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May 28, 2023
The War is Here
Newark 1967
Chris Campion and Bud Lee
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Deidre Tyler
July 1967. After the arrest, beating, and imprisonment of cab driver John Smith by local police, the city of Newark--already a tinderbox, became a hotbed of protest and retaliation. Over …
Media
May 28, 2023
Say the Right Thing
How to Talk About Identity, Diversity, and Justice
Kenji Yoshino and David Glasgow
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Deidre Tyler
In the current period of social and political unrest, conversations about identity are becoming more frequent and more difficult. On subjects like critical race theory, gender equity in the workplace …
Literary Studies
May 25, 2023
Fighting Over There
U.S. War Making and Contemporary Refugee Literature
Alaina Kaus
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Deidre Tyler
U.S. foreign policy has long been built on a dichotomy of an irreplaceable "here" and an expendable "there." In his 2003 announcement of the military campaign in Iraq, George W …
Policing, Incarceration, and Reform
May 15, 2023
The Prescription-To-Prison Pipeline
The Medicalization and Criminalization of Pain
Michelle Smirnova
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Deidre Tyler
In The Prescription-To-Prison Pipeline: The Medicalization and Criminalization of Pain (Duke UP, 2023), Michelle Smirnova argues that the ongoing opioid drug epidemic is the result of an endless cycle in …
South Asian Studies
May 8, 2023
The Violent Domestic Law
Its Practice and Strategies of Survival
Supurna Banerjee, Nandini Ghosh, Madhurima Mukhopadhyay, and Ruchira Goswami
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Deidre Tyler
In 2005, after considerable campaigning by women’s groups, the Indian government brought in an important new law, the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act (PWDVA). A civil law, the …
African American Studies
May 5, 2023
The Wounded World
W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War
Chad Williams
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Deidre Tyler
When W. E. B. Du Bois, believing in the possibility of full citizenship and democratic change, encouraged African Americans to "close ranks" and support the Allied cause in World War …
American South
April 29, 2023
The Southern Way of Life
Meanings of Culture and Civilization in the American South
Charles Reagan Wilson
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Deidre Tyler
How does one begin to understand the idea of a distinctive southern way of life--a concept as enduring as it is disputed? In this examination of the American South in …
African American Studies
April 28, 2023
To Tell a Black Story of Miami
Tatiana D. McInnis
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Deidre Tyler
In To Tell a Black Story of Miami (UP of Florida, 2022), Tatiana McInnis examines literary and cultural representations of Miami alongside the city's material realities to challenge the image …
Gender Studies
April 21, 2023
Panes of the Glass Ceiling
The Unspoken Beliefs Behind the Law's Failure to Help Women Achieve Professional Parity
Kerri Lynn Stone
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Deidre Tyler
More than fifty years of civil rights legislation and movements have not ended employment discrimination. Kerri Lynn Stone's Panes of the Glass Ceiling: The Unspoken Beliefs Behind the Law's Failure …
Public Policy
April 16, 2023
Inequality Across State Lines
How Policymakers Have Failed Domestic Violence Victims in the United States
Kaitlin Sidorsky and Wendy J. Schiller
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Deidre Tyler
In the United States, one in four women will be victims of domestic violence each year. Despite the passage of federal legislation on violence against women beginning in 1994, differences …
Chinese Studies
April 2, 2023
Seeking Western Men
Email-Order Brides Under China's Global Rise
Monica Liu
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Deidre Tyler
Commercial dating agencies that facilitate marriages across national borders comprise a $2.5 billion global industry. Ideas about the industry are rife with stereotypes-younger, more physically attractive brides from non-Western countries …
Medicine
March 25, 2023
Photos from the Front Lines
A Year on the Streets of Alameda County
Derek Hanley
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Deidre Tyler
Photos from the Front Lines follows medics from Falck Alameda County ambulance during one of the most tumultuous years in recent collective memory - 2020. From a global pandemic to demonstrations …
Policing, Incarceration, and Reform
March 21, 2023
Injustice, Inc.
How America's Justice System Commodifies Children and the Poor
Daniel L. Hatcher
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Deidre Tyler
Injustice, Inc.: How America's Justice System Commodifies Children and the Poor (U California Press, 2023) exposes the ways in which justice systems exploit America's history of racial and economic inequality to …
Literature
March 18, 2023
Traces
Patricia L. Hudson
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Deidre Tyler
An early American adage proclaimed, "The frontier was heaven for men and dogs―hell for women and mules." Since the 1700s, when his name first appeared in print, Daniel Boone has …
African American Studies
March 11, 2023
"My Faith in the Constitution Is Whole"
Barbara Jordan and the Politics of Scriptures
Robin L. Owens
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Deidre Tyler
US Congresswoman Barbara Jordan is well-known as an interpreter and defender of the Constitution, particularly through her landmark speech during Richard Nixon's 1974 impeachment hearings. However, before she developed faith …
Sociology
March 1, 2023
The Dating Divide
Race and Desire in the Era of Online Romance
Celeste Vaughan Curington, Jennifer Hickes Lundquist, and Ken-Hou Lin
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Deidre Tyler
The Dating Divide: Race and Desire in the Era of Online Romance (U California Press, 2021) is the first comprehensive look at "digital-sexual racism," a distinct form of racism that …
African American Studies
February 26, 2023
My Work Among the Freedmen
The Civil War and Reconstruction Letters of Harriet M. Buss
Jonathan W. White and Lydia J. Davis, editors
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Deidre Tyler
Between 1863 and 1871, Harriet M. Buss of Sterling, Massachusetts, taught former slaves in three different regions of the South, in coastal South Carolina, Norfolk, Virginia, and Raleigh, North Carolina …
Biography
February 24, 2023
Colin Powell
Imperfect Patriot
Jeffrey J. Matthews
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Until he passed away in 2021, Colin Powell was revered as one of America's most trusted and admired leaders. Jeffrey J. Matthews' Colin Powell: Imperfect Patriot (U Notre Dame Press …
African American Studies
February 24, 2023
Black Lives in Alaska
A History of African Americans in the Far Northwest
Ian C. Hartman and David Reamer
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Deidre Tyler
The history of Black Alaskans runs deep and spans generations. Decades before statehood and earlier even than the Klondike gold rush of the 1890s, Black men and women participated in …
African American Studies
February 12, 2023
Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation
Another Way of Knowing
Lesly Deschler Canossi and Zoraida Lopez-Diago
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Deidre Tyler
Lesly Deschler Canossi and Zoraida Lopez-Diago's edited volume Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation: Another Way of Knowing (Leuven UP, 2022) questions how the Black female body, specifically the Black maternal body …
South Asian Studies
February 11, 2023
South vs. North
India's Great Divide
Nilakantan RS
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Deidre Tyler
Compare two children – one born in north India, the other in the south. The child from south India is far less likely to die in the first year of …
Literature
February 2, 2023
White Flag
Judy L. Mandel
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Cheryl said many times that "I'm done with that life, I'll never go back to it." But she did. When her Aunt Judy finds her in jail after two years …
Policing, Incarceration, and Reform
January 18, 2023
The Healing Stage
Black Women, Incarceration, and the Art of Transformation
Lisa Biggs
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Deidre Tyler
Over the last five decades, Black women have been one of the fastest-growing segments of the global prison population, thanks to changes in policies that mandate incarceration for nonviolent offenses …
Biography
December 18, 2022
Bertha Maxwell-Roddey
A Modern-Day Race Woman and the Power of Black Leadership
Sonya Y. Ramsey
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Deidre Tyler
Bertha Maxwell-Roddey: A Modern-Day Race Woman and the Power of Black Leadership (UP of Florida, 2022) examines a life of remarkable achievements and leadership in the desegregated South. Sonya Ramsey …
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