New This Week: October 29
From Black US Persona Poetry to food waste in Belgium we have a big selection of new books releasing this week. Browse these new titles that are now available wherever books are sold, or take a look at everything that released this month.
Another Throat: Twenty-First-Century Black US Persona Poetry and the Archive by Ryan Sharp
“Sharp’s analysis and thoughtful treatment of different kinds of poetic projects—even as they all fit under the rubric of persona poems—demonstrate his dexterity as a thinker. His book offers an incisive and valuable portrait of African American poetry’s powerful historical imagination.”—Keith D. Leonard, American University
“Through readings of poetry that are startling in their clarity and cleverness, Sharp argues that Black writers have inhabited different kinds of poetic personas (the dead, the imagined, and even the nonhuman) to undo acts of silencing and to explore the complex relationship between Blackness and the archive. He might be the best reader of twenty-first-century Black poetry that we have.” —GerShun Avilez, author of Black Queer Freedom: Spaces of Injury and Paths of Desire
Truffles and Trash: Recirculating Food in a Social Welfare State by Kelly Alexander
“Capacious and deeply honest. When we ask ourselves what it takes to make food justice real, we will be thinking along with the observations in this book.”—Sharon P. Holland, author of The Erotic Life of Racism
“Alexander melds academic rigor with the evocative prose style and in-depth reporting that characterized her prize-winning work as a journalist.”—Colman Andrews, author of Catalan Cuisine
The Era Was Lost: The Rise and Fall of New York City’s Rank-and-File Rebels by Glenn Dyer
“A superb social and labor history. Charting the strike surge that swept New York City in the decade prior to the fiscal crisis of 1975, Dyer illuminates this central aspect of the city’s life.”—Kim Phillips-Fein, author of Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics
“With expansive research and fresh insights, this impressive first look at rank-and-file worker militancy in New York City during this period substantially furthers the field of labor studies and working-class history.”—Robert Ovetz, author of We the Elites: Why the US Constitution Serves the Few
Indiscipline: Reading Collaboratively Written Native American Autobiography by Alicia Carroll
“Carroll addresses the long history of collaborative Native-white life writing texts while deftly moving beyond them to center Hopi voices and knowledge production.”—Stephanie Fitzgerald, Arizona State University
The Aesthetics of Belonging: Indigenous Urbanism and City Building in Oil-Boom Luanda by Claudia Gastrow
“A magnificent contribution. This book asks the fundamental question about what constitutes a desirable city and who is entitled to inhabit this space of urban desirability.”—Filip De Boeck, University of Leuven
“Gastrow not only sheds new light on the Angolan postwar reconstruction boom; she also theorizes urbanism and citizenship beyond binarities of formal versus informal or Western versus autochthonous.”—Chloé Buire, Les Afriques dans le Monde, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
White Evangelical Racism, Second Edition: The Politics of Morality in America by Anthea Butler
“[Butler’s] ability to weave together history, personal experience, and contemporary reflection in such a cohesive and approachable manner makes White Evangelical Racism stand out. . . . By critiquing and unequivocally condemning White evangelical racism while also acknowledging another evangelical lineage, Butler presents masterful critique while still providing space for a much-needed nuance often missed when [we speak] about the tradition in America as a whole.”—The Christian Century
“White Evangelical Racism has dropped a bomb on the playground of many historians of evangelicalism who have been insufficiently attentive to their subjects’ history, specifically to their racism and nationalism from the nineteenth century to the present.”—American Religion
Ending the Troubles:Religion, Nationalism, and the Search for Peace and Democracy in Northern Ireland, 1997-1998 by John M. Burney, Andrew J. Auge
In the game, students will represent the major parties in Northern Ireland as they reconvene at the multiparty talks in 1997 to find ways to reconcile two competing visions of Northern Irish nationalism, or at least find a way for each community to tolerate one another’s participation in a common constitutional arrangement. Much is at stake, for another failure could lead to a full resumption of the civil war.
Engines of Mischief: Technology, Rebellion, and the Industrial Revolution in England, 1817-1818 by Louise Blakeney Williams, Brendan Palla, Megan Squire
In the game, by assuming the roles of historical actors from various classes of society, students are faced with choices about how to live and prosper during this period of great technological, economic, and social transformation. Will the working class violently resist new technology in factories, form unions, or join radical political clubs to improve their working conditions and protect their rights? How best will middle-class entrepreneurs run their enterprises; will they provide fair treatment to their workers or simply maximize their profit? How will the aristocrats maintain their power in government and society? Will they support the middle or the working classes?