American Studies 2018 catalog

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AMERICAN STUDIES 2018-2019

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HIGHLIGHTS OLD FUTURES Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility Alexis Lothian Traverses the history of imagined futures from the 1890s to the 2010s, interweaving speculative visions of gender, race, and sexuality from literature, film, and digital media.

COLONIAL PHANTOMS Belonging and Refusal in the Dominican Americas, from the 19th Century to the Present Dixa Ramírez Reveals how Western discourses have ghosted the Dominican Republic since the nineteenth century despite its central place in the architecture of the Americas.

$30.00 • Paper • 352 Pages • 978-1-4798-2585-1 In the Postmillenial Pop Series

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ALGORITHMS OF OPPRESSION How Search Engines Reinforce Racism Safiya Umoja Noble “Demolishes the popular assumption that Google is a values-free tool with no agenda... Noble’s study should prompt some soulsearching about our reliance on commercial search engines and about digital social equity.” —STARRED Booklist

CRIP TIMES Disability, Globalization, and Resistance Robert McRuer “Reveals the centrality of notions of disability to global austerity politics. McRuer has crafted new, original, and dazzling theoretical architectures with which to move forward.”—Jack Halberstam, author of In a Queer Time and Place

$28.00 • Paper • 256 Pages • 978-1-4798-3724-3

GIRLHOOD IN THE BORDERLANDS Mexican Teens Caught in the Crossroads of Migration Lilia Soto “It reveals the hardships and heartaches of lives interrupted, but also the determination and dignity of young women coming of age on both sides of the border.”

—George Lipsitz, author of How Racism Takes Place $30.00 • Paper • 272 Pages • 978-1-4798-6201-6 In the Nation of Nations series

POSTRACIAL RESISTANCE Black Women, Media, and the Uses of Strategic Ambiguity Ralina L. Joseph How Black women in the spotlight negotiate the postracial gaze of Hollywood and beyond $30.00 • Paper • 280 Pages 978-1-4798-8637-1 In the Critical Cultural Communication series

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EMERGENT WORLDS Alternative States in Nineteenth-Century American Culture Edward Sugden Reimagines the American 19th century through a sweeping interdisciplinary engagement with oceans, genres, and time.

$30.00 • Paper • 256 Pages 978-1-4798-8926-6 In the America and the Long 19th Century series

ACTIVIST NEW YORK A History of People, Protest, and Politics Steven H. Jaffe Foreword by Eric Foner “Incontrovertibly establishes New York as ‘the capital city of social activism’ by recounting a litany of provocative flash points.” —New York Times

$40.00 • Cloth • 304 Pages • 978-1-4798-0460-3

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IN THE SEXUAL CULTURES SERIES AFRO-FABULATIONS The Queer Drama of Black Life Tavia Nyong’o “In this prodigious study of performances of the ordinary and the everyday, Tavia Nyong’o expands our horizon of the possible… a dazzling and matchless performance.”

—Saidiya Hartman, author of Lose Your Mother

SENSUAL EXCESS Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance Amber Jamilla Musser “Musser’s attunement to the senses aids in her...juicy framework for pondering brown feminist performance.”

—Uri McMillan, author of Embodied Avatars

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF LATISHA KING A Critical Phenomenology of Transphobia Gayle Salamon “Salamon’s combination of courtroom reportage and phenomenological thinking bends the conventions of academic discourse to witness enmeshed bodies moving in real time space and time.”—Maggie Nelson, author of The Argonauts

AFTER THE PARTY A Manifesto for Queer of Color Life Joshua Chambers-Letson “A treatise and a handbook for queer and trans of color survival. A timely book and an urgent read!”

—C. Riley Snorton, author of Black on Both Sides

$27.00 • Paper • 240 Pages 978-1-4798-3095-4

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QUEER NUNS Religion, Activism, and Serious Parody Melissa M. Wilcox “Wilcox beautifully demonstrates how serious political and social engagement can emerge from queer religious camp.”

—Anthony M. Petro, author of After the Wrath of God

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QUEER TIMES, BLACK FUTURES Kara Keeling Examines futurity, speculation, technology, and their significance to queer and Black dreams of freedom $30.00 • Paper • 288 Pages 978-0-8147-4833-6

$30.00 • Paper • 336 Pages • 978-1-4798-2036-8

Finalist, 2018 Lambda Literary Award, LGBTQ Nonfiction

BLACK PERFORMANCE ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF THE LEFT A History of the Impossible Malik Gaines “Reveals a striking sensitivity to the subtle frequencies on which black performance operates and is an important addition to the expanding black performance studies canon.”

—The Journal of American Drama and Theatre $28.00 • Paper• 248 Pages • 978-1-4798-0430-6

Honorable Mention, William Sanders Scarborough Prize, presented by the Modern Language Association

ARCHIVES OF FLESH African America, Spain, and Post-Humanist Critique Robert F. Reid-Pharr “A bold indictment of the intellectual inflexibility that informs mainstream discourses on Blackness and the politics of difference” —Michelle Wright, author of Physics of Blackness

$28.00 • Paper • 264 Pages • 978-1-4798-4362-6

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AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES BROWN BEAUTY THE DEFIANT Color, Sex, and Race from the Protest Movements in PostHarlem Renaissance to World Liberal America War II Dawson Barrett Laila Haidarali “Can insurgency from below “Introduces us to the tension change American politics? of identity and beauty through The question has never been concepts of advertising more important, and Barrett during a crucial period of the helps us to answer that 20th century... An important question with a penetrating read.” —Deborah Willis, series of case studies.” author of Posing Beauty —Frances Fox Piven, author of Challenging $35.00 • Paper • 368 Pages • 978-1-4798-0208-1 Authority and Poor Peoples’ Movements $24.95 • Cloth • 224 Pages • 978-1-4798-0865-6

FORGING A LABORING RACE The African American Worker in the Progressive Imagination Paul R.D. Lawrie “A stimulating account of the uses of sciences and the state in defining blackness in the services of war and capitalism.” —Canadian Journal of History

$25.00 • Paper • 256 Pages • 978-1-4798-5140-9 In the Culture, Labor, History series

UPENDING THE IVORY TOWER Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Ivy League Stefan M. Bradley “This definitive chronicling of black students organizing, demanding, and sometimes protesting to blacken the exclusively white Ivy League.”

— Ibram X. Kendi, awardwinning author of The Black Campus Movement

$35.00 • Cloth • 480 Pages • 978-1-4798-7399-9

FIGHT THE POWER African Americans and the Long History of Police Brutality in New York City Clarence Taylor “Provides an essential history of the now, showing how current struggles for racial justice have emerged out of a long history of police abuse, protest, and inadequate reforms.”

—Alex Vitale, author of The End of Policing $35.00 • Cloth • 336 Pages • 978-1-4798-6245-0

ABSTRACTIONIST AESTHETICS Artistic Form and Social Critique in African American Culture Phillip Brian Harper “Exposes how our prefabricated notions of blackness dictate our reactions to engage and broaden the places assigned to black Americans.”

—Michael Awkward, University of Michigan

$27.00 • Paper • 256 Pages • 978-1-4798-1836-5 In the NYU Series in Social and Cultural Analysis series

JEWISH STUDIES A ROSENBERG BY ANY OTHER NAME A History of Jewish Name Changing in America Kirsten Fermaglich A groundbreaking history of the practice of Jewish name changing in the 20th century, showcasing just how much is in a name

$28.00 • Cloth • 256 Pages 978-1-4798-6720-2 In the Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History

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JEWISH RADICAL FEMINISM Voices from the Women’s Liberation Movement Joyce Antler “Iconic women navigated their own struggles with multiple identities in their own time, and to recognize the tremendous contributions they made, even from outside the mainstream.” —Forward

$35.00 • Cloth • 464 Pages • 978-0-8147-0763-0 In the Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History

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MUSLIM AND ARAB AMERICAN STUDIES MUSLIM COOL Race, Religion, and Hip Hop in the United States Su’ad Abdul Khabeer “Muslim Cool celebrates the spiritual grounding of hip hop and tries to tease apart its complex relationships with race and religion.”

—The Atlantic

BEING MUSLIM A Cultural History of Women of Color in American Islam Sylvia Chan-Malik “Establishes a new, lasting standard that will redirect future scholarship on race, gender, and transnational Islam.”—Sylvester Johnson, Virginia Tech

$30.00 • Paper • 288 Pages 978-1-4798-9450-5

THE 9/11 GENERATION Youth, Rights, and Solidarity in the War on Terror Sunaina Marr Maira “Begins an important inquiry into what America has become. A must read.”

—Choice

$29.00 • Paper • 288 Pages 978-1-4798-2342-0

Winner of the 2016 Evelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Arab American Book Award

THIS MUSLIM AMERICAN LIFE Dispatches from the War on Terror Moustafa Bayoumi “Chagrined about the treatment of Muslim Americans after 9/11 and still puzzling over even more strenuous anti-Muslim demonstrations since the election of President Barack Obama.” —Kirkus Reviews

$28.00 • Paper • 320 Pages 978-1-4798-8051-5

$19.95 • Paper • 304 Pages • 978-1-4798-3564-5 Instructor’s Guide Available

IMMIGRATION THE NEW IMMIGRANT WHITENESS Race, Neoliberalism, and Post-Soviet Migration to the United States Claudia Sadowski-Smith “Provides a much-needed window into the diverse PostSoviet diaspora and offers a new understanding of how immigrant whiteness and race work today.”—Erika Lee, University of Minnesota

author of Deported

$28.00 • Paper • 224 Pages • 978-1-4798-0671-3 In the Nation of Nations series

$28.00 • Paper • 256 Pages • 978-1-4798-2146-4 In the Latina/o Sociology series

WHITENESS ON THE BORDER Mapping the US Racial Imagination in Brown and White Lee Bebout “Show how whiteness has been made and remade through the construction and policing of a material and imagined brown/white racial border.” —Critical Inquiry

$26.00 • Paper • 304 Pages • 978-1-4798-5853-8 In the Nation of Nations series

IMMIGRANTS UNDER THREAT Risk and Resistance in Deportation Nation Greg Prieto “This book makes it clear that deportability, legal violence, and precarity shape the lives and possibilities of immigrants and their families today.” —Tanya Golash-Boza,

AMERICA, AS SEEN ON TV How Television Shapes Immigrant Expectations around the Globe Clara E. Rodríguez Explores the surprising effects of TV on global viewers and the realities they and US millennials actually experience in the US $28.00 • Paper • 240 Pages 978-1-4798-1852-5

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LATINX STUDIES SUGAR, CIGARS, AND REVOLUTION The Making of Cuban New York Lisandro Pérez “In the 18th century a sugar trade sprang up between New York and Cuba, and with it a Cuban community grew in Gotham. Now Lisandro Pérez’s splendid study offers a full blown portrait.”

—Mike Wallace, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of New York City $35.00 • Cloth • 400 Pages • 978-0-8147-6727-6

GRAFFITI GRRLZ Performing Feminism in the Hip Hop Diaspora Jessica Nydia Pabón-Colón “An impeccably researched study of the grrls who have paved their way into the predominantly male graffiti culture, claiming their own space.”—Street Art NYC $30.00 • Paper • 320 Pages 978-1-4798-9593-9

BEFORE CHICANO Citizenship and the Making of Mexican American Manhood, 1848-1959 Alberto Varon “Groundbreaking, beautifully written literary and intellectual history of Mexican-American manhood illuminates the ways in which Mexican Americans made claims to the public sphere.” —Raúl Coronado, author of A World Not to Come $35.00 • Paper • 336 Pages • 978-1-4798-3119-7 In the America and the Long 19th Century series

SUSPECT FREEDOMS The Racial and Sexual Politics of Cubanidad in New York, 1823-1957 Nancy Raquel Mirabal “Reconstructed 134 years of relatively obscure Cuban presence in New York, a site where race, nationality, and gender have always been far more complex.”

—International Migration Revie

$30.00 • Paper • 320 Pages • 978-0-8147-6112-0 In the Culture, Labor, History series

MOTHERHOOD ACROSS BORDERS Immigrants and Their Children in Mexico and New York Gabrielle Oliveira The stories of Mexican migrant women who parent from afar, and how their transnational families stay together.

$30.00 • Paper • 272 Pages • 978-1-4798-6646-5

Winner, 2017 Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award

FROM DEPORTATION TO PRISON The Politics of Immigration Enforcement in Post-Civil Rights America Patrisia Macías-Rojas “A fascinating and original view of the immigration detention system, based on fieldwork, interviews, and archival research conducted over a 10 year period.” —Susan Bibler Coutin, author of Nation of Emigrants $28.00 • Paper • 240 Pages • 978-1-4798-3118-0 In the Latina/o Sociology series

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Winner, 2018 Peter C. Rollins Book Prize, presented by the Northeast Popular/American Culture Association

DIVERSIÓN Play and Popular Culture in Cuban America Albert Sergio Laguna “Shows that laughter, joshing, and punch lines constitute Cuban culture in its movements around the U.S. and even on return trips to the island.”

—Antonio López, author of Unbecoming Blackness

$30.00 • Paper • 296 Pages • 978-1-4798-4614-6 In the Postmillenial Pop series

CITIZENS BUT NOT AMERICANS Race and Belonging among Latino Millennials Nilda Flores-González “A timely book that captures the racial world that Latino millennials experience in the United States.” —Rogelio Sáenz, co-author of Latinos in the United States

$27.00 • Paper • 208 Pages • 978-1-4798-4077-9 In the Latina/o Sociology series

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ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES

RETURNS OF WAR South Vietnam and the Price of Refugee Memory Long T. Bui “With great nuance, Bui... highlight[s] the passions and ambivalences of Vietnamese as they engage their fraught history.”

—Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer

$30.00 • Paper • 256 Pages • 978-1-4798-7195-7 In the Nation of Nations series

UNNAMABLE The Ends of Asian American Art Susette Min “Min unites critical, curatorial, and historical praxis in this far-ranging account of the necessarily plural, unending encounter with artworks and artists named ‘Asian American.’”

—Sarita Echavez See, author of The Filipino Primitive $30.00 • Paper • 272 Pages • 978-0-8147-6430-5

FACING THE RISING SUN African Americans, Japan, and the Rise of Afro-Asian Solidarity Gerald Horne “Showcases the expansive and imaginative transnational activities, ideology, and agency of U.S. Black political struggle.”—Robeson Taj Frazier, author of The East Is Black

THE FILIPINO PRIMITIVE Accumulation and Resistance in the American Museum Sarita Echavez See Argues that collections of stolen artifacts orm the foundation of American knowledge production $30.00 • Paper • 272 Pages 978-1-4798-2505-9

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STRANGE FRUIT OF THE BLACK PACIFIC Imperialism’s Racial Justice and Its Fugitives Vince Schleitwiler Set between the rise of the U.S. and Japan as Pacific imperial powers in the 1890s and the aftermath of the latter’s defeat in World War II $28.00 • Paper • 288 Pages 978-1-4798-5708-1 In the Nation of Nations series

FILIPINO STUDIES Palimpsests of Nation and Diaspora Edited by Martin F. Manalansan IV and Augusto Espiritu A field-defining collection of vibrant voices, critical perspectives, and provocative ideas about the cultural, political, and economic state of the Philippines and its diaspora $30.00 • Paper • 464 Pages • 978-1-4798-8435-3

DISABILITY STUDIES F O RT H C O M I N G J A N U A RY 2 0 1 9

ACCESSIBLE AMERICA A History of Disability and Design Bess Williamson A history of design that is often overlooked—until we need it $30.00 • Paper • 304 Pages 978-1-4798-9409-3 In the Crip Series

N E W I N PA P E R B A C K

THE SECRET LIFE OF STORIES From Don Quixote to Harry Potter, How Understanding Intellectual Disability Transforms the Way We Read Michael Bérubé “An enjoyable and thoughtprovoking work that will encourage continued engagement with intellectual disability.” —Disability Studies Quarterly $17.00 • Paper • 240 Pages • 978-1-4798-3273-6

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MEDIA STUDIES FORTHCOMING MARCH 2019

VIDEO GAMES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN QUEER Bonnie Ruberg Explores the resonances between queer theory and video games, arguing that experiences of difference and queerness have always been essential to games $30.00 • Paper • 288 Pages 978-1-4798-43749 In the Postmillenial Pop series

PLAYING TO THE CROWD Musicians, Audiences, and the Intimate Work of Connection Nancy K. Baym “A major advance in our understanding of new media, music and audiences.

Through careful ethnographic and historical work, Baym offers a definitive reception history of popular music as it went online.”

—Jonathan Sterne, author of MP3

$29.00 • Paper • 280 Pages • 978-1-4798-2158-7 In the Postmillenial Pop series

THE DIGITAL EDGE How Black and Latino Youth Navigate Digital Inequality S. Craig Watkins with Andres Lombana-Bermudez, Alexander Cho, Vivian Shaw, Jacqueline Ryan Vickery, and Lauren Weinzimmer Examines how the digital and social-media lives of low-income youth, especially youth of color, have evolved amidst rapid social and technological change $26.00 • Paper • 304 Pages • 978-1-4798-4985-7 In the Connected Youth and Digital Futures series

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SOCIAL MEDIA ENTERTAINMENT The New Intersection of Hollywood and Silicon Valley Stuart Cunningham and David Craig How the transformation of social media platforms and user experience have redefined the entertainment industry.

$30.00 • Paper • 368 Pages • 978-1-4798-4689-4 In the Postmillenial Pop Series

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STRUGGLING FOR ORDINARY Media and Transgender Belonging in Everyday Life Andre Cavalcante “A richly detailed account of transgender encounters with the media in a rapidly changing environment... An innovative and unique study.”

—Joshua Gamson, author of Modern Families

$27.00 • Paper • 224 Pages • 978-1-4798-4131-8 In the Critical Cultural Communication series

OPEN TV Innovation beyond Hollywood and the Rise of Web Television Aymar Jean Christian “One of the most remarkable books in television studies in quite some time.”

—Lisa Henderson, author of Love and Money

$30.00 • Paper • 320 Pages

978-1-4798-1597-5 In the Postmillenial Pop series F O RT H C O M I N G J A N U A RY 2 0 1 9

THE IDENTITY TRADE Selling Privacy and Reputation Online Nora A. Draper The successes and failures of an industry that claims to protect and promote our online identities $35.00 • Cloth • 320 Pages 978-1-4798-9565-6 In the Critical Cultural Communication series

ANTISOCIAL MEDIA Anxious Labor in the Digital Economy Greg Goldberg “Smart, perverse, disorienting—Antisocial Media resists a desire for ‘the social’ in pursuit of more surprising, and radical, connections.”—Jackie Orr, author of Panic Diaries

$27.00 • Paper • 224 Pages • 978-1-4798-2190-7 In the Postmillenial Pop series

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SOCIAL SCIENCE THE TRANS GENERATION

How Trans Kids (and Their Parents) are Creating a Gender Revolution Ann Travers “An astounding and essential qualitative study that collects heartfelt, honest anecdotes from a variety of transgender children and their parents.”—Foreword $25.00 • Cloth • 288 Pages 978-1-4798-8579-4

WHITE KIDS

Growing Up with Privilege in a Racially Divided America Margaret A. Hagerman “A terrific book tracing the different trajectories of racial meaning young white children make about themselves and others” — Amy L. Best, author of Fast Food Kids

$30.00 • Cloth • 280 Pages 978-1-4798-0368-2 In the Critical Perspectives on Youth series

NOT GAY Sex between Straight White Men Jane Ward “Defiantly insists that sex between contemporary American straight white men is in fact meaningful sex that can’t—and shouldn’t—just be hand-waved away.” —Hanne Blank, author of Virgin

CLEAN AND WHITE A History of Environmental Racism in the United States Carl A. Zimring This book tells the history of the corrosive idea that whites are clean and those who are not white are dirty $24.00 • Paper • 288 Pages 978-1-4798-7437-8

$25.00 • Paper • 240 Pages 978-1-4798-2517-2 In the Sexual Cultures Series Instructor’s Guide Available

NOW IN PAPERBACK NEW WORLD A-COMING Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration Judith Weisenfeld “This book definitively establishes the plurality of black religious experience and the definitive role religions had in the formation of twentieth-century racial identity.” —Kathryn Lofton, Yale University $23.00 • Paper • 368 Pages • 978-1-4798-6585-7

BEYOND TRANS Does Gender Matter?

Heath Fogg Davis “A necessary voice in current debates about the administration of sex and transgender identity.”

—Los Angeles Review of Books $17.00 • Paper • 208 Pages 978-1-4798-5808-8

WE ARE DATA Algorithms and The Making of Our Digital Selves John Cheney-Lippold “If knowledge is indeed the means by which we can begin to challenge the digital status quo, then Cheney-Lippold has done much to forearm us by so capably elucidating the problem.”

—LSE Review of Books $27.95 • Cloth • 320 Pages • 978-1-4798-5759-3

BY ANY MEDIA NECESSARY The New Youth Activism Henry Jenkins, Sangita Shresthova, Liana GamberThompson, Neta KliglerVilenchik, and Arely Zimmerman “Explores the many different digital strategies and platforms youth use to have their voices heard and their political agendas advanced.”

—Cathy J. Cohen, author of Democracy Remixed $19.00 • Paper • 352 Pages • 978-1-4798-7414-9 In the Connected Youth and Digital Futures series

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GREAT FOR COURSES Winner of the 2016 William Sanders Scarborough Prize, presented by the Modern Language Association Winner of the 2016 Errol Hill Award given by American Society for Theatre Research Winner of the 2016 Barnard Hewitt Award given by American Society for Theatre Research

EMBODIED AVATARS Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance Uri McMillan “Embodied Avatars is certain to forge new paths of inquiry and debate in performance, gender and sexuality studies, and black cultural studies.”

—Nicole R. Fleetwood, author of Troubling Vision

$30.00 • Paper • 320 Pages • 978-1-4798-2746-6 In the Sexual Cultures series

MANIFEST DESTINIES, SECOND EDITION The Making of the Mexican American Race Laura E. Gómez “Gómez dramatizes both the peculiarities of the New Mexican case and its deep importance to understanding the nation’s racial history.”

—David Roediger, author of How Race Survived U.S. History

$26.00 • Paper • 320 Pages • 978-1-4798-9428-4

THE SONIC COLOR LINE Race and the Cultural Politics of Listening Jennifer Lynn Stoever The unheard history of how race and racism are constructed from sound and maintained through the listening ear

$28.00 • Paper • 352 Pages 978-1-4798-8934-1 In the Postmillenial Pop series

FUGITIVE SCIENCE Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture Britt Rusert Exposes the influential work of a group of black artists to confront and refute scientific racism $32.00 • Paper • 320 Pages 978-1-4798-4766-2 In the America and the Long 19th Century series

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Winner of the 2017 Association for the Studies of the Present Book Prize Finalist Mention, 2017 Lora Romero First Book Award, presented by the American Studies Association

THE NEW MUTANTS Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics Ramzi Fawaz “A well-documented study of the political and cultural evolution of American comic books, from the first appearance of Superman in Action Comics in 1938 to the present day. A strong piece of interdisciplinary research...well-argued, clearly written.” —Library Journal $28.00 • Paper • 368 Pages • 978-1-4798-2308-6 In the Postmillenial Pop series Instructor’s Guide Available

CRITICAL RACE THEORY THIRD EDITION An Introduction Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic Foreword by Angela Harris “A must read for those wondering ‘why the fuss?’ about racial justice and a must read for those who think they know. An essential tool for today’s world.”

—Stephanie M. Wildman, Santa Clara University $19.00 • Paper • 224 Pages • 978-1-4798-0276-0 In the Critical America series

ISLAMOPHOBIA AND RACISM IN AMERICA Erik Love “Invaluable for its detailed chronicle of Muslim-American activism and its careful attention to the fascinating complexities, dilemmas, and paradoxes of racial identity.”

—Pacific Standard $28.00 • Paper • 272 Pages 978-1-4798-3807-3

MUST WE DEFEND NAZIS? Why the First Amendment Should Not Protect Hate Speech and White Supremacy Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic “The book’s value is in starting a debate.”

—Choice $14.95 • Paper • 176 Pages 978-1-4798-5783-8

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KEYWORDS

Collaborative in design and execution, the books in the Keywords series bring together scholars across a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Providing accessible A-to-Z surveys of prevailing scholarly concepts, the books serve as flexible tools for carving out new areas of inquiry.

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KEYWORDS FOR LATINA/O STUDIES Edited by Deborah R. Vargas, Nancy Raquel Mirabal, and Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes Reveals the broad range and contestations of the field $27.00 • Paper • 288 Pages 978-1-4798-8330-1

KEYWORDS FOR MEDIA STUDIES Edited by Laurie Ouellette and Jonathan Gray Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and their histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers and questions emerging in the field of media studies $27.00 • Paper • 240 Pages • 978-1-4798-5961-0

KEYWORDS FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES Edited by Erica R. Edwards, Roderick A. Ferguson, and Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar A new vocabulary for African American studies $27.00 • Paper • 272 Pages • 978-1-4798-5489-9

SAMPLES FROM THE TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Abolition Sarah Haley 5. Blackness Fred Moten 9. Civil Rights Quincy T. Mills 11. Colonialism Shona N. Jackson 13. Diaspora Shana L. Redmond 16. Empire Fanon Che Wilkins 19. Gender C. Riley Snorton 20. Hip Hop Damon Sajnani 26. Nadir Michele Mitchell

KEYWORDS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Edited by Joni Adamson, William A. Gleason, and David N. Pellow Analyzes the central terms and debates currently structuring the most exciting research in and across environmental studies. $27.00 • Paper • 240 Pages • 978-0-8147-6083-3

KEYWORDS FOR ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES Edited by Cathy J. SchlundVials, Linda Trinh Võ, and K. Scott Wong Reconsiders and recalibrates the ever-shifting borders of Asian American studies as a distinctly interdisciplinary field $27.00 • Paper • 336 Pages • 978-1-4798-0328-6

31. Performance Stephanie Leigh Batiste 32. Philosophy Lewis R. Gordon 34. Police Bryan Wagner 38. Reconstruction David Roediger 40. Religion LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant 42. Rock Daphne A. Brooks 47. Soul Emily J. Lordi 49. University Ashon Crawley

KEYWORDS FOR DISABILITY STUDIES Edited by Rachel Adams, Benjamin Reiss, and David Serlin Broadens and defines the conceptual framework of disability studies for readers and practitioners in the field and beyond $27.00 • Paper • 288 Pages • 978-1-4798-3952-0

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