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"Essays by a child of the Ukrainian diaspora who, in the aftermath of the 2014 revolution, becomes disillusioned and returns home. Ultimately considers her national, familial, and ideological heritage, challenges notions of innocence and complicity, and questions the roots of patriotism"--
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Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"Essays dealing with loss, pain, responsibility and ethics. The collection ruminates on place and violence and the faith it takes to hold a family together in the face of death"--
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Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"A book-length essay in which the author investigates his own masochism, the foundation of his marriage, the limits of a couple's candor, the impact of porn on contemporary relationships, and the vexed history between men and women across time and culture"--
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Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"A collection of essays examining the things we see that we can't unsee and how we carry on after seeing them. Featuring essays by Jericho Parms, XU XI, Jerald Walker, José Orduña, Kristen Iversen, Nicole Walker, Mary Cappello, Lina Ferreira, Colleen O'Connor, Sonya Huber, Paul Crenshaw, Alyce Miller, Patrick Madden, Amelia María de la Luz Montes, Yalie Kamara, Emily Heiden, Lee Martin, and David Lazar"--
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"Personal essays exploring identity, family, and community through the prism of race and black culture. Confronts the medical profession's racial biases, shopping while black at Whole Foods, the legacy of Michael Jackson, raising black boys, haircuts that scare white people, racial profiling, and growing up in Southside Chicago"--
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Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"Personal essays exploring how biography, art history, photography, feminism, careerism, and motherhood are woven throughout the author's life and the lives of Sally Mann, Imogen Cunningham, Judy Dater, Ruth Orkin, Tina Modotti, Lee Miller, Madame Yvonne, and Grete Stern"--
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Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"Blends reportage, cultural criticism, and memoir to excavate sites of personal, cultural, and political trauma and find wider truths about sexuality, art, language, and identity"--
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Hyperion Avenue
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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ESPN's website, The Undefeated (now Andscape), publishes content that explores how race and identity impact American culture. This will be a collection of the best articles published on the site. Timely and relevant, BlackTold will cover current events such as the BLM movement, the Covid-19 pandemic, race and the NFL, and more.
12) Ripe: essays
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Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"Essays at the intersection of race, sexuality, and pop culture that confront Kaudo's experience as a Black woman and ask what it means to own one's Blackness when contemporary white America simultaneously denigrates and appropriates Black culture"--
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Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press
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[2023]
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English
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"Combines personal narrative and reportage to confront cultural and emotional reverberations of gender and sexual violence in America by examining assault cases in the author's hometown of Ypsilanti, Michigan, sex offender registries, and historical events such as the nylon riots of the 1940s"--
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Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Personal essays exploring the author's experiences growing up in Communist Poland against a backdrop of food insecurity, parental mental illness and addiction, and the hardships of living under a totalitarian regime"--
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Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Blends personal narrative with cultural criticism to explore the ways The Exorcist has influenced the author's life and American culture, tracing stories of the film's stars and analyzing infamous scenes while excavating the deeper stories the film tells about faith, family, illness, anger, guilt, desire, and death"--
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Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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Personal essays that--through tattoos, plastic surgery, running, physical labor, and more--explore the body and its connection to identity creation and the world around us"--
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Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"A memoir about a daughter trying to understand her father's genius, mental illness, violence, and past. Touches on Japanese culture, immigration, racism, WWII, and the Asian American experience"--
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