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HIGHLIGHTS LIKE CHILDREN
QUEER FORMS
Black Prodigy and the Measure of the Human in America Camille Owens
Ramzi Fawaz
How do we represent the experience of being a gender and sexual outlaw?
A new history of manhood, race, and hierarchy in American childhood In Performance and American Cultures 352 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479812929
464 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479820733
ARE THE ARTS ESSENTIAL?
STYLE
A Queer Cosmology Taylor Black
Edited by Alberta Arthurs and Michael DiNiscia
344 PP | CLOTH | $30 9781479812622
Assembles texts, performances and personae from American culture to argue the elemental nature of style
A timely and kaleidoscopic reflection on the importance of the arts in our society
In Postmillennial Pop 304 PP | PAPER | $35 9781479825004
LIKE WATER
BOTTOMS UP
A Cultural History of Bruce Lee Daryl Joji Maeda
Queer Mexicanness and Latinx Performance Xiomara Verenice Cervantes-Gomez
Highlights Bruce Lee’s influence beyond martial arts and film
Proposes a queer way to be in the world and with others In Sexual Cultures
336 PP | PAPER | $20 9781479830732
272 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479829156
DISABILITY WORKS
FOR PLEASURE
Performance After Rehabilitation Patrick McKelvey
Race, Experimentalism, and Aesthetics Rachel Jane Carroll
A cultural history of disability, performance, and work in the modern United States
Argues that aesthetic pleasure plays a key role in both racial practices and struggles against racist domination
In Performance and American Cultures 336 PP | PAPER | $32 9781479824878
In Minoritarian Aesthetics 288 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479826735
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AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES DEADPAN
SKIN THEORY
The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression Tina Post
Visual Culture and the Postwar Prison Laboratory Cristina Mejia Visperas Studies the intersections of incarceration, medical science, and race in postwar America
Finalist for the NBCC Award for Criticism Explore expressionlessness, and emotional withholding in Black cultural production 280 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479811212
In Minoritarian Aesthetics
256 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479810789
HIP HOP HERESIES
BLACK EPHEMERA
The Crisis and Challenge of the Musical Archive Mark Anthony Neal
Queer Aesthetics in New York City Shanté Paradigm Smalls
A framework for understanding the deep archive of Black performance in the digital era
An examination of the relationship between blackness, queerness, and hip hop in New York City from 1975 to present 216 PP | PAPER | $28 9781479808205
In Postmillennial Pop
232 PP | PAPER | $27 9781479806904
DISABILITIES OF THE COLOR LINE
BECOMING HUMAN
Redressing Antiblackness from Slavery to the Present Dennis Tyler
Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World Zakiyyah Iman Jackson
Reveals how disability and disablement have shaped Black social life in America
Argues that Blackness disrupts our essential ideas of race, gender, and, ultimately, the human
In Crip 336 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479831128
In Sexual Cultures 320 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479830374
THE CONTENT OF OUR CARICATURE
256 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479889587
AFROFABULATIONS
African American Comic Art and Political Belonging Rebecca Wanzo
The Queer Drama of Black Life Tavia Nyong’o
Traces the history of racial caricature and the ways that Black cartoonists have turned this visual grammar on its head
Argues for a conception of black cultural life that exceeds post-blackness and conditions of loss
In Postmillennial Pop
In Sexual Cultures 280 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479888443
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NEW VILLAGE PRESS MAKING A WAY OUT OF NO WAY
208 PP | CLOTH | $35 9781613322406
JUDITH LETTING GO
Lives of Labor, Love, and Resistance Merideth M. Taylor
Six Months in the World’s Smallest Death Cafe Mark Dowie
A richly imagined, photo illustrated narrative of 150 years of life in slavery on tobacco plantations in Southern Maryland
An old man learns how to die from a poet facing death
128 PP | PAPER | $17 9781613322352
THAT’S A PRETTY THING TO CALL IT
I OPENED THE GATE LAUGHING – 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
Prose and Poetry by Artists Teaching in Carceral Institutions Edited by Leigh Sugar Frank, eye-opening writing by “arts in corrections” educators
An Inner Journey Mayumi Oda 96 PP | CLOTH | $35 9781613322321
304 PP | PAPER | $25 9781613322116
LUCK
A tribute to the power of spiritual practice, creative expression, and true self-acceptance
STUFF
Instead of a Memoir Lucy R. Lippard
Margaret Randall Fearless personal essays from a treasured feminist poet and activist
Colorfully written and illustrated memoir of the activist art writer Lucy Lippard 140 PP | CLOTH | $45 9781613322246
256 PP | PAPER | $23 9781613322192
OPENINGS
RANDOM KINDNESS AND SENSELESS ACTS OF BEAUTY – 30TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
A Memoir from the Women’s Art Movement, New York City 1970-1992 Sabra Moore
410 PP | PAPER | $35 9781613320181
A candid and generous color-illustrated account of women artists creating politically and personally effective art works, exhibitions, and actions over two tumultuous decades
40 PP | CLOTH | $17 9781613322284
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Edited by Anne Herbert, Margaret Paloma Pavel, and Mayumi Oda A parable of hope and peace for all ages
GOOD FOR COURSES COMICS AND STUFF
CRUISING UTOPIA, 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
Henry Jenkins
Considers how comics display our everyday stuff— junk drawers, bookshelves, attics—as a way into understanding how we represent ourselves now 352 PP | PAPER | $32 9781479800933
The Then and There of Queer Futurity José Esteban Muñoz An intellectual inspiration for a generation of LGBTQ scholars 280 PP | PAPER | $28 9781479874569
MAKE ART NOT WAR
ARCHIVING AN EPIDEMIC
Political Protest Posters from the Twentieth Century Edited by Ralph Young
128 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479813674
In Sexual Cultures
Art, AIDS, and the Queer Chicanx Avant-Garde Robb Hernández Critically reimagines Chicanx art, unmasking its queer afterlife
An extraordinarily visceral collection of posters that represent the progressive protest movements of the twentieth Century.
In Sexual Cultures 320 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479820832
PARTNER PRESSES ¡BRIGADISTAS!
CHAMORU LEGENDS
An American Anti-Fascist in the Spanish Civil War Written by Miguel Ferguson Illustrated by Anne Timmons
A Gathering of Stories Teresita Lourdes Perez with CHamoru translations by Maria Ana Tenorio Rivera
A graphic history featuring the true story of three friends from Brooklyn who join in the global fight against fascism 120 PP | PAPER | $18 9781583679609
Published by Monthly Review Press
Illustrated retellings of tales from the indigenous people of Guam 188 PP | PAPER | $25 9781878453334
I WRITE THE YAWNING VOID
AFRICAN ARK
Mammals, landscape and the ecology of a continent Ara Monadjem
Selected essays of Sindiwe Magona Sindiwe Magona
The story of how Africa’s mammals have helped shape the continent’s landscapes over time to support an amazing diversity of life
Essays that addresses themes such as HIV/Aids, language and culture, home and belonging.
328 PP | PAPER | $30 9781776148189
Published by Wits University Press
Published by University of Guam Press
336 PP | PAPER | $35 9781776147809
Published by Wits University Press
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