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Poetry

HoodWitch

Hicks Faylita

ISBN: PB: 9781946724243, University of Chicago Press, Acre Books, October 2019
112 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This riveting debut from poet Faylita Hicks is a reclamation of power for black women and nonbinary people whose bodies have become the very weapons used against them. "HoodWitch" tells the story of a young person who discovers that they are "somethi...

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Philosophy

Newton and the Club of Astronomers

Kadi Marion, Kaplan Abram

ISBN: HB: 9783035801408, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, October 2019
64 pp., 22x15.2 cm, Illustrated in colour throughout

We know Isaac Newton as a brilliant polymath, inventor of the calculus and the person who first began to suss out the fundamental laws of physics. But in this delightful account of his life and thought aimed at young readers, we learn oh, so much mor...

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America

Origins of the Dual City Housing, Race, and Redevelopment in Twentieth-Century Chicago

Rast Joel

ISBN: PB: 9780226661582, ISBN: HB: 9780226661445, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones

Chicago is celebrated for its rich diversity, but, even more than most US cities, it is also plagued by segregation and extreme inequality. More than ever, Chicago is a "dual city", a condition taken for granted by many residents. In this book, Joel...

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Anthropology

America

Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America's Culture

Colwell Chip

ISBN: PB: 9780226684444, ISBN: HB: 9780226298993, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

Who owns the past and the objects that physically connect us to history? And who has the right to decide this ownership, particularly when the objects are sacred or, in the case of skeletal remains, human? Is it the museums that care for the objects...

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Africa

Music

Revolution's Echoes Music, Politics, and Pleasure in Guinea

Dave Nomi

ISBN: PB: 9780226654638, ISBN: HB: 9780226654461, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 2 line drawings

Music has long been an avenue for protest, seen as a way to promote freedom and equality, instill hope, and fight for change. Popular music, in particular, is considered to be an effective form of subversion and resistance under oppressive circumstan...

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America

Rising Up from Indian Country The Battle of Fort Dearborn and the Birth of Chicago

Durkin Keating Ann

ISBN: PB: 9780226678580, ISBN: HB: 9780226428963, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 maps, 35 halftones

In August 1812, under threat from the Potawatomi, Captain Nathan Heald began the evacuation of ninety-four people from the isolated outpost of Fort Dearborn to Fort Wayne, hundreds of miles away. The group included several dozen soldiers, as well as...

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Poetry

Running to Stand Still

Reyes Kimberly

ISBN: PB: 9781632430724, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, October 2019
96 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Histories, stories, lyrics, aspirations, dreams, pressures, and images are spun into a musical tale through a site of convergence: the Black female body. Swarmed by external gazes and narratives, the inhabitant of this body uses her power to turn dow...

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Poetry

Silences

Ronk Martha

ISBN: PB: 9781632430755, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, October 2019
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

Within the visual arts of painting and photography, Martha Ronk finds an undeniable presence lurking: silence. This character slips into pauses, hides between images, and expertly evades the grasp of language. Ronk shows us that what is hidden just o...

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Poetry

Since Sunday

Tomaselli Brittany

ISBN: PB: 9781632430731, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, October 2019
48 pp., 17.7x13.9 cm

What happens when the faith and community we once held close sours into an experience of tragedy? In "Since Sunday", we find a poet who is rebuilding a sense of faith after fleeing religious abuse. Doubt, shame, uncertainty, and the pains of loss cre...

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Philosophy

Film Studies

Dance of Values Sergei Eisenstein's Capital Project

Vogman Elena

ISBN: PB: 9783035801088, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, October 2019
240 pp., 24.1x15.2 cm, 30 colour plates, 30 halftones

Sergei Eisenstein's cinematic adaptation of Karl Marx's "Capital" was never realized, yet it has haunted the imagination of many filmmakers, historians, and philosophers to the present day".Dance of Values" aims to conjure the phantom of Eisenstein's...

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