SOCIOLOGY Spring 2020 Including disability, health, race & work studies
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A Recipe for Gentrification
Coming of Age in Iran
Poverty and the Struggle for Dignity
Food, Power, and Resistance in the City
Manata Hashemi
Critical Perspectives on Youth May 2020 256pp 18 hts 9781479881949 £24.99/$30.00 PB 9781479876334 £77.00/$89.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Edited by Alison Hope Alkon, Yuki Kato & Joshua Sbicca
July 2020 384pp 26 hts / 4 t / 4 figs / 6 m 9781479811373 £28.99/$35.00 PB 9781479834433 £85.00/$99.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing on first-hand accounts, shows how the young Iranians known as the “burnt generation”—those who came of age after Iran’s How gentrification uproots the urban food 1979 Islamic Revolution—face their future landscape, and what activists are doing to resist it prospects. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
Crimmigrant Nations
Degrees of Separation
Resurgent Nationalism and the Closing of Borders
Identity Formation While Leaving Ultra-Orthodox Judaism
Edited by Robert Koulish & Maartje van der Woude
Schneur Zalman Newfield April 2020 248pp 9781439918968 £27.99/$34.95 PB 9781439918951 £82.00/$99.50 HB TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
March 2020 416pp 9780823287499 £27.99/$34.95 PB 9780823287482 £103.00/$125.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Those who exit a religion often find themselves at sea in their efforts to transition to life beyond their community. Degrees of Separation includes interviews 74 Lubavitch and Satmar ultraOrthodox Hasidic Jews who left their communities. Excludes Asia Pacific
Crimmigrant Nations examines the parallel rise of anti-immigrant sentiment and right-wing populism in both the US and Europe to offer an unprecedented look at this issue on an international level.
Disruptive Situations
Dreams of the Overworked
Fractal Orientalism and Queer Strategies in Beirut
Living, Working, and Parenting in the Digital Age
Ghassan Moussawi
July 2020 218pp 9781439918500 £23.99/$29.95 PB 9781439918494 £78.00/$94.50 HB TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Christine M. Beckman & Melissa Mazmanian
June 2020 336pp 9781503602557 £22.99/$28.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Disruptive Situations challenges representations of contemporary Beirut as an exceptional space for LGBTQ people by highlighting everyday life in a city where violence is the norm. Excludes Asia Pacific
Beckman and Mazmanian offer vivid sketches of daily life for nine families, capturing what it means to live, work, and parent in a world of impossible expectations, now amplified unlike ever before by smart devices.
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Equity in Science
Governing the Social in Neoliberal Times
Representation, Culture, and the Dynamics of Change in Graduate Education
Edited by Deborah R. Brock May 2020 328pp 9780774860918 £21.99/$35.95 NIP UBC PRESS
Julie R. Posselt
July 2020 272pp 9781503612716 £22.99/$28.00 PB 9781503608702 £77.00/$90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
This accessible but theoretically sophisticated volume reveals how neoliberalism – as both an economic project and a broader political approach – has come to govern our daily lives, our understanding of the world we live in, and even how we think about ourselves.
Makes the case that understanding how fieldspecific cultures develop is a crucial step for bringing about real change. She does this by examining existing equity, diversity, and inclusion efforts across the sciences.
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He Thinks He’s Down
Here, There, and Elsewhere
White Appropriations of Black Masculinities in the Civil Rights Era
The Making of Immigrant Identities in a Globalized World
Katharine Bausch
June 2020 176pp 5 b&w photos 9780774863728 $60.00/$75.00 HB UBC PRESS
Tahseen Shams
Globalization in Everyday Life August 2020 256pp 9781503612839 £22.99/$28.00 PB 9781503610699 £77.00/$90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
The end of the Second World War saw a “crisis of white masculinity” brought on by social, political, and economic change. In He Thinks He’s Down, Katharine Bausch explores the specific phenomenon of white men appropriating black masculinities to benefit from what they believed were powerful black masculinities.
Breaks new ground by showing how immigrants are vectors of globalization who both produce and experience the interconnectedness of societies of origin, destination, and the societies in places beyond.
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How the Working-Class Home Became Modern, 1900–1940
Hyper Education
Why Good Schools, Good Grades, and Good Behavior Are Not Enough
Thomas C. Hubka
Architecture, Landscape and Amer Culture July 2020 320pp 148 b&w photos 9780816693016 £34.00/$40.00 PB 9780816693009 £103.00/$120.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Pawan Dhingra
April 2020 352pp 9781479831142 £24.99/$29.95 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Looks at the education arms race of after-school learning, academic competitions, and the Reveals the transformation of average Americans’ perceived failure of even our best schools to domestic lives, revealed through the mechanical educate children. Shows why good schools, good innovations and physical improvements of their grades, and good behavior are seen as not homes. enough. Excludes Japan & ANZ
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Immigrant Japan
Overthrowing the Queen
Mobility and Belonging in an Ethno-nationalist Society
Telling Stories of Welfare in America
Gracia Liu-Farrer
April 2020 280pp 3 charts 9781501748622 £34.00/$39.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Tom Mould
August 2020 376pp 22 color 9780253048035 £28.99/$35.00 PB 9780253048028 £108.00/$125.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Gracia Liu-Farrer illuminates the lives of immigrants in Japan by bringing in sociological, geographical, and psychological theories—guiding the reader through life trajectories of migrants of various backgrounds, while also going so far as to suggest that Japan is already an immigrant country.
In 1976, Reagan hit the campaign trail with an extraordinary account of a woman committing massive welfare fraud. The story caught fire and a devastating symbol of the misuse government programs was born: the Welfare Queen.
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Pursuing Citizenship in the Enforcement Era
Relations
An Anthropological Account
Marilyn Strathern
Constructing Affirmative Immigration
April 2020 280pp 1 illus. 9781478008354 £21.99/$26.95 PB 9781478007845 £86.00/$99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Ming Hsu Chen
July 2020 280pp 9781503612754 £22.99/$28.00 PB 9781503608160 £77.00/$90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Marilyn Strathern provides a critical account of anthropology’s key concept of relation and its usage and significance in the English-speaking world, showing how its evolving use over the last three centuries reflects changing thinking about knowledge-making and kinmaking.
Provides readers with the everyday perspectives of immigrants on what it is like to try to integrate into American society during a time when immigration policy is focused on enforcement and exclusion.
The Lives and Deaths of Shelter Animals
The Man in the Dog Park Coming Up Close to Homelessness
Cathy A. Small With Jason Kordosky & Ross Moore
The Lives and Deaths of Shelter Animals
Katja M. Guenther
April 2020 200pp 1 b&w line drawing 9781501748783 £18.99/$22.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
August 2020 312pp 9781503612853 £22.99/$28.00 PB 9781503612037 £77.00/$90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Man in the Dog Park offers the reader a rare window into homeless life. Spurred by a personal relationship with a homeless man who became her co-author, Cathy A. Small takes a compelling look at what it means and what it takes to be homeless.
Inside one of the US’s highest intake shelters, Guenther met countless animals and saw the dramatic variance in the narratives assigned them and, ultimately, their chances for survival. She argues that these inequalities are linked to human ideas about race, class and gender.
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The Sociology of W. E. B. Du Bois
The Trouble with Snack Time
Racialized Modernity and the Global Color Line
Children’s Food and the Politics of Parenting
José Itzigsohn & Karida L. Brown
Jennifer Patico
August 2020 250pp 9781479845989 £24.99/$30.00 PB 9781479835331 £77.00/$89.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
March 2020 304pp 1 halftone 9781479804177 £24.99/$30.00 PB 9781479856770 £77.00/$89.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing on interviews and ethnographic observation, details the dilemma for parents stuck between a commitment to social inclusion and a desire for control of their children’s eating.
The 1 comprehensive understanding of Du Bois, provides a comprehensive introduction to the founding father of American sociological thought. st
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Trans-Affirmative Parenting
Transnational Nationalism and Collective Identity among the American Irish
Raising Kids Across the Gender Spectrum
Elizabeth Rahilly
July 2020 250pp 1 table 9781479817153 £22.99/$28.00 PB 9781479820559 £77.00/$89.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Howard Lune
June 2020 248pp 9781439918197 £27.99/$34.95 PB 9781439918180 £82.00/$99.50 HB TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Interviews parents of transgender and gendernonconforming kids, and medical doctors, endocrinologists, mental health practitioners, advocates, and educators, to present their fascinating stories.
Lune considers the development and mobilization of different nationalisms over 125 years of Irish diasporic history and how these campaigns defined the Irish nation and Irish citizenship.
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Living on the Spectrum Autism and Youth in Community
Whose Game?
Gender and Power in Fantasy Sports
Elizabeth Fein
Anthropologies of American Medicine: Culture, Power, and Practice July 2020 304pp 9781479889068 £24.99/$30.00 PB 9781479864355 £77.00/$89.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Rebecca Joyce Kissane & Sarah Winslow
Sporting April 2020 257pp 9781439918876 £27.99/$34.95 PB 9781439918869 £78.00/$94.50 HB TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Argues that current medical models are ill equipped to deal with the challenges of discussing autism-related conditions. Youths on the autism spectrum are reaching beyond medicine, drawing instead on shared mythologies from popular culture.
Fantasy sports have the opportunity to provide a sporting community in which gendered physical presence plays no role—a space where men and women can interact on a level playing field. Excludes Asia Pacific
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Ecopiety
Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory
Green Media and the Dilemma of Environmental Virtue
Patricia Hill Collins
August 2019 384pp 9781478006466 £25.99/$29.95 PB 9781478005421 £97.00/$109.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Sarah McFarland Taylor
Religion and Social Transformation November 2019 368pp 10 black and white illustrations 9781479891313 £24.99/$30.00 PB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Disability
Patricia Hill Collins offers a set of analytical tools for those wishing to develop The stories we encounter about the environment intersectionality’s capability to theorize social in popular culture too often promote an imagined inequality in ways that would facilitate social moral economy, assuring us that tiny acts of change. While intersectionality helps shed light voluntary personal piety can offset our on contemporary social issues, Collins notes that destructive habits. it has yet to reach its full potential as a critical Excludes SE Asia & ANZ social theory.
Accessible America
Allies and Obstacles
A History of Disability and Design
Disability Activism and Parents of Children with Disabilities
Bess Williamson
Allison C. Carey, Pamela Block & Richard Scotch
Crip May 2020 304pp 57 black and white illus. 9781479802494 £16.99/$19.95 NIP NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
June 2020 350pp 9781439916339 £27.99/$34.95 PB 9781439916322 £91.00/$109.50 HB TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Provides insight into a world in which we are all active participants, but often passive onlookers. Using stories takes us through this important history, showing how American ideas of individualism and rights came to shape the material world, often with unexpected consequences.
Parents of children with disabilities often situate their activism as a means of improving the world for their child. However, some disabled activists perceive parental activism as working against the independence and dignity.
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Between Fitness and Death
Decarcerating Disability
Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition
Disability and Slavery in the Caribbean
Liat Ben-Moshe
May 2020 376pp 4 b&w photos 9781517904432 £24.99/$30.00 PB 9781517904425 £103.00/$120.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy
Disability Histories May 2020 272pp 9780252085062 £21.99/$28.00 PB 9780252043192 £91.00/$110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Provides groundbreaking case studies that show how abolition is not an unattainable goal but rather a reality, and how it plays out in different arenas of incarceration—antipsychiatry, the field of intellectual disabilities, and the fight against the prison-industrial complex.
Examines the connections of enslavement and representations of disability in the context of Atlantic slavery. Illuminates the physical, emotional, and psychological impairments inflicted by slavery and endured by the enslaved.
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Disability Rights and Religious Liberty in Education
Law and Neurodiversity
Youth with Autism and the Juvenile Justice Systems in Canada and the United States
The Story behind Zobrest v. Catalina Foothills Schools District
Dana Lee Baker, Laurie A. Drapela & Whitney Littlefield
Bruce J. Dierenfield & David A. Gerber
July 2020 224pp 6 textboxes 9780774861366 £57.00/$85.00 HB UBC PRESS
Disability Histories June 2020 248pp 9780252085079 £21.99/$27.95 PB 9780252043208 £91.00/$110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Examines the history of institutionalization, the evolution of disability rights, and advances in juvenile justice in Canada and the US.
The history and jurisprudence of disability accommodation and educational mainstreaming.
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Literary Bioethics
Money, Marriage, and Madness
Animality, Disability, and the Human
The Life of Anna Ott
Kim E. Nielsen Disability Histories June 2020 168pp 9780252085017 £17.99/$22.00 PB 9780252043147 £91.00/$110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Maren Tova Linett
Crip July 2020 208pp 9781479801251 £22.99/$28.00 PB 9781479801268 £77.00/$89.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Reveals a woman whose whiteness and privileged place in society still failed to protect her. Tells the story of how the legal and medical cultures shaped one woman—and what her life tells us about power and society in 19th century America.
Uses literature to understand and remake our ethics regarding nonhuman animals, old and disabled human beings, and cloned posthumans. Grapples with fundamental questions of how we value different kinds of lives. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
Disabled Futures
A Framework for Radical Inclusion
Milo W. Obourn
Edited by Katie Aubrecht, Christine Kelly & Carla Rice
D/C: Dis/color January 2020 208pp 9781439917312 £23.99/$29.95 PB 9781439917305 £82.00/$99.50 HB TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Disability Culture and Politics May 2020 256pp 9780774863674 £60.00/$89.95 HB UBC PRESS
Disabled Futures makes an important intervention in disability studies by taking an intersectional approach to race, gender, and disability. Obourn reads disability studies, gender and sexuality studies, and critical race studies to develop a framework for addressing inequity.
As the global population ages, disability demographics are shifting. The Aging–Disability Nexus breaks new ground by bringing gerontology and disability studies into dialogue with each other through a variety of empirical, conceptual, and pedagogical approaches.
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The Aging–Disability Nexus
Adverse Events
AIDS and the Distribution of Crises
Health
Race, Inequality, and the Testing of New Pharmaceuticals
Edited by Jih-Fei Cheng, Alexandra Juhasz & Nishant Shahani
Jill A. Fisher
May 2020 250pp 4 Tables / 5 figs. 9781479862160 £24.99/$30.00 PB 9781479877997 £77.00/$89.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
April 2020 376pp 23 illus. 9781478008255 £23.99/$28.95 PB 9781478007777 £90.00/$104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Draws on two years of fieldwork in residential research clinics across the US and 268 interviews with volunteers and staff. An unprecedented view of the intersection of racial inequalities with pharmaceutical testing signals the dangers of this research enterprise to both social justice and public health.
The contributors to AIDS and the Distribution of Crises outline the myriad ways that the AIDS pandemic exists within a network of varied historical, overlapping, and ongoing crises borne of global capitalism and colonial, racialized, and gendered violence.
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Feeling Medicine
Home Care Fault Lines
How the Pelvic Exam Shapes Medical Training
Understanding Tensions and Creating Alliances
Kelly Underman
Cynthia J. Cranford
Biopolitics August 2020 320pp 8 figs 9781479893041 £28.99/$35.00 PB 9781479897780 £85.00/$99.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work June 2020 232pp 2 b&w line drawings 9781501749261 £21.99/$26.95 PB 9781501749254 £99.00/$115.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Offers the 1st in-depth examination of this essential, but seldom discussed, aspect of medical education. Underman contrasts the technical and emotional dimensions of learning to be a physician.
Illustrates how elderly and disabled people and the immigrant women workers who assist them in daily activities develop meaningful relationships despite their differences. Excludes ANZ
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More Than Medicine
Out of Milk
Nurse Practitioners and the Problems They Solve for Patients, Health Care Organizations, and the State
LaTonya J. Trotter
The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work April 2020 216pp 9781501748158 £16.99/$19.95 PB 9781501748141 £99.00/$115.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Everyday work of a group of nurse practitioners working on the front lines of US health care. Excludes ANZ
Infant Food Insecurity in a Rich Nation
Lesley Frank
June 2020 168pp 9780774862479 £50.00/$75.00 HB UBC PRESS
The breastfeeding paradox: why women who can least afford to buy infant formula are less likely to breastfeed. Frank reveals that what and how infants are fed is linked to the social and economic status of those who feed them. Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ
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Radical Care
The Impossible Clinic
Edited by Hi’ilei Hobart & Tamara Kneese
A Critical Sociology of EvidenceBased Medicine
February 2020 170pp 7 illus. 9781478008781 £11.99/$15.00 PB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Ariane Hanemaayer
April 2020 256pp 9780774862080 £19.99/$32.95 NIP UBC PRESS
In the aftermath of the 2016 U.S. presidential election, #selfcare exploded across media platforms. Situating discussions of care within a historical trajectory of feminist, queer, and Black activism, contributors to this special issue consider how individuals and communities receive and provide care in order to survive in environments that challenge their very existence.
Explores the conundrum of evidence-based medicine’s (EBM) attempt to translate evidence from medical research into recommendations for practice. Ironically, when medical institutions combine disciplinary regulations with EBM to produce clinical practice guidelines, the outcomes are antithetical to the aim.
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The Politics of the Opioid Epidemic
Thinking Differently about HIV/AIDS
March 2020 224pp 9781478008736 £12.99/$16.00 PB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Edited by Eric Mykhalovskiy & Viviane Namaste
Edited by Susan L. Moffitt & Eric M. Patashnik
Contributions from Critical Social Science
January 2020 372pp 9780774860710 £22.99/$37.95 NIP UBC PRESS
Leading political scientists provide new insights into the enduring features of American policy and practice that have influenced state-level and national responses to the ongoing opioid crisis. Key among these features is the persistent power of race in shaping public opinion of the opioid crisis.
Explores the limits of mainstream approaches to the HIV/AIDS epidemic and challenges readers to develop alternate solutions, emphasizing the value of critical social science perspectives. Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ
Self-Devouring Growth
Samantha Kwan & Jennifer Graves
Julie Livingston
Cosmetic Surgery, Boundary Work, and the Pursuit of the Natural Fake
A Planetary Parable as Told from Southern Africa
Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography September 2019 176pp 20 illustrations 9781478006398 £20.99/$23.95 PB 9781478005087 £79.00/$89.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
July 2020 222pp 9781439919330 £21.99/$27.95 PB 9781439919323 £76.00/$92.50 HB TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Most women who elect to have cosmetic surgery want a “natural” outcome—a discrete alteration of the body that appears unaltered. Under the Knife examines this theme in light of a cultural paradox.
Under capitalism, economic growth is seen as the key to collective well-being. Livingston shows that while consumption-driven growth may seem to benefit a particular locale, it produces a number of unacknowledged, negative consequences.
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Under the Knife
Race
A Violent Peace
Are You Entertained?
Race, Militarism, and Cultures of Democratization in Cold War Asia and the Pacific
Black Popular Culture in the Twenty-First Century
Edited by Simone C. Drake & Dwan K. Henderson
Christine Hong
Post*45 July 2020 328pp 9781503612914 £24.99/$30.00 PB 9781503603134 £77.00/$90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
February 2020 336pp 19 illus. 9781478006787 £22.99/$27.95 PB 9781478005179 £90.00/$104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
In this collection of essays, interviews, visual art, and artist statements on topics ranging from music and dance to Black Twitter and the NBA’s dress code, the contributors consider what culture and Blackness mean in the 21st century’s digital consumer economy.
A Violent Peace offers a radical cultural account of the midcentury transformation of the United States into a total-war state. Christine Hong examines the centrality of U.S. militarism to the Cold War cultural imagination.
Autochthonomies
Becoming Human
Transnationalism, Testimony, and Transmission in the African Diaspora
Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World
Zakiyyah Iman Jackson
Sexual Cultures May 2020 320pp 19 hts 9781479830374 £24.99/$30.00 PB 9781479890040 £77.00/$89.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Myriam J. A. Chancy
New Black Studies Series March 2020 264pp 9780252084911 £21.99/$28.00 PB 9780252043048 £91.00/$110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Jackson argues that African diasporic cultural production alters the meaning of being human and engages in imaginative practices of worldbuilding against a history of the bestialization and thingification of blackness.
Chancy lays out a radical new process that invites readers to see creations by artists of African descent as legible within the context of African diasporic historical and cultural debates.
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Black Privilege
Burgers in Blackface
Cassi Pittman Claytor
Naa Oyo A. Kwate
Modern Middle-Class Blacks with Credentials and Cash to Spend
Anti-Black Restaurants Then and Now
Culture and Economic Life May 2020 240pp 9781503613171 £21.99/$26.00 PB 9781503612105 £73.00/$85.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Forerunners: Ideas First July 2019 96pp 13 b&w illus. 9781517908027 £8.00/$10.00 PB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Explores the prevalence of racist restaurant branding in the US. Aunt Jemima is the face of pancake mix. Uncle Ben sells rice. Chef Rastus shills for Cream of Wheat. Stereotyped Black faces and bodies have long promoted retail food products that are household names.
In their own words, the subjects of this book present a rich portrait of the modern black middle-class, examining how cultural consumption is a critical tool for enjoying material comforts as well as challenging racism.
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Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.
Popular Black History in Postwar America
E. James West
February 2020 208pp 9780252084980 £19.99/$24.95 PB 9780252043116 £91.00/$110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Guided by Bennett Jr., the magazine’s senior editor and in-house historian, Ebony became a key voice in the popular black history revival that flourished after World War II.
Giving Form to an Asian and Latinx America Long Le-Khac
Stanford Studies in Comparative Race and Ethnicity March 2020 264pp 9781503612181 £22.99/$28.00 PB 9781503611467 £77.00/$90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Crossing distinct literatures, histories, and politics, Le-Khac reveals the intertwined story of contemporary Asian Americans and Latinxs through a shared literary aesthetic. Their transfictional literature creates expansive imagined worlds in which distinct stories coexist.
Home Rule
Identities and Interests
National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants
Race, Ethnicity, and Affinity Voting
Randy Besco
March 2020 240pp 29 tables, 19 charts 9780774838931 £21.99/$35.95 NIP UBC PRESS
Nandita Sharma
February 2020 368pp 9781478000952 £23.99/$28.95 PB 9781478000778 £90.00/$104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Sharma traces the historical formation and political separation of Natives and Migrants from the 19th century to the present to theorize the portrayal of Migrants as “colonial invaders.”
Identities and Interests offers an entirely new perspective on the role of racial and ethnic identities in Canadian elections. Using a series of experiments, as well as candidate and census data, Randy Besco demonstrates that selfidentification matters far more than self-interest, ideology, or policy. Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ
LatinX
Lift Every Voice and Swing
Claudia Milian
Forerunners: Ideas First December 2019 116pp 9781517909055 £8.00 /$10.00 PB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
LatinX has neither country nor fixed geography. LatinX, according to Claudia Milian, is the most powerful conceptual tool of the Latino/a present, an itinerary whose analytic routes incorporate the Global South and ecological devastation. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Black Musicians and Religious Culture in the Jazz Century
Vaughn A. Booker
July 2020 368pp 6 hts 9781479890804 £28.99/$35.00 PB 9781479892327 £85.00/$99.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
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 20th century. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
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Long Overdue
Open World Empire
The Politics of Racial Reparations
Race, Erotics, and the Global Rise of Video Games
Charles P. Henry
September 2009 268pp 9780814737415 £21.99/$27.00 PB 9780814736920 £77.00/$89.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Christopher B. Patterson
As the issue of reparations is brought to the national stage by figures such as Ta-Nehisi Coates, Long Overdue provides a mustread survey of the political and legislative efforts made toward reparations over the course of US history, and offers a new path toward establishing equality for Black Americans.
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Postmillennial Pop April 2020 344pp 27 Halftones 9781479895908 £28.99/$35.00 PB 9781479802043 £85.00/$99.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Video games draw on established discourses of Asia to provide an “Asiatic” space, a playful sphere of racial otherness that straddles notions of the queer, the exotic, the bizarre, and the erotic. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
Queering Family Trees
Otherwise Worlds
Against Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness
Race, Reproductive Justice, and Lesbian Motherhood
Edited by Tiffany Lethabo King, Jenell Navarro & Andrea Smith
Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study June 2020 392pp 9 illus. 9781478008385 £24.99/$29.95 PB 9781478007869 £95.00/$109.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Sandra Patton-Imani
June 2020 336pp 10 halftones 9781479814862 £24.99/$30.00 PB 9781479865567 £77.00/$89.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Shows presumptions of solidarity, antagonism, or incommensurability between Black and Native communities are insufficient.
Argues that significant barriers to family-making exist for lesbian mothers of color. Explores lives of an erased segment of the queer population, demonstrating that the seemingly “color blind” solutions offered by marriage equality do not rectify such inequalities. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
Racialized Media
Religion is Raced
The Design, Delivery, and Decoding of Race and Ethnicity
Edited by Matthew W. Hughey & Emma González-Lesser
May 2020 400pp 9781479814558 £28.99/$35.00 PB 9781479811076 £85.00/$99.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Understanding American Religion in the Twenty-First Century
Edited by Grace Yukich & Penny Edgell
July 2020 360pp 9781479808748 £28.99/$35.00 PB 9781479808670 £85.00/$99.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Makes the case that religion in America has generally been understood in ways that center The concept of “race,” and how it is represented in media, has continued to attract attention in the white Christian experiences of religion, and argues that all religion must be acknowledged as public eye. Editors provides a blueprint to this a raced phenomenon. new, ever-changing media landscape. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
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The Movement for Reproductive Justice
The Peculiar Afterlife of Slavery
Empowering Women of Color through Social Activism
The Chinese Worker and the Minstrel Form
Patricia Zavella
Caroline H. Yang
Social Transformations in American Anthropology May 2020 320pp 22 hts, (2 b+w, 20 color) 9781479812707 £25.99/$32.00 PB 9781479829200 £77.00/$89.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Asian America April 2020 304pp 9781503612051 £22.99/$28.00 PB 9781503610378 £77.00/$90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Shows how reproductive justice organizations’ collaborative work provides a compelling model for other groups to successfully influence change. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
Peculiar Afterlife of Slavery shows how the Chinese worker manifests the inextricable links between US literature, slavery, and empire, as well as the indispensable role of antiblackness as a cultural form in the United States.
Uniquely Okinawan
White Kids
Determining Identity During the U.S. Wartime Occupation
Growing Up with Privilege in a Racially Divided America
Courtney A. Short
Margaret A. Hagerman
World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension March 2020 272pp 9780823287727 £23.99/$30.00 PB 9780823288380 £87.00/$105.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Critical Perspectives on Youth February 2020 280pp 5 b&w illus. 9781479802456 £15.99/$18.95 NIP NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Recent
Zeroes in on affluent, white kids to observe how they make sense of privilege, unequal educational Explores how American soldiers, sailors, and opportunities, and police violence. Hagerman Marines considered race, ethnicity, and identity in considers the role that they and their families the planning and execution of the wartime play in the reproduction of racism and racial occupation of Okinawa, during and immediately inequality in America. after the Battle of Okinawa, 1945-1946. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
Slavery and the PostBlack Imagination
The Black Shoals
Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies
Edited by Bertram D. Ashe & Ilka Saal
January 2020 264pp 13 b&w illus. 9780295746630 £23.99/$30.00 PB 9780295746647 £79.00/$95.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Tiffany Lethabo King
Positions post-blackness as a productive category of analysis that brings into sharp focus recent developments in black cultural productions across various media. These ten essays investigate how millennial black cultural productions trouble long-held notions of blackness by challenging limiting scripts.
August 2019 304pp 16 illustrations 9781478006367 £23.99/$26.95 PB 9781478005056 £88.00/$99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Tiffany Lethabo King uses the shoal—an offshore geologic formation that is neither land nor sea— as metaphor, mode of critique, and methodology to theorize the encounter between Black studies and Native studies and its potential to create new epistemologies, forms of practice, and lines of critical inquiry.
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Work
A Precarious Game
Clocking Out
The Illusion of Dream Jobs in the Video Game Industry
The Machinery of Life in 1960s Italian Cinema
March 2020 222pp 9781501746536 £19.99/$23.95 PB 9781501746529 £99.00/$115.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
March 2020 152pp 26 b&w photos 9781517908553 £18.99/$23.00 PB 9781517908546 £79.00/$92.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Ergin Bulut
Karen Pinkus
An ethnographic examination of video game production. As Bulut demonstrates, rather than considering work simply as an economic matter based on trade-offs in the workplace, we should consider work and love as a question of democracy rooted in politics.
An original reflection on Italy’s postwar boom considers potentials for resistance in today’s neoliberal (dis)order. Clocking Out Challenges readers to think about labor, cinema, and machines as they are intertwined in complex ways in Italian cinema of the early ’60s.
Excludes ANZ
Excludes Japan & ANZ
Communists and Community
Contesting Precarity in Japan
Activism in Detroit’s Labor Movement, 1941-1956
The Rise of Nonregular Workers and the New Policy Dissensus
Ryan S. Pettengill
Saori Shibata
May 2020 282pp 9781439919057 £27.99/$34.95 PB 9781439919040 £91.00/$110.50 HB TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Seeks to reframe the traditional chronology of the Communist Party in the United States as a means to better understand the change that occurred in community activism in the mid-20th century. Excludes Asia Pacific
July 2020 200pp 11 charts 9781501749933 £22.99/$27.95 PB 9781501749926 £99.00/$115.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Details the new forms of workers’ protest and opposition that have developed as Japan’s economy has transformed over the past three decades and highlights their impact upon the country’s policymaking process. Excludes ANZ
Crafting the Movement
Despotism on Demand
Identity Entrepreneurs in the Swedish Trade Union Movement, 1920–1940
How Power Operates in the Flexible Workplace
Alex J. Wood
May 2020 204pp 1 chart 9781501748882 £21.99/$26.95 PB 9781501748875 £99.00/$115.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Jenny Jansson
July 2020 214pp 12 charts 9781501750014 £16.99/$19.95 PB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Presents an explanation of why the Swedish working class so unanimously adopted reformism during the interwar period. Jansson discusses the precarious time for the labor movement after the Russian Revolution in 1917 that sparked a trend towards radicalization among labor organizations. Excludes ANZ
Draws attention to the impact of flexible scheduling on managerial power and workplace control. When we understand paid work as a power relationship, argues Wood, we see how the spread of precarious scheduling constitutes flexible despotism; a novel regime of control within the workplace. Excludes ANZ
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Making It at Any Cost
The Birth of Solidarity
Matías Dewey
François R Ewald
Aspirations and Politics in a Counterfeit Clothing Marketplace
The History of the French Welfare State
June 2020 272pp 9781477321058 £39.00/$45.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Dewey dives deep into the world of La Salada to examine how market exchanges function outside the law and how agreements and norms develop in the economy for counterfeit clothing. Drawing on seven months of research and interviews, Dewey argues that aspirations for a better future shape garment workers’ everyday practices.
Edited by Melinda Cooper Translated by Timothy Scott Johnson
May 2020 312pp 9781478008231 £22.99/$27.95 PB 9781478007715 £90.00/$104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
First published in French in 1986 and appearing here in English for the first time—is one of the most important historical and philosophical studies of the rise of the welfare state.
Undoing Work, Rethinking Community
Wageless Life
A Manifesto for a Future beyond Capitalism
A Critique of the Social Function of Work
James A. Chamberlain
May 2020 192pp 9781501748448 £16.99/$19.95 NIP CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Argues that paid work and the civic duty to perform it substantially undermines freedom and justice. Chamberlain believes that to seize back our time and transform our society, we must abandon the deep-seated view that community is constructed by work, whether paid or not. Excludes ANZ
Ian G. R. Shaw & Marv Waterstone
Forerunners: Ideas First December 2019 142pp 9781517909260 £7.99/$10.00 PB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Provides a manifesto for building a future beyond the toxic failures of late-stage capitalism. Daring to imagine a new modes of economic existence the authors provide skills and tools for perceiving a post-capitalist future. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Workers in Hard Times
Working Alternatives
Edited by Leon Fink, Joan Sangster & Joseph A. McCartin
Edited by John C. Seitz & Dr. Christine Firer Hinze
A Long View of Economic Crises
Working Class in American History March 2020 320pp 9780252085123 £23.99/$30.00 NIP UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
American and Catholic Experiments in Work and Economy
This volume of essays connects the Great Recession of 2007–2009 to economic crises that took place in various industrialized nations across the globe. Editors rethink the relationship between capital and labor and the waged and unwaged.
Catholic Practice in North America July 2020 304pp 9780823288342 £27.99/$35.00 PB 9780823288359 £103.00/$125.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Explores economic life from a humanistic and multidisciplinary perspective, with a particular eye on religions’ implications in practices of work, management, supply, production, remuneration, and exchange.
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