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Nancy Mirabal, “Suspect Freedoms: The Racial and Sexual Politics of Cubanidad in New York, 1823-1957” (NYU Press, 2017)

Nancy Mirabal
Suspect Freedoms
The Racial and Sexual Politics of Cubanidad in New York, 1823-1957
New York University Press, 2017

New Books in African American Studies New Books in American Studies New Books in Gender Studies New Books in History New Books in Latino Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network June 27, 2019 Jonathan Cortez

In Suspect Freedoms: The Racial and Sexual Politics of Cubanidad in New York, 1823-1957 (NYU Press, 2017), Nancy Mirabal details New York Cuban diasporic history between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with keen attention to how political debates about the potential future, visibility, and belonging in Cuba played out along... Read More

Kimberly Alexander, “Treasures Afoot: Shoe Stories from the Georgian Era” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2018)

Kimberly Alexander
Treasures Afoot
Shoe Stories from the Georgian Era
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018

New Books in American Studies New Books in Art New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in British Studies New Books in Gender Studies New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network June 26, 2019 Al Zambone

“Fashion is universal,” writes my guest Kimberly Alexander in her book Treasures Afoot: Shoe Stories from the Georgian Era (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018), “enabling historians across time, place, and culture to form an understanding of the people who made clothes and who wore them. But shoes are different. As... Read More

Candace L. Bailey, “Charleston Belles Abroad: The Music Collections of Harriet Lowndes, Henrietta Aiken, and Louisa Rebecca McCord” (U South Carolina Press, 2019)

Candace L. Bailey
Charleston Belles Abroad
The Music Collections of Harriet Lowndes, Henrietta Aiken, and Louisa Rebecca McCord
University of South Carolina Press, 2019

New Books in American Studies New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Gender Studies New Books in History New Books in Music New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network June 26, 2019 Kristen M. Turner

Microhistories are an important method of investigating an historical moment with a fine-grain focus that can puncture holes in the generalizations that historians sometimes make. In her new book, Charleston Belles Abroad: The Music Collections of Harriet Lowndes, Henrietta Aiken, and Louis Rebecca McCord (University of South Carolina Press, 2019),... Read More

Amanda Littauer, “Bad Girls: Young Women, Sex, and Rebellion before the Sixties” (UNC Press, 2015)

Amanda Littauer
Bad Girls
Young Women, Sex, and Rebellion before the Sixties
University of North Carolina Press, 2015

New Books in American Studies New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Gender Studies New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Popular Culture New Books in Sociology New Books Network June 26, 2019 Stephen Colbrook

In her innovative and revealing study of midcentury American sex and culture, Bad Girls: Young Women, Sex, and Rebellion before the Sixties (University of North Carolina Press, 2015), Amanda Littauer traces the origins of the “sexual revolution” of the 1960s. She argues that sexual liberation was much more than a... Read More

Brenda Elsey and Joshua Nadel, “Futbolera: A History of Women and Sports in Latin America” (U Texas Press, 2019)

Brenda Elsey and Joshua Nadel
Futbolera
A History of Women and Sports in Latin America
University of Texas Press, 2019

New Books in Education New Books in Gender Studies New Books in History New Books in Latin American Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Sports New Books Network June 25, 2019 Jesse Zarley

Brenda Elsey and Joshua Nadel’s new book, Futbolera: A History of Women and Sports in Latin America (University of Texas Press, 2019), uncovers the hidden history of the arrival of physical education for girls in the late-nineteenth century, it’s expansion beyond schools, and the subterranean struggles of girls and women... Read More

Amos Mac and Rocco Kayiatos
Original Plumbing
The Best of Ten Years of Trans Male Culture
Amethyst Editions, 2019

New Books in American Studies New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Communications New Books in Gender Studies New Books in Literary Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Popular Culture New Books Network June 25, 2019 Kyle McMillen

When Amos Mac and Rocco Kayiatos first launched Original Plumbing in 2009, they created a magazine the world desperately needed: a creative and celebratory biannual publication about trans men, by trans men. For ten years, OP was an inspired response to the lack of meaningful representation of trans lives and... Read More

Reema Zaman
I Am Yours
A Shared Memoir
Amberjack, 2019

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Biography New Books in Gender Studies New Books in Literature New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network June 21, 2019 Zoë Bossiere

Since its inception in 2017, the viral #MeToo movement has called more cultural attention to abusive behavior, creating a much-needed public space for women to speak up about the violence they have endured at the hands of abusers, and for women to speak more openly about their own ambitions, dreams,... Read More