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When Rubén Castilla Herrera died suddenly in 2019, he left an acute void in Ohio's grassroots organizing community. Notably at the forefront of many regional social justice campaigns, his life and work still reverberate through the lives of those he fought so hard for: immigrants, refugees, farmworkers, the displaced, and many, many others who refuse to simply comply with injustice.Synthesizing oral histories, community voices, and ideas from ...

- Revives a lesser-known work by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose books were best-sellers and often the source of hit films (So Big, Giant, Cimarron, and Ice Palace).- Brings renewed attention to a writer who has often been dismissed as "middlebrow" or a writer of "women's fiction." Taps into a broader cultural interest in "middlebrow" literature, as evidenced by other reissues by New York Review of Books Classics and Persephone Books. - ...

The true story of Marshall "Major" Taylor, who overcame racial prejudice to become one of the most dominant cyclists in history. Part of Belt's Revival series and with an introduction by Zito Madu.The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World, which Taylor self-published in 1928, gives a riveting first-person account of his rise to the highest echelons of professional cycling. Born in Indianapolis, he eventually became the first African American cycl...

Part of Belt's Neighborhood Guidebook Series, The Cincinnati Neighborhood Guidebook is an in-depth look at the City of Seven Hills, written by the people who live and work there every day. Cincinnati, Ohio, is a complex mix of many different things: its present and its past, its transitions and its legacies, what defines it and distinguishes it, what makes people love it and what makes some eventually leave it. This collection, written by both...

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This collection of essays from six incarcerated men about power, punishment, and redemption is a hybrid of prison memoir, philosophy, history, policy document, and manifesto.

Chicago is famously a city of neighborhoods--77 of them, formally, more than 200 in subjective, ever-changing fact. The latest in Belt's series of idiosyncratic city guides (after Cleveland and Detroit), aims to explore community history and identity in a global city through essays, poems, photo essays, and art articulating the lived experience of its residents.ents.

In the years after World War II, a movement began to bring the middle class back from the Chicago suburbs to the Lincoln Park neighborhood on the city's North Side. In place of the old, poorly maintained apartments and dense streetscapes of taverns and butchers, "rehabbers" imagined a new kind of neighborhood-a renovated, modern community that held on to the convenience, diversity, and character of a historic urban quarter, but also enjoyed th...

A young bear-The Fool-is cast off from its mother in the spring to wander a fragmented suburban forest, to be harried by dogs and traffic, chased through golf courses and farms. An ocean-going trout climbs industrial, sewage-tainted rivers in the Midwest. The river is both sick and healthy, the trout, understood here as The Magician, is both wild and made. What does the Tarot have to tell us about the flora and fauna of the industrial Midwest?...

Democratizing Cleveland: The Rise and Fall of Community Organizing in Cleveland, Ohio, 1975-1985 is the result of almost fifteen years of research on a topic that has been missing from local works on Cleveland history: the community organizing movement that put neighborhood concerns and neighborhood voices front and center in the setting of public policies in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Originally published in 2007 by Arambala Press, this ...

Detroiters need to get to know their neighbors better. Wait - maybe that should be, Detroiters should get to know their neighborhoods better. It seems like everybody thinks they know the neighborhoods here, but because there are so many, the definitions become too broad, the characteristics become muddled, the stories become lost. Edited by Aaron Foley, The Detroit Neighborhood Guidebook contains essays by Zoe Villegas, Drew Philip, Hakeem Wea...