American Studies 2021

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AMERICAN STUDIES 2021

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HIGHLIGHTS THE OTHER SIDE OF TERROR

MISOGYNOIR TRANSFORMED

Black Women and the Culture of US Empire

Black Women’s Digital Resistance

ERICA R. EDWARDS

Where racism and sexism meet—an understanding of antiBlack misogyny

Reveals the troubling intimacy between Black women and the making of US global power $30.00 • 400 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0843-4

MOYA BAILEY

$28.00 • 248 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-6510-9 In Intersections

2021 National Book Award Nominee, Nonfiction

THE BLACK CIVIL WAR SOLDIER A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship

TERRORISM IN AMERICAN MEMORY Memorials, Museums, and Architecture in the Post-9/11 Era

DEBORAH WILLIS

MARITA STURKEN

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

The role of cultural memory in American identity

$35.00 • 256 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-0900-4 In NYU Series in Social and Cultural Analysis

DIGITAL BLACK FEMINISM CATHERINE KNIGHT STEELE

Traces the longstanding relationship between technology and Black feminist thought $27.00 • 208 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0838-0 In Critical Cultural Communication

THE INTIMACIES OF CONFLICT Cultural Memory and the Korean War

DANIEL Y. KIM

$29.00 • Paper 978-1-4798-1168-7 Coming January 2022

BLACK AGE Oceanic Lifespans and the Time of Black Life HABIBA IBRAHIM

A view of transatlantic slavery’s afterlife and modern Blackness through the lens of age $28.00 • 272 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-1089-5

KEEPING IT UNREAL Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics DARIECK SCOTT

Enables a reckoning with the legacy of the Forgotten War through literary and cinematic works of cultural memory

Explores Black representation in fantasy genres and comic books

$29.00 • 336 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0536-5

Coming January 2022

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$29.00 • Paper 978-1-4798-2414-4

AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES Winner, 2021 Harry Levin Prize, presented by the American Comparative Literature Association, Finalist, 2021 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Studies

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 • 978-1-4798-3037-4 In Sexual Cultures

Winner, 2021 Katherine Singer Kovács Book Award Winner, 2021 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards for Best Academic/ Scholarly Work

CONTENT OF OUR CARICATURE African American Comic Art and Political Belonging REBECCA WANZO

Traces the history of racial caricature and the ways that Black cartoonists have turned this visual grammar on its head $29.00 • 256 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-8958-7 In Postmillennial Pop

SOUNDTRACK TO A MOVEMENT

DISABILITIES OF THE COLOR LINE

African American Islam, Jazz, and Black Internationalism

Redressing Antiblackness from Slavery to the Present

RICHARD BRENT TURNER

DENNIS TYLER

Explores how jazz helped propel the rise of African American Islam during the era of global Black liberation

Reveals how disability and disablement have shaped Black social life in America

$30.00 • 256 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0676-8

$30.00 • 336 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-3112-8 In Crip Coming February 2022 Winner, 2019 Anna Julia Cooper and C.L.R. James Award, presented by the National Council for Black Studies

THE DIVIDED MIND OF THE BLACK CHURCH

UPENDING THE IVORY TOWER

Theology, Piety, and Public Witness

Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Ivy League

RAPHAEL G. WARNOCK

A revealing look at the identity and mission of the black church by now Senator Warnock $19.95 • 276 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0600-3 In Religion, Race, and Ethnicity New in Paperback

STEFAN M. BRADLEY The inspiring story of the black students, faculty, and administrators who forever changed America’s leading educational institutions and paved the way for social justice and racial progress

$35.00 • 480 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0602-7 Coming Soon in Paperback

THE UNTOLD STORY OF SHIELDS GREEN

THE COLOR OF CRIME, THIRD EDITION

The Life and Death of a Harper’s Ferry Raider LOUIS A. DECARO, JR.

Racial Hoaxes, White Crime, Media Messages, Police Violence, and Other Race-Based Harms

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

How we can understand race, crime, and punishment in the age of Black Lives Matter

$28.00 • 248 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-0275-3

$29.00 • 256 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-4315-2

KATHERYN RUSSELL-BROWN

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KEYWORDS SERIES KEYWORDS FOR GENDER AND SEXUALITY STUDIES Edited by THE KEYWORDS FEMINIST EDITORIAL COLLECTIVE

Introduces key terms, debates, and histories for feminist studies in gender and sexuality $28.00 • Paper 978-1-4798-0815-1

KEYWORDS FOR AMERICAN CULTURAL STUDIES, THIRD EDITION Edited by BRUCE BURGETT and GLENN HENDLER Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and histories for American Studies and Cultural Studies in an updated edition

$28.00 • 360 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-2294-2

KEYWORDS FOR COMICS STUDIES Edited by RAMZI FAWAZ, DEBORAH WHALEY and SHELLEY STREEBY

Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers emerging in the field of comics studies $28.00 • 288 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-3196-8

KEYWORDS FOR CHILDREN’S LITERATURE, SECOND EDITION Edited by PHILIP NEL, LISSA PAUL and NINA CHRISTENSEN Introduces key terms, global concepts, debates, and histories for Children’s Literature in an updated edition $28.00 • 272 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-9967-8

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L AT I N X THE QUEER NUYORICAN Racialized Sexualities and Aesthetics in Loisaida

LATCRIT From Critical Legal Theory to Academic Activism FRANCISCO VALDES and

KAREN JAIME

STEVEN W. BENDER

A queer genealogy of the famous performance space and the nuyorican aesthetic

Examines LatCrit’s emergence as a scholarly and activist community within and beyond the US legal academy

$28.00 • Paper 978-1-4798-0829-8 In Performance and American Cultures

$27.00 • 216 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0930-1

LATINO TV A History MARY BELTRÁN

The history of Latina/o participation and representation in American television $30.00 • 272 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-3389-4 In Critical Cultural Communication

CRITICAL DIALOGUES IN LATINX STUDIES A Reader Edited by ANA Y. RAMOS-ZAYAS and MÉRIDA M. RÚA Introduces new approaches, theoretical trends, and understudied topics in Latinx Studies $45.00 • Paper 978-1-4798-0521-1

AV I D L Y R E A D S AVIDLY READS OPERA ALISON KINNEY

“Opera is community, comfort, art, voice, breath, life. It’s hope.” $14.95 • 416 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-1173-1

AVIDLY READS GUILTY PLEASURES ARIELLE ZIBRAK

“My guilty pleasure wasn’t just reading low-brow fiction or even female-authored fiction, it was being femme itself.” $14.95 • 176 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0709-3

AVIDLY READS PASSAGES

AVIDLY READS MAKING OUT

MICHELLE D. COMMANDER

KATHRYN BOND STOCKTON

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

“Here’s the thing with kissing: it matters intensely or not at all.”

$14.95 • 160 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0617-1

$14.95 • 176 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-4327-5

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MEDIA STUDIES BORDER OPTICS

RACE AND MEDIA

Surveillance Cultures on the USMexico Frontier

Edited by LORI KIDO LOPEZ A foundational collection of essays that demonstrate how to study race and media

CAMILLA FOJAS

Examines how the US-Mexico border is seen through visual codes of surveillance $28.00 • 208 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0701-7 In Critical Cultural Communication

$30.00 • 344 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-8931-0 In Critical Cultural Communication

COMICS AND STUFF

PAIN GENERATION

HENRY JENKINS

Social Media, Feminist Activism, and the Neoliberal Selfie

Considers how comics display our everyday stuff—junk drawers, bookshelves, attics—as a way into understanding how we represent ourselves now $32.00 • 352 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0093-3

HORRIBLE WHITE PEOPLE Gender, Genre, and Television’s Precarious Whiteness TAYLOR NYGAARD and JORIE LAGERWEY

Examines the bleak television comedies that illustrate the obsession of the white left with its own anxiety and suffering

L. AYU SARASWATI

Explores the perils and promise of feminist social media activism $28.00 • 224 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0833-5

Winner, 2020 World Fantasy Awards

THE DARK FANTASTIC Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games

EBONY ELIZABETH THOMAS

Reveals the diversity crisis in children’s and young adult media as not only a lack of representation, but a lack of imagination

$30.00 • 272 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0535-8

$16.95 • 240 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0607-2 In Postmillennial Pop

DISLIKE-MINDED

OPEN WORLD EMPIRE

Media, Audiences, and the Dynamics of Taste

Race, Erotics, and the Global Rise of Video Games

JONATHAN GRAY

CHRISTOPHER B. PATTERSON

Explains why audiences dislike certain media and what happens when they do

Seeking ways to understand video games beyond their imperial logics, Patterson turns to erotics to reinvigorate the potential passions and pleasures of play

$29.00 • 272 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0998-1

$35.00 • 344 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-9590-8 In Postmillennial Pop GET 30% OFF AND FREE SHIPPING* WITH COUPON AMSA21-FM

HISTORY HAITI’S PAPER WAR Post-Independence Writing, Civil War, and the Making of the Republic, 1804–1954 CHELSEA STIEBER

Turns to the written record to re-examine the building blocks of a nation $30.00 • 380 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0215-9 In America and the Long 19th Century

PRESUMED CRIMINAL 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 $19.95 • 256 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0675-1

MUTINY ON THE RISING SUN A Tragic Tale of Slavery, Smuggling, and Chocolate JARED ROSS HARDESTY

A little-known story of mutiny and murder illustrating the centrality of smuggling and slavery in early American society $35.00 • 280 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-1248-6

POCAHONTAS AND THE ENGLISH BOYS Caught between Cultures in Early Virginia KAREN ORDAHL KUPPERMAN

The captivating story of four young people—English and Powhatan—who lived their lives between cultures $15.95 • 240 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0598-3 Coming Soon in Paperback Winner, 2020 Herbert H. Lehman Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in New York History

THE BATTLE OF NEGRO FORT

SUGAR CIGARS AND REVOLUTION

The Rise and Fall of a Fugitive Slave Community

The Making of Cuban New York

MATTHEW J. CLAVIN

The dramatic story of the origins of the Cuban community in nineteenth-century New York.

The dramatic story of the United States’ destruction of a free and independent community of fugitive slaves in Spanish Florida

LISANDRO PÉREZ

$24.00 • 400 Pages Paper • 978-0-8147-6728-3

$14.95 • 272 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-1110-6 Coming Soon in Paperback

PORTRAITS OF RACIAL JUSTICE Americans Who Tell the Truth ROBERT SHETTERLY

A vivid portrait collection of past and present Americans speaking truth to power $34.95• 128 Pages Cloth • 978-1-6133-2163-8 Published by New Village Press

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GENDER AND SEXUALITY Winner, 2021 Glenda Laws Award presented by the American Association of Geographers

HETEROSEXUAL HISTORIES Edited by REBECCA L. DAVIS and MICHELE MITCHELL

A QUEER NEW YORK Geographies of Lesbians, Dykes, and Queers JEN JACK GIESEKING

The history of heterosexuality in North America across four centuries

The first lesbian and queer historical geography of New York City

$35.00 • 424 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0228-9

$30.00 • 336 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-3573-7

Winner, 2021 PROSE Award for the Cultural Anthropology & Sociology Category presented by the Association of American Publishers

THE TRAGEDY OF HETEROSEXUALITY JANE WARD

A troubling account of heterosexual desire in the era of #MeToo

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$26.95 • 216 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-5155-3 In Sexual Cultures

SOCIAL SCIENCE REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS AS HUMAN RIGHTS Women of Color and the Fight for Reproductive Justice ZAKIYA LUNA

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

SOUTH CENTRAL DREAMS Finding Home and Building Community in South L.A. PIERRETTE HONDAGNEUSOTELO and MANUEL PASTOR Race, place, and identity in a changing urban America

$32.00 • 368 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0797-0 In Latina/o Sociology

$35.00 • 312 pages Paper • 978-1-4798-3129-6

UNCOUNTED The Crisis of Voter Suppression in America GILDA R. DANIELS

An answer to the assault on voting rights—crucial reading in light of the 2020 presidential election $16.95 • 272 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-1198-4 Coming Soon in Paperback GET 30% OFF AND FREE SHIPPING* WITH COUPON AMSA21-FM

FIGHT THE POWER African Americans and the Long History of Police Brutality in New York City CLARENCE TAYLOR

A story of resistance, power and politics as revealed through New York City’s complex history of police brutality $35.00 • 336 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-1108-3 New in Paperback

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