Rapid Climate Change: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions

The book reviews the science of climate change and explains why it is one of the most difficult problems humanity has ever tackled.

HM861.M36

Seeing through Race: A Reinterpretation of Civil Rights Photography

Seeing through Race is a boldly original reinterpretation of the iconic photographs of the black civil rights struggle.

E185.61.B44

The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America

Lynch mobs, chain gangs, and popular views of black southern criminals that defined the Jim Crow South are well known. We know less about the role of the urban North in shaping views of race and crime in American society.

HV6197.U6.M85

Women and Slavery in America: A Documentary History

Women and Slavery offers readers an opportunity to examine the establishment, growth, and evolution of slavery in the United States as it impacted women - enslaved and free.

HT1048.W66

The Peoples of Southeast Asia Today: Ethnography, Ethnology, and Change in a Complex Region

The Peoples of Southeast Asia Today offers an anthropological treatment of the ethnography and ethnology of Southeast Asia, covering both the mainland and the insular regions.

GN635.S58.W46

Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching

Southern Horrors provides a startling view into the Jim Crow South where the precarious and subordinate position of women linked black and white anti-rape activists together in fragile political alliances.

HV6250.4.W65.F43

The Brokeback Book: From Story to Cultural Phenomenon

An American Western made by a Taiwanese director and filmed in Canada, Brokeback Mountain was a global cultural phenomenon even before it became the highest grossing gay-themed drama in film history. Few films have inspired as much passion and debate, or produced as many contradictory responses, from online homage to late-night parody.

PN1997.2.B75

Performing American Masculinities: The 21st-Century Man in Popular Culture

This collection highlights the fluidity of masculinity in American popular culture at the turn of the new millennium and beyond by examining possibilities for male identity formation.

HQ1090.3.P46

The Profitable Artist: A Handbook for All Artists in the Performing, Literary, and Visual Arts

With decades of experience training and helping artists, the expert staff of the New York Foundation for the Arts have compiled a “best practices”
approach to planning and organizing an art career.

N8600.P745

Postcolonial Ecologies: Literatures of the Environment

The first edited collection to bring ecocritical studies into a necessary dialogue with postcolonial literature, this volume offers rich and suggestive ways to explore the relationship between humans and nature around the globe, drawing from texts from Africa and the Caribbean, as well as the Pacific Islands and South Asia.

PR9080.5.P68

The Cambridge Companion to Gay and Lesbian Writing

This Companion introduces readers to the range of debates that inform studies of works by lesbian and gay writers and of literary representations of same-sex desire and queer identities.

PN56.H57.C36

Land of the Unconquerable: The Lives of Contemporary Afghan Women

Reaching beyond sensational headlines, Land of the Unconquerable at last offers a three-dimensional portrait of Afghan women.

HQ1735.6.L37

Stare in the Darkness: The Limits of Hip-hop and Black Politics

Rap’s critique of police brutality in the 1980s. The Hip Hop Political Convention. The rise (and fall) of Kwame Kilpatrick, the “hip-hop mayor” of Detroit. Barack Obama echoing the body language of Jay-Z on the campaign trail.

E185.86.S687

Music!

Sean Wilentz discovered Bob Dylan’s music as a teenager growing up in Greenwich Village. Now, almost half a century later, he revisits Dylan’s work with the skills of an eminent American historian as well as the passion of a fan. [Image and text from the publisher]

ML420.D98.W53

Habeas Corpus!

Anyone interested in American history, the Constitution, and the Civil War will be anxious to read this excellent book. -- Frank J. Williams, former Chief Justice of the Rhode Island

KF223.M48.M38

Race Identity!

Here, TourÉ divulges intimate, funny, and painful stories of how race and racial expectations have shaped his life and explores how the concept of Post-Blackness functions in politics, society, psychology, art, culture, and more.

E185.625.T68