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HIGHLIGHTS SEX IS AS SEX DOES Governing Transgender Identity PAISLEY CURRAH

FIERCE

Examines the development of transgender rights in the United States

AND

$28.00 • 256 Pages Paper • 978-0-8147-1710-3

PATSY TAKEMOTO MINK , FIRST WOMAN OF COLOR IN CONGRESS

FEARLESS

Coming May 2022 JUDY TZU-CHUN WU AND GWENDOLYN MINK

FIERCE AND FEARLESS Patsy Takemoto Mink, First Woman of Color in Congress JUDY TZU-CHUN WU and GWENDOLYN MINK

The first biography of Patsy Takemoto Mink, the first woman of color in Congress and legislative champion of Title IX $35.00 • 448 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-3192-0 Coming May 2022

DISRUPTING DIGNITY Rethinking Power and Progress in LGBTQ Lives STEPHEN M. ENGEL and

THE GOVERNMENT OF THINGS Foucault and the New Materialisms

TIMOTHY S. LYLE

THOMAS LEMKE

Why LGBTQ+ people must resist the seduction of dignity

Examines the theoretical achievements and the political impact of the new materialisms

$35.00 • 416 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-9986-9 In LGBTQ Politics

RETHINKING COMMUNITY RESILIENCE The Politics of Disaster Recovery in New Orleans MIN HEE GO

Explores the unintended consequences of civic activism in a disaster-prone city

$30.00 • 312 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-2993-4

THE PARTISAN GAP Why Democratic Women Get Elected But Republican Women Don’t

LAUREL ELDER

Why Democratic women far outnumber Republican women in elective offices $25.00 • 240 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0482-5

$30.00 • 280 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0490-0

THE NEW SEX WARS Sexual Harm in the #MeToo Era BRENDA COSSMAN

Revisits the sex wars of the 1970s and ’80s and examines their influence on how we think about sexual harm in the #MeToo era $30.00 • 280 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-0270-8

UNINSURED IN CHICAGO How the Social Safety Net Leaves Latinos Behind ROBERT VARGAS

Traces the stories of Latinos’ experience with the Affordable Care Act to explain why many are still uninsured $89.00 • 224 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-0714-7 Coming March 2022

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POLITICS IN AMERICA AFTER OBAMA African American Politics in a Post-Obama Era Edited by TODD C. SHAW, ROBERT A. BROWN and JOSEPH P. MCCORMICK II

Examines the complicated political legacy of our first black president $39.00 • 424 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-1803-7

STAY WOKE A People’s Guide to Making All Black Lives Matter TEHAMA LOPEZ BUNYASI and CANDIS WATTS SMITH The essential guide to understanding how racism works and how racial inequality shapes black lives, ultimately offering a road-map for resistance for racial justice advocates and antiracists

REIMAGINING BLACK WOMEN A Critique of Post-Feminist and Post-Racial Melodrama in Culture and Politics

NIKOL G. ALEXANDER-FLOYD

A wide-ranging Black feminist interrogation, reaching from the #MeToo movement to the legacy of gender-based violence against Black women $30.00 • 304 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-5089-1

THE TOUGHEST GUN CONTROL LAW IN THE NATION The Unfulfilled Promise of New York’s SAFE Act JAMES B. JACOBS and ZOE FUHR

A comprehensive assessment of real gun reform legislation with recommendations for better design, implementation and enforcement

$18.95 • 288 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-3648-2

$32.00 • 304 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-3561-4

IT CAN HAPPEN HERE

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White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the US

The Crisis of Voter Suppression in America

ALEXANDER LABAN HINTON

GILDA R. DANIELS

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

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

$29.00 • 304 pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-0801-4

$16.95 • 272 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-1198-4

REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS AS HUMAN RIGHTS

WITH HONOR AND INTEGRITY

Women of Color and the Fight for Reproductive Justice ZAKIYA LUNA

Reveals both the promise and the pitfalls associated with a human rights approach to the Black-focused reproductive rights activism of SisterSong $35.00 • 312 pages Paper • 978-1-4798-3129-6

Transgender Troops in Their Own Words Edited by MÁEL EMBSERHERBERT and BREE FRAM Heartfelt personal accounts from transgender people fighting for the right to serve in the military $28.00 • 240 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-01039 In LGBTQ Politics

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L AW TRUTH AND EVIDENCE NOMOS LXIV Edited by MELISSA SCHWARTZBERG and PHILIP

THE FIGHT FOR FREE SPEECH Ten Cases That Define Our First Amendment Freedoms

KITCHER

IAN ROSENBERG

Explores the challenges of governing in a post-truth world

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

$65.00 • 240 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-1159-5 In NOMOS - American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy

SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY LAW AND THE AMERICAN LABOR MARKET

$27.95 • 312 pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-0156-5

“LET US VOTE!” Youth Voting Rights and the 26th Amendment

JON C. DUBIN

JENNIFER FROST

How social security disability law is out of touch with the contemporary American labor market

The fascinating tale of how a bipartisan coalition worked successfully to lower the voting age

$55.00 • 280 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-1101-4

$39.00 • 384 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-1132-8

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BANNED Immigration Enforcement in the Time of Trump SHOBA SIVAPRASAD WADHIA

Examines immigration enforcement and discretion during the first eighteen months of the Trump administration $19.00 • 232 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0873-1

SENSING INJUSTICE A Lawyer’s Life in the Battle for Change

PERCHANCE TO DREAM A Legal and Political History of the DREAM Act and DACA MICHAEL A. OLIVAS

The first comprehensive history of the DREAM Act and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) $35.00 • 352 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-7828-4 In Citizenship and Migration in the Americas

GEHL V CANADA Challenging Sex Discrimination in the Indian Act

MICHAEL E. TIGAR

LYNN GEHL

The remarkable life of a lawyer at the forefront of civil and human rights since the 1960s

How the Gehl decision advanced indigenous rights in Canada

$29.00 • 512 Pages Paper • 978-1-5836-7920-3 Published by Monthly Review Press

9780889778252 • 288 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-1657-6 Published by University of Regina Press

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RELIGION ONE FAITH NO LONGER

CIVIL RELIGION TODAY

The Transformation of Christianity in Red and Blue America GEORGE YANCEY and ASHLEE

Religion and the American Nation in the Twenty-First Century Edited by FELIPE HINOJOSA, MAGGIE

QUOSIGK

ELMORE and SERGIO M. GONZÁLEZ

Irreconcilable differences drive the division between progressive and conservative Christians—is there a divorce coming?

Illuminates how religion shapes Latino politics and community building

$30.00 • 304 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0868-7 THE MYTH OF COLORBLIND CHRISTIANS Evangelicals and White Supremacy in the Civil Rights Era JESSE CURTIS

Reveals how Christian colorblindness expanded white evangelicalism and excluded Black evangelicals $32.00 • 320 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0938-7

$35.00 • 352 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0985-1

FAITH AND POWER Latino Religious Politics Since 1945

Edited by FELIPE HINOJOSA, MAGGIE ELMORE and SERGIO M. GONZÁLEZ

Illuminates how religion shapes Latino politics and community building $35.00 • 352 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0452-8 Coming February 2022

GLOBAL POLITICS ELECTIONS IN RUSSIA AND UKRAINE

EXTRAORDINARY THREAT

Party Politics in an Era of Authoritarianism

Years of Coup Attempts in Venezuela

BRYON MORASKI

US foreign policy decisions behind six coup attempts against the Venezuelan government – and Venezuela’s heightening precarity

Examines how political parties navigate major election reforms by comparing electoral system changes in Russia and Ukraine at the same time, under different regimes

$99.00 • 304 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-0776-5 Coming April 2022

CHINA’S GRAND STRATEGY

The U.S. Empire, the Media, and Twenty JUSTIN PODUR and JOE EMERSBERGER

$25.00 • 248 Pages Paper • 978-1-5836-7916-6 Published by Monthly Review Press

A Roadmap to Global Power?

AMERICA AND THE MAKING OF AN INDEPENDENT IRELAND

DAVID B. H. DENOON

A History

Leading scholars examine China’s global strategic plans, from Hong Kong to military power, to economic dominance $38.00 • 296 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0409-2

FRANCIS M. CARROLL

Examines how the Irish American community, the American public, and the American government played a crucial role in the making of a sovereign independent Ireland $35.00 • 312 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-0565-5

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HISTORY SUSAN B. ANTHONY A Biography KATHLEEN BARRY

Brings to life one of the most significant figures in the crusade for women’s rights in America

THE IRISH

REVOLUTION A GLOBAL HISTORY

THE IRISH REVOLUTION A Global History FEARGHAL MCGARRY and PATRICK MANNION Illustrates the importance of empire, anti-imperialism and new understandings of self-determination in shaping political discourse and violence in revolutionary Ireland

$30.00 • 448 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0496-2 EDITED BY PATRICK MANNION & FEARGHAL MCGARRY

$35.00 • 368 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-0889-2 In The Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series Coming May 2022

ANCIENT TAXATION

OWÓKNAGE

The Mechanics of Extraction in Comparative Perspective Edited by JONATHAN VALK and

The Story of Carry The Kettle Nakoda First Nation Contributions by JIM TANNER,

IRENE SOTO MARÍN

TRACEY TANNER, DAVID R. MILLER

A collection of studies that explore the extractive systems of twelve ancient states and societies from across the ancient world

and PEGGY MARTIN MCGUIRE

$75.00 • 392 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-0619-5 In ISAW Monographs

The definitive story of the Nakoda people, in their own words $89.00 • 412 Pages Cloth • 978-0-8897-7815-3 Published by University of Regina Press

I M M I G R AT I O N A N D M I G R AT I O N THE OPPORTUNITY TRAP

IRAQI REFUGEES IN THE UNITED STATES

High-Skilled Workers, Indian Families, and the Failures of the Dependent Visa Program

The Enduring Effects of the War on Terror

PALLAVI BANERJEE

How Iraqi refugees navigate life, belonging, and exclusion in America

Unravels how US visa laws affect Indian professional workers and their legally dependent spouses $89.00 • 304 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-4104-2

KEN R. CRANE

$28.00 • 208 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-8690-6

Coming March 2022

GROWING UP LATINX

ARAB NEW YORK

Coming of Age in a Time of Contested Citizenship

Politics and Community in the Everyday Lives of Arab Americans

JESICA SIHAM FERNÁNDEZ

EMILY REGAN WILLS

Latinx children navigating identity, citizenship, and belonging in a divided America

From Bay Ridge to Astoria, explore political action in Arab New York

$30.00 • 264 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0122-0 In Critical Perspectives on Youth

$27.00 • 224 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-5487-5

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CRITICAL RACE THEORY CRITICAL RACE THEORY, 3RD EDITION

THE DERRICK BELL READER

An Introduction

Edited by RICHARD DELGADO and JEAN STEFANCIC An essential collection of the writings of progressive lawyer and race activist Derrick Bell

RICHARD DELGADO and JEAN STEFANCIC

Updated to include the Black Lives Matter movement, the presidency of Barack Obama, the rise of hate speech on the Internet, and more

$35.00 • 493 Pages Paper • 978-0-8147-1970-1 In Critical America

$20.00 • 224 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0276-0 In Critical America

LATCRIT From Critical Legal Theory to Academic Activism FRANCISCO VALDES and STEVEN W. BENDER

THE LATINO/A CONDITION A Critical Reader, Second Edition RICHARD DELGADO

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

The second edition brings together new and classic Latino/a voices writing on questions of immigration, identity, history, law, and more

$27.00 • 216 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0930-1

$35.00 • 645 Pages Paper • 978-0-8147-2040-0

WHITE BY LAW

RACE AND MEDIA

The Legal Construction of Race

Edited by LORI KIDO LOPEZ A foundational collection of essays that demonstrate how to study race and media

IAN HANEY LOPEZ

Revisits the legal construction of race, and argues that current race law has spawned a troubling racial ideology that perpetuates inequality under a new guise: colorblind white dominance.

$30.00 • 344 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-8931-0 In Critical Cultural Communication

$27.00 • 263 Pages Paper • 978-0-8147-3694-4 In Critical America

THE COMPLEXITIES OF RACE Identity, Power, and Justice in an Evolving America Edited by CHARMAINE L. WIJEYESINGHE

CRITICAL RACE FEMINISM, 2ND EDITION A Reader Edited by ADRIEN KATHERINE WING

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

A classic anthology of writings on the legal status and lived experiences of women of color

$30.00 • 304 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0141-1

$30.00 • 444 Pages Paper • 978-0-8147-9394-7 In Critical America New edition coming 2022

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CLASSICS & BESTSELLERS OUT OF THE RUNNING

CIVIL SOCIETY, SECOND EDITION

Why Millennials Reject Political Careers and Why It Matters

The Critical History of an Idea

SHAUNA SHAMES

A comprehensive discussion and analysis of two and a half millennia of Western political theory

An inside look into why Millennials are rejecting careers in politics, and what this means for the future of America’s political system

JOHN R. EHRENBERG

$32.00 • 352 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-9160-3

$28.00 • 272 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-7748-5 Winner, 2021 PROSE Award in the Business, Finance & Management Category

CONTROLLING THE MESSAGE

WHY AMERICA STOPPED VOTING

New Media in American Political Campaigns VICTORIA A. FARRAR-MYERS and

The Decline of Participatory Democracy and

JUSTIN S. VAUGHN

Examines how giving up the vote became a fundamental aspect of modern American life

American political candidates’ approach to new media strategy is increasingly what makes or breaks their campaign $30.00 • 368 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-6759-2

the Emergence of Modern American Politics

MARK L. KORNBLUH

$25.00 • 352 pages Cloth • 978-0-8147-4708-7 In The American Social Experience

Winner, 2020 ASCA Book Award, given by the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis

WHEN ANIMALS SPEAK

REORGANIZING GOVERNMENT

Toward an Interspecies Democracy

A Functional and Dimensional Framework

EVA MEIJER

ALEJANDRO CAMACHO and ROBERT GLICKSMAN

A groundbreaking argument for the political rights of animals $35.00 • 304 pages Paper • 978-1-4798-6313-6 In Animals in Context

A pioneering model for constructing and assessing government authority and achieving policy goals more effectively $45.00 • 356 pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-2967-5

MUST WE DEFEND NAZIS? Why the First Amendment Should Not Protect Hate Speech and White Supremacy RICHARD DELGADO and JEAN STEFANCIC

A controversial argument for reconsidering the limits of free speech $14.95 • 176 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-5783-8

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POLICING & SURVEILLANCE POLICING THE SEGREGATED CITY Neighborhoods, Law Enforcement, and the Politics of Race DAANIKA GORDON

A behind-the-scenes look at how the police reconfigure segregated landscapes $30.00 • 256 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-1405-3 Coming January 2022

THE ETHICS OF POLICING New Perspectives on Law Enforcement Edited by BEN JONES and EDUARDO MENDIETA

Top scholars provide a critical analysis of the current ethical challenges facing police officers, police departments, and the criminal justice system $35.00 • 320 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0373-6

BORDER OPTICS

THE WAR ON DRUGS

Surveillance Cultures on the USMexico Frontier

A History Edited by DAVID FARBER A revealing look at the history and legacy of the “War on Drugs”

CAMILLA FOJAS

Examines how the US-Mexico border is seen through visual codes of surveillance $28.00 • 208 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0701-7 In Critical Cultural Communication

$30.00 • 368 pages Paper • 978-1-4798-1136-6

WITS UNIVERSITY PRESS CAN THEMBA The Intellectual Tsotsi, A Biography SIPHIWO MAHALA

Mahala’s biography gives insight into the life and writing of Can Themba (1924–1967), an iconic figure of the South African literary world and Drum journalist who died in exile $30.00 • 312 Pages Paper • 978-1-7761-4731-1 Coming February 2022

DESTROYING DEMOCRACY Neoliberal capitalism and the rise of authoritarian politics Edited by MICHELLE WILLIAMS and VISHWAS SATGAR

A history of the erosion of democracy across the globe $35.00 • 280 Pages Paper • 978-1-7761-4699-4

COLOUR, CLASS AND COMMUNITY - THE NATAL INDIAN CONGRESS, 1971-1994 ASHWIN DESAI and GOOLAM VAHED

Positions the history and inner workings of the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) against the canvas of the major political developments in South Africa during the 1970s and 1980s up to the first democratic elections in 1994

$30.00 • 392 Pages Paper • 978-1-7761-4715-1

BONES AND BODIES How South African Scientists Studied Race ALAN G. MORRIS Alan G. Morris critically examines the history of evolutionary anthropology in South Africa, uncovering the often racist philosophical motivations of these physical anthropology researchers and the discipline itself

$30.00 • 304 Pages Paper • 978-1-7761-4723-6 Coming January 2022

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M O N T H LY R E V I E W P R E S S BEYOND LEVIATHAN Critique of the State ISTVÁN MÉSZÁROS

A field-defining masterwork, this posthumous publication maps the evolution of the idea of the state from ancient Greece to today $34.00 • 512 Pages Paper • 978-1-5836-7949-4 Coming February 2022

A LEFT GREEN NEW DEAL An Internationalist Blueprint BECKER RIEXINGER, LIA BECKER, KATHARINA DAHME and CHRISTINA KAINDL

What does a successful socialist Green New Deal look like?

HOW TO READ MARX’S CAPITAL Commentary and Explanations on the Beginning Chapters MICHAEL HEINRICH

An accessible companion to Karl Marx’s essential Capital $28.00 • 448 Pages Paper • 978-1-5836-7894-7

NEW POLARIZATIONS AND OLD CONTRADICTIONS: THE CRISIS OF CENTRISM Socialist Register 2022 GREG ALBO and COLIN LEYS $29.00 • 288 pages Paper • 978-1-5836-7937-1

$89.00 • 146 Pages Paper • 978-1-5836-7946-3 Coming January 2022

INEQUALITY, CLASS, AND ECONOMICS

THE LABOR GUIDE TO RETIREMENT PLANS

ERIC SCHUTZ

For Union Organizers and Employees

What if neoclassical economics addressed the question of class?

This accessible overview of economic theory launches this investigation $27.00 • 320 pages Paper • 978-1-5836-7941-8 Coming January 2022

Winner, 2020 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize

JAMES W. RUSSELL

A helpful how-to for workers navigating their retirement and pension options, from the labor organizer’s perspective $24.00 • 256 Pages Paper • 978-1-5836-7933-3

THE RETURN OF NATURE

HONOURING THE DECLARATION

Socialism and Ecology

Church Commitments to Reconciliation and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

JOHN BELLAMY FOSTER

A fascinating reinterpretation of the radical and socialist origins of ecology $28.00 • 672 Pages Paper • 978-1-5836-7928-9

Edited by DON SCHWEITZER and PAUL L. GAREAU A framework for indigenous and settler reparations $19.95 • 312 Pages Paper • 978-0-8897-7832-0 Published by University of Regina Press

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