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Queer Freedom : Black Sovereignty
(November 2020)
Ana-Maurine Lara - Author
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Evocative, innovative ethnography of spiritual practices and forms of queer, black, and indigenous life in the Dominican Republic.
Theoretically wide-ranging and deeply personal and poetic, Queer Freedom : Black Sovereignty is based on more than three years of fieldwork in the Dominican Republic. Ana-Maurine Lara draws on her engagement in traditional ceremonies, observatio...(Read More) |
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Changed Forever, Volume II
(August 2020)
American Indian Boarding-School Literature
Arnold Krupat - Author
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The second volume of the first in-depth study of a range of literature written by Native Americans who attended government-run boarding schools.
After a theoretical and historical introduction to American Indian boarding-school literature, Changed Forever, Volume II examines the autobiographical writings of a number of Native Americans who attended the federal Indian boarding schools. Considering a wide range of tribal w...(Read More) |
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Ceremony Men
(May 2020)
Making Ethnography and the Return of the Strehlow Collection
Jason M. Gibson - Author
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Rethinks the role of Indigenous and non-Indigenous interactions in the production of ethnographic museum collections.
By analyzing one of the world’s greatest collections of Indigenous song, myth, and ceremony—the collections of linguist/anthropologist T. G. H. Strehlow—Ceremony Men demonstrates how inextricably intertwined ethnographic collections can become in complex his...(Read More) |
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Restless Spirits
(May 2020)
Plays
William S. Yellow Robe Jr. - Author
Jace Weaver - Editor
Hanay L. Geiogamah - Foreword by
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A collection of plays by American Indian playwright William S. Yellow Robe Jr.
Restless Spirits is a collection of previously unpublished plays by contemporary Assiniboine playwright William S. Yellow Robe Jr. Including one full-length and seven one-act plays, this book reflects one of the author’s most creative and productive periods in his career. Selected by Yellow Robe, in consultation with editor Jace Weaver, the pl...(Read More) |
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Authorized Agents
(October 2019)
Publication and Diplomacy in the Era of Indian Removal
Frank Kelderman - Author
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Examines the relation between Indian diplomacy and nineteenth-century Native American literature.
In the nineteenth century, Native American writing and oratory extended a long tradition of diplomacy between indigenous people and settler states. As the crisis of forced removal profoundly reshaped Indian country between 1820 and 1860, tribal leaders and intellectuals worked with co...(Read More) |
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Speaking Face to Face
(June 2019)
The Visionary Philosophy of María Lugones
Pedro J. DiPietro - Editor
Jennifer McWeeny - Editor
Shireen Roshanravan - Editor
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The first in-depth analysis of the radical feminist theory and coalitional praxis of scholar-activist María Lugones.
Speaking Face to Face provides an unprecedented, in-depth look at the feminist philosophy and practice of the renowned Argentinian-born scholar-activist María Lugones. Informed by her identification as “nondiasporic Latina” and US Woman of Color, as well as her long-term commitment...(Read More) |
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Beyond Bergson
(May 2019)
Examining Race and Colonialism through the Writings of Henri Bergson
Andrea J. Pitts - Editor
Mark William Westmoreland - Editor
Leonard Lawlor - Foreword by
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Examines Bergson’s work from the perspectives of critical philosophy of race and decolonial theory, placing it in conversation with theorists from Africa, the African Diaspora, and Latin America.
Building upon recent interest in Henri Bergson’s social and political philosophy, this volume offers a series of fresh and novel perspectives on Bergson’s writings through the lenses of critical philosophy of race and...(Read More) |
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You Who Enter Here
(March 2019)
Erika T. Wurth - Author
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Finalist 2019 Book of the Year - ForeWord
Finalist 2020 Colorado Book Award - Colorado Center for the Book
Honorable Mention 2020 In the Margins Book Award - Library Services for Youth in Custody
A beautifully rendered, brutally realistic Native American gang novel.
Matthew has grown up in hell. His father is gone, and his mot...(Read More) |
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Recovering Lost Footprints, Volume 2
(December 2018)
Contemporary Maya Narratives
Arturo Arias - Author
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Analyzes contemporary Yucatecan and Chiapanecan Maya narratives.
Recovering Lost Footprints, Volume 2 is an in-depth analysis of the sociohistorical conflict impacting Indigenous communities in Latin America. Continuing the project he began in volume 1, Arturo Arias analyzes contemporary Peninsular and Chiapanecan Maya narratives. He examines the works of Yucatecan writers Jorge Cocom Pech, Javier Gómez Navarrete,...(Read More) |
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Angry Rain
(October 2018)
A Brief Memoir
Maurice Kenny - Author
Derek C. Maus - Edited and with an introduction by
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Reveals the development of Maurice Kenny’s growing artistic consciousness, while attesting to both the beauty and brutality of the world in which he lived.
Maurice Kenny’s career as a writer, teacher, publisher, and storyteller spanned more than six decades, during which he published over thirty books and became one of the most prominent voices in American poetry. From the early 1970s onward, he was instrumental in ...(Read More) |
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