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CFP special issue 'Tropical Materialisms: poetics, possibilities, practices

Special Issue Theme: Tropical Materialisms: poetics, possibilities, practices

Tropical Materialisms concur on at least three things: humans are always entangled with non-human/material agents; such entanglement is necessary for any creative act to take place; and these same entanglements allow us to interrogate and re-evaluate preconceived notions about the world - from built and natural environments to the fabric of time-and-space.[i] 

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Recent Reviews

Author: 
Matthew T. Corrigan, Michael M. Binder, eds.
Reviewer: 
Robert A. Taylor

Taylor on Corrigan and Binder, 'Florida and the 2016 Election of Donald J. Trump'

Matthew T. Corrigan, Michael M. Binder, eds. Florida and the 2016 Election of Donald J. Trump. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2019. 202 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-5623-4

Reviewed by Robert A. Taylor (Florida Institute of Technology) Published on H-Florida (July, 2020) Commissioned by Jeanine A. Clark Bremer (Northern Illinois University)

Author: 
William J. Plott
Reviewer: 
David Lee McMullen

McMullen on Plott, 'Black Baseball's Last Team Standing: The Birmingham Black Barons, 1919-1962'

William J. Plott. Black Baseball's Last Team Standing: The Birmingham Black Barons, 1919-1962. Jefferson: McFarland, 2019. 345 pp. $49.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4766-7788-0

Reviewed by David Lee McMullen (UNC Charlotte) Published on H-Florida (June, 2020) Commissioned by Jeanine A. Clark Bremer (Northern Illinois University)

Author: 
Erica C. Avrami, ed.
Reviewer: 
Christopher Crenshaw

Crenshaw on Avrami, 'Preservation and the New Data Landscape'

Erica C. Avrami, ed. Preservation and the New Data Landscape. New York: Columbia Books on Architecture and the City. Columbia University Press, 2019. 220 pp. $28.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-941332-48-1

Reviewed by Christopher Crenshaw (Florida State University) Published on H-Florida (May, 2020) Commissioned by Jeanine A. Clark Bremer (Northern Illinois University)