New This Week: October 22
From a biography of the boy who emerged as the face of the aids epidemic in the 1980’s to an oral history of Guatemalan and Mexican migrants in Morganton, North Carolina we have another great selection of book publishing this week. Keep reading to browse what’s new or check out everything new this month.
The Life and Death of Ryan White: AIDS and Inequality in America by Paul M. Renfro
“Thoughtful . . . . A compact and knowledgeable study of the “poster boy” of the AIDS epidemic.”—Kirkus Reviews
“When it comes to media coverage of HIV, few Americans have garnered as many headlines as Ryan White. But there is a difference between the person and the cultural figure . . . . [Renfro] plumbs the depths of those contrasts [and] puts the late AIDS activist’s life into context.”—POZ Magazine
“A novel and important contribution to the history of HIV/AIDS and late-twentieth-century political culture more broadly.”—Margot Canaday, author of Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America
The Maya of Morgantown: Work and Community in the Nuevo New South by Leon Fink
“This updated edition of The Maya of Morganton is a gift to anyone who cares about one of the great human dramas of our times: the uprooting of Third World people by the twin forces of violence and global capitalism. . . . Bravo to one of the best labor historians of his generation.”—Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, author of Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America
“A dream project that is as valuable as it is timely: the question of how to best seek justice for immigrant workers (and what ‘justice’ even looks like) is more relevant now than ever.”—Julie M. Weise, author of Corazón de Dixie: Mexicanos in the U.S. South since 1910
Charles Darwin, the Copley Medal, and the Rise of Naturalism, 1862-1864, Second Edition by Marsha Driscoll, Elizabeth E. Dunn, Dann Siems, Raymond A. Kimball, Amanda E. Rollinson, B. Kamran Swanson, Frederick H. Burkhardt
In this second edition of Charles Darwin, the Copley Medal, and the Rise of Naturalism, 1861–1864, students engage in debates within the Royal Society that navigate the tension between natural and teleological views. The student roles delve into topics like inductive reasoning, science in industrial society, social reform, and women’s rights, all centered around the Copley deliberations and the societal impact of Darwin’s evolutionary theory.