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On Immigration:

Coming of Age(ncy) on the Migrant Trail cover

Coming of Age(ncy) on the Migrant Trail

Global Latin/o Americas

Susana S. Martínez

$34.95 $27.96 Paper

Maps agency in young adult literature involving Latine/x migrant youth, showing how these narratives combat stereotypes and contribute to antiracist pedagogical discussions where youth emerge as catalysts for social change.

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Against! Rebellious Daughters in Black Immigrant Fiction in the United States cover

Against! Rebellious Daughters in Black Immigrant Fiction in the United States

Asha Jeffers

$34.95 $27.96 Paper

Evaluates how texts by Afro-Caribbean and African US-based women writers address the recurring theme of rebellious immigrant daughters to reconsider the relationship between Blackness and immigranthood in the US.

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Women Surrounded by Water: A Memoir

Machete

Patricia Coral

$19.95 $15.96 Paper

A propulsive memoir of growing up in Puerto Rico, of personal and natural disasters—and of the self-discovery made possible only when we choose what to leave behind.

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Against Exclusion: Disrupting Anti-Chinese Violence in the Nineteenth Century cover

Against Exclusion: Disrupting Anti-Chinese Violence in the Nineteenth Century

Audrey Wu Clark

$34.95 $27.96 Paper

Reframes Asian American resistance via the lives of five early Chinese American public figures, tracing the emergence of violently imposed exceptionalism and mapping its reverberations into the present day.

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Sanctuary: Exclusion, Violence, and Indigenous Migrants in the East Bay cover

Sanctuary: Exclusion, Violence, and Indigenous Migrants in the East Bay

Global Latin/o Americas

Cruz Medina

$24.95 $19.96 Paper

Brings Indigenous migrant populations to the fore of intersecting issues of immigration, violence, language, and property to cast light on citizenship, literacy, and exclusion in the United States.

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Me llamo Marcela: My Story as a Heritage Speaker

Latinographix

Written by Marcela T. Garcés and Illustrated by Andrés E. Garcés

$14.95 $11.96 Paper

A graphic memoir about the complicated path of language and identity that Marcela travels as a young heritage Spanish speaker.

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Indigenous Dispossession, Anti-Immigration, and the Public Pedagogy of US Empire cover

Indigenous Dispossession, Anti-Immigration, and the Public Pedagogy of US Empire

Race and Mediated Cultures

Leah Perry

$36.95 $29.56 Paper

Traces the ways that the United States created its empire through public pedagogies surrounding Indigenous dispossession, gendered state violence, and racialized immigration.

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The Translator’s Daughter: A Memoir

Machete

Grace Loh Prasad

$24.95 $19.96 Paper

A Taiwanese American writer unfurls themes of memory, dislocation, language, and loss to tell a unique story about reclaiming one's heritage while living in a diaspora.

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Through Fences

Latinographix

Frederick Luis Aldama and Oscar Garza

$17.95 $14.36 Paper

Short comics about immigration and life on the US–Mexico border.

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Inconvenient Strangers: Transnational Subjects and the Politics of Citizenship cover

Inconvenient Strangers: Transnational Subjects and the Politics of Citizenship

Intersectional Rhetorics

Shui-yin Sharon Yam

$34.95 $27.96 Paper

Examines how three transnational groups in Hong Kong use familial narratives to promote critical empathy and decenter the oppressive logics behind dominant citizenship discourses.

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Disabled Upon Arrival: Eugenics, Immigration, and the Construction of Race and Disability cover

Disabled Upon Arrival: Eugenics, Immigration, and the Construction of Race and Disability

Jay Timothy Dolmage

$29.95 $23.96 Paper

Links anti-immigration rhetoric to eugenics—and shows how racist and ableist ideas about bodily values have never really gone away.

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Diary of a Reluctant Dreamer: Undocumented Vignettes from a Pre-American Life cover

Diary of a Reluctant Dreamer: Undocumented Vignettes from a Pre-American Life

Latinographix

Alberto Ledesma

$19.95 $15.96 Paper

A humorous, gritty, and multilayered portrait of undocumented immigrant life in urban America.

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On Contemporary Politics:

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Minor Troubles: Racial Figurations of Youth Sexuality and Childhood’s Queerness

Erin J. Rand

$36.95 $29.56 Paper

Focuses on the rhetorical process of figuration as instrumental in creating cultural ideas about childhood, providing a road map for understanding alarmist discourses about children, race, gender, and sexuality.

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Rhetorical Economies of Whiteness: Exploring the Intersections of Power, Privilege, and Race cover

Rhetorical Economies of Whiteness: Exploring the Intersections of Power, Privilege, and Race

Edited by Robert Asen and Casey Ryan Kelly

$37.95 $30.36 Paper

Examines the interplay of rhetoric, whiteness, and economics, illustrating how economic and class structures incentivize adherence to whiteness as an identity formation and form of symbolic capital.

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Just Kids: Youth Activism and Rhetorical Agency cover

Just Kids: Youth Activism and Rhetorical Agency

Risa Applegarth

$32.95 $26.36 Paper

Analyzes cases in which children and teens push back against public discourse that treats them as symbols rather than as effective organizers, speakers, writers, and demonstrators.

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Grassroots Activisms: Public Rhetorics in Localized Contexts

Intersectional Rhetorics

Edited by Lisa L. Phillips, Sarah Warren-Riley, and Julie Collins Bates

$34.95 $27.96 Paper

Combines activist profiles and scholarly essays to amplify and analyze the tactics of grassroots activists working locally to intervene in social injustices.

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Through Fences cover

Through Fences

Latinographix

Frederick Luis Aldama and Oscar Garza

$17.95 $14.36 Paper

Short comics about immigration and life on the US–Mexico border.

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Muslim Comics and Warscape Witnessing

Studies in Comics and Cartoons

Esra Mirze Santesso

$34.95 $27.96 Paper

As the first major study of comics by and about Muslim people, explores how graphic narratives from within and outside the Middle East articulate Muslim subjectivities.

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Deflective Whiteness: Co-Opting Black and Latinx Identity Politics cover

Deflective Whiteness: Co-Opting Black and Latinx Identity Politics

Race and Mediated Cultures

Hannah Noel

$32.95 $26.36 Paper

Details the appropriation of social justice rhetoric to claim Whiteness as an aggrieved social status, enabling White supremacy and deepening racial inequities.

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American Magnitude: Hemispheric Vision and Public Feeling in the United States cover

American Magnitude: Hemispheric Vision and Public Feeling in the United States

Christa J. Olson

$29.95   $23.96  Paper

Winner, 2022 NCA Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award

Examines how imagery and rhetoric of pan-American grandeur from 1845 to 1950 used Latin America as a foil for creating US national identity and a particular American way of feeling.

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A History of Hate in Ohio: Then and Now cover

A History of Hate in Ohio: Then and Now

Michael E. Brooks and Bob Fitrakis

$24.95 $19.96 Paper

Presents the first comprehensive study of white supremacy and hate groups in the Buckeye State, from the colonial era to the present day.

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American Catastrophe: Fundamentalism, Climate Change, Gun Rights, and the Rhetoric of Donald J. Trump cover

American Catastrophe: Fundamentalism, Climate Change, Gun Rights, and the Rhetoric of Donald J. Trump

Luke Winslow

$32.95 $26.36 Paper

Explores case studies of Christian fundamentalism, anti-environmentalism, gun rights messaging, and the Trump administration to understand how appeals to catastrophe are used to unite Americans.

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Awful Archives: Conspiracy Theory, Rhetoric, and Acts of Evidence cover

Awful Archives: Conspiracy Theory, Rhetoric, and Acts of Evidence

Jenny Rice

$34.95 $27.96 Paper

An exploration of exaggerated cases of conspiracy theories which helps to reveal why traditional modes of argument fail against unwarranted, unsound, or untrue evidence.

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Apocalypse Man: The Death Drive and the Rhetoric of White Masculine Victimhood cover

Apocalypse Man: The Death Drive and the Rhetoric of White Masculine Victimhood

Casey Ryan Kelly

$32.95   $26.36  Paper

A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title

Examines how and why death, victimhood, and fatalism have come to underwrite the constitution of contemporary white masculinity.

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Vaccine Rhetorics

Heidi Yoston Lawrence

$29.95   $23.96  Paper

Finalist, 2021 ARSTM Book Award
Honorable Mention, 2021 CCCC Best Book in Technical or Scientific Communication

Addresses the underlying rhetoric of vaccination debates by examining the full spectrum of viewpoints to develop a nuanced way forward.

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Tales from la Vida: A Latinx Comics Anthology cover

Tales from la Vida: A Latinx Comics Anthology

Latinographix

Frederick Luis Aldama, Ed.

$17.95 $14.36 Paper

One-of-a-kind collection of comics that sheds light on Latina/o/x experiences, exploring language, culture, history, and more.

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Reality Bites: Rhetoric and the Circulation of Truth Claims in U.S. Political Culture cover

Reality Bites: Rhetoric and the Circulation of Truth Claims in U.S. Political Culture

Dana L. Cloud

$34.95 $27.96 Paper

Explores truth claims in contemporary U.S. political rhetoric and the viability of an empirical standard for political truths.

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