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Beyond Norma Rae: How Puerto Rican and Southern White Women Fought for a Place in the American Working Class

A deft analysis of the ways in which race, gender, and immigration status determine how media has portrayed the labor movement. Recommended for readers interested in labor history and popular media.
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Container and Small-Space Gardening for the South: How To Grow Flowers and Food No Matter Where You Live

A detailed guide with hands-on techniques for starting and maintaining a garden in small spaces.
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Boardinghouse Women: How Southern Keepers, Cooks, Nurses, Widows, and Runaways Shaped Modern America

Engelhardt expertly invokes the spirit of boardinghouse keepers in modern cultural phenomena, such as pop-up kitchens and assisted living facilities. Highly recommended for all history and women’s studies collections.
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Empty Fields, Empty Promises: A State-by-State Guide to Understanding and Transforming the Right To Farm

An academic yet accessible book that rural advocates and foes of inequality will appreciate.
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Between Two Worlds: Jewish War Brides After the Holocaust

A new piece of the Holocaust story will be of interest to readers of Jewish studies, women’s history, and Holocaust studies.
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Bundok: A Hinterland History of Filipino America

Recommended for all higher education collections in anthropology and social sciences.
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Southern Lights: 75 Years of the Carolina Quarterly

An excellent collection, recommended for writing students, book discussion groups, and fans of Southern literature.
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The Vice President’s Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn

This book not only focuses on Chinn, but it also presents a complex, contested view of the social and moral ecology of the antebellum South and the nation. Myers extends that story to discuss current racial issues.

The Famous Lady Lovers: Black Women and Queer Desire Before Stonewall

Woolner’s beautiful prose and writing style makes this book a delight to read. Academics and general readers alike will be drawn to it.
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