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HIGHLIGHTS UNINSURED IN CHICAGO

LATINO TV A History

Mary Beltrán

How the Social Safety Net Leaves Latinos Behind

The history of Latina/o participation and representation in American television

Robert Vargas

Why millions of Latinx people don’t access the healthcare system, even in times of need

In Critical Cultural Communication

In Latina/o Sociology

224 PG | PAPER | 9781479807147 | $26

264 PG | PAPER | 9781479833894 | $30

GROWING UP LATINX

THE QUEER NUYORICAN

Coming of Age in a Time of Contested Citizenship

Racialized Sexualities and Aesthetics in Loisaida

Jesica Siham Fernández

Winner, Outstanding Scholarly Contribution Award of the Section on Children and Youth, given by the American Sociological Association Latinx children navigating identity, citizenship, and belonging in a divided America 239 PG | PAPER | 9781479801220 | $30

In Critical Perspectives on Youth

Karen Jaime

A queer genealogy of the famous performance space and the nuyorican aesthetic In Performance and American Cultures

224 PG | PAPER | 9781479808298 | $28

CRITICAL DIALOGUES IN LATINX STUDIES

FAITH AND POWER

Edited by Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas and Mérida M. Rúa

Edited by Felipe Hinojosa, Maggie Elmore and Sergio M. González

Latino Religious Politics Since 1945

A Reader

Illuminates how religion has shaped Latino politics and community building

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

592 PG | PAPER | 9781479805211 | $45

352 PG | PAPER | 9781479804528 | $35

LATCRIT

UNACCOMPANIED

Francisco Valdes and Steven W. Bender

Emily Ruehs-Navarro

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

Explores how humanitarian aid workers help and hinder the care of unaccompanied children as they arrive in the United States

In Latina/o Sociology

In Critical Perspectives on Youth

From Critical Legal Theory to Academic Activism

224 PG | PAPER | 9781479809301 | $27

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The Plight of Immigrant Youth at the Border

245 PG | PAPER | 9781479838615 | $28

LATINA/O SOCIOLOGY SERIES SOUTH CENTRAL DREAMS

LATINAS IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM

Finding Home and Building Community in South L.A.

Victims, Targets, and Offenders

Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Manuel Pastor

Edited by Vera Lopez and Lisa Pasko

Winner of the 2022 Latino/a Section Best Book Award, given by the American Sociological Association Race, place, and identity in a changing urban America 352 PG | PAPER | 9781479807970 | $32

How Latina girls and women become entangled in the criminal justice system

384 PG | PAPER | 9781479891962 | $35

BUILDING A BETTER CHICAGO

FRONT OF THE HOUSE, BACK OF THE HOUSE

Race and Community Resistance to Urban Redevelopment

Race and Inequality in the Lives of Restaurant Workers

Teresa Irene Gonzales

Eli Revelle Yano Wilson

How local Black and Brown communities can resist gentrification and fight for their interests

224 PG | PAPER | 9781479814886 | $30

2021 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine How workers navigate race, gender, and class in the food service industry 224 PG | PAPER | 9781479800629 | $28

ORGANIZING WHILE UNDOCUMENTED

KIDS AT WORK

Latinx Families Selling Food on the Streets of Los Angeles

Immigrant Youth’s Political Activism under the Law

Emir Estrada

Kevin Escudero

Finalist, 2020 C. Wright Mills Award, given by the Society for the Study of Social Problems An inspiring look inside immigrant youth’s political activism in perilous times

208 PG | PAPER | 9781479834150 | $27

224 PG | PAPER | 9781479873708 | $28

IMMIGRANTS UNDER THREAT

CITIZENS BUT NOT AMERICANS

Greg Prieto

Nilda Flores-González

Risk and Resistance in Deportation Nation

256 PG | PAPER | 9781479821464 | $29

Winner, 2020 Outstanding Scholarly Contribution Award, given by the Children and Youth Section of the American Sociological Association How Latinx kids and their undocumented parents struggle in the informal street food economy

Co-Winner, 2019 Latina/o Section Distinguished Contribution to Research Book Award, given by the American Sociological Association A portrait of two Mexican immigrant communities confronting threats of deportation, detention, and dispossession

Race and Belonging among Latino Millennials An exploration of how race shapes Latino millennials’ notions of national belonging

208 PG | PAPER | 9781479840779 | $27

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HISTORY SUGAR, CIGARS, AND REVOLUTION

THE WAR ON DRUGS A History

Edited by David Farber

The Making of Cuban New York

A revealing look at the history and legacy of the “War on Drugs”

Lisandro Pérez

Winner, 2020 Herbert H. Lehman Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in New York history The dramatic story of the origins of the Cuban community in nineteenthcentury New York 400 PG | PAPER | 9780814767283 | $24

368 PG | PAPER | 9781479811366 | $30

CHURCH OF THE DEAD

OPEN HEARTS, CLOSED DOORS

Jennifer Scheper Hughes

Nicholas T. Pruitt

The Epidemic of 1576 and the Birth of Christianity in the Americas

Immigration Reform and the Waning of Mainline Protestantism

Tells the story of the founding of American Christianity against the backdrop of devastating disease, and of the Indigenous survivors who kept the nascent faith alive 264 PG | CLOTH | 9781479802555 | $35

In North American Religions

A history of mainline Protestant responses to immigrants and refugees during the twentieth century

296 PG | CLOTH | 9781479803545 | $45

History THE COMPLEXITIES OF RACE

THE COLORS OF LOVE Multiracial People in Interracial Relationships

Identity, Power, and Justice in an Evolving America

Melinda A. Mills

How multiracial people navigate the complexities of race and love

Edited by Charmaine L. Wijeyesinghe

Illuminates how recent shifts in demographics, policy, culture and thinking have changed how race is understood today

304 PG | PAPER | 9781479801411 | $30

320 PG | PAPER | 9781479802418 | $30

THE COLOR OF CRIME Racial Hoaxes, White Crime, Media Messages, Police Violence, and Other RaceBased Harms Katheryn Russell-Brown

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

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256 PG | PAPER | 9781479843152 | $29

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CULTURE BORDER OPTICS

QUEER CARNIVAL

Camilla Fojas

Amy L. Stone

Surveillance Cultures on the US-Mexico Frontier

Festivals and Mardi Gras in the South

Examines how the US-Mexico border is seen through visual codes of surveillance

The importance of citywide festivals like Mardi Gras and Fiesta for the LGBTQ community

In Critical Cultural Communication

208 PG | PAPER | 9781479807017 | $28

280 PG | PAPER | 9781479801985 | $30

RACE AND MEDIA

ARCHIVING AN EPIDEMIC

Critical Approaches

Edited by Lori Kido Lopez

Art, AIDS, and the Queer Chicanx Avant-Garde

A foundational collection of essays that demonstrate how to study race and media

Robb Hernández

Winner, 2020 Latino Book Awards in the LGBTQ+ Themed Section Critically reimagines Chicanx art, unmasking its queer afterlife

In Critical Cultural Communication

In Sexual Cultures 344 PG | PAPER | 9781479889310 | $30

320 PG | PAPER | 9781479820832 | $29

THE KIDS ARE IN CHARGE

RACIAL IMMANENCE Chicanx Bodies beyond Representation

Activism and Power in Peru’s Movement of Working Children

Marissa K. López

Jessica K. Taft

Details the possibilities and challenges of intergenerational activism and social movements In Critical Perspectives on Youth

272 PG | PAPER | 9781479854509 | $30

208 PG | PAPER | 9781479813902 | $28

Winner, 2021 NACCS Book Award, given by the National Association for Chicano and Chicana Studies Explores the how, why, and what of contemporary Chicanx culture, including punk rock, literary fiction, photography, mass graves, and digital and experimental installation art

IT CAN HAPPEN HERE White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the US Alexander Laban Hinton

A renowned expert on genocide argues that there is a real risk of violent atrocities happening in the United States

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304 PG | PAPER | ISBN | $20

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GREAT FOR COURSES CREOLE RELIGIONS OF THE CARIBBEAN

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Margarite Fernández Olmos and Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert

Gilda R. Daniels

An updated introduction to the religions developed in the Caribbean region

An answer to the assault on voting rights—crucial reading in light of the 2020 presidential election

In Religion, Race, and Ethnicity

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The Crisis of Voter Suppression in America

An Introduction

384 PG | PAPER | 9781479803484 | $30

272 PG | PAPER | 9781479811984 | $17

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POLICING THE RACIAL DIVIDE

Immigration Enforcement in the Time of Trump

Urban Growth Politics and the Remaking of Segregation

Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia

Winner, 2020 Best Book Award, Law Category, given by the American Book Fest Examines immigration enforcement and discretion during the first eighteen months of the Trump administration

Daanika Gordon

A behind-the-scenes account of the harsh realities of policing in a segregated city

232 PG | PAPER | 9781479857463 | $30

288 PG | PAPER | 9781479814053 | $30

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PERCHANCE TO DREAM

Race and Community Resistance to School Reform

A Legal and Political History of the DREAM Act and DACA

Hava Rachel Gordon

How local educational justice movements wrestle with neoliberal school reform

Michael A. Olivas

The first comprehensive history of the DREAM Act and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) In Citizenship and Migration in the Americas

312 PG | PAPER | 9781479890057 | $30

352 PG | PAPER | 9781479878284 | $35

ILLEGAL ENCOUNTERS

PUNISHED

Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys

The Effect of Detention and Deportation on Young People

Victor M. Rios

2012 Best Book Award, Latino/a Sociology Section, presented by the American Sociological Association A classic ethnography that reveals how urban police criminalize black and Latino boys

Edited by Deborah A. Boehm and Susan J. Terrio

The impact of the U.S. immigration and legal systems on children and youth

256 PG | PAPER | 9781479861071 | $30

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In New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law

PARTNER PRESSES RISKING A SOMERSAULT IN THE AIR

¡BRIGADISTAS!

An American Anti-Fascist in the Spanish Civil War Miguel Ferguson and Fraser M. Ottanelli

Conversations with Nicaraguan Writers

Three American friends set off from Brooklyn to join in the fight—determined to make Spain “the tomb of fascism” for the sake of us all

Margaret Randall

240 PG | PAPER | 9781613321829 | $23

First revised edition of interviews with 14 prominent activists whose writings influenced the 1979 Nicaraguan revolution and help us understand presentday Nicaragua

Published by Monthly Review Press 120 PG | PAPER | 9781583679609 | $18

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IN THE STRUGGLE

Scholars and the Fight against Industrial Agribusiness in California

The U.S. Empire, the Media, and Twenty Years of Coup Attempts in Venezuela

Daniel J. O’Connell and Scott J. Peters

Justin Podur and Joe Emersberger

A call to action in an ongoing battle against industrial agriculture

The US foreign policy decisions behind six coup attempts against the Venezuelan government – and Venezuela’s heightening precarity 248 PG | PAPER | 9781583679166 | $25

Published by Monthly Review Press

Published by New Village Press 368 PG | PAPER | 9781613321225 | $25

CUBAN HEALTH CARE

CUBA AND AFRICA, 1959-1994

The Ongoing Revolution Don Fitz

Writing an alternative Atlantic history

How the Cuban health care system became the blueprint for accessible medical care around the world

Edited by Kali Argyriadis, Giulia Bonacci and Adrien Delmas

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296 PG | PAPER | 9781583678602 | $26

Published by Wits University Press

344 PG | PAPER | 9781776146338 | $35

IN THE COMPANY OF REBELS

VENEZUELA, THE PRESENT AS STRUGGLE

A Generational Memoir of Bohemians, Deep Heads, and History Makers

Voices from the Bolivarian Revolution

Chellis Glendinning

Cira Pascual Marquina and Chris Gilbert

Meetings with remarkable activists since the 1960s

Reveals the revolutionary power of the Chavista grassroots movement

Published by New Village Press

Published by Monthly Review Press 288 PG | PAPER | 9781613320952 | $25

352 PG | PAPER | 9781583678640 | $29

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