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"In this brilliant book, Charlotte Biltekoff deftly examines unexplored dimensions of the food wars, including the deployment of science to defend processed food, as if science is free of social context and cultural values. In effect Biltekoff asks for more nuanced thinking about science as the ultimate arbiter of fundamentally political decisions--a difficult but necessary challenge in a 'post-truth' world."--Julie Guthman, author of The Problem with Solutions "Real Food, Real Facts clearly highlights the centrality of scientism and deficit thinking in contemporary food policy, showing how this approach is a form of antipolitics that excludes key issues from the realm of legitimate political debate."--Saul Halfon, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Science, Technology, and Society, Virginia Tech "This deeply researched and important book illuminates how trust in science informs trust in the industrial food system. Biltekoff's analysis is critical reading for scholars, consumers, and food industry professionals alike."--Anna Zeide, author of Canned: The Rise and Fall of Consumer Confidence in the American Food Industry "Why do the food industry and the public seem to be speaking different languages about the American industrial food system? Biltekoff provides a clear-eyed explanation of food fights between food industry professionals--who assume that if only the public understood the science they would enthusiastically embrace processed foods--and a public wanting something different, including a more transparent food system and a voice in making it. In lucid, accessible prose, Biltekoff employs the frames of Real Facts and Real Food to understand the twenty-first-century landscape of American food."--Amy Bentley, Professor of Food Studies, New York University

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the New Orleans public school board fired nearly 7,500 teachers and employees. In the decade that followed, the city created the first urban public school system in the United States to be entirely contracted out to private management. Veteran educators, collectively referred to as the "backbone" of the city's Black middle class, were replaced by younger, less experienced, white teachers who lacked historical ties to the city. In A Burdensome Experiment, Christien Philmarc Tompkins argues that the privatization of New Orleans schools has made educators into a new kind of racialized worker. As school districts across the nation backslide on school integration, Tompkins asks, who exactly deserves to teach our children? The struggle over this question exposes the inherent anti-blackness of charter school systems and the unequal burdens of school choice.

"In 1975 the Mexican melodrama Yesenia took the Soviet Union by storm to become the highest grossing film in the history of film exhibition there--to the anger of Russian elites. We rush to read Masha Salazkina's account to find out how we missed this important chapter in world film distribution history. The answer is that there is no such chapter because no other scholar in the field could pull off this international tour de force--an exhaustive cross-cultural analysis of a single melodrama, a continent-crossing that connects the telenovela tradition with Mexican Golden Age cinema as well as Soviet era melodrama. Salazkina tells us that we should have known that the contemporary 'global-popular' is not new, setting the bar high for another generation of multilingual world culture critics."--Jane M. Gaines, author of Pink-Slipped: What Happened to Women in the Silent Film Industry? "What does film history look like when we bypass the Global North? This is the historiographic provocation at the heart of Romancing 'Yesenia, ' a book that will serve as a model for transnational film histories to come. Salazkina moves with ease between Latin American studies and Russian and post-Soviet studies to reconstruct the unlikely global media circuit between Latin America and the Soviet Union. Offering an account of how the transculturation of the Latin American melodrama through the lens of Soviet vernacular culture produced a transnational affective space, Salazkina also challenges both the national allegorical readings of non-Western texts as well as the European literary and Hollywood film canon of melodrama studies."--Nilo Couret, author of Mock Classicism: Latin American Film Comedy, 1930-1960

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Unprecedented numbers of young people are in crisis today, and our health care systems are set up to fail them. Breaking Points explores the stories of a diverse group of American young adults experiencing psychiatric hospitalization for psychotic symptoms for the first time and documents how patients and their families make decisions about treatment after their release. Approximately half of young people refuse mental-health care after their initial hospitalization even though we know that better outcomes depend on early support for youth and families. In attempting to determine why this is the case, Neely Laurenzo Myers identifies what matters most to young people in crisis, passionately arguing that health care providers must attend not only to the medical and material dimensions of care but also to a patient's moral agency.

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Over the past few decades, scholars have traced how Indian Ocean merchants forged transregional networks into a world of global connections. East Africa's crucial role in this Indian Ocean world has primarily been understood through the influence of coastal trading centers like Mombasa. In Inland from Mombasa, David P. Bresnahan looks anew at this Swahili port city from the vantage point of the communities that lived on its rural edges. By reconstructing the deep history of these Mijikenda-speaking societies over the past two millennia, he shows how profoundly they influenced global trade even as they rejected many of the cosmopolitan practices that historians have claimed are critical to creating global connections, choosing smaller communities over urbanism, local ritual practices over Islam, and inland trade over maritime commerce. Inland from Mombasa makes the compelling case that the seemingly isolating alternative social pursuits selected by Mijikenda speakers were in fact key to their active role in global commerce and politics.

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Japan is a nation saddled with centuries of accumulated stereotypes and loaded assumptions about suicide. Many pronouncements have been made about those who have died by their own hand, without careful attention to the words of the dead themselves. Drawing upon far-ranging creations by famous twentieth- and twenty-first-century Japanese artists and little-known amateurs alike-such as death poems, suicide notes, memorials, suicide maps and manuals, works of literature, photography, film, and manga-Kirsten Cather interrogates how suicide is scripted and to what end. Entering the orbit of suicidal writers and readers with care, she shows that through close readings these works can reveal fundamental beliefs about suicide and, just as crucially, about acts of writing. These are not scripts set in stone but graven images and words nonetheless that serve to mourn the dead, straddling two impulses: to put the dead to rest and to keep them alive forever. These words reach out to us to initiate a dialogue with the dead, one that can reveal why it matters to write into and from the void.

This groundbreaking collection of writings by prisoners of conscience in Egypt offers a unique lens on the global rise of authoritarianism over the last decade.   This book contains letters, poetry, and art produced by Egyptians imprisoned from the eruption of the January 25, 2011, uprising through the fall of 2023. Some are by journalists, lawyers, activists, and artists imprisoned for expressing their opposition to Egypt's authoritarian order; others are by ordinary citizens caught up in the zeal to silence any hint of challenge to state power, including bystanders whose only crime was to be near a police sweep.   Together, the contributors to Imprisoning a Revolution raise profound questions about the nature of politics both in authoritarian regimes and in their "democratic" allies, who continue to enable and support such violence. This collection offers few answers and even less consolation, but it does offer voices from behind the prison walls that remind readers of our collective obligation not to look away or remain silent. With a foreword by acclaimed Egyptian novelist Ahmed Naji and an afterword with Kenyan literary giant Ngugi wa Thiong'o, this book holds a mirror not just to Egypt but to the world today, urging us to stop the rampant abuse and denial of fundamental human rights around the globe.

This groundbreaking collection of writings by prisoners of conscience in Egypt offers a unique lens on the global rise of authoritarianism over the last decade.   This book contains letters, poetry, and art produced by Egyptians imprisoned from the eruption of the January 25, 2011, uprising through the fall of 2023. Some are by journalists, lawyers, activists, and artists imprisoned for expressing their opposition to Egypt's authoritarian order; others are by ordinary citizens caught up in the zeal to silence any hint of challenge to state power, including bystanders whose only crime was to be near a police sweep.   Together, the contributors to Imprisoning a Revolution raise profound questions about the nature of politics both in authoritarian regimes and in their "democratic" allies, who continue to enable and support such violence. This collection offers few answers and even less consolation, but it does offer voices from behind the prison walls that remind readers of our collective obligation not to look away or remain silent. With a foreword by acclaimed Egyptian novelist Ahmed Naji and an afterword with Kenyan literary giant Ngugi wa Thiong'o, this book holds a mirror not just to Egypt but to the world today, urging us to stop the rampant abuse and denial of fundamental human rights around the globe.

"No novelist captured the relentless devastation of the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, or the cruel treatment of the desperate 'Okies' forced to leave their homes on the Plains for California, better than Sanora Babb. In this biography, Iris Jamahl Dunkle explains why. Hardship, hunger and struggle, discrimination and stubborn prejudice, big dreams thwarted by fate and bad luck--these were also recurring elements of Babb's own remarkable personal story. But she met it all with an indomitable will, a vivaciously free spirit, and an unbending devotion to her artistic vision. Riding Like the Wind is a both heartbreaking and heroic tale that brings to vivid life an important American writer who never received the critical acclaim and commercial success she deserved."--Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan, producers of The Dust Bowl "In my years of researching the lost historical stories of resilient women, few have resonated with me as much as Sanora Babb. A journalist and writer, she was a true trailblazer and a woman who deserves to be remembered for her contributions to both literature and history. This recognition and remembrance of her work is long overdue. I am thrilled that Dunkle has chosen to shine a light on the heartbreaking story of Babb's life and her remarkable novel about the Dust Bowl and the migration of workers to California during the Great Depression. I hope this book encourages readers to also read Whose Names Are Unknown, Babb's account of the period."--Kristin Hannah, author of The Four Winds and The Women "Dunkle is doing fascinating work as a biographer and cultural historian and makes it succeed because she is a brilliant and vivid storyteller."--Robert Hass, Poet Laureate of the United States, 1995-1997 "This amazing book has changed forever my sense of what it really means to be an American. Dunkle joins today's ranks of women biographers who blow open a closed canon of novels and novelists with her keenly researched and powerfully written saga of the life and times of Sanora Babb. Babb should be read alongside Steinbeck by every high school kid--and Dunkle shows us why."--Alicia Ostriker, New York State Poet, 2018-2021 "Dunkle, through her extensive research and passion for her subject, brings Sanora Babb, a vibrant woman ahead of her times, to life. And it's about time! Dunkle captures the spirit, not just the facts, of Babb's life. By meticulously reading her letters and other unpublished material, Dunkle gets the reader inside Babb's head and motivations, revealing an even more adventurous and complex life than previously imagined. Thanks to plentiful excerpts from Babb's work, the reader experiences and understands her compassion for the outsider and her intimate connection to nature as told through her lyrical writing style. This will be a movie--no doubt."--Joanne Dearcopp, literary executor, agent, and friend of Sanora Babb

"Shirley Chisholm In Her Own Words: Speeches and Writings is a timely, detailed, and inspiring book that helps maintain the intellectual legacy of Shirley Chisholm. The book reveals new dimensions of the congresswoman's politics, activism, and spirit. As the editor, Zinga Fraser shows an understanding of Chisholm that motivates us to listen closely to her enduring voice in this political moment."--Regina King, Academy Award-winning actor and star of Shirley "There's no better way to know someone than through their own words. Fraser's book is an invaluable resource for anyone looking for insight into who Shirley Chisholm was both as a politician and as a person."--John Ridley, director and screenwriter of Shirley

Black Lives Matter and #MeToo are two of the most prominent twenty-first-century social movements in the United States. On the ground and on social media, more people have taken an active stance in support of either or both movements than almost any others in the country's history. Social Movements and the Law brings together the voices of twelve scholars and public intellectuals to explore how Black Lives Matter and #MeToo unfolded-separately and together-and how they enrich, inform, and complicate each other. Structured in dialogues and punctuated with informative text boxes, illustrations, and discussion questions, this accessible guide to an increasingly influential area of the law centers rich intersectional analysis of both movements and prompts readers to undertake further reflection and conversation. At a time of heightened public attention to the broader scholarly study of human social behavior and interaction, this book shows rather than tells how people with different perspectives can engage one another with open minds and a generosity of spirit.

Black Lives Matter and #MeToo are two of the most prominent twenty-first-century social movements in the United States. On the ground and on social media, more people have taken an active stance in support of either or both movements than almost any others in the country's history. Social Movements and the Law brings together the voices of twelve scholars and public intellectuals to explore how Black Lives Matter and #MeToo unfolded-separately and together-and how they enrich, inform, and complicate each other. Structured in dialogues and punctuated with informative text boxes, illustrations, and discussion questions, this accessible guide to an increasingly influential area of the law centers rich intersectional analysis of both movements and prompts readers to undertake further reflection and conversation. At a time of heightened public attention to the broader scholarly study of human social behavior and interaction, this book shows rather than tells how people with different perspectives can engage one another with open minds and a generosity of spirit.

The first comprehensive study of Cassatt's life, work, and legacy through the prism of a transatlantic framework.   This book re-envisions Mary Cassatt in the context of her transatlantic network, friendships, exhibitions, politics, and legacy. Rather than defining her as either an American artist or a French impressionist, author Ruth E. Iskin argues that we can best understand Cassatt through the complexity of her multiple identifications as an American patriot, a committed French impressionist, and a suffragist.   Contextualizing Cassatt's feminist outlook within the intense pro- and anti-suffrage debates in the United States, Iskin shows how these impacted her artistic representations of motherhood, fatherhood, and older women. Mary Cassatt between Paris and New York also argues for the historical importance of her work as an advisor to American collectors, and demonstrates the role of museums in shaping her legacy, highlighting the combined impact of gender, national, and transnational dynamics.

"A timely, consequential work from one of our greatest historians, Building the Black City is a reparative justice and urban historical tour de force."--Marcus Anthony Hunter, author of Radical Reparations: Healing the Soul of a Nation "In this masterful new study, preeminent historian Joe William Trotter, Jr., provides an unflinching look at how Black people built and navigated urban spaces from the colonial period to the present. While acknowledging the devastating toll that slavery, segregation, and mass incarceration have wrought in Black communities, Trotter boldly insists that our nation can never eradicate racism and implement restorative justice until we look beyond suffering--until we fully appreciate the strength, creativity, and determination of a people who unceasingly sought to make a place for themselves in the United States. In this expansive study, Trotter powerfully reminds us that Black people built cities not only to create home, community, and a sense of permanence, but also to fight against white supremacy itself."--Leslie M. Alexander, author of African or American? Black Identity and Political Activism in New York City, 1784-1861 "Trotter offers a capacious view of the building of the Black city from the colonial era to the present, emphasizing the creativity, resilience, and resourcefulness of its residents. He explores regional variations related to the struggles for equal citizenship, property ownership, public education, and vibrant religious and cultural institutions. A superb addition to US urban history."--Jacqueline Jones, author of No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era

"At a time when so many assume that observant Muslims and Jews share nothing in common, Samuel Heilman and Mucahit Bilici--colleagues and religiously engaged scholars--introduce the lived religions of Judaism and Islam in the United States, stressing their parallel practices and structural similarities. Anyone interested in American religion and life should take notice. Timely and much needed."--Jonathan D. Sarna, author of American Judaism: A History "While many devout Jews and Muslims in America view one another with mutual suspicion, Heilman and Bilici reminds us how much the two communities have in common, and how much they can learn from each other. Mabruk and mazel tov!"--Charles Kurzman, Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "Observant Jews and Muslims in America have a lot in common. For those who don't already know this, Heilman and Bilici's book is a must-read, countering long-lasting stereotypes. But even for those of us who already recognize the many connections between Muslims and Jews, this book is a revelation, not only for its careful sensitivity to historical detail and sociological theory but also for its ongoing grounding in the American experience of two minority religions."--Jeffrey Guhin, author of Agents of God: Boundaries and Authority in Muslim and Christian Schools

"No one taught me more about poetry than Jerome Rothenberg."--Nick Cave

An eye-opening account of the failures of our financial system, the sources of its staying power, and the path to meaningful economic reform.   Bankers brought the global economic system to its knees in 2007 and nearly did the same in 2020. Both times, the US government bailed out the banks and left them in control. How can we end this cycle of trillion-dollar bailouts and make finance work for the rest of us? Busting the Bankers' Club confronts the powerful people and institutions that benefit from our broken financial system-and the struggle to create an alternative. Drawing from decades of research on the history, economics, and politics of banking, economist Gerald Epstein shows that any meaningful reform will require breaking up this club of politicians, economists, lawyers, and CEOs who sustain the status quo. Thankfully, there are thousands of activists, experts, and public officials who are working to do just that. Clear-eyed and hopeful, Busting the Bankers' Club centers the individuals and groups fighting for a financial system that will better serve the needs of the marginalized and support important transitions to a greener, fairer economy.

This groundbreaking resource moves us from theory to action with a practical plan for reparations.   A surge in interest in black reparations is taking place in America on a scale not seen since the Reconstruction Era. The Black Reparations Project gathers an accomplished interdisciplinary team of scholars-members of the Reparations Planning Committee-who have considered the issues pertinent to making reparations happen. This book will be an essential resource in the national conversation going forward.   The first section of The Black Reparations Project crystallizes the rationale for reparations, cataloguing centuries of racial repression, discrimination, violence, mass incarceration, and the immense black-white wealth gap. Drawing on the contributors' expertise in economics, history, law, public policy, public health, and education, the second section unfurls direct guidance for building and implementing a reparations program, including draft legislation that addresses how the program should be financed and how claimants can be identified and compensated. Rigorous and comprehensive, The Black Reparations Project will motivate, guide, and speed the final leg of the journey for justice.