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The Carceral City
Americans often assume that slave societies had little use for prisons and police because slaveholders only ever inflicted violence directly or through overseers. Mustering tens of …
American Literary Misfits
The study of nineteenth-century American literature has long been tied up with the study of American democracy. Just as some regions in the United States are elevated to stand in …
The Rich Earth between Us
In this theory-rich study, Shelby Johnson analyzes the works of Black and Indigenous writers in the Atlantic World, examining how their literary production informs "modes of being" …
North Carolina's Roadside Eateries
D. G. Martin is back with an updated and expanded edition of North Carolina's Roadside Eateries. Now there are even more restaurants and things to do for the interstate traveler. …
Come! Come! Where? Where?
James Seay's essays reflect a poet's eye for detail and a seeker's wrestling with life's big questions and experiences: what it means to be a parent, losing a child, confronting …
Beatriz Allende
This biography of Beatriz Allende (1942–1977)—revolutionary doctor and daughter of Chile's socialist president, Salvador Allende—portrays what it means to live, love, and fight for …
The War That Made America
This collection of original essays reveals the richness and dynamism of contemporary scholarship on the Civil War era. Inspired by the lines of inquiry that animated the writings …
Rap and Redemption on Death Row
Imprisoned since age nineteen, Alim Braxton has spent more than a quarter century on North Carolina's death row. During that time, he converted to Islam and dedicated his life to …
Sympathy and Science
When first published in 1985, Sympathy and Science was hailed as a groundbreaking study of women in medicine. It remains the most comprehensive history of American women physicians …
Discovering North Carolina's Mountains-to-Sea Trail
Jerry Barker has long championed North Carolina's Mountains-to-Sea Trail (MST), (MST) and led its development for many years. In Discovering North Carolina's Mountains-to-Sea …
Inventing Disaster
When hurricanes, earthquakes, wildfires, and other disasters strike, we count our losses, search for causes, commiserate with victims, and initiate relief efforts. Amply …
Black Time and the Aesthetic Possibility of Objects
The decades following the civil rights and decolonization movements of the sixties and seventiestermed the post-soul eracreated new ways to understand the aesthetics of global …