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Making our Future: Visionary Folklore and Everyday Culture in Appalachia by Emily Hilliard

“A benchmark in public folklore.”—Mary Hufford, Ohio State University and the Livelihoods Knowledge Exchange Network

“With deep commitment to both place and field, Making Our Future is sure to be a lasting model of public scholarship at its most inventive.” —Elizabeth Catte, author of What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia

“Innovative and inspiring, Making Our Future is a significant contribution to Appalachian studies.”—Ann Pancake, author of Strange As This Weather Has Been

Culture in the Clinic: Miami and the Making of Modern Medicine by Catherine Mas

“Creatively conceptualized and thoroughly researched, Culture in the Clinic offers a novel approach to an understudied set of questions at the nexus of the history of medicine, sociomedical science, and transnational US history.”—Julia E. Rodriguez, University of New Hampshire

“Essential reading for anyone interested in alternative models of global health care.”—Gabriela Soto Laveaga, professor of the history of science and Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of Mexico, Harvard University

Borders of Violence & Justice: Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and Law Enforcement in the Southwest, 1835-1935 by Brian D. Behnken

“Borders of Violence and Justice is a consequential contribution to the scholarship on racist violence, police brutality, and Mexican American history.”—Brent M. S. Campney, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

“Brian Behnken gives us a rare look into the convoluted history between ethnic Mexicans and the U.S. criminal justice system.”—Miguel A. Levario, author of Militarizing the Border: When Mexicans Became the Enemy

“Behnken examines historical patterns of violence that too often involved the false idea of a lawless frontier to justify the elimination of so-called bandits, almost always of Mexican origin. . . This historical synthesis will be of great value to the general public and policy makers alike—it has the potential to effect real change, if only those lessons from the past are taken seriously.”—Sonia Hernández, Texas A&M University

Free Joan Little: The Politics of Race, Sexual Violence & Imprisonment by Christina Greene

“This is a hugely important book by a veteran historian of civil rights and women’s activism. . . And it is extremely moving to read.”—Annelise Orleck, author of Common Sense and a Little Fire: Women and Working-Class Politics in the United States, 1900–1965

“This book is a triumph.”—Ashley D. Farmer, author of Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era

Hurricane Jim Crow: How the Great Sea Island Storm of 1893 Shaped the Lowcountry South by Caroline Grego

“Hurricane Jim Crow is an incisive and compelling chronicle of the aftermath of a devastating storm that collided with social, economic, and political realities, exacerbating and unearthing African Americans’ struggle for survival and their freedom fight.

“Hurricane Jim Crow transcends other books that touch on the subject and resonates with a wide band of scholarship.”—Pete Daniel, author of Dispossession: Discrimination against African American Farmers in the Age of Civil Rights

“Grego tells a complicated story of how sudden environmental devastation empowered white supremacists to consolidate power despite the efforts of the Red Cross and the local African American community.”—Cynthia A. Kierner, author of Inventing Disaster: The Culture of Calamity from the Jamestown Colony to the Johnstown Flood