In the ten years since Hurricane Katrina’s storm surge overwhelmed New Orleans’s levee system, the catastrophe has lived in the public imagination as a parade of dramatic images. Often overlooked are smaller, more gradual changes. For years, David G. Spielman has documented these inconspicuous changes, in haunting images whose simplicity evokes ......
How God, Genes, and Good Intentions are Sabotaging Gay Equality
Takes on received wisdom about gay identities and gay rights, arguing that we are not almost there, but on the contrary have settled for a watered-down goal of tolerance and acceptance rather than a robust claim to full civil rights.
An incorrigible trickster, a clever thief, a rogue, sometimes a magnanimous hero, often a vengeful loser, but always a survivor, Coyote is the most complex character in the Nez Perce cycle of traditional myths. Nez Perce Coyote Tales, a collection of fifty-two stories translated from the native language, represents the most extensive treatment of ......
Infertility and Motherhood in the Gambia, West Africa
In The Gambia, Senegal, and Guinea-Bissau, childless women, or kanele?, join voluntary organizations to collectively cope with their infertility struggles. These often-interethnic associations (kanele? kafo) use rituals, public performances, and communal and social services to increase their members' chances of bearing children who survive to ......
Infertility and Motherhood in the Gambia, West Africa
In The Gambia, Senegal, and Guinea-Bissau, childless women, or kanele?, join voluntary organizations to collectively cope with their infertility struggles. These often-interethnic associations (kanele? kafo) use rituals, public performances, and communal and social services to increase their members' chances of bearing children who survive to ......
Harry Humes carved out a unique place in American literature by chronicling Appalachian working-class life, natural landscapes, and disappearing rural traditions in Appalachian Pennsylvania with rare lyricism, humility, and precision. He wrote unflinchingly about the austerity and horrors of extraction as well as his deep connection with family ......
Harry Humes carved out a unique place in American literature by chronicling Appalachian working-class life, natural landscapes, and disappearing rural traditions in Appalachian Pennsylvania with rare lyricism, humility, and precision. He wrote unflinchingly about the austerity and horrors of extraction as well as his deep connection with family ......
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 ......
What Workers Should Know about the Affordability Crisis
As a case study in what awaits the United States and other countries, Digitalization in India is a warning and wake up call for democracies everywhere.
