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Foregrounds the radical power of male intimacy and vulnerability in surveying each of James Baldwin's six novels. Asserting that manhood and masculinity hold the potential for both tragedy and salvation, Ernest Gibson highlights the complex and emotional choices Baldwin's men must make within their varied lives, relationships, and experiences.

Remembered in name but underappreciated in legacy, Forrest "Phog" Allen arguably influenced the game of basketball more than anyone else. Scott Morrow Johnson reveals Allen as a master recruiter, a transformative coach, and a visionary basketball mind. But Johnson also delves into Allen's occasionally tumultuous relationships with the NCAA, and the University of Kansas administration.

The intertwined story of five influential African American athletes who came together as teammates at UCLA in the 1930s, a time when racial discrimination in sports was widespread across the nation. Their career pursuits after college precipitated political and social change in the world of sports, entertainment, and politics.

Native Provenance challenges readers to consider the subtle ironies at the heart of Native American culture and oral traditions such as creation and trickster stories and dream songs, vividly exploring more than two centuries of shameful betrayal of native creativity.

The Distance Between is a nuanced exploration of and reckoning with absent fathers, fatherhood, addiction, adolescent rage, white male privilege, and the author's own toxic masculinity.

This collection, spanning nearly a decade of artistic activity, features selections of writings that trace the intellectual influences and track the development of one of the more formidable and productive minds in the contemporary art world.

The Grass Shall Grow is a succinct introduction to the work and world of Helen M. Post, who took thousands of photographs of Native Americans during a brief period of intense activity in the late 1930s and early years of World War II.

Paul Dickson chronicles the dramatic events and developments leading up to and resulting from the launch of the first artificial satellite, Sputnik.

In lyric and documentary poems and essayistic fragments, Hard Damage charts the intergenerational damage caused by war, environmental loss, and the collective grief of exile.

Marilyn Irvin Holt examines Nebraska's contribution to the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) in terms of its place within the national FWP as well as its operation in comparison to other state projects.

Spanning more than six decades of Sudan's post-independence history, this collection features work by some of Sudan's most renowned modern poets. Adil Babikir's extensive introduction provides a conceptual framework to help the English reader understand the cultural context.

Starring Red Wing! is a sweeping narrative of Lilian M. St. Cyr's evolution as America's first Native American film star, from her childhood and performance career to her days as a respected elder of the multi-tribal New York City Indian community.

This powerful and inviting collection of Tiffany Midge's musings on life, politics, and identity as a Native woman in America, reminds us that laughter is precious, even sacred.

Disruptive Voices and the Singularity of Histories explores the interplay of identities and scholarship through the history of anthropology, with a special section examining fieldwork predecessors and indigenous communities in Native North America.

A Grammar of Southern Pomo is the first comprehensive description of the Southern Pomo language, one of seven Pomoan languages once spoken in the vicinity of Clear Lake and the Russian River drainage of California.

Informed by new modes of contextualization, including the increasingly popular view of Willa Cather as a pivotal or transitional figure working between and across very different cultural periods, and by the recent publication of Cather's correspondence, the essays in this collection reassess Cather's lifelong encounter with, and interpretation and reimagining of, the arts.

Tison Pugh looks at the intersection of narratology, ludology, and queer studies, providing a range of theoretical interpretive strategies for uncovering the queer potential of gaming texts and textual games while demonstrating the wide applicability of queer ludonarratology throughout the humanities.

Stephen J. C. Andes uses the story of Sofia del Valle, who resisted religious persecution in an era of Mexican revolutionary upheaval, to tell the history of Catholicism's global shift from north to south and the central role women played in Catholicism over the course of the twentieth century.

Back to America is one of the few ethnographies of local activist groups within the Tea Party. Westermeyer explains the significance of grassroots groups in individual as well as collective political identity formation and how both contribute to the success of the wider movement.

Mapping Beyond Measure analyzes diverse map-based works of painting, collage, film, walking performance, and digital drawing, made in Britain, Japan, the Netherlands, Ukraine, the United States, and the former Soviet Union, arguing that together they challenge the dominant modern view of the world as a measurable and malleable geometrical space.

The Virgin of Prince Street chronicles Sonja Livingston's quest to explore devotion and spirituality in her life. Meditations on quirky rituals and fading traditions thoughtfully and dynamically interrogate traditional elements of sacramental devotion, especially as they relate to shifting concepts of religion, relationships, and the sacred.

The study of narrative has been a continuous concern from antiquity to the present day because stories are everywhere - from fiction across media to nation building and personal identity. This title sorts out traditional narrative theories, providing the necessary skills to interpret any story that comes along.

Nicholas A. Scott presents novel ways of understanding how cycling and driving animate urban space, place, and society and investigates how cycling can learn from the ways in which driving has become invested with moral value.

April Twilights is Bernice Slote's landmark edition of Cather's first book, a collection of Willa Cather's poems with an introduction by Slote and a new introduction by Robert Thacker that provides new insights into Cather and her poetry.

A state-of-the-field volume of southern Native American history that focuses on the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries.

In this action-packed novel set in 1975 Montana, history professor Diana Karnov begins to see what she had learned about western America in an entirely new light.

Joyce Sutphen's evocations of life on a small farm, coming of age in the late 1960s, and travelling and searching for balance in a very modern world are both deeply personal and familiar. Readers from Maine to Minnesota will recognise themselves, their parents, aunts and uncles, and neighbours in these poems.

Fills a crucial gap in modern literary studies by presenting the complete letters of one of the great novelists and letter writers of the English language. This work comprises more than ten thousand letters reflecting on a range of topics - from Henry James' own life and literary projects to questions on art, literature, and criticism.

This is the first volume of the Sandoz Studies series, a collection of thematically grouped essays that feature writing by and about Mari Sandoz and her work. The scholarly essays and writings of Sandoz place her work into broader contexts, enriching our understanding of her as an author and as a woman deeply connected to the Sandhills of Nebraska.

Traces the evolution of the humanitarian hero, looking at the ways in which historians, politicians, and filmmakers have treated individual rescuers like Raoul Wallenberg and Oskar Schindler, as well as the rescue efforts of humanitarian organizations. Contributors also explore classroom possibilities for dealing with the role of rescuers.