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HIGHLIGHTS CRITICAL DIALOGUES IN LATINX STUDIES

THE MOVEMENT FOR REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE

A Reader

Edited by ANA RAMOS-ZAYAS and MÉRIDA RÚA

Empowering Women of Color through Social Activism

Introduces new approaches, theoretical trends, and understudied topics in Latinx Studies

592 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-4798-0521-1 • $45.00

PATRICIA ZAVELLA

Shows how reproductive justice organizations’ collaborative work across racial lines provides a model for other groups to successfully influence change 320 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-4798-1270-7 • $32.00 In Social Transformations in American Anthropology

THE TROUBLE WITH SNACK TIME

SPACES OF SECURITY

Ethnographies of Securityscapes, Surveillance, and Control

Children’s Food and the Politics of Parenting

Edited by SETHA LOW and MARK MAGUIRE

JENNIFER PATICO

Explores the tensions between parents’ concerns about their children’s food and their liberal politics 256 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-4598-9 • $30.00

“Shows brilliantly how the concern with security both excludes and includes, exacerbating existing racial, gendered, and economic inequalities.”—Sally Engle Merry, New York University 280 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-4798-7006-6 • $32.00

FREEZING FERTILITY

FRONT OF THE HOUSE, BACK OF THE HOUSE

Oocyte Cryopreservation and the Gender Politics of Aging LUCY VAN DE WIEL

Race and Inequality in the Lives of Restaurant Workers

Analyzes how the possibility of egg freezing changes what it means to be fertile and to age in the 21st century 368 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-1790-0 • $35.00 In Biopolitics

ELI REVELLE YANO WILSON

How workers navigate race, gender, and class in the food service industry

224 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-4798-0062-9 • $28.00 In Latina/o Sociology

LIFEBLOOD OF THE PARISH

THE KIDS ARE IN CHARGE

Men and Catholic Devotion in Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Activism and Power in Peru’s Movement of Working Children

ALYSSA MALDONADOESTRADA

JESSICA K. TAFT

“A powerful account of children refusing to settle for a hierarchical, paternalistic status quo.”—Allison J. Pugh, author of The Tumbleweed Society

A New York City ethnography that explores men’s unique approaches to Catholic devotion 304 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-4798-3049-7 • $32.00 In North American Religions

272 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-4798-5450-9 • $30.00 In Critical Perspectives on Youth

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ANTHROPOLOGIES OF AMERICAN MEDICINE Finalist, 2020 PROSE Award in the Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology category, Association of American Publishers | Honorable Mention, 2020 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing

REPRODUCTIVE INJUSTICE

Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth DÁNA-AIN DAVIS

Reveals how medical racism contributes to premature and low birth weight outcomes for black women

272 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-4798-5357-1 • $30.00 In Anthropologies of American Medicine

ADVERSE EVENTS

Race, Inequality, and the Testing of New Pharmaceuticals

WAR AND HEALTH

The Medical Consequences of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan Edited by CATHERINE LUTZ and ANDREA MAZZARINO

“Clearly and powerfully conveys the complex and multifaceted impacts of the US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq on health.”—Janelle Taylor, University of Washington 288 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-4798-9461-1 • $30.00 In Anthropologies of American Medicine

LIVING ON THE SPECTRUM

Autism and Youth in Community

JILL A. FISHER

ELIZABETH FEIN

An unprecedented exploration of the intersection between US racial inequalities and pharmaceutical testing

Explores how youth on the spectrum negotiate the contested meanings of neurodiversity

336 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-6216-0 • $30.00 In Anthropologies of American Medicine

THE NEW AMERICAN SERVITUDE

304 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-8906-8 • $30.00 In Anthropologies of American Medicine

INEQUALITIES OF AGING

Political Belonging among African Immigrant Home Care Workers

Paradoxes of Independence in American Home Care

CATI COE

“A brilliantly told story of precarious and unequal lives.”

—Carol Stack, author of Call to Home

Examines why African care workers feel politically excluded from the United States

304 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-4798-0883-0 • $32.00 In Anthropologies of American Medicine

ELANA D. BUCH

288 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-4798-0717-8 • $30.00 In Anthropologies of American Medicine

THE ANTHROPOLOGIES OF AMERICAN MEDICINE: CULTURE, POWER, AND PRACTICE SERIES This series features US-based ethnographic research into the relations between health, culture, power and knowledge. While focused on the US, the series also explores the place of US institutions in the world-wide reach of biomedicine through migration, transnationalism, corporate influence and other global processes.

GENERAL EDITORS

Paul Brodwin | Professor of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Michele Rivkin-Fish | Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Susan Shaw | Associate Professor of Community Health Education, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

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RELIGION MUSLIM AMERICAN CITY

ARK ENCOUNTER

The Making of a Creationist Theme Park

Gender and Religion in Metro Detroit

JAMES S. BIELO

“Because each chapter deals with a discrete aspect of Ark Encounter’s project and engages different bodies of literature, it is ideal for classroom use.”

—American Ethnologist

ALISA PERKINS

Explores how Muslim Americans test the boundaries of American pluralism 256 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-4598-9 • $30.00

240 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-4798-4279-7 • $28.00

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WOMEN IN BUDDHIST TRADITIONS

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THEORY OF WOMEN IN RELIGIONS

KARMA LEKSHE TSOMO

CATHERINE WESSINGER

A new history of Buddhism that highlights the insights and experiences of women from diverse communities and traditions around the world

An introduction to the study of women in diverse religious cultures 224 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-0946-2 • $22.00 In Women in Religions • Instructor’s Guide and Additional Resources Available

224 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-0342-2 • $22.00 In Women in Religions • Instructor’s Guide and Additional Resources Available

IMMIGRATION ILLEGAL ENCOUNTERS

2019 Inaugural Outstanding Ethnography Book Award, Ethnography in Education Research Forum | 2019 Outstanding Book Award, Council on Anthropology and Education

MOTHERHOOD ACROSS BORDERS

The Effect of Detention and Deportation on Young People

Immigrants and Their Children in Mexico and New York

Edited by DEBORAH A. BOEHM and SUSAN J. TERRIO

GABRIELLE OLIVEIRA

“A must-read for anyone interested in how young people manage the perilous journey across borders and the US legal system.”—Leo R. Chavez, author of The Latino Threat 256 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-4798-6107-1 • $30.00

“An intimate portrayal of the ways that motherhood, and caregiving more generally, is shifting in transnational context.”—Deborah A. Boehm, author of Returned 272 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-4798-6646-5 • $30.00

KOREAN AMERICAN FAMILIES IN IMMIGRANT AMERICA

S TAY C O N N E C T E D

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How Teens and Parents Navigate Race SUMIE OKAZAKI and NANCY ABELMANN

“This riveting book powerfully turns the Model Minority Stereotype on its head!”

—Gilberto Conchas, UC Irvine 272 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-4798-3668-0 • $32.00

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GENDER & SEXUALITY OUTLAW WOMEN

QUEERING FAMILY TREES

Prison, Rural Violence, and Poverty on the New American Frontier

Race, Reproductive Justice, and Lesbian Motherhood

SUSAN DEWEY, RHETT EPLER, CATHERINE CONNOLLY, BONNIE ZARE, and ROSEMARY BRATTON

SANDRA PATTON-IMANI

Argues that legal marriage has not made family-making equal for lesbian mothers of color in the US

Examines the forces which shape women’s experiences of incarceration in rural areas

336 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-1486-2 • $30.00

272 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-4798-8743-9 • $30.00

2017 Margaret Mead Award, AAA and SFAA | Honorable Mention, 2015 Eileen Basker Memorial Prize, Society for Medical Anthropology

THE VIOLENCE OF CARE

Rape Victims, Forensic Nurses, and Sexual Assault Intervention SAMEENA MULLA

Challenges the uncritical adoption of forensic practice in sexual assault intervention and post-rape care 288 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-6721-9 • $26.00

SOCIAL TRANSFORMATIONS IN AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGY SERIES This series aims to explore not only social movements but the undercurrents of excitement that may be seen as the precursors of social transformation—highlighting the engaged approach to anthropology that has re-emerged in recent years.

GENERAL EDITOR

Ida Susser | CUNY Graduate Center

RACE & ETHNICITY 2019 William J. Goode Book Award, Family Section of the American Sociological Association | Finalist, 2019 C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems

WHITE KIDS

Growing Up with Privilege in a Racially Divided America MARGARET A. HAGERMAN

“Margaret Hagerman’s White Kids brings to mind two words: must read.” —STARRED, Foreword Reviews 280 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-0245-6 • $18.95 In Critical Perspectives on Youth

2020 Outstanding Scholarly Contribution Award, Children and Youth Section of the American Sociological Association

KIDS AT WORK

Latinx Families Selling Food on the Streets of Los Angeles EMIR ESTRADA

“Reveals the complexity of the household economy of undocumented and mixed status families in Los Angeles.”

—Zulema Valdez, author of Entrepreneurs and the Search for the American Dream 224 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-4798-7370-8 • $28.00 In Latina/o Sociology

BOUNDARIES OF LOVE

Interracial Marriage and the Meaning of Race

CLEAN AND WHITE

A History of Environmental Racism in the United States

CHINYERE K. OSUJI

CARL A. ZIMRING

“This nuanced and pathbreaking study is sure to challenge previous notions of interracial marriage.”

—Edward Telles, author of Pigmentocracies

“Shows that American notions of clean environments and healthy landscapes are the products of a racist past.”

—Journal of American History

320 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-4798-3145-6 • $32.00

288 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-4798-7437-8 • $24.00

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GREAT FOR COURSES INSTRUCTOR’S GUIDE AVAILABLE

SHARING OUR WORLDS, third edition

ANTHROPOLOGY AND LAW

An Introduction to Cultural and Social Anthropology

A Critical Introduction

MARK GOODALE Foreword by SALLY ENGLE MERRY

JOY HENDRY

“A highly engaging and vividly rendered introduction to social and cultural anthropology for new students and general readers alike.”—William W. Kelly, Yale University

“Paint[s] a vivid and accessible account of what contemporary anthropologists have to say about law as meaning, regulation and identity.”

—David Nelken, King’s College London

350 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-4798-8368-4 • $35.00

320 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-4798-9551-9 • $35.00

THE ENVIRONMENT IN ANTHROPOLOGY,

FIGHT LIKE A GIRL, second edition How to Be a Fearless Feminist

second edition A Reader in Ecology, Culture, and Sustainable Living

MEGAN SEELY

Feeling angry about how women are treated? This new edition is perfect for women of all ages, with thoughtful analysis, helpful advice, and useful resources 384 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-4798-1010-9 • $28.00

Edited by NORA HAENN, ALLISON HARNISH, and RICHARD WILK

“Reads like a ‘Greatest Hits’ of environmental anthropology in recent years.”—Rebecca Hardin, University of Michigan 592 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-4798-7676-1 • $35.00

SOCIETY WITHOUT GOD, second edition

IMAGINING QUEER METHODS

What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us about Contentment

Edited by AMIN GHAZIANI and MATT BRIM

“Provocative, timely, and fierce, Imagining Queer Methods is both a case study and manifesto for why methods matter.”

—Robyn Wiegman, author of Object Lessons

PHIL ZUCKERMAN

Showcases the social health of the least religious nations on the planet 304 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-7808-6 • $30.00

336 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-4798-2948-4 • $30.00

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PARANORMAL AMERICA, second edition

LOOKING TO REFRESH YOUR SYLLABUS?

Ghost Encounters, UFO Sightings, Bigfoot Hunts, and Other Curiosities in Religion and Culture

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

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CHRISTOPHER D. BADER, JOSEPH O. BAKER, and F. CARSON MENCKEN

“An engaging and eyeopening book.”—Roger Finke, Pennsylvania State University 304 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-4798-1528-9 • $28.00

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How a City’s Heart Connects Us All MINDY THOMPSON FULLILOVE

Traverses the central thoroughfares of our cities to uncover the ways they bring together our communities

352 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-6133-2126-3 • $21.95 Published by New Village Press

MY LIFE IN 100 OBJECTS MARGARET RANDALL

This renowned activist poet uses talismanic objects and photographs to evoke personal narratives on cultures and social upheavals she engaged with in dozens of countries 250 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-6133-2114-0 • $24.00 Published by New Village Press

SUCH A PRETTY GIRL

A Story of Struggle, Empowerment, and Disability Pride NADINA LASPINA

“From pity to empowerment, a woman born with polio illuminates her personal changes in attitude and accomplishment.”

—STARRED Kirkus Reviews 352 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-6133-2099-0 • $19.95 Published by New Village Press

THE EARTH, THE CITY, AND THE HIDDEN NARRATIVE OF RACE CARL C. ANTHONY

An African American environmental justice leader connects the struggles for social and racial equality to the universe’s story

362 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-6133-2021-1 • $21.95 Published by New Village Press

NEW VILLAGE PRESS ROOT SHOCK

How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do about It MINDY THOMPSON FULLILOVE

Examines three different US cities to unmask the crippling results of decades-old disinvestment in communities of color 304 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-6133-2019-8 • $19.95 Published by New Village Press

A MAN OF THE THEATER

Survival as an Artist in Iran NASSER RAHMANINEJAD

Explores life in Iran as an artist under the Shah and during the Iranian Revolution 320 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-6133-2110-2 • $21.95 Published by New Village Press

PLACEMAKING WITH CHILDREN AND YOUTH

Participatory Practices for Planning Sustainable Communities

VICTORIA DERR, LOUISE CHAWLA and MARA MINTZER

Offers an illustrated, essential guide to engaging children and teens in the process of urban design 416 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-6133-2100-3 • $40.00 Published by New Village Press

New Village Press has been a publisher in the humanities and social sciences since 2005, best known for transdisciplinary books in urban sociology, community cultural development, and healthy city design.

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CLEARING THE PLAINS, NEW EDITION

NO SURRENDER

The Land Remains Indigenous SHELDON KRASOWSKI

Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Indigenous Life

“[A] very important, fresh, and valuable work.”—Sarah Carter, author of Imperial Plots

JAMES DASCHUK

This award-winning book shows how the Canadian government implemented policies that starved Indigenous peoples on the Plains to clear the way for settlement in the 19th century

368 PAGES • PAPER 978-0-8897-7596-1 • $22.95 Published by University of Regina Press

386 PAGES • PAPER • 978-0-8897-7622-7 • $27.95 Published by University of Regina Press

BEAVER, BISON, HORSE

GENOCIDAL LOVE

The Traditional Knowledge and Ecology of the Northern Great Plains

A Life after Residential School BEVANN FOX

Delves into the long-term effects of childhood trauma on those who attended residential school and demonstrates the power of story to help in recovery and healing

R. GRACE MORGAN

An interdisciplinary account of the ecological relationships the Indigenous nations of the Plains had to the beaver, bison, horse, and their habitat prior to contact

256 PAGES • PAPER 978-0-8897-7741-5 • $17.95 Published by University of Regina Press

292 PAGES • PAPER • 978-0-8897-7788-0 • $29.95 Published by University of Regina Press

A DIGITAL BUNDLE

PERFORMING TURTLE ISLAND

Protecting and Promoting Indigenous Knowledge Online

Indigenous Theatre on the World Stage

JENNIFER WEMIGWANS

Demonstrates the great potential for digital technology to contribute to selfdetermination, resurgence, revitalization, and the rebuilding of nations

Edited by JESSE RAE ARCHIBALDBARBER, KATHLEEN IRWIN, and MOIRA J. DAY

Considers theatre as a tool for community engagement, education, and resistance 256 PAGES • PAPER • 978-0-8897-7656-2 • $24.95 Published by University of Regina Press

224 PAGES • PAPER • 978-0-8897-7551-0 • $24.95 Published by University of Regina Press

RAW

University of Regina Press publishes books that matter—in both academic and trade formats. URP endeavours to develop writers into public intellectuals, encourage debate, and inspire young people to study the humanities by publishing books that are both seen and relevant.

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PrEP, Pedagogy, and the Politics of Barebacking Edited by RICKY VARGHESE Afterword by TIM DEAN

“Significantly broadens the field of scholarship on bareback.”

—Oliver Davis, author of Jacques Rancière

288 PAGES • PAPER • 978-0-8897-7683-8 • $29.95 In Exquisite Corpse Published by University of Regina Press

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Black Masculinities in a South African township MALOSE LANGA

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 202 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-7761-4567-6 • $20.00 Published by Wits University Press

TIES THAT BIND

Race and the Politics of Friendship in South Africa Edited by SHANNON WALSH and JON SOSKE

Shows how intimacies of friendship create vital spaces for practices of power and resistance within the histories of apartheid and colonialism 304 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-8681-4968-1 • $35.00 Published by Wits University Press

I WANT TO GO HOME FOREVER

Stories of Becoming and Belonging in South Africa’s Great Metropolis

Edited by LOREN B LANDAU and TANYA PAMPALONE

Thirteen true stories about xenophobia and belonging in Johannesburg

WITS UNIVERSITY PRESS CONSPICUOUS CONSUMPTION IN AFRICA Edited by DEBORAH POSEL and ILANA VAN WYK

Revisiting Thorstein Veblen’s concept, this volume grapples with contemporary conspicuous consumption in Africa, its history and how it relates to the project of African modernity 304 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-7761-4364-1 • $35.00 Published by Wits University Press

DRESS AS SOCIAL RELATIONS

An Interpretation of Bushman Dress VIBEKE MARIA VIESTAD

Challenges the myth of the nearly naked Bushman 208 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-7761-4191-3 • $80.00 Published by Wits University Press

THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL THOUGHT OF ARCHIE MAFEJE BONGANI NYOKA

A Pan-African social scientist ahead of his time 288 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-7761-4594-2 • $30.00 Published by Wits University Press

260 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-7761-4221-7 • $35.00 Published by Wits University Press

A LONG WAY HOME

Migrant worker worlds 1800–2014

Edited by PETER DELIUS, LAURA PHILLIPS, and FIONA RANKINSMITH

A three-hundred-year history beginning with the exportation of slave labour from Mozambique in the eighteenth century and ending with the strikes and tensions on the platinum belt in recent years 288 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-8681-4767-0 • $35.00 Published by Wits University Press

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