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"Beer Places is both a road map for craft beer and an academic analysis of craft beer's ties to place. Collected into sections that address authenticity and revitalization, politics and economics, and collectivity and collaboration, this volume blends new research with a series of "postcards": informal conversations and first-person dispatches from the field that transport readers to the spots where pints are shared and networks forged"-- Provided by publisher

• Introduction
• Early Liberian Poetry, 1800-
• Land of the Mighty Dead
• Hymn / Hilary Teage
• "All Hail, Liberia Hail," Liberian National Anthem
• Wishing to Be "21" / Daniel Bashiel Warner
• Heavenly Rest Implored
• Rise, Take Up Thy Bed and Walk
• Song of the First Emigrants to Cape Palmas / Robert H. Gibson
• St Paul's River Liberia / Anonymous
• The Emigrant's Hymn / Pierre
• The Lone Star: A National Song
• To Pauline-a Flirt
• To Lygia
• To Jealous Lygia
• Human Greatness
• Afric's Lament
• The Race-Soul
• The Ocean's Roar
• Dawn
• Song of the Harmattan
• The Past / Edwin James Barclay
• Part 2. Liberian Poetry, 1960-
• O Maryland! Dear Maryland!
• Land of the Beautiful
• Cavalla Grand
• Ode to Cape Mount
• Divine Guidance / Rev. Father James David Kwee Baker
• Is This Africa
• Africa's Plea
• The Lone Star Shines
• When You Die-a Philosophy of Life
• The Poet's Ear
• Take the World Away, but Give Me Freedom
• Go On and Do, Let the People Talk
• To Man
• The Pepper Bird Is Singing
• Liberia in Verse and Song / Roland Tombekai Dempster
• A Sonnet-the Poet's Soul
• Ask Me Why
• No Longer Yesterday
• Because You Told Me
• When You Sigh
• At Sunset
• Echoes of a Longing Heart
• The Tom-Toms Beat No More / H. Carey Thomas
• Ebony Dust
• Monrovia Market Women
• Africa in Retrospect
• The Legend of Shad Tubman
• A Wingless Bird
• My Africa
• The Bulldozer
• The Hallelujah Stuff
• Yana Boys
• The Strength of a Nation
• Ko Bomi hee m koa
• Ba nya m go koma / Bai T. Moore
• Dear Patrice Lumumba
• Our Man on Broad Street
• Unnamed Thing
• Their Words-Deception
• To Time Our Enemy
• The Old Stream / Kona Khasu (James Roberts)
• Part 3. Contemporary Liberian Poetry, 1990-Present
• Who's on Watch?
• Visiting Khufu
• Oya (Wind in Cape Town)
• A Different Kind of Pied Piper 2020
• The Cat-Gods Have Fallen / Althea Romeo-Mark
• Praise Song for My Children
• November 12, 2015
• What Took Us to War
• When Monrovia Rises
• I Want to Be the Woman
• Biography When the Wanderers Come Home
• We Departed Our Homelands and We Came
• An Elegy for the St. Peter's Church Massacre
• They Want to Rise Up
• Pittsburgh
• Monrovia Women
• I'm Waiting / Patricia Jabbeh Wesley
• Part 4. Emerging and Aspiring Liberian Poets
• Harper Nedee?
• Oche Dike Ala (Grandma Has Gone) / Barth Akpah
• A Woman
• If
• My Mother's Tale / Jee-Won Mawein Esika Arkoi
• While Tomorrow Waits
• Divided We Stand / Watchen Johnson Babalola
• New Kru Town, Where I Come From
• Darkness, the Surname of a Poor Lover
• How to Write a Dirge for Liberia / Edwin Olu Bestman
• Memories of Home
• Curing My Mother's Wound
• Genealogy of the Fourteen Pieces of Liberia
• Maybe I'll Go Home / Edward K. Boateng
• He Stole a Piece of Me / Tetee Alexandra Bonar
• Identity / Chorlyn E. Chor
• You Are Mine
• Words in Portrait / Sunny Eddie Crawford
• Deepu: A Definition of Divinity
• Origins of the Poet Next Door
• This Is Poetry / Arthur Shedrick Davies
• Free Me / Maureen Jennifer Davies
• Our Mother Is Gold
• When a Rolling Stone Leaves Pebbles Behind
• For Daughters Who May Never Be Mothers
• For Women Who Are Water in Fields of Rice
• From Coal Pots to Gas Stoves
• I Wasn't Ready to Open My Eyes / Essah Cozett Diaz
• The Brown Beauty
• Who Is a Leader? / Mawata Dukuly
• The Oppressed
• I Am Nothing (Neutrality) / James Varney Dwalu
• Where Were You? / Cynthia Senu Gailor
• Quarantine in Hope / Daniel W. Garteh Jr.
• Africa / Cherbo Geeplay
• The Diary of an Orphan
• Pain as Metaphor
• West Point, Liberia / Aloysius S. Harmon
• Nah Fooh, Nah Fooh
• Grey Stone Blues
• Mother and Daughter / Ruby M. Harmon
• We Need to Pass It On / Quita Harvey
• One World, One People / Laurel Iloani
• The Ebola Ride
• An Afro-Madrilen̳a Love Note / Patrice Juah
• Ebony Perfection / McChen A. D. Kanneo
• The Making of Grief
• Elegy for a Friend / Jeremy Teddy Karn
• My First Winter / Evelyn Kehleay-Miller
• I Live Where Billboards Are Broken
• Home / Kerry Adamah Kennedy
• Water Birds
• My Grieving Mother
• Memorabilia / Janetta Konah
• The Life of a Poet
• My Father's Last Prayer / Nvesakie Konneh
• Rock Your Jaws
• You Post Stockade / Lekpele M. Nyamalon
• Say Nothing / Jackie Sayegh
• Sing to Me, Ade: On Reading "Praise Song for My Children" / Eunice Sua Seyaker
• Ashes of My Heart / Lamelle Shaw
• Nomad Child
• The First Heartbeat / Mohamed Sheriff
• Tragedies / Joshua T. G. Smith
• Let's Be Cool / Prince U. D. Tardeh
• Red Light / Augustine F. Taylor Jr.
• Earth's a Battlefield
• On Searching for Peace from Within
• The Women of Monrovia Are Citizens of Heaven
• Rebirth / Ayouba Toure
• The Home in Ruin / Kulah K. Washington
• Peace
• If We Could Love Again / Vermon Washington
• Monrovia Vagrants
• Sit Down
• Monrovia Flood / Othello Weh
• The Secrets of September / Korto Williams
• As If I Never Left / Masnoh Wilson

"Breaking the Silence is the first comprehensive collection of literature from Liberia since before the nation's independence"-- Provided by publisher

"The Daughter of Man, finalist for the 2023 Miller Williams Poetry Prize, follows its unorthodox heroine as she transforms from maiden to warrior-then to queen, maven, and crone-against the backdrop of suburban America. This collection confronts misogyny and violence, even as it bursts with nostalgia, lust, and poignant humor"-- Provided by publisher

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• List of Tables
• Preface: Beyond Uhura, "Beyond Vietnam"
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Dramatis Personae
• Introduction: Reading Racial Capitalism from DS9
• 1. The Radical Sisko
• 2. Cardassian Settler Colonialism and the Bajoran Struggle for Decolonization
• 3. Jem'Hadar Marronage and the Dominion "Order of Things"
• 4. Defetishizing the Ferengi
• 5. O'Brien Family Values
• 6. Empire's Queer Inheritances
• Conclusion: "This Darker Thing"
• Notes
• References
• Index

"A different kind of Star Trek television series debuted in 1993. Deep Space Nine was set not on a starship but a space station near a postcolonial planet still reeling from a genocidal occupation. The crew was led by a reluctant Black American commander and an extraterrestrial first officer who had until recently been an anticolonial revolutionary. DS9 extended Star Trek's tradition of critical social commentary but did so by transgressing many of Star Trek's previous taboos, including religion, money, eugenics, and interpersonal conflict. DS9 imagined a twenty-fourth century that was less a glitzy utopia than a critical mirror of contemporary U.S. racism, capitalism, imperialism, and heteropatriarchy. Thirty years after its premiere, DS9 is beloved by critics and fans but remains marginalized in scholarly studies of science fiction. Drawing on cultural geography, Black studies, and feminist and queer studies, A Different "Trek" is the first scholarly monograph dedicated to a critical interpretation of DS9's allegorical world-building. If DS9 has been vindicated aesthetically, this book argues that its prophetic, place-based critiques of 1990s U.S. politics, which deepened the foundations of many of our current crises, have been vindicated politically, to a degree most scholars and even many fans have yet to fully appreciate"-- Provided by publisher

"Driving through a blinding dust storm in the rural Plains, Dog on Fire's narrator sees her brother standing on the side of the road holding a shovel. She knows she should stop. The dust swirling around her prevents her from seeing more than a few feet in front of her, but even if she does stop for her brother, he will not be there. He is already dead. In Dog on Fire, the people in a small farm town try to come to terms with family turmoil, past loves, and a mysterious death. Did the ditch digger die of a poisoned jello dart? Did Aphra, a local who was obsessed with the narrator's now dead brother, smother him literally with unwanted affection? Does his ghost inhabit the doorframe of the grain operation his sister runs? The narrator discovers far more than she wants to when her son, her brother's lookalike, is pursued by Aphra for a kiss. In this powerful novel of manners, good and bad, Terese Svoboda creates a fairytale, but too few are enchanted."-- Provided by publisher

• The Great War in imperial context
• "Who is Christopher of whisky fame?"
• Men on the margins
• Other fronts, other wars?
• Why war?
• The imperial enemy?

"Empire Between the Lines analyzes stories, poetry, plays, and cartoons in Entente trench newspapers to demonstrate that British and French soldiers experienced and envisioned empires through the war and the war through empire"-- Provided by publisher
"Although the Great War was sparked and fueled by nationalism, it was ultimately a struggle between empires. The shots fired in Sarajevo mobilized citizens and subjects across far-flung continents that were connected by European empires. This imperial experience of the Great War influenced European soldiers' ideas about the conflict, leading them to reimagine empires and their places with them and eventually reshaping imperial cultures. In Empire between the Lines Elizabeth Stice analyzes stories, poetry, plays, and cartoons in British and French trench newspapers to demonstrate how British and French soldiers experienced and envisioned empires through the war and the war through empire. By establishing the imperial context for European soldiers and exploring representations of colonial troops, depictions of non-European campaigns, and descriptions of the German enemy, Stice argues that while certain narratives from prewar imperial culture persisted, the experience of the war also created new, competing narratives about empire and colonized peoples. Empire between the Lines is the first study of its kind to consult British and French newspapers together, offering an innovative lens for viewing the public discourse of the trenches. By interrogating the relationship between British and French soldiers and empire during the war, Stice increases our understanding of the worldview of ordinary men in extraordinary times"-- Provided by publisher

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• 1. Fictionality and Multimodal Narratives / Torsa Ghosal and Alison Gibbons
• PART I: CONSTRUCTING PLACES AND WORLDS
• 2. There's No Place Like Time & Maze Reading / Lance Olsen
• 3. Multimodal Fantasies of Getting Lost: Reading Contemporary Literary Maps in Print and on Screens / Alexander Starre
• 4. Possible Worlds Theory and the Fictionality of Images in Counterfactual Narratives / Riyukta Raghunath
• 5. Fictionality and Multimodal Anthropocene Fiction / Alison Gibbons
• PART II: CROSSING BORDERS AND CREATIVE BOUNDARIES
• 6. The New-Materialism Novel: 22 Bricks in Its Theory & Construction / Steve Tomasula
• 7. Multimodality and meaning-making across lines, columns and genres in Brigid Brophy's In Transit: An Heroi-Cyclic Novel / Andrea Macrae
• 8. Fictionality and the multimodal positioning of the reader in Christian Jungersen's You Disappear / Nina Nørgaard
• 9. Do-It-Yourself Multimodality: Fictionality and the (Ab)uses of the Book Medium in Keri Smith's Wreck This Journal / Mikko Keskinen
• PART III: WRITING, SHOWING, AND READING FROM LIFE
• 10. The Line and I: Breaks and Genres / Sumana Roy
• 11. Building Familiarity in Mark Z. Danielewski's The Familiar: Multimodal
• Storytelling, Seriality and Social Reading / Sara Tanderup Linkis
• 12. Fictionality in Theory Fiction and Autotheory / Torsa Ghosal
• 13. Multimodal Autobiographies / Wolfgang Hallet
• 14. Postscript / Marie-Laure Ryan
• Contributors
• Notes
• Index.

"Fictionality and Multimodal Narratives interrogates the relationship of fictionality and the multimodal use of fact in modern narrative construction"-- Provided by publisher.
"Fictionality and Multimodal Narratives interrogates the multimodal relationship between fictionality and factuality. The contemporary discussion about fictionality coincides with an increase in anxiety regarding the categories of fact and fiction in popular culture and global media. Today's media-saturated historical moment and political climate give a sense of urgency to the concept of fictionality, distinct from fiction, specifically in relation to modes and media of discourse. Torsa Ghosal and Alison Gibbons explicitly interrogate the relationship of fictionality with multimodal strategies of narrative construction in the present media ecology. Contributors consider the ways narrative structures, their reception, and their theoretical frameworks in narratology are influenced and changed by media composition-particularly new media. By accounting for the relationship of multimodal composition with the ontological complexity of narrative worlds, Fictionality and Multimodal Narratives fills a critical gap in contemporary narratology-the discipline that has, to date, contributed most to the conceptualization of fictionality"-- Provided by publisher.

• The Trinity Test
• Dispossessions
• Building the Test Site
• Post-Test Events at the Trinity Site, 1946-67
• The Army, the Air Force, the Navy, the Atomic Energy Commission, and the Trinity Site
• The Trinity Radiation and Its Afterlives
• Historical Preservation of the Trinity Site

"Janet Farrell Brodie explores the Trinity test and those whose contributions have rarely, if ever, been discussed-the men and women who constructed, served, and witnessed the first test, as well as the downwinders who suffered the consequences of the radiation"-- Provided by publisher
"On July 16, 1945, just weeks before the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that brought about the surrender of Japan and the end of World War II, the United States unleashed the world's first atomic bomb at the Trinity testing site located in the remote Tularosa Valley in south-central New Mexico. Immensely more powerful than any weapon the world had seen, the bomb's effects on the surrounding and downwind communities of plants, animals, birds, and humans have lasted decades. In The First Atomic Bomb Janet Farrell Brodie explores the history of the Trinity test and those whose contributions have rarely, if ever, been discussed-the men and women who constructed, served, and witnessed the first test-as well as the downwinders who suffered the consequences of the radiation. Concentrating on these ordinary people, laborers, ranchers, and Indigenous peoples who lived in the region and participated in the testing, Brodie corrects the lack of coverage in existing scholarship on the essential details and everyday experiences of this globally significant event. The First Atomic Bomb also covers the environmental preservation of the Trinity test site and compares it with the wide range of atomic sites now preserved independently or as part of the new Manhattan Project National Historical Park. Although the Trinity site became a significant node for testing the new weapons of the postwar United States, it is known today as an officially designated national historic landmark. Brodie presents a timely, important, and innovative study of an explosion that carries special historical weight in American memory"-- Provided by publisher

• Introduction
• 1. People of the Land of Turquoise and Silver
• 2. La Guerra Tolteca-Chichimeca
• 3. Ending the Toltec-Chichimec War
• 4. Creating a new Tlaxcala, creating Tlaxcala anew
• 5. Indigenous rule and social stratification at San Esteban de la Nueva Tlaxcala
• 6. The Nahuas and New Mexico
• 7. Sorceresses of Santa Fe
• Conclusion

""The Forgotten Diaspora" explores how Native Mexicans involved in the conquest of the Greater Southwest pursued hidden agendas, exhibiting a covert agency that enabled them to reconstruct Indigenous communities and retain key components of their identities though technically allied with and subordinate to Spaniards"-- Provided by publisher
"In The Forgotten Diaspora Travis Jeffres explores how Native Mexicans involved in the conquest of the Greater Southwest pursued hidden agendas, deploying a covert agency that enabled them to reconstruct Indigenous communities and retain key components of their identities even as they were technically allied with and subordinate to Spaniards. Resisting, modifying, and even flatly ignoring Spanish directives, Indigenous Mexicans in diaspora co-created the U.S.-Mexico borderlands and laid enduring claims to the region. Jeffres contends that tens of thousands-perhaps hundreds of thousands-of central Mexican Natives were indispensable to Spanish colonial expansion in the Greater Southwest in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. These vital allies populated frontier settlements, assisted in converting local Indians to Christianity, and provided essential labor in the mining industry that drove frontier expansion and catapulted Spain to global hegemony. However, Nahuatl records reveal that Indigenous migrants were no mere auxiliaries to European colonial causes: they also subverted imperial aims and pursued their own agendas, wresting lands, privileges, and even rights to self-rule from the Spanish crown. Via Nahuatl-language "hidden transcripts" of Native allies' motivations and agendas, The Forgotten Diaspora reimagines this critical yet neglected component of the hemispheric colonial-era scattering of the Americas' Indigenous peoples"-- Provided by publisher

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• Foreword by Tom Udall
• Introduction: The Nature of the West
• Chapter 1: Losing "Eden"
• Chapter 2: The West Transformed
• Chapter 3: Claiming and Taming the Land
• Chapter 4: The Great Barbecue
• Chapter 5: The Pivotal Decade
• Chapter 6: Conservation and Preservation
• Chapter 7: Roll On
• Chapter 8: Booming the West
• Chapter 9: Building Consensus
• Chapter 10: Environmental Backlash and the New West
• Chapter 11: The Last Frontier
• Epilogue: Our Lonely Planet
• Index

"Losing Eden traces the critical role the natural environment has played in the history and development of the American West by illustrating the many ways it both shapes and is shaped by the people who live there"-- Provided by publisher
"Historical narratives often concentrate on wars and politics while omitting the central role and influence of the physical stage on which history is carried out. In Losing Eden award-winning historian Sara Dant debunks the myth of the American West as "Eden" and instead embraces a more realistic and complex understanding of a region that has been inhabited and altered by people for tens of thousands of years. In this lively narrative Dant discusses the key events and topics in the environmental history of the American West, from the Beringia migration, Columbian Exchange, and federal territorial acquisition to post-World War II expansion, resource exploitation, and current climate change issues. Losing Eden is structured around three important themes: balancing economic success and ecological destruction, creating and protecting public lands, and achieving sustainability. This revised and updated edition incorporates the latest science and thinking. It also features a new chapter on climate change in the American West, a larger reflection on the region's multicultural history, updated current events, expanded and diversified suggested readings, along with new maps and illustrations. Cohesive and compelling, Losing Eden recognizes the central role of the natural world in the history of the American West and provides important analysis on the continually evolving relationship between the land and its inhabitants"-- Provided by publisher

• A mobilized region : The American West during wartime
• Westerners: regional societies and regional identities
• "A little more wide open" : social and political movements in the Western states
• Seized by initiative : direct democracy and political culture in the far West
• Armed standoffs : the politics of federal lands in the West
• Region of the imagination : the mythic West and the realistic West after 1940

"John M. Findlay presents a historical overview of the American West between 1940 and 2000, arguing that during the years of U.S. mobilization for World War II and the Cold War, the West remained a significant and distinctive region within the nation even as its development accelerated rapidly and, in many ways, it became better integrated into the rest of the nation"-- Provided by publisher
"In the years between 1940 and 2000, the American Far West went from being a relative backwater of the United States to a considerably more developed, modern, and prosperous region-one capable of influencing not just the nation but the world. By the dawn of the twenty-first century, the population of the West had multiplied more than four times since 1940, and western states had transitioned from rural to urban, becoming the most urbanized section of the country. Massive investment, both private and public, in the western economy had produced regional prosperity, and the tourism industry had undergone massive expansion, altering the ways Americans identified with the West. In The Mobilized American West, 1940-2000, John M. Findlay presents a historical overview of the American West in its decades of modern development. During the years of U.S. mobilization for World War II and the Cold War, the West remained a significant, distinct region even as its development accelerated rapidly and, in many ways, it became better integrated into the rest of the country. By examining events and trends that occurred in the West, Findlay argues that a distinctive, region-wide political culture developed in the western states from a commitment to direct democracy, the role played by the federal government in owning and managing such a large amount of land, and the way different groups of westerners identified with and defined the region. While illustrating western distinctiveness, Findlay also aims to show how, in its sustaining mobilization for war, the region became tethered to the entire nation more than ever before, but on its own terms. Findlay presents an innovative approach to viewing the American West as a region distinctive of the United States, one that occasionally stood ahead of, at odds with, and even in defiance of the nation"-- Provided by publisher

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• Preface
• Introduction
• 1. Plymouth
• 2. Off and Running
• 3. Have Setters, Will Travel
• 4. The Building
• 5. Rhymes with Growth
• 6. Bertrand
• 7. How the West Was Warned
• 8. Firth
• 9. Ogallala
• 10. Waco
• 11. Blair
• 12. Heights and Sounds
• 13. First at Last
• 14. Thanksgiving.

"Nebraska Volleyball is the first book to tell the fifty-year story of how volleyball took hold at the University of Nebraska, going from its early origins to its first national championship and beyond"-- Provided by publisher.
"When Title IX was enacted in 1972, the University of Nebraska volleyball program, like many across the country, received a fraction of the funding and attention given to the school's mighty football program. The players had to organize a run from Lincoln to Omaha to raise money for uniforms. The women were asked to wait their turn to use the weight room. Today the Nebraska women's volleyball team is one of the sport's most decorated programs-with more career wins than any other program and five NCAA National Championships-and draws standing-room-only crowds at home games in the 8,000-seat Devaney Center.Nebraska Volleyball is the first book to recount how volleyball took hold at Nebraska, through Pat Sullivan, the team's first coach; through such early figures as Cathy Noth, a decorated player and later an assistant coach into the 1990s; through Terry Pettit, who coached the team for twenty-three seasons and led it to its first National Championship in 1995; and through John Cook, who took over as head coach in 2000. John Mabry highlights the small Nebraska towns that have sent some of the best players to the program and helped build statewide support for the team. Public television helped too, with its power to broadcast games early on and thus build a following across the state. The success of Nebraska's volleyball program is one of the greatest stories in sports. As Karch Kiraly, head coach for the U.S. National Women's Volleyball Team, said: "If you want to learn about women's college volleyball, your first stop has to be Lincoln, Nebraska.""-- Provided by publisher.

• From the Borderland to the Midwest
• Las Baracas
• Harvesting madness
• Changes to the migrant cycle
• Return to migrant labor camps
• Political activism in Madison
• Organizing the migrant march
• Striking and organizing for recognition
• Targeting the multinationals
• La Voz Mexicana
• Fighting for recognition
• Building support
• Organizing from the picket line
• Intersecting movements
• Chicano and Latino self-determination
• UMOS, migrant advocate
• Direct action and self-determination
• Access to higher education
• Politics and protest
• Community organizing and Latino politics
• UMOS and welfare rights manifestations
• Free Chacon and Puente protests
• Split decision
• Legislative progress on Campus
• Legacy of the farmworkers movement.

"In a genre-defying blend of history and first-person narrative, Jesus Salas examines the history of migrant labor in the United States and the migrant farmworkers' movement of the 1950s-1970s. He begins with his grandparents' relocation in 1906 from Coahuila, Mexico, to the semi-arid but fertile floodplains along Comanche Creek in southcentral Texas. Their community of tens of thousands of Mexican settlers, recruited by land speculators to cultivate, plant, and harvest vegetables, were joined by thousands more fleeing the Mexican Revolution and the chaos that followed. Salas describes the resulting system of borderland apartheid, of segregated schools, poll taxes, and "white primaries," and examines the values of the "mutualists," or mutual aid societies, that sustained the farmworkers and would form the basis for the Wisconsin farmworkers' "social unionism." As the Great Depression dislocated the settlements and forced laborers to seek work elsewhere to survive, whole communities began to migrate to the Texas gulf counties and Panhandle, to the Plains States, and to the Great Lakes region, a generational pattern that began with Salas's grandfathers, continued in the 1940s with his parents, and persisted in the 1950s by Salas and his five brothers, who ultimately relocated to Wautoma, Wisconsin. While Mexican and Tejano workers fueled the growth of Wisconsin's agriculture and food processing industries, they paid a profound personal toll, and Salas provides a firsthand account of the migrant farmworker experience: brutal working conditions; overcrowded and unsanitary labor camps; physical and mental devastation, particularly harmful to women and children. He describes a life of uncertainty, constant fear of injury, his brother's broken bones, the hospitalization of his mother-all of it on reflection feeling like a "harvest of madness." Salas recounts how the gross violation of Wisconsin's social and progressive legislation and administrative code that protected migrant workers-child labor laws, migrant housing codes, minimum-wage law-led him and others in 1966 to form Obreros Unidos (Workers United), a farmworker union based on the tenets of the mutual aid societies in the Texas borderlands. That August, at age twenty-two, Salas led the union's protest march from Wautoma to Madison to draw attention to their cause. The first Wisconsin farmworkers' strike soon followed. Not solely concerned with improving the wages and working conditions of its members, Obreros Unidos offered meeting spaces, published a newspaper, provided free legal services, opened a gasoline cooperative, and later assisted in the establishment of the first migrant health clinic in the area. Salas recalls the greatest challenge of serving and organizing migrant families living in labor camps dispersed across a three-county area; he describes meeting with migrant families after church services and while shopping in downtown Wautoma, organizing rallies, and setting up grape boycott pickets in support of California striking workers. In the late 1960s, Obreros Unidos continued its community development strategies, but the environment changed; with increasing mechanizing on farms and in processing plants, for the first time the majority of OU organizers now lived in an urban industrial setting. In Milwaukee, one of the country's most segregated communities and recently convulsed by 200 consecutive days of open-housing marches, the NAACP Youth Council and the farmworkers' movement intersected in a profound manner. OU and Latino community leaders joined the Youth Council's protest of employment discrimination in summer of 1969; that fall Father Groppi joined OU's picket of Kohl's Foods, and attorney Lloyd Barbee helped organize a grape boycott rally for Latino and African American labor and community leaders. The next year both communities supported protests of Wisconsin's "welfare reform," the dismantling of the safety net for indigent families. Most significantly, OU organizers adopted the Youth Council's direct action strategies in its action for Latino civil rights. Salas demonstrates how the farmworkers' movement and Latino activism of the 1960s led to later action and lobbying efforts on a number of migrant labor and other Latino issues, including the creation of a Hispanic Desk in the Wisconsin governor's executive office, the offering of a Chicano Studies program at UW-Madison, Wisconsin's Bilingual/Bicultural Act and Wisconsin Migrant Labor Law, and the Migrant Tuition Bill"-- Provided by publisher.

"In a genre-defying blend of history and first-person narrative, Jesus Salas examines the history of migrant labor in the United States and the migrant farmworkers' movement of the 1950s-1970s. He begins with his grandparents' relocation in 1906 from Coahuila, Mexico, to the semi-arid but fertile floodplains along Comanche Creek in southcentral Texas. Their community of tens of thousands of Mexican settlers, recruited by land speculators to cultivate, plant, and harvest vegetables, were joined by thousands more fleeing the Mexican Revolution and the chaos that followed. Salas describes the resulting system of borderland apartheid, of segregated schools, poll taxes, and "white primaries," and examines the values of the "mutualistas," or mutual aid societies, that sustained the farmworkers and would form the basis for the Wisconsin farmworkers' "social unionism." As the Great Depression dislocated the settlements and forced laborers to seek work elsewhere to survive, whole communities began to migrate to the Texas gulf counties and Panhandle, to the Plains States, and to the Great Lakes region, a generational pattern that began with Salas's grandfathers, continued in the 1940s with his parents, and persisted in the 1950s by Salas and his five brothers, who ultimately relocated to Wautoma, Wisconsin. While Mexican and Tejano workers fueled the growth of Wisconsin's agriculture and food processing industries, they paid a profound personal toll, and Salas provides a firsthand account of the migrant farmworker experience: brutal working conditions; overcrowded and unsanitary labor camps; physical and mental devastation, particularly harmful to women and children. He describes a life of uncertainty, constant fear of injury, his brother's broken bones, the hospitalization of his mother-all of it on reflection feeling like a "harvest of madness." Salas recounts how the gross violation of Wisconsin's social and progressive legislation and administrative code that protected migrant workers-child labor laws, migrant housing codes, minimum-wage law-led him and others in 1966 to form Obreros Unidos (Workers United), a farmworker union based on the tenets of the mutual aid societies in the Texas borderlands. That August, at age twenty-two, Salas led the union's protest march from Wautoma to Madison to draw attention to their cause. The first Wisconsin farmworkers' strike soon followed. Not solely concerned with improving the wages and working conditions of its members, Obreros Unidos offered meeting spaces, published a newspaper, provided free legal services, opened a gasoline cooperative, and later assisted in the establishment of the first migrant health clinic in the area. Salas recalls the greatest challenge of serving and organizing migrant families living in labor camps dispersed across a three-county area; he describes meeting with migrant families after church services and while shopping in downtown Wautoma, organizing rallies, and setting up grape boycott pickets in support of California striking workers. In the late 1960s, Obreros Unidos continued its community development strategies, but the environment changed; with increasing mechanizing on farms and in processing plants, for the first time the majority of OU organizers now lived in an urban industrial setting. In Milwaukee, one of the country's most segregated communities and recently convulsed by 200 consecutive days of open-housing marches, the NAACP Youth Council and the farmworkers' movement intersected in a profound manner. OU and Latino community leaders joined the Youth Council's protest of employment discrimination in summer of 1969; that fall Father Groppi joined OU's picket of Kohl's Foods, and attorney Lloyd Barbee helped organize a grape boycott rally for Latino and African American labor and community leaders. The next year both communities supported protests of Wisconsin's "welfare reform," the dismantling of the safety net for indigent families. Most significantly, OU organizers adopted the Youth Council's direct action strategies in its action for Latino civil rights. Salas demonstrates how the farmworkers' movement and Latino activism of the 1960s led to later action and lobbying efforts on a number of migrant labor and other Latino issues, including the creation of a Hispanic Desk in the Wisconsin governor's executive office, the offering of a Chicano Studies program at UW-Madison, Wisconsin's Bilingual/Bicultural Act and Wisconsin Migrant Labor Law, and the Migrant Tuition Bill"-- Provided by publisher

"This volume of the Jewish Publication Society's highly acclaimed Bible Commentary series provides the Hebrew text of Psalms 120-150 along with the JPS English translation and a line-by-line commentary"-- Provided by publisher.

• List of Illustrations List of Maps Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Channel Islands of California 2. A Monumental Task 3. Legislative Protection for the Islands and the Sea 4. Resource Management in the Early Years 5. Building the New Park 6. Growth of the Natural Resource Management 7. Managing the Resources on Santa Rosa Island 8. New Owners on Santa Cruz Island 9. Restoring Nature 10. Channel Islands National Park in the New Century Conclusion
• Notes Bibliography Index.
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Off the coast of California, running from Santa Barbara to La Jolla, lies an archipelago of eight islands known as the California Channel Islands. The northern five were designated as Channel Islands National Park in 1980 to protect and restore the rich habitat of the islands and surrounding waters. In the years since, that mission intensified as scientists discovered the extent of damage to the delicate habitats of these small fragments of land and to the surprisingly threatened sea around them. In Restoring Nature Lary M. Dilsaver and Timothy J. Babalis examine how the National Park Service has attempted to reestablish native wildlife and vegetation to the five islands through restorative ecology and public land management. The Channel Islands staff were innovators of the inventory and monitoring program whereby the resource problems were exposed. This program became a blueprint for management throughout the U.S. park system. Dilsaver and Babalis present an innovative regional and environmental history of a little-known corner of the Pacific West, as well as a larger national narrative about how the Park Service developed its approach to restoration ecology, which became a template for broader Park Service policies that shaped the next generation of environmental conservation.
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"To Be Named Something Else, winner of the 2023 Miller Williams Poetry Prize, is a high-spirited celebration of Black matriarchy and lineage-both familial and literary. Centering the coming-of-age of Black femmes in Harlem, Shaina Phenix's debut collection, in the words of series judge Patricia Smith, "enlivens the everyday-the everyday miraculous, the everyday hallelujah, the numbing everyday love, the everyday risk of just being Black and living.""-- Provided by publisher

"Driving thousands of miles, through sonnets and long sequences, the poems of Two Open Doors in a Field are constructed through deliberate limitations, restlessly exploring place, desire, and spirituality"-- Provided by publisher

• List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments Author's Note on Terminology Introduction: The Stewart Indian School in Context
• 1. Discipline, Negotiation, and Protest, 1890-1925
• 2. Progressive Policies and Assimilationist Practices, 1925-1948
• 3. Termination, Relocation, and the Special Navajo Program, 1946-1959
• 4. Stagnation, Self-Determination, and Reform, 1960-1980
• 5. Reclaiming the Stewart Indian School, 1980-2019 Conclusion: The Stewart Indian School Cultural Center & Museum Notes Bibliography Index.
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Assimilation, Resilience, and Survival illustrates how settler colonialism propelled U.S. government programs designed to assimilate generations of Native children at the Stewart Indian School (1890-1980). The school opened in Carson City, Nevada, in 1890 and embraced its mission to destroy the connections between Native children and their lands, isolate them from their families, and divorce them from their cultures and traditions. Newly enrolled students were separated from their families, had their appearances altered, and were forced to speak only English. However, as Samantha M. Williams uncovers, numerous Indigenous students and their families subverted school rules, and tensions arose between federal officials and the local authorities charged with implementing boarding school policies. The first book on the history of the Stewart Indian School, Assimilation, Resilience, and Survival reveals the experiences of generations of Stewart School alumni and their families, often in their own words. Williams demonstrates how Indigenous experiences at the school changed over time and connects these changes with Native American activism and variations in federal policy. Williams's research uncovers numerous instances of abuse at Stewart, and Assimilation, Resilience, and Survival addresses both the trauma of the boarding school experience and the resilience of generations of students who persevered there under the most challenging of circumstances. .
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This book centers on the true story of Pl̀cida Romero, a nuevomexicana who was taken captive and whose husband, Domingo Gallegos, was murdered at their Cebolla Springs Ranch by an Apache war party led by Nana during their raid into south and central New Mexico Territory in 1881. This incursion, one of the last major Apache raids into the territory, took place near the end of the southwestern Indian wars. Her captors took Pl̀cida to Mexico, she subsequently escaped, was returned to her family, and then told her story to her relatives and community in Cubero. Pl̀cida's story was later written as a ballad in Spanish and set to music. Aulton E. Roland first heard about Pl̀cida Romero's plight when he met Arthur "Arty" Bibo in 1961. With his knowledge of the land and the Native American and Hispano people of the area, Roland helped Bibo research the events behind the story. Over time and after Bibo's death, Roland found the exact locations of the events of Nana's raid, some of them in very remote locations and in Mexico, and even chartered airplanes to aid in his search. He also corrected a number of historical misconceptions concerning the events of the bloody raid, discovering in the process that Pl̀cida Romero never recovered her abducted daughter, Trinidad Gallegos, although the child had grown up with the Navajo people near Prewitt only fifty miles from Cubero, where Pl̀cida lived, died, and is buried. The Ballad of Pl̀cida Romero: A Woman's Captivity & Redemption is a harrowing, deeply moving, and incisive piece of New Mexico history. It is a provocative yet uplifting account of survival and suspense on a fragile frontier in territorial New Mexico in the late nineteenth century