides Egmont Key, a small island at the meeting point of the Gulf of Mexico and Tampa Bay, was a pivotal site in US history. Now a Florida State Park and a National Wildlife Refuge, it attracts visitors for its beaches and wildlife-but is ......
An often-overlooked early work-and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize-by celebrated writer Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, now available in this Florida Edition with a new foreword for today's readers by Lauren Groff Originally published in 1933, South Moon Under is the first novel by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. Set in the Big Scrub of Florida, a sparsely ......
Digital Heritage and Engagement on the Disappearing Island
Documenting and interpreting the intersecting pasts of a historic island before they vanish under rising tides Egmont Key, a small island at the meeting point of the Gulf of Mexico and Tampa Bay, was a pivotal site in US history. Now a Florida State Park and a National Wildlife Refuge, it attracts visitors for its beaches and wildlife-but is ......
Decolonial Movements of Afro-Queer Puerto Rican Artists
Spotlighting the rebellious performances and artistic works of Afro-queer women in Puerto Rico In Disobedient Women, Anastasia Valecce centers the voices and aesthetics of four contemporary Afro-queer Puerto Rican artists-Gisela Rosario Ramos (Macha Colon), Awilda Rodriguez Lora, Helen Ceballos, and Awilda Sterling-Duprey. Valecce shows how ......
Decolonial Movements of Afro-Queer Puerto Rican Artists
Spotlighting the rebellious performances and artistic works of Afro-queer women in Puerto Rico In Disobedient Women, Anastasia Valecce centers the voices and aesthetics of four contemporary Afro-queer Puerto Rican artists-Gisela Rosario Ramos (Macha Colon), Awilda Rodriguez Lora, Helen Ceballos, and Awilda Sterling-Duprey. Valecce shows how ......
