DECLARATION HOUSE
EDITED BY ANNA ARABINDAN-KESSON, PAUL M. FARBER, AND YOLANDA WISHER
Expanding our ideas and notions about who is counted among our American founders
During the drafting of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, Thomas Jefferson and enslaved valet Robert Hemmings spent several months at 700 Market Street in Philadelphia. The editors and contributors to Declaration House reflect on the history of this site and illuminate the entangled legacy of freedom and enslavement at the core of our nation’s founding. They expand our history by revisiting and mapping this historic place in the city and nation, past and present, as a way to tend to our democracy today. At the center of the book is artist Sonya Clark’s revelatory public artwork “The Descendants of Monticello,” a multichannel video installation created in collaboration with Hemmings’ collateral descendants and others who are related to the hundreds of people enslaved at Monticello. Interviews and essays about the project and the site consider history, memory, and the founding of our country. Like Clark’s project, Declaration House asks the timely question, "What does the Declaration of Independence mean to us today?"
CONTRIBUTORS: Niya Bates, Kerry Bickford, Paul Buchanan, Sonya Clark, Andrew M. Davenport, Kai Davis, Husnaa Haajarah Hashim, J. Calvin Jefferson Sr., Jabari Jefferson, Jane Kamensky, Matthew Kenyatta, Salamishah Tillet, Gayle Jessup White, Auriana Woods, and the editors
ANNA ARABINDAN-KESSON is Associate Professor of Black Diasporic Art at Princeton University. She is the author of Black Bodies, White Gold: Art, Cotton and Commerce in the Atlantic World
PAUL M. FARBER is Director and Co-Founder of Monument Lab. Farber is the author or coeditor of several books including Monument Lab: Re:Generation (Temple) and A Wall of Our Own: An American History of the Berlin Wall.
YOLANDA WISHER is the Senior Curator at Monument Lab. She is the author of the poetry collection Monk Eats an Afro and was named inaugural Poet Laureate of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania in 1999 and Poet Laureate of Philadelphia in 2016.
ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY | HISTORY | AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES | REGIONAL | PHILADELPHIA
192 pp • 6 x 9" • 31 color photos • 3 halftones $20.00T £14.99 paper 9781439927649
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HISTORY | REGIONAL | RACE AND ETHNICITY | AMERICAN STUDIES
In the series Pennsylvania History
164 pp • 6 x 9 " • 45 halftones • 6 maps
$19.95 £14.99 paper 9781932304435
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NATIVE AMERICANS AND PENNSYLVANIA
Revised and Expanded Edition
DANIEL K. RICHTER
An up-to-date survey of regional Indigenous history from earliest times to the present
Engagingly written, deeply researched, and thoroughly revised to reflect the most recent interdisciplinary scholarship, this new edition of Native Americans and Pennsylvania focuses on Indigenous actors, voices, and landscapes, while tracing interconnections among local, continental, and global trends.
The story begins thousands of years before there was such a thing as “Pennsylvania.” William Penn did not paint his colony on a blank canvas. Colonists adapted ancient patterns of trade and cultural interaction created by the ancestors of Lenape, Conestoga, and Haudenosaunee peoples and convinced themselves they had made them their own. In the process, Pennsylvanians developed moral justifications for the expropriation of Indigenous land, pernicious doctrines about racial superiority, and brutal mechanisms of vigilante violence that profoundly influenced later United States government policies.
Those policies kept Pennsylvania in the foreground of national Native American issues long after the Commonwealth expelled the majority of its Indigenous population to far-flung diasporic homes: forced cultural assimilation at off-reservation boarding schools in the nineteenth century, cultural revitalization and political activism in the twentieth, and struggles with cultural institutions over the repatriation of human remains and controversies over who has the right to claim Indigenous identity in the twenty-first.
DANIEL K. RICHTER is Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania and Director Emeritus of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies. He is the author of The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization; Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America; and Before the Revolution: America’s Ancient Pasts
THE MIGHTY WMMR
An Oral History of Philadelphia’s Rock Radio Revolution
ERIN RILEY
An insider's behind-the-scenes look at how WMMR grew to rule Philadelphia’s rock radio world in the 1970s and 1980s
In the early 1980s, the scrappy radio station 93.3 WMMR was on the verge of a major takeover of the Philadelphia airwaves. Erin Riley, who had her finger on the pulse of new artists like Bon Jovi, whose music would define a generation, was hired as the station’s Music Director in 1983.
The Mighty WMMR is Riley’s affectionate and nostalgic oral history of the station’s early years, especially its 1980s heyday, covering everything from the pioneering influence of The Marconi Experiment and the success of The Morning Zoo to how WMMR broke artists like Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, and local favorites The Hooters onto the national scene. Featuring anecdotes and memories by beloved on-air personalities including John DeBella, Pierre Robert, and Michael Tearson, Riley chronicles the memorable songs and musicians; concerts, contests, and clubs; and the live broadcasts that marked the height of an unforgettable era in Philadelphia radio.
Riley breezily captures the station’s impact on listeners, which made WMMR a perfect storm of the times, the culture, and the counterculture. The Mighty WMMR is a captivating look back at Philadelphia’s rock history and the station that shaped a city and a generation.
ERIN RILEY built a 40-year career in the music business, programming hit songs for major-market stations including KROQ-FM Los Angeles and WMMR-FM Philadelphia. She led the Philadelphia GRAMMY Chapter and founded Rock & Roll After School, where kids wrote and performed original songs. Riley is the author of A Dark Force: 20 Years with a Covert Narcissist. She lives in Philadelphia and serves as Music Supervisor for the hit series The Recording Artist
PHILADELPHIA | GENERAL INTEREST | MUSIC AND DANCE | REGIONAL
296 pp • 6 x 9" • 3 halftones
$30.00T £22.99 paper 9781439926598
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GENERAL INTEREST | MEMOIR | ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES | POLITICAL SCIENCE AND PUBLIC POLICY | WOMEN'S STUDIES
312 pp • 6 x 9 " • 16 halftones
$35.00T £27.99 cloth 9781439927182
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ELECTED AMERICAN From Red China to Blue Maryland
LILY QI
An immigrant’s journey from Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution to the Maryland State House
“Only in America can you run for office and get elected by people who can’t even pronounce your name.”—Lily Qi
Thirty years after her solo journey to America, Chineseborn Lily Qi became a Maryland state delegate. It was a gratifying moment she did not take for granted. Qi had overcome a viral WeChat disinformation campaign from her Chinese community and met with skepticism from the Democratic establishment before being elected.
Elected American tells the inspirational story of Qi’s dreams, setbacks, and achievements with candor and humility. Growing up in Mao’s Shanghai when “politics meant danger,” she never imagined running for public office. However, living in America, Qi came to see political participation as a missed opportunity for immigrants. As she campaigned to energize her cultural base, Qi realized she had to teach first-time voters how to make their votes count in a system not designed for them.
As the only U.S. state legislator to have lived through China’s Cultural Revolution, Qi brings a rare cross-system perspective to American politics and the modernday Asian American identity. Elected American is a political memoir and an immigrant story that emphasizes that democracy doesn’t wait on the sidelines—it favors those who participate.
LILY QI has served in the Maryland General Assembly since 2019, representing the 15th legislative district in the House of Delegates, a suburb of Washington D.C. She chairs the Business Regulation Subcommittee on the House Economic Matters Committee and served as Deputy Majority Whip. Qi has been named “Legislator of the Year” three times.
TORN FROM THE ROOT
A Memoir of a Black Transracial Adoptee
RHONDA M. ROORDA
A powerful journey of identity and belonging
As a Black child adopted out of the New York foster care system as a toddler and raised by white Evangelical parents, Rhonda Roorda had to learn how to walk in two different worlds. She often questioned “whether my skin was too dark” and if she “acted too white.” She recalls being haunted by feelings of shame and not “being enough.” Torn from the Root is her illuminating story of identity, belonging, and purpose, and lays bare the deep pain she felt navigating life as a vulnerable Black girl and how she healed herself.
Roorda suffered trauma and abuse in her youth, but she also developed resilience. Eventually, she resolves to find her birth family and takes readers on her exciting and agonizing journey.
Torn from the Root thinks critically about the child welfare system and the long-term impacts of transracial adoption. Roorda helps readers understand her experience, posing necessary questions about the challenges of transracial adoption. Her emotional story, full of wisdom and reflection, recounts how she “accepted the truth” of her adoption and found balance, not discomfort, in her own skin.
RHONDA M. ROORDA, M.A., is an international speaker and consultant on transracial adoption. Her insights have been featured in the Emmy award-winning TV show This Is Us. She is the author of the acclaimed In Their Voices: Black Americans on Transracial Adoption, recognized as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title, and the coauthor of a trilogy of groundbreaking books on transracial adoption.
GENERAL INTEREST | MEMOIR | RACE AND ETHNICITY | AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES | WOMEN'S STUDIES
250 pp • 6 x 9 " • 8 halftones
$30.00T £23.99 cloth 9781439927939
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JEWISH STUDIES | MEMOIR | GENERAL INTEREST | RELIGION
282 pp • 6 x 9 " • 1 halftone
$28.00T £20.99 paper 9781439927618
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BROOKLYN ODYSSEY
My Journey out of Hasidism
ZALMAN NEWFIELD
An affecting memoir about moving away from a tight-knit Orthodox Jewish community
Growing up in Crown Heights, Brooklyn as a member of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic Orthodox Jewish community, Zalman Newfield was raised in an atmosphere of strict gender segregation, rigorous religious education, and nearly all-consuming ritual practices. Trained to be a Lubavitch emissary, he traveled around the world doing Jewish outreach to help usher in the messianic redemption. However, after exposure to the wider world, he abandoned the faith of his youth.
Brooklyn Odyssey is Newfield’s poignant and hopeful memoir about exiting Orthodoxy. He recounts asserting his individuality and taking the radical step of shaving his beard. Reflective about his upbringing, Newfield is open to and curious about a world beyond Brooklyn while also maintaining his profound bond with his family and Jewish tradition. He writes candidly about his emotional, intellectual, and social experiences in and out of the Lubavitch community.
From pivotal moments of devastation, including the illness and death of his younger brother and of his revered spiritual leader Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, to moments of joyful resolve, including the decision to pursue a doctorate and marry a nonOrthodox Jew, Newfield takes readers on his moving and impactful journey.
ZALMAN NEWFIELD is Associate Professor of Sociology and Jewish Studies at Hunter College, City University of New York and the author of Degrees of Separation: Identity Formation While Leaving Ultra-Orthodox Judaism (Temple). Visit him online at zalmannewfield.com
YOUR OWN WILL LEAVE YOU
My Mother’s Dementia
MANASH FIRAQ BHATTACHARJEE
An intense—and intensely moving—account of the impact of his mother’s dementia on the author’s life
“Memory’s barriers are without barriers,” writes Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee in the opening of his touching and thoughtful memoir, Your Own Will Leave You. Bhattacharjee eloquently reflects on family, care, and memory as he chronicles his experiences with his elderly mother who suffers from dementia. Working from his journal, Bhattacharjee ruminates on the ways we understand dementia and memory as well as end-of-life issues. He is not only a loving son, but also an Indian with a Western sensibility who turns to ancient and contemporary thinkers that inform his perspective.
Bhattacharjee focuses on the last months of his mother’s life and her changing demeanor—her stubbornness, humor, and vulnerability. He traces her interactions with friends, neighbors, and caregivers, while also addressing burdenof-care issues. Recounting his moments of grief and guilt with candor, Bhattacharjee also re-evaluates how Western culture prejudices popular perceptions of mental illness.
Lyrical, penetrating, occasionally aphoristic, and full of insights, Your Own Will Leave You is a heartfelt, and at times heartbreaking, memoir and a warm elegy for the author’s late mother.
MANASH FIRAQ BHATTACHARJEE is a writer, political thinker, and poet who earned his doctorate in political science from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is the author of Gandhi: The End of Nonviolence, Nehru and the Spirit of India, The Town Slowly Empties: On Life and Culture during Lockdown, Looking for the Nation: Towards Another Idea of India, and Ghalib’s Tomb and Other Poems
GENERAL INTEREST | MEMOIR | DEATH AND DYING | DISABILITY STUDIES | CULTURAL STUDIES
176 pp • 5.5 x 8.25 " • 3 halftones
$25.00T £18.99 paper 9781439927311
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MASS MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS | GENDER STUDIES | DISABILITY STUDIES | CULTURAL STUDIES | MEMOIR
216 pp • 6 x 9 "
$29.95 £22.99 paper 9781439926116
$104.50 £84.50 cloth 9781439926109
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STORIES OF RAISING BOYS
Masculinity, Disability, Gender Expansiveness, and Anxiety
JULIE-ANN SCOTT-POLLOCK
Exploring the complexity and cultural intersections of parenting and masculinity
In her poignant, affecting autoethnography, Stories of Raising Boys, Julie-Ann Scott-Pollock investigates the meaning of disability, gender, race, and privilege in contemporary culture. Scott-Pollock is a white mother living with a physical disability raising four boys—Theo, a three-year-old risktaker; Tony, ten, who lives with seizures; Vinny, eight, who is gender expansive; and fiveyear-old Nico, who is also gender expansive and experiences anxiety. They live on the southeastern U.S. coast with their father, Evan, and their baby sister, Rosalie. Through narrative analysis, Scott-Pollock compares and contrasts her circumstances to the ways in which adult interviewees manage the same lived experiences as her sons. She also includes their opinions about masculinity and identity, as well as parenting boys. In doing so, Stories of Raising Boys deepens the cultural complexity of parent–child relationships and expands our collective understanding of how they form and emerge. In addition, Scott-Pollock uses a metaphor of swimming through the ocean near her family’s home to illustrate resisting marginalization while also promoting strong cultural identities, especially in turbulent waters. Stories of Raising Boys offers an absorbing cultural reflection on the intersectionality of identity, power, and privilege.
JULIE-ANN SCOTT-POLLOCK is Professor of Communication and Performance Studies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. She is the author of Embodied Performance as Applied Research, Art and Pedagogy, which was awarded the Lilla A. Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Interpretation and Performance Studies by the National Communication Association.
NOT GOING BACK
Public Opinion on Abortion in Post- Dobbs America
LAUREL ELDER, STEVEN GREENE, AND MARY-KATE LIZOTTE
How American opinion on abortion has undergone a profound shift following the Dobbs decision
Despite intense political debate, attitudes on abortion were remarkably stable for decades. However, after the 2022 Dobbs decision, Americans’ opinions began to change. Not Going Back explores the shifts in public opinion on this hot-button issue from the landmark passing of Roe v. Wade in 1973 through the 2024 election and into 2025.
The authors ask, “What role do Americans want their government to play in protecting, regulating, or restricting abortion access?” and, “How will changing attitudes on abortion reshape American politics?” They offer cohesive, theoretically grounded explanations for both the continuity and the change in Americans’ attitudes on this contentious topic. Using national data, they take a deep dive into the personal experiences and social forces behind these changes.
Not Going Back ends with an examination of the consequences of these changes for election outcomes. While there has been a striking reversal in the prioritization of abortion as an issue among Democrats and Republicans, the full impact of this shift in thinking will be influenced by future policies, court decisions, and party reactions.
LAUREL ELDER is Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the Institute of Public Service at Hartwick College.
STEVEN GREENE is Professor of Political Science at North Carolina State University.
MARY-KATE LIZOTTE is Professor of Political Science in the Department of Social Sciences at Augusta University.
POLITICAL SCIENCE AND PUBLIC POLICY | SOCIOLOGY | GENDER STUDIES
210 pp • 6 x 9 " • 4 tables • 30 figures
$30.95 £23.99 paper 9781439926505
$104.50 £84.00 cloth 9781439926499
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COMMUNITY ORGANIZING AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS | SOCIOLOGY | AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES | HISTORY | RACE AND ETHNICITY
190 pp • 6 x 9 " • 1 halftone
$29.95 £22.99 paper 9781439925393
$99.50 £80.00 cloth 9781439925386
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THE POWER WE NEED RIGHT NOW
Black Sororities and Black Radical Movements of the 1970s
AISHA A. UPTON AZZAM
Examines diverging Black sorority responses to activism in the post-civil rights era
There is a long history of sororities such as Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA) and Delta Sigma Theta (Delta) participating in activism and social justice efforts—from the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s to Kamala Harris’s recent political campaigns. But radical movements like Black Lives Matter have posed more challenging questions for these organizations.
In The Power We Need Right Now, Aisha Upton Azzam investigates the legacies of AKA and Delta to understand the considerations that weigh on their engagement with present day Black movements. These organizations wield a significant amount of political power to mobilize in support of their causes. The response each sorority has had to movements fifty years apart is strikingly similar—even if their approaches are quite different. Using a Black feminist theoretical framework, Upton Azzam brings context and meaning to the interactions of these sororities with Black radical movements. She highlights the costs communities bear from sororities’ adherence to respectability and racial uplift ideologies by tracing each sorority’s history and response to emerging Black feminist and Black Power movements during the tumultuous 1970s.
The Power We Need Right Now emphasizes that Black communities still have the ability to wield their political power and influence to further the struggle for Black liberation.
AISHA A. UPTON AZZAM is Assistant Professor of Sociology at St. Catherine University.
SEARCHING FOR DEMOCRACY
Women, Domestic Work, and Social Reproduction in Latin America
LEDA M. PÉREZ
How fully enfranchising women in the lowest tiers of employment can help close the equality gap in Latin America
How can we achieve lasting social and political equality for women? Leda Pérez tackles this thorny question in Searching for Democracy by interrogating egalitarianism in Latin America, where nearly 20% of women work in domestic service. She examines how women’s participation in society, labor, and politics continues to be conditioned by their relationship to domestic and care work.
Pérez argues that women’s relationship to these spheres of life is indicative of a nation’s development and democracy. She provides a comparative focus on the socio-cultural valuation of this labor and the experiences of women in Bolivia, Chile, Peru, and Uruguay, among other countries. Pérez asserts that it is only by changing sociocultural views on this “women’s work” that nations can create political change, foster equitable legislation, and ensure implementation of effective policies that benefit women.
Searching for Democracy shows why real and lasting equality cannot be achieved without fully enfranchising women in the lowest tiers of employment and closing the equality gap among women. Pérez’s models for gender equality are relevant for women around the world.
LEDA M. PÉREZ is Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Political Science at the Universidad del Pacífico in Lima, Peru. She is the coeditor of Mujeres, trabajadoras, y mucho más: Los desafíos del trabajo del hogar en América Latina and editor of La economía del cuidado, mujeres y desarrollo: perspectivas desde el mundo y América Latina
POLITICAL SCIENCE AND PUBLIC POLICY | GENDER STUDIES | LABOR STUDIES AND WORK | LATIN AMERICAN/CARIBBEAN STUDIES | SOCIOLOGY
268 pp • 6 x 9 "
13 tables • 10 figures • 4 halftones
$39.95 £31.00 paper 9781439927465
$115.50 £92.00 cloth 9781439927458
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POLITICAL SCIENCE AND PUBLIC POLICY | GENDER STUDIES | LATIN AMERICAN/ CARIBBEAN STUDIES
271 pp • 6 x 9 " • 15 tables • 26 figures
$39.95 £29.99 paper 9781439927106
$119.50 £96.00 cloth 9781439927090
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HOW WOMEN WIN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS IN LATIN AMERICA
CATHERINE REYES-HOUSHOLDER
Explaining the paths women must take—and the barriers they face—to become President
Between 1990 and 2020, women candidates won only 6% of the world’s presidential races. How Women Win Presidential Elections in Latin America explains the factors, strategies, and perceptions that help (or hinder) women to democratically access their country’s highest political office. Catherine Reyes-Housholder introduces a theory of gendered incentives and perceived potential to reveal why a political party would break with tradition and nominate a woman. She also shows how citizens respond when women candidates are running in incumbent parties or competing to displace those in power.
Drawing on comparative research on the presidency and gender, How Women Win Presidential Elections in Latin America examines the successful campaigns of Michelle Bachelet in Chile and Dilma Rousseff in Brazil, as well as why Blanca Ovelar lost her presidential race in Paraguay. Reyes-Housholder’s findings indicate that voter sexism is not a major factor; however, women do not triumph in these elections in the same ways that men do. Rather, the central unknown factor behind women’s victories is how they become candidates of major parties—and gender profoundly influences who parties nominate.
How Women Win Presidential Elections in Latin America is a valuable investigation of women and executive politics.
CATHERINE REYES-HOUSHOLDER is Associate Professor at the Political Science Institute of the Pontifical Catholic University in Chile.
DISEASES HAVE NO EYES
Valley Fever and Environmental Health Justice
SARAH M. RIOS
Explores how marginalized communities organized to combat a public health crisis
Diseases Have No Eyes investigates how communities in Central Valley, California deal with Valley Fever, a painful illness caused by a soil fungus. The airborne disease’s symptoms can last from two months to a patient’s lifetime and may be fatal. Nearly a third of the national cases are reported in California, where those infected are disproportionately farmworkers and people incarcerated in the region. Poverty, pollution, and prison expose these groups to cumulative environmental and health risks that deny Valley Fever patients adequate medical treatment.
Sarah M. Rios examines how these populations face racial health disparities and develop strategies of care. She connects environmental justice activists as well as prison advocates and abolitionists who mobilize protests and issue calls to action to the past and ongoing efforts for medical autonomy and healthy communities. Diseases Have No Eyes emphasizes that vulnerable groups have developed an expertise and understanding of Valley Fever out of necessity. In the process, these community members offer an alternative public health response that extends beyond the individual body.
SARAH M. RIOS is Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Studies at Cal Poly Humboldt.
ANTHROPOLOGY | COMMUNITY ORGANIZING AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS | HEALTH AND HEALTH POLICY | NATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT | SOCIOLOGY
In the series Insubordinate Spaces
196 pp • 6 x 9 " • 10 halftones
$29.95 £22.99 paper 9781439925331
$99.50 £80.00 cloth 9781439925324
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DISABILITY STUDIES | CULTURAL STUDIES | EDUCATION | GENDER STUDIES | ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES
In the series Dis/color
232 pp • 6 x 9 "
2 tables • 5 halftones • 2 maps
$34.95 £26.99 paper 9781439925034
$110.50 £88.00 cloth 9781439925027
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TAUTUA
Service and Disability Activism in Sāmoa
JULIANN ANESI
A feminist ethnography that explores how women established two schools for students living with disabilities in 1970s Oceania
The Sāmoan concept of tautua is the cultural practice of service—to family, village, church, and nation. For Juliann Anesi, tautua includes an ethical responsibility that extends to caring for people living with disabilities. Anesi learned this value from her aunty Sina, who was instrumental in founding two schools for youths in the mid-1970s—Aoga Fiamalamalama and Loto Taumafailike. These schools were designed for students like Sina’s son Gele, students excluded from private and public education because of intellectual or physical disabilities.
Tautua recounts how the Indigenous community organized and resisted ableist paradigms in colonial institutions by changing the education system to a more inclusive environment. Anesi explains how funding was arranged for the schools through NGOs. She also uses oral histories, personal narratives, archival documents, and newspapers to offer insights about how students experienced oppression and erasure as well as shame and sexism in their communities.
Highlighting advocacy and belonging, Tautua argues that these schools for students with disabilities centered Sāmoan concepts of service, advocacy, and self-determination in an attempt to decolonize elementary education. In doing so, Anesi shows what disability activism in Sāmoa can teach us about educability, school inclusion, and collective care.
JULIANN ANESI is Assistant Professor of Gender Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. As a community educator and activist, she has worked with nonprofit organizations and schools in American Sāmoa, California, Hawai'i, New York, and Sāmoa.
ASIAN AMERITOPIAS
Asian American Speculative Fictions
STEPHEN HONG SOHN
Analyzing themes of social justice for Asian Americans in a literary supergenre
Asian American writers have long produced literary works of speculative fiction, the supergenre that employs science fictional, fantastical, or supernatural elements. Stephen Hong Sohn’s Asian Ameritopias is the first book-length study to consider how these aesthetically complex and wildly imaginative representations offer writers a way to explore themes of race and identity, as well as alternate futures and other planets.
Sohn examines how various novels and stories enable Asian American writers to engage with and reimagine issues of social justice, revisualize the bounds of social collectives, and create new pathways for precarious subjects. Asian Ameritopias assesses speculative fictions that spotlight supernatural horror and fantasy, such as ghosts and magical objects, to excavate racialized histories of oppression. Moving to science fiction, Sohn shows how Asian American cyborgs employ their technological powers to offer protection for socially marginalized groups, including sex workers, the undocumented, the poor, and the injured. He ends by analyzing three novels featuring extraterrestrials who look like Asian Americans in order to address issues of xenophobia and ostracization.
The speculative fictions Sohn unpacks in Asian Ameritopias provide a ripe opportunity to reflect on and confront our current, turbulent reality.
STEPHEN HONG SOHN is Professor of English and Thomas F.X. and Theresa Mullarkey Chair in Literature at Fordham University.
ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES | LITERATURE AND DRAMA | CULTURAL STUDIES | AMERICAN STUDIES
382 pp • 6 x 9 "
$39.95 £31.00 paper 9781439927526
$139.50 £112.00 cloth 9781439927519
AVAILABLE MAY
ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES | AMERICAN STUDIES | CULTURAL STUDIES | SEXUALITY STUDIES/SEXUAL IDENTITY | URBAN STUDIES
In the series Asian American History and Culture
294 pp • 6 x 9 " • 14 halftones
$39.95 £31.00 paper 9781439927670
$119.50 £96.00 cloth 9781439927663
AVAILABLE MARCH
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THE HEARTLAND OF U.S. EMPIRE
Race, Region, and the Queer Filipinx Midwest
THOMAS XAVIER SARMIENTO
Queers the conventional understandings of region, nation, diaspora, and empire by analyzing literary and visual cultural representations of Filipinxs in the Midwest
Examining Filipinx cultural representations in the Midwest since the early twentieth century, Thomas Sarmiento shrewdly considers the impact of American exceptionalism and U.S. imperialism in a region where white, middle class, heterosexual, and Christian is the norm. The Heartland of U.S. Empire offers a cogent analysis of the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair and its infamous Philippine Exhibit alongside minor museum displays and archives of Midwesterners in the Philippines. Sarmiento also considers the “exile literature” of Filipino/American writer Bienvenido Santos as well as the TV shows Glee and Superstore, which provide mainstream visibility of the queer Filipinx Midwest. He employs a queer, decolonial Filipinx methodology that traces how narratives of America’s heartland position Filipinxs in the region as nonnormative due to their racial, gender, sexual, and national statuses. The Heartland of U.S. Empire locates queer Filipinxs in the geographic center of the nation and at the center of cultural narratives, thereby mapping alternative images of diasporic Filipinx identity and experience alongside U.S. regional and national identities, histories, and realities.
THOMAS XAVIER SARMIENTO is Associate Professor of English at Kansas State University.
ACTIVISM, MAJORITY RULE, AND LOCAL DEMOCRACY
Rethinking Public Influence
BRIAN E. ADAMS
Is more local activism a solution for our political ills?
Local democracy doesn’t work as it should, declares Brian Adams in Activism, Majority Rule, and Local Democracy
Local politics is where citizens have the most opportunity for direct participation, control, and influence, but that activism doesn’t necessarily translate into majority rule.
While greater local engagement can produce policy that better reflects activists’ strong preferences, Adams explains that activists are not representative of the public-at-large and states that a reconceptualization of how the public should be able to influence local officials is required. Based on interviews with activists in San Diego, California, Adams concludes that activism can be beneficial, but we need to view it as distinct from majority rule, with a focus on managing the tension between the two.
Improving local democracy is not just a matter of generating more activism. It requires articulating when we want policy to reflect majority preferences and when we want activists to hold sway.
BRIAN E. ADAMS is Professor in the Political Science Department at San Diego State University and the author of Citizen Lobbyists: Local Efforts to Influence Public Policy (Temple).
POLITICAL SCIENCE AND PUBLIC POLICY | URBAN STUDIES | COMMUNITY ORGANIZING AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
224 pp • 6 x 9 " • 1 table
$32.95 £24.99 paper 9781439926895
$104.50 £84.00 cloth 9781439926888
AVAILABLE MAY
Depiction of Government and Bureaucrats, US Environmental Policy in Action, and Public Policy: A Concise Introduction.
POLITICAL SCIENCE AND PUBLIC POLICY | GENDER STUDIES | WOMEN'S STUDIES
164 pp • 6 x 9 " • 6 tables • 8 figures
$24.95 £18.99 paper 9781439925362
$89.50 £72.00 cloth 9781439925355
AVAILABLE JUNE
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WOMEN AND REGULATION
Challenging the Status Quo
EDITED BY SARA R. RINFRET AND MICHELLE C. PAUTZ
What is it like to be a woman in a regulatory environment? Are female food safety inspectors treated differently than men? What do women contribute to the creation and implementation of public policy in the United States? The editors of and contributors to Women and Regulation, all experts in public policy and public administration, analyze the role women (and stakeholders) play in bureaucracies in environmental, budgetary, and other sectors of the U.S. federal, state, and local governments, plus relevant examples from around the world.
Women and Regulation examines the impact of regulatory policy delegation, as well as the actors and processes involved in administrative rulemaking, compliance, and implementation. The book considers representative bureaucracy, organizational stereotypes, emotional labor, and advancement barriers to argue why studying women and regulation is of value. Regulatory case studies focus on topics ranging from water and energy to executive leadership. Chapters also include reflective exercises and prompts for classroom engagement that challenge readers to consider implications for regulatory policy in the future.
Amplifying the underheard voices in policy and implementation, Women and Regulation provides a more holistic picture of regulatory practices.
CONTRIBUTORS: Saman Afshan, Ashley English, Katherine Hoener, Nicole Humphrey, Ekaterina Levintova, Li-Yin Liu, Sean McCandless, Bruce D. McDonald III, Denise Scheberle, Natalie L. Smith, Manuel P. Teodoro, and the editors
SARA R. RINFRET is Professor and MPA Director at Northern Arizona University. She is the coauthor of several books, including The Lilliputians of Environmental Regulation: The Perspective of State Regulators.
MICHELLE C. PAUTZ is Professor of Political Science and Associate Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Dayton. She has published more than ten books, including Civil Servants on the Silver Screen: Hollywood’s
BETWEEN BELONGING AND EXCLUSION
The Intersections of Integration and Anti-Discrimination Politics
LARA-ZUZAN GOLESORKHI
Highlights the lived experiences of refugee women in the German labor market
Integration and discrimination are two of the most salient yet contradictory forces shaping contemporary European politics. In Between Belonging and Exclusion Lara-Zuzan Golesorkhi asserts that this tension exists because integration politics do not facilitate non-discrimination, nor do they address experiences of discrimination. She draws on interviews with refugees and other key actors in integration politics to examine the barriers hindering refugee women’s labor market participation in Germany.
Golesorkhi introduces four explanatory tropes that reveal how and why integration efforts have often fallen short. She examines the power relations and limitations in migration governance as well as the identity narratives of Germanness/Europeanness, and the gendered and racialized mechanisms of “othering” that contribute to discrimination.
Between Belonging and Exclusion delineates what Germany and the EU “get wrong” about integration and anti-discrimination as it outlines conceptual and practical suggestions for expanding the terms of inclusion.
LARA-ZUZAN GOLESORKHI is Associate Professor of Political Science and Global Affairs at the University of Portland and Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Migration, Gender, and Justice.
POLITICAL SCIENCE AND PUBLIC POLICY | GENDER STUDIES | IMMIGRATION | RELIGION | LABOR STUDIES AND WORK
158 pp • 5.5 x 8.25 " • 10 tables
$22.95 £17.99 paper 9781439927588
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CINEMA STUDIES | MASS MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS | CULTURAL STUDIES | MIDDLE EAST STUDIES | AMERICAN STUDIES
324 pp • 6 x 9 "
15 color photos • 31 halftones
$45.95 £35.00 paper 9781439924648
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GOVERNING GENEALOGIES OF INTERNATIONAL FILM EDUCATION
EDITED BY HADI GHARABAGHI AND TERRI GINSBERG
A multifaceted foray into the complexities and contradictions of educational cinema and cinema education
The editors of and contributors to Governing Genealogies of International Film Education offer a critical historiographic understanding of governmentalized film education during the Cold War. Chapters examine the production of hygiene and cultural films in Travancore, India during the postcolonial period, and Michigan State University’s documentary collaboration with Iran during the 1970s, among other topics, elucidating cinema’s deployment as a state apparatus and its implications for global cultures, subject positions, and social relations. Governing Genealogies of International Film Education investigates this distinct modality of cultural production and policy to shed necessary light on the ideological overdetermination of institutionalized film education as well as on audiovisual education as an international academic discipline. The contributors show how governmentalized film education has taught American exceptionalism, hegemony, and colonialism. They also theorize about and provide methodological examples of how film archives and film studies have framed prevailing understandings of cinema’s role in American and world history.
CONTRIBUTORS: Kaveh Askari, Zoë Druick, Bindu Menon Mannil, Wissam Mouawad, and the editors
HADI GHARABAGHI is an adjunct professor at The Barry R. Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema at Brooklyn College, and coeditor of Streaming Video in the Global South.
TERRI GINSBERG is Assistant Teaching Professor of Cinema Studies at Rutgers University, and author of Films of Arab Loutfi and Heiny Srour: Studies in Palestine Solidarity Cinema
ACTION = VIE
A History of AIDS Activism and Gay Politics in France
CHRISTOPHE BROQUA
With a Foreword by David M. Halperin
Chronicling the history and accomplishments of Act Up-Paris
Now in Paperback! Act Up–Paris became one of the most notable protest groups in France in the mid-1990s. Founded in 1989, and following the New York model, it became a confrontational voice representing the interests of those affected by HIV through openly political activism. Action = Vie, the English-language translation of Christophe Broqua’s study of the grassroots activist branch, explains the reasons for the French group’s success and sheds light on Act Up’s defining features—such as its unique articulation between AIDS and gay activism.
Featuring numerous accounts by witnesses and participants, Broqua traces the history of Act Up–Paris and shows how thousands of gay men and women confronted the AIDS epidemic by mobilizing with public actions. Act Up–Paris helped shape the social definition not only of HIV-positive persons but also of sexual minorities. Broqua analyzes the changes that have accompanied the group’s history, from the emergence of treatments for HIV infection to normalizing homosexuality and a controversy involving HIV-positive writers’ remarks about unprotected sex. This rousing history ends in the mid-2000s before HIV/AIDS normalization and marriage equality caused Act Up–Paris to decline.
CHRISTOPHE BROQUA is a socio-anthropologist at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS; French National Centre for Scientific Research) in France.
SOCIOLOGY | ANTHROPOLOGY | HISTORY | SEXUALITY STUDIES/SEXUAL IDENTITY
340 pp • 6 x 9 "
$39.95 £31.00 paper 9781439903216
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