Plague Ports Endangered species & extinction of species America’s foremost living poet sifts

America’s foremost living poet sifts through life and the inevitability of the end

the book moves beyond conventional migration narratives to illuminate how identity and belonging are continually translated and reconfigured within new places

Parreñas examines the underlying constructions of gender in neoliberal state regimes

Dane’s memoir charts her trajectory from singing in union halls and at factory gates in World War II–era Detroit

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Plague Ports Endangered species & extinction of species America’s foremost living poet siftsReveals the global effects of the bubonic plague, and what we can learn from this earlier pandemic A century ago, the third bubonic plague swept the globe, taking more than 15 million lives. Plague Ports tells the story of ten cities on five continents that were ravaged by the epidemic in its initial years: Hong Kong and Bombay, the Asian emporiums of the British Empire where the epidemic first surfaced; Sydney, Honolulu and San Francisco, three