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"Insightful . . . . Going beyond the stereotype of Springsteen as chronicler of the white everyman, Sawyers examines his focus on social issues like AIDS and the Iraq War and provides an intriguing analysis of how his Catholic roots intersect with his political consciousness . . . . It's a dynamic portrait of the complicated political and social influences of a rock legend." ~Publishers Weekly

The book "Reinventing the Warrior – Masculinity in the American Indian Movement, 1968-1973" offers fresh perspectives into the American Indian Movement (AIM), a key player in Indigenous protest politics –most famously known through the 71-day long occupation of Wounded Knee in 1973. The book explores how Indigenous men remade self and society during the 1960s and 1970s in struggle against colonial domination. More specifically, it describes and analyzes the ways in which Indigenous men reinvented themselves as men and as warriors in complex processes of gendered nation-building.

"More is masterful at linking contraception, family planning, doctors’ views, and sexual education together, while cogently illustrating the cultural fights that surround sex education. No one else has done this. A must read." - Susan Reverby, Wellesley College

"[A]n important book with a rich and detailed account of reform and counter-reform that would be most useful to anyone seeking to understand just what the modern Democratic Party is and how it got to be that way." - Forum Review

In its diversity and breadth, this volume shows how the field of book history can be more inclusive and expansive. Taken together, the essays shed new light on the material practices of communicating power and resistance, subjection and survivance, in contact zones of America.

This hybrid event inaugurates Black History Month at the University of Leeds. It commemorates C19th abolitionists in Leeds and their intersectional labour. We will be unveiling a blue plaque to be placed on a student hall of residence that was once the home of Quaker abolitionists Mary and Wilson Armistead. It commemorates their work and that of African American abolitionists including Henry "Box" Brown, William Wells Brown, Ellen and Willliam Craft, Frederick Douglass, Sarah Parker Remond and Moses Roper.