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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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