North Philly Notes

This week in North Philly Notes, we present our exciting list of titles from our Spring/Summer 2026 Catalog

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Declaration House, edited by Anna Arabindan-Kesson, Paul M. Farber, and Yolanda Wisher
Expanding our ideas and notions about who is counted among our American founders

Native Americans and Pennsylvania: Revised and Expanded Edition, by Daniel K. Richter
An up-to-date survey of regional Indigenous history from earliest times to the present

The Mighty WMMR: An Oral History of Philadelphia’s Rock Radio Revolution, by Erin Riley
An insider’s behind-the-scenes look at how WMMR grew to rule Philadelphia’s rock radio world in the 1970s and 1980s

Elected American: From Red China to Blue Maryland, by Lily Qi
An immigrant’s journey from Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution to the Maryland State House

Torn from the Root: A Memoir of a Black Transracial Adoptee, Rhonda M. Roorda
A powerful journey of identity and belonging

Brooklyn Odyssey: My Journey out of Hasidism, by Zalman Newfield
An affecting memoir about moving away from a tight-knit Orthodox Jewish community

Your Own Will Leave You: My Mother’s Dementia, by Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee
An intense—and intensely moving—account of the impact of his mother’s dementia on the author’s life

Stories of Raising Boys: Masculinity, Disability, Gender Expansiveness, and Anxiety, by Julie-Ann Scott-Pollock
Exploring the complexity and cultural intersections of parenting and masculinity

Not Going Back: Public Opinion on Abortion in Post-Dobbs America, by Laurel Elder, Steven Greene, and Mary-Kate Lizotte
How American opinion on abortion has undergone a profound shift following the Dobbs decision

The Power We Need Right Now: Black Sororities and Black Radical Movements of the 1970s, by Aisha A. Upton Azzam
Examines diverging Black sorority responses to activism in the post-civil rights era

Searching for Democracy: Women, Domestic Work, and Social Reproduction in Latin America, by Leda M. Pérez
How fully enfranchising women in the lowest tiers of employment can help close the equality gap in Latin America

How Women Win Presidential Elections in Latin America, by Catherine Reyes-Housholder
Explaining the paths women must take—and the barriers they face—to become President

Diseases Have No Eyes: Valley Fever and Environmental Health Justice, by Sarah M. Rios
Explores how marginalized communities organized to combat a public health crisis

Tautua: Service and Disability Activism in Sāmoa, by Juliann Anesi
A feminist ethnography that explores how women established two schools for students living with disabilities in 1970s Oceania

Asian Ameritopias: Asian American Speculative Fictions, by Stephen Hong Sohn
Analyzing themes of social justice for Asian Americans in a literary supergenre

The Heartland of U.S. Empire: Race, Region, and the Queer Filipinx Midwest, by Thomas Xavier Sarmiento
Queers the conventional understandings of region, nation, diaspora, and empire by analyzing literary and visual cultural representations of Filipinxs in the Midwest

Activism, Majority Rule, and Local Democracy: Rethinking Public Influence, Brian E. Adams
Is more local activism a solution to our political ills?

Women and Regulation: Challenging the Status Quo, edited by Sara R. Rinfret and Michelle C. Pautz
What is it like to be a woman in a regulatory environment?

Between Belonging and Exclusion: The Intersections of Integration and Anti-Discrimination Politics, by Lara-Zuzan Golesorkhi
Highlights the lived experiences of refugee women in the German labor market

Governing Genealogies of International Film Education, edited by Hadi Gharabaghi and Terri Ginsberg
A multifaceted forat into the complexities and contradictions of educational cinema and cinema education

Action = Vie: A History of AIDS Activism and Gay Politics in France, by Christophe Broqua with a Foreword by David M. Halperin
Chronicling the history and accomplishments of Act Up-Paris

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