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F18 IRC Web Rev.Pdf Fall 2018 Guide to Subjects Contact Information African American History 21-3, 26, 34, 41- Studies 1, 49, 53, 60 3, 45-7, 50, 54, 58, 62, If you wish to evaluate our titles for translation, please write to us at American History 9, 71-2 [email protected] and we will arrange to send a 30-1, 33-5, 45-7, 68 Law 15, 35, 69 PDF for review purposes when available upon publication. Although it is our policy not to grant exclusive options, we will attempt to inform Anthropology 35, 38- Linguistics 29 you as soon as possible if we receive an offer for translation rights into 40 Literary Criticism 57- your language for a book under your consideration. Architecture 21 61 Art 2-3, 18-20, 36 Literature 9-11 For a complete index of our publications and catalogs by subject, Art History 19 Media Studies 26 please visit us at: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/books/subject.html. Asian Studies 39, 42 Medicine 28 You may also wish to browse our rights catalogs at: Biography 6, 14, 24, Music 6, 14, 18, 48-51 http://bit.ly/UCPrights 66-7 Nature 4, 13, 49 Business 45 Philosophy 18-9, 25, 27- Classics 29, 62 30, 52, 55, 72 Please feel welcome to contact us with any questions about our books – we look forward to hearing from you! Cooking 5 Poetry 10, 16 Cultural Studies 23 Political Science 15, 28, Current Events 7, 12 30-4, 53 With best wishes, Economics 39, 51-2, 57, Reference 70 63, 72 Religion 38, 42, 53-5, Education 1, 7 59, 62 Ethnomusicology 37 Science 5, 8, 21-5, 43-4, Béatrice Bourgogne Eo-Jean Kim 65, 71 International Rights Manager International Rights Consultant European History 40, [email protected] [email protected] 44, 46 Sociology 20, 32, 56-7, [email protected] [email protected] 72 Fiction 11 Sports 35 Film Studies 34 Women’s Studies 56 Gay and Lesbian Lucina Schell Studies 45, 52-3, 56 International Rights Associate [email protected] [email protected] Catalog design by Brian Beerman EVE L. EWING Ghosts in the Schoolyard Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side “Failing schools. Underprivileged schools. Just plain bad schools.” hat’s how Eve L. Ewing opens Ghosts in the Schoolyard: de- scribing Chicago Public Schools from the outside. The way T politicians and pundits and parents of kids who attend other schools talk about them, with a mix of pity and contempt. “A versatile, deeply perceptive, and imagi- But Ewing knows Chicago Public Schools from the inside: as a native thinker.” student, then a teacher, and now a scholar who studies them. And that —Publishers Weekly perspective has shown her that public schools are not buildings full of failures—they’re an integral part of their neighborhoods, at the heart “A truly rare cultural phenomenon.” of their communities, storehouses of history and memory that bring —Chicago Tribune people together. Never was that role more apparent than in 2013 when Mayor OCTOBER 240 p., 4 halftones, 1 map, 5 tables Rahm Emanuel announced an unprecedented wave of school closings. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-52602-7 Pitched simultaneously as a solution to a budget problem, a response Cloth $22.50/£17.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-52633-1 to declining enrollments, and a chance to purge bad schools, the plan EDUCATION AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES was met with protest from parents, students, and teachers. But if these schools were so bad, why did people care so much about keeping them open, to the point that some would even go on a hunger strike? Ewing’s answer begins with a story of systemic racism, inequality, bad faith, and distrust that stretches deep into Chicago history. Root- ing her exploration in the historic African American neighborhood of Bronzeville, Ewing reveals that this issue is about much more than just schools. Black communities see the closing of their schools—schools that are certainly less than perfect but that are theirs—as one more in a long line of racist policies. The fight to keep them open is yet another front in the ongoing struggle of black people in America to build suc- cessful lives and achieve true self-determination. Eve L. Ewing is assistant professor at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration. She is the author of Electric Arches, and her work has appeared in the New York Times, New Yorker, Atlantic, Washington Post, and many other venues. She was born in Chicago, where she still lives. general interest 1 Edited by MAGGIE TAFT and ROBERT COZZOLINO Art in Chicago A History from the Fire to Now or decades now, the story of art in America has been domi- nated by New York. It gets the majority of attention, the stories F of its schools and movements and masterpieces the stuff of pop culture legend. Chicago, on the other hand . well, people here just get on with the work of making art. Now that art is getting its due. Art in Chicago is a magisterial Among the featured artists account of the long history of Chicago art, from the rupture of the Gertrude Abercrombie, Great Fire in 1871 to the present. The first single-volume history of Ivan Albright, Harry Callahan, art and artists in Chicago, the book—in recognition of the complex- Nick Cave, Eldzier Cortor, ity of the story it tells—doesn’t follow a single continuous trajectory. Manierre Dawson, Theaster Gates, Rather, it presents an overlapping sequence of interrelated narratives Goat Island, Leon Golub, Barbara that together tell a full and nuanced, yet wholly accessible history of Jones-Hogu, Judy Ledgerwood, visual art in the city. From the temptingly blank canvas left by the Fire, Kerry James Marshall, László we loop back to the 1830s and on up through the 1860s, tracing the Moholy-Nagy, Archibald Motley, beginnings of the city’s institutional and professional art world and Hollis Sigler, Nancy Spero, Lorado community. From there, we travel in chronological order through the Taft, Chris Ware, and Anne Wilson decades to the present. Familiar developments such as the founding of the Art Institute, the Armory Show, and the arrival of the Bauhaus are given a fresh look, while less well-known aspects of the story, like SEPTEMBER 448 p., 160 color plates, 29 halftones 91/4 x 11 the contributions of African American artists dating back to the 1860s ISBN-13: 978-0-226-16831-9 Cloth $65.00/£49.00 or the long history of activist art, finally get suitable recognition. The E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-31314-6 six chapters, each written by an expert in the period, brilliantly mix ART narrative and image, weaving in oral histories from artists and critics 2 general interest reflecting on their work in the city, and setting new movements and key works in historical context. The final chapter, comprised of interviews and conversations with contemporary artists, brings the story up to the present, offering a look at the vi- brant art being created in the city now and addressing ongoing debates about what it means to identify as—or resist identifying as—a Chicago artist today. The result is an unprecedentedly inclusive and rich tapes- try, one that reveals Chicago art in all its variety and vigor and one that will surprise and enlighten even the most dedicated fan of the city’s artistic heritage. Part of the Terra Foundation for American Art’s year- long Art Design Chicago initiative, which will bring major arts events to venues throughout Chicago in 2018, Art in Chicago is a landmark publication, a book that will be the standard ac- count of Chicago art for decades to come. No art fan, regard- less of their city, will want to miss it. Maggie Taft is an art historian and the founding director of the Haddon Avenue Writing Institute, a community-based writing center for teenage girls. Robert Cozzolino is the Patrick and Aimee Butler Curator of Paintings at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. general interest 3 MARTY CRUMP A Year with Nature An Almanac With Illustrations by Bronwyn McIvor Year with Nature is an almanac like none you’ve ever seen: combining science and aesthetics, it is a daily affirmation of A the extraordinary richness of biodiversity and our enduring beguilement by its beauty. With a text by herpetologist and natural his- tory writer Marty Crump and a cornucopia of original illustrations by Bronwyn McIvor, this quirky quotidian reverie gazes across the globe, media, and time as it celebrates date-appropriate natural topics rang- ing from the founding of the National Park Service to annual straw- berry, garlic, shrimp, hummingbird, and black bear festivals. “A well-written, accessible, evocative, and With Crump, we mark the publication of classics like Carson’s educational daily reader. I found myself Silent Spring and White’s Charlotte’s Web, and even the musical premiere getting into a rhythm, paying close atten- of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake. We note the discovery of the structure of tion to what a particular date’s entry was DNA and the mountain gorilla, the rise of citizen science projects, and going to teach me, where it might even the work of people who’ve shaped how we view and protect nature— take me emotionally. Crump has also from Aristotle to E. O. Wilson. Some days feature US celebrations, like managed a subtle narrative arc over the National Cat Day; others highlight country-specific celebrations, like whole collection, enhanced by the won- Australia’s Wombat Day and Thailand’s Monkey Buffet Festival, during derfully quirky illustrations.
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