Fall 2020 Catalog

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THE FIGHT FOR FREE SPEECH Ten Cases That Define Our First Amendment Freedoms IAN ROSENBERG A user’s guide to understanding contemporary free speech issues in the United States Americans today are confronted by a barrage of questions relating to their free speech freedoms.

What are libel laws, and do they need to be changed to stop the press from lying? Does Colin Kaepernick have the right to take a knee? Can Saturday Night Live be punished for parody? While citizens are grappling with these questions, they generally have nowhere to turn to learn about the extent of their First Amendment rights.

The Fight for Free Speech answers this call with an accessible, engaging user’s guide to free speech.

Media lawyer Ian Rosenberg distills the spectrum of free speech law down to ten critical issues. Each chapter in this book focuses on a contemporary free speech question—from student walkouts for gun safety to Samantha Bee’s expletives, from Nazis marching in Charlottesville to the muting of adult film star Stormy Daniels—and then identifies, unpacks, and explains the key Supreme Court case that provides the answers. Together these fascinating stories create a practical framework for understanding where our free speech protections originated and how they can develop in the future.

As people on all sides of the political spectrum are demanding their right to speak and be heard, The Fight for Free Speech is a handbook for combating authoritarianism, protecting our democracy, and bringing an understanding of free speech law to all.

Ian Rosenberg has over twenty years of experience as a media lawyer, and has worked as legal counsel for ABC News since 2003.

A graduate of Cornell Law School, he is an Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker, and teaches Media Law at Brooklyn College.

"The Fight for Free Speech is a wonderful guide to our free speech rights, serving as an engaging introduction for all readers, and as an illuminating source of insights even for those with expertise in First Amendment law."

—Nadine Strossen, former president, ACLU, author of HATE: Why We Should Resist it With Free Speech, Not Censorship

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TAKING DOWN BACKPAGE

Fighting the World’s Largest Sex Trafficker MAGGY KRELL Insider details from the takedown of Backpage, the world’s largest sex trafficker, by the prosecutor who led the charge For almost a decade, Backpage.com was the world’s largest sex trafficking operation. Seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day, in 800 cities throughout the world, Backpage ran thousands of listings advertising the sale of vulnerable young people for sex. Reaping a cut off every transaction, the owners of the website raked in millions of dollars. But many of the people in the advertisements were children, as young as 12, and forced into the commercial sex trade through fear, violence and coercion.

Maggy Krell is an award-winning impact lawyer and currently serves as Chief Legal Counsel at Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California. Maggy started her career as a prosecutor, serving as a deputy district attorney before moving up the ranks at the Attorney General’s Office, most recently as the Supervising Deputy Attorney General of the Special Prosecutions Unit. Maggy secured convictions throughout California in high-profile cases including murder, human trafficking, domestic violence, white collar crime, and mortgage fraud. Maggy’s most notable accomplishments stem from her tireless efforts to combat human trafficking and protect and empower victims.

January 2021 192 pages • 6 x 9 8 black & white illustrations Cloth • 9781479803040 • $22.95T(£17.99) Current Affairs

In Taking Down Backpage, veteran California prosecutor Maggy Krell tells the story of how she and her team prevailed against this sex trafficking monolith. Beginning with her early career as a young DA, she shares the evolution of the anti-human trafficking movement. Through a fascinating combination of memoir and legal insight, Krell reveals how she and her team started with the prosecution of street pimps and ultimately ended with the takedown of the largest purveyor of human trafficking in the world. She shares powerful stories of interviews with victims, sting operations, court cases, and the personal struggles that were necessary to bring Backpage executives to justice.

Finally, Krell examines the state of sex trafficking after Backpage and the crucial work that still remains. Taking Down Backpage is a gripping story of tragedy, overcoming adversity, and the pursuit of justice that gives insight into the fight against sex trafficking in the digital age.

"This book is both a fascinating legal thriller about the power of justice and a chilling reminder of how pervasive and horrific human trafficking is. Krell weaves the story together in gripping fashion and leaves the reader with hope and inspiration."

—Ashlie Bryant, co-founder and CEO of 3Strands Global Foundation

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THE TRAGEDY OF HETEROSEXUALITY JANE WARD

A troubling account of heterosexual desire in the era of #MeToo Heterosexuality is in crisis. Reports of sexual harassment, misconduct, and rape saturate the news in the era of #MeToo. Straight men and women spend thousands of dollars every day on relationship coaches, seduction boot camps, and couple’s therapy in a search for happiness.

In The Tragedy of Heterosexuality, Jane Ward smartly explores what, exactly, is wrong with heterosexuality in the twenty-first century, and what straight people can do to fix it for good. She shows how straight women, and to a lesser extent straight men, have tried to mend a fraught patriarchal system in which intimacy, sexual fulfillment, and mutual respect are expected to coexist alongside enduring forms of inequality, alienation, and violence in straight relationships.

Ward also takes an intriguing look at the multi-billion-dollar self-help industry, which markets goods and services to help heterosexual couples without addressing the root of their problems. Ultimately, she encourages straight men and women to take a page out of queer culture, reminding them “about the human capacity to desire, fuck, and show respect at the same time.”

Jane Ward is Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at University of California Riverside, where she teaches courses in feminist, queer, and heterosexuality studies. She is the author of Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men and Respectably Queer: Diversity Culture in LGBT Activist Organizations.

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Sex between Straight White Men JANE WARD July 2015 240 pages • 6 x 9 Paper • 9781479825172 • $26.00S In Sexual Cultures

A different look at heterosexuality in the twenty-first century

"This book needed to be written and who better to plunge into the murky mysteries and sad dramas of heterosexuality than Jane Ward? The Tragedy of Heterosexuality offers a map of the complex and shifting landscape of heterosexual desire in the era of #MeToo, sexual harassment, and Title IX....[A]n immensely readable, fairly controversial and surely relevant book."

—Jack Halberstam, author of Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire

September 2020 224 pages • 6 x 9 Cloth • 9781479851553 • $26.95T(£20.99) In Sexual Cultures Cultural Studies

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HONEY ON THE PAGE A Treasury of Yiddish Children's Literature

Edited and Translated by MIRIAM UDEL Foreword by JACK ZIPES Original Illustrations by PAULA COHEN An unprecedented treasury of Yiddish children’s stories and poems enhanced with original illustrations While there has been a recent boom in Jewish literacy and learning within the US, few resources exist to enable American Jews to experience the rich primary sources of Yiddish culture. Stepping into this void, Miriam Udel has crafted an exquisite collection: Honey on the Page offers a feast of beguiling original translations of stories and poems for children.

Miriam Udel is Associate Professor in German Studies and the Tam Institute of Jewish Studies at Emory University and author of Never Better!: The Modern Jewish Picaresque.

Jack Zipes is a preeminent fairy-tale scholar who has written, translated, and edited dozens of books including The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm and Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde.

He is Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota.

Arranged thematically—from school days to the holidays—the book takes readers from Jewish holidays and history to folktales and fables, from stories of humanistic ethics to multi-generational family sagas. Featuring many works that are appearing in English for the first time, and written by both prominent and lesser-known authors, this anthology spans the Yiddish-speaking globe— drawing from materials published in Eastern Europe, New York, and Latin America from the 1910s, during the interwar period, and up through the 1970s. With its vast scope, Honey on the Page offers a cornucopia of delights to families, individuals and educators seeking literature that speaks to Jewish children about their religious, cultural, and ethical heritage.

Complemented by whimsical, humorous illustrations by Paula Cohen, an acclaimed children’s book illustrator, Udel’s evocative translations of Yiddish stories and poetry will delight young and older readers alike.

October 2020 352 pages • 7 x 10 81 black & white illustrations Cloth • 9781479874132 • $29.95T(£23.99) Literature

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ENCHANTED NEW YORK

A Journey along Broadway through Manhattan's Magical Past KEVIN DANN A fantastical field guide to the hidden history of New York's magical past Manhattan has a pervasive quality of glamour—a heightened sense of personality generated by a place whose cinematic, literary, and commercial celebrity lends an aura of the fantastic to even its most commonplace locales. Enchanted New York chronicles an alternate history of this magical isle. It offers a tour along Broadway, focusing on times and places that illuminate a forgotten and sometimes hidden history of New York through site-specific stories of wizards, illuminati, fortune tellers, magicians, and more.

Progressing up New York’s central thoroughfare, this guidebook to magical Manhattan offers a history you won’t find in your Lonely Planet or Fodor’s guide, tracing the arc of American technological alchemies—from Samuel Morse and Robert Fulton to the Manhattan Project—to Mesmeric physicians, to wonder–working Madame Blavatsky, and seers Helena Roerich and Alice Bailey. Harry Houdini appears and disappears, as the world’s premier stage magician’s feats of prestidigitation fade away to reveal a much more mysterious—and meaningful—marquee of magic.

Kevin Dann is the author of Expect Great Things: The Life and Search of Henry David Thoreau and a dozen other books of exploration. He received his PhD from Rutgers University in American and Environmental History, and has taught at Rutgers University, the University of Vermont, and the State University of New York. He leads magical bike and walking tours in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Learn more at drdann.com.

Unlike old-world cities, New York has no ancient monuments to mark its magical adolescence. There is no local memory embedded in the landscape of celebrated witches, warlocks, gods, or goddesses—no myths of magical metamorphoses. As we follow Kevin Dann in geographical and chronological progression up Broadway from Battery Park to Inwood, each chapter provides a surprising picture of a city whose ever-changing fortunes have always been founded on magical activity.

October 2020 320 pages • 6 x 9 82 black & white illustrations with 7 maps Paper • 9781479838264 • $22.50T(£17.99) Cloth • 9781479860227 • $89.00X(£74.00) New York City Washington Mews Books

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A VIEW FROM ABROAD

The Story of John and Abigail Adams in Europe JEANNE E. ABRAMS Reveals how the European travels of John and Abigail Adams helped define what it meant to be an American From 1778 to 1788, the Founding Father and later President John Adams lived in Europe as a diplomat. Joined by his wife, Abigail, in 1784, the two shared rich encounters with famous heads of the European royal courts, including the ill-fated King Louis XVI and Queen Marie-Antoinette, and the staid British Monarchs King George III and Queen Charlotte.

Jeanne E. Abrams is Professor at the University Libraries and the Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Denver, where she is also Director of the Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society, and Curator of the Beck Archives, Special Collections. She is the author of First Ladies of the Republic: Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Dolley Madison, and the Creation of an Iconic American Role (2018) and Revolutionary Medicine: The Founding Fathers and Mothers in Sickness and in Health (2013).

January 2021 320 pages • 6 x 9 11 black & white illustrations Cloth • 9781479802876 • $27.95T(£21.99) History

In this engaging narrative, A View from Abroad takes us on the first full exploration of the Adamses' lives abroad. Jeanne E. Abrams reveals how the journeys of John and Abigail Adams not only changed the course of their intellectual, political, and cultural development—transforming the couple from provincials to sophisticated world travelers—but most importantly served to strengthen their loyalty to America.

Abrams shines a new light on how the Adamses and their American contemporaries set about supplanting their British origins with a new American identity. They and their fellow Americans grappled with how to reorder their society as the new nation took its place in the international transatlantic world. After just a short time abroad, Abigail maintained that, “My Heart and Soul is more American than ever. We are a family by ourselves.” The Adamses’ quest to define what it means to be an American, and the answers they discovered in their time abroad, still resonate with us to this day.

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AVIDLY READS PASSAGES MICHELLE D. COMMANDER

What the slave ship, train, automobile, and bus can teach us about Southern Black life in America In Avidly Reads Passages, Michelle D. Commander plies four freighted modes of travel—the slave ship, train, automobile, and bus—to map the mobility of her ancestors over the past five centuries. In the process, she refreshes the conventional American travel narrative by telling an urgent story about how history shapes what moves us, as well as what prevents so many Black Americans from moving or being moved. Anchored in her maternal kin’s long history on and alongside plantations in rural South Carolina, Commander explores her family members’ ability and inability to navigate safely through space, time, and emotion, detailing how Black lives were shaped by the actual vehicles that promised an escape from the confines of American racism, yet nearly always failed to deliver on those promises. Using personal and public archives, Avidly Reads Passages unfolds distinct histories of transatlantic slavery ships, the possibilities presented by rail lines in the Reconstruction South, the fateful legacies of school busing, and the ways that Black Americans attempted to negotiate their automobility, including through the use of road and travel compendiums such as Travelguide and The Negro Motorist Green Book.

Michelle D. Commander is Associate Director and Curator of the Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Before joining the Schomburg Center, she was an Associate Professor of English and Africana Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. A Ford Foundation and Fulbright Fellowship recipient, Commander is the author of AfroAtlantic Flight: Speculative Returns and the Black Fantastic.

In order to understand the intricacies of slavery and its aftermath, Commander began her exploration with the hope of engaging with the difficult evidences and stubborn gaps in her family’s genealogy; what she produced is a biting and elegiac reflection on working-class life in the Black South.

Part of the Avidly Reads series, this slim book gives us a new way of looking at American culture. With the singular blend of personal memoir and cultural criticism featured in the series, Avidly Reads Passages offers a unique lens through which to capture the intricacies of Black life.

February 2021 152 pages • 4.37 x 7 10 black & white illustrations Paper • 9781479806171 • $14.95T(£11.99) Cloth • 9781479806164 • $89.00X(£74.00) In Avidly Reads Cultural Studies

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THE UNTOLD STORY OF SHIELDS GREEN The Life and Death of a Harper's Ferry Raider LOUIS A. DECARO, JR. Explores the life of Shields Green, one of the black men who followed John Brown to Harper’s Ferry in 1859

Louis A. Decaro, Jr. is Associate Professor of Church History at Alliance Theological Seminary, and is the author of “Fire from the Midst of You”: A Religious Life of John Brown and Freedom’s Dawn: The Last Days of John Brown in Virginia.

October 2020 240 pages • 6 x 9 14 black & white illustrations Cloth • 9781479802753 • $28.00A(£21.99) History

When John Brown decided to raid the federal armory in Harper’s Ferry as the starting point of his intended liberation effort in the South, some closest to him thought it was unnecessary and dangerous. Frederick Douglass, a pioneering abolitionist, refused Brown’s invitation to join him in Virginia, believing that the raid on the armory was a suicide mission. Yet in front of Douglass, “Emperor” Shields Green, a fugitive from South Carolina, accepted John Brown’s invitation. When the raid failed, Emperor was captured with the rest of Brown’s surviving men and hanged on December 16, 1859.

“Emperor” Shields Green was a critical member of John Brown’s Harper’s Ferry raiders but has long been overlooked. Louis DeCaro, Jr., a veteran scholar of John Brown, presents the first effort to tell Emperor’s story based upon extensive research, restoring him to his rightful place in this fateful raid at the origin of the American Civil War. Starting from his birth in Charleston, South Carolina, Green’s life as an abolitionist freedom-fighter, whose passion for the liberation of his people outweighed self-preservation, is extensively detailed in this compact history. In The Untold Story of Shields Green, Emperor pushes back against racism and injustice and stands in his rightful place as an antislavery figure alongside Frederick Douglass and John Brown.

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THE BLACK CIVIL WAR SOLDIER

A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship DEBORAH WILLIS A stunning collection of stoic portraits and intimate ephemera from the lives of Black Civil War soldiers In The Black Civil War Soldier, Deborah Willis explores the crucial role of photography in (re)telling and shaping African American narratives of the Civil War, pulling from a dynamic visual archive that has largely gone unacknowledged.

With over seventy images, The Black Civil War Soldier contains a huge breadth of primary and archival materials, many of which are rarely reproduced. The photographs are supplemented with handwritten captions, letters, and other personal materials; Willis not only dives into the lives of black Union soldiers, but also includes stories of other African Americans involved with the struggle—from left-behind family members to female spies. Willis thus compiles a captivating memoir of photographs and words and examines them together to address themes of love and longing; responsibility and fear; commitment and patriotism; and—most predominantly—African American resilience.

The Black Civil War Soldier offers a kaleidoscopic yet intimate portrait of the African American experience, from the beginning of the Civil War to 1900.

Through her multimedia analysis, Willis acutely pinpoints the importance of African American communities in the development and prosecution of the war. The book shows how photography helped construct a national vision of blackness, war, and bondage, while unearthing the hidden histories of these black Civil War soldiers. In combating the erasure of this often overlooked history, Willis asks how these images might offer a more nuanced memory of African-American participation in the Civil War, and in doing so, points to individual and collective struggles for citizenship and remembrance.

Deborah Willis is University Professor and Chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and has an affiliated appointment with the College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Social & Cultural Analysis, and Africana Studies. Willis is the author of Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present; Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers - 1840 to the Present; Let Your Motto be Resistance—African American Portraits; Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery with Barbara Krauthamer; and Michelle Obama: The First Lady in Photographs. Both Envisioning Emancipation and Michelle Obama received NAACP Image Awards.

January 2021 240 pages • 7 x 10 99 black & white illustrations Cloth • 9781479809004 • $35.00A(£27.99) In NYU Series in Social and Cultural Analysis History

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Jackie Robinson and His Legacy Edited by MICHAEL G. LONG Foreword by KEN BURNS, SARAH BURNS, and DAVID MCMAHON Explores Jackie Robinson’s compelling and complicated legacy Before the United States Supreme Court ruled against segregation in public schools, and before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, Jackie Robinson walked onto the diamond on April 15, 1947, as first baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers, making history as the first African American to integrate Major League Baseball in the twentieth century. Today a national icon, Robinson was a complicated man who navigated an even more complicated world that both celebrated and despised him.

Michael G. Long is the author and editor of four books on Jackie Robinson. He is Associate Professor in the Center of Global Understanding and Peacemaking at Elizabethtown College.

Ken Burns is an award-winning filmmaker and director of the film Jackie Robinson, in association with Major League Baseball.

Sarah Burns is the co-producer of the film Jackie Robinson, in association with Major League Baseball. Burns also wrote the text for the documentary.

David McMahon is the co-producer of the film Jackie Robinson, in association with Major League Baseball. McMahon also wrote the text for the documentary.

February 2021 256 pages • 6 x 9 12 black & white illustrations Cloth • 9781479805624 • $27.95T(£21.99) Sports Washington Mews Books

Many are familiar with Robinson as a baseball hero.

Few, however, know of the inner turmoil that came with his historic status. Featuring piercing essays from a range of distinguished sportswriters, cultural critics, and scholars, this book explores Robinson’s perspectives and legacies on civil rights, sports, faith, youth, and nonviolence, while providing rare glimpses into the struggles and strength of one of the nation’s most athletically gifted and politically significant citizens. Featuring a foreword by celebrated directors and producers Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, and David McMahon, this volume recasts Jackie Robinson’s legacy and establishes how he set a precedent for future civil rights activism, from Black Lives Matter to Colin Kaepernick.

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FEAR IN OUR HEARTS What Islamophobia Tells Us about America CALEB IYER ELFENBEIN Argues that anti-Muslim activity reveals how fear is corroding core American values In a 2018 national poll, over ninety percent of respondents reported that treating people equally is an essential American value. Almost eighty percent said accepting people of different racial backgrounds is very important. Yet about half of the general public reported that they doubt whether Muslims can truly dedicate themselves to American values and society. Why do many people who say they believe in equality and acceptance of those of different backgrounds also think that Muslims could be an exception to that rule?

In Fear in Our Hearts, Caleb Iyer Elfenbein examines Islamophobia in the United States, positing that rather than simply being an outcome of the 9/11 attacks, anti-Muslim activity grows out of a fear of difference that has always characterized US public life. Elfenbein examines the effects of this fear on American Muslims, as well as describing how it works to shape and distort American society.

Drawing on over 1,800 news reports documenting anti-Muslim activity, Elfenbein pinpoints trends, draws connections to the broader histories of immigration, identity, belonging, and citizenship in the US, and examines how Muslim communities have responded.

Caleb Iyer Elfenbein is Associate Professor in the Departments of History and Religious Studies at Grinnell College, where he is also Director of the Center for the Humanities.

In the face of public fear and hate, American Muslim communities have sought to develop connections with non-Muslims through unprecedented levels of community transparency, outreach, and public engagement efforts. Despite the hostile environment that has made these efforts necessary, American Muslims have faced down their own fears to offer a model for building communities and creating more welcoming conditions of public life for everyone.

Arguing that anti-Muslim activity tells us as much about the state of core American values in general as it does about the particular experiences of American Muslims, this compelling look at Muslims in America offers practical ideas about how we can create a more welcoming public life for all in our everyday lives.

January 2021 208 pages • 6 x 9 Cloth • 9781479804580 • $28.00A(£21.99) In North American Religions Current Affairs | Politics

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CLIPPED WINGS

The Rise and Fall of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II MOLLY MERRYMAN Revives the overlooked stories of pioneering women aviators, who are also featured in the forthcoming documentary film Coming Home: Fight for a Legacy

Molly Merryman is Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Sociology at Kent State University. She has authored a number of book chapters and journal articles and is a documentary filmmaker whose projects have received national and international screenings and awards.

September 2020 264 pages • 6 x 9 Paper • 9781479805785 • $30.00A(£23.99) Cloth • 9781479805761 • $89.00X(£74.00) History

During World War II, all branches of the military had women's auxiliaries. Only the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) program, however, was made up entirely of women who undertook dangerous missions more commonly associated with and desired by men. More than the WACs (Army), WAVES (Navy), SPARS (Coast Guard), or Women Marines, the WASPs directly challenged assumptions of male supremacy in wartime culture. WASPs flew the fastest fighter planes and heaviest bombers; they test-piloted experimental models and worked in the development of weapons systems. Yet the WASPs were the only women's auxiliary within the armed services of World War II that was not militarized.

In Clipped Wings, Molly Merryman draws upon military documents—many of which weren’t declassified until the 1990s—congressional records, and interviews with the women who served as WASPs during World War II to trace the history of the over one thousand pilots who served their country as the first women to fly military planes. She examines the social pressures that culminated in their disbandment in 1944—even though a wartime need for their services still existed—and documents their struggles and eventual success, in 1977, to gain military status and receive veterans’ benefits.

In the preface to this reissued edition, Merryman reflects on the changes in women’s aviation in the past twenty years, as NASA’s new Artemis program promises to land the first female astronaut on the moon and African American and lesbian women are among the newest pilot recruits. Updating the story of the WASPs, Merryman reveals that even in the past few years there have been more battles for them to fight and more national recognition for them to receive. At its heart, the story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots is about persistence and extraordinary achievement.

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POCAHONTAS AND THE ENGLISH BOYS Caught between Cultures in Early Virginia KAREN ORDAHL KUPPERMAN The captivating story of four young people—English and Powhatan—who lived their lives between cultures Here for the first time outside scholarly texts is an accurate portrayal of Pocahontas, who, from the age of ten, acted as emissary for her father, who ruled over the local tribes, alongside the never-before-told intertwined stories of Thomas Savage, Henry Spelman, and Robert Poole, young English boys who were forced to live with powerful Indian leaders to act as intermediaries.

Written by an expert in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Atlantic history, this book unearths gems from the archives—Henry Spelman’s memoir, travel accounts, letters, and official reports and records of meetings of the governor and council in Virginia—and draws on recent archaeology to share the stories of the young people who were key influencers of their day and who are now set to transform our understanding of early Virginia.

Karen Ordhl Kupperman is Silver Professor of History Emerita at New York University.

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January 2021 240 pages • 6 x 9 21 black & white illustrations Paper • $15.95T(£12.99) 9781479805983 Cloth • 9781479825820 History

UPENDING THE IVORY TOWER Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Ivy League STEFAN M. BRADLEY 2019 Outstanding Book Award, History of Education Society 2019 Anna Julia Cooper and C.L.R. James Award, National Council for Black Studies The inspiring story of the black students, faculty, and administrators who forever changed America’s leading educational institutions and paved the way for social justice and racial progress This book attempts to complete the narrative of higher education history, while adding a much needed nuance to the history of the Black Power movement. It tells the stories of those students, professors, staff, and administrators who pushed for change at the risk of losing what privilege they had. This book provides critical context for the Black Lives Matter movement that is growing in the streets and on campuses throughout the country today. As higher education continues to be a catalyst for change, there is no one better to inform today’s activists than those who transformed our country’s past and paved the way for its future.

Stefan M. Bradley is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of African American Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.

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January 2021 480 pages • 6 x 9 15 black & white illustrations Paper • $25.00S(£19.99) 9781479806027 Cloth • 9781479825820 History

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HETEROSEXUAL HISTORIES

Edited by REBECCA L. DAVIS and MICHELE MITCHELL The history of heterosexuality in North America across four centuries Heterosexuality is usually regarded as something inherently “natural”—but what is heterosexuality, and how has it taken shape across the centuries? By challenging ahistorical approaches to the heterosexual subject, Heterosexual Histories constructs a new framework for the history of heterosexuality, examining unexplored assumptions and insisting that not only sex but race, class, gender, age, and geography matter to its past. Each of the fourteen essays in this volume examines the history of heterosexuality from a different angle, seeking to study this topic in a way that recognizes plurality, divergence, and inequity.

Rebecca L. Davis is the Miller Family Early Career Professor of History at the University of Delaware. Her teaching and research focus on the histories of gender, sexuality, and religion in the modern United States.

She is the author of More Perfect Unions: The American Search for Marital Bliss (2010).

She is also a producer of the Sexing History podcast and a Research Associate for the Council on Contemporary Families.

Michele Mitchell is Associate Professor of History at New York University and former North American editor of Gender & History.

She is the author of Righteous Propagation: African Americans and the Politics of Racial Destiny after Reconstruction (2004) and co-editor of Dialogues of Dispersal: Gender, Sexuality, and African Diasporas (2004) and Gender, Imperialism and Global Exchanges (2015). She also serves on the Editorial Board of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History.

February 2021 416 pages • 6 x 9 3 black & white illustrations Paper • 9781479802289 • $35.00S(£27.99) Cloth • 9781479878079 • $99.00X(£82.00) In NYU Series in Social and Cultural Analysis History

Editors Rebecca L. Davis and Michele Mitchell have formed a collection that spans four centuries, addressing the many different racial groups, geographies, and subcultures of heterosexuality in North America. The essays range across disciplines with experts from various fields examining heterosexuality from unique perspectives. Together, they explain how differently earlier Americans understood the varieties of gender and different-sex sexuality, how heterosexuality emerged as a dominant way of describing gender, and how openly many people acknowledged and addressed heterosexuality’s fragility.

By contesting presumptions of heterosexuality’s stability or consistency, Heterosexual Histories opens the historical record to interrogations of the raced, classed, and gendered varieties of heterosexuality and considers the implications of heterosexuality’s multiplicities and changes.

Providing both a sweeping historical survey and concentrated case studies, Heterosexual Histories is a crucial addition to the field of sexuality studies.

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THE INTIMACIES OF CONFLICT Cultural Memory and the Korean War DANIEL Y. KIM Enables a reckoning with the legacy of the Forgotten War through literary and cinematic works of cultural memory Though often considered “the forgotten war,” lost between the end of World War II and the start of the Cold War, the Korean War was, as Daniel Y. Kim argues, a watershed event that fundamentally reshaped both domestic conceptions of race and the interracial dimensions of the global empire that the United States would go on to establish. He uncovers a trail of cultural artefacts that speaks to the trauma experienced by civilians during the conflict but also evokes an expansive web of complicity in the suffering that they endured.

Taking up a range of American popular media from the 1950s, Kim offers a portrait of the Korean War as it looked to Americans while they were experiencing it in real time. Kim expands this archive to read a robust host of fiction from US writers like Susan Choi, Rolando Hinojosa, Toni Morrison, and Chang-rae Lee, and the Korean author Hwang Sok-yong. The multiple and ongoing historical trajectories presented in these works testify to the resurgent afterlife of this event in US cultural memory, and of its lasting impact on multiple racialized populations, both within the US and in Korea. The Intimacies of Conflict offers a robust, multifaceted, and multidisciplinary analysis of the pivotal—but often unacknowledged—consequences of the Korean War in both domestic and transnational histories of race.

"For some reason I've always been fascinated by the 1950s, even as a kid. When I began thinking how I might focus on that period in a project that would address issues of race in a comparative framework the topic of the Korean War came to me in a bit of an epiphany, as did the fact that my own family history, like that of so many Korean Americans, had probably been shaped by this event in unspoken ways."

—Daniel Y. Kim

Daniel Y. Kim is Associate Professor of English at Brown University where he teaches classes in Asian American literature, American literature and Ethnic Studies.

He has also taught as a Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies at Yale University and as a Norman Freehling Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan’s Institute for the Humanities. He is the author of Writing Manhood in Black and Yellow: Ralph Ellison, Frank Chin, and the Literary Politics of Identity (2006) and the co-editor (with Crystal Parikh) of The Cambridge Companion to Asian American Literature (2015). His essays have been published in a number of journals including American Literary History, Criticism, Cross-Currents, Journal of Asian American Studies, Novel, and positions.

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AMERICA AND THE MAKING OF AN INDEPENDENT IRELAND A History

FRANCIS M. CARROLL Examines how the Irish American community, the American public, and the American government played a crucial role in the making of a sovereign independent Ireland Beginning with the Rising of 1916, Francis M. Carroll chronicles how Irish Americans responded to the movement for Irish independence and pressured the US government to intervene on the side of Ireland. Carroll’s in-depth analysis demonstrates that Irish Americans after World War I raised funds for the Dáil Éireann government and for war relief, while shaping public opinion in favor of an independent nation.

January 2021 312 pages • 6 x 9 12 black & white illustrations Cloth • $35.00S(£27.99) 9781479805655 In The Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series History

The book illustrates how the US government was the first power to extend diplomatic recognition to Ireland and welcome it into the international community. Overall, Carroll argues that the existence of the state of Ireland is owed to considerable effort and intervention

by Irish Americans and the American public at large.

Francis M. Carroll is Professor of History Emeritus at St. John’s College, University of Manitoba.

AN EMPIRE TRANSFORMED

Remolding Bodies and Landscapes in the Restoration Atlantic KATE LUCE MULRY Examines the efforts to bring political order to the English empire through projects of environmental improvement When Charles II ascended the English throne in 1660 after two decades of civil war, he was confronted with domestic disarray and a sprawling empire in chaos. By initiating ambitious projects of environmental engineering, agents of the English Restoration government aimed to transform both places and people in service of establishing order.

In this deeply researched work, Kate Mulry highlights a period of innovation during which officials reassessed the purpose of colonies, weighed their benefits and drawbacks, and engineered and instituted a range of activities in relation to subjects’ bodies and material environments. This book is an interdisciplinary work addressing a series of interlocking issues concerning ideas about the environment, governance, and public health in the early modern English Atlantic empire.

January 2021 344 pages • 6 x 9 17 black & white illustrations Cloth • $35.00S(£27.99) 9781479895267 In Early American Places Kate Luce Mulry is Assistant Professor of History at California State University, Bakersfield.

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DIVIDING THE FAITH

The Rise of Segregated Churches in the Early American North RICHARD J. BOLES Uncovers the often overlooked participation of African Americans and Native Americans in early Protestant churches This book argues that, contrary to the traditional scholarly consensus, a significant portion of northern Protestants worshipped in interracial contexts during the eighteenth century. Yet in another fifty years, such an affiliation would become increasingly rare as churches were by-and-large segregated. Richard Boles draws from the records of over four hundred congregations to scrutinize the factors that made different Christian traditions either accessible or inaccessible to African American and American Indian peoples. By including Indians, Afro-Indians, and black people in the study of race and religion in the North, this research breaks new ground and uses patterns of church participation to illuminate broader social histories. Overall, it explains the dynamic history of racial integration and segregation in northern colonies and states.

Richard J. Boles is Assistant Professor of History at the Oklahoma State University.

December 2020 352 pages • 6 x 9 11 black & white illustrations Cloth • $35.00S(£27.99) 9781479803187 In Early American Places History

THE FIERCE LIFE OF GRACE HOLMES CARLSON Catholic, Socialist, Feminist

DONNA T. HAVERTY-STACKE Shares the story of the revolutionary Marxist and Catholic Grace Holmes Carlson and her life-long dedication to challenging social and economic inequality This is a historical biography that examines the story of this complicated woman in the context of her times with a specific focus on her experiences as a member of the working class, as a Catholic, and as a woman. Her story illuminates the workings of class identity within the context of various influences over the course of a lifespan. It contributes to recent historical scholarship exploring the importance of faith in workers’ lives and politics, and uncovers both the possibilities and limitations for working-class and revolutionary Marxist women in the period between the first and second wave feminist movements. The long arc of her life (1906–1992) ultimately reveals significant continuities in her political consciousness that transcended the shifts in her particular partisan commitments, most notably her life-long dedication to challenging the root causes of social and economic inequality.

Donna T. Haverty-Stacke is Associate Professor of History at Hunter College, CUNY.

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EVIL DEEDS IN HIGH PLACES

Christian America's Moral Struggle with Watergate DAVID E. SETTJE Highlights Watergate as a critical turning point in Christian engagement in US politics

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The Watergate scandal was one of the most infamous events in American democratic history. David E. Settje argues that Watergate was a turning point for spurring Christian engagement with politics.

By examining the variety of Protestant Christian experiences—those more conservative, those more liberal, and those in between— and by incorporating analyses of both white and black Christian reactions, the book captures a significant swath of the American population at the time, providing one of the only studies to examine how everyday Americans viewed the events of Watergate. Grasping the dynamics of Christian responses to Watergate enables us to comprehend more completely that volatile moment in US history, and provides important context to make sense of reactions to our more recent political turmoil.

David E. Settje is Professor of History and Director of the Honors Program at Concordia University Chicago.

WHEN THE MEDIUM WAS THE MISSION The Atlantic Telegraph and the Religious Origins of Network Culture JENNA SUPP-MONTGOMERIE An innovative exploration of religion's influence on communication networks The advent of a telegraph cable crossing the Atlantic Ocean was viewed much the way the internet is today, to herald a coming world-wide unification. Public figures in the US imagined this new communication technology in primarily religious terms as offering the means to unite the world and inspire peaceful relations among nations. Religious utopianists saw the telegraph as the dawn of a perfect future.

Religious framing thus dominated the interpretation of the technology’s possibilities, forging an imaginary of networks as connective, so much so that connection is now fundamental to the idea of February 2021 networks. This book tells the story of how connection was made 320 pages • 6 x 9 into the fundamental promise of networks, illuminating the power of 14 black & white illustrations public Protestantism in the first network imaginaries, which continue Paper • $35.00S(£27.99) to resonate today in false expectations of connection.

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LIFEBLOOD OF THE PARISH

Men and Catholic Devotion in Williamsburg, Brooklyn ALYSSA MALDONADO-ESTRADA A New York City ethnography that explores men's unique approaches to Catholic devotion Every Saturday a group of men in old clothes can be found in the basement of the Shrine Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Williamsburg. Each year the parish hosts the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and San Paolino di Nola. Its crowning event is the Dance of the Giglio, where the men lift a seventy-foot tall, four-ton tower through the streets, bearing its weight on their shoulders.

Drawing on six years of research, Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada reveals the making of this Italian American tower, as the men work year-round to prepare for the Feast. She argue that this behind-thescenes activity represents largely overlooked devotional practices, and that paying attention to them sheds new light on how men embody and enact their religiosity in sometimes unexpected ways.

Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion at Kalamazoo College.

December 2020 304 pages • 6 x 9 Paper • $32.00S(£24.99) 9781479830497 Cloth • $89.00X(£74.00) 9781479872244 In North American Religions Religion

THE MAKING OF AMERICAN CATHOLICISM Regional Culture and the Catholic Experience MICHAEL J. PFEIFER Traces the development of Catholic cultures in the South, the Midwest, the West, and the Northeast, and their contribution to larger patterns of Catholicism in the United States Most histories of American Catholicism take a national focus, leading to a homogenization of American Catholicism that misses much of the local complexity that has marked how Catholicism developed differently in different parts of the country. This book argues that regional and transnational relationships have been central to the development of American Catholicism. Exploring the history of Catholic cultures in New Orleans, Iowa, Wisconsin, Los Angeles, and New York City, the volume assesses the role of region in American Catholic history, carefully exploring the development of American Catholic cultures across the continental United States. Drawing on extensive archival research, The Making of American Catholicism argues that American Catholicism developed as transnational Catholics creatively adapted their devotional and ideological practices in particular American regional contexts.

Michael J. Pfeifer is Professor of History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the CUNY Graduate Center.

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WOMEN IN RELIGIONS SERIES General Editor­

CATHERINE WESSINGER

Loyola University New Orleans While women have been active within their religions for millennia, our understandings of women's contributions to their faith communities, as well as the ways in which religious worldviews have helped to shape cultural gender roles, have only fairly recently become the subject of research.

Further, the exploration of the role of women in various religions can be seen as yet another means of expanding our general understanding of experiences of religion around the world, thus hopefully leading to more tolerance and acceptance of diversity in our increasingly multicultural societies.

This carefully curated series offers volumes on women in selected religious traditions ranging from Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Chinese religions, Japanese religions, and New Religious Movements. Each book provides a short, single-authored, very accessible introduction to women and their roles, representations, and challenges within that religious tradition.

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THEORY OF WOMEN IN RELIGIONS CATHERINE WESSINGER

An introduction to the study of women in diverse religious cultures This book offers an economic model to shed light on the forces that have affected the respective statuses of women and men from the earliest developmental stages of society through the present day.

Catherine Wessinger integrates data and theories from anthropology, archaeology, sociology, history, gender studies, and psychology into a concise history of the complex relationship between gender and religion. She argues that the socio-economic factors that support specific gender roles, in conjunction with religious norms and ideals, have created a gendered division of labor that both directly and indirectly reinforce gender inequality. Yet she also highlights how, as the socio-economic situation is changing, religion is used to support the transition toward women's equality, noting the ways in which many religious representations of gender change over time.

Catherine Wessinger is the Rev. H. James Yamauchi, S.J. Professor in the History of Religions in the Religious Studies Department at Loyola University New Orleans.

December 2020 224 pages • 6 x 9 11 black & white illustrations Paper • $22.00S(£17.99) 9781479809462 Cloth • $89.00X(£74.00) 9781479899197 In Women in Religions Religion

WOMEN IN BUDDHIST TRADITIONS KARMA LEKSHE TSOMO

A new history of Buddhism that highlights the insights and experiences of women from diverse communities and traditions around the world Buddhist traditions have extended over a period of twenty-five centuries, and recent decades have seen an unprecedented spread of Buddhism globally. From India to Japan, Sri Lanka to Russia, Buddhist traditions around the world have their own rich and diverse histories, cultures, religious lives, and roles for women.

This book chronicles pivotal moments in the history of Buddhist women, from the beginning of Buddhist history until today. The book highlights the unique contributions of Buddhist women from a variety of backgrounds and the strategies they have developed to challenge patriarchy in the process of creating an enlightened society.

Karma Lekshe Tsomo is Professor of Religion at the University of San Diego.

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THE DIVIDED MIND OF THE BLACK CHURCH Theology, Piety, and Public Witness RAPHAEL G. WARNOCK A revealing look at the identity and mission of the black church What is the true nature and mission of the church?

Is its proper Christian purpose to save souls, or to transform the social order? This question is especially fraught when the church is one built by an enslaved people and formed, from its beginning, at the center of an oppressed community’s fight for personhood and freedom. Such is the central tension in the identity and mission of the black church in the United States.

Reverend Dr. Raphael G. Warnock serves as Senior Pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia.

For decades the black church and black theology have held each other at arm’s length. Black theology has emphasized the role of Christian faith in addressing racism and other forms of oppression, arguing that Jesus urged his disciples to seek the freedom of all peoples. Meanwhile, the black church, even when focused on social concerns, has often emphasized personal piety rather than social protest. With the rising influence of white evangelicalism, biblical fundamentalism, and the prosperity gospel, the divide has become even more pronounced.

In The Divided Mind of the Black Church, Raphael G. Warnock, Senior Pastor of the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, the spiritual home of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., traces the historical significance of the rise and development of black theology as an important conversation partner for the black church. Calling for honest dialogue between black and womanist theologians and black pastors, this fresh theological treatment demands a new look at the church’s essential mission.

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"The book read as an altar call to action that honors the liberationist roots of a global church community, regardless of race or gender."

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THE DARK FANTASTIC Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games EBONY ELIZABETH THOMAS Reveals the diversity crisis in children's and young adult media as not only a lack of representation, but a lack of imagination Stories provide portals into other worlds, both real and imagined. The promise of escape draws people from all backgrounds to speculative fiction, but when people of color seek passageways into the fantastic, the doors are often barred. This problem lies not only with children’s publishing, but also with the television and film executives tasked with adapting these stories into a visual world.

When characters of color do appear, they are often marginalized or subjected to violence, reinforcing for audiences that not all lives matter.

The Dark Fantastic is an engaging and provocative exploration of race in popular youth and young adult speculative fiction. Grounded in her experiences as YA novelist, fanfiction writer, and scholar of education, Thomas considers four black girl protagonists from some of the most popular stories of the early 21st century: Bonnie Bennett from the CW’s The Vampire Diaries, Rue from Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games, Gwen from the BBC’s Merlin, and Angelina Johnson from J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter. Analyzing their narratives and audience reactions to them reveals how these characters mirror the violence against black and brown people in our own world.

In response, Thomas uncovers and builds upon a tradition of fantasy and radical imagination in Black feminism and Afrofuturism to reveal new possibilities. Through fanfiction and other modes of counter-storytelling, young people of color have reinvisioned fantastic worlds that reflect their own experiences, their own lives. As Thomas powerfully asserts, “we dark girls deserve more, because we are more.”

"One of the most radiant and thoughtprovoking descriptions of the potentials of fantastic literature."

—LA Review of Books

Ebony Elizabeth Thomas is Associate Professor in the Literacy, Culture, and International Educational Division at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education. A former Detroit Public Schools teacher and National Academy of Education/ Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, she is an expert on diversity in children’s literature, youth media, and fan studies.

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THE SMELL OF RISK

Environmental Disparities and Olfactory Aesthetics HSUAN L. HSU A timely exploration of how odor seeps into structural inequality Our sense of smell is a uniquely visceral—and personal—form of experience. This book outlines the many ways that our differentiated atmospheres unevenly distribute environmental risk. Reading everything from nineteenth-century detective fiction and naturalist novels to contemporary performance art and memoir, Hsuan L. Hsu takes up modernity’s differentiated atmospheres as a subject worth sniffing out. From the industrial revolution to current-day environmental crises, Hsu uses ecocriticism, geography, and critical race studies to, for example, explore Latinx communities exposed to freeway exhaust and pesticides, Asian diasporic artists’ response to racialized discourse about Asiatic odors, and the devastation settler colonialism has reaped on Indigenous smellscapes. Hsu takes smell December 2020 at face value to offer an evocative retelling of urbanization, public 272 pages • 6 x 9 13 black & white illustrations health, and environmental violence.

Paper • $30.00S(£23.99) 9781479810093 Cloth • $89.00X(£74.00) 9781479807215 Hsuan L. Hsu is Professor of English at Concordia University in Montreal.

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GOWANUS

Brooklyn’s Curious Canal JOSEPH ALEXIOU The surprising history of the Gowanus Canal and its role in the building of Brooklyn For more than 150 years, Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal has been called a cesspool, a blemish, but also is one of the most important waterways in the history of New York harbor. Joseph Alexiou explores how the Gowanus creek—a naturally-occurring tidal estuary that served as a conduit for transport and industry during the colonial era— came to play an outsized role in the story of America’s greatest city.

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Highlighting the biographies of nineteenth-century real estate moguls like Daniel Richards and Edwin C. Litchfield, Alexiou recalls the forgotten movers and shakers that laid the foundation of modern-day Brooklyn. As he details, the pollution, crime, and industry associated with the Gowanus stretch back far earlier than the twentieth century, and helped define the culture and unique character of this celebrated borough. The story of the Gowanus, like Brooklyn itself, is a tale of ambition and neglect, bursts of creative energy, and an inimitable character that has captured the imaginations of city-lovers around the world.

Joseph Alexiou is the author of the sixth edition of Paris for Dummies and a licensed New York City tour guide.

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THE SUSTAINABILITY MYTH Environmental Gentrification and the Politics of Justice MELISSA CHECKER Uncovers the hidden costs and contradictions of sustainable policies in an era driven by real estate development From state-of-the-art parks to rooftop gardens, efforts to transform New York City’s unsightly industrial waterfronts into green, urban oases have received much public attention. In The Sustainability Myth, Melissa Checker uncovers the hidden costs—and contradictions—of the city’s ambitious sustainability agenda in light of its equally ambitious redevelopment imperatives.

Focusing on industrial waterfronts and historically underserved places like Harlem and Staten Island’s North Shore, Checker takes an in-depth look at the dynamics of environmental gentrification, documenting the symbiosis between eco-friendly initiatives and high-end redevelopment and its impact on out-of-the-way, non-gentrifying neighborhoods. At the same time, she highlights the valiant efforts of local environmental justice activists who work across racial, economic, and political divides to challenge sustainability’s false promises and create truly viable communities.

Melissa Checker is the Hagedorn Professor of Urban Studies at Queens College. She is co-editor of Local Actions: Cultural Activism, Power, and Public Life. She is donating all of her proceeds from this book to the Hyde and Aragon Park Improvement Committee.

The Sustainability Myth is a cautionary, eye-opening tale, taking a hard—but ultimately hopeful—look at environmental justice activism and the politics of sustainability.

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THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ARDEN ROWELL and KENWORTHEY BILZ With a Preface by LINDA J. DEMAINE Offers psychological insights into how people perceive, respond to, value, and make decisions about the environment

February 2021 336 pages • 6 x 9 1 black & white illustration Paper $38.00S(£31.00) 9781479891863 Cloth • $99.00S(£82.00) 9781479812301 In Psychology and the Law Psychology

When environmental law fails to incorporate insights from psychology, it risks misunderstanding and mispredicting human behaviors that may injure or otherwise affect the environment, and misprescribing legal tools to shape or mitigate those behaviors. This book provides key insights regarding how psychology can inform, explain, and improve how environmental law operates. It offers concrete analyses of the theoretical and practical payoffs in pollution control, ecosystem management, and climate change law and policy when psychological insights are taken into account.

Arden Rowell is Professor of Law at the University of Illinois College of Law. Kenworthey Bilz is Professor of Law at the College of Law at the University of Illinois.

CRISIS LAWYERING

Effective Legal Advocacy in Emergency Situations Edited by RAY BRESCIA and ERIC K. STERN Shines a light on the emerging field of law dedicated to responding to and resolving the crises of the twenty-first century In an increasingly globalized world, a complex and interlocking web of nations, governments, non-state actors, laws, and rules affect human behavior. When crisis hits—whether that be extrajudicial detention, unprompted deportation, pandemics, or natural disasters—lawyers are increasingly among the first responders, equipped with the knowledge necessary to navigate the regulations of this ever more complex world. Crisis Lawyering shines a light on the emerging field of law dedicated to responding to and resolving the complex crises of the twenty-first century.

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Ray Brescia is the Honorable Harold R. Tyler Chair in Law and Technology and Professor of Law at Albany Law School. Eric K. Stern is Professor at the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity at the University at Albany, SUNY.

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LIVING APART TOGETHER

Legal Protections for a New Form of Family CYNTHIA GRANT BOWMAN Argues for legal reforms to protect couples who live apart but perform many of the functions of a family Living Apart Together is an in-depth look at a new way of being a couple and “doing family”—living apart together (LAT)—in which committed couples maintain separate residences and finances. In Cynthia Grant Bowman’s own 2016 national survey, 9% of respondents reported maintaining committed relationships while living apart, typically spending the weekend together, socializing together, taking vacations together, and looking after one another in illness, but maintaining financial independence. She finds that while these living arrangements are more common than previously believed, there are virtually no legal protections for the people involved.

Bowman concludes by proposing a number of legal reforms to support the caregiving functions LAT partners perform for each other.

Living Apart Together makes an important case for formal recognition of this growing but largely overlooked family structure.

Cynthia Grant Bowman is the Dorothea S. Clarke Professor of Law at Cornell Law School.

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DIVORCE IN CHINA

Institutional Constraints and Gendered Outcomes XIN HE Why are women still at a disadvantage in Chinese divorce courts?

Despite the increase of gender consciousness in Chinese society and a trove of legislation to protect women, why are Chinese women still disadvantaged in divorce courts? Xin He argues that institutional constraints to which judges are subject, a factor largely ignored by existing literature, play a crucial role. This book is the only study of Chinese divorce cases based on fieldwork and interviews conducted inside Chinese courtrooms over the course of a decade. With an unusual vantage point, He offers a rare and unfiltered view of the operation of Chinese courts in the authoritarian regime. Through a socio-legal perspective highlighting the richness, sophistication, and cutting-edge nature of the research, Divorce in China is as much an account of Chinese courts in action as a social ethnography of China in the midst of momentous social change.

Xin He is Professor of Law at Hong Kong University.

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MULTIRACIALS AND CIVIL RIGHTS Mixed-Race Stories of Discrimination TANYA KATERÍ HERNÁNDEZ Narratives of mixed-race people bringing claims of racial discrimination in court, illuminating traditional understandings of civil rights law

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As the mixed-race population in the United States grows, public fascination with multiracial identity has promoted the belief that racial mixture will destroy racism. However, multiracial people still face discrimination. In Multiracials and Civil Rights, Tanya Katerí Hernández draws on a plethora of court cases to demonstrate that multiracials face the same types of discrimination as other racial groups. Hernández argues that multiracial people are primarily targeted for discrimination due to their non-whiteness, and shows how the cases highlight the need to support the existing legal structures instead of a new understanding of civil rights law.

Coming at a time when explicit racism is resurfacing, Hernández’s look at multiracial discrimination cases is essential for fortifying the focus of civil rights law on racial privilege.

Tanya Katerí Hernández is the Archibald R. Murray Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law.

STORIES FROM TRAILBLAZING WOMEN LAWYERS Lives in the Law

JILL NORGREN The captivating story of how a diverse group of women, including Janet Reno and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, broke the glass ceiling and changed the modern legal profession

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In this book, award-winning legal historian Jill Norgren curates the oral histories of one hundred extraordinary American women lawyers who changed the profession of law. Many of these stories are being told for the first time. As adults these women were on the front lines fighting for access to law schools and good legal careers.

They challenged established rules and broke the law’s glass ceiling.

Norgren uses these interviews to describe the profound changes that began in the late 1960s, interweaving social and legal history with the women’s individual experiences. These are women attorneys who, in courtrooms, classrooms, government agencies, and NGOs have rattled the world with insistent and successful demands to reshape their profession and their society. They are women who brought nothing short of a revolution to the profession of law.

Jill Norgren is Professor Emerita of Political Science at John Jay College and the Graduate Center, The City University of New York.

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GAMING SEXISM

Gender and Identity in the Era of Casual Video Games AMANDA C. COTE Interviews with female gamers about structural sexism across the gaming landscape Across in-depth interviews with women-identified gamers, Amanda C. Cote delves into the conflict between diversification and resistance to understand their impact on gaming, both casual and “core” alike. From video game magazines to male reactions to female opponents, she explores the shifting expectations about who gamers are, perceived changes in gaming spaces, and the experiences of female gamers amidst this gendered turmoil.

While Cote reveals extensive, persistent problems in gaming spaces, she also emphasizes the power of this motivated, marginalized audience, and draws on their experiences to explore how structural inequalities in gaming spaces can be overcome. Gaming Sexism is a well-timed investigation of equality, power, and control over the future of technology.

Amanda C. Cote is Assistant Professor of Media Studies/Games Studies in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon.

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THE FUTURE OF TECH IS FEMALE How to Achieve Gender Diversity DOUGLAS M. BRANSON An accessible and timely guide to increasing female presence and leadership in tech companies Tech giants like Apple and Google are among the fastest growing companies in the world, leading innovations in design and development. The industry continues to see rapid growth, employing millions of people. So why is it that only 5% of senior executives in the tech industry are female?

This book considers the paradoxes involved in women’s ascent to leadership roles. Across his 15 years of experience in the industry, Douglas M. Branson unpacks the plethora of reasons women should hold leadership roles, both in and out of this industry, concluding with a call to reform attitudes toward women in one particular IT branch, the video and computer gaming field, a gateway to many STEM futures. An invaluable resource for anyone invested in gender equality in corporate governance, The Future of Tech is Female lays out the first steps toward a more diverse future for women in tech leadership.

Douglas M. Branson is the W. Edward Sell Chair at the University of Pittsburgh.

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RACE AND MEDIA Critical Approaches

Edited by LORI KIDO LOPEZ A foundational collection of essays that demonstrate how to study race and media From graphic footage of migrant children in cages to #BlackLivesMatter and #OscarsSoWhite, portrayals and discussions of race dominate the media landscape. Race and Media adopts a wide range of methods to make sense of specific occurrences, from the corporate portrayal of mixed-race identity by 23andMe to the cosmopolitan fetishization of Marie Kondo. As a whole, this collection demonstrates that all forms of media—from the sitcoms we stream to the Twitter feeds we follow—confirm racism and reinforce its ideological frameworks, while simultaneously giving space for new modes of resistance and understanding.

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In each chapter, a leading media scholar elucidates a set of foundational concepts in the study of race and media—such as the burden of representation, discourses of racialization, multiculturalism, hybridity, and the visuality of race.

Lori Kido Lopez is Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies in the Communication Arts Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

HORRIBLE WHITE PEOPLE

Gender, Genre, and Television's Precarious Whiteness TAYLOR NYGAARD and JORIE LAGERWEY Examines the bleak television comedies that illustrate the obsession of the white left with its own anxiety and suffering American and British programming that featured the abjection of young, middle-class, liberal white people—such as Broad City, Casual, You’re the Worst, Catastrophe, Fleabag, and Transparent— proliferated to wide popular acclaim in the 2010s. This book tracks how these shows of the white left, obsessed with its own anxiety and suffering, are complicit in the rise and maintenance of the far right— particularly in the mobilization, representation, and sustenance of structural white supremacy on television.

This book examine a cycle of dark television comedies, the focus of which are “horrible white people,” by putting them in conversation with similar upmarket comedies from creators and casts of color like Insecure, Atlanta, Dear White People, and Master of None.

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Taylor Nygaard is a Faculty Associate in the Department of English’s Film and Media Studies division at Arizona State University. Jorie Lagerwey is Lecturer in Television Studies at University College Dublin.

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AFTER OBAMA

African American Politics in a Post-Obama Era Edited by TODD C. SHAW, ROBERT A. BROWN, and JOSEPH P. MCCORMICK II Examines the complicated political legacy of our first Black president Written during the presidency of Donald Trump, After Obama examines the impact President Barack Obama and his administration have continued to have upon African American politics.

Contributors focus on a wide range of topics, including how President Obama affected aspects of African American politics, how his public policies influenced the quality of Black citizenship and life, and what future administrations can learn from his experiences. A timely and thorough work, After Obama provides the first examination of the Obama administration in its entirety, and the lasting impact it has had on African American politics.

Todd C. Shaw is the College of Arts & Sciences Distinguished Associate Professor of Political Science and African American Studies at the University of South Carolina. Robert A. Brown is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia. Joseph P. McCormick II is twice retired from Howard University (Associate Professor of Political Science) and the York campus of the Pennsylvania State University (Emeritus Director of Academic Affairs).

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DEMOCRATIC FAILURE NOMOS LXIII

Edited by MELISSA SCHWARTZBERG and DANIEL VIEHOFF Explores the challenges facing democracies in the twenty-first century In Democratic Failure, Melissa Schwartzberg and Daniel Viehoff bring together a distinguished group of interdisciplinary scholars in political science, law, and philosophy to explore the key questions and challenges facing democracies, both in the past and present, around the world. In ten timely essays, contributors examine the fascinating, centuries-old question of whether or not democracy can ever fulfill the promise of its ideals. Together, they explore lessons from the history of democracy, various failures of democratic representation, and more.

Ultimately, this latest installment of the NOMOS series provides thought-provoking insights into how we conceptualize, measure, and address democratic erosion in our present-day world.

Melissa Schwartzberg is Silver Professor of Politics at New York University. Daniel Viehoff is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at New York University.

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KEYWORDS

Collaborative in design and execution, the books in the Keywords series bring together scholars across a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, with each essay on a single term to help trace the contours and debates of a particular field. Keywords are the nodal points in many of today’s most dynamic and vexed discussions of political and social life, both inside and outside of the academy. Providing accessible A-to-Z surveys of prevailing scholarly concepts, the books serve as flexible tools for carving out new areas of inquiry.

KEYWORDS.NYUPRESS.ORG KEYWORDS FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES Edited by ERICA R. EDWARDS, RODERICK A. FERGUSON, and JEFFREY O.G. OGBAR

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KEYWORDS FOR ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES Edited by CATHY J. SCHLUNDVIALS, LINDA TRINH VÕ, and K. SCOTT WONG

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KEYWORDS FOR DISABILITY STUDIES

KEYWORDS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Edited by RACHEL ADAMS, BENJAMIN REISS, and DAVID SERLIN

Edited by JONI ADAMSON, WILLIAM A. GLEASON, and DAVID N. PELLOW

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KEYWORDS FOR LATINA/O STUDIES

KEYWORDS FOR MEDIA STUDIES

Edited by DEBORAH R. VARGAS, NANCY RAQUEL MIRABAL, and LAWRENCE LA FOUNTAIN-STOKES

Edited by LAURIE OUELLETTE and JONATHAN GRAY

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KEYWORDS FOR AMERICAN CULTURAL STUDIES, THIRD EDITION Edited by BRUCE BURGETT and GLENN HENDLER

A timely, wide-ranging, expanded, and updated vocabulary for American Cultural Studies Designed as a uniquely print-digital hybrid publication, this Keywords volume collects 114 essays, each focused on a single term such as “America,” “culture,” “diversity,” or “religion.” More than forty of the essays have been significantly revised for this new edition, and there are nineteen completely new keywords, including crucial additions such as “biopolitics,” “data,” “debt,” and “intersectionality.” The Keywords website features forty-eight essays not in the print volume; it also provides pedagogical tools for instructors using print and online keywords in their courses.

Some entries are explicitly argumentative; others are more descriptive. All are clear, challenging, and critically engaged. As a whole, Keywords for American Cultural Studies provides an accessible A-to-Z survey of prevailing academic buzzwords and a flexible tool for carving out new areas of inquiry.

Bruce Burgett is Dean and Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences at University of Washington Bothell. Glenn Hendler is Professor of English and American Studies at Fordham University.

November 2020 368 pages • 8 x 8.5 Paper • $28.00S(£21.99) 9781479822942 Cloth • $89.00X(£74.00) 9781479897964 Previous Edition • Paper 9780814708019 In Keywords Cultural Studies

KEYWORDS FOR CHILDREN'S LITERATURE, SECOND EDITION

Edited by PHILIP NEL, LISSA PAUL, and NINA CHRISTENSEN An updated vocabulary for children’s literature and culture Mapping this vibrant scholarship, the Second Edition of Keywords for Children’s Literature presents original essays on essential terms and concepts in the field. Covering ideas from “Aesthetics” to “Voice,” an impressive multidisciplinary cast of scholars explores and expands on the vocabulary central to the study of children’s literature.

All authors trace their keyword’s uses and meanings: from translation to poetry, taboo to diversity, and trauma to nostalgia, the book’s scope, clarity, and interdisciplinary play between concepts make this new edition of Keywords for Children’s Literature essential reading for scholars and students alike.

Philip Nel is University Distinguished Professor of English at Kansas State University. Lissa Paul is a Professor at Brock University in the Niagra Region of Canada. Nina Christensen is Professor of Children's Literature at Centre for Children's Literature and Media, Aarhus University, Denmark.

January 2021 296 pages • 8 x 8.5 Paper • $28.00S(£21.99) 9781479899678 Cloth • $89.00X(£74.00) 9781479843695 Previous Edition • Paper 9780814758557 In Keywords Literary Studies

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A QUEER NEW YORK Geographies of Lesbians, Dykes, and Queers JEN JACK GIESEKING The first lesbian and queer historical geography of New York City Over the past few decades, rapid gentrification in New York City has led to the disappearance of many lesbian and queer spaces, displacing some of the most marginalized members of the LGBTQ+ community. In A Queer New York, Jen Jack Gieseking highlights the historic significance of these spaces, mapping the political, economic, and geographic dispossession of an important, thriving community that once called certain New York neighborhoods home.

Jen Jack Gieseking is Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Kentucky and editor of The People, Place, and Space Reader.

Focusing on well-known neighborhoods like Greenwich Village, Park Slope, Bedford-Stuyvesant, and Crown Heights, Gieseking shows how lesbian and queer neighborhoods have folded under the capitalist influence of white, wealthy gentrifiers who have ultimately failed to make room for them.

Nevertheless, they highlight the ways lesbian and queer communities have succeeded in carving out spaces—and lives—in a city that has consistently pushed its most vulnerable citizens away.

Beautifully written, A Queer New York is an eye-opening account of how lesbians and queers have survived in the face of twenty-first century gentrification and urban development.

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STILL STRAIGHT

Sexual Flexibility among White Men in Rural America TONY SILVA Why some straight men have sex with other men Why do some straight men in rural America have sex with other men? In Still Straight, Tony Silva convincingly argues that these men—many of whom enjoy hunting, fishing, and shooting guns— are not gay, bisexual, or “just experimenting.” As he shows, these men can enjoy a range of relationships with other men, from hookups to sexual friendships to secretive loving partnerships, all while strongly identifying with straight culture.

Drawing on riveting interviews with straight white men who live in rural America, Silva explores the fascinating, and unexpected, disconnect between sexual behavior and identity. Some use sex with men to bond with other men in an acceptably masculine way; some are not particularly attracted to men, but are wary of emotional attachment with women; and others view sex with men—as opposed to women—as a more acceptable form of extramarital sexual behavior.

Tony Silva is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of British Columbia.

Taking us inside the lives of straight white men who have sex with other men, Still Straight shows us that heterosexuality in rural America is not always, in fact, what it seems.

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REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS AS HUMAN RIGHTS

Women of Color and the Fight for Reproductive Justice ZAKIYA LUNA Reveals both the promise and the pitfalls associated with a human rights approach to the women of color-focused reproductive rights activism of SisterSong How did reproductive justice—defined as the right to have children, to not have children, and to parent—become recognized as a human rights issue? This book highlights the often-forgotten activism of women of color who are largely responsible for creating what we now know as the modern-day reproductive justice movement.

September 2020 320 pages • 6 x 9 4 black & white illustrations Paper • $35.00S(£27.99) 9781479831296 Cloth • $99.00X(£82.00) 9781479852024 Women's Studies

Focusing on SisterSong, an intersectional reproductive justice organization, Luna shows how, and why, women of color mobilized around reproductive rights in the domestic arena. She examines their key role in re-framing reproductive rights as human rights, raising this set of issues as a priority in the United States, a country hostile to the concept of human rights at home.

Zakiya Luna is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Feminist Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara.

FREEZING FERTILITY

Oocyte Cryopreservation and the Gender Politics of Aging LUCY VAN DE WIEL Analyzes how the possibility of egg freezing changes what it means to be fertile and to age in the 21st century Beyond an individual reproductive choice for people who may want to have children later in life, Freezing Fertility explores how the rise of egg freezing also reveals broader cultural, political and economic negotiations about reproductive politics, gender inequities, age normativities and the financialization of healthcare. Van de Wiel investigates these issues by analyzing a wide range of sources— varying from sparkly online platforms to heart-breaking court cases and intimate autobiographical accounts—that are emblematic of OPEN ACCESS AT OPENeach stage of the egg freezing procedure. By following the egg’s SQUARE.NYUPRESS.ORG journey, Freezing Fertility examines how contemporary egg freezing & OTHER OA PLATFORMS practices both reflect broader social, regulatory and economic December 2020 power asymmetries and repoliticize fertility and aging in ways that 368 pages • 6 x 9 affect the public at large. In doing so, the book explores how the 11 black & white illustrations possibility of egg freezing shifts our relation to the beginning and Paper • $35.00S(£27.99) end of life.

9781479817900 Cloth • $99.00X(£82.00) 9781479877584 Lucy van de Wiel is a Research Associate in the Reproductive Sociology In Biopolitics Research Group (ReproSoc) at the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge.

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THE BUSINESS OF BIRTH

Malpractice and Maternity Care in the United States LOUISE MARIE ROTH How the fear of malpractice affects mothers and reproductive choices Giving birth is a monumental event, not only in the personal life of the woman giving birth, but as a medical process and procedure.

In The Business of Birth, Louise Marie Roth explores the process of giving birth, and the ways in which medicine and law interact to shape maternity care.

Focusing on the United States, Roth explores how the law creates an environment where medical providers, malpractice attorneys, and others limit women’s rights and choices during birth. She shows how a fear of liability risk often drives the decision-making process of medical providers, who prioritize hospital efficiency over patient safety, to the detriment of mothers themselves.

Louise Marie Roth is Professor of Sociology at University of Arizona.

February 2021 336 pages • 6 x 9 47 black & white illustrations Paper • $35.00S(£27.99) 9781479877089 Cloth • $99.00X(£82.00) 9781479812257 Sociology

UNEXPECTED

Parenting, Prenatal Testing, and Down Syndrome ALISON PIEPMEIER with GEORGE ESTREICH and RACHEL ADAMS What prenatal tests and Down syndrome reveal about our reproductive choices When Alison Piepmeier—scholar of feminism and disability studies, and mother of Maybelle, an eight-year-old girl with Down syndrome—died of cancer in August 2016, she left behind an important unfinished manuscript about motherhood, prenatal testing, and disability. In Unexpected, George Estreich and Rachel Adams pick up where she left off, honoring the important research of their friend and colleague, as well as adding new perspectives to her work.

Based on interviews with parents of children with Down syndrome, as well as women who terminated their pregnancies because their fetus was identified as having the condition, Unexpected paints an intimate, nuanced picture of reproductive choice in today’s world.

Alison Piepmeier directed the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina, where she was Associate Professor of English. George Estreich is the author of Fables and Futures: Biotechnology, Disability. Rachel Adams is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.

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THE WORLD IS OUR CLASSROOM Extreme Parenting and the Rise of Worldschooling JENNIE GERMANN MOLZ How travelling the world allows new ways to educate children and perform family life on the move

February 2021 288 pages • 6 x 9 1 black & white illustration Paper • $30.00S(£23.99) 9781479834075 Cloth • $89.00X(£74.00) 9781479891689 In Critical Perspectives on Youth Sociology

A growing number of families are selling their houses, quitting their jobs, and taking their children out of traditional school settings to educate them while traveling the globe. Drawing on interviews with parents and stories from the blogs they publish during their journeys, as well as her own experience traveling the world with her ten-year-old son, Jennie Germann Molz shows why many parents— disillusioned with standard public schooling—believe the world is a child’s best classroom. Rebelling against convention, these parents combine technology and travel to pursue a different version of the good life. Ultimately, she sheds light on the emerging phenomenon of “worldschooling,” showing that it is not just an alternative way to educate children, but an altogether new kind of mobile lifestyle.

This book paints an extreme portrait of twenty-first century parenting and some families’ attempts to raise global citizens prepared to thrive in the uncertain world of tomorrow.

Jennie Germann Molz is Professor of Sociology at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.

FRONT OF THE HOUSE, BACK OF THE HOUSE Race and Inequality in the Lives of Restaurant Workers ELI REVELLE YANO WILSON How workers navigate race, gender, and class in the food service industry Two unequal worlds of work exist within the upscale restaurant scene of Los Angeles. White, college-educated servers operate in the front of the house—also known as the public areas of the restaurant—while Latino immigrants toil in the back of the house and out of customer view.

December 2020 224 pages • 6 x 9 Paper • $28.00S(£21.99) 9781479800629 Cloth • $89.00X(£74.00) 9781479800612 In Latina/o Sociology Latinx Studies | Sociology

Drawing on research at three different high-end restaurants in Los Angeles, this book highlights why these inequalities persist in the twenty-first century, pointing to discriminatory hiring and supervisory practices that ultimately grant educated whites access to the most desirable positions. Additionally, it shows us how workers navigate these inequalities under the same roof, making sense of their jobs, their identities, and each other in a world that reinforces their separateness.

Eli Revelle Yano Wilson is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of New Mexico.

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IRAQI REFUGEES IN THE UNITED STATES The Enduring Effects of the War on Terror KEN R. CRANE How Iraqi refugees navigate life, belonging, and exclusion in America The US invasion of Iraq in 2003 caused the largest forced migration in the Middle East since 1948, with millions of people fleeing to Syria, Jordan, Turkey, Iran, EU, Australia and the United States.

Drawing on numerous interviews and fieldwork, Ken R. Crane explores the diverse experiences of a community of Iraqi refugees, showing how they have struggled to negotiate their place in the wake of mass displacement. He highlights the promise of belonging, as well as their many painful encounters with exclusion. As debates about immigration and refugee status continue to play out in headlines and the courts, Iraqi Refugees in the United States provides important insight into the global refugee crisis.

Ken R. Crane is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Global Studies at La Sierra University.

February 2021 208 pages • 6 x 9 Paper • $28.00S(£21.99) 9781479886906 Cloth • $89.00X(£74.00) 9781479873944 Sociology

CREATING THE CREATION MUSEUM How Fundamentalist Beliefs Come to Life KATHLEEN C. OBERLIN Investigates how the Christian fundamentalist movement brings Creationism into the mainstream through a Kentucky museum This book shows us how the largest Creationist organization, Answers in Genesis (AiG), built a museum—which has had over three million visitors—to make its movement mainstream. Kathleen C. Oberlin takes us behind the scenes with over three years of research at the Creation Museum, Oberlin examines how the museum convincingly reframes scientific facts, such as modeling itself on traditional natural history museums. Through a unique historical dataset of over 1,000 internal documents from creationist organizations and an analysis of media coverage, Creating the Creation Museum shows how the museum works as a site of social movement activity and a place to contest the secular mainstream. Oberlin ultimately argues that the Creation Museum has real-world consequences in today’s polarized era.

Kathleen C. Oberlin is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Grinnell College.

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BEYOND THE SYNAGOGUE Jewish Nostalgia as Religious Practice RACHEL B. GROSS Reveals nostalgia as a new way of maintaining Jewish continuity Beyond the Synagogue argues that nostalgic activities such as visiting the Museum at Eldridge Street or eating traditional Jewish foods should be understood as American Jewish religious practices.

In making the case that these practices are not just cultural, but actually religious, Rachel B. Gross asserts that many prominent sociologists and historians have mistakenly concluded that American Judaism is in decline, and she contends that they are looking in the wrong places for Jewish religious activity. Tracing American Jews’ involvement in a broad array of ostensibly nonreligious activities, including conducting Jewish genealogical research, visiting Jewish historic sites, purchasing books and toys that teach Jewish nostalgia to children, and seeking out traditional Jewish foods, Gross argues that these practices illuminate how many American Jews are finding and making meaning within American Judaism today.

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Holocaust Tourism and the Meaning of Remembrance DANIEL P. REYNOLDS The uneasy link between tourism and collective memory at Holocaust museums and memorials

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Each year, millions of people visit Holocaust memorials and museums, with the number of tourists steadily on the rise. In Postcards from Auschwitz, Daniel P. Reynolds argues that tourism to former concentration camps, ghettos, and other places associated with the Nazi genocide of European Jewry has become an increasingly vital component in the evolving collective remembrance of the Holocaust. Reynolds provides a historically-informed account of the different forces that have shaped Holocaust tourism since 1945, including Cold War politics, the sudden emergence of the "memory boom" beginning in the 1980s, and the awareness that eyewitnesses to the Holocaust are passing away. This book reveals how tourism is an important part of efforts to understand and remember the Holocaust, an event that continues to challenge ideals about humanity and our capacity to learn from the past.

December 2020 336 pages • 6 x 9 20 black & white illustrations Paper • $25.00S(£19.99) 9781479806034 Cloth • 9781479860432 Daniel P. Reynolds is Seth Richards Professor in Modern Languages in the Jewish Studies German Department at Grinnell College, Iowa.

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ANCIENT TAXATION

The Mechanics of Extraction in Comparative Perspective Edited by JONATHAN VALK and IRENE SOTO MARÍN A collection of studies that explore the extractive systems of twelve ancient states and societies from across the ancient world The studies collected in Ancient Taxation explore the extractive systems of twelve ancient states and societies from across the ancient world, ranging from Bronze Age China to Anglo-Saxon Britain.

Together, the contributors explore the challenges of taxation in predominantly agro-pastoral societies, including basic tax strategy, assessment and collection, compliance, and negotiating the cooperation of social, economic, and political elites or other critical social groups. By assembling such a broad range of studies, the book sheds new light on the commonalities and differences between ancient taxation systems, highlighting how studying taxes can shed light on the fiscal and institutional practices of antiquity. It also provides new impetus for comparative research, both between ancient societies and between ancient and modern extractive practices.

Jonathan Valk is University Lecturer in Assyriology at the University of Leiden. Irene Soto Marín is Junior Assistant Professor of Ancient History at the University of Basel.

January 2021 352 pages • 8.5 x 11 4 black & white and 2 color illustrations Cloth • $75.00X(£62.00) 9781479806195 In ISAW Monographs Ancient History

THE HOUSE OF SERENOS Part I: The Pottery

CLEMENTINA CAPUTO

A comprehensive archaeological study of the ceramic finds from a house in Amheida The House of Serenos: Part I: The Pottery (Amheida V) is a comprehensive catalog and analysis of the ceramic finds from the late antique house of a local notable and adjacent streets in Amheida.

It is the fifth book in the Amheida series. The pottery analyzed here sheds light on the domestic and economic life of the household and region, from cooking and dining to the management of a complex agricultural economy in which ceramics were the most common form of container for basic commodities. The book will be of interest to specialists interested in ceramology, Roman Egypt, and the material culture, social history, and economy of late antiquity.

Clementina Caputo is the ceramologist for the Archaeological Missions at Soknopaiou Nesos/Dime (Fayum), Trimithis/Amheida (Dakhla Oasis), Plinthine (North of Lake Mariout), Tuna el-Gebel (Middle Egypt), and Berenike (Desert Oriental).

August 2020 300 pages • 8.5 x 11 261 color illustrations and 19 tables Cloth • $85.00X(£70.00) 9781479804658 In ISAW Monographs Archaeology

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THE BOOK OF CHARLATANS

JAMĀL AL-DĪN ʿABD AL-RAḤĪM AL-JAWBARĪ Edited by MANUELA DENGLER

Translated by HUMPHREY DAVIES Foreword by S. A. CHAKRABORTY

Uncovering the professional secrets of con artists and swindlers in the medieval Middle East

The Book of Charlatans is a comprehensive guide to trickery and scams as practiced in the thirteenth century in the cities of the Middle East, especially in Syria and Egypt. The author, al-Jawbarī, was well versed in the practices he describes and may well have been a reformed charlatan himself. Divided into thirty chapters, his book reveals the secrets of everyone from “Those Who Claim to be Prophets” to “Those Who Claim to Have Leprosy” and “Those Who Dye Horses.”

Jamāl al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Jawbarī was born in the Ghouta region near Damascus. He was the author of three texts, of which only The Book of Charlatans survives.

Manuela Dengler studied Arabic in Damascus and Cairo and received her PhD in Oriental Philology and Islamic Studies from the University of Cologne (Germany).

Humphrey Davies is an award-winning translator of some twenty-five works of modern Arabic literature. He is affiliated with the American University in Cairo.

November 2020 524 pages • 6 x 9 2 maps Cloth • 9781479897636 • $35.00S(£27.99) Arabic Literature Library of Arabic Literature

The material is informed in part by the author’s own experience with alchemy, astrology, and geomancy, and in part by his extensive research. The work is unique in its systematic, detailed, and inclusive approach to a subject that is by nature arcane and that has relevance not only for social history but also for the history of science. Covering everything from invisible writing to doctoring gemstones and quack medicine, The Book of Charlatans opens a fascinating window into a subculture of beggars’ guilds and professional con artists in the medieval Arab world.

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THE YOGA SUTRAS OF PATAÑJALI ABŪ RAYHĀN AL-BĪRŪNĪ

Edited and translated by MARIO KOZAH

A brilliant cross-cultural Arabic interpretation of a key text of yoga philosophy The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali is the foundational text of yoga philosophy to this day and is still used by millions of yoga practitioners and students worldwide. Written in a question-and-answer format, The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali deals with the theory and practice of yoga and the psychological question of the liberation of the soul from attachments.

This book is a new edition and translation into English of the Arabic translation and commentary on this text by the brilliant eleventh-century polymath al-Bīrūnī.

Given the many historical variants of the Yoga Sutras, his Kitāb Bātanjali is important for yoga studies as the earliest translation of the Sanskrit text. It is also of unique value as an Arabic text within Islamic studies, given the intellectual and philosophical challenges that faced the medieval Muslim reader when presented with the intricacy of composition, interpretation, and allusion that permeates this translation.

Abū Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī was an accomplished Iranian scholar and polymath.

Mario Kozah is Director of Islamic Studies and teaches Arabic and Syriac language and literature at the Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies (CAMES), the American University of Beirut.

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ARABIAN ROMANTIC

Poems on Bedouin Life and Love ʿABDALLĀH IBN SBAYYIL

Translated by MARCEL KURPERSHOEK Foreword by ANNMARIE DRURY

Scenes from Arabian life at the turn of the twentieth century

Arabian Romantic captures what it was like to live in central Arabia before the imposition of austere norms by the Wahhabi authorities in the early twentieth century: tales of robbery and hot pursuit; perilous desert crossings; scenes of exhaustion and chaos when water is raised from deep wells under harsh conditions; the distress of wounded and worn-out animals on the brink of perdition; once proud warriors who are at the mercy of their enemy on the field of battle. Such images lend poignancy to the suffering of the poet’s love-stricken heart, while also painting a vivid portrait of typical Bedouin life. Ibn Sbayyil, a town dweller from the Najd region of the Arabian Peninsula, was a key figure in the Nabaṭī poetic tradition. His poetry, which is still recited today, broke with the artifice of the preceding generation by combining inherited idiom and original touches reflecting his environment. Translated into English for the first time by Marcel Kurpershoek, Arabian Romantic will delight readers with a poetry that is direct, fluent, and expressive, and that has entertained Arabic speakers for over a century. ʿAbdallāh ibn Sbayyil was a poet from the High Najd region in Central Arabia, in what is now Saudi Arabia. Marcel Kurpershoek is a senior research fellow at New York University Abu Dhabi.

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IN DARFUR

An Account of the Sultanate and Its People MUḤAMMAD AL-TŪNISĪ

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A merchant’s remarkable travel account of an African kingdom In Darfur is al-Tūnisī’s remarkable account of his ten-year sojourn in this independent state, featuring descriptions of the geography of the region, the customs of Darfur’s petty kings, court life and the clothing of its rulers, marriage customs, eunuchs, illnesses, food, hunting, animals, currencies, plants, magic, divination, and dances. In Darfur combines literature, history, ethnography, linguistics, and travel adventure, and most unusually for its time, includes fifty-two illustrations, all drawn by the author.

Muḥammad al-Tūnisī belonged to a family of Tunisian merchants who traded with Egypt and what is now Sudan. Raised in Cairo, al-Tūnisī spent ten years traveling through the Darfur Sultanate. On his return to Egypt, he played an important part in Muḥammad ʿAlī’s modernization project, supervising the translation of veterinary and medical texts and editing the first printed editions of classical Arabic texts. Humphrey Davies is an award-winning translator of some twenty-five works of modern Arabic literature.

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THE ANTONIO GRAMSCI READER Selected Writings 1916-1935

Edited by DAVID FORGACS Foreword by ERIC J. HOBSBAWM The most complete volume of writings by one of the most fascinating thinkers in the history of Marxism This book brings together the most comprehensive collection of Gramsci's writings available in English. Along with an introduction by leading Marxist historian Eric J. Hobsbawm, the volume includes a biographical introduction, informative introductions to each section, and a glossary of key terms to help readers better grasp the legacy of this important figure.

As a thorough introduction to Gramsci’s key concepts, this book is essential reading for every serious student of Marxism, political theory, or modern Italian history.

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David Forgacs is the endowed Guido and Mariuccia Zerilli-Marimò Chair in Contemporary Italian Studies at New York University.

WORLD OF OUR FATHERS

The Journey of the East European Jews to America and the Life They Found and Made IRVING HOWE Foreword by MORRIS DICKSTEIN A classic exploration of the American Jewish experience by one of our greatest twentieth-century intellectuals World of Our Fathers—Irving Howe’s seminal work of cultural history—traces the story of Eastern Europe's Jews to America over four decades. Beginning in the 1880s, it offers a rich portrayal of the East European Jewish experience in New York, and shows how the immigrant generation tried to maintain their Yiddish culture while becoming American. Howe sheds new light on why the forebears to many of today's American Jews decided to leave their homelands, the challenges these new Jewish Americans faced, and how they experienced every aspect of immigrant life in the early twentieth century. The resulting history is essential reading for those interested in understanding the American Jewish experience—in the past, and today.

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Irving Howe played a pivotal role in American intellectual life for over five decades, from the 1940s to the 1990s. He was the founding editor of Dissent, the journal he edited for nearly forty years.

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SUSAN B. ANTHONY A Biography

KATHLEEN L. BARRY Brings to life one of the most significant figures in the crusade for women's rights in America This comprehensive biography of Susan B. Anthony traces the life of a feminist icon, bringing new depth to our understanding of her influence on the course of women’s history. Beginning with her humble Quaker childhood in rural Massachusetts, taking readers through her late twenties when she left a secure teaching position to pursue activism, and ultimately tracing her evolution into a champion of women’s rights, this book offers an in-depth look at the ways Anthony’s life experiences shaped who she would become.

Complete with a new preface to honor the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage and Anthony’s vital role in the fight for voting rights, this thorough biography gives us essential new insight into the life and legacy of an enduring American heroine.

Kathleen L. Barry is Professor Emerita at Penn State University.

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HEAVENLY SEX

Sexuality and the Jewish Tradition DR. RUTH K. WESTHEIMER and JONATHAN MARK Celebrated sex expert and bestselling author Dr. Ruth Westheimer bridges the gap between sex and religion in this provocative exploration of intimacy in the Jewish faith In this light-hearted, lively tour of Jewish sexuality, Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer and Jonathan Mark team up to reveal how the Jewish tradition is much more progressive than popular wisdom might lead one to believe.

Focusing specifically on Orthodox forms of Judaism and offering Dr. Ruth's singular interpretations, the book answers such questions as: What night of the week is best for making love? How often should couples have sex? Can traditional Jewish notions of sex and sexuality be reconciled with contemporary beliefs? What roles can and do dreams and fantasy play?

Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer, an orphan of the Holocaust, is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia's Teachers College. Widely known as Dr. Ruth, the host of a variety of television and radio shows, she is the author of 46 books. She continues to lecture worldwide. Jonathan Mark is Associate Editor of Jewish Week.

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CAPITAL AND IMPERIALISM

Theory, History, and the Present UTSA PATNAIK and PRABHAT PATNAIK A comprehensive survey of capitalism's colonialist roots and uncertain future

Utsa Patnaik is Professor Emerita at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Utsa’s books include The Agrarian Question in the Neoliberal Era and The Republic of Hunger and Other Essays.

Prabhat Patnaik is Professor Emeritus at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Prabhat’s books include Accumulation and Stability Under Capitalism, The Value of Money, and Re-Envisioning Socialism.

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Those who control the world’s commanding economic heights, buttressed by the theories of mainstream economists, presume that capitalism is a self-contained and self-generating system.

Nothing could be further from the truth. In this pathbreaking book—winner of the Paul A. BaranPaul M. Sweezy Memorial Award—radical political economists Utsa Patnaik and Prabhat Patnaik argue that the accumulation of capital has always required the taking of land, raw materials, and bodies from noncapitalist modes of production. They begin with a thorough debunking of mainstream economics.

Then, looking at the history of capitalism, from the beginnings of colonialism half a millennium ago to today’s neoliberal regimes, they discover that, over the long haul, capitalism, in order to exist, must metastasize itself in the practice of imperialism and the immiseration of countless people.

A few hundred years ago, write the Patnaiks, colonialism began to ensure vast, virtually free, markets for new products in burgeoning cities in the West.

But even after slavery was generally abolished, millions of people in the Global South still fell prey to the continuing lethal exigencies of the marketplace.

Even after the Second World War, when decolonization led to the end of the so-called “Golden Age of Capitalism,” neoliberal economies stepped in to reclaim the Global South, imposing drastic “austerity” measures on working people. But, say the Patnaiks, this neoliberal economy, which lives from bubble to bubble, is doomed to a protracted crisis.

In its demise, we are beginning to see—finally—the transcendence of the capitalist system.

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MARX, DEAD AND ALIVE Reading Capital in Precarious Times ANDY MERRIFIELD A contemporary interrogation of Marx’s masterwork Karl Marx saw the ruling class as a sorcerer, no longer able to control the ominous powers it has summoned from the netherworld. Today, in an age spawning the likes of Donald Trump and Boris Johnson, our society has never before been governed by so many conjuring tricks, with collusions and conspiracies, fake news and endless sleights of the economic and political hand. And yet, contends Andy Merrifield, as our modern lives become ever more mist-enveloped, the works of Marx can help us penetrate the fog.

In Marx, Dead and Alive—a book that begins and ends beside Marx’s recently violated London graveside—Merrifield makes a spirited case for a critical thinker who can still offer people a route toward personal and social authenticity. Bolstering his argument with fascinating examples of literature and history, from Shakespeare and Beckett, to the Luddites and the Black Panthers, Merrifield demonstrates how Marx can reveal our individual lives to us within a collective perspective—and within a historical continuum. Who we are now hinges on who we once were—and who we might become. This, at a time when our value-system is undergoing core “post-truth” meltdown.

“This enchanting portrait of Marx at work, with his legendary overcoat and shuffling ways, is brilliant, informative, and beautifully written. Merrifield then puts the insights he derives from reconnecting with Marx's writing to work to illuminate everything from the writings of Gogol and Dickens to the architectural disaster of New York's Hudson Yards.”

—David Harvey, author of A Companion to Marx’s Capital

Andy Merrifield is an independent scholar and author of a dozen books, as well as numerous articles, essays and reviews appearing in Monthly Review, The Nation, Harper’s Magazine, New Left Review, The Guardian, Literary Hub, Jacobin, and Dissent.

He is a prolific writer about urbanism, political theory and literature, with titles credited to him including Dialectical Urbanism, The New Urban Question, and Magical Marxism.

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VENEZUELA, THE PRESENT AS STRUGGLE Voices from the Bolivarian Revolution

CIRA PASCUAL MARQUINA and CHRIS GILBERT Reveals the revolutionary power of the Chavista grassroots movement

October 2020 352 pages • 5.5 x 8.25 Paper • $29.00S 9781583678640 Cloth • $89.00X 9781583678657 Political Science | Latinx Studies Monthly Review Press

Venezuela has been the stuff of frontpage news extravaganzas, especially since the death of Hugo Chavez. What is less known, however, is the story of what the Venezuelan people do and think in these times of social emergency. This book is an eloquent testament to their lives. Comprised of a series of compelling contextualized interviews, the book seeks to open a window on grassroots Chavismo in the wake of Chavez’s death. Feminist and housing activists, communards, organic intellectuals, and campesinos from around the country speak up, defending the socialist project and pointing to what they see as revolutionary solutions to Venezuela’s current crisis.

If the Venezuelan government has shown an impressive capacity to resist imperialism, it is the Chavista grassroots movement, as this book shows, that actually defends socialism as the only coherent project of national liberation.

Cira Pascual Marquina is Political Science Professor at the Universidad Bolivariana de Venezuela in Caracas. Chris Gilbert teaches Marxist political economy at the Universidad Bolivariana de Venezuela.

VALUE AND CRISIS,

SECOND EDITION

Essays on Marxian Economics in Japan MAKOTO ITOH Analyzes Japanese contributions to Marxist theory Forty years ago, Makoto Itoh’s Value and Crisis began to chronicle the Japanese contributions to Marxist theory. Now, in a second edition, Itoh deepens his study of Marx’s theories of value and crisis, as an essential reference point from which to analyze the multiple crises that have arisen during the past four decades of neoliberalism.

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This book demonstrates a wide-ranging familiarity with major schools of Marxist thought, summarizing and assessing viewpoints of such theorists as Hilferding, Bauer, Kautsky, Bukharin, Luxemburg, Grossman, Sweezy, the Japanese Marxist Kozo Uno, together with the relevant parts of Capital and a section on the 1930's Great Depression. Given today’s current emergencies of world capitalism and socialism, we need to work together to resolve new global problems, articulating new issues of Marx’s theories of value and crisis. The promise of Marx’s theories has not waned. If anything­— given the failure of Soviet-style socialism and the catastrophe of neoliberalism—it grows daily.

Makoto Itoh is Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo and a member of the Japan Academy.

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BETWEEN CAPITALISM AND COMMUNITY MICHAEL A. LEBOWITZ

Connects the Marxist construct of capitalism to systems of community In this book, Michael A. Lebowitz deepens the arguments he made in his award-winning Beyond Capital to demonstrate that capitalism contains within itself elements of a different society, one of community. Lebowitz argues that the struggle of workers in common and activities based upon solidarity point in the direction of the organic system of community, an alternative system that produces its own premises, communality, and recognition of the needs of others. If we are to escape the ultimate barbarism portended by the existing crisis of the earth system, the subordination of the system of capitalism by that of community is essential. Since the interregnum in which capitalism and community coexist is marked by the interpenetration and mutual deformation of both sides within this whole, however, the path to community cannot emerge spontaneously but requires a revolutionary party that stresses the development of the capacities of people through their protagonism.

Michael A. Lebowitz is Professor Emeritus of Economics at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada.

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BEYOND DIGITAL CAPITALISM Socialist Register 2021

Edited by LEO PANITCH and GREG ALBO “The Socialist Register has been the intellectual lodestar for the international left since 1964.”—Mike Davis “I know the Register very well and have found it extremely stimulating, often invaluable.”—Noam Chomsky

Essays that explore new ways of living with technological change Every year since 1964, the Socialist Register has offered a fascinating survey of movements and ideas from the independent new left.

This year's edition asks readers to explore just how we need to live with new technologies. Essays in this 57th Socialist Register reveal the contradictions and dislocations of technological change in the twenty-first century. And they explore alternative ways of living: from artificial intelligence (AI) to the arts, from transportation to fashion, from environmental science to economic planning.

Leo Panitch is Professor of Political Science at York University in Toronto and a Fulbright Fellow. Greg Albo is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at York University, Toronto.

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MY LIFE IN 100 OBJECTS MARGARET RANDALL

Traces the remarkable life of a feminist poet through the items and images that have defined her experiences This book is a personal reflection on the events and moments that shaped the life and work of one extraordinary woman. With a masterful, poetic voice, Margaret Randall uses talismanic objects and photographs as launching points for her nonlinear narrative.

Margaret Randall is a feminist poet, writer, photographer and social activist. She is the author of more than 150 published books and has translated much poetry by others.

As cofounder of the bilingual journal El Corno Emplumado, she also published more than 700 writers from 35 countries. Among her recent honors are the 2019 Poet of Two Hemisphere Prize and the 2020 George Garrett Award.

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Through each “object,” Randall uncovers another part of herself, starting in a museum in Amman, Jordan, and ending in the Latin American Studies Association in Boston. Interwoven throughout are her most precious relationships, her growth as an artist, and her brave, revolutionary spirit. As Randall’s adventures often coincide with important moments in history, many of her objects provide a transcontinental glimpse into social upheavals and transitions. She shares memories from her years in Cuba (1969 to 1980) and Nicaragua (1980 to 1984), as well as briefer periods in North Vietnam (immediately preceding the end of the war in 1975), and Peru (during the government of Velasco Alvarado).

In her introduction, Randall states, “objects and places have always been alive to me.” Her history too is alive, as much of a means to consider our own present as it is to glimpse her vibrant past.

"A nonlinear inventory of the self by beat-expressionist-become-revolutionary poet Margaret Randall. . . . Even as they stretch all the way back to her childhood in the ’40s, or her young adulthood in the ’60s, her stories have never been more of the moment: who gets to come to this country, who gets to love whom, and every other hard-won freedom still at stake today."

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How a City's Heart Connects Us All MINDY THOMPSON FULLILOVE, MD Foreword by ANDY MERRIFIELD Traverses the central thoroughfares of our cities to uncover the ways they bring together our communities How do Main Streets contribute to our mental health? This intriguing question took social psychiatrist Mindy Thompson Fullilove on an 11-year search through 178 cities in 14 countries.

As Andy Merrifield notes in the foreword, “Mindy has drifted through a lot of Main Streets, walked them, observed, talked to people, ordinary people as well as professional practitioners. While she got to pace many miles of New York’s Broadway, eat French patisseries as a flâneuse in Gay Paree, sip çay in Istanbul, and chill in Kyoto’s dazzling Zen temples, her real concern is Main Street, USA, the more modest main stems of provincial America.”

From these visits Fullilove has discerned the larger architecture of Main Streets. She observes the ways that Main Streets are shaped for a vast array of social gatherings and processes, how they are a marker for the integrity of civilization—and the marks aren’t always good. She also looks at Main Streets as “an allée, a way that is part drama and part quotidian. While passing through, we get to look at one another, to sing, to recognize what we are, have been, might be.”

Mindy Thompson Fullilove, MD is a research psychiatrist and professor of Urban Policy and Health, Milano School, The New School. She is the author of eight books, including Root Shock and Urban Alchemy.

Andy Merrifield is the author of eleven books about urbanism and social theory including the forthcoming Marx, Dead and Alive (Monthly Review Press).

Her conclusion, that Main Streets are essential for gathering people and sharing information, emphasizes that tending our oft-neglected civic and commercial centers is a task worthy of us all.

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GENOCIDAL LOVE A Life After Residential School BEVANN FOX Foreword by MICHELLE COUPAL A residential school survivor's complicated path toward healing and love This book 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. Presenting herself as “Myrtle,” Bevann Fox recounts her early childhood filled with love and warmth on the First Nation reservation with her grandparents. At the age of seven she was sent to residential school, and her horrific experiences of abuse there left her without a voice, timid and nervous, never sure, never trusting, and always searching.

Bevann Fox is a member of Pasqua First Nation, originally from Piapot First Nation. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Arts and Culture and her Master in Business Administration, Leadership from the University of Regina. In 2014 she was honored with the YWCA Women of Distinction Award—Arts, Culture and Heritage. She is the founder, producer, and co-host of Access TV's The Four and also works as Manager for Community-Based Prevention at Yellow Thunderbird Lodge/ YTCCFS (Yorkton Tribal Council Child Family Services).

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This is the story of Myrtle battling to recover her voice. This is the story of her courage and resilience throughout the arduous process required to make a claim for compensation for the abuse she experienced at residential school—a process that turned out to be yet another trauma at the hands of the colonial power.

This is the story of one woman finally standing up to the painful truth of her past and moving beyond it for the sake of her children and grandchildren. In recounting her tumultuous life, Fox weaves truth and fiction together as a means of bringing clarity to the complex emotions and situations she faced as she walked her path toward healing.

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The Search for James Brady and Absolom Halkett MICHAEL NEST with DEANNA REDER and ERIC BELL A small team uncovers new evidence and exposes police failure in one of Canada's most enduring missing person's cases Missing persons. Double murder?

Métis leader James Brady was one of the most famous Indigenous activists in Canada. A communist, strategist, and bibliophile, he led Métis and First Nations to rebel against government and church oppression. Brady’s success made politicians and clergy fear him; he had enemies everywhere. In 1967, while prospecting in Saskatchewan with Cree band councillor and fellow activist, Absolom Halkett, both men vanished from their remote lakeside camp.

For 50 years rumors swirled of secret mining interests, political intrigue, and murder. Cold Case North is the story of how a small team, with the help of the Indigenous community, exposed police failure in the original investigation, discovered new clues and testimony, and gathered the pieces of the North’s most enduring missing persons puzzle.

Michael Nest is a freelance researcher and award-winning author whose work focuses on mining and corruption. Michael lives in Montréal.

Deanna Reder is a Cree-Métis literary critic and an Associate Professor in English and First Nations Studies at Simon Fraser University. Deanna lives in Vancouver.

Eric Bell is a member of the Lac La Ronge Indian Band and the owner of La Ronge Emergency Medical Services. Eric lives in La Ronge, SK.

"Like too many cases involving missing and murdered Indigenous people, authorities failed to ensure that Brady and Halkett’s deaths were properly investigated. This book helps get to the bottom of the fate of these two men, and demonstrates why investigators should never dismiss the knowledge of Indigenous peoples.”

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A BOOK OF ECOLOGICAL VIRTUES Living Well in the Anthropocene

Edited by HEESOON BAI, DAVID CHANG, and CHARLES SCOTT What does living well look like in the Anthropocene?

Heesoon Bai is Professor in Philosophy of Education in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University.

David Chang is a teacher educator, and PhD candidate in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University.

Charles Scott is Associate Professor of Education at City University in Canada and an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University.

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Despite our brief tenure on planet Earth, Homo sapiens have reached an epoch—the Anthropocene—that is characterized by our species’ uncanny ability to spoil our own nest. In the face of this somber reality of ecological degradation and massive species extinction, the editors ask the critical question, “What does living well look like in the Anthropocene?” It is vitally important that we turn towards the cultivation of eco-virtues, a new set of values by which to live, if there is to be hope for us and other species to continue. These essays inspire readers not just to ponder, but to embody and live the ideals of these timeless ecological virtues.

Contributors: Tommy Akulukjuk (Pangnirtung, Nunavut), Heesoon Bai (Vancouver), David Chang (Vancouver), Douglas E. Christie (Los Angeles), Paul Crowe (Vancouver), Nigora Erkaeva (Ypsilanti, Michigan), Thomas Falkenberg (Winnipeg), David Greenwood (Thunder Bay), Mike Hannis (Bath, UK), David W. Jardine (Calgary), Peter H. Kahn, Jr. (Seattle), Dr. Carl Leggo (Vancouver), David Robert Loy (Kamakura, Japan), Rebecca Martusewicz (Ypsilanti, Michigan), Darcy Mathews (Victoria), Margaret McKee (Thunder Bay), Margaret McKeon (Vancouver), Derek Rasmussen (Vancouver), Charles Scott (Vancouver), Nancy J. Turner (Victoria), Jan Zwicky (Quadra Island, BC).

“[For] those of us who are thinking about, and educating for, deep cultural change, . . . for those of us that care about what it means to be good, in the deepest sense; to participants in an earth-system that is failing at human hands, in the context of recognizing the repercussions of the Anthropocene.”

—Laura Sewall, author of Sight and Sensibility

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From Ancient Origins to a Problematic Future MARY SODERSTROM Traces the history and impact of this worldchanging material that is all around us Imagine what the world would be like without concrete: there’d be no high-rises, no grand irrigation projects, no lettuce from southern climes in the winter, no multi-lane highways crisscrossing continents, a shortage of electricity, more mud in some places, more solitude in others. But because of the fossil fuels and other resources required to make concrete, there also would be less CO2 in the atmosphere and less dramatic climate change.

In Concrete, Soderstrom tells the story of concrete’s glorious past, extravagant present, and uncertain future with careful research, lively anecdotes, and thoughtful reflection. The framework for this exploration is one the Romans—famous for concrete structures that are still strong—would understand: the four elements of Earth, Fire, Water, and Air.

Mary Soderstrom is the award-winning author of more than a dozen fiction and non-fiction books, including her acclaimed Road Through Time: The Story of Humanity on the Move, and most recently, Frenemy Nations: Love and Hate between Neighbo(u)ring States.

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BURDEN

DOUGLAS BURNET SMITH The story of a seventeen-year-old British soldier, Private Herbert Burden, who was shot for desertion during World War I Private Herbert Burden was one of hundreds so executed. It is now understood that many had committed no crime but were suffering from PTSD. Burden’s story is told in the voice of Lance Corporal Reginald Smith, the author’s uncle. The author discovered years later in a box of papers that his uncle, Lance Corporal Smith, had befriended Private Burden but then was ultimately commanded to join in the firing squad that killed his friend. This slim book reaches below standard indictments of war—it shows us that “terrifying,” “senseless,” “horrific” don’t go deep enough. To utter them, the eye must already be closing over. Smith’s account is an object lesson in why poetry matters. It takes us to places even the best journalism can’t reach.

October 2020 72 pages • 5.5 x 8.5 Paper • $16.95T 9780889777729 In Oskana Poetry & Poetics Poetry University of Regina Press

Douglas Burnet Smith is a GG Award–nominated author, and Burden is his seventeenth book of poetry. He divides his time between Atlantic Canada and Athens, Greece. He is currently Writer-in-Residence for the Antikythera Archeological Dive Project on the island of Antikythera, Greece, and teaches in the English Department at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia.

AFTER THE HOLOCAUST

Human Rights and Genocide Education in the Approaching PostWitness Era Edited by CHARLOTTE SCHALLIÉ, HELGA THORSON, and ANDREA VAN NOORD Collected voices make clear why Holocaust, genocide, and human rights education are more crucial than ever

October 2020 320 pages • 6 x 9 Paper • $34.95S 9780889777644 Cloth • $89.00X 9780889777705 Jewish Studies University of Regina Press

The collected voices draw on decades of research on the Holocaust and discuss how it can help us understand and educate about a range of human rights issues throughout history, and, in turn, that local histories of other human rights atrocities can shed light on the way the Holocaust is represented and taught. This book focuses on the Canadian context of antisemitism, the legacy of human rights abuses as well as internment camps, and examines the ways that the Holocaust provided a template for thinking through human rights legislation and memorialization on a global scale after the Holocaust.

Charlotte Schallié is a professor of Germanic Studies at the University of Victoria, Canada. Helga Thorson is an associate professor in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies at the University of Victoria, Canada. Andrea van Noord is a former sessional instructor in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies at the University of Victoria and Experiential Learning Facilitator for UVic’s I-witness Holocaust Field School.

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The Traditional Knowledge and Ecology of the Northern Great Plains R. GRACE MORGAN Foreword by JAMES DASCHUK and an afterword by CRISTINA EISENBERG Indigenous Peoples of the North American Plains were ecologists of the highest order—then the horse came and changed everything This book is an interdisciplinary account of the ecological relationships the Indigenous nations of the Plains had to the beaver, bison, and horse. Morgan's research shows an ecological understanding that sustained Indigenous Peoples for thousands of years, with critical information on how the beaver manage water systems and protect communities from drought in the Northern Great Plains.

Morgan’s work is a game-changer. For the first time in print, her research now appears with a foreword by James Daschuk, bestselling author of Clearing the Plains, and an afterword by Cristina Eisenberg.

R. Grace Morgan (1934–2016) was a life-long scholar and researcher.

Trained in anthropology, Morgan brought a unique ecological understanding to her field, studying the patterns of sustainability that marked Indigenous Plains First Nations' relationships to beaver and bison resources.

November 2020 292 pages • 6 x 9 Paper • $29.95S 9780889777880 Cloth • $89.00X 9780889777941 Indigenous Studies | Ecology University of Regina Press

IN MY OWN MOCCASINS A Memoir of Resilience HELEN KNOTT Long-listed for the 2020 RBC Taylor Prize A memoir of addiction, intergenerational trauma, and the lasting wounds of sexual violence Helen Knott, a highly accomplished Indigenous woman, seems to have it all. But in her memoir, she offers a different perspective. This is an unflinching account of addiction, intergenerational trauma, and the wounds brought on by sexual violence. It is also the story of sisterhood, the power of ceremony, the love of family, and the possibility of redemption.

With gripping moments of withdrawal, times of spiritual awareness, and historical insights going back to the signing of Treaty 8 by her great-great grandfather, Chief Bigfoot, her journey exposes the legacy of colonialism, while reclaiming her spirit.

Helen Knott is a Dane Zaa, Nehiyaw, and mixed Euro-descent woman living in Fort St. John, British Columbia. In 2016 Helen was one of sixteen global change makers featured by the Nobel Women's Initiative for being committed to end gender-based violence. Helen was selected as a 2019 RBC Taylor Prize Emerging Author. This is her first book.

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March 2020 304 pages • 4.72 x 7.48 Paper • $18.95A 9780889777316 Cloth • 9780889776449 In The Regina Collection Memoir University of Regina Press

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PRECARIOUS POWER Compliance and Discontent Under Ramaphosa’s ANC SUSAN BOOYSEN An incisive analysis of South Africa's ANC power—as party, as government, as state

Susan Booysen is a political analyst and media commentator. She is Director of Research at the Mapungubwe Institute of Strategic Reflection (MISTRA) and Visiting Professor at the Wits School of Governance, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Her two major books on the ANC are The African National Congress and the Regeneration of Political Power (2011) and Dominance and Decline: The ANC in the Time of Zuma (2015), both published by Wits University Press.

February 2021 328 pages • 6.14 x 9.21 Paper • 9781776146451 • $30.00S Cloth • 9781776146499 • $89.00X Political Science Wits University Press

South Africa's African National Congress (ANC) is in decline, its hegemony has been weakened, its legitimacy diluted. President Cyril Ramaphosa's appointment suspended the ANC's electoral decline, it also heightened internal tensions between those who would deepen its acquired status as corrupt and captured, and those who would remodel it as redeemable. The COVID-19 pandemic deepened the fragility. ANC internal wars were moderated, but the socio-economic devastation and the state’s inability to make sufficient amends aggravated the prior fault-lines. These are the incontrovertible knowns of South African politics; what will evolve from this is less certain.

In Precarious Power, renowned political scientist Susan Booysen uses in-depth research and analysis to distill that which is bound to shape South Africa's political future. Booysen focuses on contradictory party politics and internal ANC dissent that is veiled for the sake of retaining an electoral following. Also exposed is the incongruous, populist policymaking, protest politics and the use of soft law to ensure it does not alienate angry citizens, fueling further discontent and protest. The analysis of the ANC’s gentle stance on captured state institutions lest the Zumaist malcontents rebel, reveals a president who was wavering on a tightrope between serving the needs of the organisation and those of the nation. He rose to the challenge of being a national leader during the COVID-19 pandemic, but the task was immense.

The ANC's power has become exceedingly precarious. Precarious Power is the name of the political game, for the foreseeable future.

The comprehensive analysis in Precarious Power will appeal not only to political scientists and postgraduate students, but to all who take a keen interest in current affairs.

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AND WROTE MY STORY ANYWAY

Black South African Women’s Novels as Feminism BARBARA BOSWELL Critically examines influential novels in English by eminent black female writers Studying these writers' key engagements with nationalism, race and gender during apartheid and the transition to democracy, Barbara Boswell traces the ways in which black women's fiction criticality interrogates narrow ideas of nationalism.

She examines who is included and excluded, while producing alternative visions for a more just South African society.

This is an erudite analysis of ten well-known South African writers, spanning the apartheid and post-apartheid era: Miriam Tlali, Lauretta Ngcobo, Farida Karodia, Agnes Sam, Sindiwe Magona, Zoë Wicomb, Rayda Jacobs, Yvette Christiansë, Kagiso Lesego Molope, and Zukiswa Wanner.

Boswell argues that black women's fiction could and should be read as a subversive site of knowledge production in a setting, which, for centuries, denied black women's voices and intellects.

Barbara Boswell is a feminist literary scholar and Associate Professor of English at the University of Cape Town. She is the author of Grace: A Novel (2017), which won the 2018 University of Johannesburg Debut Prize for Creative Writing.

Reading their fiction as theory, for the first time these writers' works are placed in sustained conversation with each other, producing an arc of feminist criticism that speaks forcefully back to the abuse of a racist, white-dominated, patriarchal power.

September 2020 264 pages • 6 x 9 Paper • 9781776146185 • $30.00A Cloth • 9781776146222 • $89.00X Literary Criticism Wits University Press

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Essential Reads for the 2020 Election UNCOUNTED

The Crisis of Voter Suppression in America GILDA R. DANIELS

$30.00A • Cloth 9781479862351 An answer to the assault on voting rights—crucial reading in advance of the 2020 presidential election

OUT OF THE RUNNING Why Millennials Reject Political Careers and Why It Matters SHAUNA L. SHAMES

$28.00S • Paper 9781479877485 Why Millennials are rejecting careers in politics, and what this means for the future of America's political system

CONTROLLING THE MESSAGE New Media in American Political Campaigns Edited by VICTORIA A. FARRAR-MYERS and JUSTIN S. VAUGHN

$30.00S • Paper 9781479867592 Examines new media strategies from the highest election campaigns to passive citizen engagement

TRUMP IN THE WHITE HOUSE Tragedy and Farce JOHN BELLAMY FOSTER

$14.95T • Paper 9781583676806 Monthly Review Press Exposes Trump for who and what he is— a neofascist

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BANNED

Immigration Enforcement in the Time of Trump SHOBA SIVAPRASAD WADHIA

$30.00S • Cloth 9781479857463 Examines immigration enforcement and discretion during the first eighteen months of the Trump administration

WHY AMERICA STOPPED VOTING

The Decline of Participatory Democracy and the Emergence of Modern American Politics MARK L. KORNBLUH

$25.00S • Cloth 9780814747087 Examines how giving up the vote became a fundamental aspect of modern American life

GILDED SUFFRAGISTS

The New York Socialites who Fought for Women's Right to Vote JOHANNA NEUMAN

$16.95T • Paper 9781479806621 New York City’s elite women who turned a feminist cause into a fashionable revolution

AMERICAN REFUGEES

Turning to Canada for Freedom RITA SHELTON DEVERELL

$17.95T • Cloth 9780889776258 University of Regina Press The hopeful promise of a life in Canada and why Americans feel the urge to escape there

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Women's Health Highlights

Fall 2020

FEARING THE BLACK BODY

The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia SABRINA STRINGS

$28.00S • Paper 9781479886753 How the female body has been racialized for over two hundred years

FIXING PARENTAL LEAVE

The Six Month Solution GAYLE KAUFMAN

$27.00A • Cloth 9781479810369 A real-world solution for parental leave that promotes gender equality at work and at home

FERTILITY HOLIDAYS

IVF Tourism and the Reproduction of Whiteness AMY SPEIER

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PREGNANCY AND POWER

A History of Reproductive Politics in the United States RICKIE SOLINGER

$27.00S • Paper 9781479866502 A sweeping chronicle of women’s battles for reproductive freedom

BLAMING MOTHERS

American Law and the Risks to Children’s Health LINDA C. FENTIMAN

$30.00S • Paper 9781479867189 A gripping explanation of the biases that lead to the blaming of pregnant women and mothers

ON INFERTILE GROUND

Population Control and Women's Rights in the Era of Climate Change JADE S. SASSER

$28.00S • Paper 9781479849109

$27.00S • Paper 9781479899357

Exposes reproductive travel as a form of consumption, motivated by a desire for white babies, a European vacation, better health care, success

A critique of population control narratives reproduced by international development actors in the 21st century

THE MOVEMENT FOR REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE

GENDER VIOLENCE

Empowering Women of Color through Social Activism PATRICIA ZAVELLA

$32.00S • Paper 9781479812707 Shows how reproductive justice organizations’ work across racial lines provides a model for others to successfully influence change

third edition

Interdisciplinary Perspectives Edited by LAURA L. O'TOOLE, JESSICA R. SCHIFFMAN, and ROSEMARY SULLIVAN

$39.00S • Paper 9781479820801 An updated edition of the groundbreaking anthology that explores the proliferation of gendered violence

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THE TRUTH ABOUT BAKED BEANS

A Syrian Cookbook Translated by CHARLES PERRY with a foreword

by CLAUDIA RODEN

An Edible New England History MEG MUCKENHOUPT

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$15.00T • Paper 9781479800810 Library of Arabic Literature

Forages through New England’s most famous foods for the truth behind the region’s culinary myths

Delectable recipes from the medieval Middle East

FAST FOOD KIDS

THE TROUBLE WITH SNACK TIME

French Fries, Lunch Lines, and Social Ties AMY L. BEST

Children’s Food and the Politics of Parenting JENNIFER PATICO

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Sheds light on the complex relationship between youth identity and food consumption

Uncovers the class and race dimensions of the "cupcake wars"

EATING ASIAN AMERICA

EVERYBODY EATS second edition

A Food Studies Reader Edited by ROBERT JI-SONG KU, MARTIN F. MANALANSAN and ANITA MANNUR

Understanding Food and Culture E. N. ANDERSON

$27.00S • Paper 9780814760062

$29.00S • Paper 9781479869251

Examines the social and cultural reasons for our food choices and provides an explanation of the nutritional reasons for why humans eat what they do

Examines the ways our conceptions of Asian American food have been shaped

BOOKS THAT COOK

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ARAB COOKING ON A PRAIRIE HOMESTEAD

The Making of a Literary Meal Edited by JENNIFER COGNARD-BLACK and MELISSA A. GOLDTHWAITE

$30.00A • Cloth 9781479830213 A collection of American literature written on the theme of food

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Recipes and Recollections from a Syrian Pioneer HABEEB SALLOUM

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$29.95T • Paper 9780889775183 Over 200 recipes provide foodies and urban farmers with dishes that are delicious, climate-friendly, and gentle on your wallet

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Fall 2020

2020 ACJS Outstanding Book Award, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences

THE EVOLUTION OF THE JUVENILE COURT

Race, Politics, and the Criminalizing of Juvenile Justice BARRY C. FELD

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2020 JDC-Herbert Katzki Award for Writing Based on Archival Material, Jewish Book Council

A MORTUARY OF BOOKS The Rescue of Jewish Culture after the Holocaust

$35.00S • Cloth 9781479833955

Finalist, 2020 PROSE Award in the Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology category, Association of American Publishers

2019 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award, in the Jewish Literature and Linguistics Category, Association for Jewish Studies

REPRODUCTIVE INJUSTICE

How Cafés Created Modern Jewish Culture SHACHAR M. PINSKER

Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth DÁNA-AIN DAVIS

$30.00S • Paper 9781479853571

A RICH BREW

$22.00A • Paper 9781479874385

2019 Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History

2019 Global Legal Skills Book Award, Global Legal Skills Conference

AFROFABULATIONS

ESSENTIAL LEGAL ENGLISH IN CONTEXT

The Queer Drama of Black Life TAVIA NYONG'O

$29.00S • Paper 9781479888443

2019 Outstanding Book Award, Council on Anthropology and Education

MOTHERHOOD ACROSS BORDERS Immigrants and Their Children in Mexico and New York GABRIELLE OLIVEIRA

$30.00S • Paper 9781479866465

Understanding the Vocabulary of US Law and Government KAREN M. ROSS

$30.00S • Paper 9781479831678

Honorable Mention, 2019 Marysa Navarro Book Prize, New England Council of Latin American Studies (NECLAS)

SURVIVING STATE TERROR

Women’s Testimonies of Repression and Resistance in Argentina BARBARA SUTTON

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ANGRY QUEER SOMALI BOY

OUT OF MY MIND

A Complicated Memoir MOHAMED ABDULKARIM ALI

A Psychologist’s Descent into Madness and Back SHALOM CAMENIETZKI

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A story of a young man's queer coming of age amidst displacement, violence, and alienation

A harrowing tale of a doctor's own battle with his bipolar disorder

THE ORGANIST

THE LISTENER

Fugues, Fatherhood, and a Fragile Mind MARK ABLEY

In the Shadow of the Holocaust IRENE OORE

$18.95T • Paper 9780889777613

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A son's story of living in his father's shadow of genius tainted by depression

A reflection on how trauma is passed from generation to generation

FLORENCE OF AMERICA

ANTIGONE UNDONE

A Feminist in the Age of McCarthyism FLORENCE BEAN JAMES

$19.95T • Cloth 9780889776470 The life of the woman who brought professional theatre to Canada

Juliette Binoche, Anne Carson, Ivo van Hove, and the Art of Resistance WILL AITKEN

$19.95T • Cloth 9780889775213 What can be learned from tragedy and the art of theater? new edition

Named as a tribute to Saskatchewan’s capital city and its rich history of boundary-defying innovation, The Regina Collection builds upon our motto of “a voice for many peoples.”

These beautifully packaged books are written by authors who have been caught in social and political circumstances beyond their control.

THE EDUCATION OF AUGIE MERASTY

A Residential School Memoir JOSEPH A. MERASTY and DAVID CARPENTER

$19.95T • Cloth 9780889774575 The harrowing story of one Indigenous child's experience in Canada's residential schools

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BAFANA REPUBLIC AND OTHER SATIRES A collection of monologues and revues MIKE VAN GRAAN

$20.00S • Paper 9781776145867 A collection of satirical sketches that takes readers on a cynical and hilarious trip through the issues that face democratic South Africa

MOOI STREET AND OTHER MOVES PAUL SLABOLEPSZY Foreword by ROBERT GREIG and BOBBY HEANEY

$20.00S • Paper 9781776141593 A collection of six plays by South Africa’s leading playwright and actor featuring works written between 1984 and 1993

THE BRAM FISCHER WALTZ HARRY KALMER Foreword by GEORGE BIZOS Afterword by YVONNE MALAN

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EMPATHEATRE and THE BIG BROTHERHOOD Foreword by MONIQUE MARKS

$20.00S • Paper 9781776141951 Explores the effects of addiction—on addicts, on communities, on families, and on the police

SUDDENLY THE STORM

PAUL SLABOLEPSZY Foreword by BOBBY HEANEY

$20.00S • Paper 9781776140923 A smouldering dark comedy that suddenly leads to startling revelations, rage and recrimination

TIN BUCKET DRUM NEIL COPPEN Foreword by ISMAIL MAHOMED

$20.00S • Paper 9781868149728 Evokes a host of characters as an allegorical tale of oppression and liberation

An award-winning play about the many unknown facets of Bram Fischer's life

MISSING

JOHN KANI Introduction by NJABULO S. NDEBELE

$20.00S • Paper 9781868148899 A story of conspiracies, lies, back stabbing and disappointments told through one family's struggle with the changing landscape of South Africa

NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH JOHN KANI Introduction by ZAKES MDA

$20.00S • Paper 9781868143894 An award-winning play about the relationship between brothers

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ALGORITHMS OF OPPRESSION

How Search Engines Reinforce Racism SAFIYA UMOJA NOBLE

$28.00S • Paper 9781479837243 A revealing look at how negative biases against women of color are embedded in search engine results and algorithms

DISSENT

The History of an American Idea RALPH YOUNG

$27.00S • Paper 9781479819836 Examines the key role dissent has played in shaping the United States, emphasizing the way Americans responded to injustices

HOW TO WATCH TELEVISION, second edition

Edited by ETHAN THOMPSON and JASON MITTELL

$30.00S • Paper 9781479898817 In User's Guides to Popular Culture A new edition that brings the ways we watch and think about television up to the present

OPEN VEINS OF LATIN AMERICA

Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent EDUARDO GALEANO

$22.00S • Paper 9780853459910 Monthly Review Press The classic survey of Latin America's social and cultural history

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PUNISHED

Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys VICTOR M. RIOS

$26.00S • Paper 9780814776384 A classic ethnography that reveals how urban police criminalize black and Latino boys

AVIDLY READS THEORY

JORDAN ALEXANDER STEIN

$14.95T • Paper 9781479801008 In Avidly Reads Stein travels back to the late nineties to tell a story of coming of age at a particular moment and to measure how that moment lives on now

FEMINIST MANIFESTOS

A Global Documentary Reader Edited by PENNY A. WEISS

$45.00S • Paper 9781479837304 A wide-reaching collection of groundbreaking feminist documents from around the world

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Index

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42 Today .................................10 A Book of Ecological Virtues ..................................56 A Queer New York................34 A View from Abroad ..............6 Abrams, Jeanne E. ...................6 Adams, Rachel .......................37 After Obama ..........................31 After the Holocaust...............58 al-Bīrūnī, Abū Rayḥān .........43 al-Jawbarī, Jamāl al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ..............................42 al-Tūnisī, Muḥammad .........45 Albo, Greg ..............................51 Alexiou, Joseph......................24 America and the Making of an Independent Ireland ..........16 An Empire Transformed ......16 Ancient Taxation ...................41 And Wrote My Story Anyway.................................61 Antonio Gramsci Reader, The ........................................46 Arabian Romantic.................45 Avidly Reads Passages ............7 Bai. Heesoon ..........................56 Barry, Kathleen L. .................47 Beaver, Bison, Horse .............59 Bell, Eric .................................55 Between Capitalism and Community.........................51 Beyond Digital Capitalism...51 Beyond the Synagogue .........40 Bilz, Kenworthey ...................26 Black Civil War Soldier, The ..........................................9 Boles, Richard J. ....................17 Book of Charlatans, The.......42 Booysen, Susan......................60 Boswell, Barbara ...................61 Bowman, Cynthia Grant ......27 Bradley, Stefan M. .................13 Branson, Douglas M. ............29 Brescia, Ray............................26 Brown, Robert A. ..................31 Burden ....................................58 Burgett, Bruce........................33 Burns, Ken .............................10 Burns, Sarah ..........................10 Business of Birth, The ...........37 Capital and Imperialism ......48 Caputo, Clementina..............41 Carroll, Francis M. ................16 Chakraborty, S .A. .................42 Chang, David .........................56 Checker, Melissa ...................25 Christensen, Nina .................33 Clipped Wings.......................12 Cohen, Paula............................4 Cold Case North ...................55 Commander, Michelle D. .......7 Concrete .................................57 Cote, Amanda C....................29 Crane, Ken R. ........................39 Creating the Creation Museum...............................39 Crisis Lawyering ...................26

Dann, Kevin .............................5 Dark Fantastic, The ...............23 Davies, Humphrey ..........42, 45 Davis, Rebecca L. ..................14 Decaro, Jr., Louis A. ................8 Democratic Failure ...............31 Dengler, Manuela ..................42 Divided Mind of the Black Church, The ........................22 Dividing the Faith .................17 Divorce in China ...................27 Drury, Annamarie..................45 Elfenbein, Caleb Iyer.............11 Enchanted New York ..............5 Estreich, George ....................37 Evil Deeds in High Places ....18 Fear in Our Hearts ................11 Fierce Life of Grace Holmes Carlson, The ........................17 Fight for Free Speech, The .....1 Forgacs, David .......................46 Fox, Bevann ...........................54 Freezing Fertility ...................36 Front of the House, Back of the House ............................38 Fullilove, Mindy Thompson ............................53 Future of Tech Is Female, The ........................................29 Gaming Sexism......................29 Genocidal Love......................54 Gieseking, Jen Jack................34 Gilbert, Chris.........................50 Gowanus.................................24 Gross, Rachel B......................40 Haverty-Stacke, Donna T. ....17 He, Xin ...................................27 Heavenly Sex .........................47 Hendler, Glenn ......................33 Hernández, Tanya Katerí .....28 Heterosexual Histories .........14 Honey on the Page ..................4 Horrible White People..........30 House of Serenos, The ..........41 Howe, Irving ..........................46 Hsu, Hsuan L. ........................24 In Darfur ................................45 In My Own Moccasins .........59 Intimacies of Conflict, The...15 Iraqi Refugees in the United States ....................................39 Itoh, Makoto ..........................50 Keywords for American Cultural Studies, Third Edition .................................33 Keywords for Children's Literature, Second Edition .................................33 Kim, Daniel Y. .......................15 Knott, Helen ..........................59 Kozah, Mario .........................43 Krell, Maggy.............................2 Kupperman, Karen Ordahl ..13 Kurpershoek, Marcel ............45

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Lagerwey, Jorie ......................30 Lebowitz, Michael A. ............51 Lifeblood of the Parish .........19 Living Apart Together ..........27 Long, Michael G....................10 Lopez, Lori Kido ...................30 Luna, Zakiya ..........................36

Stern, Eric K...........................26 Still Straight ...........................35 Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers .................28 Supp-Montgomerie, Jenna...18 Susan B. Anthony..................47 Sustainability Myth, The ......25

Main Street.............................53 Making of American Catholicism, The ................19 Maldonado-Estrada, Alyssa....................................19 Marín, Irene Soto ..................41 Mark, Jonathan......................47 Marquina, Cira Pascual ........50 Marx, Dead and Alive ..........49 McCormick II, Joseph P. ......31 McMahon, David ..................10 Merrifield, Andy..............49, 53 Merryman, Molly ..................12 Mitchell, Michele ..................14 Molz, Jennie Germann .........38 Morgan, R. Grace ..................59 Mulry, Kate Luce ...................16 Multiracials and Civil Rights....................................28 My Life in 100 Objects .........52

Taking Down Backpage..........2 Theory of Women in Religions...............................21 Thomas, Ebony Elizabeth.....23 Thorson, Helga ......................58 Tragedy of Heterosexuality, The..........................................3 Tsomo, Karma Lekshe ..........21

Nel, Philip...............................33 Nest, Michael .........................55 Norgren, Jill ...........................28 Nygaard, Taylor .....................30 O'Fahey, R. S. .........................45 Oberlin, Kathleen C..............39 Panitch, Leo ...........................51 Patnaik, Prabhat ....................48 Patnaik, Utsa ..........................48 Paul, Lissa...............................33 Pfeifer, Michael J. ..................19 Piepmeier, Alison ..................37 Pocahontas and the English Boys......................................13 Postcards from Auschwitz ...40 Precarious Power...................60 Psychology of Environmental Law, The...............................26 Race and Media .....................30 Randall, Margaret .................52 Reder, Deanna .......................55 Reproductive Rights as Human Rights.....................36 Reynolds, Daniel P. ...............40 Rosenberg, Ian .........................1 Roth, Louise Marie................37 Rowell, Arden ........................26 Sbayyil, ʿAbdallah ibn ..........45 Schallié, Charlotte .................58 Schwartzberg, Melissa ..........31 Scott, Charles .........................56 Settje, David E. ......................18 Shaw, Todd C. ........................31 Silva, Tony ..............................35 Smell of Risk, The..................24 Smith, Douglas Burnet .........58 Soderstrom, Mary .................57

Udel, Miriam ...........................4 Unexpected ............................37 Untold Story of Shields Green, The..........................................8 Upending the Ivory Tower...13 Valk, Jonathan .......................41 Value and Crisis ....................50 van de Wiel, Lucy ..................36 van Noord, Andrea ...............58 Venezuela, the Present as Struggle................................50 Viehoff, Daniel.......................31 Ward, Jane ................................3 Warnock, Raphael G.............22 Wessinger, Catherine ............21 Westheimer, Ruth K..............47 When the Medium was the Mission ................................18 Willis, Deborah .......................9 Wilson, Eli Revelle Yano ......38 Women in Buddhist Traditions ............................21 World Is Our Classroom, The ........................................38 World of Our Fathers............46 Yoga Sutras of Patañjali, The ........................................43 Zipes, Jack ................................4

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Fall 2020 Publication Schedule

SEPTEMBER The Tragedy of Heterosexuality Jane Ward | 3 Clipped Wings Molly Merryman | 12

NYU Press Classics Susan B. Anthony Kathleen L. Barry | 47

New in Paperback Gowanus Joseph Alexiou | 24

New Village Press My Life in 100 Objects Margaret Randall | 52

Gaming Sexism Amanda C. Cote | 29

University of Regina Press Genocidal Love Bevann Fox | 54

A Queer New York Jen Jack Gieseking | 34

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OCTOBER NYU Press Classics Heavenly Sex Ruth K. Westheimer and Jonathan Mark | 47

The Dark Fantastic Ebony Elizabeth Thomas | 23

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Front of the House, Back of the House Eli Revelle Yano Wilson | 38

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Ancient Taxation Jonathan Valk and Irene Soto Marín | 41 Monthly Review Press Between Capitalism and Community Michael A. Lebowitz | 51

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NOVEMBER The Intimacies of Conflict Daniel Y. Kim | 15 New in Paperback The Divided Mind of the Black Church Raphael G. Warnock | 22 New in Paperback Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers Jill Norgren | 28 Horrible White People Taylor Nygaard and Jorie Lagerwey | 30 Democratic Failure Melissa Schwartzberg, Daniel Viehoff | 31 After Obama Todd C. Shaw, Robert A. Brown, Joseph P. McCormick II | 31

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The Business of Birth Louise Marie Roth | 37

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The World is Our Classroom Jennie Germann Molz | 38

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Iraqi Refugees in the United States Ken R. Crane | 39

When the Medium was the Mission Jenna Supp-Montgomerie | 18 The Psychology of Environmental Law Arden Rowell and Kenworthey Bilz | 26 Crisis Lawyering Ray Brescia and Eric K. Stern | 26

Wits University Press Precarious Power Susan Booysen | 60

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