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The Virtues of Exit: On Resistance and Quitting Politics
On Resistance and Quitting Politics
Jennet Kirkpatrick

Successful democracies rely on an active citizenry. They require citizens to participate by voting, serving on juries, and running for office. But ...



Cover of Poe and the Idea of Music by Charity McAdams
Failure, Transcendence, and Dark Romanticism
Charity McAdams

Edgar Allan Poe often set the scenes of his stories and poems with music: Angels have the heartstrings of lutes, spirits dance and women speak ...



White book cover with black swirls and text: Colluding, Colliding, and Contending with Norms of Whiteness by Jennifer L. S. Chandler
Jennifer L. S. Chandler

Analyzing experiences of white mothers of daughters and sons of color across the United States, Chandler provides an insider’s view of the complex ...



Reflections on American Indian Oral Traditions
Donald L. Fixico

As a child growing up in rural Oklahoma, Donald Fixico often heard “hvmakimata” — “that’s what they used to say” — a phrase Mvskoke Creeks ...



A Different Kind of Animal: How Culture Transformed Our Species
How Culture Transformed Our Species
Robert Boyd

How our ability to learn from each other has been the essential ingredient to our remarkable success as a species. Human beings are a very ...



Cover of The People Shall Continue by Simon Ortiz
Illustrated by: Sharol Graves
40th Anniversary Special Edition
Simon J. Ortiz

Told in the rhythms of traditional oral narrative, this powerful telling of the history of the Native/indigenous peoples of North America recounts ...



Cover of Reassurance in Negative Space by Elizabyth A. Hiscox
Poems
Elizabyth A. Hiscox

Winner of
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Cover of Think of Lampedusa translated by Todd Fredson
Josué Guébo
Translated by Todd Fredson

A collection of serial poems, "Think of Lampedusa" addresses the 2013 shipwreck that killed 366 Africans attempting to migrate secretly to ...

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