2020 & 2021

J OHN G UID ER is an Emmy Award–winning

photographer and author. The Nashville Public
Television documentary Voyage of Adventure was
honored by the National Academy of Television
Arts & Sciences in 2020.

contributors
J EFF SELLERS is director of education and
community engagement at the Tennessee State
Museum, Nashville, Tennessee.
ALBERT B END ER is a Cherokee activist, histo-
rian, political columnist, and reporter.
LEAROT HA WILLIAMS J R . is a professor of
African American, Civil War and Reconstruc-
tion, and Public History at Tennessee State Uni-
versity and coordinator of the North Nashville
Heritage Project.
CARROLL VAN WEST is director of the Center
for Historic Preservation at Middle Tennessee
State University.

Title Subject Index

Anthropology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10, 15 LGBTQI Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4, 5
Art & Art History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Caribbean Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Critical Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Gender Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
Iberian Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Latin American Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7, 9, 10, 15, 16
Literary Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Medical Anthropology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12, 13
Nature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1, 2
Public Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12, 13, 14
Regional . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Sociology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Urban Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Women’s Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11, 17
R E G I O N A L / N AT U R E

A photographic retracing of the journey that ended in the

founding of Nashville, with essays from voices often on
the periphery of popular history

Voyage of the Adventure

Voyage of the Adventure j o h n gu i d e r

Retracing the Donelson Party’s Journey to Retracing the Donelson Party’s Journey
to the Founding of Nashville
Essays by Jeff Sellers,
Albert Bender, Learotha Williams, Jr.,
and Carroll Van West

the Founding of Nashville

September 2020
John Guider  |  With essays by Jeff Sellers, Albert Bender, 224 pages, 10 × 12.5 inches
Learotha Williams Jr., and Carroll Van West 123 color illustrations
Hardcover $34.95t • 978-0-8265-0109-7
In the harsh winter of 1779, John Donelson loaded his family and thirty slaves into a forty- e-book available
foot flatboat at the present site of Kingsport, Tennessee. Their journey into the wilderness
led to the founding of a settlement now known as Nashville—over one thousand river
miles away. In the fall of 2016, photographer John Guider retraced the Donelson party’s
journey in his hand-built 14½' motorless rowing sailboat while making a visual docu-
mentation of the river as it currently exists 240 years later.
This photo book contains more than 120 striking images from the course of the jour-
ney, allowing the reader to see how much has changed and how much has remained
untouched in the two and a half centuries since Donelson first took to the water. Equally
significant, the essays include long-ignored contemporary histories of both the Chero-
kee whom Donelson encountered and the slaves he brought with him, some of whom ALSO OF INTEREST

did not survive the journey. Kathryn E. Delmez, ed.

Guider, a professional photographer, has created images of every point in the thou- We Shall Overcome: Press Photographs of
sand-mile trip from a platform just a few feet above the waterline of three of Tennessee’s Nashville during the Civil Rights Era
978-0-8265-2221-4
most notable rivers.
Hardcover • $35.00t

“This is an angle on Tennessee’s history that is rarely seen or taught. Although we

are, thank goodness, currently in a phase when many—or at least some vocal
thinkers—question just how great the ‘great men’ of local history really were and
hold their actions under a critical microscope, we still rarely venture into truly
considering the experiences of the lesser known or marginalized people of Ten-
nessee’s past. Discussion of the ripple effects of past actions on the present land-
scape rarely ventures beyond politics or the broadest strokes of race relations.
This book lives fully in that space.”
N I N A CA R D O N A , WPLN, Nashville Public Radio

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A look at the golden age of caving in the American South,

as experienced by a veteran caver

August 2020
276 pages, 6 × 9 inches
75 b&w illustrations
Notes, References, Index
Paperback $19.95t • 978-0-8265-0102-8
e-book available
M IC H A EL R AY TAYLO R , professor of
communication, chairs the Communica-
tion and Theatre Department at Hender-
son State University in Arkansas. He is the
author of several books, including Cave
Passages, Dark Life, and Caves, as well as
articles in Sports Illustrated, the New York
Times, Houston Chronicle, Wired, Audubon,
Reader’s Digest, Outside, and many other
print and digital publications.
Hidden Nature
Wild Southern Caves
Michael Ray Taylor
More than ten thousand known caves lie beneath the state of Tennessee according to the
Tennessee Cave Survey, a nonprofit organization that catalogs and maps them. Thousands
more riddle surrounding states. In Hidden Nature, Michael Ray Taylor tells the story of
this vast underground wilderness. In addition to describing the sheer physical majesty
of the region’s wild caverns and the concurrent joys and dangers of exploring them, he
examines their rich natural history and scientific import, their relationship to clean water
and a healthy surface environment, and their uncertain future.
As a longtime caver and the author of three popular books related to caving—Cave Pas-
sages, Dark Life, and Caves—Taylor enjoys (for a journalist) unusual access to this secre-
tive world. He is personally acquainted with many of the region’s most accomplished cave
explorers and scientists, and they in turn are familiar with his popular writing on caves
in books; in magazines such as Audubon, Outside, and Sports Illustrated; and on websites
such as those of the Discovery Channel and the PBS science series Nova.
Hidden Nature is structured as a comprehensive work of well-researched fact that reads
like a personal narrative of the author’s long attraction to these caves and the people who
dare enter their hidden chambers.

ALSO OF INTEREST

Stephen Daubert
Between the Rocks and
the Stars: Narratives in
Natural History
978-0-8265-2275-7
Paperback • $24.95t

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REGIONAL

A collection of essays and journalism tracing the dramatic

transformation of Nashville over the last two decades

Greetings from New Nashville

How a Sleepy Southern Town Became “It” City
Edited by Steve Haruch
In 1998, roughly 2 million visitors came to see what there was to see in Nashville. By 2018,
that number had ballooned to 15.2 million. HOW A S L E E PY SOUT H E R N T OWN
In that span of two decades, the boundaries of Nashville did notBchange. But some-
E C A M E “I T ” C I T Y

thing did. Or rather, many somethings changed, and kept changing, until many who lived EDITED BY STEVE HARUCH
in Nashville began to feel they no longer recognized their own city. And some began to
feel it wasn’t their own city at all anymore as they were pushed to its fringes by rising
housing costs. Between 1998 and 2018, the population of Nashville grew by 150,000. On
some level, Nashville has always packaged itself for consumption, but something clicked October 2020
and suddenly everyone wanted a taste. 216 pages, 6 × 9 inches
Index
But why Nashville? Why now? What made all this change possible? This book is an
Paperback $24.95t • 978-0-8265-0027-4
attempt to understand those transformations, or, if not to understand them, exactly, then e-book available
to at least grapple with the question: What happened?
ST EVE HARUCH is a writer, editor, and
filmmaker in Nashville. He is the editor
Contributions from: of People Only Die of Love in Movies: Film
Writing by Jim Ridley, also published by
Ann Patchett Ansley T. Erickson
Vanderbilt University Press.
J.R. Lind Ashley Spurgeon
Zach Stafford Richard Lloyd
Ben Folds Carrie Ferguson Weir
ALSO OF INTEREST
Bobby Allyn Steve Haruch
Ron Wynn Meribah Knight Jim Ridley
Steve Cavendish Margaret Renkl Edited by Steve
Haruch
Tiana Clark Ted Alcorn
People Only Die of
Steven Hale Betsy Phillips
Love in Movies: Film
Writing by Jim Ridley
978-0-8265-2206-1
Cloth • $29.95t

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 E X PA N D E D E D I T I O N   •   R EG I O N A L / A R C H I T ECT U R E

A photographic survey of thirty-five “interesting and

important structures representative of Middle Tennessee’s
rich architectural heritage”

Architecture of Middle Tennessee

The Historic American Buildings Survey
Edited by Thomas B. Brumbaugh, Martha I. Strayhorn,
August 2020 and Gary G. Gore  |  Foreword to the new edition by Aja Bain
212 pages, 11 × 10.5 inches
80 illustrations
Paperback $29.95t • 978-0-8265-0020-5
First published in 1974, Architecture of Middle Tennessee quickly became a record of some
e-book available of the region’s most important and most endangered buildings. Based primarily upon pho-
tographs, measured drawings, and historical and architectural information assembled by
TH O M AS B . B R UM BAUGH was a profes-
the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) of the National Park Service in 1970 and
sor of fine arts at Vanderbilt University.
1971, the book was conceived of as a record of buildings preservationists assumed would
M ARTHA I . ST R AYH OR N and GA RY G. soon be lost. Remarkably, though, nearly half a century later, most of the buildings fea-
G O RE were both staff members at Vander-
tured in the book are still standing.
bilt University Press during the time of the
Vanderbilt staffers discovered a treasure trove of photos and diagrams from the HABS
book’s original publication.
survey that were not included in the original edition in the Press archives. This new,
AJA BAI N is president of the Inter-
expanded edition contains all the original text and images from the first volume, plus
Museum Council of Nashville, and the
many of the forgotten archived materials collected by HABS in the 1970s.
program and publications manager for the
American Association for State and Local
In her new introduction to this reissue, Aja Bain discusses why these buildings were
History, where she serves as the associate saved and wonders about what lessons preservationists can learn now about how to pre-
editor of History News. serve a wider swath of our shared history.

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 S EC O N D E D I T I O N   •   G E N D E R ST U D I ES / LG BTQ I ST U D I ES

An updated edition of a classic text from transgender-rights

pioneer Jamison Green

Becoming a Visible Man

September 2020
288 pages, 6 × 9 inches
Notes, References, Index
Hardcover $99.95s • 978-0-8265-2286-3
Paperback $34.95t • 978-0-8265-2287-0
e-book available
JAMISON GREEN is an author, educator,
public speaker, independent legal scholar,
and consulting expert in transgender health
and employment discrimination litigation.
He serves as a policy consultant for business,
educational, and governmental institutions,
and is a past president of the World Profes-
sional Association for Transgender Health
(WPATH).
Jamison Green
At least two generations of transgender, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming people have
emerged since Becoming a Visible Man was first published in 2004, but the book remains
a beloved resource for trans people and their allies.
Since the first edition’s publication, author Jamison Green’s writings and advocacy among
business and governmental organizations around the world have led to major changes in
the fields of law, medicine, and social policy, and his (mostly invisible) work has had sig-
nificant effects on trans people globally. This new edition captures the changes of the last
two decades, while also imparting a message of self-acceptance and health.
With profoundly personal and eminently practical threads, Green clarifies transgen-
der experience for transgender people and their families, friends, and coworkers. Medi-
cal and mental-health-care providers, educators, business leaders, and advocates seeking
information about transgender concerns can all gain from Green’s integrative approach to
the topic. This book candidly addresses emotional relationships that are affected by a tran-
sition and brings refined integrity to the struggle to self-define, whether one undergoes a
transition or chooses not to.
Emphasizing the lives of transgender men—who are often overlooked—he elucidates
the experience of masculinity in a way that is self-assured and inclusive of feminist values.
Green’s inspirational wisdom has informed and empowered thousands of readers. There is
still no other book like Becoming a Visible Man in the transgender canon.
“The first great memoir by a trans man.”
JENNIFER FINNEY BOYLAN , New York Times

ALSO OF INTEREST “[Becoming a Visible Man] has become a classic text, informing and inspiring
Henry Rubin transgender and cisgender people worldwide.”
Self-Made Men:
MASON FUNK , author of The Book of Pride: LGBTQ Heroes Who Changed
Identity and
Embodiment among the World
Transsexual Men
978-0-8265-1435-6
Paperback • $39.95x

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L AT I N A M E R I C A N S T U D I E S / H I S T O R Y

A biography of a powerful black printer, bookseller, and publisher

in nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro

Francisco de Paula Brito

A Black Publisher in Imperial Brazil
Rodrigo Camargo de Godoi
Translated by H. Sabrina Gledhill
Francisco de Paula Brito is a biography of a merchant, printer, bookseller, and publisher
who lived in Rio de Janeiro from his birth in 1809 until his death in 1861. That period was
key to the history of Brazil, because it coincided with the relocation of the Portuguese
Court from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro (1808); the dawning of Brazilian Independence (1822)
and the formation of the nation-state; the development of the press and of Brazilian lit-
erature; the expansion and elimination of the transatlantic slave trade; and the growth of
December 2020
Rio de Janeiro’s population and the coffee economy. Nevertheless, although it covers five
398 pages, 6 × 9 inches
generations of Paula Brito’s family—men and women who left slavery in the eighteenth 24 b&w illustrations
century—this book focuses on its protagonist’s activities between the 1830s and 1850s. Notes, References, Index
During that period, Francisco de Paula Brito became one of the central figures in the Hardcover $99.95x • 978-0-8265-0017-5
Paperback $39.95x • 978-0-8265-0016-8
cultural and political scene in the Imperial capital, particularly through his work as a pub- e-book available
lisher. Paula Brito’s success was due in part to his ability to forge solid alliances with the
Empire’s ruling elite—among them leading politicians responsible for the unification of ROD RIG O CAMARG O D E G OD OI is a
the vast Brazilian territory and for the maintenance of slavery and the illegal trafficking professor of Brazilian History at the Uni-
of Africans. Consequently, through the books and newspapers he published, Francisco versity of Campinas in São Paulo, Brazil.
de Paula Brito became part of a much larger project. H. SAB RINA G LED HILL is a UK-based
freelance writer, researcher, curator, trans-
lator, editor, and lecturer.

ALSO OF INTEREST

Stephen Silverstein
The Merchant of
Havana: The Jew in
the Cuban Abolitionist
Archive
978-0-8265-2109-5
Hardcover • $79.95x

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SUBMITTING A PROPOSAL
Proposals may be sent to Zack Gresham
at zachary.s.gresham@vanderbilt.edu.
Please include:
•  A project abstract
•  Brief main description of the method,
scope, and works analyzed
•  Anticipated word count, number of
images, and timeline for full
manuscript submission
•  Annotated table of contents
•  CV
•  A section on works in the field
that the project complements
and draws on
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NEW BOOK SERIES
Critical Mexican Studies
Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado, Series Editor
Critical Mexican Studies is the first English-language, humanities-based academic mono-
graph series devoted to the study of Mexico. The series is a space for innovative works
in the humanities that focus on theoretical analysis, transdisciplinary interventions, and
original conceptual framing.
Critical Mexican Studies will feature books that question the many received ideas that
shape the field of Mexican studies, from the focus on the connections between identity and
nation (the topic of Mexicanness that has pervaded the field for decades) to the favored
historiographic and philological approaches that have long defined significant portions
of the field. Texts that approach Mexico with a more theoretical-conceptual bent or that
seek to transgress the methodologies of the dominant disciplines will find a home here.
The series seeks projects that engage Mexico through contemporary theoretical conver-
sations—on necropolitics, disability, and queer theory, for example—or books that place
Mexico as a site of departure and articulation of new theoretical paradigms like critical
race theory, sovereign power, and the posthuman. Books in this series will develop con-
ceptual discussions of interest above and beyond the field of Mexicanism.
The Critical Mexican Studies series is looking for the following types of work:
1) monographs by emerging and established scholars focused on Mexico and defined by
their theoretical originality and the promise of opening new avenues in Mexican Studies;
2) carefully curated edited collections that define the state of the field at given points in
time or that gather the most talented people in the field to discuss a particular concept;
3) and original or translated work by Mexican theorists and scholars. Although the series
would be open to books in defined fields—such as literary or media studies—Critical
Mexican Studies seeks works performing transdisciplinary, intermedial, and creatively
theoretical research.
A B O U T T H E E D I TO R : Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado is Jarvis Thurston and Mona
Van Duyn Professor in Humanities, professor of Spanish, Latin American stud-
ies, and film and media studies, and director of undergraduate studies in the
Latin American Studies Program at Washington University in St. Louis. He is
the author of Screening Neoliberalism: Transforming Mexican Cinema, 1988–2012
(available in English and Spanish editions from Vanderbilt University Press).
I N A U G U R A L T I T L E I N T H E C R I T I CA L M E X I CA N ST U D I E S S E R I E S

L AT I N A M E R I C A N S T U D I E S / C R I T I C A L T H E O R Y

Writing is not a solitary feat—if we write, we write with others

The Restless Dead

Necrowriting and Disappropriation
Cristina Rivera Garza
Translated by Robin Myers

Based on comparative readings of contemporary books from Latin America, Spain, and
the United States, the essays in this book present a radical critique against strategies of
literary appropriation that were once thought of as neutral, and even concomitant, com-
ponents of the writing process. Debunking the position of the author as the center of
analysis, Cristina Rivera Garza argues for the communality—a term used by anthropolo- October 2020
gist Floriberto Díaz to describe modes of life of Indigenous peoples of Oaxaca based on 196 pages, 6 × 9 inches
Notes
notions of collaborative labor—permeating all writing processes. Hardcover $99.95x • 978-0-8265-0122-6
Disappropriating is a political operation at the core of projects acknowledging, both Paperback $27.95s • 978-0-8265-0121-9
at ethical and aesthetic levels, that writers always work with materials that are not their e-book available
own. Writers borrow from the practitioners of a language, entering in a debt relation-
Author, translator, and critic CRIST INA
ship that can only be covered by ushering the text back to the communities from which
RIVERA G ARZA is the author of six nov-
it grew. In a world rife with violence, where the experiences of many are erased by pillage els, three of which have been translated
and extraction, writing among and for the dead is a form of necrowriting that may well into English: No One Will See Me Cry, The
become a life-affirming act of decolonization and resistance. Iliac Crest, and The Taiga Syndrome. She is
the founder of the PhD Program in
“A title that shines with its own light among the few international studies of the Creative Writing in Spanish and distin-
writings of the twenty-first century.” guished professor at the University of
Houston.
J O R G E CA R R I Ó N , author of Bookshops: A Reader’s History and Los Muertos
ROBIN MYERS is a Mexico City–based
translator and poet.

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 L AT I N A M E R I C A N S T U D I E S / A N T H R O P O L O G Y

An archival and ethnographic account of Arabs at the crossroads

of authoritarian South America and the counterterrorist US

Manifold Destiny
Arabs at an American Crossroads of Exceptional Rule
John Tofik Karam
At the border where Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina meet under the scrutiny of the US
and Mercosur (the large South American trade bloc), Arabs have long fulfilled what author
John Tofik Karam calls a “manifold destiny.” Karam casts Lebanese, Palestinians, and Syri-
ans at this American border as circumstantial protagonists of a hemispheric saga.
For the more than six decades since they started settling at the trinational border
between Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina, Arabs have animated the hemisphere. Their
transnational economic and social projects reveal a heretofore unacknowledged venue of
January 2021 exceptional rule in which the community accommodates and abides multiple states’ var-
272 pages, 6 × 9 inches ied suspensions of norms and laws. Arabs set up businesses and community centers at
Notes, References, Index
the border under authoritarian military governments between the 1950s and 1980s; there-
Hardcover $99.95x • 978-0-8265-0133-2
Paperback $39.95x • 978-0-8265-0132-5 after, when denied full democratic enfranchisement, they instead underwent increasing
e-book available surveillance from the 1990s to today. Karam reveals an unfinished history of exceptional
rule that Arabs accommodate from an authoritarian past to a counterterrorist present.
JOHN TOFIK KARAM is director of the
Karam’s riveting account draws on anthropological and historical research from each
Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies at the
side of this trinational South American border, as well as from the US—where government
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
where he is an associate professor in the bureaucrats still suspect Arabs at the border of would-be-terrorist subversion. Offering
department of Spanish and Portuguese a fresh understanding of the hemisphere, Manifold Destiny brings the transnational turn
as well. of Middle Eastern studies to bear upon the fields of American studies, Brazilian studies,
and Latin American studies.
ALSO OF INTEREST
“A groundbreaking, rigorous analysis of a group of migrants that has been overly
David William Foster,
ed.
scrutinized by intelligence operatives and the media yet understudied by schol-
Latin American Jewish ars. Extremely timely and likely to remain relevant for a long time.”
Cultural Production CHRISTINA E . CIVANTOS , author of Between Argentines and Arabs: Argentine
978-0-8265-1624-4
Orientalism, Arab Immigrants, and the Writing of Identity
Paperback • $39.95x

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IBERIAN STUDIES / WOMEN’S STUDIES

The eclectic intersection of women, science, and culture in Spain

during the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries

A Laboratory of Her Own

Women and Science in Spanish Culture
Edited by Victoria L. Ketz, Dawn Smith-Sherwood,
and Debra Faszer-McMahon
A Laboratory of Her Own gathers diverse voices to address women’s interaction with STEM
fields in the context of Spanish cultural production. This volume focuses on the many
ways the arts and humanities provide avenues for deepening the conversation about how
women have been involved in, excluded from, and represented within the scientific realm.
While women’s historic exclusion from STEM fields has been receiving increased
scrutiny worldwide, women within the Spanish context have been perhaps even more
peripheral given the complex sociocultural structures emanating from gender norms January 2021
and political ideologies dominant in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spain. None- 372 pages, 6 × 9 inches
Notes, References, Index
theless, Spanish female cultural producers have long been engaged with science and Hardcover $99.95x • 978-0-8265-0129-5
technology, as expressed in literature, art, film, and other genres. Spanish arts and let- Paperback $39.95x • 978-0-8265-0128-8
ters offer diverse representations of the relationships between women, gender, sexuality, e-book available
race, and STEM fields.
VICTORIA L . KET Z is chair of the Depart-
A Laboratory of Her Own studies representations of a diverse range of Spanish women
ment of Global Languages, Literatures, and
and scientific cultural products from the late nineteenth through the twenty-first centu- Perspectives and a professor of Spanish at
ries. STEM topics include the environment, biodiversity, temporal and spatial theories, La Salle University.
medicine and reproductive rights, neuroscience, robotics, artificial intelligence, and
DAWN SMIT H- SHERWO OD is a pro-
quantum physics. These scientific themes and other issues are analyzed in narratives, fessor of Spanish at Indiana University of
paintings, poetry, photographs, science fiction, medical literature, translation, news- Pennsylvania.
writing, film, and other forms.
D EB RA FASZER- MCMAHON is dean of
the School of Humanities and a professor of
“This is a careful, cogent, fascinating, and well-researched collection of Spanish at Seton Hill University.
essays about the cultural, historical, and political contexts in which artists
and authors interrogated STEM and gender themes in Spain. . . . A ground- ALSO OF INTEREST
breaking collection.” Roberta Johnson
MARY WYER , editor of Women, Science, and Technology: A Reader in Gender and Nation in
Feminist Science Studies the Spanish Modernist
Novel
978-0-8265-1437-0
Paperback • $39.95x

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 M E D I C A L A N T H R O P O L O G Y / P U B L I C H E A LT H

Mexican midwives’ complex confrontations with poor maternal

conditions and a state legacy of inequality and violence

Delivering Health
Midwifery and Development in Mexico
Lydia Z. Dixon
Maternal health outcomes are a key focus of global health initiatives. In Delivering Health,
author Lydia Z. Dixon uncovers the ways such outcomes have been shaped by broader
historical, political, and social factors in Mexico, through the perspectives of those who
are at the front lines fighting for change: midwives.
Midwives have long been marginalized in Mexico as remnants of the country’s pre-
colonial past, yet Dixon shows how they are now strategically positioning themselves
as agents of modernity and development. Midwifery education programs have popped
November 2020 up across Mexico, each with their own critique of the health care system and vision for
232 pages, 6 × 9 inches how midwifery can help. Delivering Health ethnographically examines three such schools
9 b&w illustrations
with very different educational approaches and professional goals. From San Miguel de
Notes, References, Index
Hardcover $99.95x • 978-0-8265-0114-1 Allende to Oaxaca to Michoacán and points between, Dixon takes us into the classrooms,
Paperback $34.95x • 978-0-8265-0113-4 clinics, and conferences where questions of what it means to provide good reproductive
e-book available health care are being taught, challenged, and implemented. Through interviews, obser-
LY DIA Z . D I XO N is an assistant professor
vational data, and even student artwork, we are shown how underlying inequality mani-
of Health Science at California State Uni- fests in poor care for many Mexican women. The midwives in this book argue that they
versity, Channel Islands. can improve care while also addressing this inequality. Ultimately, Delivering Health
asks us to consider the possibility that marginalized actors like midwives may hold the
solution to widespread concerns in health.

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Vania Smith-Oka
Shaping the
Motherhood of
Indigenous Mexico
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M E D I C A L A N T H R O P O L O G Y / P U B L I C H E A LT H
Women,
Village-based health workers actively challenging the dominant Health,
and Equity
double prejudices of caste and gender inequality in India in India

For the Public Good Patricia

Women, Health, and Equity in Rural India Antoniello

Patricia Antoniello
For the Public Good details the role of the Comprehensive Rural Health Project (CRHP),
a groundbreaking, internationally recognized primary health care model that uses local
solutions to solve intractable global health problems. Emphasizing equity and community
participation, this grassroots approach recruits local women to be educated as village-
based health workers. In turn, women village health workers collaborate to overcome the
dominant double prejudices in local villages—caste and gender inequality. In one genera-
tion, village health workers have progressed from child brides and sequestered wives to
knowledgeable health practitioners, valued teachers, and community leaders. Through November 2020
collective efforts, CRHP has reduced infant and maternal mortality, eliminated some 212 pages, 6 × 9 inches
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cooperative lending groups. Paperback $34.95x • 978-0-8265-0023-6
This book describes how the recognition and elimination of embedded inequalities—in e-book available
this case caste discrimination, gender subordination, and class injustice—promote health
PAT RICIA ANTONIELLO is an associate
and well-being and collaboratively establish the public good.
professor in the Department of Anthropol-
ogy at Brooklyn College, City University of
New York.

Policy to Practice: Ethnographic Perspectives

on Global Health Systems
Series editors: Svea Closser, Emily Mendenhall, Judith Justice,
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and Peter J. Brown
Svea Closser
Policy to Practice: Ethnographic Perspectives on Global Health Systems illustrates Chasing Polio in
Pakistan: Why the
and provides critical perspectives on how global health policy becomes practice, World’s Largest
and how critical scholarship can itself inform global public health policy. Policy to Public Health Initiative
Practice provides a venue for relevant work from a variety of disciplines, includ- May Fail
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An analysis of American surgical residents and their

attendings working in the face of restrictions on
resident work hours

Why Surgeons Struggle with

January 2021
232 pages, 6 × 9 inches
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Hardcover $99.95x • 978-0-8265-0106-6
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JAM ES E . COVER D I LL is the Meigs Dis-
tinguished Teaching Professor and depart-
ment head of sociology at the University of
Georgia.
JO H N D. M ELLI N GE R is professor and
chair, Division of General Surgery, and vice
chair, Department of Surgery, at Southern
Illinois University.
Work-Hour Reforms
James E. Coverdill and John D. Mellinger
On July 1, 2003, work-hour reforms were enacted nationally for the roughly 129,000 resi-
dent physicians in the United States. The reforms limit weekly work hours (a maximum
of eighty per week) and on-call frequency (no more than once every three nights), man-
date days free of clinical and educational obligations (one day in seven), and regulate other
aspects of resident work life.
Why Surgeons Struggle with Work-Hour Reforms focuses on general surgeons, a his-
torically long-hour specialty, who fiercely opposed the reforms and are among the least
compliant. Why do surgeons struggle with the reforms? Why do they continue to work
long hours and view the act of doing so as reasonable if not quintessentially professional?
Although the analysis is situated in the growing scientific literature on the consequences of
fatigue, the authors do not adjudicate between the claims of surgeons and those of reform
advocates about the effects of long work hours on patient or provider safety. Rather, the
aim is to explore and explain how aspects of the occupational culture of surgeons and
the social organization of surgical training and practice interlock to impede the reforms.
“This is a well-done, important study on a central issue of medical education today.”
DR . KENNETH LUDMERER , author of Let Me Heal: The Opportunity to Preserve
Excellence in American Medicine

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David Barton Smith

The Power to Heal:
Civil Rights, Medicare,
and the Struggle to
Transform America’s
Health Care System
978-0-8265-2107-1
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U P D AT E D E D I T I O N   •   L AT I N A M E R I C A N S T U D I E S / A N T H R O P O L O G Y

How the experiences of Indigenous Guatemalans at the US In Search of Providence

border must be understood within the context of violence, Transnational Mayan Identities

exclusion, and dislocation p at r i c i a f o x e n

Foreword by Francisco Goldman

In Search of Providence
Transnational Mayan Identities
Patricia Foxen
Foreword to the new edition by Francisco Goldman
In the mid-1990s, Patricia Foxen traveled back and forth between the Guatemalan high-
u p dat e d e d i t i o n
lands and Providence, Rhode Island, to understand the migration paths of K’iche’ Mayan
Indians who had fled the Guatemalan civil war to work in the factories and fisheries of
New England. More than two decades later, many Mayans are still migrating to the US,
today part of the “border crisis” that prompted the Trump administration’s ruthless immi- September 2020
gration and asylum policy backlash. As Foxen argues, the recent surge in Mayan border 376 pages, 6 × 9 inches
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on the move,” as well as contemporary push factors such as climate change and growing e-book available
inequality that have forced people from their communities.
PAT RICIA FOXEN , a cultural anthropolo-
And yet one of the most significant drivers of continued emigration today, ironically,
gist, is currently a visiting fellow at Ameri-
is the very culture of migration (described in the book) that has accelerated social change can University and the Deputy Director of
within many Indigenous communities, setting in motion a complex series of economic Research at Unidos US.
and cultural shifts that have compelled a continuous movement of people and generations
to the US. Reading this story in 2020—at a time of massive growth in flows of irregular
migrations around the world—can help us better understand the highly complex set of ALSO OF INTEREST
factors that propel long-term migrations and that shape transnational communities on Michele Statz
both sides of the border. Lawyering an
In Search of Providence offers a layered, historically grounded perspective that speaks Uncertain Cause:
to the local specificity behind the migration experience in order to point to the universal Immigration Advocacy
themes and contradictions of contemporary global displacements. and Chinese Youth in
the US
“[A] brilliant and thorough anthropological investigation guided by compassion, 978-0-8265-2209-2
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respect, the greatest inquisitiveness, and conviction.”
FRANCISCO GOLDMAN , from the Foreword to In Search of Providence

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Unexpected approaches to the body in the science fiction

and fantasy of Mexico and Brazil

Cyborgs, Sexuality, and the Undead

The Body in Mexican and Brazilian Speculative Fiction
M. Elizabeth Ginway
Writers in Brazil and Mexico discovered early on that speculative fiction provides an
ideal platform for addressing the complex issues of modernity, yet the study of specu-
lative fictions rarely strays from the United States and England. Cyborgs, Sexuality, and
the Undead expands the traditional purview of speculative fiction in all its incarnations
(science fiction, fantasy, horror) beyond the traditional Anglo-American context to focus
on work produced in Mexico and Brazil across a historical overview from 1870 to the
present. The book portrays the effects—and ravages—of modernity in these two nations,
December 2020 addressing its technological, cultural, and social consequences and their implications
248 pages, 6 × 9 inches
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for the human body.
Hardcover $99.95x • 978-0-8265-0118-9 In Cyborgs, Sexuality, and the Undead, M. Elizabeth Ginway examines all these issues
Paperback $34.95x • 978-0-8265-0117-2 from a number of theoretical perspectives, most importantly through the lens of Bolívar
e-book available Echeverría’s “baroque ethos,” which emphasizes the strategies that subaltern populations
M . E L IZA B ET H GI NWAY is an associate
may adopt in order to survive and prosper in the face of massive historical and struc-
professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the tural disadvantages.
University of Florida.
“An extremely useful contribution to the field. It builds on existing scholarship
ALSO OF INTEREST
on the literature of national identity, monstrosity, gender studies, critical race
studies, disability studies, Latin American science fiction and horror, and post-
Jacqueline Foertsch
Reckoning Day: Race, humanism, drawing on an incredibly broad corpus from the mid-twentieth
Place, and the Atom century to the present.”
Bomb in Postwar
PERSEPHONE BRAHAM , author of From Amazons to Zombies: Monsters in
America
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“[Cyborgs, Sexuality, and the Undead] will be of use to scholars for years to come.
The book’s engagement of many of the most canonical writers of the Mexican
and Brazilian literary traditions, coupled with its expansive scope, mean that,
beyond speaking to scholars of speculative fiction, this book will be of great
interest to Brazilianist, Mexicanist, and Latin Americanist scholars at large.”
DAVID S. DALTON , author of Mestizo Modernity: Race, Technology, and the
Body in Postrevolutionary Mexico

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 N E W I N PA P E R B AC K   •   CA R I B B E A N ST U D I E S / W O M E N ' S ST U D I E S

Navigating a Caribbean economy,

hidden in plain sight

Higglers in Kingston
Women’s Informal Work in Jamaica
Winnifred Brown-Glaude
Making a living in the Caribbean requires resourcefulness and even a willingness to cir-
cumvent the law. Women of color in Jamaica encounter bureaucratic mazes, neighborhood
territoriality, and ingrained racial and cultural prejudices. For them, it requires nothing
less than a Herculean effort to realize their entrepreneurial dreams.
In Higglers in Kingston, Winnifred Brown-Glaude puts the reader on the ground in
frenetic urban Kingston, the capital and largest city in Jamaica. She explores the lives of
informal market laborers, called “higglers,” across the city as they navigate a corrupt and
inaccessible “official” Jamaican economy. But rather than focus merely on the present-day August 2020
240 pages, 6 × 9 inches
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Higglers in Kingston weaves together contemporary ethnography, economic history,
and sociology of race to address a broad audience of readers on a crucial economic and WINNIFRED BROWN- G LAUD E is an
cultural center. associate professor in the departments of
African American Studies and Sociology &
“Brown-Glaude’s well-written, jargon-free study offers a refreshing, long-over- Anthropology at The College of New Jersey.
due discussion of the ethnographer’s embodied presence—her own race, class, She is the editor of Doing Diversity in Higher
Education: Faculty Leaders Share Challenges
and gender, in this case—on the research process and the information gathered.
and Strategies.
Highly recommended.”
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“Higglers in Kingston is a theoretically innovative, empirically rich, and topically Anne M. Galvin
relevant book that would be an engaging text for undergraduate and graduate Sounds of the Citizens:
courses on the sociology of work, globalization, gender, race, and the body.” Dancehall and
Community in Jamaica
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Winner of the 2020 Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Prize

from Vanderbilt University Press for the best book in the area
of art or medicine

AVA I L A B L E N O W

Talking Trash
August 2019
248 pages, 7 × 10 inches
163 color illustrations
Notes, References, Index
Cloth $35.00t • 978-0-8265-2228-3
M AITE ZU B I AU R R E , professor of Spanish
and German Letters at the University of
California, Los Angeles, is the author of
Cultures of the Erotic in Spain, 1898–1939,
also published by Vanderbilt.
Cultural Uses of Waste
Maite Zubiaurre
Much has been written about landfills and the monumentality of rubbish, but little atten-
tion has been paid to “litter,” the small trash that soils the urban pavement, like the bits of
chewing gum that some artists decorate. Talking Trash looks at refuse in its early stages,
when it is still tiny and unassuming, still lives in the city, and has yet to grow, leave the
metropolis, and accumulate in landfills.
The chapters of Talking Trash reflect upon the anthropomorphic nature of urban refuse;
upon the poetics and semantics of micro-litterscapes and the archives of all things dis-
carded; upon “Dumpsterology,” or the history of the garbage container as a gendered
artifact dense with cultural meaning; and upon “dirty innocence,” or the complex and
contradictory link that ties childhood to muck.
The book also focuses on one significant nonurban scene: the desert landscape and
the clothing and other items that immigrants discard as they make a desperate trek across
the border.

“[L]avishly illustrated with more than 160 color images that show the breadth
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PROSE Awards Subject Category Winner, Literature, 2020

Writing Revolution in Latin America
From Martí to García Márquez to Bolaño
Juan E. De Castro
September 2019
272 pages, 6 × 9 inches
Notes, References, Index
Hardcover $99.95x • 978-0-8265-2258-0
Paperback $34.95x • 978-0-8265-2259-7
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Association for Recorded Sound Collections Certificate of Merit,

Best Historical Research in Recorded Roots or World Music, 2019
A&R Pioneers
Architects of American Roots Music on Record
Brian Ward and Patrick Huber
June 2018
480 pages, 7 × 10 inches
49 b&w illustrations
Notes, References, Index
Cloth $39.95t • 978-0-8265-2175-0
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SAGE Memory Studies Journal & Memory Studies Association

Outstanding First Book Award, Honorable Mention, 2019
Memory Activism
Reimagining the Past for the Future in Israel-Palestine
Yifat Gutman
April 2017
200 pages, 6 × 9 inches
Notes, References, Index
Hardcover $99.99x • 978-0-8265-2133-0
Paperback $39.95x • 978-0-8265-2134-7
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Blues Hall of Fame Inductee, “Classic of Blues Literature,” 2019

Lost Delta Found
Rediscovering the Fisk University–Library of Congress
Coahoma County Study, 1941–1942
John W. Work III, Lewis Wade Jones, and Samuel C. Adams Jr.
Edited by Robert Gordon and Bruce Nemerov
May 2020
360 pages, 7 × 10 inches
19 illustrations, 110 transcriptions 
Notes, References, Index, Appendixes
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Between the Rocks and the Stars

Narratives in Natural History
Stephen Daubert
April 2020
172 pages, 6 × 9 inches
11 illustrations
References, Index
Hardcover $49.95x • 978-0-8265-2274-0
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Surviving
Surviving thethe
The Struggle for
Peace
Peace Surviving the Peace
The Struggle for
Postwar Recovery in
Postwar Recovery in
The Struggle for Postwar Recovery in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Peter Lippman Peter Lippman
November 2019
488 pages, 6 × 9 inches
1 map
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What the Signs Say

Language, Gentrification, and Place-Making in Brooklyn
Shonna Trinch and Edward Snajdr
June 2020
340 pages, 8 × 8 inches
71 illustrations
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MURALS OF NORTH NASHVILLE NOW

Edited by Kathryn E. Delmez

December 2019
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64 pages, 8.5 × 9 inches

40 color photographs
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