New This Week: December 10th
This week we have three new books publishing spanning topics from the origins of white victimhood, health equity in the Mississippi Delta, and the fight for Puerto Rican independence. Browse this week’s new releases below or head over to our Hot Off The Press Page to see all of our December releases in one place. Plus, don’t forget you can save 30% during our Holiday Sale by using code 01UNCP30 at checkout.
Race Traffic: Antislavery and the Origins of White Victimhood, 1619-1819 by Gunther Peck
“Race Traffic renews the histories of labor, antislavery, and race by demonstrating precisely how their subjects created one another. Crossing the Mediterranean and Atlantic, traversing the period from the rise of Britain’s global empire through the Age of Revolutions, this gripping study of words and deeds is both erudite and revelatory. It should be a game changer across more fields of inquiry than I can name.” —David Waldstreicher, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
“Locating the intertwined genealogies of human trafficking, antislavery, and the construction of whiteness in the British Empire and the early American Republic, Peck has given us an interpretively ambitious work with profound implications for the long afterlives of slavery and racism today. A compelling book that I cannot recommend enough.”—Manisha Sinha, University of Connecticut
Ripples of Hope in the Mississippi Delta: Charting the Health Equity Policy Agenda by David K. Jones, Debra Bingham, Nicole Huberfeld, Sarah H. Gordon
Studies in Social Medicine Series
“Jones’s book fills a glaring gap in health services research on place-based inequities. By drawing upon and synthesizing methodologies from a myriad of disciplines, Jones makes clear how equitable access to healthcare is insufficient for addressing population health inequities.”—Arrianna Marie Planey, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“With deep empathy, nuance, and specificity, Ripples of Hope depicts whole communities coming together to redress inequities in one of the country’s most distinctive regions. . . It’s an approach that places around the country are adopting, and this book has powerful lessons for everyone interested in bringing about change in a way that is both comprehensive and locally grounded.”—David M. Greenberg, Vice President, Community Research and Impact at Local Initiatives Support Corporation
Radical Solidarity: Ruth Reynolds, Political Allyship, and the Battle for Puerto Rico’s Independence by Lisa G. Materson
“Materson’s discussion of Reynolds’s life helps us understand the complexities of solidarity activism as well as the ways that Puerto Ricans and their allies have fought for liberation from colonial rule. Well written and engaging, the book stands to make a major contribution to the field.”—Marisol LeBrón, author of Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico
“In this stunning biography of Ruth Reynolds, a lifelong pacifist with deep roots in the Midwest, Lisa Materson introduces us not only to one of the twentieth century ‘s most devoted, and unlikely, champions of Puerto Rican independence but also to the revelatory concept of radical solidarity. . . . Bringing a feminist lens to a lifetime of anti-imperialist politics, Materson brilliantly offers Reynolds’s life as a master lesson in allyship while likewise bringing attention to a too-long-overlooked chapter of American empire.”—Lorena Oropeza, author of The King of Adobe: Reies López Tijerina, Lost Prophet of the Chicano Movement
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