NYU Press Fall 2024

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BY PAULA CHAMPAGNE

BROOKLYNITES

THE REMARKABLE STORY OF THE FREE BLACK COMMUNITIES THAT SHAPED A BOROUGH

PRITHI KANAKAMEDALA

Meet the Black Brooklynites who defined New York City’s most populous borough through their search for social justice

Before it was a borough, Brooklyn was our nation’s third largest city. Its free Black community attracted people from all walks of life—businesswomen, church leaders, laborers, and writers—who sought to grow their city in a radical anti-slavery vision. The residents of neighborhoods like DUMBO, Fort Greene, and Williamsburg organized and agitated for social justice. They did so even as their own freedom was threatened by systemic and structural racism, risking their safety for the sake of their city. Brooklynites recovers the lives of these remarkable citizens and considers their lasting impact on New York City’s most populous borough.

This cultural and social history is told through four ordinary families from Brooklyn’s nineteenth-century free Black community: the Crogers, the Hodges, the Wilsons, and the Gloucesters. The book illustrates the depth and scope of their activism, cementing Brooklyn’s place in the history of social justice movements. Their lives offer valuable lessons on freedom, democracy, and family—both the ones we’re born with and the ones we choose. Their powerful stories continue to resonate today, as borough residents fill the streets in search of a more just city.

This is a story of land, home, labor, of New Yorkers past, and the legacy they left us. This is the story of Brooklyn.

“A noteworthy and necessary atlas of Black Brooklyn that gives new insights into the trajectory of the nation. Bookshelves have been waiting for such a historic walk through the famed Borough.”

KAMAU WARE FOUNDER OF THE BLACK GOTHAM EXPERIENCE

Bronx Community College, City University of New York.

PRITHI KANAKAMEDALA is Associate Professor of History at

WASHINGTON MEWS BOOKS

OUR JACKIE

PUBLIC CLAIMS ON A PRIVATE LIFE

KAREN M. DUNAK

KAREN M. DUNAK is Professor and Arthur G. and Eloise Barnes Cole Chair of American History in the Department of History at Muskingum University. She is the author of As Long As We Both Shall Love: The White Wedding in Postwar America.

Tells the story of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis through her evolving public persona, from campaign wife to First Lady to fallen idol to treasured national icon

When Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis became First Lady of the United States over sixty years ago, she stepped into the public spotlight. Although Jackie is perhaps best known for her two highly-publicized marriages, her legacy has endured beyond twentieth-century pop culture and she remains an object of public fascination today.

Drawing on a range of sources– from articles penned for the women’s pages of local newspapers, to esteemed national periodicals, to fan magazines and film – Our Jackie evaluates how media coverage of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis changed over the course of her very public life. Jackie’s interactions with and framing by the American media reflect the changing attitudes toward American womanhood. Over the course of four decades, Jackie was alternatively praised for her service to others, and pilloried for her perceived self-interest. In Our Jackie, Karen M. Dunak argues that whether she was portrayed as a campaign wife, a loyal widow, a selfish jetsetter, or a mature career woman, the history of Jackie’s highly publicized life demonstrates the ways in which news, entertainment, politics, and celebrity evolved and intertwined over the second half of the twentieth century.

Examining the intimate chronicles of this famous First Lady’s life, Our Jackie suggests that media coverage of this enigmatic public figure revealed as much about the prevailing views of women in America– how they should behave and whom they should serve– as it did about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis as an individual.

FORBIDDEN

A 3,000-YEAR HISTORY OF JEWS AND THE PIG

JORDAN D. ROSENBLUM

A surprising history of how the pig has influenced Jewish identity

Jews do not eat pig. This (not always true) observation has been made by both Jews and non-Jews for more than three thousand years and is rooted in biblical law. Though the Torah prohibits eating pig meat, it is not singled out more than other food prohibitions. Horses, rabbits, squirrels, and even vultures, while also not kosher, do not inspire the same level of revulsion for Jews as the pig. The pig has become an iconic symbol for people to signal their Jewishness, non-Jewishness, or rebellion from Judaism. There is nothing in the Bible that suggests Jews are meant to embrace this level of pig-phobia.

Starting with the Hebrew Bible, Jordan D. Rosenblum historicizes the emergence of the pig as a key symbol of Jewish identity, from the Roman persecution of ancient rabbis, to the Spanish Inquisition, when socalled Marranos (“Pigs”) converted to Catholicism, to Shakespeare’s writings, to modern memoirs of those leaving Orthodox Judaism. The pig appears in debates about Jewish emancipation in eighteenth-century England and in vaccine conspiracies; in World War II rallying cries, when many American Jewish soldiers were “eating ham for Uncle Sam;” in conversations about pig sandwiches reportedly consumed by Karl Marx; and in recent deliberations about the kosher status of Impossible Pork.

All told, there is a rich and varied story about the associations of Jews and pigs over time, both emerging from within Judaism and imposed on Jews by others. Expansive yet accessible, Forbidden offers a captivating look into Jewish history and identity through the lens of the pig.

JORDAN D. ROSENBLUM is Professor of Religious Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is also the Belzer Professor of Classical Judaism at the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies. He is the author of many books, including Rabbinic Drinking: What Beverages Teach Us About Rabbinic Literature, The Jewish Dietary Laws in the Ancient World and Food and Identity in Early Rabbinic Judaism and coeditor of Feasting and Fasting: The History and Ethics of Jewish Food.

CORPORATOCRACY

HOW TO PROTECT DEMOCRACY FROM DARK MONEY AND CORRUPT POLITICIANS

CIARA TORRES-SPELLISCY

CIARA TORRES-SPELLISCY is Professor of Law at Stetson University and a Fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law. She is the author of Corporate Citizen?: An Argument for the Separation of Corporation and State and Political Brands. Torres-Spelliscy also serves on the board of directors of the Mertz Gilmore Foundation and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW).

Reveals how corporate greed led to scandal, corruption, and the January 6th insurrection—and how we can stop it from happening again

Donald Trump’s false claims of election fraud and the violence of the Capitol riot have made it unavoidably clear that the future of American democracy is in peril. Unseen political actors and untraceable dark money influence our elections, while anti-democratic rhetoric threatens a tilt towards authoritarianism.

In Corporatocracy, Ciara Torres-Spelliscy reveals the role corporations play in this dire state of political affairs, and explains why and how they should be held accountable by the courts, their shareholders, and citizens themselves. Drawing on key Supreme Court cases, Torres-Spelliscy explores how corporations have, more often than not, been on the wrong side of history by working to undermine democratic norms, practices, and laws. From bankrolling regressive politicians to funding ghost candidates with dark money, she shows us how corporations subvert the will of the American people, and how courts struggle to hold them and corrupt politicians accountable.

Corporations have existed far longer than democracies have. If voters, consumers, and investors are not careful, corporations may well outlive democracy. Corporatocracy brings all of these shadowy tactics to light and offers meaningful legal reforms that can strengthen and protect American democracy.

"Ciara Torres-Spelliscy's compelling and clearly written critique makes visible the interwoven strands of corporate governance failure and political governance risk. This book should be read by anyone interested in whether Americans will be able to keep its experiment in democratic republicanism going, or whether it will slide into oligarchy or worse – which is to say, by everyone."

JOHN COATES

DEPUTY DEAN AND JOHN F. COGAN, JR. PROFESSOR OF LAW AND ECONOMICS, HARVARD LAW SCHOOL

CONSCIENCE INCORPORATED

PURSUE PROFITS WHILE PROTECTING HUMAN RIGHTS

MICHAEL H. POSNER, PREFACE BY HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON

A guide for business leaders working to create socially conscious, sustainable companies—without sacrificing profit

Amid international outcry over income inequality, labor abuses, and racial injustice, Conscience Incorporated examines the gaps in current corporate social responsibility measures. The rise of new technologies such as smartphones and social media have made it easier than ever to document and spread awareness of corporate misconduct. Despite these developments, large corporations often fail to meaningfully address the human rights abuses committed within their companies or as part of their global business practices. In Conscience Incorporated, Michael H. Posner addresses what lies at the root of the challenges global corporations face in addressing human rights failures by drawing on his extensive personal experience as a human rights lawyer, State Department official under President Obama, chair of the Fair Labor Association and Director of the Center for Business and Human Rights at NYU Stern School of Business.

Conscience Incorporated highlights the dangers of outsourcing labor to faraway nations and enforcing unfair deals with local suppliers. Posner argues that growing public awareness has not been enough to meaningfully alter the unethical practices of some global businesses. In doing so, he reveals how these businesses have failed to prioritize human rights time and again, betraying their vows to protect workers and communities.

Posner offers concrete reforms and argues compellingly for why businesses need to devote greater time and resources to protecting basic human rights. Conscience Incorporated is a powerful challenge to the status quo and advocates for a fundamental shift in the principles that govern global businesses.

MICHAEL H. POSNER is the Jerome Kohlberg Professor of Ethics and Finance and the Director of the Center for Business and Human Rights at NYU’s Stern School of Business.

“A book that every CEO, every sustainability advocate, every MBA student, and every person who wants to advance human rights in a global economy should be reading.”

HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON

BLACK PANTHER WOMAN

THE POLITICAL AND SPIRITUAL LIFE OF ERICKA HUGGINS

MARY FRANCES PHILLIPS

MARY FRANCES PHILLIPS is Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Lehman College, City University of New York.

The first biography of Ericka Huggins, a queer Black woman who brought spiritual self-care practices to the Black Panther Party

In this groundbreaking biography, Mary Frances Phillips immerses readers in the life and legacy of Ericka Huggins, a revered Black Panther Party member, as well as a mother, widow, educator, poet, and former political prisoner. In 1969, the police arrested Ericka Huggins along with Bobby Seale and fellow Black Panther Party members, who were accused of murdering Alex Rackley. This marked the beginning of her ordeal, as she became the subject of political persecution and a wellplanned FBI COINTELPRO plot.

Drawing on never-before-seen archival sources, including prison records, unpublished letters, photographs, FBI records, and oral histories, Phillips foregrounds the paramount role of self-care and community care in Huggins’s political journey, shedding light on Ericka’s use of spiritual wellness practices she developed during her incarceration. In prison, Huggins was able to survive the repression and terror she faced while navigating motherhood through her unwavering commitment to spiritual practices. In showcasing this history, Phillips reveals the significance of spiritual wellness in the Black Panther Party and Black Power movement.

Transcending the traditional male-centric study of the Black Panther Party, Black Panther Woman offers an innovative analysis of Black political life at the intersections of gender, motherhood, and mass incarceration. This book serves as an invaluable toolkit for contemporary activists, underscoring the power of radical acts of care as well as vital strategies to thrive in the world.

NATURAL

BLACK BEAUTY AND THE POLITICS OF HAIR

CHELSEA MARY ELISE JOHNSON

How Black women celebrate their natural hair and uproot racialized beauty standards

Hair is not simply a biological feature; it’s a canvas for expression. Hair can be cut, colored, dyed, covered, gelled, waxed, plucked, lasered, dreadlocked, braided, and relaxed. Yet, its significance extends beyond mere aesthetics. Hair can carry profound moral, spiritual, and cultural connotations, serving as a reflection of one’s beliefs, heritage, and even political stance. In Natural, Chelsea Mary Elise Johnson delves into the complex world surrounding Black women’s hair, and offers a firsthand look into the kitchens, beauty shops, conventions, and blogs that make up the twenty-first century natural hair movement, the latest evolution in Black beauty politics.

Johnson shares her own hair story and amplifies the voices of women across the globe who, after years of chemically relaxing their hair, return to a “natural” style. Johnson describes how many women initially transition to natural hair out of curiosity or as a wellness practice but come to view their choice as political upon confronting personal insecurities and social stigma, both within and outside of the Black community. She also investigates “natural hair entrepreneurs,” who use their knowledge to create lucrative and socially transformative haircare ventures.

Distinct from a politics of respectability or Afrocentricity, Johnson’s argument is that today’s natural hair movement advances a politics of authenticity. She offers “going natural” as a practice of self-love and acceptance; a critique of exclusionary economic arrangements and an exploitative beauty industry; and an act of anti-racist political resistance.

Natural powerfully illustrates how the natural hair movement is part of a larger social change among Black women to assert their own purchasing power, standards of beauty, and bodily autonomy.

CHELSEA MARY ELISE JOHNSON is currently a Staff User Experience Researcher for Trust and Inclusive Design at LinkedIn and is the co-author of two children's books: IntersectionAllies: We Make Room For All, and Love without Bounds: An IntersectionAllies Book about Families. Her work has also appeared in, Sociological Perspectives, Women’s Review of Books, Sociology of Sport, Ms. Magazine Blog, and Teen Vogue.

“This book is a blueprint for studying the natural hair movement in the age of social media.''

TANISHA C. FORD, AUTHOR OF LIBERATED THREADS

HOMEGROWN RADICALS

A STORY OF STATE VIOLENCE, ISLAMOPHOBIA, AND JIHAD IN THE POST-9/11 WORLD

YOUCEF SOUFI

YOUCEF SOUFI is a Researcher on Islamophobia at the Centre for Human Rights Research, University of Manitoba. He is the author of The Rise of Critical Islam: 10th-13th Century Legal Debate.

The powerful story of how the War on Terror created the conditions for the emergence of a novel theory of jihad

The post-9/11 period saw the emergence of the figure of the homegrown radical Muslim, raising fears and worries about the possibility of an enemy exceptionally capable of harming and destabilizing the nation-state. Against this figure of the radical stood that of the moderate Muslim who represented the possibility of national unity despite religious and racial differences.

In Homegrown Radicals, Youcef Soufi brings the radical and moderate Muslim together in uneasy tension, offering a study into how state violence inextricably tied them together in post-9/11 Canada and the US. By focusing on the radicalization of three Muslim students on the Canadian prairies, he traces North American Muslims’ general sense of affective injury over the loss of Muslim life in Western military campaigns overseas.

In this context, a new theory of jihad rooted in a Muslim utopian imagination emerged, one that marked a significant rupture with premodern Islamic thought. The three “radicals” focused upon in this book were among thousands of Anglophone Muslims who found this new theory compelling as a diagnosis and solution to the violence unleashed in the War on Terror. The book examines how, why, and with what consequences for their families, friends, and Muslim community.

In so doing it highlights that post 9/11 Islamophobia has operated through the conceptual blurring of the line between the “moderate” and “radical” Muslims and asks what alternative forms of solidarity may transcend the violent boundaries of the nation-state.

COWBOY APOCALYPSE

RELIGION AND THE MYTH OF THE VIGILANTE MESSIAH

RACHEL WAGNER

Charts the myth of the “good guy with a gun,” connecting America’s frontier beginnings with visions of the end of the world

In the midst of widespread mass shootings in America, a common motif stands out: the perpetrators of these attacks often view themselves as vigilante saviors, whose job it is to regulate society in a way that exterminates their enemies.

In this fascinating critique, Rachel Wagner makes the case that this unfortunate phenomenon is best understood through the idea of the cowboy apocalypse. She shows that across much US media, from video games and blockbuster movies to novels and TV, a story arc has been created that provides a complete myth about the end of the world and the future after that. In these stories, the cowboy messiah is envisioned as a good guy with a gun. But he doesn't save the world. He just saves his world: he protects his family and others he deems worthy while embracing the chance to wipe the global slate clean and start fresh, with survivors testing their mettle on a new frontier.

Wagner illuminates the links between Christian apocalypticism, American gun culture, and the romanticization of the white male-dominated American frontier, showing how the vigilante has come to be regarded as a new savior figure, out to protect the world for white supremacy and patriarchy. She also offers ways to respond with other powerful cultural myths, making use of media to tell other stories. Cowboy Apocalypse offers a new means of making sense of how guns profoundly shape American life, and how we might engage with them otherwise.

RACHEL WAGNER is Professor of Religious Studies and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Ithaca College. She is the author of Godwired: Religion, Ritual and Virtual Reality

LINCOLN AND THE JEWS

A HISTORY, WITH A NEW PREFACE

JONATHAN D. SARNA AND BENJAMIN SHAPELL

JONATHAN D. SARNA is University Professor and the Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis University and Chief Historian of the National Museum of American Jewish History.

BENJAMIN SHAPELL is the founder of the Shapell Manuscript Foundation, an independent educational organization whose collection includes original documents of world-renowned individuals.

Explores the little-known connection between Lincoln and the Jewish people

Lincoln and the Jews provides the first full-scale history of Abraham Lincoln’s relationship with American Jews. Newly republished in a revised edition and incorporating rarely seen historical manuscripts and documents, the volume explores how Lincoln’s remarkable regard for American Jews affected his path to the presidency and his policy decisions once in the White House. Lincoln counted Jews among his closest friends and, as president, placed Jews in positions of authority and both extended and protected Jewish rights.

The first edition of Lincoln and the Jews won three prizes and was hailed by famed Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer as “the definitive study of a long-neglected aspect of Civil War history and Lincoln biography.” This edition features little known and rarely seen documents as well as a new preface highlighting the theme of antisemitism and insights which can be gleaned from this history for today.

Lincoln and the Jews affirms that Lincoln’s warm relationships with Jews not only broadened Lincoln personally, but, in effect, broadened America. A groundbreaking work, this stunning volume contributes to Civil War-era Jewish American history and uncovers a new facet to Abraham Lincoln’s legacy.

THE CIVIL WAR DIARY OF EMMA MORDECAI

EDITED AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY

DIANNE ASHTON WITH MELISSA R. KLAPPER

A vivid look at the wartime experiences of a Jewish woman in the Confederate South

Emma Mordecai lived an unusual life. She was Jewish when Jews comprised less than 1 percent of the population of the Old South, and unmarried in a culture that offered women few options other than marriage. She was American born when most American Jews were immigrants. She affirmed and maintained her dedication to Jewish religious practice and Jewish faith while many family members embraced Christianity. Yet she also lived well within the social parameters established for Southern white women, espoused Southern values, and owned enslaved African Americans.

The Civil War Diary of Emma Mordecai is one of the few surviving Civil War diaries by a Jewish woman in the antebellum South. It charts her daily life and her evolving perspective on Confederate nationalism and Southern identity, Jewishness, women’s roles in wartime, gendered domestic roles in slave-owning households, and the centrality of family relationships. While never losing sight of the racist social and political structures that shaped Emma Mordecai’s world, the book chronicles her experiences with dislocation and the loss of her home.

Bringing to life the hospital visits, food shortages, local sociability, Jewish observances, sounds and sights of nearby battles, and the very personal ramifications of emancipation and its aftermath for her household and family, The Civil War Diary of Emma Mordecai offers a valuable and distinct look at a unique historical figure from the waning years of the Civil War South.

The late DIANNE ASHTON was Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and World Religions at Rowan University. She was the author of Hanukkah in America: A History and Rebecca Gratz: Women and Judaism in Antebellum America.

MELISSA R. KLAPPER is Professor of History and Director of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rowan University. She is the author of Jewish Girls Coming of Age in America, 1860–1920; Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace: American Jewish Women’s Activism, 1890–1940; Small Strangers: The Experiences of Immigrant Children in the United States, 1880–1925; and Ballet Class: An American History.

FIRST LADY OF LAUGHS

THE FORGOTTEN STORY OF JEAN CARROLL, AMERICA'S FIRST JEWISH WOMAN STAND-UP COMEDIAN

GRACE KESSLER OVERBEKE

GRACE KESSLER OVERBEKE is Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre at Columbia College, Chicago.

Before Hacks and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, there was the comedienne who started it all

First Lady of Laughs tells the story of Jean Carroll, the first Jewish woman to become a star in the field we now call stand-up comedy. Though rarely mentioned among the pantheon of early stand-up comics such as Henny Youngman and Lenny Bruce, Jean Carroll rivaled or even outshone the male counterparts of her heyday, playing more major theaters than any other comedian of her period. In addition to releasing a hit comedy album, Girl in a Hot Steam Bath, and briefly starring in her own sitcom on ABC, she also made twenty-nine appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show.

Carroll made enduring changes to the genre of standup comedy, carving space for women and modeling a new form of Jewish femininity with her glamorous, acculturated, but still recognizably Jewish persona. She innovated a newly conversational, intimate style of stand-up, which is now recognized in comics like Joan Rivers, Sarah Silverman, and Tiffany Haddish. When Carroll was ninety-five she was honored at the Friars Club in New York City, where celebrities like Joy Behar and Lily Tomlin praised her influence on their craft. But her celebrated career began as an impoverished immigrant child, scrounging for talent show prize money to support her family.

Drawing on archival footage, press clippings, and Jean Carroll’s personal scrapbook, First Lady of Laughs restores Jean Carroll’s remarkable story to its rightful place in the lineage of comedy history and Jewish American performance.

WHERE THE WILD THINGS WERE

BOYHOOD AND PERMISSIVE PARENTING IN POSTWAR AMERICA

HENRY JENKINS

Explores iconic works from The Cat in the Hat to The Twilight Zone to explain cultural trends in parenting and how we conceptualize childhood

The 60s produced a Baby Boom generation that catalyzed the dawn of a new era—the space age, the age of television, the global age, and the beginnings of civil rights. At the same time, a new paradigm for parenting was unfolding that put emphasis on permissiveness, defined by what it permitted – the free and unfettered impulses of children.

Where the Wild Things Were centers on the exploding, contentious national conversation about the nature of childhood and parenting in the postwar US emblematized by Dr. Spock’s Baby and Child Care. Renowned scholar Henry Jenkins demonstrates that the language that shaped a growing field of advice literature for parents also informed the period’s fictions—in film, television, comics, children’s books, and elsewhere— produced for and consumed by children. In particular, Jenkins demonstrates, the era’s emblematic child was the boy in the striped shirt: white, male, suburban, middle class, Christian, and above all, American.

Written by a former boy in a striped shirt, Where the Wild Things Were explores iconic works, from Mary Poppins to Lost in Space, contextualizing them through a critical but respectful engagement with the core animating ideas of the permissive imagination.

HENRY JENKINS is Provost’s Professor of Communication, Journalism, Cinematic Arts and Education at the University of Southern California. He is the author or coauthor of twenty books including Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture, Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide, Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture, and By Any Media Necessary: The New Youth Activism.

REDFACE

RACE, PERFORMANCE, AND INDIGENEITY

BETHANY HUGHES

BETHANY HUGHES is Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan in the Department of American Culture and a core faculty member in the Native American Studies Program. Her work can be found in Theatre Journal, Mobilities, Theatre Survey, American Periodicals, and Theatre Topics.

Considers the character of the “Stage Indian” in American theater and its racial and political impact Redface unearths the history of the theatrical phenomenon of redface in nineteenth- and twentiethcentury America. Like blackface, redface was used to racialize Indigenous peoples and nations, and even more crucially, exclude them from full citizenship in the United States. Arguing that redface is more than just the costumes or makeup an actor wears, Bethany Hughes contends that it is a collaborative, curatorial process through which artists and audiences make certain bodies legible as “Indian.” By chronicling how performances and definitions of redface rely upon legibility and delineations of race that are culturally constructed and routinely shifting, this book offers an understanding of how redface works to naturalize a very particular version of history and, in doing so, mask its own performativity.

Tracing the “Stage Indian” from its early nineteenthcentury roots to its proliferation across theatrical entertainment forms and turn of the twenty-first century attempts to address its racist legacy, Redface uses case studies in law and civic life to understand its offstage impact. Hughes connects extensive scholarship on the “Indian” in American culture to the theatrical history of racial impersonation and critiques of settler colonialism, demonstrating redface’s high stakes for Indigenous and non-Indigenous alike. Revealing the persistence of redface and the challenges of fixing it, Redface closes by offering readers an embodied rehearsal of what it would mean to read not for the “Indian” but for Indigenous theater and performance as it has always existed in the US.

HOW TO BE DISABLED IN A PANDEMIC

EDITED BY MARA MILLS, FAYE GINSBURG, RAYNA RAPP, AND HARRIS KORNSTEIN

A chronicle of ableism and disability activism in New York City during the COVID-19 pandemic

How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic documents the pivotal experiences of disabled people living in an early epicenter of COVID-19: New York City. Among those hardest hit by the pandemic, disability communities across the five boroughs have been disproportionately impacted by city and national policies, work and housing conditions, stigma, racism, and violence—as much as by the virus itself.

How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic includes contributions by wide-ranging disability scholars, writers, and activists whose research and lived experiences chronicle the pandemic’s impacts in prisons, migrant detention centers, Chinatown senior centers, hospitals in Queens and the Bronx, working from bed in Brooklyn, subways, schools, housing shelters, social media, and other locations of public and private life. By focusing on New York City over the course of three years, the book reveals key themes of the pandemic, including hierarchies of disability vulnerability, the deployment of disability as a tool of population management, and innovative crip pandemic cultural production. How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic honors those lost, as well as those who survived, by calling for just policies and caring infrastructures, not only in times of crisis but for the long haul.

“So many forces want us to forget about the pandemic, that it’s over and not a concern anymore. How To Be Disabled In A Pandemic documents the wisdom of disabled oracles who resisted and challenged the system during the first three years of the pandemic in New York City. After reading this book, it’ll leave you wondering what could have happened if our ableist society centered disabled people and took them seriously.”

ALICE WONG AUTHOR OF YEAR OF THE TIGER: AN ACTIVIST’S LIFE

MARA MILLS is Associate Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University.

FAYE GINSBURG is Kriser Professor of Anthropology at New York University.

RAYNA RAPP is Professor Emerita in the Department of Anthropology at New York University

HARRIS KORNSTEIN is Assistant Professor of Public and Applied Humanities at the University of Arizona.

CITY TIME ON BEING SENTENCED

TO RIKERS ISLAND

DAVID CAMPBELL AND JARROD SHANAHAN

DAVID CAMPBELL is a writer, translator, and former antifascist political prisoner. He was a PEN America 2021 Writing for Justice Fellowship finalist, and his writing has been featured in numerous publications, including Slate, Huffington Post, CUNY Law Review, New York Focus, Truthout, and the Appeal.

JARROD SHANAHAN is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Governors State University. He is the author of Captives: How Rikers Island Took New York City Hostage.

A unique insider perspective of daily life in New York City’s most notorious house of correction

While most people behind bars at Rikers Island are detainees awaiting the settlement of their cases, a smaller population have already been convicted and are serving sentences deemed too short for the state prison system. These stints are called “city time.” The sentences range from a few days to a year, and are generally served within large, open dormitories lacking in privacy and sanitation. Within these spaces, incarcerated people reproduce an elaborate set of rules, rituals, and relationships, as a means both of survival and of giving meaning to the time taken from them.

Written by David Campbell and Jarrod Shanahan, who both served sentences at Rikers, City Time reflects its authors’ personal experiences and observations of short-stay incarceration to present a nuanced and vivid account of a social world kept locked away from the public eye. The authors reconstruct the daily realities of sanitation, nourishment, recreation, work, and other necessary activities, and emphasize the complex interpersonal relationships that emerge in response to city time. Simultaneously, they paint a grim and urgent picture of structural racism, class violence, and the disastrous lack of mental health and substance abuse resources for poor New Yorkers, who are shuttled in and out of city time sentences as “frequent flyers.”

Beginning with the authors’ own processes of intake, and ending with the ritual of late-night release, City Time takes readers behind the splashy headlines to depict, in intimately human terms, the rich and variegated social world unfolding, at this very moment, on Rikers Island.

REPUBLIC OF DREAMS

ORDINARY PEOPLE, EXTRAORDINARY STRUGGLES, AND THE FUTURE OF IRAQI KURDISTAN

NICOLE F. WATTS

A harrowing political history of Kurdish Iraq told through the extraordinary rags-to-riches story of a childhood refugee

In the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s, Iraqi president Saddam Hussein used chemical weapons against his own people, the Iraqi Kurds. Five thousand people died in what became known as the Halabja Massacre, which has been deemed the worst chemical attack in history.

Nicole F. Watts, a former journalist and now professor of political science, has spent over a decade researching the struggles of the Kurdish people in Iraq, and in vivid, lyrical prose, she tells their story through the eyes of Peshawa, a young Muslim Kurd whose family barely survived the bombing and then fled for their lives.

Republic of Dreams is a harrowing portrait of Iraqi Kurdistan and its history, as it weathers Hussein’s genocidal campaign against the Kurds, a civil war, the US invasion of Iraq, the Arab Spring, and the sustained neglect of the city of Halabja. Throughout the book, the thread of Peshawa’s story immerses readers in the everyday and extraordinary world of Iraqi Kurds between the late 1980s and 2022, exploring the meaning of home and dislocation in the wake of war and genocide.

Based on over a hundred in-depth interviews with Iraqi Kurdish activists, journalists, elected officials, and community organizers, and hundreds of hours of conversations with Peshawa and his family, Republic of Dreams brings to vivid life the story of modern Kurdistan, and the Kurdish national dream to have their own homeland.

F. WATTS is Professor of Political Science at San Francisco State University. She is the author of Activists in Office: Kurdish Politics and Protest in Turkey and co-editor of Negotiating Political Power in Turkey: Breaking up the Party.

NICOLE

TO BE A JEWISH STATE

ZIONISM AS THE NEW JUDAISM

YAACOV YADGAR

YAACOV YADGAR is the Stanley Lewis Professor of Israel Studies at the University of Oxford and the author of several books including Israel’s Jewish Identity Crisis: State and Politics in the Middle East.

Examines the meaning of Jewish politics in Israel

In one of the first books to ask head-on what it means for Israel to be a Jewish state, Yaacov Yadgar delves into what the designation “Jewish” amounts to in the context of the sovereign nation-state, and what it means for the politics of the state to be identified as Jewish. The volume interrogates the tension between the notion of Israel as a Jewish state—one whose very character is informed by Judaism—and the notion of Israel as a “state of the Jews,” with the sole criterion the maintenance of a demographically Jewish majority, whatever the character of that majority’s Jewishness might or might not be.

The volume also examines Zionism’s relationship to Judaism. It provocatively questions whether the Christian notion of supersessionism, the idea that the Christian Church has superseded the nation of Israel in God’s eyes and that Christians are now the true People of God, may now be applied to Zionism, with Zionism understood by some to have taken over the place of traditional Judaism, rendering the actual Jewish religion superfluous.

To Be a Jewish State deeply informs the democratic crisis in Israel, discussing whether Jewish laws put into effect by the state or political moves made to ensure a Jewish majority can be seen as undermining democracy. In our current era, with nationalism resurging, To Be a Jewish State urges a critical re-assessment of the very meaning of modern Jewish identity.

LIVING OFF THE GOVERNMENT?

RACE, GENDER, AND THE POLITICS OF WELFARE

ANNE M. WHITESELL

Explores the ways welfare recipients lack adequate political representation

Who deserves public assistance from the government? This age-old question has been revived by policymakers, pundits, and activists following the massive economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Anne Whitesell takes up this timely debate, showing us how our welfare system, in its current state, fails the people it is designed to serve. The book reveals how harmful stereotypes about the race, gender, and class of welfare recipients filter into our highly polarized political arena to shape public policy. From debates over stimulus check eligibility to the uncertain future of unemployment benefits, Living Off the Government? tackles it all.

ANNE M. WHITESELL is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Miami University. Her research has appeared in a number of prestigious journals, including Politics & Gender, State Politics & Policy Quarterly, and Policy Studies Journal.

MASCULINITY IN AMERICAN POLITICS

EDITED BY MONIKA L. MCDERMOTT AND DAN CASSINO

How elements of masculinity manifest themselves in all aspects of American political life

In Masculinity in American Politics, Monika L. McDermott and Dan Cassino bring together a prestigious group of interdisciplinary scholars to provide insight into masculinity and its high-stakes political manifestations, particularly as Gen Z fights to redefine the contours of their own gender and sexuality. Drawing upon insights from politics, sociology, psychology, and the broader social sciences, Masculinity in American Politics pushes the field to look “beyond the binary” and illuminate this brave, new world of political conflict and possibility.

MONIKA L. MCDERMOTT is Professor of Political Science and Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies at Fordham University. She is the author of Masculinity, Femininity, and American Political Behavior.

DAN CASSINO is Professor of Government and Politics at Farleigh Dickinson University. He is the author of Fox News and American Politics.

DISSATISFACTIONS

QUEER LATINIDAD AND THE POLITICS OF STYLE

JOSHUA JAVIER GUZMÁN

Examines Chicano/Latino discontent with the US nationstate and the activism responding to systemic state violence during a very contentious post-1968 Los Angeles.

In this groundbreaking work, Joshua Javier Guzmán explores the queer punk and Chicano/Latino avant-garde art scenes in post-1968 Los Angeles from the rise of Ronald Reagan to the height of the AIDS epidemic. He demonstrates how style–as a cultural form and sensibility–becomes essential to Latino politics at the moment the utopian impulses of the 1960s begin to fade Dissatisfactions highlights the middle ranges of political agency strategically utilized by queer racialized historical actors to underscore how negative feelings become instrumental to social change. Revealing new forms of activism and art that continue to structure the way we understand systemic violence and survival, Dissatisfactions insists on the significance of both the politics of style and the different styles politics may take.

JOSHUA JAVIER GUZMÁN is Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender Studies at University of California, Los Angeles.

NOVEMBER 19, 2024 | CULTURAL STUDIES | SERIES: MINORITARIAN AESTHETICS

256 PAGES | 6 X 9 | 30 B/W ILLUSTRATIONS | PAPER: 9781479812837 | $30.00 NYUS (£25.99) CLOTH: 9781479812820 | $89.00 NYUX (£80.00)

EXTRAVAGANT CAMP

THE QUEER ABJECTION OF ASIAN AMERICA

CHRIS A. ENG

Illuminates an irreverent queer cultural strategy for grappling with and remaking abject histories of violence

Extravagant Camp takes as its point of critical departure the multiple valences of the word “camp”: the camp, as a geopolitical space and process of concentrating racialized populations, and the campy as a mode of queer expressiveness. Engaging its double meaning, Chris A. Eng explores how camp and encampment have contoured the figure of the Asian American. Extravagant Camp shows how Asian American camp takes on queerness as a resource to enliven modes of joy, beauty, and pleasure within structures of constraint.

CHRIS A. ENG is Assistant Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis.

FEBRUARY 4, 2025 | CULTURAL STUDIES | SERIES: SEXUAL CULTURES | 312 PAGES | 6 X 9 | 17 B/W IMAGES PAPER: 9781479834662 | $30.00 NYUS (£25.99) | CLOTH: 9781479834655 | $89.00 NYUX (£80.00)

DEVIANT MATTER FERMENT, INTOXICANTS, JELLY, ROT

KYLA WAZANA TOMPKINS

How deviant materials figure resistance

Deviant Matter examines four aesthetic and material categories—gelatinousness, fermentation, putrefaction, and intoxication—to theorize how the modern state seeks to manage deviant populations across multiple scales, from the level of the single cell up to the affective and aesthetic imperatives of the state and its bureaucratic projects. Kyla Wazana Tompkins deploys a new materialist engagement with the history of race and queer life. Drawing from the genealogy of Black feminist and queer of color critique, Deviant Matter serves as a figure for thinking about how matter, art, politics, and affect work across multiple scales, ranging from the intimate and everyday to the inner workings of the state.

KYLA WAZANA TOMPKINS is Professor and Chair of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University at Buffalo. She is the author of Racial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the Nineteenth Century and managing editor of Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies.

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QUEER LASTING ECOLOGIES OF CARE FOR A DYING WORLD

SARAH ENSOR

What queer modes of resilience and care can teach us about enduring environmental collapse

To be “at the last” is often a terrifying prospect, but what would it mean if only the lasting remained? Sarah Ensor turns to queer scenes of futurelessness to consider what ecocriticism can learn from queer theory, which imagines and inhabits the immanent ethical possibilities of the present. Ensor turns to two periods of queer extinction for models of care, continuance, and collective action predicated on futurelessness: the 1890s, in which existing forms of erotic affiliation were extinguished through the binary of homo/heterosexuality, and the 1980s spread of the AIDS epidemic, which threatened the total loss of gay lives and specific erotic ways of life.

SARAH ENSOR is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is coeditor of The Cambridge Companion to American Literature and the Environment.

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RESTORATIVE JUSTICE AND LIVED RELIGION TRANSFORMING MASS INCARCERATION IN CHICAGO

JASON A. SPRINGS

Frames restorative justice as a form of moral and spiritual practice with the capacity to transform injustice

In the United States “restorative justice” typically refers to small-scale measures that divert alleged wrongdoers from a standard path through the criminal justice system by funneling them into alternative justice programs. These aim not simply to punish wrongdoing, but to address the harm that wrongdoing may have caused. This book argues that restorative justice has the potential to transform the racist system of mass incarceration, but we need to better understand what it is, and how it should be implemented. It claims that restorative justice can work only insofar as it provides a mode of association between people that is, at its core, moral and spiritual. Looking to Chicago’s restorative justice network as a model, the volume showcases real-life examples of the kinds of initiatives needed to shift the entrenched dynamics that fuel the US prison-industrial complex.

JASON A. SPRINGS is Professor of Religion, Ethics, and Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of several books, including Healthy Conflict in Contemporary American Society: From Enemy to Adversary.

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024 | RELIGION | SERIES: RELIGION AND SOCIAL

A MISREPRESENTED PEOPLE

MANHOOD IN BLACK RELIGIOUS THOUGHT

DARRIUS D'WAYNE HILLS

Offers a Black male response to the challenge of womanist thought

Although much Black religious scholarship has engaged with feminist theory and womanist thought, a gap remains where little work has been done in religious studies to investigate the Black male experience. A Misrepresented People explores how African American men grapple with identity and masculinity in relation to Black religious thought. This book counters the dominant portrayal of Black men in American society as suspicious, morally defective, and irredeemable, and showcases the strength and relevance of Black religious thought in developing alternative notions of Black manhood.

DARRIUS D'WAYNE HILLS is Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Grinnell College.

JANUARY 21, 2025 | RELIGION | SERIES: RELIGION AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION | 216 PAGES | 6 X 9 PAPER: 9781479823291 | $30.00 NYUS (£25.99) | CLOTH: 9781479823284 | $89.00 NYUX (£80.00)

GOODBYE RELIGION

THE CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF SECULARIZATION

RYAN T. CRAGUN AND JESSE M. SMITH

Examines why so many are leaving religion, and what that means for American society

One of the largest changes in American culture over the last fifty years has been the increase in people exiting religion. Goodbye Religion explores why there has been such an upswing among those who identify as nonreligious, and what the societal implications are of this move towards less religiosity. Utilizing nationally representative data and more than one hundred in-depth interviews with people who have left their religion behind, Ryan T. Cragun and Jesse M. Smith find that the fears among some that massive religious exit will result in societal decline are unfounded, and that those who become non-religious remain engaged in society and continue to strive to make the world a better place.

RYAN T. CRAGUN is Professor of Sociology at the University of Tampa

JESSE M. SMITH is Associate Professor of Sociology at Western Michigan University

THE CHURCH OF STOP SHOPPING AND RELIGIOUS ACTIVISM

COMBATTING CONSUMERISM AND CLIMATE CHANGE THROUGH PERFORMANCE

GEORGE GONZÁLEZ

Explores the religious activism of the Stop Shopping Church performance group

Since the dawn of the new millennium, the radical grassroots performance activist group community, the Stop Shopping Church has advanced a sophisticated anti-capitalist critique in the service of what they call Earth justice. George González draws on interviews and participant observation to offer insight into the church and how it has shifted over time from parody to a more serious engagement with religion, using the group’s performance activism to showcase the links between religion and the culture of capitalist consumerism.

GEORGE GONZÁLEZ is Assistant Professor of Religion and Culture at Baruch College, City University of New York (CUNY).

CATHOLICISM AT A

CROSSROADS

THE PRESENT AND FUTURE OF AMERICA’S LARGEST CHURCH

MAUREEN K. DAY, JAMES C. CAVENDISH, PAUL M. PERL, MICHELE DILLON, AND MARY L. GAUTIER, WITH WILLIAM V. D'ANTONIO

Offers a big picture analysis of American Catholicism Catholicism at a Crossroads offers an up-to-date, nuanced, and definitive portrait of American Catholicism in the twenty-first century. Drawing on a nation-wide survey administered every 6 years, it also provides insights relevant for the study of American religion more broadly.

MAUREEN K. DAY is Associate Professor of Religion and Society at the Franciscan School of Theology. JAMES C. CAVENDISH is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of South Florida. PAUL M. PERL is Sociologist at the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University. MICHELE DILLON is Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and the Class of 1944 Professor of Sociology at the University of New Hampshire. MARY L. GAUTIER is Senior Research Associate Emerita at the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University. WILLIAM V. D’ANTONIO is Professor Emeritus at the Catholic University of America. FEBRUARY 4, 2025 |

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FALLING IN LOVE WITH NATURE

AMANDA J. BAUGH

Explores the contours of Latinx Catholic environmentalism Home-based conservationist measures such as cultivating backyard gardens, avoiding consumerism, and limiting waste are widespread among Spanish-speaking Catholics across the United States. Yet these homebased conservationist practices are seldom recognized as “environmental” because they are enacted by working-class immigrant communities. Amanda J. Baugh tells the story of American environmentalism through a focus on Spanishspeaking Catholics.

AMANDA J. BAUGH is Professor and Associate Chair of Religious Studies and Director of the M.A Program in Sustainability at California State University, Northridge.

NOVEMBER 19, 2024 | RELIGION | SERIES: NORTH AMERICAN RELIGIONS | 256 PAGES | 6 X 9 | 3 B/W ILLUSTRATIONS PAPER: 9781479824052 | $30.00 NYUS (£25.99) | CLOTH: 9781479824038 | $89.00 NYUX (£80.00)

MUHAMMAD IN THE SEMINARY

PROTESTANT TEACHING ABOUT ISLAM IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

DAVID D. GRAFTON

Uncovers what Christian seminaries taught about Islam in their formative years

Throughout the nineteenth century, Islam appeared regularly in the curricula of American Protestant seminaries, studied as part of the history of the Church as well as in the new field of comparative religions. Providing an in-depth look at the information about Islam that was available in seminaries throughout the nineteenth century, Muhammad in the Seminary examines what Protestant seminaries were teaching about this tradition in the formative years of pastoral education.

DAVID D. GRAFTON is Professor of Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations at Hartford International University for Religion and Peace. He is the author of several books, including The Contested Origins of the 1865 Arabic Bible and An American Biblical Orientalism.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024 | RELIGION | 320 PAGES | 6 X 9 | 12 B/W IMAGES CLOTH: 9781479831463 | $45.00 NYUS (£40.00)

SOCIAL SCIENCE

WOMANIST BIOETHICS

SOCIAL JUSTICE, SPIRITUALITY, AND BLACK WOMEN'S HEALTH

WYLIN D. WILSON

Offers a bold new approach to bioethics that redresses the way it fails Black women

Black people, and especially Black women, suffer and die from diseases at much higher rates than their white counterparts. The vast majority of these health disparities are not attributed to behavioral differences or biology, but to the pervasive devaluation of Black bodies. Womanist Bioethics develops the first specifically womanist form of bioethics, focused on the diverse vulnerabilities and multiple oppressions that women of color face.

WYLIN D. WILSON is Assistant Professor of Theological Ethics at Duke Divinity School. She is the author of Economic Ethics and the Black Church.

JANUARY 28, 2025 | SOCIAL SCIENCE | SERIES: RELIGION AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION | 224 PAGES | 6 X 9 PAPER: 9781479817238 | $30.00 NYUS (£25.99) | CLOTH: 9781479817207 | $89.00 NYUX (£80.00)

SEX WORK TODAY

EROTIC LABOR IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

EDITED BY BERNADETTE BARTON, BARBARA G. BRENTS, AND ANGELA JONES

A cutting-edge volume on current trends in sex work, from sugar relationships and cyber brothels to financial domination, sex worker activism, and feminist porn

Featuring thirty-one original essays by sex workers, advocates, researchers, and activists, Sex Work Today is the first compilation of research on new forms of digital sex. Decentering Western, white, cisgender voices, the contributors underscore the global repercussions of policies that make sex work less safe, and provides valuable insights for those seeking to challenge prejudices and foster a safer and more equitable world for all.

BERNADETTE BARTON is Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at Morehead State University.

BARBARA G. BRENTS is Professor of Sociology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

ANGELA JONES is Professor of Sociology at Farmingdale State College, SUNY.

NOVEMBER 19, 2024 | SOCIAL SCIENCE | 400 PAGES | 6 X 9 | 18 B/W ILLUSTRATIONS PAPER: 9781479821341 | $35.00 NYUS (£29.99) | CLOTH: 9781479821310 | $99.00 £89.00 (NYUX)

TOXIC SEXUAL POLITICS

TOXICOLOGY, ENVIRONMENTAL POISONS, AND QUEER FEMINIST FUTURES

MELINA PACKER

A bold exposé of how the very foundation of toxicology has been contaminated by sexist and racist ideologies

The first critical understanding of the field of toxicology from a feminist and antiracist perspective, Toxic Sexual Politics asserts that the science of toxicants must be held accountable for the uneven distribution of toxic pollution along racial and sexual lines. Drawing upon in-depth interviews and extensive ethnographic and archival research, including participant observations in toxicology classrooms, conferences, and laboratories, Packer urges environmental health advocates to place toxicant science within its masculinist, militarist, and eugenicist history.

MELINA PACKER is Assistant Professor of Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Wisconsin La Crosse.

JANUARY 28, 2025 | SOCIAL SCIENCE | SERIES: HEALTH, SOCIETY, AND INEQUALITY | 352 PAGES | 6 X 9 13 B/W IMAGES | PAPER: 9781479828623 | $35.00 NYUS (£29.99) | CLOTH: 9781479828616 | $99.00 NYUX

GLUTEN FREE FOR LIFE

CELIAC DISEASE, MEDICAL RECOGNITION, AND THE FOOD INDUSTRY

EMILY K. ABEL

A groundbreaking exploration of celiac disease, a serious autoimmune condition that affects approximately three million Americans, or 1 percent of the population

In Gluten Free for Life, Emily K. Abel delves into the social, cultural, and historical dimensions of celiac disease, and sheds light on the challenges faced by affected individuals. The book uncovers the profit-driven motivations behind certain food companies, which often produce exorbitantly priced and ultraprocessed gluten-free products that remain out of reach for many people. Abel also emphasizes the parallels between celiac disease and other disabilities, stressing the condition's invisible nature. By redirecting attention toward necessary social and political reforms, Gluten Free for Life proposes remedies capable of alleviating the burdens faced by individuals with celiac disease.

EMILY K. ABEL is Professor Emerita at the UCLA-Fielding School of Public Health.

JANUARY 28, 2025 | SOCIAL SCIENCE | 224 PAGES | 6 X 9

PAPER: 9781479834938 | $30.00 NYUS (£25.99) | CLOTH: 9781479834914 | $89.00 NYUX (£80.00)

SOCIOLOGY MEETS MEMOIR

AN EXPLORATION OF NARRATIVE

MARGARET K. NELSON

AND METHOD

How sociologists can approach memoir in their writing, research, and in the classroom

Memoirs attract millions of readers with their compelling life stories, vivid details, and often startling revelations. Beyond entertainment value, however, Margaret K. Nelson argues that memoirs hold potential as powerful resources for sociologists to engage with, analyze, and teach. Sociology Meets Memoir is a short and accessible guide to the significance of memoirs for the field of sociology, from their many possible uses to the numerous challenges they pose.

MARGARET K. NELSON is A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Sociology Emerita at Middlebury College.

DECEMBER 17, 2024 | SOCIAL SCIENCE | 208 PAGES | 6 X 9

PAPER: 9781479827329 | $28.00 NYUS (£23.99) | CLOTH: 9781479827312 | $89.00 NYUX (£80.00)

SOCIAL SCIENCE

BEACH POLITICS

SOCIAL, RACIAL, AND ENVIRONMENTAL INJUSTICE ON THE SHORELINE

EDITED BY SETHA LOW

Explores how elites restrict access to public beaches around the globe

Beach Politics examines how over the past forty years, privatization of public space has accelerated with the help of both local governments and national corporations. Whenever disputes about land use arise, the powers that be often side with private interests and the wealthy over those with fewer resources and, frequently, people of color. This book illustrates how these issues are inextricably bound with socioeconomic status, racial segregation, and climate justice. It highlights how, through illegal actions and exclusionary legislation, the beach can be transformed from “a strip of nature” into a palimpsest of greed, racism, ecological disregard, and socioeconomic discrimination.

SETHA LOW is Distinguished Professor of Environmental Psychology, Geography, Anthropology, and Women’s Studies, and Director of the Public Space Research Group at The Graduate Center, City University of New York.

JANUARY 21, 2025 | SOCIAL SCIENCE | 336 PAGES | 6 X 9 | 24 B/W FIGURES

PAPER: 9781479821952 | $35.00 NYUS (£29.99) | CLOTH: 9781479821945 | $99.00 NYUX (£89.00)

NARRATING JUSTICE AND HOPE HOW GOOD STORIES COUNTER CRIME AND HARM

EDITED BY LOIS PRESSER, JENNIFER FLEETWOOD, AND SVEINUNG SANDBERG

The power of storytelling in troubling times

Narrating Justice and Hope examines the rich potential for narratives to do good in the context of interpersonal harm and the devastating social conditions of the present moment–including climate crisis, political polarization, and interconnected systems of inequality. With chapters from a number of well-known scholars, this volume will be an important contribution for sociology, criminology, and legal scholars.

LOIS PRESSER is Professor of Sociology at the University of Tennessee.

JENNIFER FLEETWOOD is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Goldsmiths, University of London.

SVEINUNG SANDBERG is Professor of Criminology at the University of Oslo, Norway.

FEBRUARY 4, 2025 | SOCIAL SCIENCE | 288 PAGES | 6 X 9 PAPER: 9781479824502 | $32.00 NYUS (£27.99) | CLOTH: 9781479824496 | $89.00 NYUX (£80.00)

BIRTH IN TIMES OF DESPAIR

REPRODUCTIVE VIOLENCE ON THE US-MEXICO BORDER

CARINA HECKERT

Explores forms of maternal harm stemming from US policies on the US-Mexico border

In Birth in Times of Despair, Carina Heckert traces women’s emotional experiences of pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period in the midst of a series of longstanding and ongoing crises in the US-Mexico border region. Drawing from interviews, surveys, and medical records of women who gave birth during an intense period of sociopolitical crisis, she examines how limited access to health care, inhumane immigration policies, and exposure to an array of harmful social environmental circumstances serve as sources of intense harm for pregnant and recently pregnant women.

CARINA HECKERT is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at The University of Texas at El Paso.

PRIVATE VIOLENCE

LATIN AMERICAN WOMEN AND THE STRUGGLE

FOR ASYLUM

CAROL CLEAVELAND AND MICHELE WASLIN

How the US asylum process fails to protect against claims of gender-based violence

Private Violence examines how immigration laws and policies shape the lives of Latin American women who seek safety in the United States. Carol Cleaveland and Michele Waslin describe the women’s histories prior to crossing the border, and the legal strategies they use to convince Immigration Judges that rape and other forms of “private violence” should merit asylum – despite laws built on Cold War era assumptions that persecution occurs in the public sphere by state actors. The authors provides much-needed recommendations for incorporating a gender-based lens in the asylum process.

CAROL CLEAVELAND is Associate Professor of Social Work at George Mason University. MICHELE WASLIN is Assistant Director of the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota.

OCTOBER 15, 2024 | SOCIAL SCIENCE | SERIES: LATINA/O SOCIOLOGY | 296 PAGES | 6 X 9 PAPER: 9781479824335 | $30.00 NYUS (£25.99) | CLOTH: 9781479824328 | $89.00 NYUX (£80.00)

FILIPINO AMERICAN SPORTING CULTURES

THE RACIAL POLITICS OF PLAY

CONSTANCIO R. ARNALDO, JR.

Examines the significance of sports in the lives of diasporic Filipino Americans

Organized sports have occupied a central place in Filipino American life since US colonialism began in the Philippines in 1898. For Filipino diasporas in the United States, sports are important cultural sites through which men and women cultivate a sense of ethnic community and belonging to the American national fabric. Through a close examination of Filipino American sporting cultures—from boxing and the Manny “Pac-Man” Pacquiao phenomenon to men’s basketball leagues to women’s flag football—this book shows how engagements with sports reveal the shifting nature of Filipino Americanness and Filipino American subjectivity.

CONSTANCIO R. ARNALDO, JR. is Assistant Professor of Asian and Asian American Studies in the Department of Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies at the University of Las Vegas, Nevada.

MEDIA STUDIES

PROJECTING DESIRE

MEDIA ARCHITECTURES AND MOVIEGOING IN URBAN INDIA

TUPUR CHATTERJEE

How middle-class women transformed India’s screen and exhibition industries

Project Desire locates the post-globalization transformation of India’s screen and exhibition industries in a longer arc of ideas about urban planning and architecture, long mired in caste- and class-based gendered anxieties. It argues that the architectural mediations of India’s moviegoing cultures are key to imagining, planning, and policing the contemporary media city. Focusing on these new meccas of leisure and entertainment, Projecting Desire tracks the understudied nexus between new media architectures, cultures of public leisure, and popular cinema in the Global South.

TUPUR CHATTERJEE is Assistant Professor in Global Film and Media in the Department of English, Drama, and Film at University College Dublin.

THE PRIVATE IS POLITICAL

IDENTITY AND DEMOCRACY IN THE AGE OF SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM

RAY BRESCIA

Exposes the threats to our personal and political identity in the age of surveillance

The Private is Political explores the failure of existing legal systems and institutions to protect our online presence and identities. Examining the ways in which the digital space is under threat from both governments and private actors, Ray Brescia reveals how the rise of private surveillance prevents individuals from organizing with others who might help to catalyze change in their lives. Brescia argues that we are not far from a world where surveillance chills not just our speech, but our very identities. The Private is Political empowers consumers by outlining a roadmap for a comprehensive privacy regime, leveraging various institutions to collectively safeguard privacy rights.

RAY BRESCIA is the Associate Dean for Research & Intellectual Life and the Hon. Harold R. Tyler Professor in Law & Technology at Albany Law School. He is the author of Lawyer Nation: The Past, Present, and Future of the American Legal Profession. FEBRUARY 4, 2025 | LAW | 224 PAGES | 6 X 9 | CLOTH: 9781479832330 | $35.00 NYUS (£29.99)

CHILDREN’S RIGHTS AND CHILDREN’S DEVELOPMENT AN INTEGRATED APPROACH

EDITED BY JONATHAN TODRES AND URSULA KILKELLY

Offers an assessment of how children’s rights take shape and are realized at various stages of child development and, in turn, can and should inform law and policy

Children’s rights and child development frameworks are critical to understanding children’s lived experiences, advancing child wellbeing, and implementing children’s rights. However, research in the two fields has proceeded largely on separate tracks. Children’s Rights and Child Development seeks to forge opportunities to deepen understanding about children’s rights in light of the scientific research on child development to inform fresh perspectives on research, law, and policy affecting children. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in child advocacy.

JONATHAN TODRES is Professor of Law at Georgia State University College of Law.

URSULA KILKELLY is Professor of Law at the School of Law, University College Cork, Ireland.

JANUARY 21, 2025 | LAW | SERIES: FAMILIES, LAW, AND SOCIETY | 384 PAGES | 6 X 9 CLOTH: 9781479825486 | $65.00 NYUX (£58.00)

THE MOVEMENT FOR REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE

EMPOWERING WOMEN OF COLOR THROUGH SOCIAL ACTIVISM

PATRICIA ZAVELLA WITH AN UPDATED PREFACE

Shows how reproductive justice organizations’ collaborative work across racial lines provides a compelling model for other groups to successfully influence change

Zavella argues that collaboration among women of color engaged in reproductive justice activism provides a compelling model for negotiating across differences within constituencies. In the context of the “war” on women’s reproductive rights and its disproportionate effect on women of color, The Movement for Reproductive Justice demonstrates that a truly intersectional movement built on grassroots organizing, culture shift work, and policy advocacy for women’s human rights, can offer visions of strength, resiliency, and dignity for all.

PATRICIA ZAVELLA is Professor Emerita in the Department of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

MAY 19, 2020 | ANTHROPOLOGY | SERIES: SOCIAL TRANSFORMATIONS IN AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGY | 320 PAGES 6 X 9 | 2 B/WHITE, 20 COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS | PAPER: 9781479812707 | $32.00 NYUS (£27.99)

GENDER WITHOUT IDENTITY

AVGI SAKETOPOULOU AND ANN PELLEGRINI

Offers a radical theory of gender formation and its ongoing mutations

Gender Without Identity challenges the argument widely embraced by rights activists and many members of the LGBTQ+ community that gender identity is innate and immutable. Avgi Saketopoulou and Ann Pellegrini chart another path towards the flourishing of queer and trans life. Positing that the idea of an innate core gender identity is simplistic, problematic, and, even, potentially harmful to LGBTQ+ people, they instead argue that gender is something all subjects acquire.

AVGI SAKETOPOULOU is a psychoanalyst in private practice in NYC and a member of the faculty of NYU’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.

ANN PELLEGRINI is Professor of Performance Studies & Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University, and a psychoanalyst in private practice.

JULY 1, 2024 | PSYCHOLOGY | 216 PAGES | 6 X 9 CLOTH: 9781479836123 | $89.00 NYUS (£80.00)

ANCIENT WESTERN ASIA BEYOND THE PARADIGM OF COLLAPSE AND REGENERATION (1200-900 BCE)

EDITED BY MARIA GRAZIA MASETTI-ROUAULT, ILARIA CALINI, ROBERT HAWLEY, AND LORENZO D’ALFONSO

New results and interpretations challenging the notion of a uniform, macroregional collapse throughout the Eastern Mediterranean

Ancient Western Asia Beyond the Paradigm of Collapse and Regeneration presents select essays originating in a two-year research collaboration between New York University and Paris Sciences et Lettres.

MARIA GRAZIA MASETTI-ROUAULT is Chair of Religions of the Syro-Mesopotamian World, Section Sciences Religieuses at Paris Sciences & Lettres University.

ILARIA CALINI is a postdoctoral researcher at Paris Sciences & Lettres University.

ROBERT HAWLEY is a research fellow of the Orient & Méditerranée laboratory at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

LORENZO D’ALFONSO is Professor of Western Asian Archaeology and History at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University and Chair of Archaeology and Art History of Ancient Western Asia at the University of Pavia.

MAY 7, 2024 | ANCIENT HISTORY | ARCHAEOLOGY | SERIES: ISAW MONOGRAPHS | 640 PAGES | 8.5 X 11

CLOTH: 9781479834624 | $85.00 NYUX (£76.00) INSTITUTE

EARLY CHRISTIANITY AT AMHEIDA (EGYPT’S DAKHLA OASIS): A FOURTH-CENTURY CHURCH

VOLUME 1: THE EXCAVATIONS (AMHEIDA VII)

NICOLA ARAVECCHIA

An archaeological, historical, and art historical study of a remarkable early church excavated at Amheida in Dakhla Oasis

Excavated between 2012 and 2023, the church at Amheida dates to the fourth century CE and therefore is among the earliest purpose-built churches in Egypt. It also contains one of the oldest, if not the oldest, excavated Christian funerary crypts in the country. The church at Amheida thus offers a wealth of new data on early Christianity in Egypt, particularly with respect to the earliest phases of Christian art and architecture and burial customs.

NICOLA ARAVECCHIA is Associate Professor of Classics and of Art History and Archaeology at Washington University in St. Louis and Archaeological Field Director of the NYU Amheida Excavations.

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024 | ANCIENT HISTORY | ARCHAEOLOGY | SERIES: ISAW MONOGRAPHS | 8.5 X 11

CLOTH: 9781479813506 | $85.00 NYUX (£76.00)

LIBRARY OF ARABIC LITERATURE

The Library of Arabic Literature makes available Arabic editions and English translations of significant works of Arabic literature, with the goal of introducing Arabic’s rich literary heritage to a general audience of readers as well as to scholars and students. Our books are published by NYU Press.

A Demon Spirit

Arabic Hunting Poems

Abū Nuwās, Edited and translated by James E. Montgomery

James E. Montgomery is Sir Thomas Adams’s Professor of Arabic at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity Hall. His latest publications are Fate the Hunter: Early Arabic Hunting Poems, and Kalīlah and Dimnah: Fables of Virtue and Vice, with Michael Fishbein.

Abū Nuwās was a prominent Abbasid poet of the Modernist style.

Verses on hunter and quarry from a giant of Arabic poetry

Arguably the greatest poet of the Arabic language, Abū Nuwās was renowned for his innovations in poetic genre and style and was a larger-than-life figure even among his contemporaries in Abbasid Baghdad. In A Demon Spirit, acclaimed translator and scholar James E. Montgomery renders this literary giant’s hunting poetry, or ṭardiyyāt, translated for the first time in vivid English.

Abū Nuwās’s poems radiate brilliance, ingenuity, and lyrical attentiveness to both nature and body. These hunting poems convey the crackling energy of ruthless predators and wily prey, the worryingly uncertain outcome of perilous pursuits, and the mythic perfection of warriors both human and animal—all the while overturning genre structures and power dynamics with unforgettable imagery expressed in smooth, natural language.

A bilingual Arabic-English edition.

Arabian Hero

Oral Poetry and Narrative Lore from Northern Arabia

Shāyiʿ al-Amsaḥ, Edited and translated by Marcel Kurpershoek

The heroic deeds and words of a warrior poet of northern Arabia

An epic hero and a poet, the semi-legendary Shāyiʿ alAmsaḥ was a prominent ancestor of the Shammar tribal confederation that stretches across the Great Nafūd desert in the northern Arabian Peninsula. Shāyiʿ’s corpus of extant poems are preserved in narratives about his chivalrous exploits transmitted orally for centuries. In this volume, Marcel Kurpershoek vividly translates the deeds and verses of this compelling poet, based on recordings of late-twentieth century reciters, a testament to Shāyiʿ’s prominence as an embodiment of Bedouin virtue, courage, wiliness, and generosity.

Born with one eye, Shāyiʿ presents himself as unattractive and unassuming, only to reveal a hero’s strength, sagacity, and wiliness. In a number of stories, he is shown hiding his identity, whether in disguise as an impoverished Bedouin or on a camel deliberately made to look mangy and weak. In the oral culture of the Bedouin, the epic cycle of Shāyiʿ al-Amsaḥ delights and instructs listeners through its unmasking of false appearances and its revelation of the hero’s true character.

Translated into English for the first time, these engaging tales and poems tell of dangerous desert travel, warlike exploits, chivalrous conduct and its opposite, feats of hospitality that defy belief, and convey nuggets of wisdom from the Bedouin manual of survival, making this collection a colorful compendium of the manners and customs of the tribes of northern Arabia.

A bilingual Arabic-English edition.

Marcel Kurpershoek is a specialist in the oral traditions and poetry of Arabia. He is the author of the five-volume Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia, as well as several books on Middle Eastern history and culture. He served as Netherlands ambassador to Pakistan, Afghanistan, Turkey, and Poland, and as special envoy to Syria until 2015.

Shāyiʿ al-Amsaḥ was a poet from the Nafūd Desert in northern Arabia who likely lived in the eleventh/seventeenth century. He is widely regarded as an ancestor of the Shammar tribal confederation.

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The Requirements of the Sufi Path

A Defense of the Mystical Tradition

Ibn Khaldūn,

Translated

by Carolyn Baugh, Foreword by Jesús R. Velasco

Ibn Khaldūn (d. 808/1406) was a Tunisian-born scholar, jurist, sociologist, and historian, best known for his influential work on history, The Book of Lessons (Kitāb al-ʿIbar), and the prolegomenon to that work, the Muqaddimah.

Carolyn Baugh is Associate Professor of History and Arabic at Gannon University in Erie, Pennsylvania, where she teaches courses in Middle East and world history and also directs the Women’s Studies program.

Jesús R. Velasco teaches at the Spanish and Portuguese Department at Yale University.

Sufism through the eyes of a legal scholar

In The Requirements of the Sufi Path, the renowned North African historian and jurist Ibn Khaldūn applies his analytical powers to Sufism, which he deems a bona fide form of Islamic piety. Ibn Khaldūn is widely known for his groundbreaking work as a sociologist and historian, in particular for the Muqaddimah, the introduction to his massive universal history. In The Requirements of the Sufi Path, he writes from the perspective of an Islamic jurist and legal scholar. He characterizes Sufism and the stages along the Sufi path and takes up the the question of the need for a guide along that path. In doing so, he relies on the works of influential Sufi scholars, including al-Qushayrī, al-Ghazālī, and Ibn al-Khaṭīb. Even as Ibn Khaldūn warns of the extremes to which some Sufis go—including practicing magic—his work is essentially a legal opinion, a fatwa, asserting the inherent validity of the Sufi path.

The Requirements of the Sufi Path incorporates the wisdom of three of Sufism’s greatest voices as well as Ibn Khaldūn’s own insights, acquired through his intellectual encounters with Sufism and his broad legal expertise. All this he brings to bear on the debate over Sufi practices in a remarkable work of synthesis and analysis.

An English-only edition.

Fate the Hunter

Translated by James E. Montgomery, Foreword by Alice Oswald

A rich anthology of pre-Islamic and early Islamic poetry on the beauties and perils of the hunt

In the poems of Fate the Hunter, many of them translated into English for the first time, trained cheetahs chase oryx, and goshawks glare from falconers’ arms, while archers stalk their prey across the desert plains and mountain ravines of the Arabian peninsula. With this collection, James E. Montgomery, acclaimed translator of War Songs by ʿAntarah ibn Shaddād, offers a new edition and translation of twenty-six early works of hunting poetry, or ṭardiyyāt. Included here are poems by pre-Islamic poets such as Imruʾ al-Qays and alShanfarā, as well as poets from the Umayyad era such as al-Shamardal ibn Sharīk. The volume concludes with the earliest extant epistle about hunting, written by ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Kātib, a master of Arabic prose. Through the eyes of the poet, the hunter’s pursuit of the quarry mirrors Fate’s pursuit of both humans and nonhumans and highlights the ambiguity of the encounter. With breathtaking descriptions of falcons, gazelles, and saluki gazehounds, the poems in Fate the Hunter capture the drama and tension of the hunt while offering meditations on Fate, mortality, and death.

An English-only edition.

James E. Montgomery is Sir Thomas Adams’s Professor of Arabic at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity Hall. His latest publications are Fate the Hunter: Early Arabic Hunting Poems, and Kalīlah and Dimnah: Fables of Virtue and Vice, with Michael Fishbein.

Alice Oswald is the author of eight books of poetry, including Memorial and Falling Awake, and winner of the Costa Poetry Award and Griffin Poetry Prize. Elected as the University of Oxford Professor of Poetry in 2019, she lives in Bristol, United Kingdom.

THE TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICAN SEX EDUCATION

MARY CALDERONE AND THE FIGHT FOR SEXUAL HEALTH

ELLEN S. MORE

"Medical historian More anchors this evenhanded portrait of physician Mary Calderone in a broader discussion of the history of sex education in the U.S. [...] An accessible introduction to a pioneering public health advocate."

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

A fascinating and timely read, The Transformation of American Sex Education provides a substantial contribution to the history of one of America’s most intense and protracted culture wars, and the first account of the woman who fought those battles.

ELLEN S. MORE is Professor Emeritus (Psychiatry) at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and author of Restoring the Balance: Women Physicians and the Profession of Medicine, 1850–1995.

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024 | HISTORY | 376 PAGES | 6 X 9

PAPER: 9781479835249 | $28.00 NYUS (£23.99) | CLOTH: 9781479812042

MENSTRUATION MATTERS

CHALLENGING THE LAW'S SILENCE ON PERIODS

BRIDGET J. CRAWFORD AND EMILY GOLD WALDMAN

"If the question is, ‘Are You There, Law? It's Me, Menstruation,’ this book provides much needed answers."

JUDY BLUME, AUTHOR OF ARE YOU THERE GOD? IT'S ME, MARGARET

"Crawford and Waldman present an insightful analysis of policies regarding menstruation in this groundbreaking work."

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BRIDGET J. CRAWFORD is University Distinguished Professor at Pace University School of Law and the coeditor of Feminist Judgements: Rewritten Opinions of the United States Supreme Court and Feminist Judgements: Rewritten Tax Opinions.

EMILY GOLD WALDMAN is Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Operations and Professor of Law at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024 | LGBTQ STUDIES | 256 PAGES | 6 X 9 | 2 B/W ILLUSTRATIONS

PAPER: 9780814717097 | $19.95 NYUS (£16.99) | CLOTH: 9780814717103

SEX IS AS SEX DOES GOVERNING TRANSGENDER IDENTITY

PAISLEY CURRAH

"[Currah's] approach leads to a set of urgent and surprising conclusions for transgender rights advocates, and indeed for anyone invested in a more just society in which states do not take an interest in our gender identities."

THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS

In this thought-provoking and original volume, Paisley Currah reveals what the evolving fight for transgender rights reveals about government power, regulations, and the law. Sex Is As Sex Does is the winner of the 2023 Sexuality and Politics Book Award, given by the American Political Science Association, and a finalist for the 2023 PROSE Award in Government and Politics.

PAISLEY CURRAH is Professor of Political Science and Women’s & Gender Studies at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. An award-winning author, he is the founding co-editor of the journal Transgender Studies Quarterly and the coeditor of Transgender Rights and Corpus: An Interdisciplinary Reader on Bodies and Knowledge.

DECEMBER 3, 2024 | LAW | 280 PAGES | 6 X 9 PAPER: 9780814717097 | $20.00 NYUS (£16.99) | CLOTH: 9780814717103

THE NEW SEX WARS SEXUAL HARM IN THE #METOO ERA

BRENDA COSSMAN

"Provide[s] us with important insights about the interrelationships among feminism, sexuality, harm, pleasure, and race."

JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF SEXUALITY

Thoughtful and compelling, The New Sex Wars revisits the sex wars of the 1970s and ’80s and examines their influence on how we think about sexual harm in the #MeToo era. Brenda Cossman explores what can been learned from these stories, what traps we repeatedly fall into, how we have been denied our anger, and where to begin to make law work.

BRENDA COSSMAN is the Goodman-Schipper Chair and Professor of Law at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Sexual Citizens: The Legal and Cultural Regulation of Sex and Belonging.

DECEMBER 3, 2024 | LAW | 352 PAGES | 6 X 9 | 16 B/W ILLUSTRATIONS PAPER: 9781479835263 | $27.00 NYUS (£22.99) | CLOTH: 9781479802708

PASIFIKA BLACK

OCEANIA, ANTI-COLONIALISM, AND THE AFRICAN WORLD

QUITO SWAN

"Pasifika Black is an exceptionally brilliant, wellresearched, and powerful account of how Black and Brown freedom fighters mobilized across the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans to challenge racism, colonialism, and white supremacy. It represents the very best of the new scholarship on Black internationalism."

KEISHA

N. BLAIN,

CO-EDITOR

OF THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FOUR HUNDRED SOULS

Pasifika Black is the Winner of the 2023 ASALH Book Prize, awarded by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History

QUITO SWAN is Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Indiana University Bloomington. He is the author of Black Power in Bermuda: The Struggle for Decolonization and Pauulu’s Diaspora: Black Internationalism and Environmental Justice.

DECEMBER 3, 2024 | AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES | SERIES: BLACK POWER | 352 PAGES | 6 X 9 16 B/W ILLUSTRATIONS | PAPER: 9781479835263 | $27.00 NYUS (£22.99) | CLOTH: 9781479885084

THE IRISH REVOLUTION A GLOBAL HISTORY

FEDITED BY PATRICK MANNION AND FEARGHAL MCGARRY

"The Irish Revolution: A Global History, an invaluable synthesis of a new, more globally minded scholarship on the Irish Revolution, is essential reading for anyone interested in twentieth-century Ireland."

NEW HIBERNIA REVIEW

The Irish Revolution reveals how the Irish Revolution was shaped by international actors and events.

PATRICK MANNION is Research Fellow in Irish History at the University of Edinburgh, where he works on the AHRC-funded project A Global History of Irish Revolution, 1916–23.

FEARGHAL MCGARRY is Professor of Irish History at Queen’s University Belfast.

DECEMBER 3, 2024 | HISTORY | SERIES: THE GLUCKSMAN IRISH DIASPORA SERIES | 376 PAGES | 6 X 9 1 B/W ILLUSTRATION | PAPER: 9781479835256 | $25.00 NYUS (£21.99) | CLOTH: 9781479808892

HEREAFTER

THE TELLING LIFE OF ELLEN O'HARA

VONA GROARKE

"As it imagines one woman’s life, this genre-bending book probes the nature of family and belonging and the profound ways ordinary immigrant women changed history on both sides of the Atlantic. Intelligent, searching, and warmly rendered.

KIRKUS REVIEWS

This lyrical portrait of a young Irish woman was selected as An Irish Times and Irish Independent Book of the Year.

"One of the best poets writing in Ireland today” (Poetry Ireland Review), VONA GROARKE has published twelve books, including eight poetry collections, most recently Link:Poet and World.

OCTOBER 1, 2024 | HISTORY | SERIES: THE GLUCKSMAN IRISH DIASPORA SERIES | 200 PAGES | 6 X 9 28 B/W ILLUSTRATIONS | PAPER: 9781479835324 | $14.95 NYUT (£12.99) | CLOTH: 9781479817511

THE MUSEUM

A SHORT HISTORY OF CRISIS AND RESILIENCE

SAMUEL J. REDMAN

"A slender, taut work of scholarship that explores how museums have responded to crises both external and internal, beginning with the massive 1865 fire at the Smithsonian... Redman also looks at cataclysms like the Great Depression, the second world war, the coronavirus and the national protests following the death of George Floyd, as well as more existential crises like the culture wars of the 1980s and 90s and museums’ own legacies as agents of colonialism and exploitation."

THE GUARDIAN

The Museum celebrates the resilience of American cultural institutions in the face of national crises and challenges.

SAMUEL J. REDMAN is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the author of Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums and Prophets and Ghosts: The Story of Salvage Anthropology.

OCTOBER 1, 2024 | HISTORY | 232 PAGES | 6 X 9 PAPER: 9781479835317 | $14.95 NYUS (£12.99) | CLOTH: 9781479809332

CRISIS LAWYERING

EFFECTIVE LEGAL ADVOCACY IN EMERGENCY SITUATIONS

EDITED BY RAY BRESCIA AND ERIC K. STERN

"Explore[s] strategies for effective lawyering during a wide range of crises—from those involving a deprivation of civil rights, to natural disasters, to global health emergencies. The book offers practical guidance to lawyers operating during these times and also sheds light on how lawyers can help to resolve crises."

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

Crisis Lawyering sheds a a light on the emerging field of law dedicated to responding to and resolving the crises of the twenty-first century

RAY BRESCIA is the Associate Dean for Research & Intellectual Life and the Hon. Harold R. Tyler Professor in Law & Technology 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.

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024 | LAW | 424 PAGES | 6 X 9

PAPER: 9781479835218 | $30.00 NYUS (£25.99) | CLOTH: 9781479801701

PROGRESSIVE PROSECUTION RACE AND REFORM IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE

EDITED BY KIM TAYLOR-THOMPSON AND ANTHONY C. THOMPSON

"Acts as both a call to action and a practical guide, instructing prosecutors on what they need to do to bring about lasting and meaningful change."

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

Progressive Prosecution provides compelling and manageable solutions for how to reform the criminal justice system from the inside out

ANTHONY C. THOMPSON is Professor of Clinical Law Emerita at New York University School of Law and is the Founding Faculty Director of the Center on Race, Inequality and the Law at NYU School of Law.

KIM TAYLOR-THOMPSON is Professor of Clinical Law Emerita at New York University School of Law.

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024 | LAW | 312 PAGES | 6 X 9 | ILLUSTRATIONS

PAPER: 9781479835270 | $30.00 NYUS (£25.99) | CLOTH: 9781479809950

GEEK GIRLS

INEQUALITY AND OPPORTUNITY IN SILICON VALLEY

FRANCE WINDDANCE TWINE

"Geek Girls is a critical, significant sociological work on structural inequality in technology occupations…this book is a must-read for anyone interested in systemic inequality in work and occupations."

CHOICE

CHOSEN AS A CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE IN 2023

In Geek Girls, France Winddance Twine provides the first book by a sociologist that “lifts the Silicon veil” to provide firsthand accounts of inequality and opportunity in the tech ecosystem. Twine offers concrete insights into how the technology industry can address ongoing racial and gender disparities and create more transparency and empower women from underrepresented groups, who continued to be denied opportunities.

FRANCE WINDDANCE TWINE is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

OCTOBER 1, 2024 | SOCIAL SCIENCE | 296 PAGES | 6 X 9 | 8 B/W ILLUSTRATIONS PAPER: 9781479835157 | $19.95 NYUS (£16.99) | CLOTH: 9781479803828

KABBALAH AND THE FOUNDING OF AMERICA

THE EARLY INFLUENCE OF JEWISH THOUGHT IN THE NEW WORLD

BRIAN OGREN

"Ogren has authored a tour de force with this wellwritten and captivating volume that reexamines the role of religion in the period leading up to American independence. A must for readers interested in an often untold perspective on the history and religious identity of the United States."

LIBRARY JOURNAL, STARRED REVIEW

BRIAN OGREN is Anna Smith Fine Associate Professor of Judaic Studies at Rice University. He is the author of The Beginning of the World in Renaissance Jewish Thought and Renaissance and Rebirth: Reincarnation in Early Modern Italian Kabbalah.

NOVEMBER 5, 2024 | RELIGION | 328 PAGES | 6 X 9 | 5 B/W ILLUSTRATIONS PAPER: 9781479835225 | $24.00 NYUS (£20.99) | CLOTH: 9781479807987

POLICING HATRED

LAW ENFORCEMENT, CIVIL RIGHTS, AND HATE CRIME

JEANNINE BELL

Explores the intersection of race and law enforcement in the controversial area of hate crime.

Policing Hatred explores the intersection of race and law enforcement in the controversial area of hate crime. Highprofile hate crimes such as the dragging death of James Byrd and the torture-murder of Matthew Shepard draw the nation's attention, but they are only the beginning. This book calls attention to the thousands of other individuals who each year are attacked because of their race, religion, or sexual orientation. The study of hate crimes challenges common assumptions regarding perpetrators and victims: most of the accused tend to be white, while most of their victims are not.

JEANNINE BELL is Professor of Law at IU Maurer School of Law-Bloomington. She is the author of Policing Law and Gaining Access to Research Sites: A Practical and Theoretical Guide for Qualitative Researchers.

JULY 12,

JEWS AND THE CIVIL WAR A READER

EDITED BY JONATHAN D. SARNA AND ADAM D. MENDELSOHN

A unique collection revealing the experience of Jewish soldiers and civilians during the Civil War

In Jews and the Civil War, Jonathan D. Sarna and Adam Mendelsohn assemble for the first time the foremost scholarship on Jews and the Civil War, little known even to specialists in the field. These accessible and far-ranging essays from top scholars are grouped into seven thematic sections—Jews and Slavery, Jews and Abolition, Rabbis and the March to War, Jewish Soldiers during the Civil War, The Home Front, Jews as a Class, and Aftermath—each with an introduction by the editors.

JONATHAN D. SARNA is University Professor and the Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis University and Chief Historian of the National Museum of American Jewish History.

ADAM D. MENDELSOHN is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Cape Town.

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011 | HISTORY | 445 PAGES | 6 X 9 PAPER: 9780814771136 | $30.00 NYUS (£25.99)

TINKER BELLES AND EVIL QUEENS

THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY FROM THE INSIDE OUT

SEAN P. GRIFFIN

"In this sprightly analysis of classical and contemporary Disney fare, queer theorist Griffin breaks new ground in media and cultural studies while outdoing right-wing politicians and fundamentalists who see homosexuality everywhere... Griffin is careful in building his argument that Disney images have been enormously influenced by gay culture and in showing how gay culture has, in turn, claimed and appropriated those images."

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

Tinker Belles and Evil Queens is the first book to address the interaction between the Walt Disney Company and the gay community

SEAN P. GRIFFIN is a professor in the SMU Meadows Division of Film and Media Arts. Previously, he produced television advertisements at New Wave Productions for Disney's theatrical features.

FEBRUARY 1, 2000 | MEDIA STUDIES | 292 PAGES | 6 X 9 PAPER: 9780814731239 | $30.00 NYUS (£25.99)

DIANA A STRANGE AUTOBIOGRAPHY

DIANA FREDERICS AND JULIE L. ABRAHAM

The unusual and compelling story of Diana, a tantalizingly beautiful woman who sought love in the strange by-paths of Lesbos

In her introduction, Julie Abraham argues that Diana is not really an autobiography at all, but a deliberate synthesis of different archetypes of this confessional genre, echoing, as it does, more than a half-dozen novels. Hitting all the high and low points of the lesbian novel, the book, Abraham illustrates, offers a defense of lesbian relationships that was unprecedented in 1939 and radical for decades afterwards.

JULIE L. ABRAHAM is Assistant Professor of English and Women's Studies at Emory University.

JUNE 1, 1995 | FICTION | SERIES: THE CUTTING EDGE: LESBIAN LIFE AND LITERATURE SERIES | 282 PAGES 6 X 9 | PAPER: 9780814726358 | $19.95 NYUS (£25.99)

CELEBRATING 75 YEARS OF MONTHLY REVIEW

For seventy-five years Monthly Review has been one of the most widely recognized and respected sources of contemporary socialist analysis. Founded in 1949 by journalist and historian Leo Huberman and Harvard economist Paul M. Sweezy, Monthly Review was born out of the turbulent McCarthy years. Both men were called before the House Un-American Activities Committee for their outspoken stand on McCarthyism and the government’s restriction of free speech. Today Monthly Review and its book publishing arm, MR Press, serve as an open forum for some of the world’s most respected writers and thinkers on such topics as global imperialism, racial capitalism, economic stagnation and financialization, and the planetary ecological crisis.

Contributors have included Albert Einstein -- who wrote the article “Why Socialism?” for the magazine’s first issue -- Malcolm X, Alice Walker, Isabel Allende, Kurt Vonnegut, Che Guevara, Eduardo Galeano, and Adrienne Rich.

Monthly Review continues to champion justice and equality and the humanistic ideals associated with the socialism.

A ROTTEN CROWD

AMERICA, WEALTH, AND ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF THE GREAT GATSBY

JOHN MARSH

A look at how much, and how little, has changed about class in America

One century ago, F. Scott Fitzgerald invited us into the lives of the “rotten crowd,” Jazz Age Americans with far more money than morals. In A Rotten Crowd: America, Wealth, and One Hundred Years of The Great Gatsby, John Marsh welcomes us back to Fitzgerald’s world to examine the rich, their reckless approach to human relationships, their poor taste in friends, and the harm they cause.

Marsh leads us to wonder: What kinds of waste— economic, environmental, emotional—accompany a culture of wealth? What kinds of relationships do the wealthy form with those they rely upon to maintain their power—and how does capitalism and the need for the accumulation of wealth influence the bonds the rest of us form? On a surface level, how do the clothes people wear signal their status—and how do those fashions trickle down to the rest of us? And on a deeper level, how does racism drive a wedge between those who might otherwise stand up to the rich? As we move between 2025 and 1925 to consider how much— or little—has changed in the interim, A Rotten Crowd helps us discover what we can do about the obscene concentration of wealth in America today.

JOHN MARSH is Associate Professor of English at Penn State University. He is the author of two previous books: Class Dismissed: Why We Cannot Teach or Learn Our Way out of Inequality and Hog Butchers, Beggars, and Busboys: Poverty, Labor, and the Making of Modern American Poetry. Marsh is also the editor of You Work Tomorrow: An Anthology of American Labor Poetry, 1929-1941. He lives in State College, Pennsylvania, with his wife and daughter.

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THE POLITICAL WRITINGS OF BHAGAT SINGH

EDITED BY CHAMAN LAL AND MICHAEL D. YATES

CHAMAN LAL is India's leading authority on Bhagat Singh. He retired as a professor of Hindi translation from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

MICHAEL D. YATES is Editorial Director of Monthly Review Press. For many years, he taught working people in labor education programs throughout the United States, seeking to teach, speak, and write for and with the working class and not just about it. He has helped organize labor unions and has written extensively about them. His most recent book is Work, Work, Work (Monthly Review Press).

Early essays by a legendary freedom fighter and Indian intellectual

“The state, the government machinery is just a weapon in the hands of the ruling class to further and safeguard its interest. We want to snatch and handle it to utilize it for the consummation of our ideal, that is, social reconstruction on a new, that is, Marxist, basis.”

—Bhagat Singh

The young martyr Bhagat Singh is a legend of the Indian anti-colonial struggle. He was not just a man of action, but of great intellect and deep insight.

While still in his early teens, he showed a depth of understanding of Indian political reality. He read widely and became fluent in several Indian languages, as well as English. Moreover, he wrote insightful political essays, ones that a much older person would have been proud to have written.

It is not only that his call to arms against the British imperialists inspired Indians – young and old. It is that his written works continue to stir the minds of all those who seek a world where everyone is equal, and all can fully develop their capacities. He is as much a part of the Indian radical tradition today as he was one hundred years ago.

PARAGUAYAN SORROW

WRITINGS OF RAFAEL BARRETT, A RADICAL VOICE IN A DISPOSSESSED LAND

RAFAEL

BARRETT,

EDITED BY WILLIAM COSTA

The first-ever English translation of one of the legends of the Latin American left

Living in a landlocked nation at the heart of Latin America at the turn of the 20th century, the young Spanish essayist Rafael Barrett was gripped by what he later titled, Paraguayan Sorrow. Just prior to his arrival in Paraguay, a brief but apocalyptic war had wiped out half the population. As the twentieth century began, a ferocious pattern of capitalist imperialism had rapidly taken hold. Arriving as skirmishes between Paraguay’s national elites pushed the country from one military uprising to the next, Barrett’s politics shifted rapidly to the left. His prolific articles in the capital city’s press broke the silence on deep social, economic, and political problems playing out in urban and rural areas. All Barrett witnessed prompted him to become a key ally of the growing Paraguayan anarcho-syndicalist movement.

He paid the ultimate price for his metamorphosis, facing banishment from the nation’s intelligentsia and years of poverty and exile, followed by a tuberculosis infection that would soon end his life. But before the world lost him at the early age of thirty-six, Barrett left behind his striking book Paraguayan Sorrow, which, with its vivid landscapes, precise analysis, and bold denouncements, attacked the state-backed system of debt slavery. Brave exposés like these positioned him as a forerunner of anti-neocolonial writing in Latin America. Although Barrett was born into the Spanish elite, Barrett shed his past to become a legendary figure in Paraguayan, Uruguayan, and Argentinian leftist circles—one of the most notable voices to speak out against the rampant imperialism gripping Latin America.

RAFAEL BARRETT (1876-1910) was a Spanish essayist, journalist and social commentator whose writing on Paraguay was praised by the likes of Jorge Luis Borges and Eduardo Galeano. After a period of intense persecution and exile he died at the early age of thirty-four.

WILLIAM COSTA is a freelance journalist and translator in Asunción, Paraguay.

"Rafael Barrett, a free and audacious spirit. With tears in my eyes and on my knees I beg of you that when you have a coin or two to spend, that you go straight to any bookstore and ask them to give you something by this author."

KIRKUS REVIEWS

JORGE LUIS BORGES

ARGENTINE SHORT STORY WRITER, ESSAYIST, AND POET

THE PHYSICS OF CAPITALISM

HOW A NEW THEORY OF POLITICAL ECOLOGY CAN IGNITE GLOBAL ECOLOGICAL CHANGE

ERALD KOLASI

A comprehensive blueprint for a new post-capitalist order— which values our collective future over immediate economic gains

The Physics of Capitalism offers a prescient new perspective on environmental and economic sustainability: The fate of our economic systems is written in their energy flows. As author Erald Kolasi explains, throughout human history, economic growth has depended heavily on people extracting resources from their natural environments, converting those resources into energy, and concentrating the resulting energy flows towards the application of specific tasks. But we belong to the natural world—it does not belong to us. The Physics of Capitalism points the way to a new post-capitalist order, a comprehensive blueprint for the long-term viability and stability of human civilization on a global scale.

ERALD KOLASI received his PhD in Physics from George Mason University in 2016. He has written widely on economics and ecological dynamics. He lives with his wife and two children in Virginia.

FEBRUARY 13, 2025 | POLITICS | 384 PAGES | 5 1/2 X 8 1/4 PAPER: 9781685900908 | $32.00 NYUS (£27.99) | CLOTH: 9781685900915 | $99.00 NYUX (£89.00)

THE CLASS STRUGGLE AND WELFARE SOCIAL POLICY UNDER CAPITALISM

DAVID MATTHEWS

A fresh look at the welfare system — with a view beyond the state

With The Class Struggle and Welfare, David Matthews argues that we must understand the welfare state as a dialectical phenomenon—a product of class struggle. Matthews points to clear evidence that the welfare state is essential to the prosperity and health of capitalist economies. At the same time, in the Marxist tradition, Matthews moves well beyond an analysis of welfare as simply an instrument wielded by capitalism for its benefit, arguing that proof of the class struggle scars the surface of every welfare system.

DAVID MATTHEWS is lecturer at Bangor University, Wales, and course director for the undergraduate program in health and social care.

JANUARY 1, 2025 | POLITICS | 240 PAGES | 5 1/2 X 8 1/4 PAPER: 9781685900861 | $28.00 NYUS (£23.99) | CLOTH: 9781685900878 | $89.00 NYUX (£80.00)

KEEPING UP THE GOOD FIGHT FROM THE EMERGENCY TO THE PRESENT DAY

PRABIR PURKAYASTHA

The story of a political prisoner’s coming of age as a student activist in India

Keeping Up the Good Fight is the story of a young man’s political coming of age and his experiences with incarceration, half a century apart. On September 25, 1975, the students of Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi called for a strike to protest the expulsion of Ashoklata Jain, an elected student union member. A few plainclothes cops got out, and abducted one of them: The student spent the next year in jail. Almost fifty years later, on February 9, 2021, the founder of an online news portal saw his home and offices raided for 113 hours straight, ransacked by officers from the Enforcement Directorate. That student journalist and scientist, Prabir Purkayastha, tells his own story with wit and humor, as he engages with some of India’s most pressing social, political and economic issues across the decades—and remains committed to “keeping up the good fight.”

PRABIR PURKAYASTHA is an engineer in the power, telecom, and software sectors, a founding member of the Delhi Science Forum and editor of Newsclick.in. A scientist-activist, he is coauthor, with Vijay Prashad, of Enron Blowout: Corporate Capitalism and Theft of the Global Commons (LeftWord 2002). As of late 2023, the 74-year-old was being held in New Delhi’s Tihar Prison Complex under the anti-terror Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.

KNOWLEDGE AS COMMONS TOWARD INCLUSIVE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

PRABIR PURKAYASTHA

A powerful contribution to the debate on intellectual property

Knowledge as Commons traces the historical path towards the privatization of knowledge, situating science, technology and the emergence of modern nations in a larger historical framework. Author Prabir Purkayastha shows us that, with profit as its sole aim, capital claims to own human knowledge and its products, fencing them in with patents and intellectual property rights. Purkayastha examines the consequences of this privatization for universities, healthcare, distributive justice, the domestic politics of developing countries, and their prospects vis-àvis the West.

NEW VILLAGE PRESS

New Village Press has been a publisher in the humanities and social sciences since 2005, best known for transdisciplinary books in urban sociology, community cultural development, and healthy city design. Our titles aim to animate emerging movements in societal transformation with true stories about collaborative community building and the creative roles that artists and scholars, citizens and planners can play in public life.

PORTRAITS OF PEACEMAKERS

AMERICANS WHO TELL THE TRUTH

EDITED BY ROBERT SHETTERLY

Each brave person portrayed in this book offers us a unique, visionary lesson in peacemaking

This third volume in the Americans Who Tell the Truth series features Robert Shetterly's striking color portraits and profiles of fifty peace activists as well as essays by Chris Hedges, Kali Rubaii, Paul K. Chappell, Medea Benjamin, Alice Rothchild, and David Swanson. The people honored in this book approach peacemaking in manifold ways. They have told the truth about the lies enabling war, they have protested, they have gone to jail for peace, made art imbued with the suffering of war, the stupidity of war and its cruelty, taught the curricula of peace, exposed the unspeakable wounds and trauma visited on children in war, and shown how environmentally historically, and psychologically wars never end. They have also shown how warmongers promote and profit obscenely from the business of industrial killing, how atrocity is celebrated as heroic. They resist, resist, resist. They act with love.

"If you want inspiration in these challenging times, you could do no better than the portraits of patriots in Americans Who Tell the Truth. From leaders in the early days of the civil rights movement to the heroes and heroines in the current fight for racial justice, Rob Shetterly brings to life people whose work has been to build a more just world, and to whom we are all indebted."

CECILE RICHARDS

Former President of Planned Parenthood

ROBERT SHETTERLY is a visual artist, social activist, and writer. For the past twenty years, he has painted portraits of citizens who address issues of social, environmental, and economic fairness in the series Americans Who Tell the Truth, now the subject of the Kane Lewis feature-length documentary Truth Tellers, which is currently airing on American Public Television.

PREVIOUS VOLUMES

PORTRAITS OF RACIAL JUSTICE: 9781613321638 | $34.95 NYUT

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SEE ME

PRISON THEATER WORKSHOPS AND LOVE

EDITED BY JAN COHEN-CRUZ

Encounters, transformations, and reflections from in-prison and post-release theater workshops

See Me is a collection of intimate dialogues about collective experiences in the context of prison theater workshops. Each essay is a collaboration between two or three people who connected profoundly in the temporary community that a workshop can create. Part I is an exchange grounded in the prison theater workshop between the author and one of the incarcerated participants. They alternately tell the story of what they found in the workshop, each other, the future they imagined together, and the social turmoil and utopian aspirations of the times. Part II consists of essays jointly written by eight other people impacted by close relationships spawned in diverse in-prison and re-entry theater workshops.

JAN COHEN-CRUZ is a former professor of drama at NYU and founder of the department’s applied theater minor. As a past director of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life, she co-founded its journal, Public

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024 | PERFORMANCE ARTS | 288 PAGES | 6 X 9 | 12 B/W IMAGES PAPER: 9781613322475 | $25.95 NYUS (£21.99) | CLOTH: 9781613322482 | $89.00 NYUX (£80.00)

CREATIVE INSTIGATION THE ART & STRATEGY OF AUTHENTIC COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

FERN TIGER

Describes engagement that is more authentic, outreach that is expansive and effective, research that delves deeply into qualitative areas that uncover the soul of a community or an organization.

These illustrated case stories in effective community engagement in the United States demonstrate how community participation in policymaking underpins democratic institutions. They feature examples of residents involved meaningfully in decisionmaking in local government or educational and nonprofit institutions, as well as communicating with private corporations in ways other than as consumers.

FERN TIGER, through her firm Fern Tiger Associates, has facilitated scores of projects to engage communities in solving controversial issues.

OCTOBER 22, 2024 | SOCIAL SCIENCE | 164 PAGES | 8 X 10 | 164 COLOR IMAGES PAPER: 9781613322512 | $44.95 NYUS (£40.00) | CLOTH: 9781613322529 | $120.00 NYUX (£108.00)

INSPIRED AND OUTRAGED THE MAKING OF A FEMINIST PHYSICIAN ALICE

ROTHCHILD

This tribute to personal and political struggle shows the power of sisterhood and the importance raising one’s voice.

A remarkable autobiography—written entirely in free verse—of Alice Rothchild's journey from 1950's good girl to irreverent, feisty, feminist obstetrician-gynecologist forging her own direction in the contradictory, sexist world of medicine. As a child who came of age in the turbulent 1960s, she was compelled to create a path in the often outrageous, male-dominated medical field, repeatedly finding herself to be a first: accepted into an ob-gyn residency, opening an all-woman practice, working with midwives, challenging the status quo, shaped by her early involvement with Our Bodies Ourselves. Rothchild's poems are steeped in the oftenshocking history of medicine and the conflicted sexual politics of the second half of the twentieth century.

Her metaphors, insights, and stories touch not only the mind but also a cauldron of feelings.

"The extraordinary Alice Rothchild has done it again: made us understand intellectually and emotionally her very American Jewish woman's journey into an adulthood of passion, justice, and sensitivity. Written in free form poetry, this very accessible and powerful memoir of her coming of age into feminism, medicine, and justice should be read by everyone. It will help you make sense of our world as it moves you to tears."

SUSAN M. REVERBY

Professor Emerita in the History of Ideas and Women and Gender Studies, Wellesley College

ALICE ROTHCHILD is a physician, author, and filmmaker who loves storytelling that pushes boundaries and engages us in unexpected conversations. She practiced ob-gyn for almost 40 years and served as Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Harvard Medical School. She received Boston Magazine's Best of Boston’s Women Doctors Award, was named in Feminists Who Changed America 1963–1975, had her portrait painted for Robert Shetterly’s Americans Who Tell the Truth project, and was named a Peace Pioneer by the American Jewish Peace Archive.

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UNIVERSITY OF GUAM PRESS

UOG Press’s mission is to advance regional scholarship, develop cultural literacy, and expand accessibility to knowledge about Micronesia. We fulfill this purpose through publications and projects guided by the values of Guam’s Indigenous CHamoru culture, particularly inadahi yan inagoi’e’—to take care of ourselves, others, and the environment by living in harmony together.

RICKY

A LIFE WORTH SHARING, VOLUME I

RICARDO J. BORDALLO AND C. SABLAN GAULT

The first volume of a two-part series, Ricky: A Life Worth Sharing is Bordallo’s account of his early life, as told to his cousin C. Sablan Gault.

RICARDO J. BORDALLO, “Ricky”, was instrumental in the establishment of the Democratic Party of Guam and served as its first chairman.

C. SABLAN GAULT worked as a reporter and feature writer for the Pacific Daily News. In 1983, she became Governor Ricardo J. Bordallo’s press secretary.

JULY 5, 2024 | MEMOIR | 376 PAGES | 6 X 9

PAPER: 9781935198888 | $25.00 NYUS (£21.99)

CLOTH: 9781935198871 | $75.00 NYUX (£67.00)

SIGNS OF BEING

C. T. PEREZ

Signs of Being is a collection of poetry, prose, and commentary born from the insights, observations, and experiences of C.T. Perez to understand the realms of CHamoru cultural identity. This work aims to articulate the mindscape of an indigenous CHamoru consciousness through ec(h)o literature: literature that interprets signs in the natural environment as echoes from ancestors.

C. T. PEREZ was raised in Guam. Her writing has appeared in Indigenous Literatures from Micronesia and Indigenous Women: The Right to a Voice, among other publications.

AUGUST 16, 2024 | LITERARY STUDIES | 88 PAGES | 5 X 8

PAPER: 9781935198925 | $15.00 NYUS (£12.99)

CLOTH: 9781935198918 | $65.00 NYUX (£58.00)

HISTORY OF THE MARIANA ISLANDS

LUIS DE MORALES, S.J. AND CHARLES LE GOBIEN, S.J.

EDITED BY ALEXANDRE COELLO DE LA ROSA

History of the Mariana Islands, was published in Paris in 1700 with authorship attributed to French Jesuit priest Charles Le Gobien, S.J. It provides a detailed glimpse into a tumultuous and critically significant period in the history of the Mariana Islands and the CHamoru people—the period commonly referred to as the CHamoru-Spanish Wars.

LUIS DE MORALES, S.J. (1641-1716) adamantly defended the conservation of the Jesuits’ Philippine missions, including the Marianas.

CHARLES LE GOBIEN, S.J. (1653-1708) published the Histoire des Isles Marianes nouvellement converties à la religion chrétienne in Paris in 1700.

ALEXANDRE COELLO DE LA ROSA is (co)editor-in-chief of the journal Illes i Imperis and is currenly doing research at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Department of Humanities.

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016 | HISTORY | 304 PAGES | 6 X 9 PAPER: 9781935198956 | $20.00 NYUS (£16.99) | CLOTH: 9781935198093 | $89.00 NYUX (£80.00)

THE LIFE AND MARTYRDOM OF THE FATHER DIEGO LUIS DE SAN VITORES, S.J.

FRANCISCO GARCÍA, S.J., EDITED BY JAMES A. MCDONOUGH, S.J.

The Life and Martyrdom of Diego Luis de San Vitores, S.J. is a collection of official and unofficial letters and documents in addition to testimonies collected shortly after the death of Diego Luis de San Vitores, S.J., the Jesuit priest who established the Catholic religion in the island of Guam in the late 1600s.

FRANCISCO GARCÍA, S.J., (1641-1685) entered the Society of Jesus on April 9, 1658. Garcia was called to write the first historical text about the Mariana Islands. However, his sudden death left the Jesuits with no other alternative than assigning French Jesuit Charles Le Gobien to authoring the text.

JAMES A. MCDONOUGH, S.J. published two critical editions of works by Gregory of Nyssa under the auspices of the Harvard Institute for Classical Studies in the Netherlands: Inscriptiones Psalmorum Brill (1962) and Contra Fatum Brill (1987).

JANUARY 9, 2004 | RELIGION | 560 PAGES | 6 X 9 PAPER: 9781935198994 | $30.00 NYUS (£25.99) | CLOTH: 9781878453556 | $89.00 NYUX (£80.00)

PRISON BORN

UNIVERSITY OF REGINA PRESS

A little house on the prairie with big ambitions, University of Regina Press (URP) publishes books that matter— in both academic and trade formats. We endeavour to develop writers into public intellectuals, encourage debate, and inspire young people to study the humanities by publishing books that are both seen and relevant.

INCARCERATION AND MOTHERHOOD IN THE COLONIAL SHADOW

ROBIN F. HANSEN

ROBIN F. HANSEN teaches law at the University of Saskatchewan. Her work has been published in journals, including the Modern Law Review, Global Jurist, and the Journal of Legal Education. She lives in Saskatoon.

A scathing critique of the colonial legal system's denial of children's rights

One afternoon in 2016, law professor Robin Hansen receives a call. On the other end of the line is “Jacquie”—a pregnant Indigenous woman, nine weeks from her due date and terrified for the welfare of her unborn son. Jacquie has been sentenced to a custodial prison sentence and her son will be automatically separated from her immediately after his birth.

As Hansen works to help Jacquie with her appeal, she uncovers the legal system’s inherent discrimination against mothers in custody and the children born to them. Using Access to Information requests along with extensive research, Hansen examines the legal rights of these women—the majority of whom are Indigenous— and finds that Jacquie and her son are by no means alone: automatic mother-infant separation without due process remains the norm in most jurisdictions in Canada.

Prison Born calls attention to the colonial and gendered assumptions that continue to underpin the legal system—assumptions that so frequently lead to the violation of the rights and denial of personhood for children and their mothers.

“A penetrating critique of judicial insensitivity towards the concerns surrounding Indigenous incarceration.”

DAVID MILWARD, AUTHOR OF ABORIGINAL JUSTICE AND THE CHARTER

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024 | SOCIAL SCIENCES | 336 PAGES | 6 X 9 PAPER: 9781779400079 | $29.95 NYUS | CLOTH: 9781779400086 | $89.00 NYUX

UNCUT

A CULTURAL ANALYSIS OF THE FORESKIN

JONATHAN A. ALLAN

Explores the significance of the foreskin in contemporary culture

Uncut: A Cultural Analysis of the Foreskin takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the foreskin and its position in contemporary AngloAmerican culture. From language to art, from religion to medicine and public health, Uncut is a provocative book that asks us to ask ourselves what we know and don’t know about this seemingly small piece of skin.

The “uncut” penis is viewed by some as attractive or erotic, and by others as ugly or undesirable. Secular parents of male infants worry about whether or not the foreskin should be removed so their little boy can grow up to “look like dad” or to avoid imagined bullying in the locker room. Medical experts and public health organizations argue back and forth about whether circumcision is medically necessary, while “intactivists” advocate that removing an infant’s foreskin without their consent is mutilation.

Drawing on all these threads, Jonathan A. Allan leads us through the history and cultural construction of the foreskin—from Michelangelo’s David to parenting manuals, from nineteenth-century panic over masturbation to foreskin restoration—to ultimately ask: what is the future of the foreskin?

“Accessible and engaging, Uncut offers a wideranging analysis of the cultural history of the foreskin and is a welcome addition to contemporary conversations on masculinity and embodiment.”

LAURA M. CARPENTER AUTHOR OF VIRGINITY LOST AND CO-EDITOR OF SEX FOR LIFE

JONATHAN A. ALLAN is Canada Research Chair in Men and Masculinities and Professor of English, Drama, and Creative Writing and Gender and Women’s Studies at Brandon University, in Brandon, Manitoba. He is the author of Reading from Behind: A Cultural Analysis of the Anus.

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SPARK

ALICE KUIPERS ON WRITING FOR KIDS AND ADULTS

ALICE KUIPERS

ALICE KUIPERS has published fourteen books for young readers, including 40 Things I Want to Tell You and the Polly Diamond series. Her work has been published in 36 countries, and she works as a writing coach for The Novelry. She lives in Saskatoon with her four children.

A guide on how to write for children and young adults-from igniting an initial idea to creating a finished draft

In Spark, acclaimed children’s and YA author Alice Kuipers shares her rules for writing for readers both young and young at heart, all while discussing the importance of travelling through passion, purpose, joy, and fear in your writing.

In each chapter, Kuipers explores key aspects of writing for young readers—from voice and character to setting and plot—and provides examples and exercises to help you develop your story. Drawing on her experience as an author and writing coach, Kuipers shares crucial tips, tricks, and techniques that make all the difference for writers, along with some highs and lows of her own writing journey, and shows you how to become the writer you’ve always wanted to be. Spark is open, honest, and practical—a must-read for aspiring authors and literature fans alike.

THE SALMON SHANTIES

A CASCADIAN SONG CYCLE

HAROLD RHENISCH

Poems that balance the settler and Indigenous experiences of land and water in the Pacific Northwest

A collection of shanties (songs) laid out in couplets that move between English and Chinook Wawa, The Salmon Shanties celebrates a poetic tradition deeply rooted on the West Coast. Harold Rhenisch explores memories of people, place, and of returning home, speaking the land’s names as a music of its own and creating a series of aural maps.

Imbued with rhythms of Secwepemc grass dances, the colloquial chatter of the Canadian poet Al Purdy, and the voice of poet and historian Charles Lillard, Rhenisch’s work sings of roots to the land lifted up by the sea into the sky—as if Ezra Pound had sung of Cascadia instead of Europe.

Do not be in Mareuil and Périgeux tonight; it is 1912 no longer.

We, the land’s singers, are walking the star road on the long way home with the crickets of a July evening above Tuc el Nuit, the burrowing owls of N’kmp, and the long memories of the dwarf shrews of Nighthawk.

Breath cannot be denied. Poh cannot be forsaken. Ezra, shantie.

HAROLD RHENISCH has published 33 books of poetry, fiction, memoir, translation, criticism and nonfiction since 1981. He has twice won both the CBC Prize and the Malahat Review Long Poem Prize and received the George Ryga Prize for Social Responsibility in Literature.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2024 | POETRY | SERIES: OSKANA POETRY & POETICS | 208 PAGES | 5.5 X 8.5 PAPER: 9781779400154 | $16.95 NYUS

MÉTIS MATRIARCHS

AGENTS OF TRANSITION

EDITED BY CHERYL TROUPE AND DORIS JEANNE MACKINNON

Explores the integral roles that Métis women assumed to ensure the survival of their communities during the fur trade era and onward

Métis Matriarchs examines the roles of prominent Métis women from across Western Canada from the late 19th to the mid-20th century, providing a rare glimpse into the everyday lives of these remarkable women who were recognized as Matriarchs and respected for their knowledge, expertise, and authority within their families and communities. This collection of stories examines the ways Métis matriarchs responded to colonial and settler colonial interventions into their lives and livelihoods and ultimately ensured the cultural survival of their communities.

CHERYL TROUPE is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Saskatchewan.

DORIS JEANNE MACKINNON was born on a farm in northeastern Alberta and attended school in the historic town of St.Paul-des-Métis.

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024 | INDIGENOUS STUDIES | 336 PAGES | 5 X 8 PAPER: 9781779400116 | $34.95 NYUS | CLOTH: 9781779400123 | $89.00 NYUX

NAKÓN-WICO’I’E

NÉ USPÉNIC’ICIYAC / PRACTISING NAKODA A THEMATIC DICTIONARY

VINCENT COLLETTE, TOM SHAWL, AND WILMA KENNEDY

A user-friendly guide that teaches the core Nakoda vocabulary and how to use it in conversation

Practising Nakoda contains basic Nakoda vocabulary, organized into 30 themes. The guide provides the basic words for every theme from which the reader can forge a general view of word formation patterns.

VINCENT COLLETTE is a professor of linguistics at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi.

TOM SHAWL has worked as a Nakoda culture and language instructor at the Aannii Nakoda college in Fort Belknap and jr./sr. high in Harlem, Montana.

WILMA KENNEDY (1923–2020) Heȟága hóta’į wį́yą (Echo of the elk woman) was an educator and activist from Carry the Kettle Nakoda First Nation.

OCTOBER 15, 2024 | INDIGENOUS STUDIES | 216 PAGES | 5.5 X 7.5

PAPER: 9781779400185 | $27.95 NYUS | CLOTH: 9781779400192 | $89.00 NYUX

AN OPEN-ENDED RUN

A MEMOIR

LAYNE COLEMAN

A collection of memories chronicling love, grief, and a life lived on and off stage

Raised on a farm and educated in a prairie Bible school, Layne Coleman escapes the confines of his stiflingly religious upbringing at an early age to pursue a life in theatre. He migrates to Saskatoon and later Toronto where he immerses himself in the Bohemian lifestyle of the 1980s theatre scene, carving out a career as a successful actor, playwright, and eventual Artistic Director of the Theatre Passe Muraille. While there, his path intersects with that of his future wife, a captivating and glamorous French journalist. Their transformative relationship is ultimately cut short when she tragically loses her life at 48, following a painful battle with cancer. What follows is a raw and bruised account of Coleman’s struggle to make sense of his new identity as a widower and single father. Unfolding through a series of vignettes, Coleman’s memoir takes us into the heart of loss as he wrestles with mental health and addiction while confronting his own mortality and moral compass.

Shattering yet hopeful, An Open-Ended Run is an exploration of a life spent in the arts and a man’s search for meaning in the face of grief.

LAYNE COLEMAN is an actor, director, and playwright. He was a co-founder of the 25th Street Theatre in Saskatoon and was its Artistic Director from 1980 to 1983. He was Interim Artistic Director of Theatre Passe Muraille from 1991 to 1992 and Artistic Director from 1997 to 2007. In 2007, he was awarded a Silver Ticket Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Development of Canadian Theatre. In 2022, he won a Dora Mavor Moore Award for the Best Performance in a Lead Role. Born and raised in Saskatchewan, he now lives in Toronto.

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WITS UNIVERSITY PRESS

Wits University Press champions knowledge from and about Africa to local and global readers. Since 1922 we have been curating and publishing innovative research that informs debate for the greater good of society. We are committed to publishing excellence and passionate about bringing writers with bold ideas and a progressive agenda to the world.

DARKEST BEFORE DAWN WRITINGS, TESTIMONIES AND CORRESPONDENCE FROM THE LIFE OF ROBERT MANGALISO SOBUKWE

ROBERT SOBUKWE, EDITED BY DEREK HOOK AND LESWIN LAUBSCHER

A collection of Robert Sobukwe's political writings, speeches and court testimonies

Darkest Before Dawn, the follow-up to Lie on Your Wounds: The Prison Correspondence of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, captures the story of the post-prison years of Sobukwe’s life.

ROBERT SOBUKWE founded the Pan Africanist Congress in 1959 in South Africa and was its president.

DEREK HOOK is a professor in Psychology and a clinical supervisor at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, USA.

LESWIN LAUBSCHER is an associate professor in the Clinical Psychology department at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, USA.

OCTOBER 1, 2024 | POLITICS | 456 PAGES | 6.14 X 9.21 PAPER: 9781776148561 | $42.00 NYUS (£38.00) | CLOTH: 9781776148578 | $99.00 NYUX (£89.00)

NO LAST PLACE TO REST COAL MINING AND DISPOSSESSION IN SOUTH AFRICA

DINEO SKOSANA

Examines the impact of coal mining on the lives of rural communities in post-apartheid South Africa

No Last Place to Rest is an exploration of the ongoing struggles faced by families in the Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal provinces of South Africa whose lives have been upended by the expansion of coal mining operations.

DINEO SKOSANA is a researcher at Society, Work and Politics Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

FEBRUARY 1, 2025 | POLITICS | 184 PAGES | 6 X 9 PAPER: 9781776149292 | $20.00 NYUS (£16.99) CLOTH: 9781776149308 | $89.00 NYUX (£80.00)

APARTHEID SPIES AND THE REVOLUTIONARY UNDERGROUND

WILLIAM KENISTON

Reveals the little known details of the assassination of an anti-apartheid activist by an apartheid spy and undercover police officer

Apartheid Spies and the Revolutionary Underground is the first book-length account of the assassination of Jeanette and Katryn Schoon. Jeanette Curtis Schoon and Craig Williamson first met in 1973 on the Wits University campus. Jeanette was a passionate student radical and part of a network of white radicals fighting apartheid. Williamson had successfully infiltrated the student movement and rose within its ranks. He held positions of trust, first within the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) and then, after pretending to ‘flee’ the country, as an office-bearer of the International Universities Exchange Fund in Sweden, which helped fund many South Africans in exile.

The book uncovers how the lives of a group of white radicals intersected with and were impacted by the undercover security police and their operations both within and outside of South Africa. Intensifying political oppression caused many young radicals to flee South Africa in 1976; many of them, like Jeanette and her partner Marius Schoon, joined the African National Congress in exile. Williamson and the Schoons’ paths, and those of their comrades, continued to cross: he was a guest in their homes, a supplier of funds for their projects, a witness for the prosecution in political trials and, ultimately, the hand that directed targeted assassinations.

Williamson received amnesty for his role in the Schoons’ murder, among other crimes. For the friends and family of the Schoons – and for all those seeking social justice – this was an unacceptable outcome and Williamson continues to walk a free man. This book attempts to show the limits of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) process to render healing from South Africa’s apartheid past. That justice has not been served to the Schoons remains a tragedy in this story of the struggle against apartheid.

WILLIAM (BILLY) KENISTON is an Assistant Professor of History and African Studies at St. Lawrence University, USA. His earlier work includes the 2013 biography of Rick Turner, Choosing to be Free.

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CHILDREN OF A TROUBLED TIME GROWING UP WITH RACISM IN TRUMP'S AMERICA

MARGARET A. HAGERMAN

How the culture wars are playing out in our nation’s schools

CLOTH | 9781479815111 | $27.95 NYUT

THE FIGHT FOR FREE SPEECH TEN CASES THAT DEFINE OUR FIRST AMENDMENT FREEDOMS IAN ROSENBERG

A user’s guide to contemporary free speech issues in the United States

PAPER | 9781479825912 | $18.95 NYUT

THE PINK WAVE WOMEN RUNNING FOR OFFICE AFTER TRUMP

WILLIAM W. PARSONS AND REGINA M. MATHESON

How and why the election of Donald Trump inspired more women to enter politics

PAPER | 9781479826476 | $27.00 NYUS

UNCOUNTED THE CRISIS OF VOTER SUPPRESSION IN AMERICA

GILDA R. DANIELS

An answer to the assault on voting rights in light of the 2024 presidential election

OUR NATION AT RISK ELECTION INTEGRITY AS A NATIONAL SECURITY ISSUE

ED. BY JULIAN E. ZELIZER AND KAREN J. GREENBERG

Proposes solutions for democracy's future

CLOTH | 9781479830916 | $28.00 NYUA

IT CAN HAPPEN HERE WHITE POWER AND THE RISING THREAT OF GENOCIDE IN THE US ALEXANDER LABAN HINTON

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

PAPER | 9781479808052 | $22.00 NYUS

FIERCE AND FEARLESS PATSY TAKEMOTO MINK, FIRST WOMAN OF COLOR IN CONGRESS

JUDY TZU-CHUN WU AND GWENDOLYN MINK

The first biography of trailblazing legislator Patsy Takemoto Mink

CLOTH | 9781479831920 | $35.00 NYUA

PAPER | 9781479811984 | $28.00 NYUA BANNED IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT IN THE TIME OF TRUMP

SHOBA SIVAPRASAD WADHIA

Immigration enforcement during the first eighteen months of the Trump administration

PAPER | 9781479808731 | $24.00 NYUS

PREGNANCY AND POWER, REVISED

EDITION A HISTORY OF REPRODUCTIVE POLITICS IN THE UNITED STATES

RICKIE SOLINGER

A sweeping chronicle of women’s battles for reproductive freedom

PAPER | 9781479866502 | $30.00 NYUS

REPRODUCTIVE INJUSTICE

RACISM, PREGNANCY, AND PREMATURE BIRTH

DÁNA-AIN DAVIS

The role that medical racism plays in the lives of Black women who have given birth to premature infants

PAPER | 9781479853571 | $30.00 NYUS

OUR BODIES, OUR CRIMES THE POLICING OF WOMEN’S REPRODUCTION IN AMERICA

JEANNE FLAVIN

How the justice system polices women's reproductive capacity

PAPER | 9780814727911 | $30.00 NYUS

THE REPRODUCTION OF INEQUALITY HOW CLASS SHAPES THE PREGNANT BODY AND INFANT HEALTH

KATHERINE MASON

An important analysis of the difference class makes in reproductive health care choices

PAPER | 9781479801947 | $30.00 NYUS

WHAT ROE V. WADE SHOULD HAVE SAID THE NATION'S TOP LEGAL EXPERTS REWRITE AMERICA'S MOST CONTROVERSIAL DECISION

ED. BY JACK M. BALKIN

Arguments for and against abortion

PAPER | 9781479823109 | $23.95 NYUA

REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS AS HUMAN RIGHTS WOMEN OF COLOR AND THE FIGHT FOR REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE

ZAKIYA LUNA

The promise and pitfalls with the activism of SisterSong

PAPER | 9781479831296 | $35.00 NYUS

CONCEIVING

CHRISTIAN AMERICA

EMBRYO ADOPTION AND REPRODUCTIVE POLITICS

RISA CROMER

How embryo adoption advances the Christian Right’s political goals for creating a Christian nation

PAPER | 9781479818594 | $30.00 NYUS

KEEPING THE MARCH ALIVE HOW GRASSROOTS ACTIVISM SURVIVED TRUMP'S AMERICA CATHERINE CORRIGALL-BROWN

How activists adapted to local contexts to keep the protests alive

PAPER | 9781479815074 | $28.00 NYUS

DEADPAN

THE AESTHETICS OF BLACK INEXPRESSION

TINA POST

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism

Winner of the 2023 ASAP Book Prize, given by the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present "Pulses with creativity." — Black Perspectives

AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES | 280 PAGES | 6 X 9 | PAPER: 9781479811212 | $30.00 NYUS (£25.99)

SCARRED

A FEMINIST JOURNEY THROUGH PAIN

L. AYU SARASWATI

Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Biography and Autobiography

“Saraswati applies a feminist analytic lens in her approach to pain in this transformative work… Part memoir, this book examines Saraswati’s own pain in addition to her scholarly critique, which enhances and supports her findings and conclusions." — Library Journal, Best Books of 2023

WOMEN’S & GENDER STUDIES | 232 PAGES | 6 X 9 | PAPER: 9781479817092 | $27.00 NYUS (£22.99)

BLACK PATIENCE

PERFORMANCE, CIVIL RIGHTS, AND THE UNFINISHED PROJECT OF EMANCIPATION

Winner of the 2023 Hooks National Book Award, given by the Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change

Honorable Mention for the 2023 ASAP Book Prize, given by the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present

AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES | 312 PAGES | 6 X 9 | PAPER: 9781479806843 | $30.00 NYUS (£25.99)

JULIUS B. FLEMING JR. HISTORY | 328 PAGES | 6 X 9 | CLOTH: 9781479817665 | $39.00 NYUS (£35.00)

A REVOLUTION IN TYPE

GENDER AND THE MAKING OF THE AMERICAN YIDDISH PRESS BY AYELET BRINN

Finalist for the 73rd National Jewish Book Awards in the category of Women’s Studies

A Revolution in Type provides a fascinating glimpse into the complex and often unexpected ways that women and ideas about women shaped widely read Jewish newspapers.

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A Misrepresented People

A Rotten Crowd

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