Transnational Politics of Korean Adoption in the United States
Korean adoption and the legacies of gratitude
Since the Korean War began, Western families have adopted more than 200,000 Korean children. Two-thirds of these adoptees found homes in the United States. The majority joined white families and in the process forged a new kind of transnational and transracial ......
Representing women's traditions and re-envisioning comparative practices
The women of communities in Hindu India and Christian Orthodox Finland alike offer lamentations and mockery during wedding rituals. Catholic women of southern Italy perform tarantella on pilgrimages while Muslim Berger girls recite poetry at ......
Black women undertook an energetic and unprecedented engagement with internationalism from the late nineteenth century to the 1970s. In many cases, their work reflected a complex effort to merge internationalism with issues of women's rights and with feminist ......
Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence
A grassroots history of resistance to gender violence and the carceral state
During the 1970s, grassroots women activists in and outside of prisons forged a radical politics against gender violence and incarceration. Emily L. Thuma traces the making of this anticarceral feminism at the intersections of struggles for ......
US Security Culture and the New Reproductive Regime
Motherhood and motherland in contemporary America
In US security culture, motherhood is a site of intense contestationboth a powerful form of cultural currency and a target of unprecedented assault. Linked by an atmosphere of crisis and perceived vulnerability, motherhood and nation have become intimately entwined, ......
Bodies, Space, and Sound in American Cultural History
Using dance as a political language to unite and resist
Throughout American history, patterns of political intent and impact have linked the wide range of dance movements performed in public places. Groups diverse in their cultural or political identities, or in both, long ago seized on dancing in our streets, ......
Hoyt Fuller and the Cultural Politics of the 1960s
A revolution in African American culture and the figure who helped bring it to fruition
As both an activist and the dynamic editor of Negro Digest, Hoyt W. Fuller stood at the nexus of the Black Arts Movement and the broader black cultural politics of his time. Jonathan Fenderson uses historical snapshots of ......
Reading the stories Chicanas/os and Latinas/os remember about themselves
In this new study, Ylce Irizarry moves beyond literature that prioritizes assimilation to examine how contemporary fiction depicts being Cuban, Dominican, Mexican, or Puerto Rican within Chicana/o and Latina/o ......
The comprehensive illustrated guide to butterflies in the Prairie State
Prairie spaces and abundant wildflowers make Illinois an amateur lepidopterist's delight. Butterflies of Illinois offers a portable, easy-to-use guide rich with descriptions, field photography, and life-sized specimen photos of all the state's ......
