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AFRICANA STUDIES POLITICS & HISTORY Shadow of Liberation

Precarious Power

VISHNU PADAYACHEE & ROBERT VAN NIEKERK

An incisive analysis of South Africa’s ANC power—as party, as government, as state

Contestation and Compromise in the Economic and Social Policy of the African National Congress, 1943-1996

Compliance and Discontent Under Ramaphosa’s ANC SUSAN BOOYSEN

“[I]mpressive. Combining fine scholarship with vivid narrative, this is an economist’s detective story.”—Tom Lodge, Professor

$30.00 • 328 PAGES PAPER • 9781776146451

and Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Limerick $30.00 • 292 PAGES • PAPER • 9781776143955

Destroying Democracy

BRICS and the New American Imperialism

Neoliberal Capitalism and the Rise of Authoritarian Politics

Global Rivalry and Resistance

Edited by MICHELLE WILLIAMS & VISHWAS SATGAR

Edited by VISHWAS SATGAR

Challenges the mainstream understanding of BRICS and US dominance to situate the new global rivalries engulfing capitalism

Interrogates how capitalism is destroying democracy through the commodification of everything into market democracy, and affirms the need to reclaim and re-build expansive democracy

$30.00 • 256 PAGES PAPER • 9781776145287

$35.00 • 280 PAGES • PAPER • 9781776146994

Land, Law, and Chiefs in Rural South Africa

Prisoners of the Past

Edited by WILLIAM BEINART, ROSALIE KINGWILL & GAVIN CAPPS

Building on the work of economic historian Douglass North and Ugandan political scholar Mahmood Mamdani, Friedman argues that the difficulties besetting South African democracy are legacies of the past, not products of the

South African Democracy and the Legacy of Minority Rule

Contested Histories and Current Struggles

Illustrates contestations over land and political authority in South Africa’s rural areas, focusing on threats to popular rights and how they are being supported $35.00 • 344 PAGES • PAPER • 9781776146796

STEVEN FRIEDMAN

post-1994 era $30.00 • 288 PAGES • PAPER • 9781776146840

Cuba and Africa, 19591994 Writing an Alternative Atlantic History Edited by GIULIA BONACCI, ADRIEN DELMAS & KALI ARGYRIADIS

A history of Atlantic solidarity between Cuba and Africa, in struggle for African independence from colonial powers $35.00 • 344 PAGES • PAPER • 9781776146338 USE COUPON AFAFAM20-FM AT CHECKOUT FOR 30% OFF AND FREE SHIPPING*

Bill Freund

An Historian’s Passage to Africa BILL FREUND

The autobiography of the late social historian and leading analyst of African history $30.00 • 288 PAGES PAPER • 9781776146727

AFRICANA STUDIES N AT U R E & E N V I R O N M E N T Dance of the Dung Beetles

Civilising Grass

The Art of the Lawn on the South African Highveld

Their Role in Our Changing World

JONATHAN CANE

MARCUS BYRNE & HELEN LUNN

“[M]akes a significant contribution to the study of the political relevance of landscapes and their representations.”­

A brilliant and funny tour through mythology, evolution and the day-to-day innovations of scientific research—this is an entomological page-turner! $30.00 • 232 PAGES PAPER • 9781776142347

—Byron Caminero-Santangelo, author of Different Shades of Green

PAPER • 9781776143108

$30.00 • 336 PAGES

P H I L O S O P H Y, D E C O L O N I S AT I O N & C R I T I C A L R A C E S T U D I E S Surfacing

Being-Black-in-theWorld, new edition

Edited by DESIREE LEWIS & GABEBA BADEROON

“[I]nvites intergenerational conversations toward a decolonised world and pays homage to South Africa’s contribution to black radical thought. This text is a mustread.”—Zimitri Erasmus, author of

On Being Black and Feminist in South Africa

A collection of essays on black feminism in the South African context $35.00 • 328 PAGES PAPER • 9781776146093

N. CHABANI MANGANYI

Race Otherwise $30.00 • 176 PAGES • PAPER • 9781776143689

The Social and Political Thought of Archie Mafeje A Pan-African Social Scientist Ahead of His Time BONGANI NYOKA

This comprehensive treatment of Archie Mafeje as a thinker and researcher analyses his overall scholarship and his role as a theoretician of liberation and revolutionary theory

Race Otherwise

Forging a New Humanism for South Africa ZIMITRI ERASMUS

Three tensions to consider in the making and unmaking of race $35.00 • 232 PAGES PAPER • 9781776140589

$30.00 • 288 PAGES • PAPER • 9781776145942

Decolonising the Human

Reflections from Africa on Difference and Oppression Edited by MELISSA STEYN & WILLIAM MPOFU

Examines the ongoing project of constituting ‘the human’ in light of the durability of coloniality and the persistence of multiple oppressions $35.00 • 260 PAGES • PAPER • 9781776146512

Violence, Slavery and Freedom between Hegel and Fanon Edited by ULRIKE KISTNER & PHILIPPE VAN HAUTE

A deep dive into the influences of Hegelian thought on the work of revolutionary and postcolonial theorist Frantz Fanon $20.00 • 176 PAGES PAPER • 9781776146239

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AFRICANA STUDIES PSYCHOLOGY Becoming Men

The World Looks Like This From Here

Black Masculinities in a South African Township

Thoughts on African Psychology

MALOSE LANGA

KOPANO RATELE

This vivid evocation of the lives of 32 boys from a Johannesburg township is essential reading for anybody wishing to understand Black masculinity in South Africa

“[B]uilds a case for thinking and doing psychology differently in and for Africa.”—Floretta Boonzaier, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Cape Town

PAPER • 9781776143900

$20.00 • 202 PAGES PAPER • 9781776145676

$30.00 • 248 PAGES

How I Lost My Mother

Transforming Research Methods in the Social Sciences

A Story of Life, Care and Dying LESLIE SWARTZ

A deeply felt account of the relationship between a mother and son, and an exploration of what care for the dying means in contemporary society $30.00 • 252 PAGES PAPER • 9781776146949

Case Studies from South Africa Edited by SUMAYA LAHER, ANGELO FLYNN & SHERIANNE KRAMER

Cutting-edge research demonstrating techniques and research methods available to researchers working in contexts characterised by diversity, racial and political tensions, socioeconomic disparities and gender inequalities $40.00 • 456 PAGES • PAPER • 9781776142750

MEDIA STUDIES Tell Our Story

Babel Unbound

JULIE REID & DALE T. MCKINLEY

Edited by LESLEY COWLING & CAROLYN HAMILTON

Multiplying Voices in the News Media

Rage, Reason and Rethinking Public Life

Focusing on three South African communities the authors dismiss the idea that some groups are voiceless, arguing that they are being deliberately ignored by dominant news media PAPER • 9781776145775

$20.00 • 234 PAGES

In this timely, original and sophisticated collection, writers from the Global South demonstrate that forms of publicness are multiple, mobile and varied $50.00 • 292 PAGES • PAPER • 9781776145898

Power and Loss in South African Journalism

S TAY C O N N E C T E D

@WITSPRESS

News in the Age of Social Media GLENDA DANIELS

This timely book analyses the crisis and chaos of journalism in contemporary South Africa and argues for and about the power of public interest journalism PAPER • 9781776145997 USE COUPON AFAFAM20-FM AT CHECKOUT FOR 30% OFF AND FREE SHIPPING*

$20.00 • 232 PAGES

AFRICANA STUDIES A R T, C U LT U R E & L I T E R AT U R E And Wrote My Story Anyway

Black South African Women’s Novels as Feminism BARBARA BOSWELL

Critically examines influential novels in English by eminent Black female writers $30.00 • 264 PAGES PAPER • 9781776146185

Acts of Transgression Contemporary Live Art in South Africa Edited by JAY PATHER & CATHERINE BOULLE

Fifteen writers explore the experimental, interdisciplinary and radically transgressive field of contemporary live art in South Africa, focusing on a wide range of perspectives, personalities and theoretical concerns $50.00 • 372 PAGES • PAPER • 9781776142798

Bafana Republic and Other Satires

A Collection of Monologues and Revues MIKE VAN GRAAN

This collection of satirical sketches takes readers on a sometimes cynical, sometimes hilarious trip through many of the issues that face democratic South Africa $20.00 • 192 PAGES • PAPER • 9781776145867

In India and East Africa E-Indiya nase East Africa

A travelogue in isiXhosa and English DAVIDSON DON TENGO JABAVU Edited by TINA STEINER, MHLOBO JADEZWENI, CATHERINE HIGGS, & EVAN M. MWANGI

“This historical gem enriches our sense of the scope and scale of South African letters.”—Isabel Hofmeyr, Global Distinguished Professor, New York University $30.00 • 320 PAGES • PAPER • 9781776144761

Public Intellectuals in South Africa Critical Voices from the Past Edited by CHRIS BROODRYK

On neglected public intellectuals in the arts and humanities, and journalism who gave voice and presence to those who have been marginalised and silenced in South African history

Death and Compassion

The Elephant in Southern African Literature DAN WYLIE

Examines what literature reveals about human attitudes towards elephants and who shows compassion towards them $30.00 • 232 PAGES PAPER • 9781776142187

$35.00 • 272 PAGES PAPER • 9781776146895

Troubling Images

Visual Culture and the Politics of Afrikaner Nationalism Edited by FEDERICO FRESCHI, BRENDA SCHMAHMANN & LIZE VAN ROBBROECK

Explores how art and visual culture helped to secure hegemonic claims to the nationstate via the construction of a unified Afrikaner imaginary $50.00 • 336 PAGES • PAPER • 9781776144716

Visionary Animal Rock Art from Southern Africa RENAUD EGO Translated by DEKE DUSINBERRE

This highly illustrated collection of essays on themes such as rain animals and therianthropes takes stock of our current knowledge of rock art and proposes a new grid of reading $80.00 • 336 PAGES PAPER • 9781776142262

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AFRICANA STUDIES ANTHR OPOLOGY & URBAN STUDIES Politics and Community-Based Research

Anxious Joburg

Edited by SARAH CHARLTON, SOPHIE DIDIER & KIRSTEN DÖRMANN

An interdisciplinary account of the life of Johannesburg, South Africa’s “global south city”

The Inner Lives of a Global South City Edited by NICKY FALKOF & COBUS VAN STADEN

Perspectives from Yeoville Studio, Johannesburg

“This is a treasure, full of the voices, spaces and lives of residents...”—Jennifer Robinson,

$35.00 • 296 PAGES PAPER • 9781776146284

Professor, University College $80.00 • 430 PAGES • CLOTH • 9781776143849

San Elders Speak

Dress as Social Relations

Ancestral Knowledge of the Kalahari San

An Interpretation of Bushman Dress

LUCINDA BACKWELL & FRANCESCO D’ERRICO

VIBEKE MARIA VIESTAD

This richly illustrated book documents indigenous knowledge and uses of San material culture and artefacts collected a century ago, as described by KhoiSan elders to the authors

Historical collections show that Bushman dress was an embodied practice of social relations $80.00 • 208 PAGES PAPER • 9781776141913

$45.00 • 312 PAGES • PAPER • 9781776146628

E D U C AT I O N Fees Must Fall

Patrick van Rensburg

Student Revolt, Decolonisation and Governance in South Africa

Rebel, Visionary and Radical Educationist, a Biography

Edited by SUSAN BOOYSEN

KEVIN SHILLINGTON

Maps the student discontent a year after the start of the #FeesMustFall revolt

This sensitive and compelling biography of Patrick van Rensburg does justice to a giant of a man, controversial throughout his life but undeniably a hero

$35.00 • 300 PAGES PAPER • 9781868149858

$30.00 • 376 PAGES PAPER • 9781776146048

Wits University Press champions knowledge from and about Africa to local and global readers. Since 1922 we have been curating and publishing innovative research that informs debate for the greater good of society. If knowledge drives change, we are committed to publishing excellence and passionate about bringing writers with bold ideas and a progressive agenda to the world.

Our mission supports the University of the Witwatersrand’s vision to promote research excellence, public engagement and social justice.

Decolonisation in Universities

The Politics of Knowledge Edited by JONATHAN D. JANSEN

Combining conceptual analyses and novel case studies, this volume brings together the best minds in curriculum theory to address the question: What exactly is decolonisation?

PAPER • 9781776143351

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$35.00 • 320 PAGES

AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES ANTHR OPOLOGY & SOCIOLOGY The Sociology of W. E. B. Du Bois

Adverse Events

JOSÉ ITZIGSOHN & KARIDA L. BROWN

Explores the social inequality of clinical drug testing and its effects on scientific results

Race, Inequality, and the Testing of New Pharmaceuticals

Racialized Modernity and the Global Color Line

JILL A. FISHER

The first comprehensive understanding of Du Bois for social scientists

$25.00 • 336 PAGES PAPER • 9781479862160 In Anthropologies of American Medicine: Culture, Power, and Practice

$28.00 • 304 PAGES PAPER • 9781479804177

This Is Our School!

The Movement for Reproductive Justice

Race and Community Resistance to School Reform

Empowering Women of Color through Social Activism

HAVA RACHEL GORDON

How local educational justice movements wrestle with neoliberal school reform

PATRICIA ZAVELLA

Shows how reproductive justice organizations’ collaborative work across racial lines provides a compelling model for other groups to successfully influence change

$30.00 • 304 PAGES PAPER • 9781479890057

$32.00 • 320 PAGES • PAPER • 9781479812707

AMERICAN POLITICS Uncounted

The Crisis of Voter Suppression in America

2019 Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice, Goddard Riverside Community Center

No Place on the Corner

The Costs of Aggressive Policing

GILDA R. DANIELS

JAN HALDIPUR

“Replete with documentary evidence and examples, this work sounds an alarm for any and all readers interested in reversing the damage and danger of the nondemocratic dynamic threatening truth, justice, and the fight to vote.”

—Library Journal

“A sharp portrait of one of the many seriously troubled areas of the American criminal justice system and one without clear solutions.”—Kirkus Reviews $25.00 • 224 PAGES PAPER • 9781479888009

$30.00 • 272 PAGES • CLOTH • 9781479862351

Hands Up, Don’t Shoot Why the Protests in Ferguson and Baltimore Matter, and How They Changed America

Black Fundamentalists

Conservative Christianity and Racial Identity in the Segregation Era DANIEL R. BARE

Reveals the role of Black Fundamentalists during the early part of the twentieth century $30.00 • 288 PAGES PAPER • 9781479803279

JENNIFER E. COBBINA

“In her tightly focused and morally important book …

Cobbina is careful to establish historical and cultural context for the deep-seated distrust so many African Americans feel toward law enforcement in a way that makes the book accessible to a wide readership.”—NPR Books $25.00 • 288 PAGES • PAPER • 9781479874415

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AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY FORTHCOMING

The Untold Story of Shields Green

The Black Civil War Soldier

The Life and Death of a Harper’s Ferry Raider

A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship

LOUIS A. DECARO, JR.

DEBORAH WILLIS

Explores the life of Shields Green, one of the Black men who followed John Brown to Harper’s Ferry in 1859

A stunning collection of stoic portraits and intimate ephemera from the lives of Black Civil War soldiers

$28.00 • 248 PAGES CLOTH • 9781479802753

$35.00 • 256 PAGES • CLOTH • 9781479809004 In NYU Series in Social and Cultural Analysis 2020 Mary Kelley Book Prize, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic | 2020 Outstanding Book Award, History of Education Society

In Pursuit of Knowledge

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Black Women and Educational Activism in Antebellum America

The Battle of Negro Fort

The Rise and Fall of a Fugitive Slave Community

KABRIA BAUMGARTNER

Uncovers the hidden role of girls and women in the desegregation of American education

MATTHEW J. CLAVIN

“Negro Fort ... served as a source of inspiration to runaways and enslaved people in the states bordering Florida...

A must-read...”

—STARRED Library Journal

$35.00 • 320 PAGES PAPER • 9781479823116 In Early American Places

$14.95 • 256 PAGES • PAPER • 9781479811106 NEW IN PAPERBACK

Fight the Power

NEW IN PAPERBACK

African Americans and the Long History of Police Brutality in New York City

Black Youth and the Justice System in Postwar New York CARL SUDDLER

A startling examination of the deliberate criminalization of Black youths from the 1930s to today

CLARENCE TAYLOR

“This well-researched, welltold book provides thoughtful context for the current American reckoning with police brutality.”—Publishers Weekly PAPER • 9781479811083

Presumed Criminal

$19.95 • 256 PAGES PAPER • 9781479806751

$24.00 • 256 PAGES

2019 Outstanding Book Award, History of Education Society | 2019 Anna Julia Cooper and C.L.R. James Award, National Council for Black Studies | Finalist, 2019 Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History, African American Intellectual History Society

The Dawning of the Apocalpse

Upending the Ivory Tower

The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century

Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Ivy League STEFAN M. BRADLEY

“A definitive account of the experiences of black students at the Ivy League universities from 1945 to 1975. It is a brilliant book... essential reading.”

—Academe $25.00 • 480 PAGES • PAPER • 9781479806027

GERALD HORNE

Acclaimed historian Gerald Horne reveals the reality of settler colonialism underlying the myth of the creation of the United States of America $27.00 • 304 PAGES • CLOTH • 9781583678725 Published by Monthly Review Press

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AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES GENDER & SEXUALIT Y FORTHCOMING

Misogynoir Transformed

FORTHCOMING

Black Women’s Digital Resistance

Re-Imagining Black Women

A Critique of Post-Feminist and Post-Racial Melodrama in Culture and Politics

MOYA BAILEY

Where racism and sexism meet—an understanding of anti-Black misogyny

NIKOL G. ALEXANDER-FLOYD

A wide-ranging Black feminist interrogation, reaching from the #MeToo movement to the legacy of gender-based violence against Black women

$28.00 • 256 PAGES CLOTH • 9781479865109 In Intersections

$30.00 • 304 PAGES PAPER • 9781479850891

FORTHCOMING

Black Women’s Health

Queering Family Trees

Paths to Wellness for Mothers and Daughters

Race, Reproductive Justice, and Lesbian Motherhood

MICHELE TRACY BERGER

SANDRA PATTON-IMANI

The struggles African American women and their adolescent daughters face in living healthy, active lives

Argues that significant barriers to family-making exist for lesbian mothers of color in the United States

$30.00 • 256 PAGES PAPER • 9781479892952

$30.00 • 336 PAGES PAPER • 9781479814862

FORTHCOMING

The Other Side of Terror

2019 Barnard Hewitt Award, American Society for Theatre Research

Afro-Fabulations

The Queer Drama of Black Life

Black Women and the Culture of US Empire

TAVIA NYONG’O

“Nyongo offers not only a compelling new way to think about works that challenge history, narrative, and truth, but also a method in which we might continue that work.”

—Brooklyn Rail

ERICA R. EDWARDS

Reveals the troubling intimacy between Black women and the making of US global power $30.00 • 416 PAGES PAPER • 9781479808434

$35.00 • 304 PAGES PAPER • 9781479888443 • In Sexual Cultures

REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS 2020 Eileen Basker Memorial Prize, Society for Medical Anthropology | Honorable Mention, 2020 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, Society for Humanistic Anthropology | Finalist, 2020 PROSE Award in the Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology category, Association of American Publishers

Reproductive Injustice Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth

Reproductive as Human Rights

Women of Color and the Fight for Reproductive Justice

DÁNA-AIN DAVIS

ZAKIYA LUNA

A troubling study of the role that medical racism plays in the lives of Black women who have given birth to premature and low birth weight infants

Reveals both the promise and the pitfalls associated with a human rights approach to the Black-focused reproductive rights activism of SisterSong

$30.00 • 240 PAGES PAPER • 9781479816606 In Anthropologies of American Medicine: Culture, Power, and Practice

$35.00 • 312 PAGES PAPER • 9781479831296

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AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES L AW & C R I M I N O LO G Y FORTHCOMING

NEW IN PAPERBACK WITH A NEW PREFACE

The Ethics of Policing

Evaluating Police Uses of Force

New Perspectives on Law Enforcement

SETH W. STOUGHTON, JEFFREY J. NOBLE & GEOFFREY P. ALPERT

Edited by BEN JONES & EDUARDO MENDIETA

Provides a critical understanding and evaluation of police tactics and the use of force

Top scholars provide a critical analysis of the current ethical challenges facing police officers, police departments, and the criminal justice system $35.00 • 336 PAGES PAPER • 9781479803736 2020 ACJS Outstanding Book Award, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences

$25.00 • 256 PAGES PAPER • 9781479810161 NEW IN PAPERBACK

The Evolution of the Juvenile Court

Multiracials and Civil Rights Mixed-Race Stories of Discrimination

Race, Politics, and the Criminalizing of Juvenile Justice

TANYA KATERÍ HERNÁNDEZ

Narratives of mixed-race people bringing claims of racial discrimination in court, illuminating traditional understandings of civil rights law

BARRY C. FELD

A major statement on the juvenile justice system by one of America’s leading experts $28.00 • 392 PAGES PAPER • 9781479871292 In Youth, Crime, and Justice

$26.00 • 244 PAGES PAPER • 9781479806065

LITERARY STUDIES 2020 Special Award - Professional, World Fantasy Con | Finalist, 2020 Creative Nonfiction IGNYTE Award, FIYACO

2021 Barbara Perkins and George Perkins Award, International Society for the Study of Narrative

The Dark Fantastic

Runaway Genres

EBONY ELIZABETH THOMAS

Argues that the slave narrative is a new world literary genre

Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games

The Global Afterlives of Slavery YOGITA GOYAL

“[A] wakeup call to all who $30.00 • 288 PAGES PAPER• 9781479879120

research, teach, or create young adult speculative fiction.”

—Booklist $16.95 • 240 PAGES PAPER • 9781479806072 In Postmillennial Pop

Black Writers Matter

LOOKING TO REFRESH YOUR SYLLABUS?

Edited by WHITNEY FRENCH Foreword by AFUA COOPER

An anthology of AfricanCanadian writers that offers a cross-section of established writers and newcomers to the literary world who tackle contemporary and pressing issues with beautiful, sometimes raw, prose

NYU Press is pleased to offer complimentary desk and exam copies to qualified educators.

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$21.95 • 240 PAGES • PAPER • 9780889776166 Published by University of Regina Press

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AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES MEDIA STUDIES Distributed Blackness

The Content of Our Caricature

African American Cybercultures ANDRÉ BROCK, JR.

African American Comic Art and Political Belonging

An explanation of the digital practices of the Black Internet

REBECCA WANZO

Traces the history of racial caricature and the ways that Black cartoonists have turned this visual grammar on its head

$29.00 • 288 PAGES PAPER • 9781479829965 In Critical Cultural Communication

$29.00 • 256 PAGES PAPER • 9781479889587 In Postmillennial Pop

Race and Media

Racialized Media

The Design, Delivery, and Decoding of Race and Ethnicity

Critical Approaches

Edited by MATTHEW W. HUGHEY & EMMA GONZÁLEZ-LESSER

A foundational collection of essays that demonstrate how to study race and media

Edited by LORI KIDO LOPEZ

How media propagates and challenges racism

$30.00 • 344 PAGES PAPER • 9781479889310

$35.00 • 394 PAGES PAPER • 9781479814558

URBAN STUDIES AN NYU PRESS CLASSIC

A Recipe for Gentrification

From the Ground Up

Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement

Food, Power, and Resistance in the City

LUKE W. COLE & SHEILA R. FOSTER

Edited by ALISON HOPE ALKON,YUKI KATO & JOSHUA SBICCA

A critical look at the movement for environmental justice

How gentrification uproots the urban food landscape, and what activists are doing to resist it

$28.00 • 256 PAGES PAPER • 9780814715376 In Critical America FORTHCOMING

FORTHCOMING

Building a Better Chicago

Race and Community Resistance to Urban Redevelopment TERESA IRENE GONZALES

How local Black and Brown communities can resist gentrification and fight for their interests $30.00 • 224 PAGES PAPER • 9781479814886 In Latina/o Sociology

$35.00 • 384 PAGES PAPER • 9781479811373

South Central Dreams Finding Home and Building Community in South L.A. PIERRETTE HONDAGNEUSOTELO & MANUEL PASTOR

Race, place, and identity in a changing urban America $32.00 • 352 PAGES PAPER • 9781479807970 In Latina/o Sociology

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AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES RELIGION AN NYU PRESS CLASSIC Gold Winner of the 2008 Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Award, Biography Category

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Freedom’s Prophet

The Divided Mind of the Black Church

Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers

Theology, Piety, and Public Witness

RICHARD S. NEWMAN

RAPHAEL G. WARNOCK

Brings to life the inspiring story of one of America’s Black Founding Fathers, featured in the forthcoming documentary

A revealing look at the identity and mission of the Black church $19.95 • 276 PAGES PAPER • 9781479806003 In Religion, Race, and Ethnicity

The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is Our Song

PAPER • 9780814758571

$28.00 • 359 PAGES FORTHCOMING

Life Every Voice and Swing

Soundtrack to a Movement

Black Musicians and Religious Culture in the Jazz Century

African American Islam, Jazz, and Black Internationalism

VAUGHN A. BOOKER

RICHARD BRENT TURNER

Explores the role of jazz celebrities like Ella Fitzgerald, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, and Mary Lou Williams as representatives of African American religion in the twentieth century

Explores how jazz helped propel the rise of African American Islam during the era of global Black liberation $30.00 • 256 PAGES PAPER • 9781479806768

$30.00 • 344 PAGES • PAPER • 9781479890804

C U LT U R E FORTHCOMING

FORTHCOMING

42 Today

Avidly Reads Passages

MICHAEL G. LONG

“What is the value of Black life in America?”

Jackie Robinson and His Legacy Explores Jackie Robinson’s compelling and complicated legacy

MICHELLE D. COMMANDER

$14.95 • 168 PAGES PAPER • 9781479806171

$27.95 • 256 PAGES CLOTH • 9781479805624 A Washington Mews Book

Becoming Human

Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World ZAKIYYAH IMAN JACKSON

Argues that Blackness disrupts our essential ideas of race, gender, and, ultimately, the human $30.00 • 320 PAGES PAPER • 9781479830374 In Sexual Cultures

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A Pledge with a Purpose

Black Sororities and Fraternities and the Fight for Equality GREGORY S. PARKS & MATTHEW W. HUGHEY

Reveals the historical and political significance of “The Divine Nine” Black Greek Letter Organizations $35.00 • 360 PAGES CLOTH • 9781479823277

AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES G R E AT F O R C O U R S E S 2020 Body and Embodiment Best Publication Award, American Sociological Association | Honorable Mention, 2020 Sociology of Sex and Gender Distinguished Book Award, American Sociological Association

2018 Outstanding Academic Title, CHOICE Magazine

Algorithms of Oppression

Fearing the Black Body

How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia SABRING STRINGS

“Strings seeks to illuminate how our current fat phobia is rooted, specifically, in a fear of black women. [She] persuasively shows that ... the link between fatness, racial otherness and, especially, female blackness, looms prominently in the American cultural imagination.”

—Times Literary Supplement

$28.00 • 304 PAGES • PAPER • 9781479831098

Stay Woke

A People’s Guide to Making All Black Lives Matter TEHAMA LOPEZ BUNYASI & CANDIS WATTS SMITH

“This is the essential guide on race, racism, the BLM movement, fighting for racial justice, fighting against racial injustice, and more. I am looking at you, fellow white people! Buy this book and read it. Own it, love it, memorize it, and live it.”—Ms. Magazine $18.95 • 288 PAGES • PAPER • 9781479836482 NEW IN PAPERBACK

Reproducing Racism

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