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HIGHLIGHTS LIKE CHILDREN

QUEER FORMS

Black Prodigy and the Measure of the Human in America Camille Owens

Ramzi Fawaz

How do we represent the experience of being a gender and sexual outlaw?

A new history of manhood, race, and hierarchy in American childhood In Performance and American Cultures 352 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479812929

464 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479820733

ARE THE ARTS ESSENTIAL?

STYLE

A Queer Cosmology Taylor Black

Edited by Alberta Arthurs and Michael DiNiscia

344 PP | CLOTH | $30 9781479812622

Assembles texts, performances and personae from American culture to argue the elemental nature of style

A timely and kaleidoscopic reflection on the importance of the arts in our society

In Postmillennial Pop 304 PP | PAPER | $35 9781479825004

LIKE WATER

BOTTOMS UP

A Cultural History of Bruce Lee Daryl Joji Maeda

Queer Mexicanness and Latinx Performance Xiomara Verenice Cervantes-Gomez

Highlights Bruce Lee’s influence beyond martial arts and film

Proposes a queer way to be in the world and with others In Sexual Cultures

336 PP | PAPER | $20 9781479830732

272 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479829156

DISABILITY WORKS

FOR PLEASURE

Performance After Rehabilitation Patrick McKelvey

Race, Experimentalism, and Aesthetics Rachel Jane Carroll

A cultural history of disability, performance, and work in the modern United States

Argues that aesthetic pleasure plays a key role in both racial practices and struggles against racist domination

In Performance and American Cultures 336 PP | PAPER | $32 9781479824878

In Minoritarian Aesthetics 288 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479826735

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AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES DEADPAN

SKIN THEORY

The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression Tina Post

Visual Culture and the Postwar Prison Laboratory Cristina Mejia Visperas Studies the intersections of incarceration, medical science, and race in postwar America

Finalist for the NBCC Award for Criticism Explore expressionlessness, and emotional withholding in Black cultural production 280 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479811212

In Minoritarian Aesthetics

256 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479810789

HIP HOP HERESIES

BLACK EPHEMERA

The Crisis and Challenge of the Musical Archive Mark Anthony Neal

Queer Aesthetics in New York City Shanté Paradigm Smalls

A framework for understanding the deep archive of Black performance in the digital era

An examination of the relationship between blackness, queerness, and hip hop in New York City from 1975 to present 216 PP | PAPER | $28 9781479808205

In Postmillennial Pop

232 PP | PAPER | $27 9781479806904

DISABILITIES OF THE COLOR LINE

BECOMING HUMAN

Redressing Antiblackness from Slavery to the Present Dennis Tyler

Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World Zakiyyah Iman Jackson

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

Argues that Blackness disrupts our essential ideas of race, gender, and, ultimately, the human

In Crip 336 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479831128

In Sexual Cultures 320 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479830374

THE CONTENT OF OUR CARICATURE

256 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479889587

AFROFABULATIONS

African American Comic Art and Political Belonging Rebecca Wanzo

The Queer Drama of Black Life Tavia Nyong’o

Traces the history of racial caricature and the ways that Black cartoonists have turned this visual grammar on its head

Argues for a conception of black cultural life that exceeds post-blackness and conditions of loss

In Postmillennial Pop

In Sexual Cultures 280 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479888443

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NEW VILLAGE PRESS MAKING A WAY OUT OF NO WAY

208 PP | CLOTH | $35 9781613322406

JUDITH LETTING GO

Lives of Labor, Love, and Resistance Merideth M. Taylor

Six Months in the World’s Smallest Death Cafe Mark Dowie

A richly imagined, photo illustrated narrative of 150 years of life in slavery on tobacco plantations in Southern Maryland

An old man learns how to die from a poet facing death

128 PP | PAPER | $17 9781613322352

THAT’S A PRETTY THING TO CALL IT

I OPENED THE GATE LAUGHING – 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION

Prose and Poetry by Artists Teaching in Carceral Institutions Edited by Leigh Sugar Frank, eye-opening writing by “arts in corrections” educators

An Inner Journey Mayumi Oda 96 PP | CLOTH | $35 9781613322321

304 PP | PAPER | $25 9781613322116

LUCK

A tribute to the power of spiritual practice, creative expression, and true self-acceptance

STUFF

Instead of a Memoir Lucy R. Lippard

Margaret Randall Fearless personal essays from a treasured feminist poet and activist

Colorfully written and illustrated memoir of the activist art writer Lucy Lippard 140 PP | CLOTH | $45 9781613322246

256 PP | PAPER | $23 9781613322192

OPENINGS

RANDOM KINDNESS AND SENSELESS ACTS OF BEAUTY – 30TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION

A Memoir from the Women’s Art Movement, New York City 1970-1992 Sabra Moore

410 PP | PAPER | $35 9781613320181

A candid and generous color-illustrated account of women artists creating politically and personally effective art works, exhibitions, and actions over two tumultuous decades

40 PP | CLOTH | $17 9781613322284

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Edited by Anne Herbert, Margaret Paloma Pavel, and Mayumi Oda A parable of hope and peace for all ages

GOOD FOR COURSES COMICS AND STUFF

CRUISING UTOPIA, 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION

Henry Jenkins

Considers how comics display our everyday stuff— junk drawers, bookshelves, attics—as a way into understanding how we represent ourselves now 352 PP | PAPER | $32 9781479800933

The Then and There of Queer Futurity José Esteban Muñoz An intellectual inspiration for a generation of LGBTQ scholars 280 PP | PAPER | $28 9781479874569

MAKE ART NOT WAR

ARCHIVING AN EPIDEMIC

Political Protest Posters from the Twentieth Century Edited by Ralph Young

128 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479813674

In Sexual Cultures

Art, AIDS, and the Queer Chicanx Avant-Garde Robb Hernández Critically reimagines Chicanx art, unmasking its queer afterlife

An extraordinarily visceral collection of posters that represent the progressive protest movements of the twentieth Century.

In Sexual Cultures 320 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479820832

PARTNER PRESSES ¡BRIGADISTAS!

CHAMORU LEGENDS

An American Anti-Fascist in the Spanish Civil War Written by Miguel Ferguson Illustrated by Anne Timmons

A Gathering of Stories Teresita Lourdes Perez with CHamoru translations by Maria Ana Tenorio Rivera

A graphic history featuring the true story of three friends from Brooklyn who join in the global fight against fascism 120 PP | PAPER | $18 9781583679609

Published by Monthly Review Press

Illustrated retellings of tales from the indigenous people of Guam 188 PP | PAPER | $25 9781878453334

I WRITE THE YAWNING VOID

AFRICAN ARK

Mammals, landscape and the ecology of a continent Ara Monadjem

Selected essays of Sindiwe Magona Sindiwe Magona

The story of how Africa’s mammals have helped shape the continent’s landscapes over time to support an amazing diversity of life

Essays that addresses themes such as HIV/Aids, language and culture, home and belonging.

328 PP | PAPER | $30 9781776148189

Published by Wits University Press

Published by University of Guam Press

336 PP | PAPER | $35 9781776147809

Published by Wits University Press

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