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An important addition to extant scholarship on the border U.S Southwest, Forging Arizona recovers a forgotten case that reminds readers that the borders that divide nations, identities, and even true from false are only as stable as the narratives that define them.

Examines how we imagine humanness and survival in the aftermath of disaster. The book frames modern British and American apocalypse films as sites of interpretive struggle, and asks what is ending? Whose dreams of starting over take centre stage? And how do these films make room to dream of new beginnings that don't just reboot the world we know?

Examines how we imagine humanness and survival in the aftermath of disaster. The book frames modern British and American apocalypse films as sites of interpretive struggle, and asks what is ending? Whose dreams of starting over take centre stage? And how do these films make room to dream of new beginnings that don't just reboot the world we know?

During its heyday in the early 1950s, EC Comics was an innovator in the so-called "preachies", socially conscious stories that challenged the conservatism of Eisenhower-era America. EC Comics examines a selection of these works and explores how they grappled with the civil rights struggle, antisemitism, and other forms of prejudice.

Investigates the period from the 1890s until the 1930s, when prostitution was legal in Argentina. At the same time, pogroms and anti-Semitic discrimination left thousands of Eastern European Jewish people displaced. For many Jewish women, participation in prostitution was one few ways they could escape the limited options in their home countries.

Gives readers the big picture of how trans people have been depicted on screen. The book examines a plethora of trans portrayals that emerged from varied media outlets, including documentary films, television serials, and world cinema. Along the way, it analyzes milestones in trans representation.

The relationship between undocumented immigrants and law enforcement officials continues to be a politically contentious topic in the US. Nolan Kline focuses on the hidden, health-related impacts of immigrant policing to examine the role of policy in shaping health inequality in the US, and responds to fundamental questions regarding biopolitics.

Examines how recommendations for products, media, news, romantic partners, and even cosmetic surgery operations are produced and experienced online. Focusing on the period from the mid-1990s to approximately 2010, Jonathan Cohn argues that automated recommendations and algorithms are far from natural, neutral, or benevolent.

Explores the ways in which Caribbean individuals and communities have recurred to art and visual creativity to create and sustain public spaces of discussion and social interaction. The book analyzes contemporary Caribbean art in relation to broader discussions of citizenship, cultural agency, critical geography, migration, and social justice.

In Forging Arizona Anita Huizar-Hernández looks back at a bizarre nineteenth-century land grant scheme that tests the limits of how ideas about race, citizenship, and national expansion are forged.  An important addition to extant scholarship on the U.S. Southwest,  this book recovers a forgotten case that reminds readers that the borders that divide  are only as stable as the narratives that define them.

Though colleges and universities are arguably paying more attention to diversity and inclusion than ever before, to what extent do their efforts result in more socially just campuses? This book examines how race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, sexual orientation, age, disability, nationality, and other identities connect to produce intersected campus experiences.

Sir William Dugdale's three great works, 'The Antiquities of Warwickshire'(1656), the 'Monasticum Anglicanum'(1655-73), and 'The History of St. Paul's in London'(1658), were lavishly illustrated. This inguiry, which contains sixty-five black-and-white reproductions, focusses on the illustrations. It discusses the high value Dugdale came to place on them, thier sources and production, and particularly their meaning in relation to the text.

This book proposes that allegory is not a species of literature but a structure of reading applied to uncomfortable juxtapositions within literary texts. Examples from centuries of response to English Renaissance narrative poetry show not what poems mean but how they may be read and what cultural conditions encourage allegorical or nonallegorical readings. The study also encompasses interpretations of classical verse, biblical parable, Jacobea...

Investigates the storied history of mothering advice in the media, from the newspapers, magazines, doctors' records and personal papers of the nineteenth-century to today's websites, Facebook groups and Instagram feeds. Bethany Johnson and Margaret Quinlan find surprising parallels between today's experts and their Victorian counterparts.

Estye Fenton studies parents in the United States who adopted internationally in the past decade. She investigates the experiences of a cohort of adoptive mothers who were forced to negotiate their desire to be parents in the context of a growing societal awareness of international adoption as a flawed reproductive marketplace.

Examines the tradition of the private eye as it evolves in films, books, and television shows set in Los Angeles from the 1930s to the present. The book takes a closer look at narratives in which detectives travel the streets of LA, uncovering corruption, moral ambiguity, and greed, while always ultimately finding truth and redemption.

Investigates the storied history of mothering advice in the media, from the newspapers, magazines, doctors' records and personal papers of the nineteenth-century to today's websites, Facebook groups and Instagram feeds. Bethany Johnson and Margaret Quinlan find surprising parallels between today's experts and their Victorian counterparts.

Accounts of Jewish immigrants usually describe the role of education in helping youngsters earn a higher social position than their parents. Melissa F. Weiner argues that New York City schools did not serve as pathways to mobility for Jewish or African American students. Instead, at different points in the city's history, politicians and administrators erected similar racial barriers to social advancement by marginalizing and denying resources...

By examining news and documentary media produced since September 11, 2001, Vavrus demonstrates that news narratives that include women use feminism selectively in gender equality narratives. She ultimately asserts that such reporting advances post-feminism, which, in tandem with banal militarism, subtly pushes military solutions for an array of problems women and girls face.

In The Power of Dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians, scholar and activist Nava Sonnenschein shares a collection of twenty-five powerful interviews she conducted with Palestinian and Jewish Israeli alumni of peacebuilding courses, showing the potential for a sustainable path to peace with equality in Israel and Palestine.