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HYPER EDUCATION

Why Good Schools, Good Grades, and Good Behavior Are Not Enough PAWAN DHINGRA An up-close look at the arms race of after-school learning, academic competitions, and the perceived failure of even our best schools to educate children Whether it’s drama lessons, math competitions, or soccer, today’s youth are encouraged to compete against one another. There is an education and extracurricular arms race that begins as early as elementary school. In Hyper Education, Pawan Dhingra uncovers the intense world of high-achievement education and the after-school learning centers, spelling bees, and math competitions that it has spawned. It is a world where Asian American students are at the head of the class, putting in hours of studying and testing in order to gain a foothold in the supposed meritocracy of American public education.

Drawing on in-depth interviews with teachers, children, and parents, Dhingra delves into the origins of this phenomenon and examines how schools, families, and communities play their part. Moving past “Tiger Mom” stereotypes, he addresses why Asian American and white families practice what Dhingra calls “hyper education” and whether or not their investment makes sense.

By taking a behind-the-scenes look at the Scripps National Spelling Bee, other national competitions, and learning centers, Dhingra shows why good schools, good grades, and good behavior are seen as not enough for high-achieving students and their parents and why the education arms race will continue to expand.

Pawan Dhingra is Professor of American Studies at Amherst College. He is the author of many books, including Life Behind the Lobby: Indian American Motel Owners and the American Dream. His work has been featured in the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, The New York Times, Salon, the PBS News Hour, and the documentary, Breaking the Bee.

“[A] fascinating exploration....”

—Min Jin Lee, author of Free Food for Millionaires and National Book Award Finalist, Pachinko

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THE HOUSE ON HENRY STREET

The Enduring Life of a Lower East Side Settlement ELLEN M. SYNDER-GRENIER Foreword by BILL CLINTON Chronicles the sweeping history of the storied Henry Street Settlement and its enduring vision of a more just society On a cold March day in 1893, 26-year-old nurse Lillian Wald rushed through the poverty-stricken streets of New York’s Lower East Side to a squalid bedroom where a young mother lay dying—abandoned by her doctor because she could not pay his fee. The misery in the room and the walk to reach it inspired Wald to establish Henry Street Settlement, which would become one of the most influential social welfare organizations in American history.

Ellen M. Snyder-Grenier is a nationalaward-winning curator and writer, and principal of REW & Co. She has directed research projects, developed physical and digital exhibitions, and written on the history of New York City—as well the urban centers of Newark and Philadelphia—with a focus on social justice. The author of an awardwinning history of Brooklyn, Snyder-Grenier is a Fellow of the New York Academy of History.

May 2020 256 pages • 6 x 9 42 black & white illustrations Cloth • 978-1-4798-0135-0 • $27.95T(£22.99) History | New York City Washington Mews Books

Through personal narratives, vivid images, and previously untold stories, Ellen M. Snyder-Grenier chronicles Henry Street’s sweeping history from 1893 to today. Its powerful narrative illuminates larger stories about poverty, and who is “worthy” of help; immigration and migration, and who is welcomed; human rights, and whose voice is heard.

For over 125 years, Henry Street Settlement has survived in a changing city and nation because of its ability to change with the times; because of the ingenuity of its guiding principle—that by bridging divides of class, culture, and race we could create a more equitable world; and because of the persistence of poverty, racism, and income disparity that it has pledged to confront. This makes the story of Henry Street as relevant today as it was more than a century ago. The House on Henry Street is not just about the challenges of overcoming hardship, but about the best possibilities of urban life and the hope and ambition it takes to achieve them.

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THE TRUTH ABOUT BAKED BEANS An Edible History of New England MEG MUCKENHOUPT Forages through New England’s most famous foods for the truth behind the region’s culinary myths Meg Muckenhoupt begins with a simple question: when did Bostonians start making Boston Baked Beans? Storekeepers in Faneuil Hall and Duck Tour guides may tell you that the Pilgrims learned a recipe for beans with maple syrup and bear fat from Native Americans, but in fact, the recipe for Boston Baked Beans is the result of a conscious effort in the late nineteenth century to create New England foods. New England foods were selected and resourcefully reinvented from fanciful stories about what English colonists cooked prior to the American Revolution—while pointedly ignoring the foods cooked by contemporary New Englanders, especially the large immigrant populations who were powering industry and taking over farms around the region.

The Truth about Baked Beans explores New England’s culinary myths and reality through some of the region’s most famous foods: baked beans, brown bread, clams, cod and lobster, maple syrup, pies, and Yankee pot roast. This toothsome volume reveals the effort that went into the creation of these foods, and lets us begin to reclaim the culinary heritage of immigrant New Englanders whose contributions were erased from this version of New England food. Complete with historic and contemporary recipes, The Truth about Baked Beans delves into the surprising history of this curious cuisine, explaining why and how “New England food” actually came to be.

Meg Muckenhoupt is a freelance writer and author of Cabbage: A Global History, among others. Her work has been featured in the Boston Globe, the Boston Phoenix, Boston Magazine, and the Time Out Boston guide; her book Boston Gardens and Green Spaces is a Boston Globe Local Bestseller.

August 2020 320 pages • 6 x 9 3 black & white illustrations Cloth • 978-1-4798-8276-2 • $29.95T(£24.99) History Washington Mews Books

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THE LAW OF LAW SCHOOL

The Essential Guide for First-Year Law Students ANDREW GUTHRIE FERGUSON and JONATHAN YUSEF NEWTON Offers one hundred rules that every first year law student should live by “Dear Law Student: Here’s the truth. You belong here.”

Law professor Andrew Guthrie Ferguson and former student Jonathan Yusef Newton open with this statement of reassurance in The Law of Law School. As all former law students can attest, law school is disorienting, overwhelming, and difficult.

What most first-year students don’t realize is that law school has a code, an unwritten rulebook of decisions and traditions that must be understood in order to succeed.

Andrew Guthrie Ferguson is Professor of Law at the University of the District of Columbia's David A. Clarke School of Law. Professor Ferguson is a national expert on predictive policing, big data surveillance, and the Fourth Amendment. He is the author of Why Jury Duty Matters.

Jonathan Yusef Newton is an attorney at the Law Office of Jonathan Y. Newton, LLC.

April 2020 176 pages • 5 x 8 Paper • 978-1-4798-0162-6 • $16.95T(£13.99) Cloth • 978-1-4798-0168-8 • $79.00X(£68.00) Education | Law

The Law of Law School endeavors to distill this common wisdom into one hundred easily digestible rules. From self-care tips such as “Remove the Drama,” to studying tricks like “Prepare for Class like an Appellate Argument,” topics on exams, classroom expectations, outlining, case briefing, professors, and mental health are all broken down into the rules that form the hidden law of law school. If you don’t have a network of lawyers in your family and are unsure of what to expect, Ferguson and Newton offer a forthright guide to navigating the expectations, challenges, and secrets to first-year success. Newton was himself such a non-traditional student and now shares his story as a pathway to a meaningful and positive law school experience. This book is perfect for the soon-to-be law school student or the current 1L and speaks to the growing number of first-generation law students in America.

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TWITTER A Biography

JEAN BURGESS and NANCY K. BAYM The sometimes surprising, often humorous story of the forces that came together to shape the central role Twitter plays in contemporary politics and culture Is Twitter a place for sociability and conversation, a platform for public broadcasting, or a network for discussion? Digital platforms have become influential in every sphere of communication, from the intimate and everyday to the public, professional, and political. Since the scrappy startup days of social media in the mid-2000s, not only has the worldwide importance of platforms grown exponentially, but also their cultures have shifted dramatically, in a variety of directions. These changes have brought new opportunities for progressive communities to thrive online, as well as widespread problems with commercial exploitation, disinformation, and hate speech.

Twitter’s growth over the past decade, like that of much social media, has far surpassed its creators’ vision. Twitter charts this trajectory in the format of a platform biography: a new, streamlined approach to understanding how platforms change over time.

Through the often surprising, fast-moving story of Twitter, it illuminates the multiple forces—from politics and business to digital ideologies—that came together to shape the evolution of this revolutionary platform. Jean Burgess and Nancy K. Baym build a rich narrative of how Twitter has evolved as a technology, a company, and a culture, from its origins as a personal messaging service to its transformation into one of the most globally influential social media platforms, where history and culture is not only recorded but written in real time.

Jean Burgess is Director of the Digital Media Research Centre at Queensland University of Technology. She is co-author or editor of five previous books on digital media, communication, and culture.

Nancy K. Baym is a Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is the author and co-editor of three previous books about audiences, relationships, and the internet. More information, most of her articles, and some of her talks are available at nancybaym.com.

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OLD CANAAN IN A NEW WORLD

Native Americans and the Lost Tribes of Israel ELIZABETH FENTON Are Indigenous Americans descendants of the lost tribes of Israel?

From the moment Europeans realized Columbus had landed in a place unknown to them in 1492, they began speculating about how the Americas and their inhabitants fit into the Bible. For many, the most compelling explanation was the Hebraic Indian theory, which proposed that Indigenous Americans were the descendants of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel. For its proponents, the theory neatly explained why this giant land and its inhabitants were not mentioned in the Biblical record.

Elizabeth Fenton is Professor of English at the University of Vermont. She is the author of Religious Liberties: Anti-Catholicism and Liberal Democracy in Nineteenth-Century US Literature and Culture and co-author, with Jared Hickman, of Americanist Approaches to The Book of Mormon.

In Old Canaan in a New World, Elizabeth Fenton shows that though the Hebraic Indian theory may seem far-fetched today, it had a great deal of currency and significant influence over a very long period of American history. Indeed, at different times the idea that Indigenous Americans were descended from the lost tribes of Israel was taken up to support political and religious positions on such diverse issues as Christian millennialism, national expansion, trade policies, Jewish rights, sovereignty in the Americas, and scientific exploration.

Through analysis of a wide collection of writings— from religious texts to novels—Fenton sheds light on a rarely explored but important part of religious discourse in the early America. As the Hebraic Indian theory evolved over the course of two centuries, it revealed how religious belief and national interest intersected in early American history.

April 2020 272 pages • 6 x 9 2 black & white illustrations Cloth • 978-1-4798-6636-6 • $35.00S(£28.99) In North American Religions History

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IMPOSTURES AL-ḤARĪRĪ

Translated by MICHAEL COOPERSON Foreword by ABDELFATTAH KILITO Fifty rogue’s tales translated fifty ways An itinerant con man. A gullible eyewitness narrator. Voices spanning continents and centuries.

These elements come together in Impostures, a groundbreaking new translation of a celebrated work of Arabic literature.

Impostures follows the roguish Abū Zayd al-Sarūjī in his adventures around the medieval Middle East—we encounter him impersonating a preacher, pretending to be blind, and lying to a judge. In every escapade he shows himself to be a brilliant and persuasive wordsmith, composing poetry, palindromes, and riddles on the spot. Award-winning translator Michael Cooperson transforms Arabic wordplay into English wordplay of his own, using fifty different registers of English, from the distinctive literary styles of authors such as Geoffrey Chaucer, Mark Twain, and Virginia Woolf, to global varieties of English including Cockney rhyming slang, Nigerian English, and Singaporean English.

Featuring picaresque adventures and linguistic acrobatics, Impostures brings the spirit of this masterpiece of Arabic literature into English in a dazzling display of translation.

Al-Ḥarīrī (d. 516/1122) was a poet, scholar, and government official from Basra, Iraq. He is celebrated for his virtuosity in producing rhymed prose narratives, the Maqāmāt.

Michael Cooperson is Professor of Arabic in the Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures at UCLA. Abdelfattah Kilito is the award-winning author of several acclaimed studies of Arabic literature.

“One might describe al-Ḥarīrī's 12th-century Arabic classic as ‘Melville's Confidence Man meets Queneau's Exercices de style,’ but in this remarkable Oulipean carnival of a translation by Michael Cooperson, there are so many other voices—and languages: Singlish, Spanglish, Shakespeare, middle management-speak, Harlem jive, the rogue's lexicon, Naijá... Impostures is a wild romp through languages and literatures, places and times, that bears out and celebrates Borges's dictum: ‘Erudition is the modern form of the fantastic.’”

—Esther Allen, translator of Zama, winner of the 2017 National Translation Award

May 2020 534 pages • 6 x 9 1 map Cloth • 978-1-4798-0084-1 • $29.95T(£24.99) Literature | Arabic Literature Library of Arabic Literature

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SHORTLISTED

Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court RENEE KNAKE JEFFERSON and HANNAH BRENNER JOHNSON The inspiring and previously untold history of the women considered—but not selected—for the US Supreme Court In 1981, after almost two centuries of exclusively male appointments, Sandra Day O’Connor became the first female Supreme Court Justice of the United States, a significant historical moment and a symbolic triumph for supporters of women’s rights.

Most do not know, however, about the remarkable women shortlisted for the Supreme Court in the decades before O’Connor’s success.

Renee Knake Jefferson is Professor of Law and holds the Joanne and Larry Doherty Chair in Legal Ethics at the University of Houston Law Center.

Hannah Brenner Johnson is Vice Dean for Academic and Student Affairs and Associate Professor of Law at California Western School of Law in San Diego.

Since the 1930s, nine women were formally considered for a seat on the Supreme Court, but were ultimately passed over. Shortlisted gives them the recognition they deserve. Award-winning scholars Renee Knake Jefferson and Hannah Brenner Johnson rely on previously unpublished materials to illustrate the professional and personal lives of these accomplished women. From Florence Allen, the first woman judge in Ohio, and the first to appear on a president’s list for the Court, to Cornelia Kennedy, the first woman to serve as chief judge of a US district court, shortlisted by Ford, Nixon, and Reagan, Shortlisted shares the often overlooked stories of those who paved the way for women’s representation throughout the legal profession and beyond.

In addition to filling a notable historical gap, the book exposes the harms of shortlisting—it reveals how adding qualified female candidates to a list but passing over them ultimately creates the appearance of diversity while preserving the status quo. With the stories of these nine exemplary women as a framework, Shortlisted offers all women a valuable set of strategies for upending the injustices that still endure. It is a must-read for those vying for positions of power as well as for those who select them.

May 2020 304 pages • 6 x 9 15 black & white illustrations Cloth • 978-1-4798-9591-5 • $30.00A(£24.99) Hsitory | Women's Studies

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STUCK

Why Asian Americans Don't Reach the Top of the Corporate Ladder MARGARET M. CHIN A behind-the-scenes examination of Asian Americans in the workplace In the classroom, Asian Americans, often singled out as so-called “model minorities,” are expected to be top of the class. Often they are, getting straight As and gaining admission to elite colleges and universities. But the corporate world is a different story. As Margaret M. Chin reveals in this important new book, many Asian Americans get stuck on the corporate ladder, never reaching the top.

In Stuck, Chin shows that there is a “bamboo ceiling” in the workplace, describing a corporate world where racial and ethnic inequalities prevent upward mobility. Drawing on interviews with second-generation Asian Americans, she examines why they fail to advance as fast or as high as their colleagues, showing how they lose out on leadership positions, executive roles, and entry to the coveted boardroom suite over the course of their careers. An unfair lack of trust from their coworkers, absence of role models, sponsors and mentors, and for women, sexual harassment and prejudice—especially born at the intersection of race and gender—are only a few of the factors that hold Asian American professionals back.

Margaret M. Chin is Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the author of Sewing Women: Immigrants and the NYC Garment Industry.

Ultimately, Chin sheds light on the experiences of Asian Americans in the workplace, providing insight into who is and isn’t granted access into the upper echelons of American society, and why.

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WHITE CHRISTIAN PRIVILEGE

The Illusion of Religious Equality in America KHYATI Y. JOSHI Exposes the invisible ways in which Christian privilege disadvantages religious minorities in America

Khyati Y. Joshi is Professor of Education at Fairleigh Dickinson University, author of New Roots in America’s Sacred Ground: Religion, Race, and Ethnicity in Indian America, and co-editor of Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice, Third Edition.

July 2020 256 pages • 6 x 9 1 black & white illustration Cloth • 9-781-4798-4023-6 • $28.00A(£21.99) Religion | Current Affairs

The United States is recognized as the most religiously diverse country in the world, and yet its laws and customs, which many have come to see as normal features of American life, actually keep the Constitutional ideal of “religious freedom for all” from becoming a reality. Christian beliefs, norms, and practices infuse our society; they are embedded in our institutions, creating the structures and expectations that define the idea of “Americanness.” Religious minorities still struggle for recognition and for the opportunity to be treated as fully and equally legitimate members of American society. From the courtroom to the classroom, their scriptures and practices are viewed with suspicion, and biases embedded in centuries of Supreme Court rulings create structural disadvantages that endure today.

In White Christian Privilege, Khyati Y. Joshi traces Christianity’s influence on the American experiment from before the founding of the Republic to the social movements of today. Through the voices of Christians and religious minorities, Joshi explores how Christian privilege and White racial norms affect the lives of all Americans, often in subtle ways that society overlooks. By shining a light on the inequalities these privileges create, Joshi points the way forward, urging readers to help remake America as a diverse democracy with a commitment to true religious freedom.

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A PLEDGE WITH PURPOSE

Black Sororities and Fraternities and the Fight for Equality GREGORY S. PARKS and MATTHEW W. HUGHEY Reveals the historical and political significance of “The Divine Nine”—the Black Greek Letter Organizations In 1905, Henry Arthur Callis began his studies at Cornell University. Despite their academic pedigrees, Callis and his fellow African American students were ostracized by the majority-white student body, and so in 1906, Callis and some of his peers started the first, intercollegiate Black Greek Letter Organization (BGLO), Alpha Phi Alpha.

Since their founding, BGLOs have not only served to solidify bonds among African American college students, they have also imbued them with a sense of purpose and a commitment to racial uplift— the endeavor to help Black Americans reach socio-economic equality. A Pledge with Purpose explores the arc of these unique, important, and relevant social institutions. Gregory S. Parks and Matthew W. Hughey uncover how BGLOs were shaped by, and labored to transform, the changing social, political, and cultural landscape of Black America from the era of the Harlem Renaissance to the civil rights movement.

Gregory S. Parks is Professor of Law at Wake Forest University. He is co-author of The Wrongs of the Right: Language, Race, and the Republican Party in the Age of Obama and The Obamas and a (Post) Racial America?

Matthew W. Hughey is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut.

He is the author of many books, including The White Savior Film: Content, Critics, and Consumption.

A Pledge with Purpose serves as a critical reflection of both the collective African American racial struggle and the various strategies of Black Americans in their great—and unfinished—march toward freedom and equality.

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"All of my books deal with ways 'ordinary' people interact with media, stories, and representations."

"I had not explored collecting as an aspect of cultural participation before now. The artists I discuss in Comics and Stuff are themselves collectors as they try to access the history of their medium, they draw images and write stories which overflow with stuff, and these graphic novels speak to collectors and packrats like myself.

Through my research, I was drawn towards how contemporary graphic novels represent the complex ways we forge our identities, express our affiliations, and manage of our memories through our relationship with 'stuff.' I hope Comics and Stuff illuminates the 'stuff' in your life and its meaning as it did mine." —Henry Jenkins

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COMICS AND STUFF HENRY JENKINS

Considers how comics display our everyday stuff—junk drawers, bookshelves, attics—as a way of understanding how we represent ourselves now For most of their history, comics were widely understood as disposable—you read them and discarded them, and the pulp paper they were printed on decomposed over time. Today, comic books have been rebranded as graphic novels—clothbound high-gloss volumes that can be purchased in bookstores, checked out of libraries, and displayed proudly on bookshelves. They are reviewed by serious critics and studied in university classrooms. A medium once considered trash has been transformed into a respectable, if not elite, genre.

Contemporary culture is awash with stuff, and comics give vivid expression to a culture preoccupied with the processes of circulation and appraisal, accumulation and possession. By design, comics encourage the reader to scan the landscape, to pay attention to the physical objects that fill our lives and constitute our familiar surroundings.

In Comics and Stuff, his first solo-authored book in over a decade, pioneering media scholar Henry Jenkins moves through anthropology, material culture, literary criticism, and art history to resituate comics in the cultural landscape. Through over one hundred full-color illustrations, using close readings of contemporary graphic novels, Jenkins explores how comics depict stuff and exposes the central role that stuff plays in how we curate our identities, sustain memory, and make meaning. Comics and Stuff presents an innovative new way of thinking about comics and graphic novels that will change how we think about our stuff and ourselves.

Henry Jenkins is the Provost’s Professor of Communication, Journalism, Cinematic Arts and Education at the University of Southern California. He is the author or editor of 20 books including Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture, Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide, Spreadable Media: Creating Meaning and Value in a Networked Society, and By Any Media Necessary: The New Youth Activists.

He blogs at henryjenkins.org and co-hosts the podcast How Do You Like It So Far?

Clockwise from left: Heart of the Empire (1999), Grandville Force Majeure (2017), Alice in Sunderland (2007). © Brian Talbot. Courtesy of Brian Talbot.

April 2020 352 pages • 7 x 10 104 color illustrations Paper • 978-1-4798-0093-3 • $32.00S(£25.99) Cloth • 978-1-4798-5274-1• $89.00X(£77.00) Media Studies | Comics Studies

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THE SEX OBSESSION Perversity and Possibility in American Politics JANET R. JAKOBSEN Offers a way to undo the inextricable American knot of sex, politics, religion, and power American politics are obsessed with sex. Before the first televised presidential debate, John F. Kennedy trailed Richard Nixon in the polls. As Americans tuned in, however, they found Kennedy a younger, more vivacious, and more attractive choice than Nixon. Sexier. The political significance of Kennedy’s telegenic sex appeal is now widely accepted—but taking sexual politics seriously is not. Janet R. Jakobsen examines how, for the last several decades, gender and sexuality have reappeared time and again at the center of political life.

Religion has been wound up in these political struggles, and blamed for more than a little of the resistance to meaningful change in America political Janet R. Jakobsen is Claire Tow Professor of life. Jakobsen acknowledges that religion is a force to be reckoned with, but decisively breaks with the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at common sense that religion and sex are the fixed Barnard College, Columbia University where she has also served as Director of the Center binary of American political life. She instead follows for Research on Women and Dean for Faculty the kaleidoscopic ways in which sexual politics are Diversity and Development. She is the author embedded in social relations of all kinds—not only of Working Alliances and the Politics of the intimate relations of love and family with which Difference: Diversity and Feminist Ethics, and gender and sex are routinely associated, but also the co-author, with Ann Pellegrini, of Love secularism, freedom, race, disability, capitalism, the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of nation and state, housing, and the environment.

Religious Tolerance.

In the midst of these obsessions, Jakobsen’s promiscuous ethical imagination guides us forward.

Drawing on examples from collaborative projects among activists, academics, and artists, Jakobsen shows that sexual politics can contribute to building justice from the ground up. Gender and sexual relations are practices through which values emerge and communities are made. Sex and desire, gender and embodiment emerge as bases of ethical possibility, breaking a political stalemate and opening new possibility.

July 2020 304 pages • 6 x 9 Cloth • 978-1-4798-4608-5 • $30.00A(£24.99) In Sexual Cultures Politics | Religion

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PERCHANCE TO DREAM

A Legal and Political History of the DREAM Act & DACA MICHAEL A. OLIVAS Foreword by BILL RICHARDSON The first comprehensive history of the DREAM Act and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) In 1982, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Plyler v. Doe that undocumented children had the right to attend public schools without charge or impediment, regardless of their immigration status. The ruling raised a question: what if undocumented students, after graduating from the public school system, wanted to attend college?

Perchance to DREAM is the first comprehensive history of the DREAM Act, which made its initial Congressional appearance in 2001, and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), the discretionary program established by President Obama in 2012 out of Congressional failure to enact comprehensive immigration reform. Michael A. Olivas relates the history of the DREAM Act and DACA over the course of two decades.

With the Trump Administration challenging the legality of DACA and pursuing its elimination in 2017, the fate of DACA is uncertain. Perchance to DREAM follows the political participation of DREAMers, who have been taken hostage as pawns in a cruel game as the White House continues to advocate anti-immigrant policies. Perchance to DREAM brings to light the many twists and turns that the legislation has taken, suggests why it has not gained the required traction, and offers hopeful pathways that could turn this darkness to dawn.

Michael A. Olivas is William B. Bates Distinguished Chair in Law at the University of Houston Law Center and Director of the Institute for Higher Education Law and Governance at University of Houston. His books include Colored Men and Hombres Aquí: Hernandez v. Texas and the Emergence of Mexican American Lawyering; The Law and Higher Education: Cases and Materials on Colleges in Court Third Edition; and Education Law Stories (with Ronna Greff Schneider).

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No Undocumented Child Left Behind: Plyler v.

Doe and the Education of Undocumented Schoolchildren Michael A. Olivas January 2012 206 pages • 6 x 9 Cloth • $40.00S 978-0-8147-6244-8

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JEWISH NEW YORK The Remarkable Story of a City and a People DEBORAH DASH MOORE, JEFFREY S. GUROCK, ANNIE POLLAND, HOWARD B. ROCK, and DANIEL SOYER

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March 2020 512 pages • 6 x 9 94 black & white illustrations Paper • $18.95A(£15.99) 978-1-4798-0264-7 Cloth • 978-1-4798-5038-9 History | Jewish Studies

With a visual essay by DIANA L. LINDEN The definitive history of Jews in New York and how they transformed the city Jewish immigrants changed New York. They built its clothing industry and constructed huge swaths of apartment buildings. New York Jews helped to make the city the center of the nation’s publishing industry and shaped popular culture in music, theater, and the arts.

In turn, New York transformed Judaism and stimulated religious pluralism, Jewish denominationalism, and contemporary feminism.

Jewish New York spans three centuries, tracing the earliest arrival of Jews in New Amsterdam to the recent immigration of Jews from the former Soviet Union.

Deborah Dash Moore is Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of History and Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. Jeffrey S. Gurock is Libby M. Klaperman Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University. Annie Polland is Executive Director of the American Jewish Historical Society. Howard B. Rock is Professor of History Emeritus at Florida International University. Daniel Soyer is Professor of History at Fordham University.

JEWISH RADICAL FEMINISM Voices from the Women’s Liberation Movement JOYCE ANTLER Finalist, 2019 PROSE Award in Biography, Association of American Publishers Fifty years after the start of the women’s liberation movement, a book that at last illuminates the profound impact Jewishness and second-wave feminism had on each other

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Jewish women were undeniably instrumental in shaping the women’s liberation movement of the 1960s, '70s, and '80s. Delving into archival sources and conducting extensive interviews with these fierce pioneers, Joyce Antler has broken the silence about the confluence of feminism and Jewish identity.

The stories of over forty women’s liberationists and identifiedJewish feminists illustrate how women’s liberation and Jewish March 2020 feminism unfolded over the course of the lives of an extraordinary 464 pages • 6 x 9 cohort of women, profoundly influencing the social, political, and 64 black & white illustrations religious revolutions of our era.

Paper • $19.95A(£16.99) 978-1-4798-0254-8 Joyce Antler is the Samuel J. Lane Professor Emerita of American Cloth • 978-0-8147-0763-0 Jewish History and Culture and Professor Emerita of Women’s, Gender, In Goldstein-Goren Series in and Sexuality Studies at Brandeis University.

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ORDINARY PEOPLE, EXTRAORDINARY LIVES A Pictorial History of Working People in New York City DEBRA E. BERNHARDT and RACHEL BERNSTEIN Brings to life the breathtaking and often heartbreaking stories of the workers who, with cement and steel, needle and thread, blood, sweat and dreams, built New York City in the twentieth century Among the extraordinary lives chronicled within these stories are those of Philip Keating, who, seven years after a fellow worker photographed him painting the Queensboro Bridge in 1949, plunged to his death from another worksite, and Cynthia Long, who fought gender barriers to become, in the late 1970s, an electrician with International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 3. With narratives at the beginning of each section providing historical context, this book brings the past clearly, emotionally, and fascinatingly alive.

Debra E. Bernhardt (1953 – 2001) built an extensive collection of documents, photographs, and oral histories about working people as head of the Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University. Rachel Bernstein researches and teaches NYC working class history. She directs LaborArts, a non-profit using art, images and events to bring a broad audience to this often overlooked history.

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THE PRESIDENTS AND THE CONSTITUTION, VOLUME ONE From the Founding Fathers to the Progressive Era EDITED BY KEN GORMLEY Shines a light on the constitutional issues that confronted and shaped each presidency from George Washington to the Progressive Era Drawing from the monumental The Presidents and the Constitution: A Living History, published in 2016, the nation’s foremost experts in the American presidency and the US Constitution join together to tell the intertwined stories of how the American presidents have confronted and shaped the Constitution.

Arranged chronologically by president, Volume 1 examines the constitutional issues confronting each president, from George Washington to William Howard Taft, in the context of the personalities driving historical events.

Ken Gormley is President and Professor of Law at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh.

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WARFARE AND CULTURE IN WORLD HISTORY SECOND EDITION

Edited by WAYNE E. LEE An expanded edition of the leading text on military history and the role of culture on the battlefield

August 2020 368 pages • 6 x 9 Paper • $30.00S(£24.99) 978-1-4798-6243-6 Cloth • $89.00X(£77.00) 978-1-4798-0000-1 Previous Edition • Paper 978-0-8147-5278-4 History | Military History

Ideas matter in warfare. Guns may kill, but ideas determine when, where, and how they are used. This second edition is a collection of some of the most compelling recent efforts to analyze warfare through a cultural lens. These curated essays draw on, and aggressively expand, traditional scholarship on war and society through sophisticated cultural analysis. This book provides a full range of case studies of how culture, whether societal, strategic, organizational, or military, could shape not only military institutions but also actual battlefield choices.

Wayne E. Lee is Bruce W. Carney Distinguished Professor of History at the University of North Carolina.

ACCESSIBLE AMERICA A History of Disability and Design BESS WILLIAMSON A history of design that is often overlooked—until we need it

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Have you ever used an ergonomic kitchen tool? Have you ever used curb cuts to roll a stroller across an intersection? If you have, then you’ve benefited from accessible design—design for people with physical, sensory, and cognitive disabilities. These ubiquitous touchstones of modern life were once anything but. Disability advocates fought tirelessly to ensure that the needs of people with disabilities became a standard part of public design thinking. That fight took many forms worldwide, but in the US it became a civil rights issue; activists used design to make an argument about the place of people with disabilities in public life.

Richly detailed with stories of politics and innovation, Accessible America takes us through this important history, showing how American ideas of individualism and rights came to shape the material world, often with unexpected consequences.

Bess Williamson is Associate Professor of Art History, Theory and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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STORIES OF THE SELF Life Writing after the Book ANNA POLETTI The importance of personal storytelling in contemporary culture and politics In an age where our experiences are processed and filtered through a wide variety of mediums, both digital and physical, how do we tell our own story? How do we “get a life,” make sense of who we are and the way we live, and communicate that to others? Stories of the Self takes the literary study of autobiography and opens it up to a broad and fascinating range of material practices beyond the book, investigating the manifold ways people are documenting themselves in contemporary culture with examples from Andy Warhol’s Time Capsules, queer zines, PostSecret, and more. Poletti argues that the very media used for writing our lives intrinsically shapes how we are seen to matter.

Anna Poletti is Associate Professor of English Literature and Culture at Utrecht University.

August 2020 240 pages • 6 x 9 8 black & white illustrations Paper • $29.00S(£23.99) 978-1-4798-3666-6 Cloth • $89.00X(£77.00) 978-1-4798-6360-0 In Postmillennial Pop Cultural Studies

LITERARY BIOETHICS Animality, Disability, and the Human MAREN TOVA LINETT Uses literature to understand and remake our ethics regarding nonhuman animals, old human beings, disabled human beings, and cloned posthumans Novels, Maren Tova Linett argues, present vividly imagined worlds in which certain values hold sway, casting new light onto those values. The more plausible and well rendered readers find these imagined worlds, the more thoroughly we can evaluate the justice of those values. Including an innovative set of readings of H.G. Wells’s The Island of Doctor Moreau, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, Flannery O’Connor’s The Violent Bear It Away, and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, Linett grapples with the most fundamental questions of how we value different kinds of lives, and questions what those in power ought to be permitted to do with those lives as we gain unprecedented levels of technological prowess.

Maren Tova Linett is Professor of English and the Director of Critical Disability Studies program at Purdue University.

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BECOMING HUMAN Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World ZAKIYYAH IMAN JACKSON Argues that blackness disrupts our essential ideas of race, gender, and, ultimately, the human

Zakiyyah Iman Jackson is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Southern California. Her work has appeared in Feminist Studies; Gay and Lesbian Quarterly; Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences; South Atlantic Quarterly; and Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, and Technoscience.

“I find that black women and works of art often occupy similar positions in critical discourse, as the object of someone else’s theory, as objectified by theory, or worse, as a muse. I want to provide a model for reading African diasporic literature and visual art for the philosophical premises and implications of these forms and traditions.”

—Zakiyyah Iman Jackson

May 2020 320 pages • 6 x 9 2 black & white, 17 color illustrations Paper • 978-1-4798-3037-4 • $30.00S(£24.99) Cloth • 978-1-4798-9004-0 • $89.00X(£77.00) In Sexual Cultures African American Studies

Rewriting the pernicious, enduring relationship between blackness and animality in the history of Western science and philosophy, Becoming Human breaks open the rancorous debate between black critical theory and posthumanism. Through the cultural terrain of literature by Toni Morrison, Nalo Hopkinson, Audre Lorde, and Octavia Butler, the art of Wangechi Mutu and Ezrom Legae, and the oratory of Frederick Douglass, Zakiyyah Iman Jackson both critiques and displaces the racial logic that has dominated scientific thought since the Enlightenment. In so doing, Becoming Human demonstrates that the history of racialized gender and maternity, specifically antiblackness, is indispensable to future thought on matter, materiality, animality, and posthumanism.

Jackson argues that African diasporic cultural production alters the meaning of being human and engages in imaginative practices of world-building against a history of the bestialization and thingification of blackness—the process of imagining the black person as an empty vessel, a non-being, an ontological zero—and the violent imposition of colonial myths of racial hierarchy. She creatively responds to the animalization of blackness by generating alternative frameworks of thought and relationality that disrupt not only the racialization of the human/animal distinction found in Western science and philosophy but also by challenging the epistemic and material terms under which the specter of animal life acquires its authority. What emerges is a radically unruly sense of a being, knowing, feeling existence: one that necessarily ruptures the foundations of "the human."

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HAITI'S PAPER WAR Post-Independence Writing, Civil War, and the Making of the Republic, 1804–1954 CHELSEA STIEBER Turns to the written record to re-examine the building blocks of a nation Picking up where most historians conclude, Chelsea Stieber explores the critical internal challenge to Haiti’s post-independence sovereignty: a civil war between monarchy and republic. What transpired was a war of swords and of pens, waged in newspapers and periodicals, in literature, broadsheets, and fliers. In her analysis of Haitian writing that followed independence, Stieber composes a new literary history of Haiti that challenges our interpretations of both freedom struggles and the postcolonial.

Stieber reorders our previously homogeneous view of Haiti, teasing out warring conceptions of the new nation that continued to play out deep into the twentieth century.

Chelsea Stieber is Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the Catholic University of America.

August 2020 368 pages • 6 x 9 11 black & white illustrations Paper • $30.00S(£24.99) 978-1-4798-0215-9 Cloth • $89.00X(£77.00) 978-1-4798-0213-5 In America and the Long 19th Century Literary Studies

WIFE, INC. The Business of Marriage in the Twenty-First Century SUZANNE LEONARD A fascinating look at the changing role of wives in modern America Wife, Inc. tells a fiercely contemporary story revealing that today’s wives do not labor in kitchens or even homes. Instead, the work of wifedom occurs in online dating sites, on reality television, in social media, and on the campaign trail. Guiding readers through the stages of the “wife-cycle,” Suzanne Leonard follows women as they date, prepare to wed, and toil as wives, using examples from popular television, film, and literature, as well as mass market news, women’s magazines, new media, and advice culture. Wife, Inc. reveals how marriage occupies a newly professionalized role in the lives of American women. Being a wife is a business that takes a lot more than a vow to maintain—this book tells that story.

Suzanne Leonard is Associate Professor of English at Simmons College in Boston.

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THE PROCRASTINATION ECONOMY The Big Business of Downtime ETHAN TUSSEY 2018 Outstanding Academic Title, CHOICE Magazine How mobile devices make our in-between moments valuable to media companies while also providing a sense of control and connection

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In moments of downtime we pull out our phones for a few minutes of distraction. Just as television reoriented the way we think about living rooms, mobile devices have taken over the interstitial spaces of our everyday lives. Ethan Tussey argues that these in-between moments have created a procrastination economy, an opportunity for entertainment companies to create opportunities that can colonize our everyday lives. By examining the four main locations of the procrastination economy—the workplace, the commute, the waiting room, and the “connected” living room—Tussey illuminates the relationship between the entertainment industry and the digitally empowered public.

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HOW TO WATCH TELEVISION, SECOND EDITION Edited by ETHAN THOMPSON and JASON MITTELL A new edition that brings the ways we watch and think about television up to the present We all have opinions about the TV shows we watch, but TV criticism is about much more than simply evaluating the merits of a particular show and deeming it “good” or “bad.” Rather, criticism uses the close examination of a program to explore its cultural significance, creative strategies, and its place in a broader social context. In forty brief essays—more than half of which are new to the second edition—contributors demonstrate new ways to read a single television show, and through it, our larger media culture.

March 2020 432 pages • 7 x 10 71 black & white illustrations Paper • $30.00S(£24.99) 978-1-4798-9881-7 Cloth • $89.00X(£77.00) 978-1-4798-9063-7 Previous Edition • Paper 978-0-8147-6398-8 In User's Guides To Popular Culture Media Studies

From fashioning blackness in Empire to representation in Orange Is the New Black and from the role of the reboot in Gilmore Girls to the function of changing political atmospheres in Roseanne, these essays model how to practice media criticism in accessible language, providing critical insights through analysis—suggesting a way of looking at TV that students and interested viewers might emulate.

Ethan Thompson is Professor of Media Arts at Texas A&M University– Corpus Christi. Jason Mittell is Professor of Film & Media Culture at Middlebury College.

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GAMER TROUBLE Feminist Confrontations in Digital Culture AMANDA PHILLIPS Complicating perspectives on diversity in video games Gamers have been troublemakers as long as games have existed.

As our popular understanding of “gamer” shifts beyond its historical construction as a white, straight, adolescent, cisgender male, the troubles that emerge both confirm and challenge our understanding of identity politics. In Gamer Trouble, Amanda Phillips excavates the turbulent relationships between surface and depth in contemporary gaming culture, taking readers under the hood of the mechanisms of video games in order to understand the ways that difference gets baked into its technological, ludic, ideological, and social systems.

Amanda Phillips is Assistant Professor of English and Film and Media Studies at Georgetown University.

April 2020 256 pages • 6 x 9 49 black & white illustrations Paper • $29.00S(£23.99) 978-1-4798-3492-1 Cloth • $89.00X(£77.00) 978-1-4798-7010-3 In Postmillennial Pop Media Studies

OPEN WORLD EMPIRE Race, Erotics, and the Global Rise of Video Games CHRISTOPHER B. PATTERSON Seeking ways to understand video games beyond their imperial logic, Patterson turns to erotics to re-invigorate the potential passions and pleasures of play Video games are undeniably imperial products. Their very existence has been conditioned upon the spread of militarized technology, the exploitation of already-existing labor and racial hierarchies in their manufacture, and the utopian promises of digital technology. Like literature and film before it, video games have become the main artistic expression of empire today: the open world empire, formed through the routes of information technology and the violences of drone combat, unending war, and overseas massacres that occur with little scandal or protest. Thinking through games like Overwatch, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Shenmue April 2020 II, and Alien: Isolation, Christopher B. Patterson reads against 344 pages • 6 x 9 empire by playing games erotically, as players do—seeing games 27 black & white illustrations as Asiatic playthings that afford new passions, pleasures, desires, Paper • $35.00S(£28.99) and attachments.

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TECHNOLOGIES OF SPECULATION The Limits of Knowledge in a Data-Driven Society SUN-HA HONG An inquiry into what we can know in an age of surveillance and algorithms Knitting together contemporary technologies of datafication to reveal a broader, underlying shift in what counts as knowledge, Technologies of Speculation reframes today’s major moral and political controversies around algorithms and artificial intelligence.

From the rapidly growing Quantified Self movement to large-scale dragnet data collection in the name of counter-terrorism and drone warfare, Sun-ha Hong argues that data’s promise of objective truth results in new cultures of speculation. When we simply cannot process all the data at our fingertips, we look past the inconvenient to favor the comprehensible. Hong reveals the moral and philosophical equations embedded into the algorithmic eye that now follows us all.

July 2020 288 pages • 6 x 9 12 black & white illustrations Paper • $30.00S(£24.99) Sun-ha Hong is Assistant Professor of Communication at Simon Fraser 978-1-4798-8306-6 University.

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RACIALIZED MEDIA The Design, Delivery, and Decoding of Race and Ethnicity Edited by MATTHEW W. HUGHEY and EMMA GONZÁLEZ-LESSER How media propagates and challenges racism From Black Panther to #OscarsSoWhite, the concept of “race,” and how it is represented in media, has continued to attract attention in the public eye. In Racialized Media, this important new collection of original essays provides a blueprint to this new, ever-changing media landscape. With sweeping breadth, contributors examine a number of different mediums, including film, television, books, newspapers, social media, video games, and comics. Each chapter explores the impact of contemporary media on racial politics, culture, and `meaning in society. Focusing on producers, gatekeepers, and consumers of media, Racialized Media provides a much-needed look at the role of race and ethnicity in all phases of media production, distribution, and reception.

May 2020 400 pages • 6 x 9 13 black & white illustrations Matthew W. Hughey is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Paper • $35.00S(£28.99) University of Connecticut. Emma González-Lesser is a PhD Candidate at 978-1-4798-1455-8 the University of Connecticut.

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THE CONTENT OF OUR CARICATURE African American Comic Art and Political Belonging REBECCA WANZO Traces the history of racial caricature and the ways that Black cartoonists have turned this visual grammar on its head Revealing the long aesthetic tradition of African American cartoonists who have made use of racist caricature as a black diasporic art practice, Rebecca Wanzo demonstrates how these artists have resisted histories of visual imperialism and their legacies. Moving beyond binaries of positive and negative representation, many black cartoonists have used caricatures to criticize constructions of ideal citizenship in the United States, as well as the alienation of African Americans from such imaginaries. The Content of Our Caricature urges readers to recognize how the wide circulation of comic and cartoon art contributes to a common language of both national belonging and exclusion in the United States.

Historically, white artists have rendered white caricatures as virtuous representations of American identity, while their caricatures of African Americans are excluded from these kinds of idealized discourses. Employing a rich illustration program of color and black-and-white reproductions, Wanzo explores the works of artists such as Sam Milai, Larry Fuller, Richard “Grass” Green, Brumsic Brandon Jr., Jennifer Cruté, Aaron McGruder, Kyle Baker, Ollie Harrington, and George Herriman, all of whom negotiate and navigate this troublesome history of caricature. The Content of Our Caricature arrives at a gateway to understanding how a visual grammar of citizenship, and hence American identity itself, has been constructed.

Rebecca Wanzo is Associate Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of The Suffering Will Not Be Televised: African American Women and Sentimental Political Storytelling.

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A RECIPE FOR GENTRIFICATION Food, Power, and Resistance in the City Edited by ALISON HOPE ALKON, YUKI KATO, and JOSHUA SBICCA How gentrification uproots the urban food landscape, and what activists are doing to resist it A Recipe for Gentrification explores the ways in which food and gentrification are deeply—and, at times, controversially—intertwined. Contributors give an inside look at gentrification in different cities, examining a wide range of food enterprises to provide up-to-date perspectives on why gentrification takes place, and how communities use food to push back against displacement. Ultimately, they unpack the consequences for vulnerable people and neighborhoods, highlighting how the everyday July 2020 practices of growing, purchasing and eating food reflect the 384 pages • 6 x 9 rapid—and contentious—changes taking place in American cities 40 black & white illustrations in the twenty-first century.

Paper • $35.00S(£28.99) 978-1-4798-1137-3 Alison Hope Alkon is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Cloth • $99.00X(£85.00) University of the Pacific. Yuki Kato is Assistant Professor of Sociology 978-1-4798-1137-3 at Georgetown University. Joshua Sbicca is Assistant Professor of Food Studies | Sociology at Colorado State University.

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NEOLIBERAL CITIES The Remaking of Postwar Urban America Edited by ANDREW J. DIAMOND and THOMAS J. SUGRUE Traces decades of troubled attempts to fund private answers to public urban problems

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Through richly told case studies from Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles, New Orleans, and New York, urban historians and sociologists trace the role that public policies have played in reshaping cities. In so doing, Neoliberal Cities offers a bottom-up approach to social scientific, theoretical, and historical accounts of urban America, exploring the ways that activists and grassroots organizations, as well as ordinary citizens, came to terms with new market-oriented public policies promoted by multinational corporations, financial institutions, and political parties. Neoliberal Cities offers new scaffolding for urban and metropolitan change, with attention to the interaction between policymaking, city planning, social movements, and the market.

Andrew J. Diamond is Professor of American History at the Sorbonne University in Paris. Thomas J. Sugrue is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History at New York University.

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THE TROUBLE WITH SNACK TIME Children’s Food and the Politics of Parenting JENNIFER PATICO Uncovers the class and race dimensions of the "cupcake wars" In the wake of school-lunch reform debates, heated classroom cupcake wars, and concerns over childhood obesity, the diet of American children has become a “crisis” and the cause of much anxiety among parents.

Drawing on interviews with food-concious parents and ethnographic observation within an urban Atlanta charter school community, Jennifer Patico details the dilemma for parents stuck between a commitment to social inclusion and a desire for control of their children’s eating. Ultimately, Patico argues that the attitudes of middle-class parents toward food reflect an underlying neoliberal capitalist ethic, in which their need to cultivate proper food consumption for their children can actually work to reinforce class privilege and exclusion.

Jennifer Patico is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Georgia State University in Atlanta. She is the author of Consumption and Social Change in a Post-Soviet Middle Class.

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WHITE KIDS Growing Up with Privilege in a Racially Divided America MARGARET A. HAGERMAN 2019 William J. Goode Book Award, Family Section of the American Sociological Association | Finalist, 2019 C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems Riveting stories of how affluent, white children learn about race White Kids, based on two years of research involving in-depth interviews with white kids and their families, is a clear-eyed and sometimes shocking account of how white kids learn about race.

Sociologist Margaret A. Hagerman zeroes in on affluent, white kids to observe how they make sense of privilege, unequal educational opportunities, and police violence. In fascinating detail, Hagerman considers the role that they and their families play in the reproducNEW IN PAPERBACK tion of racism and racial inequality in America. Featuring the actual voices of white kids, White Kids illuminates how white racial socialFebruary 2020 ization is a process and documents key differences in the outcomes 280 pages • 6 x 9 of white racial socialization across families. And by observing fam5 black & white illustrations ilies in their everyday lives, this book explores the extent to which Paper • $18.95T(£15.99) white families, even those with anti-racist intentions, reproduce and 978-1-4798-0245-6 reinforce the forms of inequality they say they reject.

Cloth • 978-1-4798-0368-2 In Critical Perspectives Margaret A. Hagerman is Assistant Professor of Sociology at on Youth Mississippi State University.

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COMING OF AGE IN IRAN Poverty and the Struggle for Dignity MANATA HASHEMI An inside look at young Iranians navigating poverty and stigma in a time of crisis

May 2020 256 pages • 6 x 9 18 black & white illustrations Paper • $30.00S(£24.99) 978-1-4798-8194-9 Cloth • $89.00X(£77.00) 978-1-4798-7633-4 In Critical Perspectives on Youth Sociology

Author Manata Hashemi takes readers inside the lives of Iranian youth. Drawing on first-hand accounts, Hashemi shows how the young Iranian men and women known as the “burnt generation”— those between the ages of 15 and 29, who came of age after Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution—face their future prospects. Hashemi spent months with these youth, observing them at bazaars, hair salons, parks, and mosques, tutoring them in English and sharing meals in their family homes. Hashemi follows their stories, one by one, as they try to climb up the proverbial ladder of success.

Coming of Age in Iran sheds light on the inner lives of a new generation of Iranian youth as they struggle in the face of ongoing economic crisis.

Manata Hashemi is the Farzaneh Family Assistant Professor of Iranian Studies at the University of Oklahoma.

CHANGING QATAR Culture, Citizenship, and Rapid Modernization GEOFF HARKNESS A cultural study of modern Qatar and how it navigates change and tradition As the wealthiest country in the world—and one of the fastest-growing—Qatar is known for its capital, Doha, which boasts a striking, futuristic skyline. In Changing Qatar, Geoff Harkness takes us beyond the headlines, providing a fresh perspective on modern-day life in the increasingly visible Gulf. Drawing on three years of immersive fieldwork and more than a hundred interviews, he describes a country in transition, one struggling to negotiate the fluid boundaries of culture, tradition, and modernity.

Harkness shows how Qataris reaffirm—and challenge—traditions in many areas of everyday life, from dating and marriage, to clothing and humor, to gender and sports. A cultural study of citizenship in modern Qatar, this book offers an illuminating portrait that cannot be found elsewhere.

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WOMEN RISING In and Beyond the Arab Spring

Edited by RITA STEPHAN and MOUNIRA M. CHARRAD Groundbreaking essays by female activists and scholars documenting women’s resistance before, during, and after the Arab Spring Images of women protesting in the Arab Spring, from Tahrir Square to the streets of Tunisia and Syria, have become emblematic of the political upheaval sweeping the Middle East and North Africa. In Women Rising, Rita Stephan and Mounira M. Charrad bring together a provocative group of scholars, activists, artists, and more, highlighting the first-hand experiences of these remarkable women.

In this relevant and timely volume, Stephan and Charrad paint a picture of women’s political resistance in sixteen countries before, during, and since the Arab Spring protests first began in 2011.

Contributors provide insight into a diverse range of perspectives across the entire movement, focusing on often-marginalized voices, including rural women, housewives, students, and artists.

Women Rising offers an on-the-ground understanding of an important twenty-first century movement, telling the story of Arab women’s activism.

Rita Stephan is a Research Fellow at The Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies at North Carolina State University and the Director of the Middle East Partnership Initiative at the US Department of State. She is the co-editor of In Line with the Divine: The Struggle for Gender Equality in Lebanon.

Mounira M. Charrad is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas, Austin and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Baker Institute, Rice University. She is author of the award-winning book, States and Women’s Rights: The Making of Postcolonial Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco.

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GENDER VIOLENCE, THIRD EDITION Interdisciplinary Perspectives Edited by LAURA L. O'TOOLE, JESSICA R. SCHIFFMAN and ROSEMARY SULLIVAN An updated edition of the groundbreaking anthology that explores the proliferation of gendered violence

July 2020 608 pages • 7 x 10 7 black & white illustrations Paper • $39.00S(£34.00) 978-1-4798-2080-1 Cloth • $99.00X(£85.00) 978-1-4798-4392-3 Previous Edition • Paper 978-0-8147-6210-3 Criminology

From Harvey Weinstein to Brett Kavanaugh, accusations of gender violence saturate today’s headlines. This fully revised edition brings together a new, interdisciplinary group of scholars, with up-to-date material on emerging issues like workplace harassment, transgender violence, intersectionality, and the #MeToo movement.

Contributors provide a fresh, informed perspective on gender violence, in all of its various forms. With twenty-nine new contributors, and twelve original essays, the third edition now includes emerging contemporary issues such as LGBTQ violence, sex work, and toxic masculinity. An essential read for students and activists.

Laura L. O’Toole is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Cultural, Environmental, and Global Studies at Salve Regina University. Jessica R. Schiffman is a former Assistant Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Delaware. Rosemary Sullivan is an Associate Professor of Social Work at Westfield State University.

TRANSGENDER INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE A Comprehensive Introduction Edited by ADAM M. MESSINGER and XAVIER L. GUADALUPE-DIAZ A groundbreaking overview of transgender relationship violence

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In the course of their lives, around fifty percent of transgender people will experience intimate partner violence in their relationships. Transgender Intimate Partner Violence brings together a diverse group of scholars, service providers, activists, and others to examine this widespread problem, shedding light on the often-hidden experiences of transgender survivors. Drawing on two decades of research, contributors explore transgender intimate partner violence in all of its complexities, offering an overview of this emerging body of policy, research, and practice. They offer best practices to enhance research, services, and healing for transgender survivors.

Adam M. Messinger, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Justice Studies and Gender Studies at Northeastern Illinois University. Xavier L. Guadalupe-Diaz, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminology at Framingham State University in Massachusetts.

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BEYOND RECIDIVISM New Approaches to Research on Prisoner Reentry and Reintegration Edited by ANDREA LEVERENTZ, ELSA Y. CHEN and JOHNNA CHRISTIAN Understanding reentry experiences after incarceration Prison in the US often has a revolving door, with droves of formerly incarcerated people ultimately finding themselves behind bars again. Drawing on contemporary studies, contributors examine the best ideas that have emerged over the last decade to understanding the challenges prisoners face upon reentering society. They present a complete picture of prisoner reentry, including real-world recommendations for policies to ensure the well-being of returning prisoners, regardless of their past mistakes.

Andrea Leverentz is an Associate Professor of Sociology at University of Massachusetts Boston. Elsa Y. Chen is Professor of Political Science and Vice Provost for Academic Affairs at Santa Clara University.

Johnna Christian is an Associate Professor of Criminology at Rutgers University-Newark.

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EVALUATING POLICE USES OF FORCE SETH W. STOUGHTON, JEFFREY J. NOBLE, and GEOFFREY P. ALPERT Provides a critical understanding and evaluation of police tactics and the use of force Evaluating Police Uses of Force explores a critical but largely overlooked facet of the difficult and controversial issues of police violence and accountability: how does society evaluate use-offorce incidents? By answering this question through four different perspectives—constitutional law, state law, administrative regulation, and community expectations—Evaluating Police Uses of Force helps situate readers within broader conversations about governmental accountability, the role that police play in modern society, and how officers should go about fulfilling their duties.

Seth W. Stoughton is Associate Professor of Law at the University of South Carolina. Jeffrey J. Noble is a police consultant. Geoffrey P. Alpert is Professor of Criminology at the University of South Carolina.

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FEELING MEDICINE How the Pelvic Exam Shapes Medical Training KELLY UNDERMAN The emotional and social components of teaching medical students to be good doctors

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The pelvic exam is considered a fundamental procedure for medical students to learn; it is also often the one of the first times where medical students are required to touch a real human being in a professional manner. Drawing on interviews with medical students, faculty, and the people who use their own bodies to teach this exam, Underman offers the first in-depth examination of this essential, but seldom discussed, aspect of medical education.

Ultimately, Feeling Medicine explores what it means to be a good doctor in the twenty-first century, particularly in an era of corporatized healthcare.

Kelly Underman is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Drexel University.

LIVING ON THE SPECTRUM Autism and Youth in Community ELIZABETH FEIN How youth on the autism spectrum negotiate the contested meanings of neurodiversity Autism is a deeply contested condition. To some, it is a devastating invader, harming children and isolating them. To others, it is an asset and a distinctive aspect of an individual’s identity. How do young people on the spectrum make sense of this conflict, in the context of their own developing identity? Youths on the autism spectrum reach beyond medicine for their stories of difference and disorder, drawing instead on shared mythologies from popular culture and speculative fiction to conceptualize their experience of changing personhood. In moving and persuasive prose, this book illustrates that young people use these stories to pioneer more inclusive understandings of what makes us who we are.

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THE MOVEMENT FOR REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE Empowering Women of Color through Social Activism PATRICIA ZAVELLA Shows how reproductive justice organizations’ collaborative work across racial lines provides a compelling model for other groups to successfully influence change Patricia Zavella experienced first-hand the trials and judgments imposed on working professional mothers: her commitment to academia was questioned because of her pregnancy; she was shamed for having children while “too young;” and when she finally achieved a tenure track position in 1983, she felt out of place as one of the few female faculty members with children.

These experiences sparked Zavella’s interest in the movement for reproductive justice. Many organizations focused on reproductive justice activism are racially specific, such as the California Latinas for Reproductive Justice or Black Women for Wellness. Yet Zavella documents how many of these organizations have built cross-sector coalitions, sharing resources and supporting each other through different campaigns or struggles.

While the coalitions are often regional—or even national—these organizations have specific constituencies diverse by race, sexual identities, legal status, or ethnicity, presenting unique challenges and opportunities for the women involved.

Zavella argues that these organizations provide 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.

“In a world in which politics seems so polarized, how have women of color collaborated successfully through multiple campaigns and coalitions since the 1990s under the rubric of reproductive justice? By carefully negotiating intersectionality, the reproductive justice social movement fights for the human right to access health care and live healthy lives through grassroots organizing, policy advocacy, and the politics of representation.”

—Patricia Zavella

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ADVERSE EVENTS Race, Inequality, and the Testing of New Pharmaceuticals JILL A. FISHER Explores the social inequality of clinical drug testing and its effects on scientific results Adverse Events shows how social inequality fundamentally shapes Phase I trials. Drawing on two years of fieldwork in residential research clinics across the US and 268 interviews with both volunteers and staff, Jill A. Fisher finds that decisions to enroll in such medical studies are often influenced by poverty, a history of incarceration, or being a member of a minority group who faces social and economic inequalities, and so has limited options for income.

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Fisher explores the social inequalities and less-than-trustworthy findings of medical research in which nearly everybody involved is incentivized to game the system. Adverse Events provides an unprecedented view of the intersection of racial inequalities with pharmaceutical testing, signaling the dangers of this research enterprise to both social justice and public health.

Jill A. Fisher is Associate Professor in the Department of Social Medicine and Center for Bioethics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

QUEERING FAMILY TREES Race, Reproductive Justice, and Lesbian Motherhood SANDRA PATTON-IMANI Argues that significant barriers to family-making exist for lesbian mothers of color in the United States Queering Family Trees explores the lived experiences of queer mothers in the United States, drawing on over one hundred interviews with African American, Latina, Native American, white, and Asian American lesbian mothers living in a range of socioeconomic circumstances to show how they have navigated family-making.

Through the lens of reproductive justice, Sandra Patton-Imani argues that the federal legalization of same-sex marriage reinforces existing structures of inequality grounded in race, gender, sexuality, and class. Queering Family Trees explores the lives of a critically erased segment of the queer population, demonstrating that the seemingly “color blind” solutions offered by marriage equality do not rectify such inequalities.

June 2020 336 pages • 6 x 9 10 black & white illustrations Sandra Patton-Imani is Associate Professor of American Studies at Drake University.

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TRANS-AFFIRMATIVE PARENTING Raising Kids Across the Gender Spectrum ELIZABETH RAHILLY First-hand accounts of how parents support their transgender children Elizabeth Rahilly interviews parents of transgender and gender-nonconforming kids, as well as medical doctors, endocrinologists, mental health practitioners, advocates, and educators, to explore how parents come to terms with unconventional ideas about gender, sexuality, identity, and the body, including parents’ complex deliberations about nonbinary possibilities and medical interventions for their kids. Through various examples, Rahilly shows that parents’ decisions and understandings often counter contemporary LGBTQ advocacy positions, which have worked to resist overly medicalized and/or gender-normative views and expectations. In an era that is increasingly transgender-aware, this book offers provocative new insights into transgender children and the parents who raise them.

Elizabeth Rahilly is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Georgia Southern University.

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THE SOCIOLOGY OF W. E. B. DU BOIS Racialized Modernity and the Global Color Line JOSÉ ITZIGSOHN and KARIDA L. BROWN The first comprehensive understanding of Du Bois for social scientists W. E. B. Du Bois is recognized as a pioneer of American scientific sociology and as someone who made foundational contributions to the sociology of race and to urban and community sociology. However, in this authoritative volume, noted scholars José Itzigsohn and Karida L. Brown provide a groundbreaking account of Du Bois’s theoretical contribution to sociology, or what they call the analysis of “racialized modernity.” Further, they examine the implications of developing a Du Boisian sociology for the practice of the discipline today. Itzigsohn and Brown show that a Du Boisian sociology provides a robust analytical framework for the multilevel examination of individual-level processes—such as the formation of the self—and macro processes—such as group formation and mobilization or the structures of modernity—key concepts for a basic understanding of sociology.

José Itzigsohn is Professor of Sociology at Brown University. Karida L. Brown is Assistant Professor of Sociology at UCLA.

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HURRICANE HARVEY'S AFTERMATH Place, Race, and Inequality in Disaster Recovery KEVIN M. FITZPATRICK and MATTHEW L. SPIALEK Heartbreaking stories from survivors along the Texas Gulf Coast

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Hurricane Harvey was one of the worst American natural disasters in recorded history. Drawing on interviews from more than 350 survivors, the authors trace the experiences of individuals and their communities, both rich and poor, urban and rural, white, Latinx, and Black, and how they navigated the long and difficult road to recovery after Hurricane Harvey. From Corpus Christi to Galveston, they paint a vivid, compelling picture of heartache and destruction, as well as resilience and recovery. Hurricane Harvey’s Aftermath provides insight into how ordinary people experience and persevere through a disaster in an age of environmental vulnerability.

Kevin M. Fitzpatrick is University Professor of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Arkansas. Matthew L. Spialek is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Arkansas.

MUSLIM AMERICAN CITY Gender and Religion in Metro Detroit ALISA PERKINS Explores how Muslim Americans test the boundaries of American pluralism

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Muslim American City explores how debates over Muslim Americans’ use of both public and political space have challenged and ultimately reshaped the boundaries of urban belonging.

Drawing on more than ten years of ethnographic research in Hamtramck, which boasts one of the largest concentrations of Muslim residents of any American city, Alisa Perkins shows how the Muslim American population has grown and asserted itself in public life. She explores, for example, the efforts of Muslim American women to maintain gender norms in neighborhoods, mosques, and schools, as well as Muslim Americans’ efforts to organize public responses to municipal initiatives. Perkins questions the popular assumption that the religiosity of Muslim minorities hinders their capacity for full citizenship in secular societies.

Alisa Perkins is Assistant Professor of Comparative Religion at Western Michigan University.

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RELIGION IS RACED Understanding American Religion in the Twenty-First Century Edited by GRACE YUKICH and PENNY EDGELL Demonstrates how race and power help to explain American religion in the twenty-first century Religion Is Raced makes the case that religion in America has generally been understood in ways that center white Christian experiences of religion, and argues that all religion must be acknowledged as a raced phenomenon. With contributions exploring a variety of religious traditions, from Buddhism and Islam to Judaism and Protestantism, as well as pieces on atheists and humanists, Religion Is Raced brings discussions about the racialized nature of religion from the margins of scholarly and religious debate to the center.

Grace Yukich is Associate Professor of Sociology at Quinnipiac University. Penny Edgell is Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota.

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LIFT EVERY VOICE AND SWING Black Musicians and Religious Culture in the Jazz Century VAUGHN A. BOOKER Explores the role of jazz celebrities like Ella Fitzgerald, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, and Mary Lou Williams as representatives of African American religion in the twentieth century Beginning in the 1920s, the Jazz Age propelled Black swing artists into national celebrity. With the emergence of these popular jazz figures, African Americans found a place and spokespeople outside of traditional Afro-Protestant institutions and religious life. Popular Black jazz professionals inherited religious authority though they were not official religious leaders.

Vaughn A. Booker documents this transformative era in religious expression, in which jazz musicians embodied religious beliefs and practices that echoed and diverged from the predominant African American religious culture. Featuring gorgeous prose and insightful research, Lift Every Voice and Swing changes the way we understand the connections between jazz music and faith.

Vaughn A. Booker is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion and the Program in African and African American Studies at Dartmouth College.

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GOLEM Modern Wars and Their Monsters MAYA BARZILAI 2017 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award, given by the Association for Jewish Studies | Honorable Mention, 2016 Baron Book Prize, American Academy for Jewish Research A monster tour of the Golem narrative across various cultural and historical landscapes

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In the 1910s and 1920s, a “golem cult” swept across Europe and the US, later surfacing in Israel. This book showcases how the golem was remolded as a muscular protector, injured combatant, and even murderous avenger. This evolution of the golem narrative is made comprehensible by one of the defining aspects of the last one hundred years: mass warfare and its ancillary technologies.

This book draws on some of the most popular and significant renditions of this story in order to unravel the paradoxical coincidence of wartime destruction and the fantasy of artificial creation.

Maya Barzilai is Assistant Professor of Hebrew Literature and Jewish Culture at the University of Michigan.

CATHOLIC ACTIVISM TODAY Individual Transformation and the Struggle for Social Justice MAUREEN K. DAY Uncovers why Catholic organizations fail to foster civic activism Maureen K. Day argues that popular organizations such as JustFaith Ministries have embraced an approach to civic engagement that focuses on mobilizing Catholics as individuals rather than as collectives. There is reason to think this approach is effective—these organizations experience robust participation in their programs and garner reports of having had a transformative effect on their participants’ lives. Yet, Day shows that this approach encourages participants to make personal lifestyle changes rather than contend with structural social inequalities, thus failing to make real inroads in the pursuit of social justice.

Drawing on three years of interview, survey, and participant observation data, Catholic Activism Today offers a compelling new take on contemporary dynamics of Catholic civic engagement and its potential effect on the Church at large.

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NONE OF THE ABOVE Nonreligious Identity in the US and Canada JOEL THIESSEN and SARAH WILKINS-LAFLAMME Compares secular attitudes characterizing “religious nones” in the United States and Canada Who are the religious nones? Why, and where, is this population growing? Using survey and interview data to explore how a nonreligious identity impacts a variety of aspects of daily life in the US and Canada, this volume illuminates societal and political trends. None of the Above asserts that a growing divide between religious and nonreligious populations could engender a greater distance in moral and political values and behaviors. At once provocative and insightful, this book tackles questions of coexistence, religious tolerance, and spirituality, as American and Canadian society accelerate toward a more secular future.

Joel Thiessen is Professor of Sociology at Ambrose University in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Legal Studies at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.

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SOCIETY WITHOUT GOD, SECOND EDITION What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us about Contentment PHIL ZUCKERMAN An updated edition showcasing the social health of the least religious nations in the world Drawing on fieldwork and interviews with more than 150 citizens of Denmark and Sweden, Phil Zuckerman shows that, far from being inhumane, crime-infested, and dysfunctional, highly secular societies are healthier, safer, greener, less violent, and more democratic and egalitarian than highly religious ones. Society without God provides a rich portrait of life in a secular society, exploring how a culture without faith copes with death, grapples with the meaning of life, and remains content through everyday ups and downs.

This updated edition incorporates new data from recent studies, updated statistics, and a revised Introduction, as well as framing around the now more highly developed field of secular studies. It addresses the dramatic surge of irreligion in the US and the rise of the “nones,” and adds data on societal health in specific US states, along with fascinating context regarding which are the most religious and which the most secular.

Phil Zuckerman is the author of several books, including What It Means to Be Moral.

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MATHEMATICS, METROLOGY, AND MODEL CONTRACTS A Codex From Late Antique Business Education (P.Math.)

Edited by ROGER S. BAGNALL and ALEXANDER JONES A comprehensive edition and commentary of a late antique codex

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Mathematics, Metrology, and Model Contracts is a comprehensive edition and commentary of a late antique codex. The codex contains mathematical problems, metrological tables, and model contracts. Given the nature of the contents, the format, and quality of the Greek, the editors conclude that the codex most likely belonged to a student in a school devoted to training business agents and similar professionals.

The editors present here the first full scholarly edition of the text, with complete discussions of the provenance, codicology, and philology of the surviving manuscript. They also provide extensive notes and illustrations for the mathematical problems and model contracts, as well as historical commentary on what this text reveals about late antique numeracy, literacy, education, and vocational training.

Roger S. Bagnall is the Leon Levy Director and Professor of Ancient History, emeritus, of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University. Alexander Jones is Leon Levy Director and Professor of the History of the Exact Sciences in Antiquity at NYU's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World.

MAQĀMĀT ABĪ ZAYD AL-SARŪJĪ AL-ḤARĪRĪ

Edited by MICHAEL COOPERSON

A scholarly, Arabic-only edition of the Maqāmāt

Maqāmāt Abī Zayd al-Sarūjī is a scholarly, Arabic-only edition of the celebrated work by al-Ḥarīrī, which is also available in English translation from the Library of Arabic Literature as Impostures (see page 7). This work consists of fifty stories about the adventures of the itinerant con man and master of persuasion Abū Zayd al-Sarūjī, as told by the equally itinerant and often clueless narrator al-Ḥārith ibn Hāmmam. Al-Ḥarīrī was a virtuoso writer of the rhymed prose narrative genre known as the maqāmah, which would continue as a popular literary form into the twentieth century.

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Al-Ḥarīrī (d. 516/1122) was a poet, scholar, and government official from Basra, Iraq. He is celebrated for his virtuosity in producing rhymed prose narratives, the Maqāmāt. Michael Cooperson is Professor of Arabic in the Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures at UCLA. His translations include The Life of Ibn Ḥanbal by Ibn al-Jawzī for the Library of Arabic Literature, and The Author and His Doubles by the eminent Moroccan literary critic Abdelfattah Kilito.

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ARABIAN SATIRE

Poetry from 18th-Century Najd ḤMĒDĀN AL-SHWĒʿIR

Translated by MARCEL KURPERSHOEK Foreword by JANE TYLUS

Satirical verse on society and its hypocrisies

A master of satire known for his invective verse (hijāʾ), the poet Ḥmēdān al-Shwēʿir was an acerbic critic of his society and its morals. Living in the Najd region of the Arabian Peninsula, Ḥmēdān wrote in an idiom widely referred to as “Nabaṭī,” here a mix of Najdī vernacular and archaic vocabulary dating to the origins of Arabic poetry. In Arabian Satire, Ḥmēdān is mostly concerned with worldly matters and addresses these in different guises: as the patriarch at the helm of the family boat and its unruly crew; as a picaresque anti-hero taking potshots at the established order; and as a poet recording in verse how he thinks things ought to be.

This is the first full English translation of this remarkable poet. Ḥmēdān al-Shwē'ir was an early eighteenth-century poet from the region of Najd in the Arabian Peninsula, in what is now Saudi Arabia. Marcel Kurpershoek is a senior research fellow at New York University Abu Dhabi. Jane Tylus is Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at Yale University.

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SCENTS AND FLAVORS A Syrian Cookbook

Translated by CHARLES PERRY Foreword by CLAUDIA RODEN

Delectable recipes from the medieval Middle East

This popular thirteenth-century Syrian cookbook is an ode to what its anonymous author calls the “greater part of the pleasure of this life,” namely the consumption of food and drink. Organized like a meal, Scents and Flavors opens with appetizers and juices and proceeds through main courses, side dishes, and desserts. Apricot beverages, stuffed eggplant, pistachio chicken, melon crepes, and almond pudding are seasoned with nutmeg, rose, cloves, and saffron to delight and surprise the banqueter.

Bookended by chapters on perfumes, medicinal oils, antiperspirant powders, and after-meal hand soaps, this comprehensive culinary journey is a feast for all the senses. Scents and Flavors quickly became a bestseller when it was first compiled in the thirteenth century, a golden age for cookbooks, and remains today a delectable read for cultural historians and epicures alike.

Charles Perry is a culinary historian who has written widely on cooking in the medieval Middle East. Claudia Roden is a British cookbook writer and cultural anthropologist.

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LIBERALISM AND ITS CRITICS Edited by MICHAEL J. SANDEL A classic collection of writings on political philosophy from leading thinkers of the late twentieth century Much contemporary political philosophy has been a debate between utilitarianism on the one hand and Kantian, or rights-based ethics on the other. However, in recent decades liberalism has faced a growing challenge from a different direction, from a view that argues for a deeper understanding of citizenship and community than the liberal ethic allows.

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The writings collected in this volume present leading statements of rights-based liberalism and of the communitarian, or civic republican alternatives to that position. With contributions from leading theorists such as Isaiah Berlin, John Rawls, Alasdair MacIntyre, Liberalism and Its Critics shifts the focus from the familiar debate between utilitarians and Kantian liberals to consider a more powerful challenge to the rights-based ethic—a challenge indebted to Aristotle, Hegel, and the civic republican tradition.

Michael J. Sandel teaches political philosophy at Harvard University.

He is the author of several books, including, Liberalism and the Limits of Justice (1982).

LONG OVERDUE The Politics of Racial Reparations CHARLES P. HENRY An investigation of America’s failure to atone for the wrongs of slavery

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Ever since the unfulfilled promise of “forty acres and a mule” after the Civil War, America has consistently failed to compensate Black Americans for the wrongs of slavery. Through an examination of Americans’ unwillingness to address economic injustice, Charles P. Henry crafts a skillful moral, political, economic, and historical argument for African American reparations, focusing on successful political cases. From Hurricane Katrina to Hurricane Harvey, the events of the twenty-first century continue to show that the legacy of racial segregation and economic disadvantage is never far below the surface in America. As the issue of reparations is brought to the national stage by figures such as Ta-Nehisi Coates and Kamala Harris, Long Overdue provides a must-read survey of the political and legislative efforts made toward reparations over the course of American history, and offers a new path toward establishing equality for all Black Americans.

Charles P. Henry is Professor of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author/editor of five books and numerous articles.

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BLACK SUN Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity NICHOLAS GOODRICK-CLARKE Uncovers the mindset and motives that drive far-right extremists More than half a century after the defeat of Nazism and fascism, the far right is again challenging the liberal order of Western democracies. Radical movements are feeding on our anxieties, giving rise to new waves of nationalism and surges of white supremacism.

Based on interviews and extensive research into underground groups, Black Sun documents new Nazi and fascist sects that have sprung up since the 1970s and examines the mentality and motivation of these far-right extremists. Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke paints a frightening picture of a religion with its own relics, rituals, prophecies and an international sectarian following that could, under the proper conditions, gain political power and attempt to realize its dangerous millenarian fantasies.

Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke is the author of several books on ideology and the Western esoteric tradition, including Hitler’s Priestess and The Occult Roots of Nazism.

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CONSPIRACY NATION The Politics of Paranoia in Postwar America Edited by PETER KNIGHT An intriguing interrogation of America’s long-running obsession with conspiracy theories Why are Americans today so fascinated by Area 51? Why does the Kennedy assassination provoke heated debate over fifty years after the fact, and why did Donald Trump’s birther theories only serve to increase his popularity with voters? The origins of these ideas reveal important facets of American culture and politics.

Conspiracy Nation provides a wide-ranging survey of conspiracy theories in contemporary America. Offering up a provocative array of examples, ranging from alien abduction to the novels of DeLillo and Pynchon to Tupac Shakur's "paranoid style," Conspiracy Nation documents and unearths the workings of conspiracy in the contemporary moment.

Peter Knight teaches American Studies at the University of Manchester, UK. He is the author of Conspiracy Culture, and the general editor of The Encyclopedia of Political Conspiracy Theories.

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THE DAWNING OF THE APOCALYPSE

The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century GERALD HORNE Acclaimed historian Gerald Horne troubles America's settler colonialism's "creation myth"

Gerald Horne is John J. and Rebecca Moores Professor of African American History at the University of Houston. He has published more than three dozen books, including The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism and Jazz and Justice, both by Monthly Review Press.

“Gerald Horne is one of the great historians of our time. His scholarly erudition is impeccable and his revolutionary fervor is undeniable.”

—Cornel West, author, Race Matters

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August 2019 saw numerous commemorations of the year 1619, when what was said to be the first arrival of enslaved Africans occurred in North America. Yet in the 1520s, the Spanish, from their imperial perch in Santo Domingo, had already brought enslaved Africans to what was to become South Carolina.

The enslaved people here quickly defected to local Indigenous populations, and compelled their captors to flee. Deploying illuminating research, The Dawning of the Apocalypse is a riveting revision of the “creation myth” of settler colonialism and how the United States was formed. Here, Gerald Horne argues forcefully that, in order to understand the arrival of colonists from the British Isles in the early seventeenth century, one must first understand the “long sixteenth century”—from 1492 until the arrival of settlers in Virginia in 1607.

During this prolonged century, Horne contends, “whiteness” morphed into “white supremacy,” and allowed England to co-opt not only religious minorities but also various nationalities throughout Europe, thus forging a muscular bloc that was needed to confront rambunctious Indigenes and Africans. In retelling the bloodthirsty story of the invasion of the Americas, Horne recounts how the fierce resistance

by Africans and their Indigenous allies weakened Spain and enabled London to dispatch settlers to Virginia in 1607. These settlers laid the groundwork for the British Empire and its revolting spawn that became the United States of America.

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TELL THE BOSSES WE'RE COMING

A New Action Plan for Workers in the Twenty-First Century SHAUN RICHMAN A timely plan to bring unions back to full strength and help workers stand up for their rights Lengthening hours, lessening pay, no parental leave, scant job security… Never have so many workers needed so much support. Yet the very labor unions that could garner us protections and help us speak up for ourselves are growing weaker every day. In an age of rampant inequality, of increasing social protest and strikes—and when a majority of workers say they want to be union members—why does union density continue to decline? Shaun Richman offers some answers in his book, Tell the Bosses We're Coming.

It’s time to bring unions back from the edge of institutional annihilation, says Richman. But that is no simple proposition. Richman explains how important it is that this book is published now, because the next few years offer a rare opportunity to undo the great damage wrought on labor by decades of corporate union-busting, if only union activists raise our ambitions. Based on deft historical research and legal analysis, as well as his own experience as a union organizing director, Richman lays out an action plan for US workers in the twenty-first century by which we can internalize the concept that workers are equal human beings, entitled to health care, dignity, job security—and definitely, the right to strike. Unafraid to take on some of the labor movement’s sacred cows, this book describes what it would take—some changes that are within activists’ power and some that require meaningful legal reform—to put unions in workplaces across America. As Shaun Richman says, “I look forward to working with you.”

Shaun Richman spent a decade and a half as a union organizer and representative.

He is the Program Director of the Harry Van Arsdale Jr. School of Labor Studies at SUNY Empire State College. His writing has been published in The American Prospect, In These Times, Jacobin, The New York Daily News, and The New York Times, among other outlets.

“Shaun Richman is a critical voice in the fight for workers’ rights in the New Gilded Age and Tell the Bosses is a manifesto for real change to give workers power over their jobs.”

—Erik Loomis, author, A History of America in Ten Strikes

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RADICAL SEATTLE The General Strike of 1919 CAL WINSLOW A historical analysis of the General Strike of 1919 in Seattle

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On a grey winter morning in Seattle, in February 1919, 110 local unions shut down the entire city. Shut it down and took it over, rendering the authorities helpless. For five days, workers from all trades and sectors—streetcar drivers, telephone operators, musicians, miners, loggers, shipyard workers—fed the people, ensured that babies had milk, that the sick were cared for. They did this without police—and they kept the peace themselves.

This had never happened before in the United States and has not happened since. Those five days became known as the General Strike of Seattle. Drawing from original research, Winslow depicts a process that, in struggle, fused the celebrated itinerants of the West with the workers of a modern industrial city. Reading this book might increase the chance that something like this could happen again—possibly in the place where you live.

Cal Winslow, a labor activist and educator, is Director of the Mendocino Institute and a retired fellow in environmental history at University of California, Berkeley. Among his books are Labor's Civil War in California and Rebel Rank and File.

CUBAN HEALTH CARE The Ongoing Revolution DON FITZ An inside look at the health care offerings in Cuba

June 2020 296 pages • 5.5 x 8.25 17 black & white photos Paper • $26.00S 978-1-58367-860-2 Cloth • $95.00X 978-1-58367-861-9 Medical Anthropology Monthly Review Press

Quiet as it’s kept inside the United States, the Cuban revolution has achieved some phenomenal goals, reclaiming Cuba’s agriculture, advancing its literacy rate to nearly 100 percent—and remaking its medical system. Cuba has transformed its health care to the extent that this “third-world” country has been able to maintain a first-world medical system, whose health indicators surpass those of the United States at a fraction of the cost. Don Fitz combines his broad knowledge of Cuban history with his decades of on-the-ground experience in Cuba to bring us the story of how Cuba’s health care system evolved and how Cuba is tackling the daunting challenges to its revolution in this century. Deeply researched, recounted with compassion, Cuban Health Care tells a story you won’t find anywhere else, of how, in terms of caring for everyday people, Cuba’s revolution continues.

Don Fitz is a member of the editorial board of Green Social Thought and newsletter editor for the Green Party of St. Louis. He contributes frequently to Monthly Review magazine.

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FREE SPEECH AND THE SUPPRESSION OF DISSENT DURING WORLD WAR I ERIC T. CHESTER

A riveting history of the fight for freedom of expression during US government crackdown on dissent in the First World War World War I, given all the rousing “Over-There” songs and in-the-trenches films it inspired, was, at its outset, surprisingly unpopular with the American public. As opposition increased, Woodrow Wilson’s presidential administration became intent on stifling antiwar dissent. Wilson effectively silenced the National Civil Liberties Bureau, forerunner of the American Civil Liberties Union. Presidential candidate Eugene Debs was jailed, and Deb’s Socialist Party became a prime target of surveillance operations, both covert and overt. Drastic as these measures were, more draconian measures were to come.

In his absorbing new book, Eric Chester reveals that out of this turmoil came a heated public discussion on the theory of civil liberties—the basic freedoms that are, theoretically, untouchable by any of the three branches of the US government.

The famous “clear and present danger” argument of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, and the “balance of conflicting interest” theory of law professor Zechariah Chafee, for example, evolved to provide a rationale for courts to act as a limited restraint on autocratic actions of the government. But Chester goes further, to examine an alternative theory: civil liberties exist as absolute rights, rather than being dependent on the specific circumstances of each case. Over the years, the debate about the right to dissent has intensified and become more necessary. This fascinating book explains why, a century after the First World War—and in the era of Trump—we need to know about this.

Eric T. Chester taught economics at the University of Massachusetts in Boston and San Francisco State University. A committed activist for more than fifty years, he was vice-presidential candidate for the Socialist Party in 1996. He is the author of several books, including Rag-Tags, Scum, RiffRaff, and Commies: The US Intervention in the Dominican Republic, 1965–1966, The Wobblies in Their Heyday: The Rise and Destruction of the Industrial Workers of the World in the World War I Era, and Yours for Industrial Freedom: The Industrial Workers of the World from the Inside.

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VISITORS

An American Feminist in East Central Europe ANN SNITOW Foreword by SUSAN FALUDI A feminist organizer in East Central Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall reveals the struggles of women fighting for their rights during the rise of the Right in Europe Visitors tells the story of Ann Snitow’s adventures as a Western feminist helping to build a new, post-communist feminist movement in Eastern Central Europe. Snitow stumbles onto this fast-changing, chaotic scene by chance, but falls in love with the passionate feminists she meets in Poland, the former Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, Hungary and Romania. What kinds of feminism should they hope for?

Ann Snitow was Professor Emerita of Literature and Gender Studies at Lang College, The New School. A longtime activist, Snitow cofounded The Network of East-West Women, No More Nice Girls, Feminist Anti-Censorship Taskforce, Take Back the Future, and New York Radical Feminists. She co-founded the women’s studies program at Rutgers University and gender studies programs at The New School, where she taught for three decades.

Snitow’s best-known book is The Feminism of Uncertainty. Visitors is her sixth book.

Susan Faludi is a Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist and the author of the bestselling Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. Her recent memoir, In the Darkroom, won the Kirkus Prize for nonfiction.

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Visitors is a book about forging enduring relationships and creating formerly unimaginable institutions—a feminist school, the Network of East-West Women, women’s centers, gender studies programs. It is about unity amid fractioucsness and perseverance through uncertainty, Snitow’s flickering lodestar. Visitors moves gracefully between vivid anecdote, political analysis, and unsparing introspection. It is richly peopled with “brilliant” comrades and vexing detractors alike, all described with respect and humor. Every sentence is imbued with the experience and insight of this sui generis feminist activist, writer, and pedagogue of fifty years. Most of all, Visitors is the story of friendship, the heart and sinew of the leaderless feminist movement.

Reading like the best historical novel, it is intimate and worldly, resolutely unsentimental yet finally, even as the political skies darken, optimistic in the conviction that feminism can make life meaningful, fascinating, fun, pleasurable—and better for everyone, even as better is redefined again and again.

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IN THE STRUGGLE

A History of Politically Engaged Scholarship in California’s San Joaquin Valley DANIEL O’CONNELL and SCOTT J. PETERS Scholars working for communities’ rights in California’s Central Valley In the Struggle tells the story of the persistent engagement of eight public scholars spanning generations of sustained endeavor, a dogged war in which workers and scholars together repeatedly took on the powerful agricultural industry, the political machines, and even the universities.

The stories begin in the 1930s with Paul Taylor, a professor of economics at University of California, Berkeley, who pioneered field research and activism as he travelled through the areas marked by the Great Depression, together with his wife, photographer Dorothea Lange. Working in the heart of California’s agricultural Central Valley, Taylor was the first of a succession of scholars who shared the dual commitment to research and engagement, to making problems visible and to effecting change through strategic action. Taylor and Lange intentionally wove their political engagement into their identities and work as researchers, as they conducted studies, led strikes, organized underserved communities, founded community development programs, created nonprofit institutions, and more.

In the Struggle documents a tradition of politically engaged scholarship in one of the world’s most dramatic contexts, full of disparities and contradictions, but also ripe with opportunities to make a difference. It covers a struggle that continues undiminished in the present.

Daniel O’Connell is trained as a multidisciplinary ethnographer and holds an MS in international agricultural development from University of California Davis and a PhD in adult and extension education from Cornell University. He is currently the executive director of the Central Valley Partnership.

Scott J. Peters is a professor in the Department of Development Sociology at Cornell University and a historian of American higher education’s public purposes and work.

He is the author of Democracy and Higher Education: Traditions and Stories of Civic Engagement.

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HEALING FROM GENOCIDE IN RWANDA

Rugerero Survivors Village, an Artist Book SUSAN VIGUERS and LILY YEH Demonstrates the power of art in the service of healing in the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide.

Susan Viguers has taught literature, directed the University Writing Program at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and published scholarly articles, creative nonfiction, and poetry. For nine years she directed the university’s MFA Book Arts/ Printmaking program. Her artist books are part of special collections of more than fifty public institutions.

Lily Yeh is an internationally celebrated artist known for founding the Village of Arts and Humanities in North Philadelphia, a national model in creative placemaking and participatory community building through the arts. In 2002, Yeh founded Barefoot Artists, to bring transformative artmaking to impoverished communities in multiple countries. Yeh is the author of Awakening Creativity.

Healing from Genocide in Rwanda is a testimony to responsive community process in a highly sensitive environment. The work immerses readers in the stories of two Rwandans who as small children experienced the 1994 genocide. It tells of the horrific tragedy each survived, the courage necessary for surviving, and the humanity they embody. Their stories are framed by two chapters chronicling the transformation, in the Rugerero Survivors’ Village, of a concrete burial slab into a powerful Genocide Memorial with its bone chamber, designed by artist Lily Yeh and built by the villagers.

The book is not limited to the literature of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, but belongs to the world as part of the collective human experience. It evokes its world through images (photographs, drawings, paintings, pattern, and color) as well as words. The text itself is visually choreographed.

The work draws from Yeh’s multifaceted Rwandan Healing Project under the auspices of Barefoot Artists, a project that included, among other things, drawing and storytelling workshops. Susan Viguers conceived and designed the book, incorporating drawings and paintings by Lily Yeh.

May 2020 144 pages • 7.5 x 9.25 Full color throughout Paper • 978-1-61332-134-8 • $40.00S(£34.00) Cloth • 978-1-61332-135-5 • $120.00X(£103.00) Anthropology | Art New Village Press

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ART AS A CATALYST

FOR SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION New Village Press has recognized since its inception the unparalleled power of the arts to speak truth, to spark social change, or to transform distressed neighborhoods into places of meaning, beauty, and joy. Our authors have even shown that artists working with creative sensitivity can help communities resolve conflict or heal from unspeakable trauma.

AWAKENING CREATIVITY

ACTING TOGETHER, VOL, I AND VOL, II

Dandelion School Blossoms LILY YEH 268 pages • 6 x 9 Color illustrations throughout Cloth • $34.95S 978-0-9815-5937-7 Art | Education New Village Press

International artist Lily Yeh guides a participatory art-making process that transforms an abandoned factory in Beijing into a middle school for the children of marginalized migrant workers. Her inclusive, joyful approach is a model for building cultural esteem in a distressed community.

Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict Edited by CYNTHIA COHEN, ROBRET GUTIÉRREZ VAREA, and POLLY O. WALKER 307 pages • 6 x 9 45 black & white illustrations Paper • $21.95S Vol. I • 978-0-9815-5939-1 Vol. II • 978-1-6133-2000-6 Performance Studies New Village Press

ART AND UPHEAVAL

BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO COMMUNITYBASED ARTS, SECOND

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WILLIAM CLEVELAND Foreword by CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTÉS

William Cleveland tells remarkable stories from Northern 332 pages • 6 x 9 Ireland, Cambodia, 108 black & white illustrations South Africa, United Paper • $20.00S States (Watts, Los 978-0-9766-0546-1 Angeles), aboriginal Performance Studies Australia, and Serbia, New Village Press about artists who resolve conflict and heal unspeakable trauma.

Courageous artists working in conflict regions describe exemplary peace-building performances and groundbreaking theory on performance for transformation of violence.

KEITH KNIGHT and MATT SCHWARZMAN Illustrated by KEITH KNIGHT

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Ten transformative local arts projects come alive in this unique, illustrated training manual for youth leaders and teachers.

This energetic guidebook demonstrates diverse ways the arts can effect grassroots social change.

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NATURE'S BROKEN CLOCKS

Reimagining Time in the Face of the Environmental Crisis PAUL HUEBENER Examines how cultural narratives of time are intimately connected to the challenges and disruptions of ecological time The environmental crisis is, in many ways, a crisis of time. From the distress cries of birds that no longer know when to migrate, to the rapid dying of coral reefs, to the quickening pace of extreme weather events, the patterns and timekeeping of the natural world are falling apart. We have broken nature’s clocks.

Paul Huebener is the author of Timing Canada: The Shifting Politics of Time in Canadian Literary Culture, which was a finalist for the Gabrielle Roy Prize. He is an associate professor of English at Athabasca University and lives in Calgary, Alberta.

Lying hidden at the root of this problem are the cultural narratives that shape our actions and horizons of thought, but as Paul Huebener shows, we can bring about change by developing a critical literacy of time. Moving from circadian rhythms and the revival of ancient frozen bacteria to camping advertisements and the politics of oil pipelines, Nature’s Broken Clocks turns to works of fiction and poetry, examining how cultural narratives of time are connected to the problems of ecological collapse and what we might do to fix them.

“Urgent and profound, Nature's Broken Clocks is essential reading for anyone interested in time and the environment.”

—Nicholas Bradley, author of Rain Shadow

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“Nature's Broken Clocks will inspire readers to reflect deeply on our manipulations of time, and on the impact of our shifting temporal imaginations and practices on the ecosphere.”

—Sarah Wylie Krotz, Professor of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta

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UNCERTAIN HARVEST The Future of Food on a Warming Planet

IAN MOSBY, SARAH ROTZ, and EVAN D.G. FRASER A menu for an edible future In a world expected to reach a staggering population of 9 billion by 2050, and with global temperatures rising fast, humanity must fundamentally change the way it grows and consumes food. But can we produce enough food to feed ourselves sustainably for an uncertain future? How will agriculture adapt to a climate change? How will climate change determine what we eat? Will we really be eating bugs?

Uncertain Harvest questions scientists, chefs, activists, entrepreneurs, farmers, philosophers, and engineers working on the global future of food on how to make a more equitable, safe, sustainable, and plentiful food future. Examining cutting-edge research on the science, culture, and economics of food, the authors present a roadmap for a global food policy, while examining eight foods that could save us: • algae

• tuna

• caribou

• crickets

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“[E]ngaging ... insightful, and clever, with helpful stats provided throughout. Good contrasts of techno-optimism and pessimism, and an assessment of broader structural constraints that technology doesn’t address.

The book provides good discussion of issues of agricultural labour and debt and farm scale in relation to food futures. It is great to see the role of youth emphasized. ... The chapter on caribou, colonialism, and climate change is sobering and hard-hitting. ... I expect it will be of wide interest to scholars and students, those professionally involved in the food system, and to the general public.”

—Steffanie Scott, co-author of Organic Food and Farming in China

Ian Mosby is an award-winning historian of food and nutrition who was, alongside Evan Fraser, named one of the “53 Most Influential People in Canadian Food” by the Globe and Mail in 2016. He is Assistant Professor of History at Ryerson University in Toronto.

Sarah Rotz is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Sciences at York University in Toronto. Her work focuses on political ecologies of land and food systems, settler-colonial patriarchy, and concepts of sovereignty and justice related to food, water, and energy.

Evan D.G. Fraser is the author of Empires of Food: Feast, Famine, and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations, which was shortlisted for the James Beard Food Literature Award, and the graphic novel #FoodCrisis. Currently, he is the director of the Arrell Food Institute at the University of Guelph and holds the Canada Research Chair in Global Food Security.

May 2020 256 pages • 6 x 9 Paper • 978-0-8897-7720-0 • $24.95A Cloth • 978-0-8897-7722-4 • $89.00X In Digestions Environmenal Studies | Food Studies University of Regina Press

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CRY WOLF

Inquest into the True Nature of a Predator HAROLD R. JOHNSON Turning a blind eye to the dangers of the wild can have deadly consequences Growing up on a northern trap line, Harold R. Johnson was taught to keep his distance from wolves. For decades, wolves did the same for humans. But now this seems to be changing.

In 2005, twenty-two-year-old Kenton Carnegie was killed in a wolf attack near his work camp. Part story, part forensic analysis, Cry Wolf examines this and other attacks, showing how we fail to take this apex predator seriously at our own peril.

Harold R. Johnson has a law degree from Harvard University and is the author of six books, including the bestseller Firewater, which was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for non-fiction. He lives in La Ronge, Saskatchewan.

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Firewater: How Alcohol Is Killing My People (and Yours) October 2016 180 pages • 5 x 7.5 Paper • $14.95S 978-0-8897-7437-7

“Johnson has taken on one of the most controversial topics in Human-Animal relations, and he has done so with discipline, integrity, and compassion for both sides.

Johnson’s deep knowledge of wolves and wilderness, and also of the law and investigative procedure, make him uniquely qualified to offer this careful and methodical analysis of several recent wolf attacks. As timely as it is challenging and necessary, Cry Wolf is required reading for anyone invested in our shared future with these powerful and complex creatures.”

—John Vaillant, author of The Tiger and The Golden Spruce

“Knowledge and the wisdom of Indigenous people can help us better understand the true nature of predators such as wolves and live more peacefully with them.”

—Cristina Eisenberg, author of The Wolf’s Tooth and The Carnivore Way

January 2020 168 pages • 5 x 7.5 Paper • 978-0-8897-7738-5 • $14.95T Cloth • 978-0-8897-7744-6 • $89.00X Animal Studies | Natural Science University of Regina Press

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OUT OF MY MIND

A Psychologist’s Descent into Madness and Back SHALOM CAMENIETZKI A harrowing tale of a doctor's own battle with his bipolar disorder On paper, psychologist Dr. Shalom Camenietzski seemed to have it all—a beautiful family, a thriving practice, and supportive friends and colleagues.

But in reality, he lived a life of turmoil—obsessive daydreams of taking his life, flamboyant periods of mania, disturbing acts of violence against his wife and son, and various episodes of psychosis, one of which would see him speeding his car the wrong way up Toronto’s Gardiner Expressway. Able to understand the clinical profile of his bipolar disorder, he was nonetheless powerless to stop it.

A fascinating account of a “mentally disordered healer,” Out of My Mind reveals the strengths and fallibilities of traditional psychotherapies and shows how Dr. Camenietzki finally obtained a symptom-free life.

Other memoirs from The Regina Collection which may interest you:

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Shalom Camenietzki is a registered psychologist and psychotherapist with forty years of clinical experience. In addition to his professional background he has published numerous fictional works, including The Atheist’s Bible. He lives in Toronto.

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January 2020 272 pages • 4.25 x 6.5 Cloth • 978-0-8897-7689-0 • $19.95T In The Regina Collection Memoir | Psychology University of Regina Press

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UNTIL WE ARE FREE Reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada Edited by RODNEY DIVERLUS, SANDY HUDSON, and SYRUS MARCUS WARE An anthology of African-Canadian writing addressing the most urgent issues facing the Black community

Febuary 2020 368 pages • 6 x 9 24 black & white illustrations Paper • $21.95S 978-0-8897-7694-4 Cloth • $89.00X 978-0-8897-7736-1 Race & Ethnicity University of Regina Press

The Black Lives Matter movement's message quickly found fertile ground in Canada, where Black activists speak of generations of injustice and continue the work of the Black liberators who have come before them. Until We Are Free contains some of the very best writing on the hottest issues facing the Black community in Canada. It describes the latest developments in Canadian Black activism, organizing efforts through the use of social media, BlackIndigenous alliances, and more.

Rodney Diverlus is a Port-au-Prince-born, Toronto-based dance artist, curator, and co-founder of Black Lives Matter Toronto. Sandy Hudson is the founder of the Black Lives Matter movement presence in Canada and Black Lives Matter Toronto and co-founder of Black Liberation Collective Canada. Syrus Marcus Ware is a core team member of Black Lives Matter Toronto, a Vanier Scholar, a facilitator and designer for the CulturalLeaders Lab, and an award-winning artist and educator.

FIELD NOTES FOR THE SELF RANDY LUNDY A collection of poetry that modulates traumatic memories with the greater spiritual affirmations offered by the natural world

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Field Notes for the Self is a series of dark meditations: spiritual exercises in which the poem becomes a forensics of the soul. The poems converse with Patrick Lane, John Thompson, and Charles Wright, but their closest cousins may be Arvo Pärt’s tintinnabulations—overlapping structures in which notes or images are rung slowly and repeatedly like bells. The goal is freedom from illusion, freedom from memory, from “the same old stories” of Lundy’s violent past; and freedom, too, from the unreachable memories of the violence done to his Indigenous ancestors, which, Lundy tells us, seem to haunt his cellular biology. Rooted in exquisitely modulated observations of the natural world, the singular achievement of these poems is mind itself, suspended before interior vision like a bit of crystal twisting in the light.

Randy Lundy is a member of the Barren Lands (Cree) First Nation. He has published three previous books, Under the Night Sun, Gift of the Hawk, and Blackbird Song. An award-winning poet, his work has been widely anthologized. He lives in Pense, Saskatchewan.

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LOSS OF INDIGENOUS EDEN AND THE FALL OF SPIRITUALITY BLAIR STONECHILD Highlights the commonalities between Indigenous nations, while calling for global recognition and respect As a follow-up to his award-winning The Knowledge Seeker, Blair Stonechild continues his exploration of the Indigenous spiritual teachings passed down to him by Elders, and then moves his study further afield. Based on Stonechild’s work with Indigenous peoples around the world, from Inuit communities in northern Canada, to the Mapuche in Chile, the Dalits in India and the Uighurs in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region of China, Loss of Indigenous Eden and the Fall of Spirituality brings together and highlights the fundamental commonalities that connect all Indigenous nations, while calling for global recognition and respect of their rights and spirituality.

Blair Stonechild is a Cree-Saulteaux member of the Muscowpetung First Nation and professor of Indigenous Studies at First Nations University of Canada. He lives in Regina, Saskatchewan.

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RECLAIMING TOM LONGBOAT Indigenous Self-Determination in Canadian Sport JANICE FORSYTH Analyzes sport in Canada as a tool for both colonization and Indigenous self-determination Reclaiming Tom Longboat recounts the history of Indigenous sport in Canada through the lens of the prestigious Tom Longboat Awards, shedding light on a significant yet overlooked aspect of Canadian policy and Crown-Indigenous relations. Drawing on a rich and varied set of oral and textual sources, including interviews with award recipients and Jan Eisenhardt, the creator of the Awards himself, Janice Forsyth critically assesses the state’s role in policing Indigenous bodies and identities through sport, from the assimilationist sporting regulations of residential schools to the present-day exclusion of Indigenous activities from mainstream sports. This work recognizes the role of sport as a tool for colonization in Canada, while also acknowledging its potential to become a tool for decolonization and self-determination.

Janice Forsyth is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of First Nations Studies at Western University in London, Ontario, and a member of the Fisher River Cree Nation. She is co-editor of Aboriginal Peoples and Sport in Canada.

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Black Masculinities in a South African Township MALOSE LANGA A vivid evocation of the lives of 32 boys from a Johannesburg township—essential reading for anybody wishing to understand black masculinity in South Africa

Malose Langa is Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology, School of Human and Community Development at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He is a psychologist in private practice.

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Becoming Men is the story of 32 boys from Alexandra, one of Johannesburg's largest townships, over a period of twelve seminal years in which they negotiate manhood and masculinity.

Psychologist and academic Malose Langa has documented graphically what it means to be a young black man in contemporary South Africa. The boys discuss a range of topics including the impact of absent fathers, relationships with mothers, siblings and girls, school violence, academic performance, homophobia, gangsterism, unemployment and, in one case, prison life. Dominant themes that emerge are deep ambivalence, self-doubt and hesitation in the boys' approaches to alternative masculinities that are non-violent, non-sexist and non-risk-taking. The difficulties of negotiating the multiple voices of masculinity are exposed as many of the boys appear simultaneously to comply with and oppose the prevalent norms. Providing a rich interpretation of how emotional processes affect black adolescent boys, Langa suggests interventions and services to support and assist them, especially in reducing the high-risk behaviours generally associated with hegemonic masculinity.

This is essential reading for students, researchers and scholars of gender studies who wish to understand manhood and masculinity in South Africa.

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BRICS AND THE NEW AMERICAN IMPERIALISM Global Rivalry and Resistance

Edited by VISHWAS SATGAR Challenges the mainstream understanding of BRICS and US dominance to situate the new global rivalries engulfing capitalism BRICS is a grouping of the five major emerging economies of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. BRICS and the New American Imperialism offers novel analyses of BRICS in the context of increasing US induced imperial chaos, deepening environmental crisis tendencies (such as climate change and water scarcity), contradictory dynamics inside BRICS countries and growing subaltern resistance.

The authors revisit contemporary thinking on imperialism and anti-imperialism, drawing on the work of Rosa Luxemburg, one of the leading theorists after Marx, who attempted to understand the expansionary nature of capitalism from the heartlands to the peripheries. The richness of Luxemburg’s pioneering work inspires most of the volume’s contributors in their analyses of the dangerous contradictions of the contemporary world as well as forms of democratic agency advancing resistance.

Vishwas Satgar, a democratic ecosocialist, is Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He edits the Democratic Marxism series and is the principal investigator for the Emancipatory Futures Studies in the Anthropocene project.

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While various forms of resistance are highlighted, among them water protests, mass worker strikes, anti-corporate campaigning and forms of cultural critique, this volume grapples with the challenge of renewing anti-imperialism beyond the NGO-driven World Social Forum and considers the prospects of a new horizontal political vessel to build global convergence. It also explores the prospects of a Fifth International of Peoples and Workers.

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Accessible America ...............18 Adverse Events ......................34 al-Ḥarīrī .............................7, 40 Shwēʿir, Ḥmēdān ..................41 Alkon, Alison Hope ..............26 Alpert, Geoffrey P..................31 Antler, Joyce...........................16 Arabian Satire ........................41 Bagnall, Roger S. ...................40 Barzilai, Maya ........................38 Baym, Nancy K........................5 Becoming Human ................20 Becoming Men ......................58 Bernhardt, Debra E...............17 Bernstein, Rachel ..................17 Beyond Recidivism ...............31 Black Sun ...............................43 Booker, Vaughn A. ................37 BRICS and the New American Imperialism .........................59 Brown, Karida L. ...................35 Burgess, Jean ............................5 Camenietzki, Shalom ...........55 Catholic Activism Today......38 Changing Qatar .....................28 Charrad, Mounira M. ...........29 Chen, Elsa Y. ..........................31 Chester, Eric T. ......................47 Chin, Margaret M. ..................9 Christian, Johnna .................31 Comics and Stuff .............12-13 Coming of Age in Iran .........28 Conspiracy Nation ................43 Content of Our Caricature, The........................................25 Cooperson, Michael .........7, 40 Cry Wolf ................................54 Cuban Health Care ...............46 Dash Moore, Deborah .........16 Dawning of the Apocalypse, The .......................................44 Day, Maureen K.....................38 Dhingra, Pawan .......................1 Diamond, Andrew J. .............26 Diverlus, Rodney...................56 Edgell, Penny .........................37 Evaluating Police Uses of Force ....................................31 Feeling Medicine ...................32 Fein, Elizabeth .......................32 Fenton, Elizabeth ....................6 Ferguson, Andrew Guthrie ....4 Field Notes for the Self .........56 Fisher, Jill A............................34 Fitz, Don ................................46 Fitzpatrick, Kevin M...........136 Forsyth, Janice .......................57 Fraser, Evan D. G...................53 Free Speech and the Suppression of Dissent During World War I ..........47 Gamer Trouble ......................23 Gender Violence, Third Edition .................................30

Golem .....................................38 González-Lesser, Emma ......24 Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas..43 Gormley, Ken.........................17 Guadalupe-Diaz, Xavier L....30 Gurock, Jeffrey S....................16 Hagerman, Margaret A. .27, 60 Haiti's Paper War...................21 Harkness, Geoff .....................28 Hashemi, Manata ..................28 Healing from Genocide in Rwanda ................................50 Henry, Charles P. ...................42 Hong, Sun-ha ........................24 Horne, Gerald .......................44 House on Henry Street, The...2 How to Watch Television, Second Edition ...................22 Hudson, Sandy.......................56 Huebener, Paul ......................52 Hughey, Matthew W. ......11, 24 Hurricane Harvey's Aftermath ............................36 Hyper Education .....................1 Impostures ...............................7 In the Struggle .......................49 Itzigsohn, José .......................35 Jackson, Zakiyyah Iman .......20 Jakobsen, Janet R....................14 Jefferson, Renee Knake ...........8 Jenkins, Henry .................12-13 Jewish New York ...................16 Jewish Radical Feminism .....16 Johnson, Hannah Brenner .....8 Johnson, Harold R.................54 Jones, Alexander....................40 Joshi, Khyati Y........................10 Kato, Yuki ...............................26 Knight, Peter ..........................43 Langa, Malose........................58 Law of Law School, The..........4 Lee, Wayne E..........................18 Leonard, Suzanne..................21 Leverentz, Andrea .................31 Liberalism and Its Critics.....42 Lift Every Voice and Swing ..37 Linett, Maren Tova................19 Literary Bioethics ..................19 Living on the Spectrum .......32 Long Overdue .......................42 Loss of Indigenous Eden and the Fall of Spirituality.........57 Lundy, Randy.........................56 Mathematics, Metrology, and Model Contracts.................40 Maqamat Abi Zayd al-Saruji ..............................40 Messinger, Adam M..............30 Mittell, Jason ..........................22 Mosby, Ian ..............................53 Movement for Reproductive Justice, The ..........................33 Muckenhoupt, Meg.................3 Muslim American City.........36

Nature's Broken Clocks ........52 Neoliberal Cities....................26 Newton, Jonathan Yusef .........4 Noble, Jeffrey J. ......................31 None of the Above ................39 O'Connell, Daniel .................49 O'Toole, Laura L. ...................30 Old Canaan in a New World ............................6 Olivas, Michael A. .................15 Open World Empire .............23 Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives ...........17 Out of My Mind ....................55 Parks, Gregory S. ...................11 Patico, Jennifer.......................27 Patterson, Christopher B......23 Patton-Imani, Sandra ...........34 Perchance to DREAM ..........15 Perkins, Alisa .........................36 Peters, Scott ...........................49 Phillips, Amanda ..................23 Pledge with Purpose, A ........11 Poletti, Anna .........................19 Polland, Annie .......................16 Presidents and the Constitution, The, Volume 1..............................17 Procrastination Economy, The .......................................22 Queering Family Trees .........34 Racialized Media ...................24 Radical Seattle .......................46 Rahilly, Elizabeth ..................35 Recipe for Gentrification, A.26 Reclaiming Tom Longboat ..57 Religion Is Raced...................37 Richman, Shaun ....................45 Rock, Howard B. ...................16 Rotz, Sarah .............................53 Sandel, Michael J. ..................42 Satgar, Vishwas ......................59 Sbicca, Joshua ........................26 Scents and Flavors.................41 Schiffman, Jessica R. .............30 Sex Obsession, The ...............14 Shortlisted ................................8 Snitow, Ann ...........................48 Snyder-Grenier, Ellen .............2 Society without God, Second Edition ...................39 Sociology of W. E. B. Du Bois, The ..............................35 Soyer, Daniel ..........................16 Spialek, Matthew L................36 Stephan, Rita ..........................29 Stieber, Chelsea .....................21 Stonechild, Blair A. ...............57 Stories of the Self...................19 Stoughton, Seth W.................31 Stuck .........................................9 Sugrue, Thomas J...................26 Sullivan, Rosemary................30

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Technologies of Speculation..........................24 Tell the Bosses We're Coming ................................45 Thiessen, Joel .........................39 Thompson, Ethan..................22 Trans-Affirmative Parenting..............................35 Transgender Intimate Partner Violence ...............................30 Trouble with Snack Time, The........................................27 Truth about Baked Beans, The..........................................3 Tussey, Ethan .........................22 Twitter.......................................5 Uncertain Harvest.................53 Underman, Kelly ...................32 Until We Are Free .................56 Viguers, Susan .......................50 Visitors ...................................48 Wanzo, Rebecca ....................25 Ware, Syrus Marcus ..............56 Warfare and Culture in World History, Second Edition .................................18 White Christian Privilege ....10 White Kids .............................27 Wife, Inc. ................................21 Wilkins-Laflamme, Sarah ....39 Williamson, Bess ...................18 Winslow, Cal ..........................46 Women Rising .......................29 Yeh, Lily ..................................50 Yukich, Grace ........................37 Zavella, Patricia .....................33 Zuckerman, Phil ...................39

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University of Regina Press Cry Wolf Harold R. Johnson | 54

New in Paperback White Kids Margaret A. Hagerman | 27

New in Paperback Jewish Radical Feminism Joyce Antler | 16

University of Regina Press Out of My Mind Shalom Camenietzki | 55

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How to Watch Television, Second Edition Ethan Thompson, Jason Mittell | 22 The Sociology of W. E. B. Du Bois José Itzigsohn, Karida L. Brown | 35 Scents and Flavors Marcel Kurpershoek | 41 Monthly Review Press Radical Seattle Cal Winslow | 46 New Village Press Visitors Ann Snitow | 48 University of Regina Press Field Notes for the Self Randy Lundy | 56

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Impostures al-Ḥarīrī | 7

The House on Henry Street Ellen Snyder-Grenier | 2

White Christian Privilege Khyati Y. Joshi | 10

Perchance to DREAM Michael A. Olivas | 15

Literary Bioethics Maren Tova Linett | 19

Women Rising Rita Stephan, Mounira M. Charrad | 29

Technologies of Speculation Sun-ha Hong | 24

Shortlisted Renee Knake Jefferson, Hannah Brenner Johnson |8

New in Paperback Evaluating Police Uses of Force Seth W. Stoughton, Jeffrey J. Noble, Geoffrey P. Alpert | 31

New in Paperback Wife, Inc. Suzanne Leonard | 21

The Movement for Reproductive Justice Patricia Zavella | 33

Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives Debra E. Bernhardt, Rachel Bernstein | 17

Adverse Events Jill A. Fisher | 34

New in Paperback Accessible America Bess Williamson | 18

Monthly Review Press Tell the Bosses We're Coming Shaun Richman | 45

Becoming Human Zakiyyah Iman Jackson | 20

New Village Press Healing from Genocide in Rwanda Susan Viguers, Lily Yeh | 50

Racialized Media Matthew W. Hughey, Emma González-Lesser | 24 Coming of Age in Iran Manata Hashemi | 28 Beyond Recidivism Andrea Leverentz, Elsa Y. Chen, Johnna Christian | 31

Maqamat Abi Zayd al-Saruji al-Ḥarīrī | 40

University of Regina Press Uncertain Harvest Ian Mosby, Sarah Rotz, Evan D.G. Fraser | 53 University of Regina Press Reclaiming Tom Longboat Janice Forsyth | 57

Queering Family Trees Sandra Patton-Imani | 34

A Recipe for Gentrification Alison Hope Alkon, Yuki Kato, Joshua Sbicca | 26

Catholic Activism Today Maureen K. Day | 38

Changing Qatar Geoff Harkness | 28

Monthly Review Press Cuban Health Care Don Fitz | 46

Gender Violence, Third Edition Laura L. O'Toole, Jessica R. Schiffman, Rosemary Sullivan | 30 Living on the Spectrum Elizabeth Fein | 32 Trans-Affirmative Parenting Elizabeth Rahilly | 35 Muslim American City Alisa Perkins | 36 Lift Every Voice and Swing Vaughn A. Booker | 37 Religion Is Raced Grace Yukich, Penny Edgell | 37

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APRIL Hyper Education Pawan Dhingra | 1 The Law of Law School Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, Jonathan Yusef Newton | 4 Twitter Jean Burgess, Nancy K. Baym | 5

Open World Empire Christopher B. Patterson | 23 Gamer Trouble Amanda Phillips | 23 The Content of Our Caricature Rebecca Wanzo | 25

Old Canaan in a New World Elizabeth Fenton | 6

New in Paperback Golem Maya Barzilai | 38

A Pledge with Purpose Gregory S. Parks and Matthew W. Hughey | 11

None of the Above Joel Thiessen and Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme | 39

Comics and Stuff Henry Jenkins | 12-13

Arabian Satire Ḥmēdān Shwēʿir | 41

New in Paperback Jewish New York Deborah Dash Moore, Jeffrey S. Gurock, Annie Polland, Howard B. Rock, and Daniel Soyer | 16

University of Regina Press Nature's Broken Clocks Paul Huebener | 52

New in Paperback The Procrastination Economy Ethan Tussey | 22

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University of Regina Press Loss of Indigenous Eden and the Fall of Spirituality Blair A. Stonechild | 57 Wits University Press Becoming Men Malose Langa | 58

AUGUST Society without God, Second Edition Phil Zuckerman | 39 Monthly Review Press The Dawning of the Apocalypse Gerald Horne | 44 New Village Press In the Struggle Daniel O'Connell, Scott Peters | 49

The Truth about Baked Beans Meg Muckenhoupt | 3 Stuck Margaret M. Chin | 9 The Sex Obsession Janet R. Jakobsen | 14 Warfare and Culture in World History, Second Edition Wayne E. Lee | 18 Stories of the Self Anna Poletti | 19 Haiti's Paper War Chelsea Stieber | 21 Neoliberal Cities Andrew J. Diamond, Thomas J. Sugrue | 26 The Trouble with Snack Time Jennifer Patico | 27 Transgender Intimate Partner Violence Adam M. Messinger, Xavier L. Guadalupe-Diaz | 30 Feeling Medicine Kelly Underman | 32 Hurricane Harvey's Aftermath Kevin M. Fitzpatrick, Matthew L. Spialek | 36

Mathematics, Metrology, and Model Contracts Roger S. Bagnall, Alexander Jones | 40 Monthly Review Press Free Speech and the Suppression of Dissent During World War I Eric T. Chester | 47

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