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All Play and No Work

American Work Ideals and the Comic Plays of the Federal Theatre Project

Paul Gagliardi

Forthcoming Fall 2023 — Pre-order your copy now

How comic plays of the Federal Theatre Project challenged work norms promoted by the federal government during the Great Depression

216 pages | 6 x 9 | 11 halftones

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The Barnes Then and Now

Dialogues on Education, Installation, and Social Justice

Edited by Martha Lucy

As the Barnes enters its second century, how does it honor its founder’s vision while responding to the complexities of contemporary life and museum practice?

Distributed by Temple University Press for the Barnes Foundation

304 pages | 7 x 10 | 60 color photos, 30 halftones

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Building a Social Contract

Modern Workers’ Houses in Early Twentieth-Century Detroit

Michael McCulloch

Shows that power is negotiated through housing development, which spatializes race and class relations and is central to workers’ security

242 pages | 6 x 9 | 1 table, 9 figures, 61 halftones

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A Critical Synergy

Race, Decoloniality, and World Crises

Ali Meghji

Shows how decolonial theory and critical race theory can complement each other, applying them in combination to the world's greatest social challenges

206 pages | 5.5 x 8.25

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Digging in the City of Brotherly Love

Stories from Philadelphia Archaeology
Second Edition

Rebecca Yamin

New archaeological finds in Philadelphia and state-of-the-art analyses bring more of the city’s unknown past and its people to life

320 pages | 7 x 10 | 75 color photos, 2 tables, 10 figures, 91 halftones, 9 maps

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The Fantasy Economy

Neoliberalism, Inequality, and the Education Reform Movement

Neil Kraus

Forthcoming Fall 2023 — Pre-order your copy now

Showing how the contemporary education reform movement is a political campaign created to advance the free markets of neoliberalism

294 pages | 6 x 9 | 4 tables, 1 figure

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In Reunion

Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Communication of Family

Sara Docan-Morgan

Forthcoming Fall 2023 — Pre-order your copy now

Details how transnational Korean adoptees who have reunited with their birth families navigate identity, family, and belonging

324 pages | 6 x 9 | 1 table

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Inspired Citizens

How Our Political Role Models Shape American Politics

Jennie Sweet-Cushman

Forthcoming Fall 2023 — Pre-order your copy now

Do Americans have political role models and, if so, what impact do they have on political behavior and attitudes?

176 pages | 6 x 9 | 16 tables, 21 figures

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Intimate Strangers

Shin Issei Women and Contemporary Japanese American Community, 1980–2020

Tritia Toyota

Forthcoming Fall 2023 — Pre-order your copy now

Exploring how Japanese women migrants (shin Issei ) are making place/space for themselves among generations of Americans of Japanese ancestry

244 pages | 6 x 9

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Modern Migrations, Black Interrogations

Revisioning Migrants and Mobilities through the Critique of Antiblackness

Edited by Philip Kretsedemas and Jamella N. Gow

Forthcoming Fall 2023 — Pre-order your copy now

Using Black Studies theory to examine the contemporary meanings of migration

218 pages | 6 x 9 | 3 halftones

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My Life in Paper

Adventures in Ephemera

Beth Kephart

Forthcoming Fall 2023 — Pre-order your copy now A memoirist’s guide to the role paper plays in our construction of ourselves

336 pages | 5.625 x 8.25

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The Perversity of Gratitude

An Apartheid Education

Grant Farred

Forthcoming Fall 2023 — Pre-order your copy now

How a disenfranchised apartheid education prompted thinking

224 pages | 5.5 x 8.25

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Preparing Students to Engage in Equitable Community Partnerships

A Handbook

Elizabeth A. Tryon, Haley C. Madden, and Cory Sprinkel

Forthcoming Fall 2023 — Pre-order your copy now

A comprehensive handbook for community-engagement professionals to navigate the art of preparing students for humble, respectful, and equitable community partnerships

300 pages | 6 x 9 | 4 tables, 10 figures

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