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HIGHLIGHTS NORMPORN
THE TWO REVOLUTIONS
Queer Viewers and the TV That Soothes Us Karen Tongson
A History of the Transgender Internet Avery Dame-Griff
An irreverent look at the love-hate relationship between queer viewers and mainstream family TV shows like Gilmore Girls and This Is Us 216 PP | PAPER | $20 9781479846511
In Postmillennial Pop
The internet origins of the American transgender movement In Queer / Trans / Digital 272 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479818310
AVIDLY READS SCREEN TIME
THE DIGITAL DEPARTED
How We Face Death, Commemorate Life, and Chase Virtual Immortality Timothy Recuber
Phillip Maciak
“Original and thoughtprovoking. Maciak’s willingness to defend screen time refreshes. Readers will want to tune in to this.” —Publishers Weekly 168 PP | PAPER | $15 9781479820573
What happens when screen time is all the time?
A fascinating exploration of the social meaning of digital death
288 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479814961
FANDOM IS UGLY
THE NEW TRUE CRIME
Networked Harassment in Participatory Culture Mel Stanfill
How the Rise of Serialized Storytelling Is Transforming Innocence Diana Rickard
Highlights why it’s important to think about contemporary public culture through the lens of fan studies
272 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479824960
In Critical Cultural Communication
How serialized crime shows became an American obsession In Alternative Criminology 304 PP | CLOTH | $30 9781479816040
THE UNINTENDED
CONNECTING AFTER CHAOS
Photography, Property, and the Aesthetics of Racial Capitalism Monica Huerta
Social Media and the Extended Aftermath of Disaster Stephen F. Ostertag
Reimagines photography through the long history of ideas of expression In America and the Long 19th Century 328 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479812400
240 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479815319
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A riveting portrait of how one community used the power of culture to restore their lives and social connections in the years after a devastating natural disaster
CRITICAL CULTURAL COMMUNICATION SERIES CHINESE CREATOR ECONOMIES
STREAMING VIDEO
Labor and Bilateral Creative Workers Jian Lin
Storytelling Across Borders Edited by Amanda D. Lotz and Ramon Lobato
The paradoxical relationship between Chinese creative workers and the state
An international team of experts explores how streaming services are disrupting traditional storytelling.
240 PP | PAPER | $28 9781479811885
376 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479816842
DIGITAL UNSETTLING
THE DIGITAL BORDER
Decoloniality and Dispossession in the Age of Social Media Sahana Udupa and Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan
Migration, Technology, Power Lilie Chouliaraki and Myria Georgiou Explores the role of technologies and platforms in the transformation of the border
How digital networks are positioned within the enduring structures of coloniality 264 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479819157
256 PP | PAPER | $29 9781479873401
LATINO TV
THE IDENTITY TRADE
A History Mary Beltrán
Selling Privacy and Reputation Online Nora A. Draper
The history of Latina/o participation and representation in American television
264 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479833894
The successes and failures of an industry that claims to protect and promote our online identities
256 PP | PAPER | $26 9781479811922
DIGITAL BLACK FEMINISM
BORDER OPTICS
Surveillance Cultures on the US-Mexico Frontier Camilla Fojas
Catherine Knight Steele Winner, 2022 Nancy Baym Book Award, given by the Association of Internet Researchers
208 PP | PAPER | $27 9781479808380
Traces the longstanding relationship between technology and Black feminist thought
Examines how the USMexico border is seen through visual codes of surveillance
208 PP | PAPER | $28 9781479807017
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POSTMILLENNIAL POP SERIES UNBELONGING
SONIC SOVEREIGNTY
Inauthentic Sounds in Mexican and Latinx Aesthetics Iván A. Ramos
Hip Hop, Indigeneity, and Shifting Popular Music Mainstreams Liz Przybylski
How Latinx artists engage in sonic subcultures to reject neoliberal definitions of belonging
240 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479808465
What does sovereignty sound like?
328 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479816927
THE PRIVILEGE OF PLAY
STYLE
A Queer Cosmology Taylor Black
A History of Hobby Games, Race, and Geek Culture Aaron Trammell
Assembles texts, performances, and personae from American culture to assert the elemental nature of style
The story of white masculinity in geek culture through a history of hobby gaming 240 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479818402
304 PP | PAPER | $35 9781479825004
HIP HOP HERESIES
THE REVOLUTION WILL BE HILARIOUS
Queer Aesthetics in New York City Shanté Paradigm Smalls
Comedy for Social Change and Civic Power Caty Borum
An examination of the relationship between blackness, queerness, and hip hop in New York City from 1975 to present 216 PP | PAPER | $28 9781479808205
An insider’s look at the power of comedy to effect social change 280 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479810833
DIGITAL MASQUERADE
THE DARK FANTASTIC
Feminist Rights and Queer Media in China Jia Tan
Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
Charts a new wave of feminist and queer media activism in postmillennial China
208 PP | PAPER | $28 9781479811847
Winner, 2022 Children’s Literature Association Book Award
240 PP | PAPER | $20 9781479806072
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“Radiant and thoughtprovoking.” —LA Review of Books
RACE AND ETHNICITY BOTTOMS UP
BLACK PATIENCE
Queer Mexicanness and Latinx Performance Xiomara Verenice Cervantes-Gomez
Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation Julius B. Fleming Jr.
Proposes a queer way to be in the world and with others
A bold rethinking of the Civil Rights Movement through the lens of Black theater
In Sexual Cultures 272 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479829156
312 PP | PAPER | $29 9781479806843
KEEPING IT UNREAL
CRITICAL RACE THEORY, FOURTH EDITION
Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics Darieck Scott
An Introduction Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic
Explores Black representation in fantasy genres and comic books
A new edition of a seminal text in Critical Race Theory
In Sexual Cultures 280 PP | PAPER | $29 9781479824144
In Critical America 224 PP | PAPER | $20 9781479818259
JUMP
BROKEN
Black Anarchism and Antiblack Carcerality Sam C. Tenorio
The Failed Promise of Muslim Inclusion Evelyn Alsultany
Asks how we can better understand a politics of refusal
“To gain understanding and achieve true allyship, this is an essential title to read.” —Library Journal (starred)
208 PP | PAPER | $28 9781479828296
320 PP | PAPER | $20 9781479805136
COLORING INTO EXISTENCE
How diversity initiatives end up marginalizing Arab and Muslim Americans
SKIN THEORY
Visual Culture and the Postwar Prison Laboratory Cristina Mejia Visperas
Queer of Color Worldmaking in Children’s Literature Isabel Millán
Studies the intersections of incarceration, medical science, and race in postwar America
Argues that queer picture books with main characters of color can disrupt structures of power in both literature and real life 352 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479816989
In Performance and American Cultures
256 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479810789
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DISABILITY STUDIES SIGNS OF DISABILITY
CRIP AUTHORSHIP
Disability as Method Edited by Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez
Stephanie L. Kerschbaum An exploration of the relationship between disability, story, and perception
An expansive volume presenting crip approaches to writing, research, and publishing
In Crip 248 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479811168
384 PP | PAPER | $35 9781479819362
DISABILITY WORKS
FALLING, FLOATING, FLICKERING
Performance After Rehabilitation Patrick McKelvey
Disability and Differential Movement in African Diasporic Performance Hershini Bhana Young
A cultural history of disability, performance, and work in the modern United States
Insists on the importance of embodiment and movement to the creation of Black sociality
In Performance and American Cultures 336 PP | PAPER | $32 9781479824878
320 PP | PAPER | $32 9781479818457
QUEER CHILDHOODS
Institutional Futures of Indigeneity, Race, and Disability Mary Zaborskis
How institutional management of children’s sexualities in boarding schools affected children’s futures 320 PP | PAPER | $32 9781479813896
In Crip
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In Sexual Cultures
MINORITARIAN AESTHETICS SERIES DEADPAN
280 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479811212
FOR PLEASURE
The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression Tina Post
Race, Experimentalism, and Aesthetics Rachel Jane Carroll
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism
Argues that aesthetic pleasure plays a key role in both racial practices and struggles against racist domination
Explores expressionlessness, inscrutability, and emotional withholding in Black cultural production
288 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479826735
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GENDER & SEXUALITY SEXUALITY BEYOND CONSENT
QUEER FORMS
Ramzi Fawaz
How do we represent the experience of being a gender and sexual outlaw?
Risk, Race, Traumatophilia Avgi Saketopoulou Radical alternatives to consent and trauma In Sexual Cultures 272 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479820252
464 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479820733
FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS ONLY
PAIN GENERATION
Social Media, Feminist Activism, and the Neoliberal Selfie L. Ayu Saraswati
Reshaping Jewish Orthodoxy Through the Arts in the Digital Age Jessica Roda
336 PP | CLOTH | $40 9781479809752
How Hasidic women in New York City and Montreal have used media technologies to create a new musical and film market “for girls and women only”
Explores the perils and promise of feminist social media activism
224 PP | PAPER | $28 9781479808335
THE PORNIFICATION OF AMERICA
LGBT INCLUSION IN AMERICAN LIFE
Pop Culture, Political Imagination, and Civil Rights Susan Burgess
How Raunch Culture Is Ruining Our Society Bernadette Barton
232 PP | PAPER | $20 9781479849338
“This book persuasively argues that ‘equating hypersexualization with sex positivity is a form of Orwellian doublespeak.’” —The New York Times Book Review
A compelling explanation of the American public’s acceptance of LGBT freedoms through the lens of pop culture 232 PP | PAPER | $28 9781479819751
In LGBTQ Politics
MEDIA AND LAW DEFENDING PORNOGRAPHY
THE FIGHT FOR FREE SPEECH
Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women’s Rights Nadine Strossen
Ten Cases That Define Our First Amendment Freedoms Ian Rosenberg
A new edition of a groundbreaking, feminist defense of free speech for pornography
376 PP | PAPER | $28 9781479829903
A user’s guide to understanding contemporary free speech issues in the United States 312 PP | PAPER | $19 9781479825912
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MEDIA IN POPULAR CULTURE MILLENNIAL JEWISH STARS
LIKE WATER
A Cultural History of Bruce Lee Daryl Joji Maeda
Navigating Racial Antisemitism, Masculinity, and White Supremacy Jonathan Branfman
Highlights Bruce Lee’s influence beyond martial arts and film
Highlights how millennial Jewish stars symbolize national politics in US media 320 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479820795
336 PP | PAPER | $20 9781479830732
IN CASE OF EMERGENCY
THE RISE OF DIGITAL SEX WORK
How Technologies Mediate Crisis and Normalize Inequality Elizabeth Ellcessor
Kurt Fowler
How technology transformed the nature of sex work
A much-needed look at the growth of emergency media and its impact on our lives 216 PP | PAPER | $28 9781479811632
272 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479824205
STAY COOL
THE GREEN SPACE
Why Dark Comedy Matters in the Fight Against Climate Change Aaron Sachs
The Transformation of the Irish Image Marion R. Casey A historical exploration of the Irish image in popular culture
“Stay Cool encourages a fresh, creative approach to addressing one of the biggest challenges of the time—climate change.” —Foreword Reviews 176 PP | CLOTH | $22 9781479819393
In The Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series 336 PP | CLOTH | $35 9781479817450
MARTY GLICKMAN
A REVOLUTION IN TYPE
The Life of an American Jewish Sports Legend Jeffrey S. Gurock
248 PP | CLOTH | $28 9781479820870
“The first detailed biography of Marty Glickman, the undisputed voice of New York City sports during the second half of the 20th century... A fascinating portrait of an important voice in American sports history.” —Kirkus Reviews
Gender and the Making of the American Yiddish Press Ayelet Brinn A fascinating glimpse into the complex and often unexpected ways that women and ideas about women shaped widely read Jewish newspapers 328 PP | CLOTH | $39 9781479817665
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KEYWORDS SERIES KEYWORDS FOR COMICS STUDIES
KEYWORDS FOR CHILDREN’S LITERATURE, SECOND EDITION
Edited by Ramzi Fawaz, Deborah Whaley and Shelley Streeby 288 PP | PAPER | $29 9781479831968
Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers emerging in the field of comics studies
Edited by Philip Nel, Lissa Paul and Nina Christensen 272 PP | PAPER | $29 9781479899678
KEYWORDS FOR MEDIA STUDIES
KEYWORDS FOR GENDER AND SEXUALITY STUDIES
Edited by Laurie Ouellette and Jonathan Gray
240 PP | PAPER | $29 9781479859610
Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and their histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers and questions emerging in the field of media studies
An updated vocabulary for children’s literature and culture
Edited by The Keywords Feminist Editorial Collective 312 PP | PAPER | $29 9781479808151
Introduces key terms, debates, and histories for feminist studies in gender and sexuality
AVIDLY READS AVIDLY READS BOARD GAMES
AVIDLY READS GUILTY PLEASURES
Eric Thurm
Arielle Zibrak
“How we should think about board games, and what do they do to us as we play them?”
“My guilty pleasure wasn’t just reading low-brow fiction or even femaleauthored fiction, it was being femme itself.”
144 PP | PAPER | $15 9781479826957
176 PP | PAPER | $15 9781479807093
AVIDLY READS OPERA
160 PP | PAPER | $15 9781479811731
AVIDLY READS POETRY
Alison Kinney
Jacquelyn Ardam
“Opera is community, comfort, art, voice, breath, life. It’s hope.”
Why are more Americans are reading poetry in the 21st-century than ever before?
176 PP | PAPER | $15 9781479813582
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GOOD FOR COURSES DISLIKE-MINDED
RACE AND MEDIA
Media, Audiences, and the Dynamics of Taste Jonathan Gray
Critical Approaches Edited by Lori Kido Lopez
A foundational collection of essays that demonstrate how to study race and media
Explains why audiences dislike certain media and what happens when they do
In Critical Cultural Communication
In Critical Cultural Communication 272 PP | PAPER | $29 9781479809981
344 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479889310
HOW TO WATCH TELEVISION, SECOND EDITION
432 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479898817
VIDEO GAMES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN QUEER
Bonnie Ruberg
Edited by Ethan Thompson and Jason Mittell
Argues for the queer potential of video games
Investigates the ways we watch and think about television
In Postmillennial Pop
In User’s Guides to Popular Culture
288 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479843749
HOW TO PLAY VIDEO GAMES
A Biography Jean Burgess and Nancy K. Baym The sometimes surprising, often humorous story of the forces that came together to shape the central role Twitter now plays in contemporary politics and culture 144 PP | PAPER | $14 9781479801756
Edited by Matthew Thomas Payne and Nina B. Huntemann
Forty original contributions on games and gaming culture 400 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479827985
CONVERGENCE CULTURE
368 PP | PAPER | $28 9780814742952
In User’s Guides to Popular Culture
TO THE BREAK OF DAWN
Where Old and New Media Collide Henry Jenkins
A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic William Jelani Cobb
A classic study on the dynamic between an individual and different media channels
An inside look into the beats, lyrics, and flow of hip-hop’s history
200 PP | PAPER | $25 9780814716717
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PARTNER PRESSES RESISTANCE
DEFINING SEXUAL MISCONDUCT
Righteous Rage in the Age of #MeToo Edited by Sue Goyette
Power, Media, and #MeToo Stacey Hannem and Christopher J. Schneider
Writers across the globe speak out against sexual assault and abuse in this powerful new poetry anthology
176 PP | PAPER | $22 9780889778016
Published by University of Regina Press
Traces contemporary shifts in power in relation to sexual misconduct 368 PP | PAPER | $30 9780889778092
¡BRIGADISTAS!
FREE SPEECH AND THE SUPPRESSION OF DISSENT DURING WORLD WAR I
An American Anti-Fascist in the Spanish Civil War Miguel Ferguson and Illustrated by Anne Timmons 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
Eric T. Chester
The fight for freedom of expression during US government crackdown on dissent during the WWI 416 PP | PAPER | $27 9781583678688
ART IN A DEMOCRACY
256 PP | PAPER | $27 9781613321904
Published by Monthly Review Press
ART IN A DEMOCRACY
Selected Plays of Roadside Theater, Volume 1: The Appalachian History Plays, 1975–1989 Ben Fink
Selected Plays of Roadside Theater, Volume 2: The Intercultural Plays, 1990–2020 Ben Fink
Seminal plays and essays reveal the radical origins of Appalachia’s Roadside Theater
Collaborative plays with diverse ensembles across the country address pressing issues of our times
Published by New Village Press
224 PP | PAPER | $27 9781613321942
THE MYTH OF BLACK CAPITALISM
BABEL UNBOUND
Deciphers the history of “Black capitalist” rhetoric— and how it serves to enrich a minuscule few at the expense of the many Published by Monthly Review Press
Published by New Village Press Rage, reason and rethinking public life Edited by Lesley Cowling and Carolyn Hamilton
New Edition Earl Ofari Hutchinson
136 PP | PAPER | $19 9781685900311
Published by University of Regina Press
Writers from the Global South demonstrate that forms of publicness are multiple, mobile and varied 292 PP | PAPER | $50 9781776145898
Published by Wits University Press
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