Celeste Holm Syndrome is a series of essays about character actors, both the famous and lesser known, from Hollywood’s Golden Age.
Clues to Lower Mississippi Valley Histories offers a stunning relational analysis of social, cultural, and linguistic change in the Lower Mississippi Valley from 500 to 1700 CE.
A narrative history of the California Golden Seals, one of the worst but most noteworthy teams in pro hockey history.
Questions the long-accepted notion that translation reproduces or transfers an invariant contained in or caused by the source text. Contra Instrumentalism... Læs mere
Ama Ata Aidoo is one of the best-known African writers today. Spanning three decades of work, the poems in this collection address themes of colonialism, independence, motherhood, and gender in intimate, personal ways alongside commentary on broader social issues.
Based on interviews with the greats and journeymen of baseball’s Negro Leagues, this narrative reveals a glorious chapter in sports history and African American history.
While “intersectionality” tends to circulate merely as a buzzword, Anna Carastathis joins other critical voices in urging a more careful reading.... Læs mere
Offers an anthology of Los Angeles's most significant English-language and Spanish-language non-fiction writing from the... Læs mere
Presents a creative and innovative history that blends extensive archival research, vignettes of family stories, and... Læs mere
Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, Ethiopian American Mahtem Shiferraw’s Fuchsia examines conceptions of the displaced, disassembled, and nomadic self. Embedded in her... Læs mere