Brings crip aesthetics and disability justice into conversation with Israel studies. In the first work to bring crip aesthetics into conversation with Israel studies, Ilana Szobel explores disability culture and disability justice through the work of artists with disabilities in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories. This book outlines ......
This affectionate adaptation of a telenovela offered much-needed representation of Latinx lives on US television. Jane the Virgin (CW, 2014-19) remains one of the most well-known television shows of the 2010s in the US and abroad. Revisiting key moments in the arc of the show's plot alongside its social context, scholar Paul Julian Smith ......
Award-winning stories about growing up and finding resiliency amid uncertainty. In 1970s and '80s Detroit, the city wrestles with an unending economic downturn, increasing violence, and white exodus to the suburbs. Amid all of this is twentysomething Mary who is just trying to grapple with her identity in a world filled with uncertainty. In ......
An authoritative call to end anti-fat bias and champion the acceptance of all bodies. In this remarkable book, Minna Bromberg lays bare the harm of anti-fat bias and the restorative potential for body liberation in Jewish tradition to confront fatphobia. Bromberg traces her own journey of identity formation, bodily autonomy, and self-acceptance ......
A deeply humane memoir that combines scholarship, art, and reflection from decades of collaboration with Holocaust survivors. This moving collection chronicles the personal and creative journey of Henry Hank Greenspan across five decades of sustained and deepening collaborations with Holocaust survivors. The book includes the first print ......
Examines the role of the American automobile industry in producing vehicles, weapons, and other war products during World War II. Throughout World War II, Detroit's automobile manufacturers accounted for one-fifth of the dollar value of the nation's total war production, and this amazing output from "the arsenal of democracy" directly ......
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Once pitted as adversarial counterparts as the opinion editors of right- and left-leaning newspapers, veteran journalists Nolan Finley and Stephen Henderson join forces in this ......
The Fabulous Michigan Gatsby Who Conquered Wall Street, Took Over General Motors, and Built the World's Tallest Building
Discover the extraordinary rise of the glamorous, competitive, and clever American banking titan. This fascinating biography recounts the life and legacy of a titan of American banking, Louis Graveraet Kaufman (1870-1942). Also known as LG, he was a Gatsbyesque figure born in Michigan's Upper Peninsula who married into great wealth and then ......
Jewish Women and Embodied Selfhood in Graphic Narratives
Examining through text and image what it means to be a woman, a Jew, and an artist. This comprehensive collection considers Jewish women graphic novelists and the richly figured ways in which Jewish identity is complicated by gender, memory, generation, and place: the spaces--emotional, geographical, psychological--that women inhabit. Through ......
