Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America

Lopamudra SenGupta (Author)

Human Rights of the Third Gender in India: Beyond the Binary

This book engages with the discourses on human rights as they apply to the transgender or the hijra

Nishant Upadhyay (Author)

Indians on Indian Lands: Intersections of Race, Caste, and Indigeneity

Winner of a NWSA/University of Illinois Press First Book Prize Nishant Upadhyay unrave

Charisse Jones (Author)

Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America

2, Commemorating its 20th anniversary with a new Introduction and updated content, Shifting explores the many identities Black women must adopt in various spaces to succeed in America . Based on the African American Women's Voices Project, Shifting reveals that a large number of Black women feel pressure to compromise their true selves as they navigate America's racial and gender bigotry. Black women "shift" by altering the expectations they have for themselves or their outer appearance. They modify their speech. They shift "white" as they head to work in the morning and "Black" as they come back home each night. They shift inward, internalizing the searing pain of the negative stereotypes that they encounter daily. And sometimes they shift by fighting back. In commemoration of its twentieth year in print with a new Introduction and updated content throughout Shifting is a much-needed, clear, and comprehensive portrait of the reality of Black women's lives today.