A Nation Takes Place
Navigating Race and Water in Contemporary Art
Edited by Tia-Simone Gardner & Shana M. griffin
September 2024 144pp 33 b&w illus., 25 color plates
£36.00/ $39.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
A companion to the exhibition A Nation Takes Place at the Minnesota Marine Art Museum, this catalog examines how artists bring critical attention to the “liquid fantasies” of the sea and navigate race and the violent silences.
9781496240552
9780803290181
Between Black and Brown Blaxicans
and Multiraciality in Comparative Historical
Perspective
Rebecca Romo & J Sterphone
Borderlands and Transcultural Studies
October 2024 342pp 5 tables, index
£25.99/ $30.00 PB
£89.00/ $99.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
This book explorex the experiences of Blaxicans, individuals with African American and Mexican American heritage, as they navigate American culture, which often clings to monoracial categorizations.
9781978843295
9781978843301
Black Feminist Anthropology, 25th Anniversary Edition
Theory, Politics, Praxis, and Poetics
Irma McClaurin
Foreword by Johnetta Betsch Cole
November 2024 296pp
£25.99/ $29.95 PB
£134.00/ $150.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
In this volume, McClaurin has collected-for the first time-essays that explore the role and contributions of black feminist anthropologistse in Africa, the Caribbean, and the US.
A Sense of Arrival
Kevin Adonis Browne
November 2024 432pp 169 color illus. 9781478030928
£27.99/ $32.95 PB 9781478026709
£107.00/ $119.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Kevin Adonis Browne blends literary, visual, and material forms to present a narrative of Caribbean Blackness. Arguing that the story of Caribbeanness cannot be told through words alone, Browne interweaves essays, memoir, autotheory, and narrative verse with documentary photography, portraiture, Rorschach blots, and images of his own sculptures and art installations.
Beyond Constraint
Middle/Passages of Blackness and Indigeneity in the Radical Tradition
Shona N. Jackson
November 2024 400pp 4 illus.
9781478019183
£26.99/ $30.95 PB
9781478016540 £103.00/ $114.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Offers a new approach to labour and its analysis by demonstrating the fundamental relation between black and Indigenous People’s sovereign, free, and coerced labour in the Americas. Through the writings of Cedric Robinson, Walter Rodney, C. L. R. James, and Sylvia Wynter, Jackson confronts the elision of Indigenous People’s labour in the black radical tradition.
Black Panther Woman
The Political and Spiritual Life of Ericka Huggins
Mary Frances Phillips
Black Power
January 2025 320pp 16 b&w images 9781479802937 £29.99/ $35.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Phillips immerses readers in the life and legacy of Ericka Huggins, a revered Black Panther Party member, as well as a mother, widow, educator, poet, and former political prisoner. Transcending the traditional male-centric study of the Black Panther Party, Phillips offers an innovative analysis of Black political life at the intersections of gender, motherhood, and mass incarceration.
Bong Joon Ho
Joseph Jonghyun Jeon
Contemporary Film Directors
November 2024 176pp 21 b&w photos
9780252088575 £18.99/ $22.00 PB
9780252046483 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Successful cult films like The Host and Snowpiercer proved to be harbingers for Bong Joon Ho’s enormous breakthrough success with Parasite. Jeon provides a consideration of the director’s entire career and themes of his works. Insightful and engaging, Jeon offers an up-to-date analysis of the genre-bending international director.
Dancing the Politics of Pleasure at the New Orleans Second Line
Rachel Carrico
October 2024 256pp 22 b&w photos
9780252088070 £23.99/ $28.00 PB
9780252045974 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
On many Sundays, Black New Orleanians dance through city streets in Second Lines, grooving to a brass band. Carrico examines the parading bodies in motion as a form of negotiating and understanding power as dancers’ choices allow them to access the pleasure of reclaiming self through motion.
Dominican Crossroads
H. C. C. Astwood and the Moral Politics of Race-Making in the Age of Emancipation
Christina Cecelia Davidson
October 2024 384pp 23 illus.
9781478030942 £26.99/ $30.95 PB
9781478026693 £103.00/ $114.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
H. C. C. Astwood: minister and missionary, diplomat and politician who epitomized Black masculine respectability, enigma in the annals of US history. But as Davidson shows, Astwood became a duplicitous figure who used deception and engaged in racist moral politics to command authority.
Constructing Cuban America
Race and Identity in Florida's Caribbean South, 1868–1945
Andrew Gomez
Historia USA
September 2024 208pp
9781477329757 £40.00/ $45.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Constructing Cuban America examines the first Cuban American communities in South Florida— Key West and Tampa—and how race played a central role in shaping the experiences of white and Black Cubans. Andrew Gomez argues that factors such as the Cuban independence movement and Radical Reconstruction produced interracial communities of Cubans.
Desiring Whiteness
A Racial History of Prostitution in France and Colonial Senegal, 1848–1950
Caroline Séquin
October 2024 264pp 6 b&w hfts, 1 map 9781501777035 £47.00/ $51.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Desiring Whiteness uncovers the intertwined histories of commercial sex and racial politics in France and the French Empire. Caroline Séquin challenges the narrative of French exceptionalism by revealing the role of prostitution regulation in policing intimate relationships across racial and colonial boundaries in the century following the abolition of slavery.
Excited Delirium
Race, Police Violence, and the Invention of a Disease
Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús
August 2024 320pp 2 illus.
9781478030553 £24.99/ $28.95 PB
9781478026327 £97.00/ $107.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Examines the fabricated medical diagnosis of “excited delirium syndrome” and its use to justify and erase police violence against Black and Brown communities. Exposing excited delirium syndrome’s flawed diagnostic criteria, Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús furthers understanding of the complex layers of medicalized state-sanctioned violence against people of color in the United States.
Fantasies of Nina Simone
Jordan Alexander Stein
September 2024 320pp 32 illus.
9781478030706 £24.99/ $28.95 PB
9781478026471 £97.00/ $107.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Looking at examples from Nina Simone’s four-decade, genre-bending, career— from songbook standards, jazz, and pop to folk, junkanoo, and reggae—and at her work’s many uptakes and afterlives, Stein mobilizes the psychoanalytic concept of fantasy to build a black feminist history with and for this multifaceted performing artist.
Heavyweight
Black Boxers and the Fight for Representation
Jordana Moore Saggese
August 2024 304pp 73 illus., including 8 in color
9781478030638 £24.99/ $28.95 PB
9781478026402 £97.00/ $107.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Jordana Moore Saggese examines images of Black heavyweight boxers to map the visual terrain of racist ideology in the United States, paying particular attention to the intersecting discourses of Blackness, masculinity, and sport.
Indians on Indian Lands
Intersections of Race, Caste, and Indigeneity
Nishant Upadhyay
October 2024 256pp 4 b&w photos
9780252088216 £23.99/ $28.00 PB
9780252046117 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Nishant Upadhyay unravels Indian diasporic complicity in its ongoing colonialist relationship with Indigenous peoples, lands, and nations in Canada. Alberta offer examples of spaces that illuminate the dispossession of Indigenous peoples and simultaneously reveal racialized, gendered, and casted labor formations.
God's Waiting Room
Racial Reckoning at Life's End Casey Golomski
Global Perspectives on Aging
December 2024 212pp 11 color images
9781978840607
9781978840614
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
£25.99/ $29.95 PB
£116.00/ $130.00 HB
Can older racists change their tune, or will they haunt us further once they're gone? Rich in mystery and life’s lessons, God’s Waiting Room: Racial Reckoning at Life’s End considers what matters in the end for older white adults and the younger Black nurses who care for them.
Imperial Policing
Weaponized Data in Carceral Chicago
Andy Clarno, Janaé Bonsu-Love, Enrique Alvear Moreno, Lydia Dana, Michael De Anda Muñiz, Ila Ravichandran & Haley Volpintesta
August 2024 360pp 18 b&w illus.
9781517917715 £24.99/ $28.95 PB
9781517917708 £104.00/ $116.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Chicago is a city with poverty and inequity, one that relies on repressive agencies to police the poor and suppress struggles for social justice. This book examines the role of local law enforcement within the city.
Is It Racist? Is It Sexist?
Why Red and Blue White People Disagree, and How to Decide in the Gray Areas
Jessi Streib & Betsy LeondarWright
January 2025 248pp
9781503637917 £25.99/ $30.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Is It Racist? Is It Sexist? In this book, Streib and Leondar-Wright offer a new way of understanding how inequalities persist by focusing on the individual judgment calls that lead us to decide what's racist, what's sexist, and what's not.
9781978827950
Laboring in the Shadow of Empire
Race, Gender, and Care Work in Portugal
Celeste Vaughan Curington
Inequality at Work: Perspectives on Race, Gender, Class, and Labor
September 2024 236pp 7 b&w figure and 1 table
£36.00/ $39.95 PB
9781978827967 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Examines the everyday lives of an African descendant care service workforce that labors in an ostensibly “anti-racial” Europe and against the backdrop of the Portuguese colonial empire.
9781517917869
Monstrous Work and Radical Satisfaction
Black Women Writing under Segregation
Eve Dunbar
November 2024 192pp 4 b&w illus.
9781517917876 £22.99/ $27.00 PB
£97.00/ $108.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Radical Black feminist refusal through the works of mid-twentieth-century African American women writers. This book offers new and insightful readings of African American women’s writings in the 1930s–1950s, illustrating how these writers centered Black women’s satisfaction as radical resistance.
February 2025 496pp
Not Just Green, Not Just White Race, Justice, and Environmental History
Edited
by
Mary E. Mendoza & Traci
Brynne Voyles
Foreword by Patricia Nelson
Limerick
9781496241733 £29.99/ $35.00 PB
9781496204202 £89.00/ $99.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
This book demonstrates that the field of environmental history provides a fertile context for understanding racism and colonialism as power structures in the US.
Making the Human Race, Allegory, and Asian Americans
Corinne Mitsuye Sugino
Asian American Studies Today
November 2024 162pp 17 bw, 3 color, 6 tables images
9781978839694 £27.99/ $32.95 PB
9781978839700 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Making the Human grapples with the interactions between narrative, materiality, and Asian American racialization. Examining contemporary debates over the role of Asian Americans in media representation and public health discourses, Sugino argues these narratives shape ideas about humanity.
Moving Blackness
Black Circulation, Racism, and Relations of Homespace
Lisa
B. Y. Calvente
January 2025 188pp
9781978840645
£21.99/ $24.95 PB
9781978840652 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Moving Blackness: Black Circulation, Racism and Relations of Homespace delves into the intricate connections between communication, culture, power, and racism in relation to blackness. Through a blend of interviews, oral histories, and meticulous archival research, this book sheds light on the multifaceted narratives surrounding Black identity.
Race and Resistance in Boston
A Contested Sports History
Edited by Robert Cvornyek & Douglas Stark
Foreword by Devin McCourty
February 2025 390pp 16 photos, 1 map, 3 tables, index
9781496232687 £36.00/ $39.95 PB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
With personal reminiscences from former New England Patriot Devin McCourty and journalist Bijan Bayne, as well as research from scholars of sport, Race and Resistance in Boston captures the intersection of Black history and sporting culture in America’s City on a Hill.
Race in the Multiethnic Literature
Classroom
Introduction and edited by
Cristina
Stanciu & Gary Totten
September 2024 336pp 2 b&w photos
9780252088384 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9780252046315 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
The contemporary rethinking and relearning of history and racism has sparked creative approaches for teaching the histories of marginalized communities. Stanciu and Totten edit a collection that illuminates race advances and understanding of historical US multiethnic literatures.
Redface
Race, Performance, and Indigeneity
Bethany Hughes
Performance and American Cultures
December 2024 288pp 8 color and 22 b&w images
9781479829392 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781479829378 £80.00/ $89.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Tracing the “Stage Indian” from its early nineteenthcentury roots to its proliferation across theatrical entertainment forms and turn of the twenty-first century attempts to address its racist legacy, Redface uses case studies in law and civic life to understand its offstage impact.
Selected Writings on Visual Arts and Culture
Detour to the Imaginary
Stuart
Hall
Edited by Gilane Tawadros
Stuart Hall: Selected Writings
August 2024 392pp 64 color illus.
9781478030331 £26.99/ $30.95 PB
9781478026105
£103.00/ $114.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
As the first collection to bring together Hall’s work on the visual, this volume demonstrates the breadth and range of Hall’s thinking on art, film, photography, archives, and museums.
Reconfiguring Racial Capitalism
South Africa in the Chinese Century
Mingwei Huang
November 2024 320pp 31 illus.
9781478031031 £24.99/ $28.95 PB
9781478026792 £97.00/ $107.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Mingwei Huang traces the development of new forms of racial capitalism in the twenty-first century. Taking a palimpsestic approach, Huang offers tools for understanding this shift and decentering contemporary Western conceptions of race, empire, and racial capitalism in the Chinese Century.
Riot and Rebellion in Mexico
The Making of a Race War
Paradigm
Ana Sabau
February 2025 336pp 1 b&w photo, 2 b&w illus., 10 b&w maps
9781477330791 £29.99/ $34.95 NIP
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Ana Sabau argues that Mexico’s complex racial hierarchy, inherited from Spanish colonialism, did not dissolve after Mexico gained independence. Instead, the authorities’ ever-present fears of racial uprising led to governmental techniques and ideologies designed to separate and control people based on their perceived racial status.
South Side Impresarios
How Race Women Transformed Chicago's Classical Music Scene
Samantha Ege
Music in American Life
November 2024 296pp 34 b&w photos, 7 music examples
9780252088339 £21.99/ $24.95 PB
9780252046261 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Between the world wars, Chicago Race women nurtured a local Black classical music community. Ege tells the stories of the Black women whose acumen and energy transformed Chicago’s South Side into a wellspring of music.
The World War II Bond Campaign
Lawrence R. Samuel
World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension
February 2025 272pp 46 b&w illus.
9781531509255 £29.99/ $35.00 PB
9781531509248 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
This book is a history of the World War II bond drive led by the federal government, an effort called the most successful marketing operation in history. By the war’s end, some 85 million Americans had spent $186 billion in an unprecedented outpouring of patriotism that contributed to the military victory.
Too Black to Be French
Isabelle Boni-Claverie
Translated by Joshua David Jordan
Foreword by Kaiama Glover
February 2025 272pp
9781531508081 £29.99/ $34.95 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Too Black to Be French is at once a sociological portrait of France, a multicultural family album, and a transatlantic coming-of-age story. It will appeal to readers eager for a passionate fresh voice devoted to better understanding the challenges of today’s world and the courage it takes to overcome them.
Under the White Gaze
Solving the Problem of Race and Representation in Canadian Journalism
Christopher Cheung
September 2024 224pp
9780774881111 £22.99/ $26.95 PB
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PRESS
This candid investigation into the state of race in Canadian media today challenges the way we think about the news we read, watch, and listen to. Essential reading for aspiring and seasoned journalists, media consumers, and anyone wondering why race is missing from our headlines.
Third World Studies
Theorizing Liberation
Gary Y. Okihiro
August 2024 328pp 4 illus.
9781478030676 £24.99/ $28.95 PB
9781478026440 £97.00/ $107.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
In this revised and expanded second edition, Gary Y. Okihiro emphasizes the work of Third World intellectuals such as M. N. Roy, José Carlos Mariátegui, and Oliver Cromwell Cox, foregrounds the importance of Bandung and the Tricontinental, and adds discussions of eugenics, feminist epistemologies, and religion.
Transnational Feminist Vistas
Edited by Ginetta E. B. Candelario
September 2024 277pp 1 illus. 9781478029960 £16.99/ $20.00 PB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Topics covered include feminist perspectives about the realities of grappling with colonial legacies within global south communities in North America, Asia, and Africa; the impacts of colonial logic in shaping community identity and boundaries; complex entanglements with neo-colonialism while striving for decolonial praxis; and memory and trauma within communities disrupted by U.S. colonial interests.
Waves of Belonging
Indigeneity, Race, and Gender in the Surfing Lineup
Edited by Lydia Heberling,David Kamper & Jess Ponting
December 2024 pp 2 tables
9780295753416 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9780295753409 £94.00/ $105.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
The surf zone offers a powerful space to reflect on the politics of our worlds. Waves of Belonging challenges the histories of exclusivity associated with surfing and demonstrates how Black, Indigenous, and LGBTQ+ people have drawn on surfing’s counterculture reputation to construct new spaces of hope.
We Charge Genocide!
American Fascism and
the
Rule of Law
Bill V. Mullen
September 2024 240pp 6 b&w illus.
9781531508456 £25.99/ $29.95 PB
9781531508449 £94.00/ $105.00 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
In 1951, the Civil Rights Congress presented to the UN We Charge Genocide, a more than 200 petition that held the US accountable for genocide against African Americans. This landmark text represented the dawn of Black Lives Matter and is as relevant today as it was then, as evidenced by the rise of white supremacist groups across the nation and the January 6th Capitol riot.
"Are You Calling Me a Racist?"
Why We Need to Stop Talking about Race and Start Making Real Antiracist Change
Sarita Srivastava
March 2024 352pp 3 b&w images
9781479815258 £23.99/ $28.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Despite decades of anti-racism workshops and diversity policies in corporations, schools, and nonprofit organizations, racial conflict has only increased in recent years. This book reveals why these efforts have failed and offers a needed challenge to the status quo of diversity training.
Black Cyclists
The Race for Inclusion
Robert J. Turpin
Sport and Society
April 2024 248pp 14 b&w photos
9780252087851 £21.99/ $24.95 PB
9780252045752 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Cycling emerged as a sport in the late 1870s, and from the beginning, Black Americans rode alongside and raced against white competitors. Turpin sheds light on the contributions of Black cyclists from the sport’s early days and shows that Black cyclists used the bicycle not only as a vehicle but as a means of social mobility--a mobility that attracted white ire.
Who Is Antiracist?
Beliefs, Motivations, and Politics
George Yancey & Hayoung Oh
December 2024 222pp
9781439925690 £25.99/ $29.95 PB
9781439925683 £89.00/ $99.50 HB
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Provides a systematic approach to understanding the motivations and intentions of racial progressives as well as the impact of political ideology on antiracism. Who Is Antiracist? enlightens us about the continuing racial conflict in our society and warns against the risk of antiracism becoming just a proxy for ordinary party politics.
Agents without Empire
Mobility and Race-Making in Sixteenth-Century France
Antónia Szabari
March 2024 288pp 23 b&w illus.
9781531506674 £29.99/ $35.00 PB
9781531506667 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Explores race making in this period of European history in the context of diplomatic reposts, travel accounts, natural history, propaganda, religious literature, poetry, theater, fiction, and cheap print. It intervenes in conversations in whiteness studies, race theory, theories of agency and matter, and the history of diplomacy and spying to offer a new account of race making in early modern Europe.
Children of a Troubled Time
Growing
Up with Racism in Trump's America
Margaret A. Hagerman
May 2024 256pp 3 b&w images
9781479815111 £23.99/ $27.95 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
In Children of a Troubled Time, award-winning sociologist Hagerman amplifies the voices of children and explores how they learn about race in America today. Hagerman interviewed nearly fifty children between the ages of ten to thirteen in Mississippi and Massachusetts who describe what it was like to come of age during Trump’s presidency.
