The lives and legacy of the iconic Mirabal
sisters, as told in an intimate memoir by the sister who survived

This is the book I wish I'd had on hand as I was writing In the Time of the Butterflies.--From the introduction by Julia Alvarez

In 1960, the
three sisters Patria, Minerva, and María Teresa Mirabal, code-named Las Mariposas (The Butterflies)
by a Dominican underground resistance movement, were assassinated by order of dictator
Rafael Trujillo. Alive in Their Garden is the memoir of Dedé Mirabal, their surviving sister, who for decades kept
her sisters alive in Dominican memory. This is the first English translation of
Dedé's story, an intimate account of a tragedy and the international outcry that,
for many, heralded the fall of the Trujillo dictatorship.

In
her memoir, Dedé recollects her sisters' lives and personalities, the optimistic
beginning of the 14th of June Revolutionary Movement, and the tragic day of her
sisters' murders. She details the emotionally charged court proceedings that
followed and the impact these events had not only on the Mariposas' children
and family but on the world. Along her journey, Dedé grapples with the
question, Why did they not kill you too? And as time goes on, she comes to
recognize her own important role: raising her sisters' children alongside her
own and working to preserve the memory of a generation.

This
edition features the memoir's original introduction by Julia Alvarez, author of
In the Time of the Butterflies, a chronology by historian Bernardo Vega,
and an afterword by Minerva's daughter Minou Tavárez Mirabal. Adding a preface and explanatory
notes that orient readers to the Trujillato in the Dominican Republic, translators
and editors Ana Martínez and Heather Hennes bring a moving true story and
valuable piece of history to new readers.

Exploring a period of transformative change for the
Woodland-era societies of
Florida's Lower Suwannee region

In this book, Jessica Jenkins provides a
detailed look at the transition from the Middle to Late Woodland periods in the
Lower Suwannee region of Florida's Gulf Coast. Drawing on ceramic analysis
techniques, Jenkins argues that this time of transformative change, often
interpreted as a societal collapse, instead should be seen as a purposeful
shift brought about by emerging social movements.

Beginning around 650 CE, the
region's Indigenous inhabitants dispersed from civic-ceremonial centers, moved
away from places associated with the dead, changed their burial practices, and adopted
new pottery surface treatments and designs. Examining ceramic vessels from 12
sites located on islands near the present-day town of Cedar Key, Jenkins
catalogs these shifts. Jenkins explores how people shared social identities
that connected them through relational networks and laid the foundation for
these changes.

An Archaeology of Woodland Transformation is the first book to synthesize information on the villages,
networks, and identities of this time and place. Offering rich datasets and new
perspectives on sociocultural transformation in and around the lower Suwannee
River Estuary, this book represents a breakthrough in current understandings of
the Woodland period.

A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural
History: Ripley P. Bullen Series

Exploring the relationship between health and inequality in the societies of ancient Greece



In
this volume, bioarchaeologists, osteologists, archaeologists, and
paleopathologists examine the ways social inequalities and differences
affected health and well-being in ancient Greece. Although the ancient
Greek civilization is often associated with the ideals of democracy and
social equality, the region was characterized by pervasive divisions.
Moving beyond elitism and idealization, this book focuses on
health-related disparities and difference.



Case studies
cover a wide temporal range--from the eleventh century BCE through the
sixth century CE, a period not usually examined in bioarchaeological
studies of the region--and geographical areas including city-states in
the Greek mainland, the Aegean islands, the Ionian coast, Albania, and
southern Italy. Comparing health-related data across social groups and
sociopolitical systems, contributors explore the relationships between
colonists and Indigenous communities, strategies of inclusion and
exclusion in mortuary practices, and the impact of urbanization and
Romanization on health, diet, and growth. This book also discusses
methodological questions such as the challenges posed by poor skeletal
preservation, small sample sizes, and incomplete or legacy data.



With a focus on marginalized groups including ordinary people, women, children, and enslaved workers, Social Inequality and Difference in the Ancient Greek World
shows how bioarchaeology can dialogue with the disciplines of
archaeology and ancient history to explore subjects such as health,
inequality, ethnicity, age, and gender. This book opens a new avenue for
addressing questions concerning living standards in the ancient world.



Contributors:
Hannah Liedl Lukas Waltenberger Britney Kyle Dimitra Ermioni
Michael Victoria Sabetai Carrie L. Sulosky Weaver Anna Lagia
Elena Vlachogianni Sandra Garvie-Lok Jane Buikstra
Reine-Marie Bérard Christina Papageorgopoulou Efthymia Nikita
Aliya R. Hoff Eleni-Anna Prevedorou Sofia Voutsaki Lisa Steige
Sam Cleymans Paraskevi Tritsaroli



A volume in the
series Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local,
Regional, and Global Perspectives, edited by Clark Spencer Larsen

Honorable Mention, Latin American Studies Association Haiti-Dominican Republic Section Isis Duarte Book Prize Immigrants make up the largest proportion of federal prisoners in the United States, incarcerated in a vast network of more than two hundred detention facilities. This book investigates when detention became a centerpiece of U.S. immigration policy, revealing why the practice was reinstituted in 1981 after being halted for several decades and how the system expanded to become the world's largest immigration detention regime. From the Krome Detention Center in Miami to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and to jails and prisons across the country, Haitians have been at the center of the story of immigration detention. When an influx of Haitian migrants and asylum seekers came to the U.S. in the 1970s, the government responded with exclusionary policies and detention, setting a precedent for future waves of immigrants. Carl Lindskoog details the discrimination Haitian refugees faced and how their resistance to this treatment--in the form of legal action and activism--prompted the government to reinforce its detention program and create an even larger system of facilities. Drawing on extensive archival research, including government documents, advocacy group archives, and periodicals, Lindskoog provides the first in-depth history of Haitians and immigration detention in the United States. Lindskoog asserts that systems designed for Haitian refugees laid the groundwork for the way immigrants to America are treated today. Detain and Punish provides essential historical context for the challenges faced by today's immigrant groups, which are some of the most critical issues of our time.

How bioarchaeology can illuminate the lived experiences of people in the Roman Empire

Research
on the Roman Empire has long focused on Rome's legendary leaders,
culture, and conquest. But at the empire's peak, tens of millions of
ordinary people coexisted in its territories--people who built the
structures, wrote the literature, and transformed the landscapes we
study today. In Roman Bioarchaeology, researchers use human
skeletal remains recovered from throughout the Roman world to portray
how individuals lived and died, spanning the empire's vast geography and
1,000 years of ancient history.



This volume
brings together scholarship from archaeological sites in Europe, the
Eastern Mediterranean, and Africa, featuring new and advanced scientific
approaches including DNA studies, stable isotope analysis,
paleoparasitology, paleopathology, biodistance, and more. Throughout,
contributors prioritize the ethical treatment of the deceased by
highlighting individual narratives and working with local descendants
where possible. From rural homes in Britannia to bustling cities in
Phoenicia, these essays showcase the diversity of Roman lives and
illuminate the experiences of the most vulnerable in these societies.
This book demonstrates how bioarchaeology can enrich our understanding
of many facets of life in the Roman world.



Contributors:
Piers Mitchell Mario Caric Efthymia Nikita Gabriele Scorrano
Mahmoud Mardini Serena Viva Tracy Prowse Kathryn E. Marklein
Mario Novak Olga Rickards Marissa Ledger Anna Osterholtz Pier
Francesco Fabbri Leslie Quade Sammuel Sammut Fabio Macciardi
Rebecca Pitt Elizabeth A. Bews Mary Lewis Rebecca Redfern
Rebecca Gowland



A volume in the series
Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional,
and Global Perspectives, edited by Clark Spencer Larsen

A foundational, accessible overview of
space policy in the United States

This
book provides readers with the first comprehensive overview of major space
policies in the United States and a framework through which to analyze them. It
examines all facets of space policy--civilian, military, and commercial--and
presents this material accessibly for use by readers at multiple levels, from undergraduate
courses to government practitioners making and implementing policy.

The
first section offers a history of space exploration, focusing on the US
within a global context. The second section looks at the actors and
institutions involved in setting space policy in a government based on the
separation of powers, including the president, Congress, NASA, and the
Department of Defense. The book concludes with chapters on the different
sectors of space policy, as well as questions this field will face in the future.

As
policymakers and business leaders become increasingly aware of the everyday
systems that depend on space technologies, such as communications, mapping, and
weather monitoring, and as space becomes a more visible arena for commercial
competition, potential humanitarian gain, and military threats, Space Policy
for the Twenty-First Century helps students and professionals navigate the
complexity of space as a policy area.

Exploring how Latin American print culture has informed global exchange



The first volume in English to focus on Latin American serialized print culture, Periodicals in Latin America
assembles research on a diverse range of publications, including
avant-garde reviews, comics, specialized journals, mass-market
magazines, and political periodicals, from the late nineteenth century
to the present day.



In this book, scholars from a variety
of disciplines examine both celebrated and little-known periodicals to
demonstrate how publications supported emerging movements such as
Indigenismo and feminism; undermined hegemonic conceptions of statehood
and national identity; and questioned ideas about the relationship
between the visual, literary, and political. Bringing Latin American
print culture together with research and theories from the largely
Anglophone field of periodical studies, this volume contests readings
that discount the region's periodicals, situating Latin America as a
contributor to--not just a recipient of--global exchanges. Contributors
also challenge the idea that periodicals are only useful for the
insights they can offer into history, championing close attention to
their material and materiality.



The writers in this book
reflect on the unique qualities and divergences of the region's
periodicals from those of other parts of the world and the need for
different approaches to studying them. The volume bridges and brings
into dialogue new research on print serials and their readers in the
Spanish-, Portuguese-, and English-speaking worlds.



Contributors: Joanna
Crow María del Pilar Blanco José
Chávarry Jorge Catalá Isabella Cosse M. Paula Bontempo Sandra
Szir Camilla Sutherland Luis Rebaza-Soraluz Claire Lindsay
Valentino Gianuzzi Sofía Mercader Rielle
Navitski Luz Ainaí Morales Pino Maria Chiara D'Argenio



A
volume in the series Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in
Latin/o America, edited by Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste and Juan Carlos
Rodríguez

Key topics and basic laboratory training
for beginning students

This
versatile laboratory manual is designed to support introductory undergraduate courses
in forensic anthropology. Usable for both in-person and online classes and
suitable to accompany any textbook or for use on its own as a text-lab manual
hybrid, it provides basic training for beginner students in relevant methods of
biological profile estimation and trauma assessment for use in medico-legal
death investigations.

Structured
in a standard format for classes and existing texts, this manual offers a
unique emphasis on lab exercises that align with general studies requirements
and basic science competency. Each chapter begins with learning goals and an
introductory section that outlines the topics to be covered. The discussion
then leads students through the material, including periodic learning checks
built into the structure of the chapter, followed by end-of-chapter exercises. Through
clear explanations of fundamental principles, the complete medico-legal context
is covered with respect to forensic anthropology. Basic information on bone
biology, human osteology, and rules of evidence are also presented.

Alongside its substantive text discussion of key
topics, this manual's exercises can be used in in-person laboratory classes while
its learning checks can be completed by online students without access to
skeletal material or casts. This book offers the necessary content to teach
forensic anthropology regardless of the experience or location of students or
the resources of specific colleges and universities.

Examining representations of the female
body in postrevolutionary genre literature

In
this volume, Sara Potter uses the idea of the muse from Greek mythology and the
cyborg from posthuman theory to consider the portrayal of female characters and
their bodies in Mexican art and literature from the 1920s to the present. Examining
genres including science fiction, cyberpunk, and popular fiction, Potter finds
that technified muse figures often appear in these texts at moments of
violence and sociopolitical transformation.

Potter
begins by looking at two avant-garde movements that emerged in the aftermath of
the Mexican Revolution: the Estridentistas and the Contemporáneos. Moving to the
Mexican Miracle, a midcentury period of economic prosperity, she considers the
work of surrealists Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo within their cultural
and political climates. She then addresses the aftermath of the 1968 student
massacre in Tlatelolco as explored in Fernando del Paso's Palinuro de México and Juan García Ponce's Crónica de la intervención. Finally, Potter engages with the era that
began with the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement and Zapatista
rebellion, drawing from Bernardo Fernández's Gel azul, Guadalupe Nettel's El
huésped, and Karen Chacek's La caída
de los pájaros.

Technified Muses shows that during
these key periods, writers created muse-like characters that interact with the technological
discourses of their times. These figures reflect the increasing emphasis on
science and progress throughout the twentieth century, embodying the
modernization of Mexico while offering parallel narratives that challenge official
portrayals of the nation's history.

Publication
of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American
Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Fall under the spell of Florida's natural environment

The essays and poetry in The Wilder Heart of Florida offer sparkling writing and penetrating insights into what makes Florida such a special place. An essential read for anyone who cares about the state's springs and scrub and other special places that are worth preserving.--Craig Pittman, author of Cat Tale: The Wild, Weird Battle to Save the Florida Panther

This collection of essays by many of Florida's best writers, compiled expertly by Jack Davis and Leslie Poole, takes a place of honor on my bookshelf. You can read it all in one sitting, if you like, but my advice is to read it a little at a time to make it last, like a jar of tupelo honey from North Florida.--Jeff Klinkenberg, author of Son of Real Florida: Stories from My Life

If you haven't fallen madly in love with the wild heart of Florida by the end of this book, check your pulse.--Janine Farver, former executive director, Florida Humanities Council

In this captivating collection, Florida's most notable authors, poets, and environmentalists take readers on a journey through the natural wonders of the state. Continuing in the legacy of the beloved classic The Wild Heart of Florida, this book features thirty-four pieces by a new slate of well-known and emerging writers.

In these pages, New York Times bestselling author Lauren Groff describes the beauty of Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park. Environmental writer Cynthia Barnett listens to seashells on Sanibel Island. Legendary journalist Marjory Stoneman Douglas records the sights and sounds of the Everglades in the 1920s. Miccosukee elder Buffalo Tiger relates traditional stories of his community's deep relationship with the land. Presidential inaugural poet Richard Blanco muses on the shifting vista of the ocean in Some Days the Sea.

These writers and many others recount memories of how their lives have been enriched by the state's varied and brilliant landscapes. Some tell of encounters with alligators, pythons, manatees, turtles, and otters, while others marvel at the unique character of flowing springs and piney scrub. Together, they highlight the need to protect pristine ecosystems and restore ones that have been damaged due to development. The Wilder Heart of Florida will inspire readers to explore and celebrate the Florida wilderness.

Jack E. Davis is professor of history and the Rothman Family Chair in the Humanities at the University of Florida. He is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Gulf: The Making of An American Sea and coeditor of Paradise Lost? The Environmental History of Florida. Leslie K. Poole is assistant professor of environmental studies at Rollins College. She is the author of Saving Florida: Women's Fight for the Environment in the Twentieth Century.

How writers and artists use science
fiction to speak to the current moment in the Caribbean

Exploring
the remarkable recent increase in works of science fiction originating in Spanish-speaking parts of the Caribbean and their diasporas, Tropical Time Machines shows how writers,
filmmakers, musicians, and artists are using the language of the genre to
comment on the region's history and present-day realities.

Discussing
how previous Caribbean literature and film has characterized places including
Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic as out of sync with Western
time, occupying a repeating or static space, Emily Maguire argues that science
fiction breaks these cycles and resituates the region temporally and spatially.
In chapters on cyberpunk, zombies, post-apocalyptic narratives, and the ab-real,
Maguire shows how recent cultural production analyzes and critiques the ways
globalization and national leadership have reinforced the region's
marginalization amid economic and climate crises.

Art
that employs the science fictional mode makes room for a new vision of the
Caribbean, Maguire demonstrates--an alternate perspective in which the region
has agency in shaping its own narratives and trajectories. The texts themselves
are time machines, enabling creators to protest inequalities of the present
from the point of view of an imagined, transformed future.

A
volume in the series Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o
America, edited by Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste and Juan Carlos Rodríguez

Publication
of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American
Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The intertwined stories of two archipelagos and their
diasporas

This
volume is the first systematic comparative study of Cuba and Puerto Rico from
both a historical and contemporary perspective. In these essays, contributors
highlight the interconnectedness of the two archipelagos in social categories
such as nation, race, class, and gender to encourage a more nuanced and multifaceted
study of the relationships between the islands and their diasporas.

Topics
range from historical and anthropological perspectives on Cuba and Puerto Rico
before and during the Cold War to cultural and sociological studies of diasporic
communities in the United States. The volume features analyses of political
coalitions, the formation of interisland sororities, and environmental issues.
Along with sharing a similar early history, Cuba and Puerto Rico have closely
intertwined cultures, including their linguistic, literary, food, musical, and
religious practices. Contributors also discuss literature by Cuban and Puerto
Rican authors by examining the aesthetics of literary techniques and
discourses, the representation of psychological space on the stage, and the
impacts of migration.

Showing
how the trajectories of both archipelagos have been linked together for
centuries and how they have diverged recently, Cuba and Puerto Rico offers a transdisciplinary approach to the
study of this intricate relationship and the formation of diasporic communities
and continuities.

Publication of this work made possible
by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the
National Endowment for the Humanities.

How creators of online video critique politics and society and amplify public discourse in Latin American countries



This book analyzes how digital-native audiovisual satire has become increasingly influential in national public debates within Latin America. Paul Alonso illuminates the role of online video in filling gaps in sociopolitical critique left by television, traditional journalism, and commercial entertainment while exposing some of the prevalent tensions of the region.



Alonso draws on interviews and analyzes media content to consider some of the most representative and influential satirical shows born on the internet and produced in Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Mexico, and Latinx communities in the United States. He discusses YouTubers Chumel Torres, Malena Pichot, Guille Aquino, Joanna Hausmann, and El Cacash; the Enchufe.tv collective; and the video columnists Maria Paulina Baena from La Pulla and Mariángela Urbina from Las Igualadas. These creators use professional and non-mainstream practices and resources to dismantle fake news, highlight social tensions, and offer in-depth content that goes beyond confrontational attacks.



In contexts of highly ideological polarization, Alonso argues, digital satire is a unique type of hybrid alternative media that can articulate nonpartisan interpretations of reality while also questioning, deconstructing, and subverting the authoritative role of media. Satiric voices can offer an informed, reflexive, argumentative, or historically rooted perspective that amplifies public discourse and shapes changing notions of journalism and political communication in democratic societies.



A volume in the series Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America, edited by Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste and Juan Carlos Rodríguez



Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

In this exploration of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar's impact on popular culture, Aldona Bialowas Pobutsky shows how Escobar's legacy inspired the development of narcocultura-television, music, literature, and fashion representing the drug-trafficking lifestyle-in Colombia and around the world.

How online humor influences politics and culture in Latin America



This
volume is the first to provide a comprehensive Latin American
perspective on the role of humor in the Spanish- and Portuguese-language
Internet, highlighting how the production and circulation of online
humor influence the region's relation to democracy and civil society and
the production of meaning in everyday life.



Several case
studies consider memes, including discussions of political cartoons in
Mexico and imagery that portrays the mismanagement of natural disasters
in Puerto Rico. Essays on Brazil examine how memes are shared on
WhatsApp by Jair Bolsonaro supporters and how the Instagram account
Barbie Fascionista offers memes as political commentary. Other case
studies consider video content, including the sketches of Argentinian
comedian Guillermo Aquino, the short-form material of Chilean vlogger
Germán Garmendia, and a satirical YouTube column created by journalists
in Colombia. Contributors also offer new methodologies for studying the
laughable on social media, including a model for analyzing fake Twitter
accounts.



Internet, Humor, and Nation in Latin America
demonstrates that Internet humor can generate novel means of public
interaction with the political and cultural spheres and create greater
expectations of governmental accountability and democratic
participation. This volume shows the importance of paying serious
attention to humorous digital content as part of contemporary culture.



Contributors:
Eva Paulino Bueno Juan Poblete Alberto Centeno-Pulido Damián
Fraticelli Juan Carlos Rodríguez Viktor Chagas Paul Alonso
Ulisses Sawczuk da Silva Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste Alejandra Nallely
Collado Campos R. Sánchez-Rivera Mélodine Sommier Fábio Marques
de Souza



A volume in the series Reframing Media,
Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America, edited by Héctor Fernández
L'Hoeste and Juan Carlos Rodríguez



Publication of this
work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American
Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Examining the educational legacy of Afro-Cuban teachers and activists



In
this book, Raquel Otheguy argues that Afro-descended teachers and
activists were central to the development of a national education system
in Cuba. Tracing the emergence of a Black Cuban educational tradition
whose hallmarks were at the forefront of transatlantic educational
currents, Otheguy examines how this movement pushed the island's public
school system to be more accessible to children and adults of all races,
genders, and classes.



Otheguy describes Afro-Cuban education before public schools were officially desegregated in 1894, from the maestras amigas--Black
and mulata women who taught in their homes--to teachers in the schools
of mutual-aid societies for people of color. In the ways that Afro-descendants interacted with the Spanish colonial school system and its
authorities, and in the separate schools they created, they were
resisting the hardening racial boundaries that characterized Cuban life
and developing alternative visions of possible societies, nations, and
futures. Otheguy demonstrates that Black Cubans pioneered the region's
most progressive innovations in education and influenced the trajectory
of public school systems in their nation and the broader Americas.



A
volume in the series Caribbean Crossroads: Race, Identity, and Freedom
Struggles, edited by Lillian Guerra, Devyn Spence Benson, April Mayes,
and Solsiree del Moral



Publication of this work made
possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan
grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

A rapidly growing approach within bioarchaeology that focuses on understanding people of the past in their sociocultural contexts

Drawing from a variety of sites throughout Mesoamerica, this volume presents a collection of osteobiographies, which analyze skeletons and their surroundings alongside historical, archaeological, ethnographic, and other contextual data to better understand the life experiences of individuals. This approach allows for a focus on the processes by which individual social identities are created, negotiated, and altered.



In these chapters, contributors address what individual bodies reveal about their societies, what burials can tell us about the ways people were remembered, and what information about disease and health indicates about lifestyles. Each case study compiles a range of available data to gain insights into a specific time and place. Re-creating the lives of individuals from locations in Belize, Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras, the volume includes descriptions of everyday activities, the social roles of priests and merchants, memorial practices, and many other spheres of human life.

Mesoamerican Osteobiographies demonstrates how the diverse, culturally laden, and complex archaeological record of Mesoamerica can uniquely contribute to bioarchaeology, in part due to the region's many unusual and elaborate mortuary contexts. The different contributions in this volume show that the osteobiography approach can be integrated into existing research frameworks, both in Mesoamerica and around the world, to answer meaningful biocultural questions about the lives and deaths of ancient people. 

Contributors: Pamela Geller Satoru Murata Gabriel
D. Wrobel Carolyn Freiwald Kirsten Green Mink David W. Mixter
Ricardo Rodas Della Cook Abigail Meza Peñaloza Ethan C. Hill
Erik Velásquez García Jack Biggs Frederico Zurtuche Mónica Urquizú
John Robb María Belén Méndez Bauer Vera Tiesler Andrew K.
Scherer Melissa S. Murphy Lourdes Marquez Morfín Ana Maria Padilla
Dorantes Andrea Cucina Paige Wojcik Woolfolk Eleanor
Harrison-Buck Claire Ebert Aurora Marcela Pérez-Flórez Destiny
Micklin Morgan McKenna Allan Ortega-Muñoz Kara Fulton Lexi
O'Donnell Peter Mercier Omar A. Alcover-Firpi Mariah Biggs Jane
Buikstra Katherine Miller Wolf Keith Prufer Jaime Awe D. Eli
Mrak Emily Moes Douglas J. Kennett Joshua T. Schnell Amy Hair
Takeshi Inomata Mónica Rodriguez Pérez Ellen Bell Daniela Triadan
Samantha Sharon Negrete Gutiérrez Alex Garcia-Putnam Anna C.
Novotny Marie Danforth Lisa LeCount Loa P. Traxler Rosalba
Yasmin Cifuentes Argüello Shintaro Suzuki Fernando Gutiérrez Méndez
Samantha Blatt Mark Robinson Amy Michael Sandra Elizalde

The lives and legacy of the iconic Mirabal
sisters, as told in an intimate memoir by the sister who survived

This is the book I wish I'd had on hand as I was writing In the Time of the Butterflies.--From the introduction by Julia Alvarez

In 1960, the
three sisters Patria, Minerva, and María Teresa Mirabal, code-named Las Mariposas (The Butterflies)
by a Dominican underground resistance movement, were assassinated by order of dictator
Rafael Trujillo. Alive in Their Garden is the memoir of Dedé Mirabal, their surviving sister, who for decades kept
her sisters alive in Dominican memory. This is the first English translation of
Dedé's story, an intimate account of a tragedy and the international outcry that,
for many, heralded the fall of the Trujillo dictatorship.

In
her memoir, Dedé recollects her sisters' lives and personalities, the optimistic
beginning of the 14th of June Revolutionary Movement, and the tragic day of her
sisters' murders. She details the emotionally charged court proceedings that
followed and the impact these events had not only on the Mariposas' children
and family but on the world. Along her journey, Dedé grapples with the
question, Why did they not kill you too? And as time goes on, she comes to
recognize her own important role: raising her sisters' children alongside her
own and working to preserve the memory of a generation.

This
edition features the memoir's original introduction by Julia Alvarez, author of
In the Time of the Butterflies, a chronology by historian Bernardo Vega,
and an afterword by Minerva's daughter Minou Tavárez Mirabal. Adding a preface and explanatory
notes that orient readers to the Trujillato in the Dominican Republic, translators
and editors Ana Martínez and Heather Hennes bring a moving true story and
valuable piece of history to new readers.

Publication
of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American
Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Highlighting the role of precontact Indigenous
women in building and transforming Mississippian culture

This volume highlights
how women were powerful farmers, economic decision-makers, spiritual leaders,
and agents of social integration in the diverse societies of the Mississippian
world, which spanned the present-day United States South to the Midwest before
the seventeenth century. While Mississippian societies are some of the most
well-researched pre-European contact societies on the continent, little attention
has been dedicated specifically to Mississippian women. These chapters offer
new insights into the vital role women played within their communities, an
approach directly informed by the powerful position of American Indian women
within contemporary American Indian communities.

Contributors
examine themes such as identity, labor, grieving, cooking, craft production,
spatial organization, prestige, morbidity, kinship, and fertility. Case studies
include sites throughout the Mississippian world, ranging from Illinois to
Florida, including Cahokia and Moundville. Mississippian
Women is the first volume to focus solely on the political, social, and economic
power of women during this period, linking their actions in building their culture
before European colonialism with the work of Indigenous women in the region
today.

A
volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series

Independent Publisher Book Awards, Silver Medal for Anthology

National Indie Excellence Awards, Finalist in the Anthology Category

International Latino Book Awards, Gold Medal for Best Fiction (Multi-Author)

International Latino Book Awards, Honorable Mention, Best Nonfiction (Multi-Author)



A powerful collection of contemporary voices

Showcasing a variety of voices shaped in and by a place that has been for them a crossroads and a land of contradictions, Home in Florida presents a selection of the best literature of displacement and uprootedness by some of the most talented contemporary Latinx writers who have called Florida home.



Featuring fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by Richard Blanco, Jaquira Díaz, Patricia Engel, Jennine Capó Crucet, Reinaldo Arenas, Judith Ortiz Cofer, and many others, this collection of renowned and award-winning contributors includes several who are celebrated in their countries of origin but have not yet been discovered by readers in the United States. The writers in this volume--first-, second-, and third-generation immigrants to Florida from Cuba, Mexico, Honduras, Perú, Argentina, Chile, and other countries--reflect the diversity of Latinx experiences across the state.



Editor Anjanette Delgado characterizes the work in this collection as literature of uprootedness, literatura del desarraigo, a Spanish literary tradition and a term used by Reinaldo Arenas. With the heart-changing, here-and-there perspective of attempting life in environments not their own, these writers portray many different responses to displacement, each occupying their own unique place on what Delgado calls a spectrum of belonging.



Together, these writers explore what exactly makes Florida home for those struggling between memory and presence. In these works, as it is for many people seeking to make a new life in the United States, Florida is the place where the uprooted stop to catch their breath long enough to wonder, What if I stayed? What if here could one day be my home?



Contributors: Richard Blanco Daniel Reschinga Ana Menéndez Frances Negrón Muntaner Hernán Vera Álvarez Liz Balmaseda Ariel Francisco Andreina Fernandez Amina Lolita Gautier Jennine Capó-Crucet Dainerys Machado Vento Carlos Harrison Legna Rodríguez Iglesias Judith Ortiz Cofer Chantel Acevedo Guillermo Rosales Achy Obejas Alex Segura Patricia Engel Anjanette Delgado Mia Leonin Carlos Pintado Nilsa Ada Rivera Natalie Scenters-Zapico Pedro Medina León Caridad Moro-Gronlier Aracelis González Asendorf Michael García-Juelle Jaquira Díaz José Ignacio Chascas-Valenzuela Raúl Dopico Javier Lentino Yaddyra Peralta