machadoisabelNov 29, 2022

Re-posting so I can pin it here in the new profile. 🥳
My first book "Carnival in Alabama: Marked Bodies and Invented Traditions in Mobile" is available for pre-order in the US:
https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/C/Carnival-in-Alabama
and Canada:
https://www.ubcpress.ca/carnival-in-alabama

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Carnival in Alabama

Mobile is simultaneously a typical and unique city in the postwar United States. It was a quintessential boomtown during World War II. That prosperity was followed by a period of rapid urban decline and ...