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"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. “Are You Calling Me a Racist?” reveals why these efforts have failed to effectively challenge racism and offers a new way forward as a much-needed challenge to the status quo of diversity training.

Apartheid Remains Sharad Chari

Errantries

May 2024 464pp 49 illus.

9781478030416 £27.99/ $32.95 PB

9781478026174 £107.00/ $119.95 HB

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Explores the how people handle the remains of segregation and apartheid in South Africa as witnessed through portals in an industrial-residential landscape in the Indian Ocean city of Durban.

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.

Between Shadows and Noise

Sensation, Situatedness, and the Undisciplined

Amber Jamilla Musser

February 2024 208pp 16 color illus.

9781478030096 £21.99/ $25.95 PB

9781478025832 £90.00/ $99.95 HB

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Amber Jamilla Musser theorizes sensation as a Black feminist method for aesthetic interpretation and criticism that uses the knowledges held by the body to access the unrepresentable.

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.

Black Elders

The Meaning of Age in American Slavery and Freedom

Frederick Knight

Early American Studies

February 2024 248pp 10 b&w illus., 6 graphs, 2 tables

9781512825664 £36.00/ $39.95 HB

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS

In Black Elders, Frederick C. Knight explores the experiences of African Americans with aging and in old age during the eras of slavery and emancipation. Drawing on a wide array of printed and archival sources, including slave narratives, plantation records, and letters, Black Elders offers a unique window into the individual and collective lives of African Americans.

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Black Girl Autopoetics

Agency in Everyday Digital Practice

Ashleigh Greene Wade

February 2024 176pp 16 page color insert

9781478025603 £21.99/ $24.95 PB

9781478020851 £85.00/ $94.95 HB

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Ashleigh Greene Wade explores how Black girls create representations of themselves in digital culture, showing how Black girls’ self-making creatively reinvents cultural products, spaces, and discourse in digital space to navigate contemporary reality.

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 PRESS

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.

Conditionally Accepted Navigating Higher Education from the Margins

April 2024 256pp

9781477328866 £29.99/ $34.95 PB

9781477324882 £94.00/ $105.00 HB

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS

A collection of essays that provides advice and strategies for BIPOC scholars on how to survive, thrive, and resist in academic institutions. Bringing together perspectives from academics of color on navigating intersecting forms of injustice in the academy, each chapter offers situated knowledge about marginalization in academia, letting marginalized scholars know they are not alone.

April 2024 320pp

Black Power, Jewish Politics

Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s, Revised Edition

Marc Dollinger

Afterword by Ilana Kaufman

Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History

9781479826896 £25.99/ $30.00 PB

9781479826889 £80.00/ $89.00 HB

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

Charts the transformation of American Jewish political culture from the Cold War liberal consensus of the early postwar years to the rise and influence of Black Power-inspired ethnic nationalism.

Compton in My Soul

A Life in Pursuit of Racial Equality

Albert M. Camarillo

Stanford Studies in Comparative Race and Ethnicity

July 2024 336pp

9781503638198 £22.99/ $27.00 HB

STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

When Al Camarillo grew up in Compton, California, racial segregation was the rule and his relatives were among the first Mexican immigrants to settle there. He later became the first Mexican American in the country to earn a PhD in Chicano/Mexican American history. This book weaves Al's personal story with histories of this now-infamous place, and illuminates a changing US society.

Dark Agoras

Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place

J.T. Roane

February 2024 312pp 4 b&w illus.

9781479831029 £20.99/ $24.00 NIP

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

In this book, author J.T. Roane shows how working-class Black communities cultivated two interdependent modes of insurgent assembly—dark agoras—in twentieth century Philadelphia. He investigates the ways they transposed rural imaginaries about and practices of place as part of their spatial resistances and efforts to contour industrial neighborhoods, shaping Philadelphia between the Great Migration and Black Power.

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Deathlife

Hip Hop and Thanatological Narrations of Blackness

Anthony B. Pinn

January 2024 240pp

9781478025412 £22.99/ $26.95 PB

9781478020608 £92.00/ $102.95 HB

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Anthony Pinn examines how hip hop artists challenge white supremacist definitions of Blackness by challenging white distinctions between life and death.

Everything is Police

Tia Trafford

Forerunners: Ideas First

January 2024 112pp

9781517916862 £9.00/ $10.00 PB

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS

Policing is constitutive of colonial modernity: normalizing, internalizing, and legalizing antiBlack violence as the ongoing condition for white life and freedom. From the plantation to the prison, global apartheid, and pandemic control, author Tia Trafford examines why and how policing has become the most ingrained, commonsense—and insidious— way of managing our world.

Fictions of Consent

Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service in Early Modern England

Urvashi Chakravarty

RaceB4Race: Critical Race Studies of the Premodern

February 2024 312pp 25 b&w illus.

9781512826272 £25.99/ $29.95 NIP

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS

Although early modern England claimed to have "too pure an Air for Slaves to breathe in," slavery was a quintessentially English phenomenon, writes Chakravarty. She argues that England laid the conceptual groundwork for racialized slavery as it interrogated the classical inheritances and contemporary contexts for bondage.

Discipline Problems

How Students of Color Trouble

Whiteness in Schools

Tadashi Dozono

May 2024 200pp 1 b/w illus.

9781512825251 £25.99/ $29.95 PB

9781512825268 £108.00/ $120.00 HB

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS

Angel, a Black tenth-grader at a New York City public school is troubled that her history classes leave out events like the genocide and dispossession of Indigenous people in the Americas, presenting a sugar-coated image of the United States landing her the label of “troublemaker.” Discipline Problems reveals how students of color seek out alternate avenues for understanding their world.

Feeling Asian American Racial Flexibility Between Assimilation and Oppression

Wen Liu

NWSA / UIP First Book Prize

May 2024 200pp 2 color photos, 1 table 9780252087905 £23.99/ $28.00 PB

9780252045790 £99.00/ $110.00 HB

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS

Asian Americans have become the love-hate subject of the American psyche: at times celebrated as the model minority, at other times hated as foreigners. Liu examines contemporary Asian American identity formation while placing it within a historical and ongoing narrative of racial injury.

Fighting Feelings

Lessons in Gendered Racism and

Queer Life

Gulzar R. Charania

May 2024 304pp

9780774869003 £38.00/ $41.95 PB

UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PRESS

Charania traces the complex convergences, and inseparability, of race, class, gender, and sexuality in women’s lives, and the divergent political horizons that racism fosters. Charania puts the experiences of women of colour at the centre of her investigation, sharing how they endure everyday racism, as well as its lasting impacts and exacting costs in their lives and educational trajectories.

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Fire Dreams

Making Black Feminist Liberation in the South

Laura McTighe

March 2024 352pp 50 illus.

9781478025542 £25.99/ $29.95 PB

9781478020806 £98.00/ $109.95 HB

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

An innovative collaboration between the New Orleans-based Black feminist collective Women With A Vision (WWAV) and Laura McTighe, Fire Dreams is a vital toolkit for grassroots organizers, activist-scholars, and all those who dream to make the world otherwise.

Geologic Life

Inhuman Intimacies and the Geophysics of Race

Kathryn Yusoff

May 2024 560pp 55 illus.

9781478030300 £32.00/ $36.95 PB

9781478026075 £121.00/ $134.95 HB

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Examining the history of geology as a discipline and ongoing mineral and resource extraction, Yusoff locates forms of imperial geology embedded in Western and Enlightenment thought and highlights how it creates anti-Black, antiIndigenous, and anti-Brown environmental and racial injustices.

Invisibility and Influence

A Literary History of AfroLatinidades

Regina Marie Mills

Latinx: The Future Is Now

June 2024 256pp

9781477329146 £29.99/ $34.95 PB

9781477329139 £94.00/ $105.00 HB

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS

Demonstrates how a century of AfroLatinx writers in the United States shaped life writing, through depictions of a wide range of “Afro-Latinidades.” Using a woman-of-color feminist approach, Mills examines the work of writers and creators often excluded from Latinx literary criticism.

Funk the Clock

Transgressing Time While Young, Perceptive, and Black

Rahsaan Mahadeo

May 2024 294pp

9781501774218 £27.99/ $32.95 PB

9781501774201 £112.00/ $125.00 HB

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS

Through his study of a youth center in Minneapolis, Mahadeo provides examples of Black youth constructing alternative temporalities that center their lived experiences and ensure their worldviews, tastes, and culture are most relevant and up to date. Funk the Clock forges new directions in the study of race and time by upending what we think we know about time.

Good Boys, Bad Hombres

The Racial Politics of Mentoring Latino Boys in Schools

Michael V Singh

April 2024 272pp

9781517912987 £24.99/ $29.00 PB

9781517912970 £104.00/ $116.00 HB

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS

Educational research has long documented the politics of punishment for boys and young men of color in schools—but what about the politics of empowerment and inclusion? In Good Boys, Bad Hombres, Michael V. Singh focuses on this aspect of youth control in schools, asking on whose terms a positive Latino manhood gets to be envisioned.

Jump

Black Anarchism and Antiblack Carcerality

Sam C. Tenorio

April 2024 208pp 6 b&w images

9781479828296 £23.99/ $28.00 PB

9781479828289 £80.00/ $89.00 HB

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

In a period of increasing political mobilization, Jump attends to the layers of confinement that constitute the racial and gendered hierarchies of the antiblack world. Tenorio proposes a Black anarchist politics of refusal that helps us to think dissent anew and explores the voyages of the Black Star Line in defiance of the bordered authority of the nation state.

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Just Health

Treating Structural Racism to Heal America

Dayna Bowen Matthew

June 2024 336pp 20 b/w illus.

9781479831005 £14.99/ $16.95 NIP

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

Timely and accessible, Just Health examines how America’s deep structural racism leads to worse health outcomes and lower life expectancy for people of color. The author provides a clear path forward for overcoming these massive barriers to health and ensuring that everyone has an equal opportunity to be healthy.

Like Children

Black Prodigy and the Measure of the Human in America

Camille Owens

Performance and American Cultures

July 2024 352pp 32 b&w images, 5 color images

9781479812929 £25.99/ $30.00 PB

9781479812912 £80.00/ $89.00 HB

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

Like Children recenters the history of American childhood around Black children and rewrites the story of the human through their acts. Through the stories of Black and disabled children spectacularized as prodigies, Owens tracks enduring white investment in Black children’s power and value, and a pattern of Black children performing beyond white containment.

Oregon's Others

Gender, Civil Liberties, and the Surveillance State in the Early

Twentieth Century

Kimberly Jensen

June 2024 320pp 24 b&w illus.

9780295752587 £25.99/ $30.00 PB

9780295752570 £94.00/ $105.00 HB

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS

In the era of the WWI and its aftermath, the quest to identify, restrict, and punish internal enemy “others,” combined with eugenic thinking, severely curtailed civil liberties for many people in Oregon and the nation. Comprehensive and compelling, Oregon’s Others examines the collision of civil liberties and persecution through the lens of gender, gender identity and presentation, ability, race, ethnicity, and class.

King Al

How Sharpton Took the Throne

Ron Howell

March 2024 178pp

9781531507299 £16.99/ $19.95 NIP

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS

An engaging read about the latetwentieth-century history of New York City politics and race relations, as well as about the remarkable staying power of the colorful, politically skillful, and enigmatic Reverend Al Sharpton, who has come to symbolize the continuing pursuit of justice for Blacks in the United States.

Marked Men

Black Politicians and the Racialization of Scandal

Nyron N. Crawford

May 2024 208pp 35 b&w images

9781479816330 £25.99/ $30.00 PB

9781479816323 £80.00/ $89.00 HB

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

In Marked Men, Nyron N. Crawford offers a novel perspective on political scandal, corruption, and racial politics in the United States. Contrary to traditional beliefs, Crawford argues that Black Americans view political misdeeds by Black elected officials through a lens of suspicion towards the criminal legal system.

Organizing Your Own

The White Fight for Black Power in Detroit

Say Burgin

Black Power

April 2024 288pp 10 b&w images

9781479814145 £29.99/ $35.00 HB

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

Organizing Your Own shows that the Black freedom movement never experienced a “white purge,” and it offers a new way of understanding Black Power’s relationship to white America. By focusing on Detroit from the mid-1960s through the mid-1970s, this volume illuminates a wide cross-section of white activists who took direction from Black-led groups like the Northern Student Movement.

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Performing Chinatown

Hollywood, Tourism, and the Making of a Chinese American Community

William Gow

Asian America

May 2024 272pp

9781503639089 £23.99/ $28.00 PB

9781503638099 £99.00/ $110.00 HB

STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

In 1938, China City opened near downtown Los Angeles which employed many Chinese Americans who performed as extras in the 1937 film The Good Earth. Gow argues that Chinese Americans in Los Angeles used these performances to shape widely held understandings of race and national belonging during this pivotal chapter in U.S. history.

Reworking Citizenship

Race, Gender, and Kinship in South Africa

Brady G'sell

August 2024 288pp

9781503639171 £27.99/ $32.00 PB

9781503636811 £116.00/ $130.00 HB

STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

In scenes eerily reminiscent of the apartheid era, July 2021 saw South Africa's streets filled with angry crowds burning and looting shops. G’Sell details the broiling discontent around political belonging exposed by these and similar uprisings. Through long-term fieldwork with impoverished black women living in South Africa's third largest city, G'Sell highlights how they strive to rework political institutions that effectively exclude them.

Scripts of Blackness

Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race

Noémie Ndiaye

Series edited by Geraldine Heng and Ayanna Thompson

RaceB4Race: Critical Race Studies of the Premodern

February 2024 376pp 20 b&w halftones

9781512826074 £25.99/ $29.95 NIP

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS

Attempts to grasp the stories that Western Europeans told themselves through performative blackness, and the effects of those fictions on early modern Afrodiasporic subjects. Ndiaye explores the techniques of impersonation used by white performers to represent Afro-diasporic people in England, France, and Spain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Racing to Justice

Transforming Our Conceptions of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society

john a powell

Foreword by Elsadig Elsheikh

July 2024 352pp

9780253069740 £23.99/ $28.00 PB

INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS

john a. powell's thought provoking book offers the reader a look into the issues that continue to plague our society. It is reminder that we have yet to address and concur with the challenges we face in providing equal opportunities for all people in this country and the world.

Rolling

Blackness and Mediated Comedy

April 2024 220pp 25 b&w illus.

9780253068880 £25.99/ $30.00 PB

9780253068873 £58.00/ $65.00 HB

INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS

Rolling centers Blackness in comedy, especially on television, and observing that it is often relegated to biopics, slave narratives, and the comedic. But like W. E. B. DuBois's ideas about double consciousness and Racquel Gates's extension of his theories, we know that Blackness resonates for Black viewers in ways often entirely different than for white viewers.

The Coloniality of the Secular Race, Religion, and Poetics of World-Making

Yountae An

January 2024 240pp

9781478025108 £22.99/ $26.95 PB

9781478020127 £92.00/ $102.95 HB

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

An Yountae investigates the collusive ties between the modern concepts of the secular, religion, race, and coloniality in the Americas, showing how decolonial thought incorporates religion into its vision of liberation.

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The Color Black

Enslavement and Erasure in Iran

Beeta Baghoolizadeh

March 2024 248pp 33 illus., including 5 in color

9781478030249 £22.99/ $26.95 PB

9781478026013 £92.00/ $102.95 HB

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Baghoolizadeh draws on photographs, architecture, theater, circus acts, newspapers, films, and more to document how the politics of visibility framed discussions around enslavement and abolition during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In this way, Baghoolizadeh makes visible the people and histories that were erased from Iran and its diaspora.

The Only Way Out

The Racial and Sexual Performance of Escape

Katherine Brewer Ball

April 2024 224pp 13 illus.

9781478030270 £22.99/ $26.95 PB

9781478026044 £92.00/ $102.95 HB

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Drawing on Black studies, queer theory, and performance studies, Brewer explores the American fascination with the escape story and argues that escape is a key site for exploring American conceptions of freedom and constraint.

The Rage of Replacement

Far Right Politics and Demographic Fear

Michael Feola

June 2024 232pp 11 b&w illus.

9781517916800 £16.99/ $19.95 PB

9781517916794 £72.00/ $80.00 HB

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS

The “Great Replacement” narrative, which imagines that historic white majorities are being replaced through immigration policies, has effectively mobilized nativist movements in the United States and Europe. The Rage of Replacement tracks how this narrative has shaped the far right, binding its various camps into a community of rage obsessed with nostalgia for a white-supremacist past.

The End of Peacekeeping

Gender, Race, and the Martial Politics of Intervention

Marsha Henry

April 2024 208pp

9781512825237 £49.00/ $55.00 HB

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS

Makes use of feminist, postcolonial, and anti-militarist frameworks to expose how peacekeeping should be abolished. Drawing on critical concepts from Black feminist thought, postcolonial and critical race theories, Henry shows how contemporary peacekeeping produces gender and racial inequalities based on data amassed through more than fifteen years of ethnographic fieldwork.

The Promise of Youth Anti-Citizenship

Race and Revolt in Education

May 2024 248pp

9781517912475 £23.99/ $28.00 PB

9781517912468 £100.00/ $112.00 HB

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS

The Promise of Youth Anti-citizenship argues that Black youth and youth of color have been cast as anticitizens, disenfranchised from the mainstream of American life. Through a range of methodological approaches and conceptual interventions, this collection illuminates how youth negotiate and exercise anti-citizenship as forms of refusal in response to coercive patriotism, cultural imperialism, and predatory capitalism.

The Residential Is Racial

A Perceptual History of Mass Homeownership

Adrienne Brown

Post*45

March 2024 406pp

9781503638648 £25.99/ $30.00 PB

9781503636941 £108.00/ $120.00 HB

STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Examines how mass homeownership remade the rubrics of race, from the early cases realtors made for homeownership's necessity to white survival through to the 1968 Fair Housing Act. Brown reveals that redlining and other forms of racial discrimination are perceptual modes, changing what it meant to sense race and assign it value.

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Third Worlds Within

Multiethnic Movements and Transnational Solidarity

Daniel Widener

Foreword by Vijay Prashad

April 2024 384pp 69 illus., including 8 in color

9781478030164 £26.99/ $30.95 PB

9781478025917 £103.00/ $114.95 HB

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Highlighting the key strategic role played by US communities of color in efforts to defeat the conjoined forces of capitalism, racism, and imperialism Widener produces a new understanding of history that informs contemporary social struggle.

Without a Prayer

Religion and Race in New York City Public Schools

Leslie Beth Ribovich

North American Religions

June 2024 256pp 7 b&w images

9781479817276 £25.99/ $30.00 PB

9781479817269 £80.00/ $89.00 HB

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

Drawing on research, Without a Prayer shows how religion and racial discrimination were woven into the very fabric of public schools, continuing to inform public education’s everyday practices even after the Supreme Court rulings. Without a Prayer redefines secularization and desegregation as intrinsically linked, using New York City as a window into a national story.

Bayard Rustin

A Legacy of Protest and Politics

February 2024 256pp

9781479818495 £23.99/ $27.95 HB

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

Celebrates the life and legacy of Bayard Rustin, the civil rights leader behind the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. This volume draws a full picture of Bayard Rustin: a gay, pacifist, socialist political radical who changed the course of US history and set a precedent for future civil rights activism.

Traveling without Moving

Essays from a Black Woman Trying to Survive in America

Taiyon J. Coleman

May 2024 160pp

9781517913298 £15.99/ $18.95 PB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS

In Traveling without Moving, Coleman shares intimate life essays her childhood in Chicago, being the only Black student in a prestigious creative writing program, institutional racism and the inherent contradictions between American ideals and Black reality. Using a powerful blend of perspectives, Coleman’s writing evinces how a Black woman in America is always on the run.

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Asians on Demand

Mediating Race in Video Art and Activism

Feng-Mei Heberer

September 2023 200pp 23 b& w illus.

9781517914813 £21.99/ $25.00 PB

9781517914806 £90.00/ $100.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS

Grapples with the pressing question of whether representation is enough to advance racial justice. Surveying a contemporary, cutting-edge archive of video works from the Asian diaspora in North America, Europe, and East Asia, this book uncovers the ways that diasporic artists challenge the narrow— and damaging—conceptions of Asian identity pervading mainstream media.

Black Enlightenment

Surya Parekh

August 2023 216pp

9781478025191 £21.99/ $25.95 PB

9781478020264 £90.00/ $99.95 HB

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Reimagines the Enlightenment from the position of the Black subject. Parekh examines the work of such Black writers as the free Jamaican Francis Williams (1697–1762), Afro-British thinker Ignatius Sancho (ca. 1729–1780), and Afro-American poet Phillis Wheatley (ca. 1753–1784) alongside that of their white European contemporaries David Hume (1711-1776) and Immanuel Kant (1724-1804).

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Governing the Displaced

Race and Ambivalence in Global Capitalism

Ali Bhagat

February 2024 192pp

9781501773617 £23.99/ $27.95 PB

9781501773600 £112.00/ $125.00 HB

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS

Governing the Displaced answers a straightforward question: how are refugees governed under capitalism in this moment of heightened global displacement? In its intersectional engagement with theories of racial capitalism with respect to right-wing populism the book is a timely and necessary contribution to the field of migration studies and to political economy.

Not My Type

Automating Sexual Racism in Online Dating

Apryl Williams

Foreword by Safiya Noble

February 2024 232pp

9781503635050 £23.99/ $28.00 PB

9781503635043 £81.00/ $90.00 HB

STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

In, Not My Type, Apryl Williams presents a sociotechnical exploration of dating platforms' algorithms, their lack of transparency, the legal and ethical discourse in these companies' community guidelines, and accounts from individual users in order to argue that sexual racism is a central feature of today's online dating culture.

Race and Police

The Origin of Our Peculiar Institutions

Ben Brucato

Critical Issues in Crime and Society

September 2023 266pp

9781978834484 £29.99/ $34.95 PB

9781978834491 £108.00/ $120.00 HB

RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS

Race and Police corrects the Eurocentrism in the orthodox history of American police and in predominating critical theories of police. That orthodoxy rests on an origin story that begins with Sir Robert Peel and the London Metropolitan Police Service. Predating the Met by more than a century, America’s first police, often called slave patrols, did more than maintain order—it fabricated a racial order.

January 2024 208pp

Moving from the Margins

Life Histories on Transforming the Study of Racism

Stanford Studies in Comparative Race and Ethnicity

9781503637429 £21.99/ $25.00 PB

9781503633490 £76.00/ $85.00 HB

STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

In this collection prominent sociologists reflect on their career and how their personal experiences have shaped their contribution to understanding racism, both in scholarly and public debate.

Primitive Normativity Race, Sexuality, and Temporality in Colonial Kenya

Elizabeth W. Williams

January 2024 240pp

9781478025498 £22.99/ $26.95 PB

9781478020714 £92.00/ $102.95 HB

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Traces the genealogy of a narrative about the primitive normativity of African sexuality that British colonial authorities in Kenya used to justify their control over African populations. Williams demonstrates how narratives of African sexual normativity, rather than deviance, reinforced ideas about the evolutionary backwardness of African peoples and their inability to govern themselves.

The Violence of Recognition

Adivasi Indigeneity and AntiDalitness in India Pinky Hota

The Ethnography of Political Violence

November 2023 232pp 2 maps

9781512824858 £27.99/ $32.50 PB

9781512824841 £108.00/ $120.00 HB

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS

An unprecedented firsthand account of the operations of Hindu nationalists and their role in sparking the largest incident of anti-Christian violence in India’s history. Hota explores the roots of ethnonationalist conflict between two historically marginalized groups, the Kandha, and the Paana and documents how Hindutva mobilization led to large-scale violence.

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