The New Press Spring 2025 Catalog

SPRING 2025

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Contents

BY TITLE Art on My Mind Backroom Deals in Our Backyards Bad Law

BY AUTHOR 16–17

Lenore Anderson

24

12

Karen Bartlett

25

4–5

Stefan M. Bradley

13

Stephen B. Bright

10

14–15

James Cadogan

1

Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas

GARA LaMARCHE (CHAIR) Senior Fellow, Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, The City College of New York

Escape from Kabul

25

Ed Chung

The Fear of Too Much Justice

10

Michael Dawson

Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine

18

Emile Suotonye DeWeaver

18

The Great White Hoax

19

Julian Hattem

11

How to Teach College

20–21

If We Don’t Get It

13

Massoud Hayoun bell hooks

1 20–21

7 16–17

In Their Names

24

Philip Kadish

19

King of the North

2–3

James Kwak

10

Liberation Stories

22

Robert Jay Lifton

8–9

Losing Reality

8

James W. Loewen

20–21

Organizing America

27

Nick Loewen

20–21

Poison Ivy

6

Erik Loomis

The Power of Basketball

1

Evan Mandery

6

27

Red Pill Politics

23

Shanelle Matthews

22

Shelter from the Storm

11

Surviving Our Catastrophes

9

Elie Mystal ~gı~ wa Thiong’o Ngu

14–15

The Two-Million-Person Experiment

26

Keenan Norris

26

When We Were Arabs

7

David Ost

23

RadComms

22

4–5

Miranda S. Spivack

12

Jeanne Theoharis

2–3

Marzena Zukowska

22

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

28–30

DISTRIBUTION AND SALES

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FOREIGN RIGHTS

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THEODORE M. SHAW (VICE CHAIR) Julius L. Chambers Distinguished Professor of Law and the Director of the Center for Civil Rights at the University of North Carolina School of Law at Chapel Hill SARAH BURNES (SECRETARY) Literary Agent, The Gernert Company

BRAD HEBEL Chief Operating Officer, Columbia University Press JONATHAN KLEIN Co-founder and former CEO, Getty Images VIVIEN LABATON Co-founder and Co-executive Director, Make It Work SUSAN LEHMAN Managing Director, Ridgely Walsh, LLC

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ROBERT RABEN President and Founder, The Raben Group

JESSICA BAUMAN Artistic Director, New Feet Productions JOHN ANTHONY BUTLER Chief Operating Officer, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law JEFF DEUTSCH Director, Seminary Co-op Bookstores BRUCE GOTTLIEB Chief Operating Officer, Flatiron Health

EDUCATION ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBERS Jennifer C. Berkshire Kathleen Cushman Lisa Delpit Jarvis Givens Sonya Horsford Ann Ishimaru Mica Pollock Noliwe Rooks Jack Schneider Carla Shalaby FINANCE COMMITTEE MEMBERS Brad Hebel (Chair) Todd Berman John Anthony Butler Sameer Chaudhari John Duff William Foo Matty Goldberg Gara LaMarche Gregory Miller Diane Wachtell Tina Weiner

NABIHA SYED Executive Director, Mozilla Fund DIANE WACHTELL Executive Director, The New Press

LAURA WALKER President, Bennington College TINA WEINER Director, NYU Advanced Publishing Institute

BOARD OF DIRECTORS, EMERITUS Lisa Adams Ellen Adler Megan Bell Tom Blanton Frank Bonilla Ricardo Castro Faith Childs Frances Fox Piven Amy Glickman Antonia Grumbach Ivan Held Bob Herbert Helena Huang Jane Isay Melvyn Leventhal Idelisse Malavé Amalia Mesa-Bains John Morning Frederick A.O. (“Fritz”) Schwarz Jr. Abby Young Moses K. Sabeel Rahman IN MEMORIAM W. Haywood Burns Kenneth Clark Edward J. Davis Barbara Ehrenreich Peter Kwong Hylan Lewis Michael Ratner Norman Redlich André Schiffrin Anthony M. Schulte Woodward A. Wickham

The Power of Basketball NBA Players, Coaches, and Team Governors on the Fight to Make a Better America EDITED BY JAMES CADOGAN AND ED CHUNG

L E A D I NG LIGH T S OF THE NBA ON WHY THE FI GHT F O R SO C IAL J U STIC E AN D RAC IAL EQ U AL ITY M A T T ER S T O T H EM—AND TO ALL OF US

At the root of this Coalition, what binds and joins us together, is a shared desire to fight for everyone to be treated with dignity, no matter their race, education, religion, sexual orientation, or economic situation.

—CJ MCCOLLUM, PRESIDENT, NATIONAL BASKETBALL PLAYERS ASSOCIATION, AND GUARD, NEW ORLEANS PELICANS.

Professional basketball players are famous for their otherworldly athletic talents and accomplishments—but many of them also are deeply committed to using their platform to improve their communities and shed light on injustice. In 2020, the National Basketball Association (NBA), the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA), and the National Basketball Coaches Association (NBCA) harnessed this commitment and created the National Basketball Social Justice Coalition—a nonprofit dedicated to advancing social justice and combating racial inequality.

The Power of Basketball is a book of essays written by members of this coalition and other leaders across the NBA and WNBA community—players, coaches, and executives who are committed to promoting voting rights, meaningful police reform, transforming the criminal justice system, and creating community safety. Each essay delves into a particular issue at the heart of the author’s activism and tells the personal story and motivation behind the cause they champion. With contributions from players including CJ McCollum, Malcolm Brogdon, and Tierra Ruffin-Pratt; coaches

Contributors include: • James Cadogan and Ed Chung • Steve Ballmer, No Time to Waste • J.B. Bickerstaff, Doing the Work • Malcolm Brogdon, The Question That Drives Me • Caron Butler, Telling My Story for Good • Tre Jones, For Our Children • CJ McCollum, Finding the Path • Jamahl Mosley, Strong Communities in Action • Larry Nance Jr., Fighting Hunger, One Day at a Time • Vivek Ranadivé, Keeping Our Promises • Glenn “Doc” Rivers, Learning from History • Tierra Ruffin-Pratt, The Time Is Now • Clara Wu Tsai, The Business of Doing Justice

including Doc Rivers, Caron Butler, and Jamahl Mosley; and team governors including Steve Ballmer, Vivek Ranadivé, and Clara Wu Tsai,The Power of Basketball reveals the

Just published

authenticity of the drive that NBA players, coaches, and executives bring to the fight

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for social justice even when the bright lights of NBA games are not shining.

James Cadogan is the executive director of the National Basketball Social Justice Coalition. He lives in Washington, DC. Ed Chung is the vice president of initiatives at the Vera Institute of Justice. He lives in Washington, DC.

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Praise for Jeanne Theoharis’s The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks 2014 NAACP Image Award Winner: Outstanding Literary Work 2013 Letitia Woods Brown Award from the Association of Black Women Historians

Choice Top 25 Academic Titles for 2013 “[This book] will undoubtedly be hailed as one of the most important scholarly contributions to civil rights history ever written.”

—Melissa Harris-Perry, host, MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry “Theoharis brings all of her talents as a political scientist and historian of the civil rights movement to bear on this illuminating biography of the great Rosa Parks.”

—Henry Louis Gates Jr. “The Rosa Parks in this book is as much Malcolm X as she is Martin Luther King Jr.” —Charles M. Blow, The New York Times “Richly informative, calmly passionate and much needed.”

—Nell Irvin Painter, The New York Times Book Review “Theoharis’s scholarship brings forth a woman whom many followed without ever realizing they were. This is a much-needed book on the woman who is, arguably, the most important person in the last half of the twentieth century.”

—Nikki Giovanni, poet

King of the North Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South JEANNE THEOHARIS

F R O M T H E N EW Y ORK TI M ES BESTSELLI NG AUTH O R, A RADIC AL AN D P ARADIGM-SH IF TIN G E X A M I N AT ION OF THE LI FE AND WORK OF M ART IN L U TH E R KIN G J R.

Theoharis shows us through penetrating research and sensitive, scholarly insight that Dr. King not only was keenly aware of the history of antiblack racism in the North, but battled it from the very beginning of his career.

—HENRY LOUIS GATES JR.

The Martin Luther King Jr. of popular memory vanquished Jim Crow in the South. But in this myth-shattering book, award-winning and New York Times bestselling historian Jeanne Theoharis argues that King’s time in Boston, New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago—outside Dixie—was at the heart of his campaign for racial justice. King of the North follows King as he crisscrosses the country from the Northeast to the West Coast, challenging school segregation, police brutality, housing segregation, and job discrimination. For these efforts, he was relentlessly attacked by white liberals, the media, and the federal government.

In this bold retelling, King emerges as someone who not only led a movement but who showed up for other people’s struggles; a charismatic speaker who also listened and learned; a Black man who experienced police brutality; a minister who lived with and organized alongside the poor; and a husband who—despite his flaws—depended on Coretta Scott King as an intellectual and political guide in the national fight against racism, poverty, and war.

King of the North speaks directly to our struggles over racial inequality today.

Just as she restored Rosa Parks’s central place in modern American history, so Theoharis radically expands our understanding of King’s life and work—a vision of justice unfulfilled in the present.

Jeanne Theoharis is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College.

She is the author of the New York Times bestselling The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks and winner of the 2014 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work

King of the North is a revelation— a much-needed book that shifts and enhances our appreciation of MLK’s radical vision.

—JONATHAN EIG, AUTHOR OF KING: A LIFE, WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY

Shows us King as he truly was, a keen student of racial inequality in both the South and the North.

This book will serve activists and scholars alike.

—MARTHA S. JONES, RECIPIENT OF THE LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR VANGUARD: HOW BLACK WOMEN BROKE BARRIERS, WON THE VOTE, AND INSISTED ON EQUALITY FOR ALL

For too long, we have thought of the radical King as a public activist who emerged in the late 1960s. Jeanne Theoharis shows us that the “Radical King” was there all along throughout his public life; we just weren’t looking for him.

—LERONE A. MARTIN, MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. CENTENNIAL PROFESSOR AND DIRECTOR OF THE MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INSTITUTE AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY

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Biography/Autobiography and the Letitia Woods Brown Award from the Association of Black Women Historians. She lives in Brooklyn.

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Praise for Elie Mystal’s Allow Me to Retort “It is impossible to enjoy reading the Constitution more than through the searing perspective of the brilliant Twainesque humor of Elie Mystal.”

—New York Journal of Books “A tour de force from the Explainer-in-Chief of American law!”

—Malcolm Nance, bestselling author of The Plot to Hack America “Fantastic . . . such a great combination of fury, righteous indignation, humor, and incredible erudition and brilliance.”

—Chris Hayes, host of the Why Is This Happening? podcast, MSNBC “Witty, profane, and well-argued.”

—Washington Lawyer “Pugnacious and entertaining.”

—Publishers Weekly “There’s something to learn on every page. . . . A reading of the Constitution that all social justice advocates should study.”

—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Bad Law Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America ELIE MYSTAL

T HE N EW Y OR K TIMES BESTSELLI NG AUTHOR BRIN GS H IS TRADEMARK L EGAL AC U MEN AN D P A S S I ON A TE S N A R K TO OFFER A BRI LLI ANT TAKE DO W N O F TEN IN C RE DIB L Y B AD P IE C ES O F L E G I SLAT ION TH A T ARE CAUSI NG WAY TOO M UC H MISERY TO MIL L IO N S If it were up to me, I’d treat every law passed before the Voting Rights Act of 1965 as presumptively unconstitutional. The government of this country was illegitimate when it ruled over people who had no ability to choose the rules.

—FROM THE INTRODUCTION TO BAD LAW

While Elie Mystal may not endorse any laws created before all Americans were entitled to vote for our lawmakers, in Bad Law he hones in on ten of what he considers the most egregiously awful laws on the books today. These are pieces of legislation that are making life worse, not better, for Americans, and that—he argues with clarity, eloquence, and paradigm-shifting legal insight—should be repealed completely.

On topics ranging from abortion and immigration to voting rights and religious freedom, we have chosen rules to live by that do not reflect the will of most of the people. With respect to our decision to make a law that effectively grants immunity to gun manufacturers, for example, Mystal writes, “We live in the most violent, wealthy country on earth not in spite of the law; we live in a first-person-shooter video game because of the law.”

But, as the bestselling author of Allow Me to Retort points out, these laws do not

The laws Elie Mystal loves to hate: 1. Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (immunity for gun manufacturers) 2. Armed Career Criminal Act (excessive criminal sentencing) 3. Felony murder 4. Stand your ground 5. Airline Deregulation Act 6. Voter registration laws (all of them) 7. Hyde Amendment (abortion) 8. “Don’t Say Gay” (censorship)

come to us from on high; we write them, and we can and should unwrite them. In a

9. Religious Freedom Restoration Act (discrimination)

marvelous and original takedown spanning all the hot-button topics in the country

10. Illegal reentry (immigration)

today, one of our most brilliant legal thinkers points the way to a saner tomorrow.

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Elie Mystal is the New York Times bestselling author of Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution (The New Press) as well as The Nation’s legal analyst and justice correspondent, and the legal editor of the More Perfect podcast on the Supreme Court for Radiolab. He is an Alfred Knobler Fellow at Type Media Center, and

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Poison Ivy How Elite Colleges Divide Us EVAN MANDERY

NO W I N PAPER BA CK AN EYE-OPENI NG LOOK AT H O W AME RIC A’ S EL ITE C O L L E GES AN D SU B U RB S H E L P K EEP T H E R ICH RI CH—MAKI NG I T HARDER TH AN EVE R TO F IGH T TH E IN EQ U AL ITY TH AT D I V I D ES US Beautifully written and engaging, Poison Ivy holds elite higher education accountable for exacerbating the gulf between poor and rich, Black and white.

—ERIN I. KELLY, PULITZER PRIZE–WINNING CO-AUTHOR OF CHASING ME TO MY GRAVE

Slams the role that the Ivy League and other private universities play in perpetuating and even worsening our vast social chasms.

—WILL BUNCH, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER

Mandery shows that . . . so-called top schools . . . are accessible almost exclusively to the already well-off.

—MARY ELIZABETH WILLIAMS, SALON

Lays out compelling evidence that Ivy League universities— along with peer institutions such as Stanford, MIT, Chicago, Duke, and Georgetown—propagate segregation and income inequality.

A potent investigation into how elite colleges and universities in the U.S. perpetuate economic inequalities and fail to properly address the country’s ongoing racial divide.

—KIRKUS REVIEWS

Hailed as a “staggering portrait of inequality in America” (Philip Dray), Poison Ivy tells the bigger, seedier story of how elite colleges create paths to admission available only to the wealthy, despite rhetoric to the contrary. In a “lively and trenchant” (Washington Monthly) account, Evan Mandery reveals how tacit agreements between exclusive “Ivy-plus” schools and white affluent suburbs create widespread de facto segregation. And as a college degree continues to be the surest route to upward mobility, the inequality bred in our broken higher education system is now a principal driver of skyrocketing income inequality everywhere. Mandery—a Harvard graduate and current professor at a public college that serves low- and middle-income students—contrasts the lip service paid to “opportunity” by so many elite colleges and universities with schools that actually walk the walk.

Poison Ivy is a “no-holds-barred take-down” (Forbes) that synthesizes fascinating insider information on everything from how students are evaluated, unfair tax breaks, and questionable fundraising practices to suburban rituals, testing, tutoring, tuition schemes, and more. This bold, provocative indictment of America’s elite colleges shows us exactly what’s at stake—and what will be possible if we muster the collective will to transform it.

—ROSS E. O’HARA, PSYCHOLOGY TODAY

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An Emmy and Peabody Award winner, Evan Mandery is a professor at the City University of New York. He has written for the New York Times and Politico and has appeared on The Today Show, CNN, and NPR’s Fresh Air. He lives in Montclair, New Jersey.

When We Were Arabs A Jewish Family’s Forgotten History MASSOUD HAYOUN

NO W I N PAPER BA CK THE STUNNI NG DEBUT OF A B RIL L IAN T N O N F IC TIO N W RITE R WH O SE VIVID A CCOUN T OF H IS G RANDPARENTS’ LI VES I N EG Y P T, TU N ISIA, P AL E STIN E, AN D L O S AN GEL ES R E C L AIMS H IS F AMILY’S JEWI SH ARAB I DENTI TY A nostalgic celebration of a rich, diverse heritage.

—MARTHA ANNE TOLL, NPR BOOKS

Winner of the 2020 Arab American Book Award for nonfiction and one of NPR’s best books of 2019, When We Were Arabs is a gorgeous family memoir and “a powerful exploration of Arab Jewish identity” (The New Arab) that brings the world of Jewish Arab writer and artist Massoud Hayoun’s parents and grandparents alive, vividly

A beautiful act of resistance, of defiance against erasure, of dreams of ancestors and their desire to build, create, and enact a place for themselves and their descendants in the world. It is truly a thing of beauty and reverence.

shattering our contemporary understanding of what makes an Arab and what makes

—MIRA ASSAF KAFANTARIS, THE MILLIONS

a Jew.

A powerful tribute to heritage; it gives an intimate insight into what it means to be a Jewish Arab, an identity which is today wrongfully deemed an oxymoron.

There was a time when being an “Arab” didn’t mean you were necessarily Muslim.

It was a time when Oscar Hayoun, a Jewish Arab, strode along the Nile in a fashionable suit, and Arabness was a mark of cosmopolitanism, of intellectualism. That was before he and his father arrived at the port of Haifa to join the Zionist state only to find themselves hosed down with DDT and left unemployed on the margins of society.

In this moving book, Oscar’s son, Massoud, raised in Los Angeles, finds his own voice by telling his family’s story. Named one of the most inspiring Arab writers of 2020, Hayoun seeks to reclaim a worldly, nuanced Arab identity as part of the larger project to recall a time before ethnic identity was mangled for political ends. “An intriguing read for anyone interested in furthering their understanding of complex identities and mixed cultural heritage” (Jewish News), When We Were Arabs is also a journey deep into a lost age of sophisticated innocence in the Arab world, an age that is now nearly lost.

Massoud Hayoun is a journalist and artist. He previously worked as a reporter for Al Jazeera America, The Atlantic, Agence France-Presse, the South China Morning Post, and Pacific Standard, and has been published widely. He speaks and works in five languages and won a 2015 EPPY Award. He lives in Los Angeles.

—MIDDLE EAST EYE

Deeply personal, moving reminiscences from his ancestors will make even those with no knowledge of the subject nostalgic for a bygone age. . . . Readers will relish this revealing glimpse of that now-obscured world.

—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

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Losing Reality On Cults, Cultism, and the Mindset of Political and Religious Zealotry ROBERT JAY LIFTON

NO W I N PA PER BACK A “ FRESH PERSPECTI VE” (KIRKU S REVIE W S) O N TH E P SY C H O L O GY O F Z E A L OTR Y , F R OM A NATI ONAL BOOK AWARD WI N N ER AN D A L EADIN G AU TH O RITY O N TH E N ATU RE O F C U LTS , POLIT ICAL ABSOLUTI SM , AND M I ND C O N TRO L Required reading for a necessary conversation.

—SHERRY TURKLE, AUTHOR OF RECLAIMING CONVERSATION: THE POWER OF TALK IN A DIGITAL AGE

Persuasive. . . . Unsparing. . . . Robert Jay Lifton returns to his classic works on the dangers of extremist cults and updates them with new material. —SHELF AWARENESS

This distillation of a lifetime of scholarship and wisdom . . . [is] a treasure for our time.

In this unique and important volume Robert Jay Lifton, the National Book Award–

—DR. JUDITH HERMAN, AUTHOR OF TRAUMA AND RECOVERY

religious cults may be much closer than anyone thought. Exploring the most extreme

For decades, Robert Jay Lifton’s work . . . has been a bulwark of democratic liberalism, a touchstone of public sanity. Lifton’s writing, a long-established treasure, has never mattered more.

—JAMES CARROLL, AUTHOR OF THE CLOISTER

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winning psychiatrist, historian, and public intellectual, proposes a radical idea: that the psychological relationship between extremist political movements and fanatical manifestations of human zealotry, Lifton highlights an array of leaders—from Mao to Hitler to the Japanese apocalyptic cult leader Sho–ko– Asahara to Donald Trump—who have sought the control of human minds and the ownership of reality.

Lifton has been called “one of the world’s foremost thinkers on why we humans do such awful things to each other” (Bill Moyers) and his pioneering concept of the “Eight Deadly Sins” of ideological totalism—originally devised to identify “brainwashing” (or “thought reform”) in political movements—has been widely quoted in writings about cults and embraced by members and former members of religious cults seeking to understand their experiences.

In Losing Reality Lifton makes clear that the apocalyptic impulse—that of destroying the world in order to remake it in purified form—is not limited to religious groups but is prominent in extremist political movements such as Nazism and Chinese Communism, and also in groups surrounding Donald Trump, showing how this destructive desire ultimately reached its apotheosis in the January 6 Capitol insurrection. Lifton applies his concept of “malignant normality” to Trump’s efforts to render his destructive falsehoods a routine part of American life. But Lifton nevertheless sees the human species as capable of “regaining reality” through our “protean” psychological capacities and our ability to serve as “witnessing professionals.”

Lifton weaves together some of his finest work with extensive new commentary to provide vital understanding of our struggle with mental predators. Losing Reality

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is a book not only of stunning scholarship, but also of increasing relevance for these troubled times.

Surviving Our Catastrophes Resilience and Renewal from Hiroshima to the COVID-19 Pandemic ROBERT JAY LIFTON WITH A NEW AFTERWORD BY THE AUTHOR

NO W I N PAPER BA CK FROM THE NATI ONAL BOO K AWARD WIN N E R, A P O W E RF U L AN D TIME L Y R U M I NA TION T H AT “ CUTS THROUGH THE EXI ST EN TIAL F O G TO RE VEAL SO METH IN G L IKE H O P E” ( T H E WA S H IN G TON POST) Readers will cry and cheer as they immerse themselves in Lifton’s wise, chilling, enlightening, and compassionate book.

—BOOKLIST (STARRED REVIEW)

In this moving and ultimately hopeful meditation on the psychological aftermath of catastrophe, award-winning psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton “writes with the authority of experience” (Kirkus Reviews) to show us how to cope with the lasting effects and legacy of the COVID-19 pandemic. The result is a “thought-provoking . . . [and] absorbing sociological study focused on survivors—the keys to social renewal after disasters strike” (Foreword Reviews).

When the people of Hiroshima experienced the unspeakable horror of the atomic bombing, they responded by creating an activist “city of peace.” Survivors of the Nazi death camps took the lead in combating mass killing of any kind and converted their experience into art and literature that demonstrated the resilience of the human spirit. Drawing on the remarkably life-affirming responses of survivors of such atrocities, Lifton shows readers how we can carry on and live meaningful lives even in the face of the tragic and the absurd.

Surviving Our Catastrophes offers compelling examples of “survivor power” and makes clear that we will not move forward by forcing the pandemic into the rearview mirror. Instead, we must truly reckon with COVID-19’s effects on ourselves and society—and find individual and collective forms of renewal.

Robert Jay Lifton is a psychiatrist and author best known for his studies of the psychological causes and effects of war and political violence and for his theory of thought reform and cult behavior. He has written over twenty books, including the National Book Award–winning Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima, Los Angeles

Lifton, more than anyone alive today, can serve as a wise and lucid guide. . . . [To] the remarkably life-affirming responses of survivors of atrocities, and the larger human capacity for collective renewal.

—BESSEL VAN DER KOLK, AUTHOR OF THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE

Lifton makes a difficult subject accessible. . . . The book feels almost like a conversation.

—DR. JUDITH HERMAN, AUTHOR OF TRUTH AND REPAIR: HOW TRAUMA SURVIVORS ENVISION JUSTICE

This short, utterly necessary book is written at the climax of a very long life, by a man who has looked straight into the black sun of Auschwitz and Hiroshima and yet preserved his moral eyesight.

—NEAL ASCHERSON, SCOTTISH JOURNALIST AND AUTHOR OF BLACK SEA AND THE NOVEL THE DEATH OF THE FRONSAC

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Times Book Prize–winning The Nazi Doctors, National Book Award–nominated Home from the War, as well as The Climate Swerve (The New Press). He has taught at Yale University, Harvard University, and the City University of New York. He lives in Wellfleet, Massachusetts.

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The Fear of Too Much Justice Race, Poverty, and the Persistence of Inequality in the Criminal Courts STEPHEN B. BRIGHT AND JAMES KWAK WITH A FOREWORD BY BRYAN STEVENSON

NO W I N PAPER BA CK THE BOOK JOHN GRI SHAM C AL L S “ A C L EAR AN D P O IGN AN T IN DIC TMEN T O F CR I M I N A L IN J US T ICE I N AMERI CA”

Draws together insights gained from four decades at the coalface of US criminal justice.

—THE GUARDIAN

Examines the myriad ways in which the search for justice unravels once someone is charged with a crime.

—LINDA GREENHOUSE, NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS

A virtual road map of the mistakes we continue to make, and the remedies that are obvious once you see them on the page.

—CRIMINAL LAW AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE BOOKS

An incisive, thoroughly researched, and ultimately devastating critique of the American criminal justice system.

—FLORIDA BAR JOURNAL

Everyone needs to read this book.

—POPPY HARLOW, CNN

Called “a passionate and eye-opening behind-the-scenes account of the world of criminal justice and the lives impacted by the system’s injustices” by Booklist, The Fear of Too Much Justice, by renowned death penalty lawyer Stephen B. Bright and legal scholar James Kwak, offers a heart-wrenching overview of how the criminal legal system fails to live up to the values of equality and justice. It chronicles innocent people convicted of crimes and condemned to death because of their race and poverty, racial discrimination in jury selection that perpetuates all-white juries, people with mental disorders who are locked up in jails and prisons instead of given the treatment they need, poor people who are processed through courts in assembly-line fashion with no attention to them as individuals, and courts that act as centers of profit whose main purpose is to raise money by imposing fines on poor people who cannot afford them and jailing them in debtors’ prisons when they cannot pay.

This “invaluable resource” (Publishers Weekly) offers examples from around the country of places that are making progress toward justice and call for courts and legislatures to overcome their fear of too much justice and provide a full measure of justice for everyone.

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Stephen B. Bright currently teaches law at Yale and Georgetown Universities. He was the longtime director of the Southern Center for Human Rights and has won multiple capital cases in the Supreme Court. A recipient of the American Bar Association’s Thurgood Marshall Award, Bright is the subject of the 2024 book Demand the Impossible: One Lawyer’s Pursuit of Equal Justice for All by Robert L. Tsai. He lives in Lexington, Kentucky. James Kwak is the immediate past chair of the Southern Center for Human Rights, former professor of law at the University of Connecticut, author of Economism, and co-author of White House Burning and the New York Times

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bestseller 13 Bankers. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Shelter from the Storm How Climate Change Is Creating a New Era of Migration JULIAN HATTEM

A N U RG EN T WA K E- U P CALL ABOUT THE COMI NG L ARGE -SC AL E H U MAN DISP L AC E ME N T C AU SED B Y CL I M ATE CH A N GE, FROM ONE OF THE WORLD’S LE ADIN G EXP E RTS

As the planet confronts an unprecedented climate shift, the way that we live our lives is undergoing a foundational transformation. Crops will no longer grow. Homes will no longer provide safety. The ocean will not stay put. And so neither will we.

—JULIAN HATTEM, FROM SHELTER FROM THE STORM

Mere decades from now, millions of people all over the world will be forced to move because of climate change. Entire islands will disappear into the sea. Once-in-

• Five of the more than 1,000 Solomon Islands have already vanished beneath the waves.

• About 10 million people in Bangladesh were climate migrants as of 2022.

• The World Bank predicts that 143 million people could become climate refugees by 2050.

a-century hurricanes will occur on a regular basis, decimating cities and wiping out peoples’ homes. Wildfires fed by prolonged drought will rage through communities.

No one will be immune: in countries rich and poor, climate change will usher in a new era of migration.

In Shelter from the Storm noted journalist and migration researcher Julian Hattem tells the story of the massive human displacement that is already being caused by climate change. With hard-hitting journalism from the front lines of the environmental apocalypse, Hattem takes the reader on a journey from the South Pacific to the Indian subcontinent, the Mediterranean, and beyond, offering a shocking glimpse into the human geography wrecked by a warming planet.

Shelter from the Storm also provides rich historical perspective on how climate has impacted migration and a primer on cutting-edge climatological research, creating a multidimensional portrait of this uncertain new age. A work of profound expertise and storytelling, Shelter from the Storm gives a human face to the millions of

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climate migrants who are leaving their homes—and the millions more who will follow.

Julian Hattem is the editor of Migration Information Source, the online magazine of the Migration Policy Institute, and founder and host of the podcast Changing Climate, Changing Migration. He has been on staff with the Associated Press and The Hill, and written for outlets including the Washington Post, The Guardian, NPR, and The Atlantic. He lives in Washington, DC. This is his first book.

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Backroom Deals in Our Backyards How Government Secrecy Harms Our Communities— and the Local Heroes Fighting Back MIRANDA S. SPIVACK

of the Winner nd Ida Studs a ard Aw Terkel

A G R O UN DBR EA K IN G LOOK AT HOW ORD I NARY P EO P L E ARE F IGH TIN G B AC K AGAIN ST TH E IR L O C AL A ND ST AT E GOVER N MENTS TO KEEP THEI R COM MU N ITIE S SAF E , B Y AN AW ARD-WIN N IN G J O U RN AL IST

Topics include secrecy around: • contaminated drinking water in Hoosick Falls, NY

We ignore the use of secrecy at the state and local level at our peril.

—FROM THE INTRODUCTION

• police misconduct records in a New York prison

Most Americans are likely to encounter the effects of government malfeasance or

• dangerous roads in Bethesda, MD

police, and prosecutors. In fact, deals shrouded in darkness are regularly made at the

neglect close to home—from their governors, mayors, town councils, school boards, state and local levels, often the result of closed-door discussions between govern-

• a toxic coal ash landfill and sewer plan in Uniontown, AL

ments and industry without any scrutiny whatsoever from the public. Too often, as

• toxic chemicals embedded in firefighter protective gear in Worcester, MA

tentionally kept on the outside, struggling to get information about significant issues

this groundbreaking new work of investigative reporting reveals, residents are inaffecting their communities—from car crashes and dirty drinking water, to failing safety gear—until the backroom deals are done and it’s too late to challenge them.

A work of riveting narrative nonfiction based on years of original reporting, Backroom Deals in Our Backyards tells the story of five “accidental activists”—people from across the United States who started questioning why their local and state governments didn’t protect them from issues facing their communities and why there was a frightening lack of transparency surrounding the way these issues were resolved. The secret deals, lies, and corruption they uncover shake their faith in govern-

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ment but move them to action.

For readers of Chain of Title and Superman’s Not Coming, Spivack’s revealing take on a hidden dimension of American politics will outrage and educate anyone who cares about the forces shaping their own communities.

Miranda S. Spivack is a veteran reporter and editor who specializes in stories about government accountability and secrecy, urban development, and immigration. She spent twenty years as an award-winning editor and reporter for the Washington Post.

A former Fulbright Scholar and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Journalism at De-

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Pauw University, she lives in Maryland. This is her first book.

If We Don’t Get It A People’s History of Ferguson STEFAN M. BRADLEY

A T A TIME OF R EN EWED ACTI VI SM, THE STORY O F TH E Y O U N G P EO P L E WH O B RAVE L Y TU RN E D A L O C A L IS S UE IN TO A NATI ONAL MOVEMENT FOR J U STIC E , F RO M A P RO F E SSO R O F B L AC K STU DIES A T A M H ER S T WH O P ARTI CI PATED I N THE FERGU SO N U P RISIN G If We Don’t Get It will demonstrate, in vivid, personal terms, what those who study the history of Black freedom have always known: that there is no nice way for one to demand one’s rights, that fighting for justice is unpopular, and above all, that young people have most often stood at the forefront of social change.

—FROM THE INTRODUCTION

Praise for Stefan M. Bradley’s books: Upending the Ivory Tower: A brilliant book, complete with stunning photographs . . . essential reading.

—ACADEME

Stefan M. Bradley was a young professor in Saint Louis when Michael Brown was shot and killed in Ferguson, Missouri, by a local police officer. Bradley quickly became a key media activist during the protests that ensued, giving on-the-ground interviews to Chris Hayes, CNN, Al-Jazeera, the BBC, and others. And he conducted over two dozen oral history interviews with young African American protestors.

In If We Don’t Get It, Bradley shows how Brown’s murder sparked a grassroots movement for democracy, led by young people of color, which transformed the way we talk about race, justice, and policing in the United States.

Through the authentic voices of the movement’s participants, Bradley describes the motivation and tensions coursing through the uprising’s early days and weeks, the problems of media representation (and misrepresentation), intergenerational conflict over protest tactics, clashes with the police and politicians, and much more.

If We Don’t Get It also explores the new generation of elected officials, including Congresswoman Cori Bush, who emerged from the local movement’s ranks.

A story with deep relevance for the protests of our own time, If We Don’t Get It offers a gripping account of how young activists, without previous political experience, succeeded in changing our national political narrative.

Stefan M. Bradley is the Charles Hamilton Houston ’15 Professor of Black Studies and History at Amherst College. The author of several prizewinning books, including

Richly nuanced.

—JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY

Fascinating and ambitious, [it] breathes of meticulous research and analysis from beginning to end.

—IBRAM X. KENDI

Harlem vs. Columbia University: Essential reading for anyone interested in student and community activism, university housing policies in urban areas, the Black Power and New Left movements, and U.S. history in the 1960s.

—JOURNAL OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY

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Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas NGŨGĨ WA THIONG’O

B R I L L I AN T T H OUGH TS ON MOD ERN AFRI CAN LI TE RATU RE AN D P O STC O L O N IAL L ITE RARY C RITIC ISM F R O M ON E OF TH E GI ANTS OF CONTEM PORARY LE TTE RS

One of the greatest writers of our time.

—CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE

~gı~ wa Thiong’o is a towering figure in African literature, and his novels A Grain of Ngu Wheat, Weep Not, Child, and Petals of Blood are modern classics. Emerging from a literary scene that flourished in the 1950s and ’60s during the last years of colonialism in Africa, he is now known not just as a novelist—one who, in the late ’70s, famously stopped writing novels in English and turned to the language he grew up speaking, ~yu ~—but as a major postcolonial theorist.

Gı~ku ~gı~ gives us a series In Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas, Ngu of essays that build on the revolutionary ideas about language and its constructive role in national culture, history, and identity that he set out in his earlier work. In a book that is intricate, nuanced, and accessible, he reaffirms the power of African languages to fight back against both the psychic and material impacts of colonialism, past and present. Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas also ex~gı~’s contemporaries, including plores these themes through chapters on some of Ngu Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka.

A book with immense relevance to our present moment, Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas works both as a wonderful introduction to the endur~gı~’s work as well as a vital addition to the library of the world’s ing themes of Ngu greatest and most provocative living writers.

One of the leading writers and scholars at work today, Ngu~gı~ wa Thiong’o was born in Limuru, Kenya, in 1938. Currently Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature and the director of the International Center for Writing and Translation at the University of California, Irvine, he is the recipient of twelve honorary doctorates, the 2022 PEN/Nabokov Award, and many others, and has been nominated for the Man Booker International Prize.

~gı~ wa Thiong’o’s Praise for Ngu works: Wrestling with the Devil: A thrilling testament to the human spirit . . . urging humanity to never surrender to the demons of fear and silence.

—ARIEL DORFMAN, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

Birth of a Dream Weaver: It’s hard to think of another living writer today . . . who speaks so inspiringly and convincingly about the value of literature.

—THE WASHINGTON POST

The Perfect Nine: A beautiful work of integration that not only refuses distinctions between “high art” and traditional storytelling, but supplies that all-too-rare human necessity: the sense that life has meaning.

—THE GUARDIAN

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Praise for the original edition of Art on My Mind “As erudite and sophisticated as hooks is, she is also eminently readable, even exhilarating.”

—Booklist “A guide to the ways that political meaning and esthetic pleasure may be discovered, bound together, in many works by contemporary artists of color.”

—Art in America “Brings a welcome clarity to such issues as received art and the development of a Western canon.”

—San Francisco Examiner “Passionate and highly personal.”

—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “A long overdue rescue of the liberating, rather than confining, power of art.”

—Paper Magazine

Art on My Mind Visual Politics BELL HOOKS WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY MICKALENE THOMAS

P A P E R BACK TH E CANONI CAL WORK OF CULTUR AL C RITIC ISM B Y TH E “ P RO F O U N DL Y IN F L U E N TIAL C R I T IC” (AR T N ET), I N A BEAUTI FUL THI RTI ETH- AN N IVERSARY EDITIO N , F EATU RIN G A N EW F O R E WOR D BY ES T E EMED VI SUAL ARTI ST M I CKAL EN E TH O MAS Sharp and persuasive.

—THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW ON THE ORIGINAL PUBLICATION OF ART ON MY MIND

Called “one of the country’s most influential feminist thinkers” by Artforum, bell

Artists discussed or interviewed include: • Emma Amos • Jean-Michel Basquiat

hooks and her work have enjoyed a huge resurgence of popularity since her pass-

• Felix Gonzalez-Torres

ing in 2021. Her 2018 book All About Love has sold upwards of 700,000 copies, and

• Margo Humphrey

posthumous tributes have credited her with being “instrumental in cracking open the white, western canon for Black artists” (Artnet).

• Alison Saar

To celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of her groundbreaking essay collection

• Lorna Simpson

Art on My Mind, The New Press will publish a handsome, celebratory edition, featur-

• Veodis Watkins

ing a new foreword by Tony-nominated producer and all-around creative phenom Mickalene Thomas and a new cover featuring original photos of bell hooks shot by African American photojournalist Eli Reed. This classic work, which, as the New York Times wrote, “examines the way race, sex and class shape who makes art, how it sells and who values it,” includes what Artforum calls “incisive essays” on the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Isaac Julien, Carrie Mae Weems, and Romare Bearden, among others.

Her essays on Black vernacular architecture, representation of the Black male body, and the creative process of women artists, are complemented by conversations

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with Carrie Mae Weems, Emma Amos, Margo Humphrey, and LaVerne Wells-Bowie, which Kirkus Reviews calls “excellent indeed” and “a real contribution to our understanding of the situation of black women artists.” bell hooks (1952–2021) was the author of over thirty books, including the feminist classic Ain’t I a Woman, the memoir Bone Black, and the New York Times bestselling essay collection, All About Love. Mickalene Thomas is a world-renowned visual artist known for using mixed mediums to illustrate the complexities of Black womanhood.

Outside of her core practice, Thomas is a Tony-nominated co-producer, curator, educator and mentor. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future EMILE SUOTONYE DEWEAVER

A P O WER F UL PER S ONAL I NVESTI GATI ON OF THE IN SIDIO U S WAY S WH ITE SU P REMAC Y C O MP RO MISES C R I M I NA L J US TICE REFORM , FROM THE AWARD- W IN N IN G, F O RME RL Y IN C ARC E RATED AC TIVIST AN D SO R O S J US T ICE FELLOW • During his time in prison, DeWeaver’s organizing contributed to the passage of Senate Bills 260, 261, and Proposition 57, which changed the way that California treats juveniles in its criminal legal system.

• DeWeaver is the winner of the Uncommon Hero award, a Canary Foundation Prize winner, a JustLeadershipUSA Fellow, and a Center for Just Journalism Fellow.

Incarceration helped me to develop as an artist only in the regard that the more deeply you are oppressed, the more clearly you see the mechanisms of oppression and how they function without all of the window dressing.

—EMILE SUOTONYE DEWEAVER

Despite reform efforts that have grown in scope and intensity over the last two decades, the machine of American mass incarceration continues to flourish. In this powerful polemic, formerly incarcerated activist, essayist, and organizer Emile Suotonye DeWeaver argues that the root of the problem is white supremacy. In the tradition of James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time, DeWeaver’s Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine is a brilliant debut, combining social commentary and personal narrative in

• The author of more than fifty published works, DeWeaver has been featured on ABC News and in Fast Company magazine.

an original and provocative critique of the deeply troubling racial logic behind parole

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for Easy Street Magazine; and co-founded Prison Renaissance, an organization cen-

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boards, police unions, prison administration, and more.

During his twenty years in prison, DeWeaver covertly organized to pass legislation impacting juveniles in California’s criminal legal system; was a culture writer tering incarcerated voices and incarcerated leadership. DeWeaver draws on these experiences to interrogate the central premise of reform efforts, including prisoner rehabilitation programs, arguing that they demand self-abnegation, entrench white supremacy, and ignore the role of structural oppression.

With lucid, urgent prose, Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine adds a unique perspective to the growing discourse on racial justice, incarceration, and abolition.

Emile Suotonye DeWeaver is a formerly incarcerated activist, widely published essayist, owner of Re:Frame LLC, and a 2022 Soros Justice Fellow. California’s Governor Brown commuted his life sentence after twenty-one years for his community work. He has written for publications including the San Francisco Chronicle, the San

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Jose Mercury News, Colorlines, The Appeal, The Rumpus, and Seventh Wave. He lives in Oakland, California. This is his first book.

The Great White Hoax Frauds, Forgeries, and 200 Years of Selling Racism in America PHILIP KADISH

A P R OVOCA TIV E N EW HI STORY OF THE FORGERIE S, B O GU S SC IE N C E, RIGGE D DATA, AN D F AKE N EWS T HA T KEEP AMER ICAN RACI SM ALI VE

Anyone interested in the intersection of race, politics, and public lies in America will want to read this book.

Racist hoaxes covered include:

—DAVID S. REYNOLDS, BANCROFT PRIZE–WINNING CULTURAL HISTORIAN AND AUTHOR OF JOHN BROWN, ABOLITIONIST AND WALT WHITMAN’S AMERICA

• the fake race science (“ethnology”) of the early nineteenth century

Fake news, outright political lies, a shamelessly partisan press, and the collapse of

• the “miscegenation” hoax that almost tanked Abraham Lincoln’s re-election

truth, civility, and shared facts, Philip Kadish argues, are nothing new. The Great White Hoax, a masterpiece of historical and literary sleuthing, reveals that the era of Fox News and Donald Trump is simply a return to form. We have been here before.

In a book that brilliantly puts our current era into historical context, The Great White Hoax uncovers a centuries-long tradition of white supremacist hoaxes, perpetrated on the American public by a succession of political hucksters and opportunists, all of them willfully using racial frauds as tools for political and social advantage. In the antebellum era, slavery’s defenders used bogus science to “prove” the inferiority of American people; during the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln’s enemies circulated a sham pamphlet accusing him of promoting a dilution of the white race through “miscegenation” (a racist term invented by the pamphlet’s authors). From these murky beginnings, author Philip Kadish draws a direct thread to Thomas Dixon Jr.’s Birth of a Nation, Henry Ford’s the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Madison Grant’s embrace of eugenics (which directly influenced Adolf Hitler), Alabama Governor George Wallace’s race-baiting, and Roger Ailes’s creation of Fox News.

The Great White Hoax reveals white supremacy as today’s real “fake news”—and exposes the cast of villains, past and present, who have kept American racism alive.

Philip Kadish is adjunct assistant professor of English at Hunter College in New York

• the “Chinese Letter” Hoax of 1880, a forgery meant to discredit President James A. Garfield • the Birth of a Nation hoax that told a fake story of Black rapists and white saviors • Henry Ford and the eugenicists who influenced Nazism in the 1930s • Alabama’s George Wallace, segregation, and the birth of Fox News June Hardcover, 978-1-62097-411-7 Ebook, 978-1-62097-412-4 $27.99 / $36.99 CAN 5 1⁄2” x 8 1⁄2”, 272 pages History

City. His op-eds connecting contemporary racial issues to their roots in nineteenthcentury American culture have appeared on CNN.com and NBC.com. He lives in Connecticut, and this is his first book.

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This book is my attempt to get college teachers and future college teachers thinking about ways to communicate better, get students more involved in their subject matter, and test better. It is also my swan song as a college teacher. I have taught for half a century and teach no more. This book contains the gimmicks that I used, some of which I developed, which I want to pass on to a new generation of college teachers. It is like that kind of cookbook whose author has tested every recipe.

The ideas come from my practice.

You have already seen that I am writing this book in the second person. That is, I address “you.” I tried writing in the third person: “good professors will . . .” “You” seems more direct. I want to speak directly to you. I want to tell you what has worked for me, because I think it may work for you.

How to Teach College Secrets from a Master of the Craft JAMES W. LOEWEN EDITED BY NICK LOEWEN AND MICHAEL DAWSON

A P O ST H UMOUS BOOK BY THE BESTSELLI NG AUTH O R O F L IE S MY TEAC H ER TO L D ME, SH ARIN G TH E ST R A T EGIES A N D S E CRETS OF AN AWARD-WI NNIN G, F IF TY -Y E AR C AREER AS A C O L L E GE P RO F ESSO R

Not a few professors teach solely because they have to, to hold a position that lets them do what they really want to do, which is “their work”—their research, their writing. . . . Those professors miss the joys of teaching.

—FROM THE INTRODUCTION TO HOW TO TEACH COLLEGE

Praise for James W. Loewen’s books: Lies My Teacher Told Me (American Book Award winner):

In addition to being a bestselling author, James W. Loewen was a prizewinning edu-

Every teacher, every student of history, every citizen should read this book.

cator, with a career spanning over half a century at institutions including Tougaloo

—HOWARD ZINN

College, Harvard University, the University of Vermont, and the Catholic University of America. Loewen was beloved by his students and won many “best teacher” awards.

He had an unusual passion for teaching and took the job very seriously.

How to Teach College is a brilliant distillation of his educational wisdom that will be of interest to many generations of teachers to come, as well as to the millions of fans of Loewen’s other books. It encompasses advice both epic (how to convey a love of one’s topic and motivate students to become lifelong higher learners) and technical (how to plan and manage the classroom, syllabi, lectures, tests, grading, and more)—all drawing on firsthand stories and anecdotes from Loewen’s own courses on sociology and race relations.

With a special emphasis on reaching students from diverse backgrounds and how to teach potentially difficult subjects—particularly relevant in these times—the book comes to us in Loewen’s vibrant, original, and inimitable voice. It will be a lasting part of his legacy and a great gift to a new generation of college (and some high school) teachers.

James W. Loewen was the bestselling author of Lies My Teacher Told Me as well

Sundown Towns: Powerful and important . . . an instant classic.

—THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD

Lies Across America: The most definitive and expansive work on the Lost Cause and the movement to whitewash history.

—MITCH LANDRIEU, FORMER MAYOR OF NEW ORLEANS

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as Lies My Teacher Told Me About Christopher Columbus, Lies Across America, Sundown Towns (all from The New Press), and the textbook Mississippi: Conflict and Change. His son Nick Loewen teaches high school English in Washington, DC. Michael Dawson is an independent sociologist who has taught a wide variety of courses at Portland Community College, Lewis & Clark College, Portland State University, and the University of Oregon. He is the author of The Consumer Trap.

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Liberation Stories Building Narrative Power for 21st-Century Social Movements SHANELLE MATTHEWS, MARZENA ZUKOWSKA, AND THE RADICAL COMMUNICATORS NETWORK (RADCOMMS)

F R O M A N IN TER N A TI ONAL CAST OF LEAD I NG AC TIVIST C O MMU N IC ATO RS, A TIME L Y AN D I NS T R UCT IVE H AN DB OOK FOR TELLI NG STORI ES TH AT C H AN GE TH E WO RL D

With contributions from: Malkia Devich-Cyril, founding and former executive director, MediaJustice Noura Erakat, associate professor of international studies, Rutgers University Tsering Yangzom Lama, storytelling advisor, Greenpeace International Trevor D. Smith, narrative director of Liberation Ventures Fresco Steez, cultural engineer

How do we shape imaginations and build public will for crucial, innovative ideas like defunding the police, climate change, and a world that values Black, queer, and TGNCI people? One story of liberation at a time.

—FROM THE INTRODUCTION

Over the past twenty years, social movements from DREAMers and the Movement for Black Lives, to queer and trans resistance, and domestic worker organizing, have helped tell a new inclusive story of America. This achievement was no accident: movement leaders have honed communications techniques, political messages, and storytelling strategies in a new struggle for narrative power. Until now, these efforts have largely been piecemeal and disconnected from one another. But in Liberation Stories, some of today’s leading progressive and radical grassroots communicators, organizers, artists, visual storytellers, journalists, and academics combine their col-

Dorian T. Warren, president of Community Change

lective wisdom into a single volume.

Shadia Fayne Wood, executive producer and founder, Survival Media Agency

historical examples for understanding and challenging the dominant narratives

and more

rently shaping our society.

June

books, our bodies, and our systems of government—Liberation Stories offers a com-

Featuring in-depth case studies of contemporary social justice movements and across the globe, Liberation Stories distills successful theories, strategies, and tactics for anyone wanting to understand—and participate in—the diverse initiatives curAt a time when right-wing movements are on the rise globally—attacking our

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prehensive tool for building the world we want.

Shanelle Matthews is the founder of Radical Communicators Network (RadComms), an organization working to build narrative power for social justice. Matthews is former communications director for the Movement for Black Lives and a Distinguished Lecturer at City College at the City University of New York. She lives in New York.

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Marzena Zukowska is co-director of the UK immigrants’ rights organization POMOC, and co-chair and trustee of Migrants Organise. She lives in Liverpool, England.

Red Pill Politics Demystifying Today’s Far Right DAVID OST

A SM AR T A N D ACCESSI BLE D I SSECTI ON OF TWEN TY -F IRST-C E N TU RY F ASC IST P O L ITIC S, P RO VIDIN G G E NE RAL R EADER S WI TH THE TOOLS TO UNDERSTAN D, AN D DE F E AT, TO DAY ’ S RESU RGE N T F A R R I GH T Fascism is the term that is everywhere and nowhere in contemporary political discussions.

—DAVID OST

Around the globe, far-right political parties and movements are on the march, winning popular support, legislative seats, and presidencies—and stoking widespread fears of the revival of fascism. What to make of this terrifying drift?

In this timely, deeply researched, and deftly argued examination of far-right politics today, the political scientist David Ost shows that to grasp the very real threat of resurgent fascism, we must look beyond the extreme examples of Nazi Germany and Mussolini’s Italy lest we miss the growing strength—and the distinctly populist appeal—of today’s far right. Instead, drawing on a wide range of compelling contemporary and historical examples, Ost shows that we must understand the current global movement as part of a new political category, which he calls “Red Pill Politics” in reference to the right-wing meme which purports to peel back the facade of liberal hegemony. While Red Pill Politics exhibits many features of classical fascism—racial exclusion, xenophobic fearmongering, enforcement of rigid gender roles—contemporary far-right parties have won power not through violence and mass repression, but through anti-elite, populist rhetoric and elections.

For readers of Jason Stanley’s How Fascism Works, Red Pill Politics draws on meticulous historical research and analysis of contemporary far-right politics to help us understand and fight one of today’s most pressing political threats.

• 31% of Americans say the “rise of fascism and extremism” is the issue that concerns them most.

—NPR/PBS NEWSHOUR / MARIST POLL, APRIL 2024

• Far-right parties have had major electoral success in Europe in particular, including most recently with Geert Wilders’s Party for Freedom in the Netherlands and Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party in Italy.

• In India, the world’s largest democracy, Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist BJP party is on track to win the 2024 national elections, delivering Modi’s third term as PM. July Hardcover, 978-1-62097-851-1 Ebook, 978-1-62097-911-2 $27.99 / $36.99 CAN 5 1⁄2” x 8 1⁄2”, 256 pages Current Affairs & Politics

David Ost is the former Joseph DiGangi Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. His previous books include Solidarity and the Politics of Anti-Politics, Workers after Workers’ States, and The Defeat of Solidarity. He lives in New York.

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In Their Names The Untold Story of Victims’ Rights, Mass Incarceration, and the Future of Public Safety LENORE ANDERSON

NO W IN PAPER BA CK I N A BOOK THAT VAN JON E S C AL L S A “ GAME C H AN GE R” AN D B AZ DRE ISIN GER CA L L S “A MUS T- R EAD ,” THE FOUNDER OF ALLI A N C E F O R SAF ETY AN D J U STIC E DISP EL S TH E MY TH T H A T MA S S IN CAR CERATI ON BENEFI TS CRI ME V IC TIMS AN D O F F E RS A TRAN SF O RMATIVE N E W V I SI O N FOR PUBLIC SAFETY A new vision for victims’ rights, one that focuses not on punishment, but on providing aid and trauma recovery, with the goal of meeting people’s material needs and interrupting cycles of violence.

—THE GUARDIAN

Persuasive and well-written.

—LIBRARY JOURNAL

A timely and appreciated contribution to our national dialogue on crime.

—MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW

Chock-full of breakthrough insights, compelling stories, compassion, and clarity, this urgent call for a new justice system is a must-read for everyone who cares about safety.

—VAN JONES, CNN CONTRIBUTOR AND HOST OF UNCOMMON GROUND

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A timely book [that] reveals an explosive truth: mass incarceration—built in the names of crime victims—doesn’t serve their true interests.

—JAMES FORMAN JR., YALE LAW SCHOOL PROFESSOR AND AUTHOR OF THE PULITZER PRIZE–WINNING LOCKING UP OUR OWN

Hailed as “a passionate and provocative indictment of how the victims’ rights movement has warped the American justice system” (Publishers Weekly), In Their Names dispels the myth that mass incarceration benefits victims, and proposes a new public safety paradigm that recognizes victims’ true safety needs.

Lenore Anderson, whom the distinguished criminologist David Kennedy calls “one of the most effective criminal justice reformers America has ever had,” demonstrates how, in the 1980s, victims’ rights political activism morphed into a demand for more incarceration “in their names,” while bringing about policies that fuel more trauma than they heal. Called “well-researched, results-driven, and readable” by Booklist, In Their Names “deserves a wide audience, from policymakers to ordinary citizens alike,” according to James Forman Jr. At a time when U.S. crime policy is increasingly debated in politics and media, the lessons and message of this book are current—and urgent. As renowned criminal justice author Nell Bernstein writes, Anderson “offers a vision of justice and healing that is generous enough to encompass all of us.”

This “startling wake-up call” (Susan Burton) argues persuasively for closing the gap between our public safety systems and victims, to heal cycles of violence and enhance public safety for all.

Lenore Anderson is the founder and president of the Alliance for Safety and Justice.

She is a former chief of policy at the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office, former

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director of public safety for the Oakland mayor, and the recipient of a James Irvine Foundation Leadership Award and a Frank Carrington Crime Victim Attorney Award.

Escape from Kabul The Afghan Women Judges Who Fled the Taliban and Those They Left Behind KAREN BARTLETT

T H E E XTR A OR DIN ARY TRUE STORY OF THE AFGH AN W O ME N J U DGES W H O F O U GH T F O R J U STIC E I N T HE COUR TR OOM AND THEN FOUGHT TO ESCA P E WITH TH EIR L IVE S, F RO M TH E B E STSEL L IN G B R I T I S H A UTH OR

When they were murdered, Qadria Yasini and Zakia Herawi were professional, educated women going about their daily lives, but as two out of nearly three hundred Afghan women judges, their role and responsibilities symbolized everything the Taliban despised, and feared.

—FROM THE INTRODUCTION

Across twenty years of U.S.-backed government, Afghan women obtained legal degrees, became judges, and set out to transform their country—tackling corruption, challenging traditional gender norms, and reducing horrifying levels of violence against women and children. These educated and powerful women led the mission to build Afghanistan as a modern democracy that respected the rule of law and human rights.

Their work, however, posed an existential threat to everything the Taliban believed in—and when the United States withdrew in August 2021, the women judges of Afghanistan faced mortal danger.

Escape from Kabul is the extraordinary, never-before-told story of their escape—

Praise for Karen Bartlett’s The Health of Nations: Well-researched and accessible. . . . Her writing is clear yet nuanced, and offers compassion, a broad respect for history, and the skills of a strong storyteller.

—CHOICE

Bartlett makes it abundantly clear that research to reduce the impact of infectious disease is progressing but that politics, budgetary constraints, competing priorities, and ego clashes are serious impediments.

—KIRKUS REVIEWS

with the assistance of the International Association of Women Judges—and the

Timely.

shocking fates of those who were unable to flee. Veteran journalist Karen Bartlett

—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

had unique access to many of the women involved, including those in exile and the judges still trapped in Afghanistan, as well as women judges from around the world who were vital to the escape effort.

Combining real-life drama with searing critique, Escape from Kabul is also an indictment of the West—which abandoned its allies and the cause of women’s rights. The book

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closes with the judges’ recommendations for their beloved country, in their own words.

Karen Bartlett was a speechwriter for President Nelson Mandela and has written for publications including The Times, Wired, and Newsweek. She is the author of five works of nonfiction, including The Health of Nations and the Sunday Times bestseller After Auschwitz, the memoir of Eva Schloss. She lives in London.

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The Two-MillionPerson Experiment Community College and the New American Dream KEENAN NORRIS

A N I M PAS S ION ED ARGUM ENT FOR THE ESSENTI A L RO L E O F TH E C O MMU N ITY C O L L EGE SY STE M IN A M O R E J US T A N D EQU I TABLE VI SI ON OF AMERI CA N H IGH ER EDU C ATIO N

Praise for Keenan Norris’s The Confession of Copeland Cane: These dispatches from Planet Oakland totally blew me away.

Imagine Thomas Pynchon, Nathaniel West, and Ralph Ellison going into a bar where they decide to write a novel about the gentrification wars in the East Bay. Under the authorial nom de guerre of “Keenan Norris,” they create a picaresque hero named Copeland Cane who battles cops, developers, and rich liberals before vanishing in the chaos of an inevitable small apocalypse.

Fantastic.

Norris’s voice is necessary and vital—and a call to take heed.

—MICHAEL DATCHER, AUTHOR OF ANIMATING BLACK AND BROWN LIBERATION

Over 40 percent of all undergraduate students in the United States attend community colleges, including a majority of Black and Latinx students. What do we know of their experiences, or the role this vibrant yet quiet wavelength of the American experiment plays both in the lives of these students and in shaping the landscape of American higher education writ large?

Essayist, novelist, and scholar Keenan Norris has spent his career teaching creative writing at community colleges across the country. In a work blending policy analysis, cultural criticism, and personal narrative, The Two-Million-Person Experiment examines the perennial dearth of resources, precarious labor conditions, and complex challenges of teaching students left behind by an increasingly stratified economy. With a keen eye and morally resonant voice, Norris argues for a radical refashioning of American higher education through greater attention to community

—MIKE DAVIS, AUTHOR OF CITY OF QUARTZ AND CO-AUTHOR OF SET THE NIGHT ON FIRE

colleges, including specific alterations to their curricula and institutional structure.

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offers an eye-opening tour of a little-known but vital part of higher ed—and a bold

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For readers of Mike Rose and Paul Tough, The Two-Million-Person Experiment argument that community colleges hold the hidden key to an educational system that serves all students.

Keenan Norris is the author of books including Chi Boy: Native Sons and Chicago Reckonings, the novella Lustre, and the novels The Confession of Copeland Cane (winner of the 2022 Northern California Book Award in fiction) and Brother and the Dancer (winner of the James D. Houston Award). He is an associate professor at San Jose State University and lives in San Jose, California.

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Organizing America Stories of Americans Who Fought for Justice ERIK LOOMIS

F R O M T H E A CCLAIMED AUTHOR OF A HI STORY O F AME RIC A IN TEN STRIKES, A SW E E P IN G AC C O U N T O F T HE IMPACT OF ORGANI ZERS ON UNI TED STA TES H ISTO RY

A brilliantly recounted American history through the prism of major labor struggles.

—NOAM CHOMSKY, ON ERIK LOOMIS’S A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN TEN STRIKES

Praise for Eric Loomis’s A History of America in Ten Strikes:

We are living through a tidal wave of protests and activism in America. These move-

A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2018

ments sometimes seem to spring from nowhere, but beneath them all is a deeper river of social change work known as organizing.

Author of the celebrated A History of American in Ten Strikes (a Kirkus Reviews best book of 2018), Erik Loomis uncovers a rich and revealing history by turning to

Entertaining, tough-minded, and strenuously argued.

—THE NATION

stories about key organizers throughout America’s past. In twenty short biographies,

Each chapter of this well-told saga could stand on its own.

Organizing America shows how one movement has influenced another over time—

—KIRKUS REVIEW (STARRED REVIEW)

and how the movement leaders’ personal histories influenced them toward changing the world. A chronological story with a vast sweep, Organizing America considers a cross section of social justice activists across time, race, gender, and movement, examining lives as varied as Benjamin Lay, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Eugene V. Debs, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Bob Moses, Saul Alinsky, Yuri Kochiyama, Harvey Milk, Alicia Garza, Bill McKibben, and many more. The result is a history of the United States viewed through some of its most important changemakers.

With an introduction that explains what organizing is and how collective action works, Loomis sets a tone that is both practical and historical—providing context and inspiration for anyone seeking to step into the work of social change in America.

Erik Loomis is professor of history at the University of Rhode Island. He blogs at Lawyers, Guns and Money and his work has also appeared in the New York Times, the

A History of America in Ten Strikes Erik Loomis Paperback, $17.99, 978-1-62097-627-2

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Washington Post, Dissent, and the New Republic. The author of Out of Sight and A History of America in Ten Strikes (both from The New Press), he lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

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Contents

BY TITLE Art on My Mind Backroom Deals in Our Backyards Bad Law

BY AUTHOR 16–17

Lenore Anderson

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Karen Bartlett

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Stefan M. Bradley

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Stephen B. Bright

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James Cadogan

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Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas

GARA LaMARCHE (CHAIR) Senior Fellow, Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, The City College of New York

Escape from Kabul

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Ed Chung

The Fear of Too Much Justice

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Michael Dawson

Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine

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Emile Suotonye DeWeaver

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The Great White Hoax

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Julian Hattem

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How to Teach College

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If We Don’t Get It

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Massoud Hayoun bell hooks

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7 16–17

In Their Names

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Philip Kadish

19

King of the North

2–3

James Kwak

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Liberation Stories

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Robert Jay Lifton

8–9

Losing Reality

8

James W. Loewen

20–21

Organizing America

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Nick Loewen

20–21

Poison Ivy

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Erik Loomis

The Power of Basketball

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Evan Mandery

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Red Pill Politics

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Shanelle Matthews

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Shelter from the Storm

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Surviving Our Catastrophes

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Elie Mystal ~gı~ wa Thiong’o Ngu

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The Two-Million-Person Experiment

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Keenan Norris

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When We Were Arabs

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David Ost

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RadComms

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Miranda S. Spivack

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Jeanne Theoharis

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Marzena Zukowska

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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