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Saying No to Hate grounds readers in the history of antisemitism in America, emphasizing the strategies Jews have used to address threats and thereby preparing us to recognize, understand, and confront hatred today.
Across the United States, groups of grassroots volunteers gather in overgrown, systemically neglected cemeteries, they offer care to individuals who were denied basic rights and forms of belonging in life and in death. Cemetery Citizens is the first book-length study of this emerging form of social justice work. It focuses on how racial disparities shape the fates of the dead, and asks what kinds of repair are still possible by drawing on interviews, activist anthropology, and poems Rosenblatt dives into the ethical quandaries and practical complexities of cemetery reclamationtion.
Sam Ladkin, Frank O'Hara's New York School and Mid-Century Mannerism: Perfectly Disgraceful (Oxford University Press): offers a ground-breaking account of the poet Frank O'Hara and the extraordinary cultural blossoming O'Hara catalysed, namely the mid-century experimental and multi-disciplinary arts scene, the New York School. Fresh accounts of canonical figures (Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, George Balanchine, Fred Astaire) and original work on those too little discussed (Edwin Denby, Elaine de Kooning) resound with analysis of queer iconology from Michelangelo's David to James Dean.
The Associate Editors of the Journal of American Studies are looking for book reviews from doctoral candidates and early career researchers with expertise in any aspect of American Studies and its related sub-disciplines.
The award-winning university access charity, The Brilliant Club, is offering a part time opportunity for PhDs and ECRs.
The Southern Historical Association’s Graduate Council and Historians of the Twentieth-Century United States are proud to announce our collaborative online event ‘Contested Legacies and Continuing Struggles: Brown v. Board, 70 Years On’, to be held at 13.00 EDT/18.00 BST on Wednesday 15th May, via Zoom.
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