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American Studies

Ugly Freedoms

Elisabeth R. Anker

Honorable Mention for The John Hope Franklin Prize

Reckons with the complex legacy of freedom offered by liberal American democracy, identifying modes of “ugly freedom” that can lead to domination or provide a source of emancipatory potential. Anker shifts our perspective of freedom by contesting its idealized expressions and expanding the visions for what freedom can look like, who can exercise it, and how to build a world free from domination.

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

January 2022 256pp 9781478017783

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Violent Utopia

Dispossession and Black Restoration in Tulsa

Jovan Scott Lewis

Honorable Mention for The John Hope Franklin Prize

Jovan Scott Lewis retells the history and afterlife of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre and its century-long legacy of dispossession, placing it in a larger historical and social context of widespread anti-Black racism and segregation in Tulsa and beyond.

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

October 2022 288pp 9781478018568

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Unsettled Borders

The Militarized Science of Surveillance on Sacred Indigenous Land

Felicity Amaya Schaeffer

Honorable Mention for The John Hope Franklin Prize

Examines the ongoing settler colonial war over the USMexico border from the perspective of Apache, Tohono O’odham, and Maya who fight to protect their sacred land. Schaeffer reverses the logic of borders by turning to Indigenous sacredsciences, or ancestral land-based practices that are critical to reversing the ecological and social violence of surveillance, extraction, and occupation.

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Series: Dissident Acts

August 2022 224pp 9781478017943

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Cooling the Tropics

Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment

Hi'ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart

Honorable Mention for The Lora Romero First Book Prize

By outlining how ice shaped Hawai’i’s food system in accordance with racial and environmental imaginaries, Hobart demonstrates that thermal technologies can—and must—be attended to in struggles for food sovereignty and political self-determination in Hawai’i and beyond.

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Series: Elements

December 2022 264pp 9781478019190

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Legal Spectatorship

Slavery and the Visual Culture of Domestic Violence

Kelli Moore

Honorable Mention for The Lora Romero First Book Prize

Traces the political origins of the concept of domestic violence through visual culture in the United States, showing how it is rooted in the archive of slavery.

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

May 2022 248pp 9781478018346

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Black Power, Jewish Politics

Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s, Revised Edition

Marc Dollinger

Afterword by Ilana Kaufman

Undermining widely held beliefs about the civil rights movement, Black Power, racism, Soviet Jewry, American Zionism, and the religious revival of the 1970s, Black Power, Jewish Politics describes a new political consensus based on identity politics that drew Black and Jewish Americans together and altered the course of American liberalism.

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

Series: Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History

April 2024 328pp 9781479826896

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Chicana Liberation

Women and Mexican American Politics in Los Angeles, 1945-1981

Marisela R. Chávez

Vivid and compelling, Chicana Liberation reveals the remarkable range of political beliefs and life experiences behind a new activism and feminism shaped by Mexican American women.

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS

Series: Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History

April 2024 224pp 9780252087813

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Colorful Palate

A Flavorful Journey Through a Mixed American Experience

Raj Tawney

A timely self-examination of the “mixed” American experience featuring exclusive recipes and photographs from the author’s multicultural family.

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS

October 2023 160pp 9781531504571

Hardback £21.99 now £15.39

Contested Americans

Mixed-Status Families in AntiImmigrant Times

Cassaundra Rodriguez

Contested Americans is a timely book, filled with vivid storytelling, that shows how immigration policies, racism, and privilege collide in the backdrop of the lives of millions of mixed-status families.

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

Series: Latina/o Sociology

April 2023 272pp 9781479800544

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Cooking from the Heart

The Hmong Kitchen in America

Sami Scripter and Sheng Yang

Cooking from the Heart is the first cookbook to clearly set out the culinary traditions of the Hmong people as well as the cultural significance such traditions hold. The recipes are accompanied by anecdotes, aphorisms, and poems that demonstrate the importance of food and cooking in Hmong culture and offer a dramatic perspective on the immigrant experience.

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS

March 2023 296pp 9780816653270

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Culinary Colonialism, Caribbean Cookbooks, and Recipes for National Independence

Keja L. Valens

The first book-length consideration of Caribbean cookbooks, Culinary Colonialism joins a growing body of work in Caribbean studies and food studies that considers the intersections of food writing, race, class, gender, and nationality. A selection of recipes, culled from the archive thatCulinary Colonialism assembles, allows readers to savor the confluence of culinary traditions and local specifications that connect and distinguish national cuisines in the Caribbean.

RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS

March 2024 504pp 9781978829541

Paperback £38.00 now £26.60

Daughter of History

Traces of an Immigrant Girlhood

Susan Suleiman

In her new memoir, Suleiman uses everyday objects and the memories they evoke to tell the story of her early life as a Holocaust refugee and American immigrant. In this coming-of-age story that probes the intergenerational complexities of immigrant families and the inevitability of loss, Susan looks to her own life as an example of how historical events shape our private lives.

STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

May 2023 256pp 9781503634817

Hardback £21.99 now £15.39

dear elia

Letters from the Asian American Abyss

Mimi Khúc

In an intimate series of letters, Mimi Khúc traces the contemporary Asian American mental health crisis from the university into the maw of the COVID-19 pandemic, reenvisioning mental health through a pedagogy of unwellness—the recognition that we are all differentially unwell.

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

March 2024 272pp 9781478025672

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Displacing Kinship

The Intimacies of Intergenerational Trauma in Vietnamese American Cultural Production

Linh Thuy Nguyen

Nearly fifty years after the end of the war in Vietnam, American children of Vietnamese refugees continue to process the meanings of the war and its consequences through creative work. Displacing Kinship examines how Vietnamese American cultural productions register lived experiences of racism in their depictions of family life and marginalization..

TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Series: Asian American History & Culture

March 2024 216pp 9781439924709

Paperback £27.99 now £19.59

Dreaming our Futures

Ojibwe and Ochéthi Šakówi? Artists and Knowledge Keepers

Edited byBrenda J. Child and Howard Oransky

A beautiful collection of the art and life stories of regional Native painters, Dreaming Our Futures features twentyeight Native painters, primarily Dakota and Ojibwe, who live in the Midwest or have family or tribal connections here.

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS

March 2024 168pp 9781517914974

Hardback £29.99 now £20.99

Forged in America

How Irish-Jewish Encounters Shaped a Nation

Edited by Hasia R. Diner and Miriam Nyhan Grey

Bringing together leading scholars in their fields, this volume examines how Irish and Jewish Americans defined their place in a complex society.

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

Series: Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History

November 2023 288pp 9781479826070

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Harry Bridges

Labor Radical, Labor Legend

Robert W. Cherny

Cherny’s monumental biography tells the life story of Harry Bridges, an Australian immigrant who built the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) into a labor powerhouse that still represents almost 30,000 workers.

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS

Series: Working Class in American History

February 2024 504pp 9780252088025

Paperback £29.99 now £20.99

Indigenous Autocracy Power, Race, and Resources in Porfirian Tlaxcala, Mexico

Jaclyn Sumner

Indigenous Autocracy presents a new story about how regional actors negotiated between national authoritarian rule and local circumstances by explaining how an Indigenous person held state-level power in Mexico during the thirty-five-year dictatorship that preceded the Mexican Revolution (the Porfiriato), and the apogee of scientific racism across Latin America.

STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

November 2023 244pp 9781503637399

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Island X

Taiwanese Student Migrants, Campus Spies, and Cold War Activism

Wendy Cheng

Island X delves into the compelling political lives of Taiwanese migrants who came to the United States as students from the 1960s through the 1980s. Often depicted as compliant model minorities, many were in fact deeply political, shaped by Taiwan's colonial history and influenced by the global social movements of their times. As activists, they fought to make Taiwanese people visible as subjects of injustice and deserving of self-determination.

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS

November 2023 270pp 9780295752051

Paperback £25.99 now £18.19

Japanese Americans and the Racial Uniform

Citizenship, Belonging, and the Limits of Assimilation

Dana Y. Nakano

Japanese Americans and the Racial Uniform explores how race continues to shape the citizenship and everyday lives of latergeneration Japanese Americans

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

Series: Asian American Sociology

August 2023 256pp 9781479816378

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Knowing Silence

How Children Talk about Immigration Status in School

Ariana Mangual Figueroa

There is a persistent assumption in the field of education that children are largely unaware of their immigration status and its implications. In Knowing Silence, Ariana Mangual Figueroa challenges this “myth of ignorance” and reveals the complex ways young people understand and negotiate immigration status and its impact on their lives.

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS

April 2024 260pp 9781517910457

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Latin Art in Minnesota Conversations and What’s Next

William G. Franklin

Foreword by Rico Paul Vallejos

A richly illustrated and personal presentation of the lives and careers of twelve Latin American artists in Minnesota. Exploring crucial themes of immigration, identity, and the preservation of traditions in diaspora, the artists featured share their stories and experiences candidly in interviews conducted by other Latino leaders and activists from Minnesota.

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS

May 2023 264pp 9781736102169

Hardback £29.99 now £20.99

Legal Phantoms

Executive Action and the Haunting Failures of Immigration Law

Susan Bibler Coutin, Jennifer M. Chacón and Stephen Lee

The 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was supposed to be a stepping stone, a policy innovation announced by the White House designed to put pressure on Congress for a broader, lasting set of legislative changes. Those changes never materialized, and the people who hoped to benefit from them have been forced to navigate a tense and contradictory policy landscape ever since, haunted by these unfulfilled promises. Legal Phantoms tells their story.

STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

January 2024 324pp 9781503637573

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Like Water

A Cultural History of Bruce Lee

Daryl Joji Maeda

Nearly half a century after his tragic death, Bruce Lee remains an inspiring symbol of innovation and determination, with an enduring legacy as the first Asian American global superstar. Like Water highlights Bruce Lee’s influence beyond martial arts and film

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

April 2024 336pp 9781479830732

Paperback £16.99 now £11.89

Migrants Who Care

West Africans Working and Building Lives in U.S. Health Care

Fumilayo Showers

Ultimately, this book tells the very real and human story of an immigrant group surmounting tremendous obstacles to carve out a labor market niche in health care, providing some of the most essential and intimate aspects of care labor to the most vulnerable members of society.

RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS

September 2023 208pp 9781978828988

Paperback £31.00 now £21.70

Muslims of the Heartland

How Syrian Immigrants Made a Home in the American Midwest

Edward E. Curtis IV

The American Midwest is often thought of as uniformly white, and shaped exclusively by Christian values. Edward E. Curtis IV uncovers a surprising history, showing how generations of Midwestern Syrians created a life that was Arab, Muslim, and American, all at the same time.

Winner of the 2023 Evelyn Shakir NonFiction Book Award from the Arab American National Museum

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2023

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

November 2023 256pp 9781479827220

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Of Memory and the Misplaced

Irish Immigrant Life Writing in the United States

Sarah O'Brien

Combining literary and historical theory, Of Memory and the Misplaced highlights voices that have traditionally been silenced and offers a rare and unexplored collection of primary source autobiographical texts to better understand the experiences of Irish immigrants in the United States.

INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS

Series: Irish Culture, Memory, Place

January 2024 344pp 9780253067883

Paperback £45.00 now £31.50

Only a Few Blocks to Cuba

Cold War Refugee Policy, the Cuban Diaspora, and the Transformations of Miami

Mauricio Fernando Castro

Castro uses extensive archival research in local and national sources to demonstrate that the Cuban diaspora and Cold War refugee policy made South Florida a key space to understanding the shifting landscape of the late twentieth century

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS

Series: Politics and Culture in Modern America

March 2024 296pp 9781512825725

Hardback £45.00 now £31.50

Our Laundry, Our Town

My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond

Alvin Eng

Our Laundry, Our Town is a memoir that decodes and processes the fractured urban oracle bones of Alvin Eng’s upbringing in Flushing, Queens, in the 1970s. Back then, his family was one of the few immigrant Chinese families in a far-flung neighborhood in New York City.

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS

October 2023 212pp 9781531504830

Paperback £15.99 now £11.19

Out of Place

The Lives of Korean Adoptee Immigrants

SunAh M Laybourn

In Out of Place, SunAh M Laybourn, herself a Korean American adoptee, examines how Korean adoptees went from being adoptable orphans to deportable immigrants

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

Series: Asian American Sociology

January 2024 240pp 9781479814787

Paperback £25.99 now £18.19

People's Diplomacy

How Americans and Chinese Transformed US-China Relations during the Cold War

Kazushi Minami

Kazushi Minami shows how the American and Chinese people rebuilt US-China relations in the 1970s, a pivotal decade bookended by Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to China and 1979 normalization of diplomatic relations.

Series: The United States in the World

March 2024 270pp 9781501774157

Paperback £27.99 now £19.59

Public Workers in Service of America

A Reader

Edited by Frederick W. Gooding Jr. and Eric S. Yellin

Foreword by Joseph A. McCartin

Afterword by Eileen Boris

From white-collar executives to mail carriers, public workers meet the needs of the entire nation. Frederick W. Gooding Jr. and Eric S. Yellin edit a collection of new research on this understudied workforce.

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS

Series: Working Class in American History

August 2023 272pp 9780252087318

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Reconsidering Regions in an Era of New Nationalism

Edited by Alex Finkelstein and Anne F. Hyde

This volume challenges ideas about both national belonging and local association to emphasize how regional analysis deepens understanding of migration, race, borders, infrastructure, climate, and Native sovereignty.

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS

November 2023 318pp 9781496237323

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Resilient Kitchens

American Immigrant Cooking in a Time of Crisis, Essays and Recipes

Edited

by

Philip Gleissner

and

Harry Eli Kashdan

A stimulating collection of essays about the lives of immigrants in the United States before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, told through the lens of food. It includes a vibrant mix of perspectives from food writers, restaurateurs, scholars, and activists, accompanied by delicious recipes, gorgeous photography and hand-drawn illustrations.

RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS

May 2023 262pp 9781978832510

Hardback £23.99 now £16.79

Sonic Sovereignty

Hip Hop, Indigeneity, and Shifting Popular Music Mainstreams

Liz Przybylski

What does sovereignty sound like? Sonic Sovereignty explores how contemporary Indigenous musicians champion selfdetermination through musical expression in Canada and the United States. The framework of “sonic sovereignty” connects self-definition, collective determination, and Indigenous land rematriation to the immediate and long-lasting effects of expressive culture.

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

Series: Postmillennial Pop

July 2023 328pp 9781479816927

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Sons of Chinatown

A Memoir Rooted in China and America

William Gee Wong

William Gee Wong was born in Oakland, California’s Chinatown in 1941, the only son of his father, known as Pop. Pop was born in Guangdong Province, China and emigrated to Oakland as a teenager during the Chinese Exclusion era in 1912. He entered the U.S. legally as the “son of a native,” despite having partially false papers. Sons of Chinatown is Wong’s evocative dual memoir of his and his father’s parallel experiences in America.

TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS

March 2024 280pp 9781439924877

Hardback £29.99 now £20.99

Strangers No Longer

Latino Belonging and Faith in TwentiethCentury Wisconsin

Sergio M. González

Perceptive and original, Strangers No Longer reframes the history of Latinos in Wisconsin by revealing religion’s central role in the settlement experience of immigrants, migrants, and refugees.

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS

Series: Latinos in Chicago and Midwest March 2024 312pp 9780252087943

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The Border Reader

Edited by Gilberto Rosas and Mireya Loza

Spotlighting the vibrancy of border studies from the field’s emergence to its enduring significance, The Border Reader brings together canonical and cutting-edge humanities and social science scholarship on the US-Mexico border region.

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

October 2023 704pp 9781478024934

Paperback £35.00 now £24.50

The Mexican American Experience in Texas Citizenship, Segregation, and the Struggle for Equality

Martha Menchaca

For hundreds of years, Mexican Americans in Texas have fought against political oppression and exclusion—in courtrooms, in schools, at the ballot box, and beyond. Through a detailed exploration of this long battle for equality, this book illuminates critical moments of both struggle and triumph in the Mexican American experience.

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS

Series: The Texas Bookshelf

April 2023 352pp 9781477327593

Paperback £20.99 now £14.69

The Movies of Racial Childhoods

Screening Self-Sovereignty in Asian/ America

Celine Parreñas Shimizu

Celine Parreñas Shimizu examines early twenty-first-century cinematic representations of Asian and Asian American children, showing how films allow viewers the opportunity to understand the demands and difficulties placed upon Asian American children.

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

January 2024 264pp

9781478025658 £23.99 Paperback now £16.79

The Unknown Great

Stories of Japanese Americans at the Margins of History

Greg Robinson with Jonathan van Harmelen

In accessible short essays drawn primarily from his newspaper columns, Robinson examines the longstanding interactions between African Americans and Japanese Americans, the history of LGBTQ+ Japanese Americans, religion in Japanese American life, mixed-race performers and political figures, and more. This collection is sure to entertain and inform readers, bringing fresh perspectives and unfamiliar stories from Japanese American history and centering the lives of unheralded figures who left their mark on American life.

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS

January 2024 276pp

9780295751894 £25.99 Paperback now £18.19

Transpacific Cartographies

Narrating the Contemporary Chinese Diaspora in the United States

Melody Yunzi Li

Transpacific Cartographies examines how contemporary Chinese diasporic narratives address the existential loss of home for immigrant communities at a time of global precarity and amid rising Sino-US tensions.

RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS

January 2024 212pp

9781978829336 £31.00 Paperback now £21.70

Union Divided

Black Musicians’ Fight for Labor Equality

Leta E. Miller

Broad in scope and rich in detail, Union Divided provides an illuminates the complex working world of unionized Black musicians and the American Federation of Musician’s journey to racial inclusion.

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS

Series: Music in American Life

February 2024 232pp 9780252087677

Paperback £23.99 now £16.79

Violence Never Heals

The Lifelong Effects of Intimate Partner Violence for Immigrant Women

Allison Bloom

Across the US, one in three women experiences violence in their intimate relationships. More resources are now being devoted to providing these women with immediate care; but what happens to survivors, especially those from marginalized communities, as they grow older and grapple with the long-term effects? Allison Bloom presents a lifecourse perspective on the disabling experience of violence in Latina immigrant communities.

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

Series: Anthropologies of American Medicine: Culture, Power, and Practice

June 2023 224pp 9781479822058

Paperback £23.99 now £16.79

Whose America?

U.S. Immigration Policy since 1980

Edited by Maria Cristina Garcia and Maddalena Marinari

Maria Cristina Garcia and Maddalena Marinari edit works that examine the post-1980 response of legislation and policy to issues like undocumented immigration, economic shifts, national security, and human rights.

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS

July 2023 272pp 9780252087271 £25.99

Paperback now £18.19

Workers of All Colors Unite Race and the Origins of American Socialism

Lorenzo Costaguta

Costaguta balances intellectual and institutional history to illuminate the clash between two major points of view. On one side, white supremacists believed labor should accept the ascendant tenets of scientific theories of race. But others rejected the idea that racial and ethnic division influenced worker-employer relations.

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS

Series: Working Class in American History

March 2023 256pp 9780252087073

Paperback £23.99 now £16.79