Known as Black Rome, Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, is a predominantly Black city. The local art, food, and dance are closely linked to the population’s... Læs mere
A collection of essays that provides advice and strategies for BIPOC scholars on how to survive, thrive, and resist in academic institutions.
An immersive study of the influential and predominantly Chicanx punk rock scene in El Paso, Texas.
In this highly entertaining and knowledgeable book, film historian and pop culture expert Douglas Brode picks... Læs mere
A new translation of El Llano en llamas, an iconic collection of short stories that changed the course of Mexican and Latin American literature.
The third book in a time-traveling fantasy adventure trilogy centered on a young orphaned Palestinian girl who must go back in time to save the world. In the final book of the... Læs mere
The award-winning historian Mary P. Ryan offers a new vision of early American history that focuses on the contributions of cities and of West Coast Hispanic culture to the forging of an American system of democracy and capitalism.
In You’re with Stupid, Adams offers an insider’s look at the role Chicago’s underground music industry played in the transformation of indie rock. Chicago labels, as Adams explains, used the attention brought by national acts to launch bands that drew on alternative sound
Sandra Cisneros (b. 1954), author and recipient of the National Medal of the Arts, a MacArthur “Genius Grant” and more, was the first Chicana to be majorly published. ¡Ay Tú! is the first book to offer a comprehensive, critical examination of her life and work.
Set in the early twentieth century and a bestseller in Turkey in 1910, this novel follows Fahir, a reformist who graduates from Oxford University. Fahir returns to Istanbul after a... Læs mere
This book uses taste as a thematic and analytic thread to examine the ways that women, race, and the kitchen were foundational to Peruvian... Læs mere
Sinéad O’Connor’s video for “Nothing Compares 2 U” turned her into a superstar, her appearance on Saturday Night Live turned her into a scandal. McCabe believes it’s time to reassess our view on Sinéad O’Connor and how we as a society celebrate female struggle.