NEW AND FORTHCOMING TITLES IN
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HIGHLIGHTS THE UNINTENDED
NORMPORN
Photography, Property, and the Aesthetics of Racial Capitalism Monica Huerta
Queer Viewers and the TV That Soothes Us Karen Tongson An irreverent look at the love-hate relationship between queer viewers and mainstream family TV shows like Gilmore Girls and This Is Us
Reimagines photography through the long history of ideas of expression
328 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479812400
In America and the Long 19th Century
216 PP | PAPER | $19.95 9781479846511
BAYARD RUSTIN
CRIP AUTHORSHIP
A Legacy of Protest and Politics Edited by Michael G. Long
Disability as Method Edited by Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez
Celebrates the life and legacy of Bayard Rustin, the civil rights leader behind the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
An expansive volume presenting crip approaches to writing, research, and publishing
256 PP | CLOTH | $27.95 9781479818495
384 PP | PAPER | $35 9781479819362
THE GARDEN POLITIC
SEXUALITY BEYOND CONSENT
Global Plants and Botanical Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century America Mary Kuhn
Risk, Race, Traumatophilia Avgi Saketopoulou Radical alternatives to consent and trauma
How new botanical ideas enabled Americans to radically re-envision politics and society 272 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479820153
In America and the Long 19th Century
In Sexual Cultures 272 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479820252
GOOD EATS
BROWN AND GAY IN LA
32 Writers on Eating Ethically Edited by Jennifer CognardBlack and Melissa A. Goldthwaite
The Lives of Immigrant Sons Anthony Christian Ocampo The stories of secondgeneration immigrant gay men coming of age in Los Angeles.
A collection of insightful and personal essays on the role of food in our lives 376 PP | PAPER | $32 9781479821792
In Postmillennial Pop
176 PP | PAPER | $15.95 9781479898138
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In Asian American Sociology
MINORITARIAN AESTHETICS FOR PLEASURE
DEADPAN
The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression Tina Post
Race, Experimentalism, and Aesthetics Rachel Jane Carroll
Explores expressionlessness, inscrutability, and emotional withholding in Black cultural production
Argues that aesthetic pleasure plays a key role in both racial practices and struggles against racist domination
280 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479811212
288 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479826735
POSTMILLENNIAL POP SERIES UNBELONGING
SONIC SOVEREIGNTY
Inauthentic Sounds in Mexican and Latinx Aesthetics Iván A. Ramos
Hip Hop, Indigeneity, and Shifting Popular Music Mainstreams Liz Przybylski
How Latinx artists engage in sonic subcultures to reject neoliberal definitions of belonging
240 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479808465
What does sovereignty sound like?
328 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479816927
STYLE
THE PRIVILEGE OF PLAY
A Queer Cosmology Taylor Black
A History of Hobby Games, Race, and Geek Culture Aaron Trammell
Assembles texts, performances and personae from American culture to argue the elemental nature of style
304 PP | PAPER | $35 9781479825004
The story of white masculinity in geek culture through a history of hobby gaming 240 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479818402
THE REVOLUTION WILL BE HILARIOUS
DIGITAL MASQUERADE
Feminist Rights and Queer Media in China Jia Tan
Comedy for Social Change and Civic Power Caty Borum
Charts a new wave of feminist and queer media activism in post-millennial China
An insider’s look at the power of comedy to effect social change 280 PP | CLOTH | $30 9781479810833
208 PP | PAPER | $28 9781479811847
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GENDER AND SEXUALITY COLORING INTO EXISTENCE
QUEER CHILDHOODS
Queer of Color Worldmaking in Children’s Literature Isabel Millán
Institutional Futures of Indigeneity, Race, and Disability Mary Zaborskis
Argues that queer picture books with main characters of color can disrupt structures of power in both literature and real life 352 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479816989
Explores how institutional management of children’s sexualities in boarding schools affected children’s future. 320 PP | PAPER | $32 9781479813896
THE TWO REVOLUTIONS
THE SEX OBSESSION
A History of the Transgender Internet Avery Dame-Griff
Perversity and Possibility in American Politics Janet R. Jakobsen
The internet origins of the American transgender movement
Offers a way to undo the inextricable American knot of sex, politics, religion, and power
In Queer / Trans / Digital 272 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479818310
304 PP | PAPER | $23 9781479856916
KEEPING IT UNREAL
Queer Aesthetics in New York City Shanté Paradigm Smalls
Explores Black representation in fantasy genres and comic books
An examination of the relationship between blackness, queerness, and hip hop in New York City from 1975 to present
In Sexual Cultures 280 PP | PAPER | $29 9781479824144
In Sexual Cultures
HIP HOP HERESIES
Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics Darieck Scott
216 PP | PAPER | $28 9781479808205
MALE FEMININITIES
In Postmillennial Pop
QUEER FORMS
Ramzi Fawaz
Edited by Dana Berkowitz, Elroi J. Windsor, and C. Winter Han
How do we represent the experience of being a gender and sexual outlaw?
Innovative essays that explore how men perform femininity and what femininity looks like without women 408 PP | PAPER | $35 9781479808786
In Sexual Cultures
464 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479820733
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CRIP SIGNS OF DISABILITY
FALLING, FLOATING, FLICKERING
Stephanie L. Kerschbaum
Disability and Differential Movement in African Diasporic Performance Hershini Bhana Young
An exploration of the relationship between disability, story, and perception
248 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479811168
Insists on the importance of embodiment and movement to the creation of Black sociality 320 PP | PAPER | $32 9781479818457
DISTRESSING LANGUAGE
DISABILITIES OF THE COLOR LINE
Disability and the Poetics of Error Michael Davidson
Redressing Antiblackness from Slavery to the Present Dennis Tyler
The role of disability and deafness in art
Reveals how disability and disablement have shaped Black social life in America
248 PP | PAPER | $29 9781479813841
336 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479831128
CRITICAL CULTURAL COMMUNICATION DIGITAL UNSETTLING
THE DIGITAL BORDER
Decoloniality and Dispossession in the Age of Social Media Sahana Udupa and Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan
Migration, Technology, Power Lilie Chouliaraki and Myria Georgiou Explores the role of technologies and platforms in the transformation of the border
How digital networks are positioned within the enduring structures of coloniality 264 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479819157
256 PP | PAPER | $29 9781479873401
CHINESE CREATOR ECONOMIES
DIGITAL BLACK FEMINISM
Labor and Bilateral Creative Workers Jian Lin
Catherine Knight Steele
Winner, 2022 Nancy Baym Book Award
The paradoxical relationship between Chinese creative workers and the state
240 PP | PAPER | $28 9781479811885
Traces the longstanding relationship between technology and Black feminist thought 208 PP | PAPER | $27 9781479808380
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AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES BLACK PATIENCE
BLACK EPHEMERA
Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation Julius B. Fleming Jr.
The Crisis and Challenge of the Musical Archive Mark Anthony Neal
A framework for understanding the deep archive of Black performance in the digital era
A bold rethinking of the Civil Rights Movement through the lens of Black theater
312 PP | PAPER | $29 9781479806843
In Performance and American Cultures
232 PP | PAPER | $27 9781479806904
BLACK AGE
DARK AGORAS
Oceanic Lifespans and the Time of Black Life Habiba Ibrahim
Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place J. T. Roane
A view of transatlantic slavery’s afterlife and modern Blackness through the lens of age
A history of Black urban placemaking and politics in Philadelphia from the Great Migration to the era of Black Power
272 PP | PAPER | $28 9781479810895
312 PP | PAPER | $24 9781479831029
THE TUSKEGEE STUDENT UPRISING
BLACK AND QUEER ON CAMPUS
Michael P. Jeffries
A History Brian Jones
An inside look at Black LGBTQ college students and their experiences
The untold story of a dynamic student movement on one of the nation’s most important historically Black campuses 264 PP | PAPER | $22 9781479831043
In Black Power
288 PP | PAPER | $26 9781479803941
THE OTHER SIDE OF TERROR
400 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479808434
NETWORKING THE BLACK CHURCH
Black Women and the Culture of US Empire Erica R. Edwards
Digital Black Christians and Hip Hop Erika D. Gault
Reveals the troubling intimacy between Black women and the making of US global power
Provides a timely portrait of young Black Christians and how digital technology is transforming the Black Church 312 PP | PAPER | $35 9781479805822
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In Religion and Social Transformation
AVIDLY AVIDLY READS SCREEN TIME
AVIDLY READS POETRY
Phillip Maciak
Jacquelyn Ardam
What happens when screen time is all the time?
Why are more Americans are reading poetry in the 21st-century than ever before?
168 PP | PAPER | $14.95 9781479820573
176 PP | PAPER | $14.95 9781479813582
HISTORY WASHINGTON STATE RISING
THE HOUSE ON G STREET
Black Power on Campus in the Pacific Northwest Marc Arsell Robinson
A Cuban Family Saga Lisandro Pérez
The unforgettable story of a family swept into history by the Cuban Revolution
Documents the origins, actions, and impacts of the Black Student Union in the state of Washington during the tumultuous late 1960s 224 PP | CLOTH | $28 9781479810406
In Black Power
344 PP | CLOTH | $30 9781479824625
SYMBOLS OF FREEDOM
JEWS ACROSS THE AMERICAS
Slavery and Resistance Before the Civil War Matthew J. Clavin
Jews Across the Americas Edited by Adriana M. Brodsky and Laura Arnold Leibman
552 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479819324
An overview of the history of American Jewry using primary sources from Latin America, the Caribbean, Canada, and the United States In Goldstein-Goren Series
How American symbols inspired enslaved people and allies to fight for true freedom
288 PP | CLOTH | $29.95 9781479823246
FREE TIME
FORGED IN AMERICA
The History of an Elusive Ideal Gary S. Cross
How Irish-Jewish Encounters Shaped a Nation Edited by Hasia R. Diner and Miriam Nyhan Grey
The history of leisure time, from the earliest societies to the work-from-home era
Examines how Irish and Jewish Americans defined their place in a complex society 352 PP | CLOTH | $35 9781479813070
288 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479826070
In Goldstein-Goren Series
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KEYWORDS KEYWORDS FOR HEALTH HUMANITIES
280 PP | PAPER | $29 9781479808106
KEYWORDS FOR GENDER AND SEXUALITY STUDIES
Edited by Sari Altschuler, Jonathan M. Metzl and Priscilla Wald
Edited by The Keywords Feminist Editorial Collective
Introduces key concepts and debates in health humanities and the health professions
Introduces key terms, debates, and histories for feminist studies in gender and sexuality
312 PP | PAPER | $28 9781479808151
KEYWORDS FOR COMICS STUDIES
KEYWORDS FOR CHILDREN’S LITERATURE, SECOND EDITION
Edited by Ramzi Fawaz, Deborah Whaley, and Shelley Streeby
288 PP | PAPER | $28 9781479831968
Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers emerging in the field of comics studies
Edited by Philip Nel, Lissa Paul, and Nina Christensen
272 PP | PAPER | $28 9781479899678
KEYWORDS FOR AMERICAN CULTURAL STUDIES, 3E
KEYWORDS FOR A.A STUDIES
Edited by Erica R. Edwards, Roderick A. Ferguson, and Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar
Edited by Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler
360 PP | PAPER | $28 9781479822942
A timely, wide-ranging, expanded, and updated vocabulary for American Cultural Studies
Introduces key terms, interdisciplinary research, debates, and histories for African American Studies 272 PP | PAPER | $28 9781479854899
KEYWORDS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
KEYWORDS FOR ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES
Edited by Joni Adamson, William A. Gleason, and David Pellow
240 PP | PAPER | $28 9780814760833
Introduces key terms, quantitative and qualitative research, debates, and histories for Environmental and Nature Studies
An updated vocabulary for children’s literature and culture
292 PP | PAPER | $28 9781479803286
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Edited by Cathy J. SchlundVials, K. Scott Wong, and Linda Trinh Võ Introduces key terms, research frameworks, debates, and histories for Asian American Studies
GREAT FOR COURSES BECOMING HUMAN
BROKEN
The Failed Promise of Muslim Inclusion Evelyn Alsultany
Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World Zakiyyah Iman Jackson
How diversity initiatives end up marginalizing Arab and Muslim Americans
Argues that Blackness disrupts our essential ideas of race, gender, and, ultimately, the human In Sexual Cultures 320 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479830374
320 PP | PAPER | $19.95 9781479805136
CRUISING UTOPIA, 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
INSIDE KNOWLEDGE
Incarcerated People on the Failures of the American Prison Doran Larson
The Then and There of Queer Futurity José Esteban Muñoz
280 PP | PAPER | $28 9781479874569
A 10th anniversary edition of this field defining work— an intellectual inspiration for a generation of LGBTQ scholars In Sexual Cultures
A powerful critique of mass incarceration by the people who have experienced it
328 PG | PAPER | $30 9781479818051
TIMES SQUARE RED, TIMES SQUARE BLUE
THE QUEER NUYORICAN
Racialized Sexualities and Aesthetics in Loisaida Karen Jaime
Samuel R. Delany
Twentieth anniversary edition of a landmark book that cataloged a vibrant but disappearing neighborhood in New York City 240 PP | PAPER | $25 9781479827770
In Sexual Cultures
A queer genealogy of the famous performance space and the nuyorican aesthetic In Performance and American Cultures 224 PP | PAPER | $28 9781479808298
THE DARK FANTASTIC
INDIGENOUS MEMORY, URBAN REALITY
Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
Stories of American Indian Relocation and Reclamation Michelle R. Jacobs
Reveals the diversity crisis in children’s and young adult media as not only a lack of representation, but a lack of imagination 240 PP | PAPER | $20 9781479806072
In Postmillennial Pop
Contemporary accounts of urban Native identity in two pan-Indian communities 304 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479849123
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MONTHLY REVIEW PRESS WASHINGTON BULLETS
¡BRIGADISTAS!
Essays on acts of US imperialism, from the 1953 Iran coup to the 2019 ouster of Evo Morales
A graphic history featuring the true story of three friends from Brooklyn who join in the global fight against fascism
An American Anti-Fascist in the Spanish Civil War Written by Miguel Ferguson and illustrated by Anne Timmons.
A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations Vijay Prashad
162 PP | PAPER | $17 9781583679067
120 PP | PAPER | $18 9781583679609
UNIVERSITY OF REGINA PRESS TRICKSTER TALES AND THE STORIES OF CHIEF THUNDERCHILD
Speaking Cree in the Home A Beginner’s Guide for Families Andrea Custer and Belinda Daniels
Canon Edward Ahenakew Edited by Heather Hodgson
The second volume in the series collects the stories recited by Chief Thunderchild 184 PP | PAPER | $22.95 9780889779563
122 PP | PAPER | $16.95 9780889779006
IN MY OWN MOCCASINS
THE EDUCATION OF AUGIE MERASTY
A Memoir of Resilience Helen Knott
A Residential School Memoir - New Edition Joseph Auguste (Augie) Merasty
A young Indigenous woman struggles to build a meaningful life while dealing with various traumas 304 PP | PAPER | $18.95 9780889777316
A hands-on guide for families to develop best practices in revitalizing and teaching Cree to young children
112 PP | PAPER | $14.95 9780889778825
The harrowing story of one Indigenous child’s experience in Canada’s residential schools
UNIVERSITY OF GUAM PRESS JUANIT
CHAMORU LEGENDS
Chris Perez Howard
A Gathering of Stories Teresita Lourdes Perez with CHamoru translations by Maria Ana Tenorio Rivera
A novel of identity, belonging and the search for acceptance
Illustrated retellings of tales from the indigenous people of Guam 294 PP | PAPER | $15 9781935198758
188 PP | PAPER | $25 9781878453334
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NEW VILLAGE PRESS IN THE STRUGGLE
MEETING THE MOMENT
Scholars and the Fight against Industrial Agribusiness in California Daniel J. O’Connell and Scott J. Peters
Socially Engaged Performance, 1965–2020, by Those Who Lived It Jan Cohen-Cruz and Rad Pereira
A call to action in an ongoing battle against industrial agriculture
368 PP | PAPER | $24.95 9781613321225
Socially engaged theater makers and performers discuss the challenges and potentialities of their work 320 PP | PAPER | $26.95 9781613321546
INHERITED SILENCE
PORTRAITS OF RACIAL JUSTICE
Americans Who Tell the Truth Robert Shetterly
Listening to the Land, Healing the Colonizer Mind Louise Dunlap
A vivid portrait collection of past and present Americans speaking truth to power
An insightful look at the historical damages early colonizers of America caused
128 PP | CLOTH | $34.95 9781613321638
240 PP | PAPER | $22.95 9781613321706
IN THE CAMP OF ANGELS OF FREEDOM
THE BOOK OF JUDITH
What Does It Mean to Be Educated? Arlene Goldbard
224 PP | PAPER | $34.95 9781613321980
An autodidact explores issues of education itself through essays and personal portraits of the key minds who influenced her
224 PP | PAPER | $19.95 9781613321744
Opening Hearts Through Poetry Edited by Spoon Jackson, Mark Foss, and Sara Press An homage to the life of poet, writer, and teaching artist Judith Tannenbaum and her impact on incarcerated and marginalized students
WITS UNIVERSITY PRESS AND WROTE MY STORY ANYWAY
I WRITE THE YAWNING VOID
Black South African women’s novels as feminism Barbara Boswell
Selected essays of Sindiwe Magona Sindiwe Magona Compiled by Renée Schatteman
Critically examines influential novels in English by eminent Black female writers 264 PP | PAPER | $30 9781776146185
Essays that addresses themes such as HIV/Aids, language and culture, home and belonging 328 PP | PAPER | $30 9781776148189
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