Spring 2025 by NYU Press

Spring 2025

Dear Readers,

The world we live in grows ever more complex. At a time when some question the value of expertise, NYU Press books stand as evidence of the essential role of empirical knowledge and critical reflection in understanding our shared history, present, and future. Our authors push boundaries with clarity and insight, focusing on underrepresented perspectives. Supported by our home institution, our dedicated staff work diligently to evaluate, curate, produce, design, distribute, and publicize these works. But it is you—our readers—who complete the circle, creating a community around ideas that seek to transform what we know about the world and inspire collective action for a better future.

It is my pleasure to present the Spring 2025 season—my first as director of NYU Press. My heartfelt thanks go to my colleagues at NYU and NYU Press for making our books possible and to our brilliant authors for entrusting us with their work. From downtown NYC to the world, I look forward to being part of our shared intellectual community.

Sincerely,

Eric I. Schwartz, Ph.D. Director, NYU Press

THE GREAT MISCALCULATION

THE RACE TO SAVE NEW YORK CITY'S CITICORP TOWER

MICHAEL M. GREENBURG

How an engineering crisis threatened a career, a building, and the lives of countless New Yorkers

The Citicorp Center, a fifty-nine-story skyscraper built in 1977, immediately became one of the most recognizable features on the New York City skyline with its distinctive inclined roof and oddly placed support columns. Designed by one of the top structural engineers in the field, William LeMessurier, the tower would become the crown jewel of his professional career; In essence, he created a skyscraper on stilts. The building was a modern marvel – until it was revealed that it had a 1 in 16 chance of collapse.

The Great Miscalculation tells the riveting story of LeMessurier’s discovery of a fatal flaw in his building’s design and his decision to blow the whistle on himself, putting his reputation on the line in a race to save this iconic skyscraper. With hurricane season rapidly approaching, the structural design flaws of the Citicorp Tower posed a menacing danger. Meanwhile, the economic hardships and political turmoil of 1970s New York only compounded the obstacles to a massively expensive, never-before-seen structural redesign in the heart of downtown Manhattan.

A fascinating piece of overlooked New York City history, The Great Miscalculation tells the gripping narrative of a catastrophe averted in the nick of time.

“Brings the full, gripping story of the Citicorp Center to life with a compelling blend of technical insight and drama. Greenburg's writing powerfully conveys the courage and humility required to right a wrong.”

GRADY HILLHOUSE

AUTHOR OF ENGINEERING IN PLAIN SIGHT: AN ILLUSTRATED FIELD GUIDE TO THE CONSTRUCTED ENVIRONMENT

M. GREENBURG is a practicing attorney and former member and editor of the Pepperdine Law Review. He is the author of This Noble Woman, Myrtilla Miner and her Fight to Establish a School for African American Girls in the Slaveholding South, The Court-Martial of Paul Revere: A Son of Liberty & America’s Forgotten Military Disaster, and The Mad Bomber of New York: The Extraordinary True Story of the Manhunt that Paralyzed a City.

MICHAEL

WASHINGTON MEWS BOOKS

THE ORIGINS OF CRITICAL RACE THEORY

THE PEOPLE AND IDEAS THAT CREATED A MOVEMENT

AJA Y. MARTINEZ AND ROBERT O. SMITH

AJA Y. MARTINEZ is Associate Professor of English at the University of North Texas and the author of the awardwinning Counterstory: The Rhetoric and Writing of Critical Race Theory.

ROBERT O. SMITH is Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Texas and Enrolled Citizen of the Chickasaw Nation. He is the author of More Desired than Our Own Salvation: The Roots of Christian Zionism and Comprehending Christian Zionism: Perspectives in Comparison.

Explores the lives and intellectual influences of the creators of critical race theory

Critical race theory (CRT), a vital movement and discipline in American legal scholarship, has transformed our understanding of systemic racism. Yet despite insightful analysis revealing the threads of racism embedded in American institutions and society, it has been demonized by opponents at every turn, with numerous state legislators now seeking to ban its use in the classroom.

The Origins of Critical Race Theory weaves together the many sources of critical race theory, recounting the origin story for one of the most insightful and controversial academic movements in U.S. history. In addition to introducing readers to the tenets and key insights of critical race theory, Martinez and Smith explore the lives and intellectual influences of the movement’s founders, shedding light on how the many components of critical race theory eventually formed into a movement.

Through archival research and interviews with scholars like Derrick Bell, Richard Delgado, and Jean Stefancic, Aja Y. Martinez and Robert O. Smith provide the personal side of critical race theory. They reveal that despite the Marxist menace it has recently been made out to be, critical race theory is an organic extension of the Civil Rights movement, a deeply human and deeply American response to ongoing systemic injustice and inequity. An insightful exploration into the story of a movement, The Origins of Critical Race Theory narrates the hidden influences, fascinating characters, and intellectual struggles that informed critical race theory’s inception.

SECRETS OF THE KILLING STATE

THE UNTOLD STORY OF LETHAL INJECTION

CORINNA BARRETT LAIN

Lethal injection is nothing like what people think. This is its untold story.

In the popular imagination, lethal injection is a slight pinch and a swift nodding off to forever-sleep. It is performed by well-qualified medical professionals. It is regulated and carefully conducted. And it usually provides a “humane” death. In reality, however, not one of those things is true.

Secrets of the Killing State pulls back the curtain on this clandestine punishment practice, presenting a view of lethal injection that states have worked hard to hide. Botched executions are a part of this story, but they are just the tip of the iceberg. For all the suffering that we see, there is also suffering that we don’t see. Indeed, the story told here is even bigger than the executions themselves, for behind the scenes is where it unfolds. Fake science, torturous drugs, inept executioners, prison problems, and decades of state secrecy have created an execution method hard-wired to go wrong in countless ways.

The story of lethal injection is a story of gross incompetence, law breaking, torturous deaths, and a stunning indifference to the way in which human beings die at the hands of the state. These are the secrets of the killing state—all that we know from litigation files, scientific studies, investigative journalism, autopsy reports, interviews, and scholarship across a number of fields. Death penalty expert Corinna Barrett Lain uses this groundbreaking journey into the dark reality of lethal injection to shine a light on the American death penalty more broadly and show that the state at its most powerful moment is also the state at its worst.

We are now over 45 years into the lethal injection era, and most Americans still have no idea what states are doing in their name. It’s time they found out.

“A compelling, thoroughly researched, brilliantly written investigation… Disturbing, devastating and an urgent must read.”

BRYAN STEVENSON FOUNDER AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE

CORINNA BARRETT LAIN is S. D. Roberts & Sandra Moore Professor of Law at University of Richmond School of Law.

UNEQUAL LESSONS

SCHOOL DIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL INEQUALITY IN NEW YORK CITY

ALEXANDRA FREIDUS

ALEXANDRA FREIDUS is Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at the University of Connecticut.

“Breathes new life into what had become a stale debate over racial segregation in our nation's schools.... Written from the perspective of an educator and parent, Freidus' thoughtful approach to this topic prevents readers from adopting simplistic positions that villainize one side or the other. Instead, she leaves her readers with much to think about as they consider what can be done to address racial inequality and segregation in our nation's schools.”

PEDRO A. NOGUERA

Diversity and racial integration efforts are not sufficient to address educational inequality

New York City schools are among the most segregated in the nation. Yet over seven decades after the Brown v. Board of Education decision, New Yorkers continue to argue about whether school segregation matters. Amid these debates, Alexandra Freidus dives deep into the roots of racial inequality in diversifying schools, asking how we can better understand both the opportunities and the limits of school diversity and integration.

Unequal Lessons is based on six years of observations and interviews with children, parents, educators, and district policymakers about the stakes of racial diversity in New York City schools. The book examines what children learn from diversity, exploring both the costs and benefits of school integration. By drawing on students’ first-hand experiences, Freidus makes the case that although a focus on diversity offers many benefits to students, it often reinscribes, rather than diminishes, existing inequalities in school policy and practice. The idea of diversity for its own sake is frequently seen as the solution, with students of color presumed to benefit from their experiences with white students, while schools fail to address structural inequality. Though educators and advocates often focus on diversity out of a real desire to make a positive difference in students’ lives, this book makes clear the gaps between good intentions and educational injustice.

SUSPENDED EDUCATION

SCHOOL PUNISHMENT AND THE LEGACY OF RACIAL INJUSTICE

AARON KUPCHIK

How the historic resistance to racial desegregation in schools led to the overpunishment of students today

Every year, millions of public school students are suspended. This overused punishment removes students from the classroom, but it does not improve their behavior. Instead, suspension disrupts their education, harming the students, their families, and their schools. Black students suffer most within this broken system, experiencing a far greater risk of school punishment and the significant harms that accompany it. Many activists and scholars have considered how school punishment increases racial inequity, but few have thought to ask why. Why do we punish students the way we do, and why have we allowed this harmful practice to impact the lives of our nation’s children?

In Suspended Education, Aaron Kupchik takes readers to the root of the issue. Suspensions were not intended as a behavior management tool. Instead, they were designed to remove unwanted students from the classroom. Through statistical analysis and in-depth case studies of schools in Massachusetts and Delaware, Kupchik reveals how suspension rates skyrocketed after the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, serving as an unofficial means of removing Black children from newly desegregated schools. His groundbreaking research traces the legacy of these segregationist movements, demonstrating that school districts with more desegregation-related legal battles from the 1950s onward suspend more Black students today. Combining expert analysis with compelling, accessible prose, Kupchik makes a powerful case for the end of suspension and other exclusionary punishments. The result is a revelatory explanation of a pressing problem facing all children, parents, and educators today.

“Timely and terribly important.”

JONATHAN KOZOL

AUTHOR OF THE SHAME OF THE NATION: THE RESTORATION OF APARTHEID SCHOOLING IN AMERICA

AARON KUPCHIK is Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware. He is the author of many books including Homeroom Security: School Discipline in an Age of Fear and The Real School Safety Problem: The Long-Term Consequences of Harsh School Punishment. His book Judging Juveniles: Prosecuting Adolescents in Adult and Juvenile Courts won the 2007 American Society of Criminology Michael J. Hindelang Award for the Most Outstanding Contribution to Research in Criminology.

SEDITION

HOW AMERICA'S CONSTITUTIONAL ORDER EMERGED FROM VIOLENT CRISIS

MARCUS ALEXANDER GADSON

MARCUS ALEXANDER GADSON is Assistant Professor of Law at Campbell University and the author of articles published in places such as the UCLA Law Review and the Georgetown Law Journal.

“An engaging and persuasive account of how constitutional change in America—on issues ranging from the definition of democracy to the meaning of racial equality—often derives less from dispassionate political theorizing and more from fervent resistance to the existing constitutional order, often including violence.”

MICHAEL J. KLARMAN AUTHOR OF FROM JIM CROW TO CIVIL RIGHTS

How Americans have weathered constitutional crises throughout our history

Since protestors ripped through the Capitol Building in 2021, the threat of constitutional crisis has loomed over our nation. The foundational tenets of American democracy seem to be endangered, and many citizens believe this danger is unprecedented in our history. But Americans have weathered many constitutional crises, often accompanied by the same violence and chaos experienced on January 6. However, these crises occurred on the state level. In Sedition, Marcus Alexander Gadson uncovers these episodes of civil unrest and examines how state governments handled them.

Sedition takes readers through six instances of constitutional crisis: The Buckshot War, Dorr’s Rebellion, Bleeding Kansas, the Brooks-Baxter War, a successful terrorist campaign to overthrow South Carolina’s government during Reconstruction, and the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898. He chronicles these turbulent periods of violent anti-government conflict on the state level, explaining what it was like to experience coup d’états, rival governments fighting in the streets, and disputed elections that gave way to violence. As he addresses constitutional breakdown, Gadson urges Americans to pay increased attention to the risk of constitutional instability in their home states. His sweeping historical analysis provides new insights on the fight to protect democracy today.

As Americans mobilize to prevent future crises, Sedition reminds us that our constitutional order can fail, that democratic collapse is possible, and offers us advice on how to save our constitutional system.

THE OMNIVORE’S DECEPTION

WHAT WE GET WRONG ABOUT MEAT, ANIMALS, AND OURSELVES

JOHN SANBONMATSU

Offers the most powerful case yet for ending our exploitation of animals for food

Millions of Americans see themselves as “conflicted omnivores,” worrying about the ethical and environmental implications of their choice to eat animals. Yet their attempts to justify their choices only obscure the truth of the matter: in John Sanbonmatsu’s view, killing and eating animals is unethical, regardless of whether they are “free range” or factory farmed. Shattering the conventional wisdom around the meat economy, he reframes the question of animal agriculture from one of “sustainability” to one of existential and moral purpose, presenting a powerful case for the total abolition of the animal economy. In a rejoinder to Michael Pollan and other critics who have told us that we can have our meat and our consciences, too, he shows why “humane meat” is always a contradiction in terms.

The Omnivore’s Deception provides a deeply observed philosophical meditation on the nature of our relationship with animals. Peeling back the myriad layers of myth, falsehoods, and bad faith that keep us eating meat, the book offers a novel perspective on our troubled relations with animals in the food economy. The problem with raising and killing animals for food isn't just that it's “bad for the environment,” but the wrong way to live a human life.

A tour de force of moral philosophy and cultural critique, The Omnivore's Deception will change the way we think about meat, animals, and human purpose.

“This is perhaps the single best book ever written about animal suffering and why the world needs to go vegan. Few philosophers have spoken to us with such power and conviction on a matter of life and death— a matter as consequential for our own future as for the other animals... A masterpiece.”

JEFFREY MOUSSAIEF MASSON

AUTHOR OF WHEN ELEPHANTS WEEP

JUNE 17, 2025 | SOCIAL SCIENCE | 352 PAGES | 6 X 9 CLOTH: 9781479825967 | $30.00 NYUS (£25.99)

JOHN SANBONMATSU is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, MA. He is the editor of Critical Theory and Animal Liberation and author of The Postmodern Prince: Critical Theory, Left Strategy, and the Making of a New Political Subject

“This riveting and thought-provoking book traces the recent history of the belief that animals can be raised and killed “humanely.” Then it systematically demolishes that belief... A dazzling achievement.”

CAROL ADAMS

AUTHOR OF THE SEXUAL POLITICS OF MEAT

THE CULT OF CROSSFIT

CHRISTIANITY AND THE AMERICAN EXERCISE PHENOMENON

KATIE ROSE HEJTMANEK

KATIE ROSE HEJTMANEK is Professor of Anthropology and Children and Youth Studies at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. She is the author of Friendship, Love, and Hip Hop: An Ethnography of African American Men in Psychiatric Custody and co-editor of Gender and Power in Strength Sports: Strong as Feminist. She is also a world and national champion in masters weightlifting.

The Christian foundations of CrossFit

CrossFit in the United States has become increasingly popular, around which a fascinating culture has developed which shapes everyday life for the people devoted to it. CrossFit claims to be many things: a business, a brand, a tremendously difficult fitness regimen, a community, a way to gain salvation, and a method to survive the apocalypse. In The Cult of CrossFit, Katie Rose Hejtmanek examines how this exercise program is shaped by American Christian values and practices, connecting American religious ideologies to secular institutions in contemporary American culture. Drawing upon years of immersing herself in CrossFit gyms in the United States and across six continents, this book illustrates how US CrossFit operates using distinctly American codes, ranging from its intensity and patriarchal militarism to its emphasis on (white) salvation and the adoration of the hero and vigilante. Despite presenting itself as a secular space, Hejtmanek argues that CrossFit is both heavily influenced by and deeply intertwined with American Christian values. She makes the case that the Christianity that shapes CrossFit is the Christianity that shapes much of America, usually in ways we do not even notice. Offering a new cross-cultural perspective for understanding a popular workout, The Cult of CrossFit provides a window into a particularly American rendition of a Christian plotline, lived out one workout at a time.

“Katie Hejtmanek has provided brilliant insights into how Christianity in America is tied to the meaning that followers of CrossFit find in their regimen and community.”

JAMES V. WERTSCH WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS

BLACK RELIGION IN THE MADHOUSE

RACE AND PSYCHIATRY IN SLAVERY'S WAKE

JUDITH WEISENFELD

How white psychiatrists pathologized African American religions

In the decades after the end of slavery, African Americans were committed to southern state mental hospitals at higher rates as white psychiatrists listed “religious excitement” among the most frequent causes of insanity for Black patients. At the same time, American popular culture and political discourse framed African American modes of spiritual power as fetishism and superstition, cast embodied worship as excessive or fanatical, and labeled new religious movements “cults,” unworthy of respect.

As Judith Weisenfeld argues in Black Religion in the Madhouse, psychiatrists’ notions of race and religion became inextricably intertwined in the decades after the end of slavery and into the twentieth century, and had profound impacts on the diagnosis, care, and treatment of Black patients. This book charts how racialized medical understandings of mental normalcy pathologized a range of Black religious beliefs, spiritual sensibilities, practices, and social organizations and framed them as manifestations of innate racial traits. Importantly, these characterizations were marshaled to help to limit the possibilities for Black selfdetermination, with white psychiatrists’ theories about African American religion and mental health being used to promote claims of Black people’s unfitness for freedom.

Drawing on extensive archival research, Black Religion in the Madhouse is the first book to expose how racist views of Black religion in slavery’s wake shaped the rise of psychiatry as an established and powerful profession.

JUDITH WEISENFELD is Agate Brown and George L. Collord Professor in the Department of Religion at Princeton University and author, most recently, of New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration.

GET IT OUT

ON THE POLITICS OF HYSTERECTOMY

ANDRÉA BECKER

ANDRÉA BECKER is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Hunter College-CUNY. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, and Slate.

Hysterectomy and the struggle for bodily and reproductive autonomy

At least one hysterectomy is performed every minute of the year, making it the most common gynecological surgery worldwide. By the age of sixty-five, one out of five people born with a uterus will have it removed. So, why do we seldom talk about this surgery? Highly performed yet overlooked, examining the paradox of hysterectomy begins to unravel the various problems with how we medically treat uteruses and the people who have them.

Get It Out weaves centuries of medical history with rich qualitative data from 100 women, trans men, and nonbinary people who had, want, or are considering hysterectomy. In compelling detail, Andréa Becker reveals how America’s healthcare system routinely deprives people of the ability to control their own bodies along race and gender lines. When people ask for a hysterectomy, they are often met with pushback: Are you sick enough? Old enough? Have you had enough babies? Will you regret this? How will your future husband feel about this? Yet this pushback is not equally experienced. While some people are barred access, others are ushered toward a hysterectomy. These contradictory recommendations reveal the persistent biases entrenched within healthcare.

Get It Out interrogates how little choice people with uteruses ultimately have over their reproductive health, and explores what these “choices” signify amid interlocking systems of inequality.

“An inclusive, compassionate, and clear-eyed investigation. Like hysterectomy itself, Get it Out speaks to the heart of who we are and how we inhabit our bodies.”

LEAH

HAZARD

AUTHOR

OF WOMB: THE INSIDE STORY OF WHERE WE ALL BEGAN

HOW TO QUEER THE WORLD

RADICAL WORLDBUILDING THROUGH VIDEO GAMES

BO RUBERG

What video games teach us about building a better world

What does it mean to build a world? Worldbuilding is traditionally understood as an expression of storytelling across media forms. Yet, as video games show us, worldbuilding does not necessarily need to center narrative elements. Instead, new worlds can allow us to reimagine existing structures, conventions, and constants. Doing so gives us the tools to queer the world around us.

How to Queer the World argues that video games provide us with keen insight into worldbuilding. With these insights come a new understanding of the ever-elusive ideals of queer worldmaking. Video games challenge us to address how worlds are built through underlying systems rather than surface-level representation. They also offer opportunities to envision alternate and queer ways of living, loving, desiring, and being. Each of the chapters in this book presents a close reading of a video game that illustrates one way of building worlds and encoding them with meaning, focusing on elements of digital media often overlooked as technical rather than cultural.

From the design of game mechanics and user interfaces to the use of graphics software and physics simulations, Bo Ruberg argues that these aspects of video games represent a critical toolkit for seeing the work of worldbuilding differently—in video games and beyond. Simultaneously, each of these video games models an approach to what Ruberg terms “queer worldbuilding.” Queer worldbuilding radically remakes the world by destabilizing the fundamental logics of our own universe: who we are, what we can do, how our bodies move, and how we exist within time and space.

BO RUBERG is Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine. They are the author of three books, Video Games Have Always Been Queer, The Queer Games Avant-Garde: How LGBTQ Game Makers Are Reimagining the Medium of Video Games, and Sex Dolls at Sea: Imagined Histories of Sexual Technologies

UNDESIRABILITY AND HER SISTERS

BLACK WOMEN'S VISUAL WORK AND THE ETHICS OF REPRESENTATION

TIFFANY E. BARBER

Racial and gender empowerment in art

Undesirability and Her Sisters charts a new genealogy of Black women’s art that exposes the unfinished project of racial and gender empowerment in the twenty-first century. Tiffany Barber argues that Black women’s social positions at the intersection of race, gender, sexuality, and class are inherently queer, thus spurring unexpected aesthetic strategies that throw into high relief the ethical terrain of what it means to be Black and a woman now. Through its unique, groundbreaking analysis, this book contributes to the ongoing discussions on the ethics of representation—the capacity to speak and act for oneself, to have significance and impact, and ultimately, to reject acknowledgment.

TIFFANY E. BARBER is Assistant Professor of African American Art at the University of California, Los Angeles.

MAY 20, 2025 | CULTURAL STUDIES | 320 PAGES | 6 X 9 | 34 B/W AND 24 COLOR FIGURES

SERIES: MINORITARIAN AESTHETICS | PAPER: 9781479829286 | $30.00 NYUS (£25.99)

CLOTH: 9781479829279 | $89.00 NYUX (£80.00)

FANDOM FOR US, BY US

THE PLEASURES AND PRACTICES OF BLACK AUDIENCES

ALFRED L. MARTIN, JR.

The convergence of the politics of representation and Black fan cultures

Boldly going where few fandom scholars have gone before, Fandom for Us, by Us breaks from our focus on white fandom to center Black fandoms. Alfred L. Martin, Jr., engages these fandoms through what he calls the “four C’s”: class, clout, canon, and comfort. Through 75 in-depth interviews with Black fans, Fandom for Us, by Us argues not only for the importance of studying Black fandoms, but also demonstrates their complexities by both coupling and decoupling Black reception practices from the politics of representation.

ALFRED L. MARTIN, JR is Associate Professor in the Department of Cinematic Arts at University of Miami. He is author of The Generic Closet: Black Gayness and the Black-Cast Sitcom, editor of Rolling: Blackness and Mediated Comedy, and co-editor of The Golden Girls: Essays from the Lanai.

APRIL 22, 2025 | CULTURAL STUDIES | 232 PAGES | 6 X 9 | 34 B/W FIGURES

SERIES: POSTMILLENNIAL POP | PAPER: 9781479824922 | $30.00 NYUS (£25.99)

CLOTH: 9781479824908 | $89.00 NYUX (£80.00)

TEARS FOR TEARS

AESTHETICS IN GRIEF MINOR

SANDRA RUIZ

How minoritarian artists grapple with both personal and collective grief

Tears for Tears documents moments of tension, negotiation, transformation, and incommensurability between singular loss and mass death through the work of contemporary minoritarian artists. These artists interrogate the cultural, social, and political enmeshment of death by questioning the interior and exterior conditions of loss. Charting communal, singular, ongoing, and impending loss due to statesanctioned violence, colonial racial capitalism, natural disaster, and social and personal circumstances, Sandra Ruiz underscores the affective entanglements across death that reshape the topography of grief into portals of possibility.

Drawing from original interviews, familial artifacts, images, and personal archival notes of artists—much of which have never been written about before—the project centers the minoritarian artist as living with and against death in everyday life and art practice. In doing so, the manuscript stages an archival and ideological intervention into the life of grief for minoritarian subjects and artists.

Moving across performance and video art, sculpture, dance, music, theatre, and poetry, Ruiz highlights the relationship between everyday life and staged events as a critical lens to rethink structures of colonial and imperial spatial temporalities of grief. Offering invaluable insights into the production of these works and performances, Ruiz reveals how these artists move across social, corporeal, and psychic constructions of sorrow in their art practices—often working from parental loss into the domain of communal death—and see grieving, however painful, as an act of empowerment, transformation, growth, and communal building.

SANDRA RUIZ is Sue Divan Associate Professor of Performance Studies in the Department of Theatre and English at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Ruiz is the author of Ricanness: Enduring Time in Anticolonial Performance, Left Turns in Brown Study, and the coeditor of the book series Minoritarian Aesthetics. Ruiz is also the producer of La Estación Gallery and the Minor Aesthetics Lab. JUNE 17, 2025 | CULTURAL STUDIES | 256 PAGES | 6 X 9 | 18 B/W AND 12 COLOR FIGURES SERIES: MINORITARIAN AESTHETICS | PAPER: 9781479826667 | $30.00 NYUS (£25.99)

9781479826650 | $89.00 NYUX (£80.00)

EATING MORE ASIAN AMERICA

A FOOD STUDIES READER

EDITED BY ROBERT JI-SONG KU, MARTIN F. MANALANSAN, ANITA MANNUR

The diversity of Asian American food culture

Eating More Asian America is a follow-up to the influential Eating Asian America, and it provides a rich illustration of the intersection of Asian America and its various foodways. Rather, food is a way of knowing, a way of being, and a way of understanding. The essays in Eating More Asian America convey the intellectual richness of various foodways as they intersect with and inform the racial and political construct known as “Asian America.”

ROBERT JI-SONG KU is Associate Professor of Asian and Asian American Studies at Binghamton University.

MARTIN F. MANALANSAN IV is Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick.

ANITA MANNUR is Director of the Asia, Pacific, and Diaspora Studies Program and Professor of Critical Race, Gender and Culture Studies at American University.

CRITICAL DREAMING

FEMINIST PERFORMANCES ACROSS THE INDIGENOUS AMERICAS

LILIAN MENGESHA

Ways of knowing against colonialism

Indigenous artists aim to recontextualize state-sponsored instances of violence by creating works grappling with time, ancestry, and relationality. Lilian Mengesha interprets the works of these artists within a decolonial context through an aesthetic frame she calls “critical dreaming.” Critical Dreaming offers a resonant framework for understanding Indigenous embodied ways of knowing that work against colonial attempts to discredit or disappear forms of imagination, relationality, and resistance connecting disparate Indigenous communities. This powerful book urges readers to recognize how Indigenous artists contribute to ongoing struggles against multiple forms of colonialism.

LILIAN MENGESHA is Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies and affiliate faculty in the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora at Tufts University.

MAY 20, 2025 | CULTURAL STUDIES | 256 PAGES | 6 X 9 | 26 B/W AND 10 COLOR FIGURES

PAPER: 9781479835386 | $30.00 NYUS (£25.99) | CLOTH: 9781479835379 | $89.00 NYUX (£80.00)

AFTER MASS MEDIA

STORYTELLING FOR MICROAUDIENCES IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

AMANDA D. LOTZ

The cultural role of screen storytelling in society

Delving into the changing landscape of commercial screen storytelling, After Mass Media explores how industrial shifts and technological advancements have remade the narrative landscape over the past two decades. By examining the internationalization of screen businesses, the rise of streaming services with multi-territory reach, and the stories made for this environment, this book sheds light on the profound transformations in television and film production and circulation.

AMANDA D. LOTZ is Professor in the Digital Media Research Center at Queensland University of Technology and the author and editor of several books, including Netflix and Streaming Video: The Business of Subscriber-funded Video on Demand and Media Disrupted: Surviving Pirates, Cannibals, and Streaming Wars.

APRIL 15, 2025 | MEDIA STUDIES | 256 PAGES | 6 X 9 | 16 B/W FIGURES

SERIES: CRITICAL CULTURAL COMMUNICATION | PAPER: 9781479833900 | $30.00 NYUS (£25.99)

CLOTH: 9781479833887 | $89.00 NYUX (£80.00)

PRODUCING PRECARITY

THE COSTS OF MAKING TV IN POOR PLACES

CURTIS MAREZ

The hidden cost of TV production for communities of color

Producing Precarity is a long-overdue examination of the television industry’s practice of “offshoring” production to impoverished sites within the US. Curtis Marez focuses on state efforts to attract film and TV producers to poor places with tax incentives, discounted public lands, and subsidized infrastructures. He argues that these efforts result in the redistribution of wealth from poor people of color, Indigenous people, and other taxpayers to Los Angelesbased media makers.

CURTIS MAREZ is Professor in the Ethnic Studies Department at the University of California. He is the former editor of American Quarterly, the official journal of the American Studies Association (ASA), and also past president of ASA. He is the author of Drug Wars: The Political Economy of Narcotics, Farm Worker Futurism: Speculative Technologies of Resistance, and University Babylon: Film and Race Politics on Campus.

AUGUST 26, 2025 | MEDIA STUDIES | 288 PAGES | 6 X 9 | 39 B/W FIGURES

SERIES: POSTMILLENNIAL POP | PAPER: 9781479836727 | $30.00 NYUS (£25.99

CLOTH: 9781479836703 | $99.00 NYUX (£89.00)

WHATSAPP IN THE WORLD

DISINFORMATION, ENCRYPTION, AND EXTREME SPEECH

EDITED BY SAHANA UDUPA AND HERMAN WASSERMAN

A global analysis of the vastly popular instant messaging service

WhatsApp in the World is the first study to offer a systematic global view of the encrypted instant messaging service. From election manipulations in South Africa and Nigeria to Russian diaspora activism in Europe, this volume demonstrates how many core features of WhatsApp—from disappearing messages and quick forwards to group chats and calls—allow for the amplification of disinformation and extreme speech. Highlighting complex political dynamics on the ground, it also introduces the significant methodological challenges of studying encrypted messaging services.

SAHANA UDUPA is Professor of Media Anthropology at the University of Munich (LMU) and author of Making News in Global India: Media, Publics, Politics.

HERMAN WASSERMAN is Professor of Journalism at Stellenbosch University. He is the author of Tabloid Journalism in South Africa; Media, Geopolitics, and Power: A View from the Global South and The Ethics of Engagement: Media, Conflict and Democracy in Africa.

SOCIAL MEDIA AND ORDINARY LIFE

AFFECT, ETHICS, AND ASPIRATION IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA

CARA WALLIS

How Chinese citizens use social media

Focusing on domestic workers, rural microentrepreneurs, disadvantaged young creatives, and young feminists, Social Media and Ordinary Life is a deeply moving ethnography of how digital media infrastructures and platforms are woven into the rhythms of ordinary, everyday life. Amid daunting forces—big data, artificial intelligence, massive surveillance—this book centers the “small,” showing how structural inequality, the urban/rural divide, patriarchal gender norms, and generational differences lead to contradictory or ambivalent outcomes of technology use.

CARA WALLIS is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Media at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Technomobility in China: Young Migrant Women and Mobile Phones.

TARGETED CORPORATIONS AND THE

POLICE

SURVEILLANCE ECONOMY

KELLY GATES

How video transformed policing and security

Video cameras are everywhere. In Targeted, Kelly Gates argues that the resulting avalanche of video has transformed the landscape of policing and security in the twenty-first century. Case studies of Target Corporation and Axon Enterprise illustrate the role of corporations in these farreaching media-technological changes. Targeted reveals the role of video infrastructure development in the increasingly entangled relationship between the modern police and the modern corporation, in the long wake and ruins of neoliberalism.

KELLY GATES is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of Our Biometric Future: Facial Recognition Technology and the Culture of Surveillance.

THE CRIMES OF DIGITAL CAPITALISM

CORPORATE CRIME IN AN AGE OF EXPLOITATION

AITOR JIMÉNEZ

Profiting from dependence

Aitor Jiménez explores the criminal structure of digital capitalism fostered by states and corporations along the supply chain, illustrating how the rise of algorithmic racism, the Googlization of education, and the deployment of AI surveillance/killing technologies brutally impacts the lives of millions of people around the world. Delving into the structural relation between capitalism and corporate crime in the digital age, The Crimes of Digital Capitalism argues that the massive social harms caused by large technology companies are criminal strategies necessary for the existence of digital capitalism.

AITOR JIMÉNEZ is Associate Professor in the Department of Law at the University of the Basque Country and the International Institute for the Sociology of Law.

UNLOCKING THE RED CLOSET

GAY MALE SEX WORKERS IN CHINA

EILEEN YUK-HA TSANG

An ethnographic investigation

In Unlocking the Red Closet, Eileen Yuk-ha Tsang takes us to an upscale gay bar in the port city of Tianjin in Northeastern China, where the male staff have sex with regular clientele. She brings this world to life through interviews with over two-hundred people, including gay male sex workers and their wives, known as “Tongqi” (heterosexual women married to gay men), transgender sex workers, HIV patients, and the doctors who care for them. Unlocking the Red Closet is a fascinating look into a rarely seen world that successfully locates the necropolitical within the queer and the queer within the necropolitical.

EILEEN YUK-HA TSANG is Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences at the City University of Hong Kong. She is the author of several books about China, including China's Commercial Sexscapes: Rethinking Intimacy, Masculinity, and Criminal Justice.

#METOO AND THE POLITICS OF TRANSNATIONAL FEMINISM AN ANTHOLOGY

EDITED BY CHAITANYA LAKKIMSETTI AND VANITA REDDY

The global context of a feminist movement

The debates about gender-based violence that #MeToo catalyzed were felt worldwide. The essays in this volume take a transnational and comparative feminist approach to #MeToo, focusing on the multiple ways that feminist voices from Argentina, Egypt, India, Pakistan, South Korea, the US, and the UK have pushed the boundaries of what counts as politics, justice, solidarity, violence, precarity, and vulnerability.

CHAITANYA LAKKIMSETTI is Associate Professor of Sociology and Women’s and Gender Studies at Texas A&M University. She is the author of Legalizing Sex: Sexual Minorities, AIDS, and Citizenship in India.

VANITA REDDY is Associate Professor of English at University of Texas A&M and the author of Fashioning Diaspora: Beauty, Feminity, and South Asia American Culture.

SEMINAL ON SPERM, HEALTH, AND POLITICS

EDITED BY RENE ALMELING, LISA CAMPO-ENGELSTEIN, AND BRIAN T. NGUYEN

The complexities and controversies at the nexus of sperm, health, and politics

In Seminal, experts from across the social sciences, humanities, law, and medicine offer a kaleidoscopic view of the relationship between sperm, health, and the intersecting politics of gender, race, and reproduction.

RENE ALMELING is Professor of Sociology at Yale University.

LISA CAMPO-ENGELSTEIN is Professor and Chair of Bioethics & Health Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch.

BRIAN T. NGUYEN is Associate Professor of Clinical Obstetrics & Gynecology at the University of Southern California, where he is also Program Director for the Fellowship in Complex Family Planning.

THE NEW REPRODUCTIVE ORDER TECHNOLOGY, FERTILITY, AND SOCIAL CHANGE AROUND THE GLOBE

EDITED BY SARAH FRANKLIN,MARCIA C. INHORN

The transformative impact of new reproductive technologies over the past half century

The New Reproductive Order documents the complex material, historical, and political forces that both enable and limit human reproductivity, while also arguing that both fertility and infertility have become condensed symbols of wider changes to family forms, national political agendas, global economies, and local environments. Combining anthropological, sociological, and intersectional feminist research from across the globe, this landmark volume reveals how changing perceptions of fertility and infertility are altering how people imagine, pursue, and experience reproductivity.

SARAH FRANKLIN is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. She has authored and edited fourteen anthologies and monographs.

MARCIA C. INHORN is the William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at Yale University. She is the author or coeditor of twenty-one volumes.

GARDENS OF HOPE

CULTIVATING FOOD AND THE FUTURE IN A POST-DISASTER CITY

YUKI KATO

Social changes through urban gardening and farming

There has been a historical trend of urban gardening gaining popularity during times of crisis. Gardens of Hope is the story of urban gardening in New Orleans in the decade after Hurricane Katrina. Yuki Kato highlights the impact urban gardens have on communities after disasters and the efforts of well-intended individuals envisioning alternative futures in the form of urban farming. Drawing on repeated interviews with residents who began cultivation projects in New Orleans between 2005 and 2015, Kato explains how good intentions and grit were not enough to implement or sustain urban gardeners’ visions for the post-disaster city’s future.

YUKI KATO is Associate Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University. She is the co-editor of A Recipe for Gentrification: Food, Power, and Resistance in the City.

HUMANITARIANISM FROM BELOW FAITH, WELFARE, AND THE ROLE OF CASAS DE MIGRANTES IN MEXICO

ALEJANDRO OLAYO-MÉNDEZ

Challenges the definition of humanitarian aid

Humanitarianism from Below examines the significance of casas de migrantes (migrant shelters) in the migration process in Mexico. The volume argues that faith-based humanitarian organizations’ work challenges traditional understandings of what counts as humanitarian aid. It makes the case that in order to understand the full ecology of migration, we need to understand not only how large organizations like the Red Cross work, but also how these smaller and local entities with fewer resources interact with migrants on their journeys. Alejandro Olayo-Méndez traveled along migrant routes several times in order to gain knowledge about how migrants move and how they interact with the migrant shelters. He offers a detailed look at the experiences and challenges of casas de migrantes in Mexico, situating these faith-based shelters as an integral part of Mexico’s humanitarian ecosystem.

ALEJANDRO OLAYO-MÉNDEZ is Assistant Professor of Social Work at Boston College.

A MOUSE IN A CAGE

RETHINKING HUMANITARIANISM AND THE RIGHTS OF LAB ANIMALS

CARRIE FRIESE

Questions the treatment of laboratory animals in biomedical research

Laboratory animals are often used to develop medical treatments, yet the scientific community's dependence on laboratory animals and the recognition of the need to treat these animals with respect and compassion has given rise to a profound tension. Friese proposes a new approach to the treatment of laboratory animals that recognizes the interconnectedness of all species and how human actions impact the welfare of other species and the planet as a whole. A Mouse in a Cage is an essential contribution to the ongoing conversation about the ethical treatment of animals.

CARRIE FRIESE is Associate Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is the author of Cloning Wild Life: Zoos, Captivity, and the Future of Endangered Animals.

JUNE 24, 2025 | SOCIAL SCIENCE | 224 PAGES | 6 X 9

CARBON CAPITAL CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE ETHICS OF OIL INVESTING

SEAN FIELD

Surprising insights into the worldviews of oil and gas financiers

Drawing on four years of ethnographic work in Houston, Texas, the financial center of the oil industry, Carbon Capital explores how oil financiers decide what a good investment is, and how they incorporate ethics into their decision making. His interviews and observations demonstrate that the people who finance the energy industries are actually deeply concerned with ethics, but the choices they make are ultimately guided by a combination of how they perceive the historical context in which they operate, their faith, which is largely religious Christian; their financial interests; plus the capitalist system in which they are running. While the worldview of oil financiers may not align with our own, the author argues that given their importance in shaping environmental approaches, it is crucial that we understand what drives their ethical sensibilities.

SEAN FIELD is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Social Anthropology and the Director of Policy at the Centre for Energy Ethics at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. AUGUST 26, 2025 |

EVERYDAY ACTIVISTS

UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS' QUEST FOR JUSTICE AND WELL-BEING

CHRISTINA M. GETRICH

Strategies of resistance by undocumented young adults

Since President Trump’s attempted termination of the program in 2017, DACA recipients have endured a rollercoaster of legal battles that have left them in an unimaginable state of prolonged limbo. Often overlooked are the thousands of DACA recipients nationwide who have never participated in immigration-related activism. As Christina M. Getrich argues, in less publicly visible ways, they are nonetheless fighting for immigrant well-being and justice in their everyday adult lives, and their more private forms of action should be considered political activism.

CHRISTINA M. GETRICH is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Maryland, College Park, and the author of Border Brokers: Children of Immigrants Navigating U.S. Society, Laws, and Politics.

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YOUNG AND UNDOCUMENTED POLITICAL BELONGING IN UNCERTAIN TIMES

JULIA ALBARRACÍN

The experiences of DACA recipients

In this timely and important book, Julia Albarracín explores the lives of undocumented immigrant youth with a focus on the unique experiences of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients and DREAMers in the United States. Drawing on interviews and legal research, Albarracín shows us how the precarity surrounding the youth’s DACA status impacts their sense of political identity and belonging, particularly as Republican politicians target legal protections provided to them under DACA and the DREAM Act.

JULIA ALBARRACÍN is Dan and Laura Webb Professor of Political Science at Western Illinois University. She is the author of Making Immigrants in Modern Argentina and At the Core and in the Margins: Incorporation of Mexican Immigrants in Two Rural Midwestern Communities, as well as the co-author of Creating Conspiracy Beliefs: How our Thoughts are Shaped

DIVIDED BY CHOICE

HOW CHARTER SCHOOLS DIMINISH DEMOCRACY

RYANE MCAULIFFE STRAUS

How race and capitalism shape education

Ryane McAuliffe Straus takes up a core part of the divisive debate over school choice programs, exploring why charter schools are reshaping America’s education system— and democracy—for the worse. Drawing on interviews with elected officials, policy entrepreneurs, parents, and activists in Albany, NY, Straus argues that charter schools are a poor alternative to failing public schools, ultimately worsening racial segregation under the guise of providing underprivileged students with access to better education. Straus finds that when families of color leave public schools in favor of charter schools this removes their democratic voice and participation, diminishing their political power in a high-stakes area of public policy.

RYANE MCAULIFFE STRAUS is an Empire State Fellow in New York. Previously, she was a Professor of Political Science at the College of Saint Rose.

TEST, MEASURE, PUNISH HOW THE THREAT OF CLOSURE HARMS STUDENTS, DESTROYS TEACHERS, AND FAILS SCHOOLS

ERIN MICHAELS

The risk of closure and repression in schools

In the last two decades, education officials have closed a rising number of public schools nationwide related to low performance. These schools are mainly located in neglected neighborhoods with high concentrations of poverty. Despite this credible threat of closure, relatively few individual schools threatened with closure for low performance in the United States are actually shut down. Yet, as Erin Michaels argues, the looming threat is ever present. Test, Measure, Punish traces how threats of school closure have distorted education to become more punitive which disproportionately impacts—even targets—Black and Latinx communities and substantially hurts student social development.

ERIN MICHAELS is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington.

BIRTH BEHIND BARS

THE CARCERAL CONTROL OF PREGNANT WOMEN

REBECCA M. RODRIGUEZ CAREY

Pregnant women's experiences in prison

Four percent of incarcerated women—more than three thousand—are pregnant in US prisons each year, yet little information is known about their pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and motherhood experiences. In Birth Behind Bars, Rebecca M. Rodriguez Carey draws on indepth interviews with women who were once pregnant in prisons in the heart of the Midwest to provide a rare, intimate portrait into the intersection of motherhood and incarceration. Using a reproductive-justice framework and narrative accounts, Rodriguez Carey shows how the prison system works alongside other carceral systems, such as the medical system and the child welfare system, to regulate and control women.

REBECCA M. RODRIGUEZ CAREY is Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminology in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Emporia State University.

THE SLOW DEATH OF THE DEATH PENALTY TOWARD A POSTMORTEM

EDITED BY TODD C. PEPPERS, JAMIE ALMALLEN, AND MARY WELEK ATWELL

Why the death penalty is in decline across the United

States

Across the country, the death penalty is dying. Twentytwo states have abandoned state-sanctioned executions, including nine in the last fifteen years. And public support for the death penalty has declined from 80% of the surveyed population in the early 1990s to approximately 50% today. As the death penalty slowly withers away, Todd C. Peppers, Jamie Almallen, and Mary Welek Atwell bring together a number of distinguished death-penalty scholars, activists, and attorneys to take an accounting of the damage inflicted by the machinery of death. This important volume is an up-to-date accounting of the current state and, as the contributors argue, the future demise of the death penalty.

TODD C. PEPPERS is Professor of Public Affairs at Roanoke College.

JAMIE ALMALLEN is an Assistant Public Defender at the Richmond Public Defender's Office.

MARY WELEK ATWELL is Professor Emeritus of Criminal Justice at Radford University.

CRIME WAVE

THE AMERICAN HOMICIDE EPIDEMIC

JAMES TUTTLE

Why homicides have increased

The homicide rate in the United States increased by approximately 55 percent from 2014 to 2021. James Tuttle examines the underlying causes behind this surge in violence, arguing that it is the result of the decline in American well-being, a growing distrust in institutions, an increase in alcohol and drug abuse, and escalating firearm sales. Tuttle also shows how the homicide epidemic has hit different parts of the country; notably there has been an increase in homicide in the Midwest that is 25 percent greater than in the rest of the country. Crime Wave attempts to reframe the public debate beyond the current “police-only” paradigm of explaining crime trends by examining the broader social and cultural forces that shape American violence.

JAMES TUTTLE is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Montana.

BURDENS OF BELONGING RACE IN AN UNEQUAL NATION

JESSICA VASQUEZ-TOKOS

How systemic racism and settler colonialism shapes the lives of people in the US today

W.E.B. Du Bois famously pondered a question he felt society was asking of him as a Black man in America: “How does it feel to be a problem?” Jessica Vasquez-Tokos uses this question to examine how communities of color are constructed as “problems,” and the numerous ramifications this has for their life trajectories. Uncovering how various members of racial groups understand and react to what their racial status means for inclusion in, or exclusion from, the nation, Burdens of Belonging examines the historical underpinnings of the racial-colonial hierarchy, the influence this hierarchy has on lived experience, and how racialized life experience influences the feelings, perspectives and goals of people of color.

JESSICA VASQUEZ-TOKOS is Professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon. She is the author of Mexican Americans Across Generations: Immigrant Families, Racial Realities and Marriage Vows and Racial Choices.

POLICING NOT PROTECTING FAMILIES

THE CHILD WELFARE SYSTEM AS POVERTY GOVERNANCE

EDITED BY JENNIFER RANDLES AND KERRY WOODWARD

Controlling, surveilling, and punishing poor families through the child welfare system

Bringing together scholars from anthropology, sociology, law, and social work, this collection is the first to critically examine the child welfare system’s role in governing poor, disproportionately Black and Native families. It shows that the child welfare system is a key site of poverty governance, or state control and management of poor families.

JENNIFER M. RANDLES is Professor in the Department of Sociology at California State University, Fresno.

KERRY WOODWARD is Professor of Sociology at California State University, Long Beach.

LAW

REGULATING THE BODY AUTONOMY, CONTROL, AND THE BROKEN PROMISE OF EQUALITY IN AMERICAN LAW

EDITED BY AUSTIN SARAT AND SUSANNA LEE

How legal regulation of the body is practiced and justified

Bringing together leading scholars in the law and humanities, this volume examines the practices and discourses used to regulate the body, concentrating on scenarios where ethical and legal inconsistencies abound. Regulating the Body reveals worsening legal hypocrisies and unmasks the threats to both personal autonomy and the claims of law itself.

AUSTIN SARAT is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. He has also served as Mellon Professor of the Humanities for the Bard Prison Initiative. He has authored Lethal Injection and the False Promise of Human Execution.

SUSANNA LEE is Professor of French and Francophone Studies and Comparative Literature at Georgetown University. She is the author, most recently, of Detectives in the Shadows: A HardBoiled History.

ESSENTIAL SOLDIERS

WOMEN ACTIVISTS AND BLACK POWER MOVEMENT LEADERSHIP

KENJA MCCRAY

A new perspective on women’s Black Power leadership legacies

Essential Soldiers documents a variety of women PanAfrican nationalists’ experiences, considering the ways they produced a distinctive kind of leadership through their devotion and service to the struggle for freedom and equality. Relying on oral histories, textual archival material, and scholarly literature, this book delves into women’s organizing and resistance efforts, investigating how they challenged the one-dimensional notions of gender roles within cultural nationalist organizations. A dynamic and fascinating narrative of African American women activists, Essential Soldiers provides a new vantage point for considering Black Power leadership legacies.

KENJA MCCRAY is Assistant Professor of History in the Department of Humanities at Clayton State University and coauthor of Atlanta Metropolitan State College (Campus History).

THE HUMAN TOLL TAXATION AND SLAVERY IN COLONIAL AMERICA

ANTHONY C. INFANTI

How the thirteen colonies deployed the power of taxation to support, promote, and perpetuate the institution of slavery

The Human Toll documents how the American colonies used tax law to dehumanize enslaved persons, taxing them alongside valuable commodities upon their forced arrival and then as wealth-generating assets in the hands of slaveholders. Infanti also reveals how several colonies used the power of taxation as a means of curtailing the slave trade. Providing a fascinating account of slavery’s economic entrenchment through the history of American tax law, The Human Toll urges us to consider the lessons that fiscal history holds for those working in the reparations movement today.

ANTHONY C. INFANTI is the Christopher C. Walthour, Sr. Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and author of Tax and Time: On the Use and Misuse of Legal Imagination and Our Selfish Tax Laws: Toward Tax Reform That Mirrors Our Better Selves.

RITUALS OF MIGRATION

ITALIANS AND IRISH ON THE MOVE

EDITED BY KEVIN KENNY AND MADDELENA MARINARI

Italian and Irish immigrant experiences

Rituals of Migration offers snapshots of Italian and Irish migrants on the move from the mid-nineteenth to midtwentieth centuries. By examining what people did, thought, felt, and packed on the eve of their departures, during their journeys, and when returning to their homelands, Rituals of Migration reveals how everyone involved in the immigration process, including the migrants themselves, the families they left behind, and those in charge of regulating their mobility, have tried to make sense of a process filled with peril, uncertainty, excitement, and opportunity.

KEVIN KENNY is Glucksman Professor of History and Director of Glucksman Ireland House at NYU and the author of The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic: Policing Mobility in the Nineteenth-Century United States.

MADDELENA MARINARI is Professor of History at Gustavus Adolphus College and the author of Unwanted: Italian and Jewish Mobilization Against Restrictive Immigration Laws, 1882–1965.

JUNE 17, 2025 | HISTORY | 264 PAGES | 6 X 9 | 59 B/W FIGURES

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IRELAND'S OPPORTUNITY

GLOBAL IRISH NATIONALISM AND THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR

SHANE LYNN

How the South African War transformed nationalist politics across Ireland’s global diaspora

In 1899, the British Empire embarked on a deeply controversial war against two small Boer Republics in South Africa. To many Irish nationalists, the Boers were fellow victims of British mistreatment. Ireland’s Opportunity traces the impact of “Boer fever” across Ireland and the diaspora networks that connected Irish communities in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Blending global perspectives with intimate portraits of individuals whose lives were forever changed by the war, Shane Lynn reveals how Irish nationalism was a global phenomenon with a tangled and paradoxical relationship to empire.

SHANE LYNN is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at McMaster University.

APRIL 29, 2025 | HISTORY | 336 PAGES | 6 X 9 | 25 B/W FIGURES

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JEWS IN THE SOVIET UNION: A HISTORY

REVOLUTION, CIVIL WAR, AND NEW WAYS OF LIFE, 1917–1930, VOLUME 1

ELISSA BEMPORAD

Chronicles one of the largest Jewish communities in the world with war, revolution, and Soviet power

After the Holocaust, the USSR remained one of the world’s three key centers of Jewish population. Yet while a great deal is known about the history and experiences of the Jewish people in the US and in Israel in the twentieth century, much less is known about the experiences of Soviet Jews. Jews in the Soviet Union, a new multi-volume history, draws on rare access to documents from the Soviet archives, allowing for the presentation of a sweeping history of Jewish life.

ELISSA BEMPORAD is Jerry and William Ungar Chair in Eastern European Jewish History and the Holocaust and Professor of History in the Department of History at Queens College and The Graduate Center - CUNY. She is the author of Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Land of the Soviets.

JEWISH STUDIES

PROMISED LANDS

HADASSAH KAPLAN AND THE LEGACY OF AMERICAN JEWISH WOMEN IN EARLY TWENTIETHCENTURY PALESTINE

SHARON ANN MUSHER

How adventurous Jewish women’s travels upended Jewish norms

Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan’s family, including his wife and four daughters, played a role in shaping his ideas about women, culture, and Zionism. This was especially true of his second daughter, Hadassah Kaplan, who joined a small but influential cohort of American Jewish women in British Mandate Palestine. Promised Lands provides a window into the lives of American Jewish women in both New York City and Palestine during the interwar period and helps us to understand their impact on American Jewry.

SHARON ANN MUSHER is Associate Professor of History at Stockton University. She is the author of Democratic Art: The New Deal’s Influence on American Culture. She is also a great granddaughter of Mordecai Kaplan and a granddaughter of Hadassah Kaplan Musher.

APRIL 22, 2025 | JEWISH STUDIES | 288 PAGES | 6 X 9 | 14 B/W FIGURES

CLOTH: 9781479832743 | $35.00 NYUS (£29.99)

JEWISH MARITAL CAPTIVITY

THE PAST, PRESENT, AND END OF A HISTORIC ABUSE

SHULAMIT S. MAGNUS

Solutions to divorce abuse in Jewish societies

In rabbinic law, marriage is a unilateral act by the husband, making divorce, similarly, the husband’s sole prerogative, in which his conscious will is also sacrosanct. Abuse necessarily follows, and has been the case from earliest recorded history. Jewish Marital Captivity is a social history of this problem from the seventh century to the present across multiple Jewish communities, focusing on the interaction of law and social reality. Magnus documents a pattern of assertive and transgressive actions by pious and rebellious women in traditional Jewish societies to escape marital captivity, often, with the assistance of male kin, also probing why such behavior emerged in pre-modern, patriarchal societies.

SHULAMIT S. MAGNUS is Professor Emerita of Jewish Studies and History, Oberlin College. She is the author of several books, including the 2-volume Pauline Wengeroff, Memoirs of a Grandmother: Scenes from the Cultural History of the Jews of Russia in the Nineteenth Century, the first volume of which was awarded the National Jewish Book Award.

AUGUST 19, 2025 | JEWISH STUDIES | 352 PAGES | 6 X 9 | 12 B/W FIGURES

CLOTH: 9781479835546 | $45.00 NYUS (£40.00)

JEWISH GIVING

PHILANTHROPY AND THE SHAPING OF AMERICAN JEWISH LIFE

JACK WERTHEIMER

Evaluating Jewish donors over time

The American Jewish philanthropic enterprise is unparalleled in scope, dynamism, and the diversity of funders and the causes they support. Yet what once was regarded as a point of pride has become the object of scorn and dismissal, with skepticism—if not harsh criticism. Jewish Giving provides readers with fresh perspectives to evaluate the efforts of Jewish donors, large and small. Devoting much attention to twenty-first century developments in contemporary Jewish giving, the book pays special attention to the changing landscape of donors who are remaking Jewish philanthropy, including women, Orthodox Jews, Sephardi givers, and young funders.

JACK WERTHEIMER is Professor of American Jewish History at the Jewish Theological Seminary. He has recently authored The New American Judaism: How Jews Practice Their Religion Today and is co-author of Inside Jewish Day Schools: Leadership, Learning and Community.

JULY 22, 2025 | JEWISH STUDIES | 368 PAGES | 6 X 9

CLOTH: 9781479836321 | $45.00 NYUS (£40.00)

AGENTS OF CHANGE

AMERICAN JEWS AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF ISRAELI JUDAISM

ADAM S. FERZIGER

The rise of moderate Orthodox Judaism in Israel and the key role of Americans in its emergence

The conservative ultra-Orthodox and redemptive "Kook" camps hold sway over religious matters in Israel. Yet from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s, a small cadre of American immigrants arrived in Israel and established or led a range of educational institutions that trained thousands of advanced students and laid the ideological foundations for an Israeli moderate religious stream. In Agents of Change, Adam S. Ferziger highlights the parts played by these Americans in promoting the rise of a transnational community of moderate Jewish Orthodoxy.

ADAM S. FERZIGER is Professor and holds the Rabbi S. R. Hirsch Chair in the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel. He is the author of Beyond Sectarianism: The Realignment of American Orthodox Judaism, winner of a National Jewish Book Award.

JULY 29, 2025 | JEWISH STUDIES | 336 PAGES | 6 X 9 | 21 B/W FIGURES

CLOTH: 9781479817542 | $39.00 NYUS (£35.00)

THE STATE OF AMERICAN JEWRY

NEW INSIGHTS AND SCHOLARSHIP

EDITED BY FREDERICK E. GREENSPAHN

An overview of the new American Jewish landscape

Over the past few decades, several of American Jewry's familiar features have changed, including its religious and organizational structure, the extent to which Jews of color are integrated into the community, how the relationship with Israel has evolved, and its approaches to gender roles and the LGBTQ+ community. Featuring groundbreaking additions by a powerhouse group of experts, The State of American Jewry describes the current nature of American Jewish life.

FREDERICK E. GREENSPAHN is Gimelstob Eminent Scholar in Judaic Studies emeritus at Florida Atlantic University. He has written or edited eighteen books. He is a former president of the National Association of Professors of Hebrew and was, for five years, editor of its journal, Hebrew Studies.

JULY 22, 2025 | JEWISH STUDIES | 320 PAGES | 6 X 9 | 5 B/W FIGURES

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PAPER: 9781479813124 | $32.00 NYUS (£27.99) | CLOTH: 9781479813117 | $89.00 NYUX (£80.00)

MARTYRS AND MIGRANTS

COPTIC CHRISTIANS AND THE PERSECUTION POLITICS OF US EMPIRE

CANDACE LUKASIK

How Coptic Christian migrants reshape religious identity through the imagination of US empire

Coptic Orthodox Christians comprise the largest Christian community in the Middle East. Drawing on years of extensive fieldwork among Coptic migrants between Egypt and the United States, Martyrs and Migrants examines how American religious imaginaries of global Christian persecution have remapped Coptic collective memory of martyrdom. Candace Lukasik argues that the commingling of American conservatives and Copts has shaped a new kind of Christian kinship in blood, operating through a double movement between glorification and racialization. Martyrs and Migrants broadly reveals how ideologies of spiritual kinship are forged through theological histories of martyrdom and of blood, demonstrating the global dynamics and imperial politics of contemporary Christianity.

CANDACE LUKASIK is Assistant Professor of Religion and affiliated with Anthropology and Middle Eastern Cultures at Mississippi State University.

MARCH 25, 2025 | RELIGION | 320 PAGES | 6 X 9 | 18 B/W FIGURES

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ORTHODOXY ON THE LINE

RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS AND LABOR MIGRATION IN THE PROGRESSIVE ERA

ARAM G. SARKISIAN

Working-class immigration, religion, and labor history in the United States

At the turn of the twentieth century, thousands of immigrants from the borderlands of the Russian and Austro-Hungarian Empires built a transnational church in North America. The community that church leaders called American Orthodox Rus’ was created by and for working people, and transformed believers’ identities as Eastern European migrants, as Orthodox Christians, and as American workers. This book traces the rapid growth of this transnational religious world, then explores its unexpected collapse under the weight of the First World War, a global pandemic, and the transnational reach of revolutionary political change in Russia.

ARAM G. SARKISIAN is a historian of religion, immigration, and labor in the United States.

JULY 22, 2025 | RELIGION | 336 PAGES | 6 X 9 | 10 B/W FIGURES

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IN GOD'S IMAGE

HOW WESTERN CIVILIZATION WAS SHAPED BY A REVOLUTIONARY IDEA

TOMER PERSICO

The idea that all human beings were created in God’s image was core to the creation of the modern West

In God’s Image presents a concise cultural history of the West through the prism of the idea that all people were created in the divine figure. Tomer Persico places the evolution of the individual at the core of Western civilization, explaining the development of liberalism, human rights discourse, and secularization as different conclusions of the same presumption: that all humans are essentially significant autonomous beings.

TOMER PERSICO is a Research Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute, a Rubinstein Fellow at Reichman University and a Senior Research Scholar at the UC Berkeley Center for Middle Eastern Studies and author of Liberalism: Its Roots, Values, and Crises (Hebrew).

JULY 22, 2025 | RELIGION | 384 PAGES | 6 X 9

CLOTH: 9781479835713 | $39.00 NYUS (£35.00)

ASSEMBLING RELIGION

THE FORD MOTOR COMPANY AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF RELIGION IN AMERICA

KATI CURTS

How Henry Ford institutionalized a social gospel

Henry Ford did not just mass produce cars. As a member of the Episcopal Church, reader of New Thought texts, mass marketer of antisemitic material, and employer who institutionalized a social gospel, Henry Ford’s contributions to American models of business were informed by and produced for an America he understood to be broadly Christian. Ford himself was explicit that his work in engineering and auto production was prophetic and meant to remake the world. Drawing directly on documents from Ford’s archive, this religious history examines Ford’s mass production methods and bureaucratic reforms as examples of prosperity gospel traditions. Bridging American religious and industrial history, Assembling Religion offers a new and surprising way to understand Ford’s impact on culture, commerce, and the technology of labor.

KATI CURTS is Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Sewanee: The University of the South.

MAY 27, 2025 | RELIGION | 304 PAGES | 6 X 9

CLOTH: 9781479831586 | $39.00 NYUS (£35.00)

LIBRARY OF ARABIC LITERATURE

The Library of Arabic Literature makes available Arabic editions and English translations of significant works of Arabic literature, with the goal of introducing Arabic’s rich literary heritage to a general audience of readers as well as to scholars and students. Our publications are generously supported by Tamkeen under the NYU Abu Dhabi Research Institute Award G1003 and are published by NYU Press.

The Genius of Invective

Ibn Zaydun's Letter Explained

Ibn Nubātah

Edited and translated by Peter Webb

Ibn Nubātah (686–768/1287–1366) was an Egyptian litterateur, known for both his accomplished prose style and for his poetry.

Peter Webb is a University Lecturer in Arabic Literature and Culture at Leiden University. He researches Arabic literature, cultural production, communal identity, and the history of the Hajj in the pre-modern Middle East.

An exposition of Arabic literate culture

In eleventh-century Cordoba, the celebrated poet Ibn Zaydūn found himself jockeying for the affections of Wallādah, accomplished poet and free-spirited daughter of an Umayyad caliph. Looking to embarrass a rival suitor, Ibn Zaydūn mischievously wrote and publicized an eloquent, erudite, and searing rejection letter in Wallādah’s name, which went on to become one of the most widely read works of Arabic literature. His letter was so rich with historical references and sophisticated metaphors that it became a cultural touchstone among the literary elite. One could not belong in refined circles if one did not understand Ibn Zaydūn’s letter.

Three centuries later, the Egyptian litterateur Ibn Nubātah wrote a guide to this widely-admired text. In The Genius of Invective, a brilliant work of explication, Ibn Nubātah supplements Ibn Zaydūn’s complete letter with concise biographies of every figure referenced in it and glosses arcane Arabic terms. This wide-ranging volume offered readers a veritable encyclopedia of the key cultural and literary references that peppered Ibn Zaydūn’s famous letter.

As impressive in its own right as the remarkable letter that inspired it, The Genius of Invective is a peerless example of the breadth, depth, and complexity of the Arabic classical literary tradition.

A bilingual Arabic-English edition.

In Deadly Embrace

Arabic Hunting Poems

Ibn al-Muʿtazz

Translated

James E. Montgomery

Foreword by A.E.

Stallings

A collection of poems about nature and power

To Ibn al-Muʿtazz and his Abbasid contemporaries, the hunt was more than a diversion—it was the theater for their poetic and political endeavors, captured here in fifty-nine Arabic hunting poems, or ṭardiyyāt. The poems of In Deadly Embrace describe hunting expeditions with animals trained to hunt, including saluki hounds and birds of prey. Many were composed after these outings, when the hunting party gathered to enjoy the game they caught.

Poetry was central to Abbasid society and served as a method of maintaining networks of patronage and friendship; the poems in this collection reflect these power dynamics and allowed Ibn al-Muʿtazz—prince of the realm and in line for the caliphate—to explore his own relationship to social and political power and to demonstrate his fitness to rule.

Ibn al-Muʿtazz was an influential poet and literary theorist of the Modernist school of poetry. In Deadly Embrace merges the Modernists’ new techniques and styles with age-old themes: military prowess and wisdom, fitness to rule and comradeship, the camaraderie of the hunt and the cult of heroic masculinity. Groundbreaking and evocative, the poems paint vivid pictures of hunting scenes while posing deep questions about our attentiveness to the natural world and the relationship of the human to the nonhuman.

An English-only edition.

“Simply delightful… Montgomery’s imaginative translation brings to life hunting scenes alien to most modern readers’ experiences.” ARABLIT

Ibn al-Muʿtazz (d. 296/908) was an accomplished and prolific poet and author of works of literary theory and literary history. He was the direct descendant of six caliphs and was himself made caliph in 296/908, but ruled for only one day before he was killed by the palace guards, partisans of his brother al-Muqtadir.

James E. Montgomery is Sir Thomas Adams’s Professor of Arabic at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity Hall.

A.E. Stallings is the Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

The Divine Names

A Mystical Theology of the Names of God in the Qur’an

ʿAfīf al-Dīn al-Tilimsānī

Translated by Yousef Casewit

Foreword by Philippa Byrne

ʿAfīf al-Dīn al-Tilimsānī (d. 690/1291) was a North African scholar and Sufi poet who studied under the influential Andalusian mystic Ibn al-ʿArabī. He is the author of several commentaries.

Yousef Casewit is Associate Professor of Qurʾanic Studies at the University of Chicago Divinity School. He is the author of The Mystics of al-Andalus: Ibn Barrajān and Islamic Thought in the Twelfth Century

Philippa Byrne is Assistant Professor in Medieval History at Trinity College Dublin. She works on the rise of scholastic thought and the transformation of the classical tradition in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

A Sufi scholar’s philosophical interpretation of the names of God

The Divine Names is a philosophically sophisticated commentary on the names of God. Penned by the seventh-/thirteenth-century North African scholar and Sufi poet ʿAfīf al-Dīn al-Tilimsānī, The Divine Names expounds upon the one hundred and forty-six names of God that appear in the Qurʾan, including The All-Merciful, The Powerful, The First, and The Last. In his treatment of each divine name, alTilimsānī synthesizes and compares the views of three influential earlier authors, al-Bayhaqī, al-Ghazālī, and Ibn Barrajān.

Al-Tilimsānī famously described his two teachers Ibn al-ʿArabī and al-Qūnawī as a “philosophizing mystic” and a “mysticizing philosopher,” respectively. Picking up their mantle, al-Tilimsānī merges mysticism and philosophy, combining the tenets of Akbarī Sufism with the technical language of Aristotelian, Neoplatonic, and Avicennan philosophy as he explains his logic in a rigorous and concise way. Unlike Ibn alʿArabī, his overarching concern is not to examine the names as correspondences between God and creation, but to demonstrate how the names overlap at every level of cosmic existence. The Divine Names shows how a broad range of competing theological and philosophical interpretations can all contain elements of the truth.

An

English-only edition.

The Book of Monasteries

al-Shābushtī

Translated by Hilary Kilpatrick

Foreword by Wiebke Denecke

A literary tour of Christian monasteries of the medieval Middle East

The Book of Monasteries takes readers on a tour of the monasteries of the Middle East by presenting the rich variety of poetry and prose associated with each monastery. Starting with Baghdad, readers are taken up the Tigris into the mountains of south-eastern Anatolia before moving to Palestine and Syria, along the Euphrates down to the old Christian center of Ḥīrah and onward to Egypt. For the literary anthologist al-Shābushtī, who was Muslim, monasteries were important sites of interactions with Christian communities that made up about half the population of the Abbasid Empire at the time.

Each section in this anthology covers a specific monastery, beginning with a discussion of its location and the reason for its name. Al-Shābushtī presents poems, anecdotes, and historical reports related to each. He selects heroic and spectacular incidents, illustrations of caliphal extravagance, and events that gave rise to memorable verse. Important political personalities and events that were indirectly linked with monasteries also appear in the collection, as do scenes of festive court life and gruesome murders. Al-Shābushtī uses these accounts not to teach history but to offer a meditation on the splendor of Abbasid culture as well as moral and philosophical lessons: the ephemerality of power; the virtues of generosity and tolerance; the effectiveness of eloquence in prose and poetry; the fleeting nature of pleasure and beauty. Translated into English for the first time, The Book of Monasteries offers an entertaining panorama of religious, political, and literary life during the Abbasid era.

An English-only edition.

Al-Shābushtī (d. 388/998 or 389/999) was a scribe from Baghdad who traveled around Iraq, southern Anatolia, and Syria before moving to Cairo, where he became a court companion and librarian to the Fatimid caliph al-ʿAzīz.

Hilary Kilpatrick received her DPhil from Oxford. She has taught at universities in the UK, the Netherlands and Switzerland and is now an independent scholar based in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Wiebke Denecke is Professor of East Asian Literatures at MIT and the founding editor-in-chief of the Hsu-Tang Library of Classical Chinese Literature.

MOTHERHOOD ON ICE

THE MATING GAP AND WHY WOMEN FREEZE THEIR EGGS

MARCIA C. INHORN

“Document[s] the qualitative experience of women who are actively searching for partners — the frustration, hurt and disappointment... [Inhorn's] breakdown reads like a rigorous academic version of all the complaints you’ve ever heard from your single female friends.”

THE NEW YORK TIMES

Motherhood on Ice answers the question: Why are women freezing their eggs?

MARCIA C. INHORN is the William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at Yale University. She is the author or coeditor of twenty-one volumes, including Cosmopolitan Conceptions: IVF Sojourns in Global Dubai.

BLACK AND QUEER ON CAMPUS

MICHAEL P. JEFFRIES

“Jeffries interviews Black L.G.B.T.Q. college students at over a dozen colleges to illustrate the struggles they face in finding belonging at both predominantly white and historically Black institutions.”

NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

Black and Queer on Campus provides an inside look at Black LGBTQ college students and their experiences.

MICHAEL P. JEFFRIES is Dean of Academic Affairs, Class of 1949 Professor in Ethics, and Professor of American Studies at Wellesley College. He is the author of Behind the Laughs: Community and Inequality in Comedy, Paint the White House Black: Barack Obama and the Meaning of Race in America, and Thug Life: Race, Gender, and the Meaning of Hip-Hop He has published dozens of essays and works of criticism in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, and The Boston Globe, and has been interviewed by The Washington Post, The New York Times and NPR.

SYMBOLS OF FREEDOM

SLAVERY AND RESISTANCE BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR

MATTHEW J. CLAVIN

“In an era where many people in the U.S are protesting racism, this book is important reading for audiences of all levels to gain an understanding of past symbols of freedom and resistance and a way of looking forward.”

LIBRARY JOURNAL, STARRED REVIEW

Symbols of Freedom portrays how American symbols inspired enslaved people and allies to fight for true freedom.

MATTHEW J. CLAVIN is Professor of History at the University of Houston and the author of The Battle of Negro Fort: The Rise and Fall of a Fugitive Slave Community, Aiming for Pensacola: Fugitive Slaves on the Atlantic and Southern Frontiers, and Toussaint Louverture and the American Civil War: The Promise and Peril of a Second Haitian Revolution.

WASHINGTON STATE RISING BLACK POWER ON CAMPUS IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST

MARC ARSELL ROBINSON

“Robinson’s in-depth history of the Black Power movement in the Pacific Northwest under the landscape of the ’60s is nothing short of a revelation... Washington State Rising shines a light on the past, so that it can hopefully light our way forward... it can and should be read in every classroom in the state.”

REAL CHANGE

Washington State Rising documents the origins, actions, and impacts of the Black Student Union in the state of Washington during the tumultuous late 1960s.

MARC ARSELL ROBINSON is Associate Professor in the Department of History at California State University, San Bernardino.

STAY COOL

WHY DARK COMEDY MATTERS IN THE FIGHT AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE

AARON SACHS

“Declaring that the sanctimonious tones of environmentalists have a demotivating impact, this book muses on how humor might be more effective... Stay Cool encourages a fresh, creative approach to addressing one of the biggest challenges of the time—climate change.”

FOREWORD REVIEWS

Stay Cool explores how gallows humor can bolster us to confront global warming.

AARON SACHS is Professor of History and American Studies Cornell University. He is the author of The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism, and Arcadian America: The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition. With John Demos, he co-edited Artful History: A Practical Anthology. He lives in Ithaca, NY, with his wife, three children, and two cats. Occasionally there’s a woodchuck in the backyard.

DOWNWIND OF THE ATOMIC STATE

ATMOSPHERIC TESTING AND THE RISE OF THE RISK SOCIETY

JAMES C. RICE

“With this gripping account of poisoned sheep, radioactive milk, and desert towns blanketed in nuclear fallout, Rice brilliantly reveals the technological hubris and governmental arrogance behind the post-war era of open-air atomic bomb testing. A powerful cautionary tale for our own day.”

TIMOTHY JAMES LECAIN AUTHOR OF THE MATTER OF HISTORY

Downwind of the Atomic State unpacks how the scientific community overlooked, ignored, and denied the catastrophic fallout of decades of nuclear testing in the American West.

JAMES C. RICE is Professor of Sociology at New Mexico State University.

APRIL 1, 2025 | ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES | 376 PAGES | 6 X 9 | 47 B/W FIGURES

PAPER: 9781479805167 | $24.00 NYUS (£20.99)

THE HOUSE ON HENRY STREET

THE ENDURING LIFE OF A LOWER EAST SIDE SETTLEMENT

ELLEN M. SNYDER-GRENIER

“Generations of new New Yorkers have found a friend inside its doors. Aspiring actors, from Jerry Stiller to Luis Guzman, have found inspiration in its arts programs... In some ways, it is very different from what it was in 1895. In the most important way, however, it is precisely the same.”

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

The House on Henry Street chronicles the sweeping history of the storied Henry Street Settlement and its enduring vision of a more just society.

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

THE ITALIAN SQUAD

THE TRUE STORY OF THE IMMIGRANT COPS WHO FOUGHT THE RISE OF THE MAFIA

PAUL MOSES

“In his new book, reporter-historian Paul Moses writes about the NYPD officers who fought the extortion racket known as the Black Hand during the early part of the 20th century—and did so from a position of ethnic familiarity. Immigrants fighting immigrants, Italians battling Italians, crime fighters operating from within the community that was being preyed upon.”

WALL STREET JOURNAL

PAUL MOSES is Professor Emeritus of Journalism at CUNY-Brooklyn College and a former reporter and editor at Newsday. He is the author of An Unlikely Union: The Love-Hate Story of New York's Irish and Italians and The Saint and the Sultan: The Crusades, Islam and Francis of Assisi's Mission of Peace.

VIRTUAL SEARCHES

REGULATING THE COVERT WORLD OF TECHNOLOGICAL POLICING

CHRISTOPHER SLOBOGIN

“Provides a reasonable framework for thinking about how to regulate the different kinds of investigations enabled by existing surveillance technology.”

CHOICE

CHOSEN AS A CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE IN 2023

Virtual Searches is a close look at innovations in policing and the law that should govern them.

CHRISTOPHER SLOBOGIN is Milton Underwood Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University. He is one of the five most cited criminal law and procedure law professors in the country.

THE VICTIMS’ RIGHTS MOVEMENT WHAT IT GETS RIGHT, WHAT IT GETS WRONG

MICHAEL VITIELLO

“A powerful indictment of how sympathy for crime victims was coopted by a bipartisan vengeance-based agenda that offered illusory benefits to victims while restricting rights of suspects, increasing rates of wrongful convictions, and fueling mass incarceration. Vitiello’s groundbreaking study... question[s] the movement’s narrow definition of victimhood and its myth of closure.”

MICHAEL H. HOFFHEIMER

EMERITUS, UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF LAW

The Victims' Rights Movement outlines the successes and failures of the movement to support survivors of violence.

MICHAEL VITIELLO is Distinguished Professor of Law at University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law. He is the author of numerous publications, including Cases and Material on Marijuana Law (co-authored with Howard Bromberg and Mark K. Osbeck) and Animating Civil Procedure.

JUNE 3, 2025 | LAW | 256 PAGES | 6 X 9 PAPER: 9781479840205 | $28.00 NYUS (£23.99)

CAPITAL DEFENSE

INSIDE THE LIVES OF AMERICA'S DEATH PENALTY LAWYERS

JON B. GOULD AND MAYA PAGNI BARAK

“These ideas, if put into action, might provide real change in a system where defendants pay the ultimate price. Capital Defense is an important book for those interested in law, lawyers, and the death penalty in the US.”

CHOICE

Capital Defense is about the unsung heroes who defend the accused from the ultimate punishment

JON B. GOULD is Dean of the School of Social Ecology and Professor of Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of four books, including The Innocence Commission: Preventing Wrongful Convictions and Restoring the Criminal Justice System and Capital Defense: Inside the Lives of America’s Death Penalty Attorneys.

MAYA PAGNI BARAK is Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice and an affiliate of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. She is the author of The Slow Violence of Immigration Court: Procedural Justice on Trial.

JUNE 3, 2025 | SUBJECT | 304 PAGES | 6 X 9

PAPER: 9781479805174 | $25.00 NYUS (£21.99)

THE PLEA OF INNOCENCE RESTORING TRUTH TO THE AMERICAN JUSTICE SYSTEM

TIM BAKKEN

“Remarkable and convincing. The book is well-written, thoroughly researched and enjoyable to read. It is a rethinking of the criminal law that everyone involved in the criminal justice system should read and contemplate.”

JOHN HILL

THE LAWYER'S DAILY

The Plea of Innocence proposes groundbreaking, fundamental reform for the adversarial legal system to keep innocent people from going to prison.

TIM BAKKEN is the first civilian promoted to Professor of Law at West Point, the United States Military Academy. He practiced law in New York City, including as a prosecutor in Brooklyn (Kings County District Attorney’s office). His most recent book is The Cost of Loyalty: Dishonesty, Hubris, and Failure in the U.S. Military.

JUNE 3, 2025 | CURRENT AFFAIRS | 248 PAGES | 6 X 9

PAPER: 9781479840182 | $24.95 NYUS (£21.99)

SODOMY AND THE PIRATE TRADITION

ENGLISH SEA ROVERS IN THE SEVENTEENTHCENTURY CARIBBEAN, SECOND EDITION

B. R. BURG

“Burg puts historians to shame by raising extremely interesting questions that no one before had asked.”

CHRISTOPHER HILL

NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS

Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition explores the sexual world of the one of the most fabled and romanticized characters in history--the pirate.

B. R. BURG is Professor of History at Arizona State University.

MARCH 1, 1995 | WOMEN'S AND GENDER STUDIES | 264 PAGES | 6 X 9 PAPER: 9780814712368 | $30.00 NYUS (£25.99)

RUM, SODOMY, AND THE LASH PIRACY, SEXUALITY, AND MASCULINE IDENTITY

HANS TURLEY

“Turley presents a thoroughly-researched literay and cultural history of the transgressive pirate figure in the early eighteenth-century.”

JOURNAL OF FOLKLORE RESEARCH

Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash is an examination into the homoerotic and other transgressive aspects of the pirate's world. Turley's wide-ranging analysis provides a new kind of history of both piracy and desire, articulating the meaning of the pirate's contradictory image to literary, cultural, and historical studies.

HANS TURLEY was Associate Professor of English at the University of Connecticut.

JUNE 1, 2001 | WOMEN'S AND GENDER STUDIES | 184 PAGES | 6 X 9 PAPER: 9780814782248 | $28.00 NYUS (£23.99)

BENEDICT ARNOLD, REVOLUTIONARY HERO

AN AMERICAN WARRIOR RECONSIDERED

JAMES K. MARTIN

“Both a biography and an extended meditation on the ironies of the Revolution, Benedict Arnold, Revolutionary Hero is in many ways a remarkable example of the historian's craft... [an] indispensable guide.”

LOS ANGELES TIMES

Benedict Arnold, Revolutionary Hero is an extensively researched account of the infamous Benedict Arnold, framed in Martin's biography as a hero rather than a traitor.

JAMES KIRBY MARTIN is Distinguished University Professor of History at the University of Houston and author of numerous books, among them Men in Rebellion and A Respectable Army: The Military Origins of the Republic.

AUGUST 1, 2000 | HISTORY | 558 PAGES | 6 X 9 PAPER: 9780814756461 | $32.00 NYUS (£27.99)

CONSTITUTIONAL STUPIDITIES, CONSTITUTIONAL TRAGEDIES

EDITED BY WILLIAM N. ESKRIDGE AND SANFORD V. LEVINSON

The Constitution is the cornerstone of American government, hailed as one of the greatest contributions of the Western Enlightenment. While many seem content simply to celebrate it, those most familiar with the document invariably find it wanting in at least some aspects. This unique volume brings together many of the country's most esteemed constitutional commentators and invites them to answer a question: What is the stupidest provision of the Constitution?

WILLIAM N. ESKRIDGE, JR. is Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center and the author of The Case for Same-Sex Marriage: From Sexual Liberty to Civilized Commitment.

SANFORD V. LEVINSON is W. St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood, Jr. Regents Chair in Law and Professor of Government at the University of Texas, Austin. He is the author or coauthor of many books, including Framed: America's 51 Constitutions and the Crisis of Governance and Our Undemocratic Constitution: Where the Constitution Goes Wrong (And How We the People Can Correct It).

JUNE 1, 1998 | LAW | 296 PAGES | 6 X 9 PAPER: 9780814751329 | $32.00 NYUS (£27.99)

OSTRAKA FROM TRIMITHIS

VOLUME 3: TEXTS MAINLY FROM THE 2014 AND 2015 SEASONS (AMHEIDA VIII)

CLEMENTINA CAPUTO, GIOVANNI R. RUFFINI, GÜNTER VITTMANN, ROBERTA CASAGRANDE-KIM, RODNEY AST, AND ROGER S. BAGNALL

Texts from the Amheida excavations

Ostraka from Trimithis, Volume 3 presents 232 new or re-edited texts from the excavations conducted at the site of Amheida (Trimithis in the Roman period and Set-wa in earlier times). In addition to the Greek texts, which are predominantly from the 2014 and 2015 field seasons, this volume also includes editions of Demotic and Hieratic ostraka found between 2004 and 2015, as well as miscellaneous inscriptions and graffiti and the first detailed presentation of all ostraka that contain drawings.

CLEMENTINA CAPUTO is a Research Fellow at the Politecnico di Milano-DABC and chief ceramologist at Soknopaiou Nesos/Dime (Fayyum), Trimithis/Amheida (Dakhla Oasis), Umm al-Dabadib (Kharga Oasis), and Tuna el-Gebel (Middle Egypt). Her main area of research is the ceramic material culture of Roman and Byzantine Egypt.

GIOVANNI R. RUFFINI is Assistant Professor of History and Classical Studies at Fairfield University.

GÜNTER VITTMANN is Professor of Egyptology at Würzburg University. He is an internationallyrecognized specialist in hieratic (particularly “abnormal hieratic”) and demotic, and his research extends beyond philology to the relations of Ancient Egypt with its neighbors.

ROBERTA CASAGRANDE-KIM is the Bernard and Lisa Selz Director of Exhibitions and Gallery Curator at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. An archaeologist and a curator of ancient art, Dr. Casagrande-Kim has worked extensively in archaeological excavations in Italy, Israel, Egypt, and Turkey.

RODNEY AST is Academic Director in the Institute for Papyrology at Heidelberg University. His research interests include Greek and Latin papyrology and epigraphy, the administrative and social history of Greco-Roman Egypt, and Red Sea and Indian Ocean trade. He is co-director of excavations at Berenike on Egypt’s Red Sea coast.

ROGER S. BAGNALL is Leon Levy Director and Professor of Ancient History Emeritus at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University. He is author, co-author, and editor of many books including Egypt in Late Antiquity and Everyday Writing in the GraecoRoman East.

Established in 2016, Fonograf Editions is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit press and literary record label based in Portland, OR. Places like The Paris Review Daily and Poets & Writers have previously written about our creation and development and our books and records have been featured and reviewed at places like The New York Times, Artforum, The New York Times Book Review, Frieze, Harper’s, and The London Review of Books.

Inspired by the work of the multitudinous artist Ray Johnson, BUNNY is an imprint of Fonograf Editions. Publishing a wide variety of works, BUNNY is looking towards the future while thinking about the past.

WRONG WINDS

AHMAD ALMALLAH

Ahmad Almallah’s third collection considers the impossible task of being a Palestinian in the world today.

When genocide is the question, can the answer be anything but wrong? In Wrong Winds, written during the first months of Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza, Palestinian-American poet Ahmad Almallah converses with the screams echoing throughout the West. Traversing European cities, Almallah encounters the impossibility of being a Palestinian, left alone in a world full of sympathizers and enemies. Through a continuous unsettling of words and places, considering the broken voices of Western poetry (Eliot, Lorca, Celan among others), the poems in Wrong Winds discover the world again and form an impossible dialogue with the dead and dying.

AHMAD ALMALLAH grew up in Bethlehem, Palestine and currently lives in Philadelphia where he is an artist-in-residence in Creative Writing at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of two books of poems, Bitter English and Border Wisdom. He received the 2018 Edith Goldberg Paulson Memorial Prize for Creative Writing, and his sequence of poems “Recourse,” won the 2017 Blanche Colton Williams Fellowship. His poems have appeared in Jacket2, Track//Four, All Roads Will Lead You Home, Apiary, Supplement, SAND, Michigan Quarterly Review, Making Mirrors: Righting/Writing by Refugees, Cordite Poetry Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, American Poetry Review, and Poetry, among others.

Almallah’s writing is immensely relevant; we need his voice."

NAOMI SHIHAB NYE

ARRANGEMENTS

ESTHER KONDO HELLER

In their hybrid debut collection Arrangements, Esther Kondo Heller creates stunning textual & visual language that escapes the page to utter and speak past the record, the archive, and the document.

Can words hold a note? Can language foam like a mouth? In their hybrid volume Arrangements, Esther Kondo Heller creates textual & visual language that escapes the page to utter and speak past the record, the archive, and the document. What arrangements exist between a mother and child? In listening to Black queer life in Berlin, Mombasa, and London the action of arranging becomes a means of sounding out a collective utterance of Black survival with joy amid grief, colonialism, medical racism, and loss. A revelatory debut volume, Arrangements collectively thinks with, amongst others, the works of Audre Lorde, May Ayim, Fred Moten, Raja Lubinetzki, NourbeSe Philip, Harryette Mullen, Diana Khoi Nguyen, Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Marvin Gaye, Taylor Johnson, and Octavia Rucker Gabrielle.

ESTHER KONDO HELLER is a poet, literary critic, and experimental filmmaker. They are a Barbican Young Poet 18/19, an Obsidian Foundation fellow, and a Ledbury Critic. They have an M.F.A. in Poetry from Cornell University 23' and are currently, a first-year Ph.D. student in Comparative Literature at Harvard University, where they are working on transnational Black poetics and translating the poetry of Black German poet Raja Lubinetzki.

"If in the space between mutter and Mutter a dying language is born, what is borne there – in the constant opening of carrying over, in the resonant silence of a mother and child reunion – is the sound space/practice room of Pan-African speech, which animates the gift from Esther Kondo Heller that you hold now in your hands. Held now in the violent conservatory that you hold, new tongues in your mouth, new flavors in your ear, are you in disarray? Yeah! It’s her loving (re)arrangement of the collective head."

FRED MOTEN

DEBT RITUAL

KATIE NAUGHTON

Winner of the 2023 BUNNY chapbook contest, Katie Naughton’s Debt Ritual sees debt as intensely private yet nevertheless significantly interconnected with global financial systems and other systems of power.

Naughton’s text is interested in the way that what appears as money is often funded by debt, while also taking into account the role of art, something that offers social capital without the accompanying wealth. Debt Ritual sets up an equivalence between money and participation in the world and then works to destabilize it. Sized as a dollar bill, Naughton’s book considers the ritualistic use inherent in money and debt and wonders how and if the ritual of art-making replicates — or interrupts — the rituals of finance.

KATIE NAUGHTON is a poet living in Brooklyn, NY. She is the author of the poetry collection The Real Ethereal and the chapbooks Study and A Second Singing. Her poetry has been published in Fence, Bennington Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Tupelo Quarterly, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Colorado State University and is a doctoral candidate in the Poetics program at State University of New York at Buffalo.

IF ONLY FOR A MOMENT

(I'LL NEVER BE YOUNG AGAIN)

SELECTED POEMS OF JAIME GIL DE BIEDMA

TRANSLATED BY JAMES NOLAN WITH

A FOREWORD

BY SPENCER REECE

In this powerful collection of Jaime Gil de Biedma's work, James Nolan's translation breathes life into the work of the beloved Spanish poet.

Jaime Gil de Biedma is the most original and influential among the poets known as the ‘50’s Generation in Spain, and is considered the greatest Spanish poet to emerge in the second half of the 20th century. His life and literary career were bracketed almost entirely by the rise and fall of Generalissimo Francisco Franco, notorious for the suppression of literature. Born in 1929, he was six years old when García Lorca was murdered in Granada at the outbreak if the Civil War, and his collected poems, Las personas del verbo, first appeared in 1975, the year Franco died. What is surprising is that Gil de Biedma was a leftist, homosexual poet from the Catalan capitol, Barcelona – all of Franco’s favorite things – who not only published books of autobiographical poetry in Spain but was known as a poet of social conscience as well as erotic lyricism. Like other Spanish poets of his time, he chose his words carefully.

"In Gil de Biedma, masterfully translated by James Nolan, I read a poetry that survives under pressure... A poet like Gil de Biedma will add to the record of what life was like under oppression. Gil de Biedma fills in what was lost."

SPENCER REECE

JAIME GIL DE BIEDMA is widely recognized as Spain’s finest poet since García Lorca. Born in 1929, his childhood and almost entire adult life were bracketed by the bloody civil war and Franco’s fascist state. Yet rooted in Barcelona, he managed to become a cosmopolitan poet, lived as a clandestine leftist and gay man, and published three books of poetry under strict censorship. He died of AIDS in 1990, and since the publication of his diaries, he has become the icon of a passionate literary cult.

UNIVERSITY OF GUAM PRESS

UOG Press’s mission is to develop cultural literacy and expand accessibility to knowledge about Micronesia. We fulfill this purpose through publications and projects guided by the values of Guam’s Indigenous CHamoru culture, particularly inadahi yan inagoi’e’—to take care of ourselves, others, and the environment by living in harmony together.

ALWAYS NEVER KNOWING

Always Never Knowing is a collection of stories following Jiavonna “Vonna” Cepeda as she navigates adolescence, from friendships and crushes to cultural identity and family dynamics. Each short story explores a different moment in Vonna’s life where she faces one question after another—about her home, her relationships, and herself. With both humor and wit, Always Never Knowing depicts the village girl coming of age in contemporary Guam.

GEORGIANA QUINTANILLA TYQUIENGCO is a Chamoru-Filipina writer and artist.

JANUARY 1, 2025 | HISTORY | 240 PAGES | 5.5 X 8.5

PAPER: 9781961058132 | $17.00 NYUS (£14.99) | CLOTH: 9781961058149 | $89.00 NYUX (£80.00)

A BORROWED LAND

PETER R. ONEDERA

The untold stories of Guam’s Nikkei—people of Japanese descent—before, during, and after World War II

A Borrowed Land tells the untold stories of Guam’s Nikkei—people of Japanese descent—before, during, and after World War II.

PETER R. ONEDERA writes plays focused on issues confronting the CHamoru people. In 2015, the Guam Council on the Arts and Humanities awarded him the distinction of Master Storyteller.

OCTOBER 5, 2024 | HISTORY | 231 PAGES | 6 X 9

PAPER: 9781961058026 | $15.00 NYUS (£12.99) | CLOTH: 9781961058033 | $89.00 NYUX (£80.00)

THE MASSACRE AT ATÅTE, 2ND EDITION

JOSE M. TORRES

A story of courage, endurance and heroism during “The Massacre at Atåte”

The Massacre at Atåte tells the story of the courageous people of the idyllic southern village of Malesso' in Guam, who liberated themselves from the violent occupation of their village by Japanese forces during World War II. After scores of their relatives were killed in two massacres, a group of CHamoru men rose up in a littleknown place called Atåte, where they fought and massacred the Japanese to protect their families.

JOSE M. TORRES (1926-2015) was born and raised in Malesso' and graduated from John Fisher College.

FEBRUARY 24, 2015 | HISTORY | 177 PAGES | 6 X 9

PAPER: 9781935198628 | $15.00 NYUS (£12.99) | CLOTH: 9781961058071 | $89.00 NYUX (£80.00)

GEORGIANA QUINTANILLA TYQUIENGCO

MARIQUITA—REVISITED

CHRIS PEREZ HOWARD

Mariquita, first published in 1982, has become the most widely read novel about the CHamoru experience during World War II on Guam. In the book, author Chris Perez Howard chronicles his mother's vibrant life before the War, her enduring strength during the Japanese occupation of the island, and her tragic death at the end of it. In this updated edition of the classic, Perez Howard revisits the story and adds more details, photos, and letters. It is a continuing tribute to his mother whose legacy lives on in the memories of all who read it.

The late CHRIS PEREZ HOWARD believed that his adventurous spirit and endless curiosity were responsible for his unconventional life. Among his experiences, he served in the U.S. military; worked for the American Express Co. in New York; struggled as an artist in Rome, Italy; lived in Yap, the Seychelles, and the Philippines; and went to Africa to see wild animals in their natural habitat.

The late DIRK A. BALLENDORF was a tenured professor of History and Micronesia Area Studies at the University of Guam.

The celebrated story of a CHamoru woman growing up in World War II-era Guam SEPTEMBER 25, 2019 | HISTORY | 138 PAGES | 5.25 X 8

“A landmark novel from the island of Guam is both a brutal story of war and a beautiful act of resurrection.”

LENIKA CRUZ THE ATLANTIC

“On the surface, Maraquita is the CHamoru World War II story that too few people have read. Howard’s careful research and imagination gives us access to the painful history of Guåhan during the Japanese occupation. On another level though, perhaps more important, Maraquita is a story of recovery—of a man writing to recover his connection to his mother and his people, and of the emotional labor that constitutes his journey.”

KIANA BROWN PACIFIC DAILY NEWS

MONTHLY REVIEW PRESS

Monthly Review magazine and its book publishing arm, Monthly Review Press, have been leading publishers of left scholarship since 1949. Our mission is to educate readers in critical analyses of capitalism and to provide a responsible platform for neglected and emerging scholarship on a wide range of progressive issues.

SLAVERY IN THE BRITISH EMPIRE AND ITS LEGACY IN THE MODERN WORLD STEVE

CUSHION

STEPHEN CUSHION is Senior Research Fellow at University College London, Institute of the Americas, and the author of A Hidden History of the Cuban Revolution: How the Working Class Shaped the Guerrillas’ Victory.

Reveals that the institution of slavery was anchored in the same exploitative capitalist system which remains in place today

Slavery in the British Empire and its Legacy in the Modern World by Steve Cushion, situates the crime of enslavement within the business practices that place profit before people. The institution of slavery entailed a unique combination of exploitation and expropriation anchored in patterns of conspicuous consumption by the wealthy, and intertwined with the textile, food, agriculture, construction, transportation, infrastructure and insurance industries. It was floated by the same banking and commodity trading systems that still remain today.

The exploitation of enslaved labor stimulated capitalist expansion during and after the bloody reign of the British Empire—at the cost of war, inter-imperialist rivalry, Indigenous genocide, and the murderous suppression of the rights of the enslaved. And as Cushion argues, many of the direst problems still facing the world—from horrific economic inequality to rampant environmental decline—have their origins in the institution of slavery. Correcting these wrongs will cost money.

Perversely, there is no shortage of funds in the coffers of the institutions which perpetrated them; nonetheless Neither Anglo governments, nor businesses, have properly addressed their role. Ultimately, Slavery in the British Empire and its Legacy in the Modern World goes beyond cataloguing past wrongs, to engaging with the legacies of slavery, spotlighting, above all, the defiant response of those it wronged— as they call for reparations and more.

ALBERT EINSTEIN’S “WHY SOCIALISM?"

THE ENDURING LEGACY OF HIS CLASSIC ESSAY

ALBERT EINSTEIN,

EDITED BY JOHN BELLAMY FOSTER

A contemporary look at Albert Einstein's classic call for socialism

First published more than seventy-five years ago in the inaugural issue of Monthly Review: An Independent Socialist Magazine, Albert Einstein’s “Why Socialism?” is an unheralded classic. Written during the McCarthyite witch-hunt in the United States, it constituted an act of defiance, making a case for socialism unrivaled in its time or ours. Yet, its very existence has been an embarrassment to an establishment which has continually sought to downplay the significance of his iconoclastic essay, together with Einstein’s socialism itself.

This slim, elegant volume includes Einstein’s essay along with a detailed commentary on his essay by Monthly Review editor, John Bellamy Foster. Foster’s introduction tells the story of Einstein’s life-long commitment to socialism and the events leading to the publication of “Why Socialism?” and contextualizes the importance of his essay as we enter a time of planetary crisis and new threats of world war. Over the three-quarters of century since its publication, “Why Socialism?” is one of those rare statements whose power has only grown, reaching untold numbers of readers over the years. It is of crucial importance that—for the sake of the future of humanity—Einstein’s message continues to proliferate.

JOHN BELLAMY FOSTER is editor of Monthly Review.

ROSES FOR GRAMSCI

ANDY MERRIFIELD

A remarkable personal journey through the life and writings of the great Sardinian Marxist, Antonio Gramsci

Roses for Gramsci is a stunning portrait that offers fresh insights into nearly every aspect of Gramsci’s often tortured existence: a childhood scarred by severe health problems; his growing understanding of political economy; his generosity and kindness; his grasp of the culture of workers and peasants; his friendship with the economist Piero Sraffa; and his frustration trying to communicate with and be father to the son he never saw. Above all, Merrifield illuminates how Gramsci kept his humanity, suffering horribly in prison while writing a revolutionary classic, The Prison Notebooks. Personal, compassionate, moving— and illustrated with the author’s photographs —Merrifield revives both the legacy and meaning of Gramsci’s work and the dying art of belles lettres. Roses for Gramsci is an evocative and indelible book.

ANDY MERRIFIELD is a writer and independent scholar, author of numerous books, including The Wisdom of Donkeys, Magical Marxism, The Amateur, Marx, Dead and Alive, and Beyond Plague Urbanism.

APRIL 5, 2025 | POLITICS | 148 PAGES | 5 X 7.5 CLOTH: 9781685901042 | $24.95 NYUS (£21.99)

OPENINGS AND CLOSURES

SOCIALIST STRATEGY AT A CROSSROADS

SOCIALIST REGISTER 2025

Since the 2016 upsurge in enthusiasm for electoral organizing and party-building, the terrain has shifted. At this new conjuncture, what was left of the strategy, tactics, and organizations that had seemed so promising? Was the ‘new socialist’ left starting over, or moving on? This year’s Socialist Register 2025 engages with the openings and closures of at the crossroads of Socialist strategy, with case studies from Britain, US, Pakistan, Argentina, Germany, Bolivia, Barcelona, and Turkey, engaging with topics such as social struggles over climate change, Palestine solidarity, public banks, re-municipalization of utilities, and unions.

GREG ALBO is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at York University, Toronto.

STEPHEN MAHER is a social critic, PhD candidate at York and Socialist Register assistant editor.

TOPPLING THE FIRST MINISTRY

KERALA, THE CIA, AND THE STRUGGLE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE

T. M. THOMAS ISAAC AND RICHARD W. FRANKE

Tells the story of the CIA’s covert operations against India’s first Communist ministry

When Kerala—the southwest Indian coastal province— established its first Communist ministry in 1957, it immediately drew up plans to redistribute land and provide public education and healthcare to all. But Kerala’s efforts were disrupted by anti-communist agitation aimed at toppling the ministry, courtesy of the CIA. Isaac and Franke offer a detailed examination of the internal workings of the CIA and its local Kerala allies in subverting and ultimately overthrowing the newly elected ministry. They also show how, against all odds, Kerala continues to be a stronghold of the left in India—and across the globe.

T.M. THOMAS ISAAC is a communist leader, two-time finance minister in Government of Kerala, and an academic.

RICHARD W. FRANKE is an anthropologist and professor emeritus at Montclair State University.

JULY 5, 2025 | POLITICS | 288 PAGES | 5.5 X 8.25

PAPER: 9781685901073 | $29.00 NYUS (£24.99 ) | CLOTH: 9781685901080 | $89.00 NYUX (£80.00)

SHADOWS OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT

THE HIDDEN POLITICS AND IDEOLOGY OF THE NATURAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

GEORGE E. MCCARTHY

Uncovers the ideological underpinnings of "objective" sciences

Shadows of the Enlightenment sheds light on the deeply political agenda underlying Western science from the socalled “Age of Reason” to the present. One of the central roles of Western science has been to legitimate its theoretical imperative to dominate nature and to reorganize human labor for profit, property, and power. McCarthy invites us to move beyond the falsely mechanistic sense of reality and to break free from the sense of alienation that binds us all— and instead make space for dreaming up the world we want to see.

GEORGE E. MCCARTHY is professor of sociology at Kenyon College. His books include Marx and the Ancients, Classical Horizons, and Marx and Social Justice.

AUGUST 5, 2025 | PHILOSOPHY | 552 PAGES | 5.5 X 8.25

PAPER: 9781685901110 | $38.00 NYUS (£34.00) | CLOTH: 9781685901127 | $99.00 NYUX (£89.00)

LETTERS

NEW VILLAGE PRESS

New Village Press has been a publisher in the humanities and social sciences since 2005, best known for transdisciplinary books in urban sociology, community cultural development, and healthy city design. Our titles aim to animate emerging movements in societal transformation with true stories about collaborative community building and the creative roles that artists and scholars, citizens and planners can play in public life.

FROM THE EDGE OUTRIDER CONVERSATIONS

MARGARET RANDALL

MARGARET RANDALL is a poet, writer, translator, photographer, and activist. Randall is the recipient of numerous international awards and the author of over 200 books, four of which were published by New Village Press: My Life in 100 Objects, Artists in My Life, Risking a Somersault in the Air, and Luck.

A collection of letters exchanged between the author and five “outriders” or artists who resist conformity to commercial, social, or political pressure

By excerpting from letters she exchanged with five irreverent writers and artists, Margaret Randall constructs conversations that open windows on four pivotal moments in her life and on world events. This correspondence touches on important themes, such as social change, identity, art, and creative integrity—issues that were relevant then and remain so today. The letters are sometimes philosophical, sometimes intimate, and deal with family life as well as major creative projects, including literary political publishing, often taken on against daunting odds. Society continuously tries to subsume or shape influential rebel minds to its interests. Every generation has those who will not allow themselves to be silenced or controlled. This book is exciting evidence of this.

“Margaret Randall is a genius in weaving together the cultural, political and personal in her poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and memoir. She accomplishes this in spades with her new work, LettersfromtheEdge.”

ROXANNE DUNBAR-ORTIZ

PROFESSOR EMERITUS, ETHNIC STUDIES, CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY; AUTHOR OF BLOOD ON THE BORDER: A MEMOIR OF THE CONTRA YEARS AND AN INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES

DISELDERLY CONDUCT

THE FLAWED BUSINESS OF ASSISTED LIVING AND HOSPICE

JUDY KAROFSKY

A policy-driven narrative about the shortcomings of assisted living and hospice care in the US

The book is a personal account of unmet needs in assisted living and hospice aiming to spark discussions about new approaches for America’s aging population and family decision makers. There are 30 thousand assisted living facilities in the US, but most are unaffordable for middleclass Americans and fraught with staffing deficiencies and mismanagement. Chapters on the author’s experience helping her mother move from an age-restricted community in Florida to independent living in Wisconsin to assisted living will interest seniors and their family members who know the struggle of finding long term affordable care. The chapter on hospice care distinguishes it from assisted living through the author’s experiences and misconceptions, then moves to a broader discussion of Medicare spending, and finally a meditation on dying of old age. The author strikes an effective balance between the personal, political, and cultural aspects of aging. Karofsky dedicates the last chapter of the book to a discussion of recent failures to protect long term care patients during the COVID19 pandemic.

“A

compelling narrative that passionately cries out for a better way to safeguard our most vulnerable. We learn the ‘better way’ is significantly hindered when the profit motive is the driving force. DisElderly Conduct shows in a most powerful way the need for national reform of care for the elderly.”

MARTIN SCHREIBER FORMER GOVERNOR, STATE OF WISCONSIN,

AUTHOR OF MY TWO ELAINES

was a city council member and one of Wisconsin’s first women mayors (Middleton).Judy has authored numerous op-eds, articles, and papers on affordable housing, historic preservation, and regional growth. More recently she has written on institutional investing in seniors housing.

JUDY KAROFSKY

ARTMILL

A STORY OF SUSTAINABLE CREATVITY IN BOHEMIA BARBARA BENISH

First-person photo-illustrated account of the founding of the twenty-year-old NGO

The story starts in totalitarian darkness (Czechoslovakia before 1989) and gradually lays out a groundwork for how creativity within community can influence and change society. All of this is rooted in the connection to the natural world, be it local sustainable farming practices, rural innovations, or international policies with governmental bodies on the global level. The book is a success story for a female artist (the author) who found a way to build a life in a rural, posttotalitarian, foreign country, with virtually no income, through her love of the place. It is a testament to the resilience of the people of that small nation that was sacrificed in the tumultuous chess game of colonial superpowers dividing up Europe after the devastation of WWII. It is a textbook protocol on how to instill civil society from the ground up, so that democratic life can thrive. This is a story that has been told in small pieces over the years in essays, catalogues, lectures, and radio and television interviews but needed the deeper context of a fulllength book.

BARBARA BENISH is a California-born artist and writer. She founded ArtMill in 2004 in rural Bohemia, an international eco-art center. From 2010–2015, Benish served as Advisor for U.N.E.P. in Arts & Outreach and, since 2015, is a Fellow at the Social Practice Arts Research Center (U.C. Santa Cruz). Her mixed media art has been shown in hundreds of international exhibitions including museums such as P.S.1 (MoMA) in New York, the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, Stadtgeschichtliche Museen in Nürnburg, Germany, and the National Gallery in Prague, Czech Republic, to list a few.

DARK CHAPTERS

UNIVERSITY OF REGINA PRESS

A little house on the prairie with big ambitions, University of Regina Press (URP) publishes books that matter— in both academic and trade formats. We endeavour to develop writers into public intellectuals, encourage debate, and inspire young people to study the humanities by publishing books that are both seen and relevant.

READING THE STILL LIVES OF DAVID GARNEAU

CURATED BY ARIN FAY, EDITED BY NIC WILSON, PAINTINGS BY DAVID GARNEAU

A singular collection of responses to the still life paintings of acclaimed artist David Garneau

Dark Chapters brings together 17 poets, fiction writers, curators, and critics to engage with the works of David Garneau, the Governor General’s Award-winning Métis artist. Featuring paintings from Garneau’s still life series “Dark Chapters” alongside poetry, fiction, critical analysis, and autotheory, the book includes contributions from Fred Wah, Paul Seesequasis, Jesse Wente, Lillian Allen, Billy-Ray Belcourt, Larissa Lai, Susan Musgrave, and more.

A nod to the Reports of Truth and Reconciliation Commission in which Justice Murray Sinclair describes the residential school system as “one of the darkest, most troubling chapters in our nation’s history,” Garneau’s still life paintings combine common objects (books, bones, teacups, mirrors) and less familiar ones (a Métis sash, a stone hammer, a braid of sweetgrass) to reflect the complexity of contemporary Indigenous experiences.

Rooted in Garneau’s life-long engagement at the intersections of visual art and writing, Dark Chapters presents a multifaceted reflection on the work of an inimitable, unparalleled artist. Based on Treaty 4 lands, Saskatchewan, DAVID GARNEAU is one of Canada’s foremost Métis artists, painters, and public intellectuals, who has been leading the charge in complex conversations around the nuances of Métis identity and the politics of Indigeneity, Indigenization, and noncolonial aesthetics in the colonized lands of Canada.

ARIN FAY is currently the Curator at the Nelson Museum, Archives and Gallery (NMAG) and lives near Kaslo, British Columbia.

NIC WILSON (they/he) is an artist and writer whose work often engages time, queer lineage, decay, and the distance between art practice and literature.

AMAZIGH CINEMA

AN INTRODUCTION TO NORTH AFRICAN INDIGENOUS FILM

EDITED BY LUCY R MCNAIR AND AHYA LAAYOUNI

LUCY R. MCNAIR is a literary translator of French and Professor of English at LaGuardia Community College, CUNY. Her translations include the classic Algerian coming-ofage novel, The Poor Man’s Son by Amazigh writer Mouloud Feraoun and the memoir To Hell and Back by Samira Bellil.

YAHYA LAAYOUNI is Associate Professor of Arabic Studies and French at the Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania. His work on Amazigh Indigenous and FrancoMaghrebi cinema has appeared in the Journal of Religion and Film, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Muslim Popular Culture, and Jaddaliya.

The first English-language analysis of Amazigh film

Amazigh Cinema: An Introduction to North African Indigenous Film examines the emergence and history of Amazigh visual media and actively contributes to decolonizing the study of Amazigh artistic expression. An exploration of film from across the Amazigh homelands produced by and about Imazighen (Indigenous peoples historically referred to as “Berbers”), the book underscores the importance of cinema in shaping the contemporary Amazigh identity against a backdrop of historical repression.

The chapters in this volume trace connections between oral performance, amateur video, and feature films produced for global audiences. These works expose a tension between the pull of nostalgia and the push for change as filmmakers use their cameras to reestablish a sense of presence in a shifting landscape. Resisting the commodification of traditional Amazigh expression for the viewer, these filmmakers use new tools to craft narratives of Amazigh life and create a space for all audiences to witness Indigenous lives and their strategies—and celebration—of survival.

BANANA CAPITAL

STORIES, SCIENCE, AND POISON AT THE EQUATOR

BEN BRISBOIS

For more than a century, banana plantations and farms in Latin America have defined the landscape and economies wherever these fruits are grown— toxic chemicals, exploited workers, and fragile monocultures are their legacy.

At the southern end of Ecuador’s la costa region lies the city of Machala, the self-described “Banana Capital” of the world. There, farmers and workers experience alarming rates of negative health effects associated with widespread pesticide use along with precarious and unsafe working conditions. Banana Capital: Stories, Science, and Poison at the Equator reveals the grim realities of daily life for banana farmers and, beyond that, seeks to understand and address these challenges. Ben Brisbois’s search for understanding leads him back to the 19th-century origins of banana production in the Americas and through over a century of imperialism, bloodshed, and ecological devastation. Along the way, he uncovers how worker-led resistances and the everunpredictable ecosystem thwart repeated attempts by powerful multinationals and their government allies to extract more and more wealth from banana plantations at the cost of Latin American health and lives.

Banana Capital reveals the power dynamics of life in the banana industry—dynamics vividly experienced by workers caught in a struggle against corporations prioritizing profit over the health of the land and the community.

is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine of the Université de Montréal’s School of Public Health. He lives in Montreal.

BEN BRISBOIS

DOG AND MOON

KELLY SHEPHERD

KELLY SHEPHERD is a poetry editor for the Trumpeter. His second poetry collection, Insomnia Bird, won the 2019 Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize. Originally from Smithers, British Columbia, he lives and teaches on Treaty 6 territory in Edmonton.

A dreamlike collection of poetry that intertwines an embodied experience of the natural world with mythology, memory, and the creative process

Woven together from fragments collected in notebooks and dream journals over two decades of introspection, Dog and Moon inhabits a space of sleeplessness, enveloped in the darkness of night. Kelly Shepherd draws inspiration from the free-verse ghazal but takes the form and bends it introducing couplets that recur and echo across his poems. They are a series of juxtapositions: nature writing placed in conversation with the language of poetry workshops, mythology and childhood memories, and sensorial encounters with the natural world colliding with images of home and belonging.

My ribs, the mattress’s ribs—I can’t sleep. This is a war, says the newscaster reporting on the winter storm.

A war with Mother Nature. When a metaphor is taken too far it becomes a projectile. Try to talk to someone when they’re snoring: their responses are all the same. The mind races. Happiness is only a purchase away, but what happens when the box store runs out of boxes? Time moves differently depending on your bedsprings. From a net of clouds, the moon: so much of writing is trying to remember your thoughts from other states of consciousness.

An inexplicable need to follow the pathways of unseeable sparks and insects in the blankets.

IN THE LIGHT OF DAWN

THE HISTORY AND LEGACY OF A

BLACK CANADIAN COMMUNITY

MARIE CARTER

Illuminating two hundred years of lost Black History through the lens of an iconic abolitionist settlement

In the Light of Dawn shines a spotlight on the Dawn Settlement, a historic abolitionist community in rural Ontario led by Reverend Josiah Henson (the real “Uncle Tom” of Harriet Beecher Stowe's landmark anti-slavery novel), and reveals how the town's scope and impact eclipses previously narrow interpretations as a “failed” utopian colony at a terminus of the Underground Railroad.

MARIE CARTER is a lifelong resident of Dresden, Ontario, where she researches and writes about the history of her community, the former Dawn Settlement area.

STITCHING OUR STORIES TOGETHER

JOURNEYS INTO INDIGENOUS SOCIAL WORK

EDITED BY JEANNINE CARRIERE AND CATHERINE RICHARDSON

A collection of graduate research by Indigenous social work scholars

Stitching Our Stories Together showcases emerging scholars who, by centring their own nations, communities, and individual realities, demonstrate how Indigenous knowledges can challenge settler ideas and myths around pan-Indigeneity. Their work points toward a future where Indigenous ways of knowing and being take their rightful place in spaces of higher learning and social work practice a necessary intervention in a discipline that has historically been complicit in colonialist harm.

JEANNINE CARRIERE identifies as Red River Métis and has focused her academic scholarship on Indigenous child and family services. She was formerly a Professor at the School of Social Work at the University of Victoria.

CATHERINE RICHARDSON is a Métis professor and Director of the Concordia University First Peoples Studies Program. She is a registered clinical counsellor whose research focuses on Indigenous well-being, social service delivery, and recovery from systemic violence.

WITS UNIVERSITY PRESS

Wits University Press champions knowledge from and about Africa to local and global readers. Since 1922 we have been curating and publishing innovative research that informs debate for the greater good of society. We are committed to publishing excellence and passionate about bringing writers with bold ideas and a progressive agenda to the world.

RESTLESS INFECTIONS

PUBLIC ART AND A TRANSFORMING CITY

EDITED BY JAY PATHER

JAY PATHER is a choreographer, curator and academic. He is Director of the Institute for Creative Arts at the University of Cape Town (UCT), and Associate Professor in UCT's Centre for Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies.

A collection of critical essays exploring artistic interventions in urban spaces

Restless Infections is a collection of critical essays exploring artistic interventions in urban spaces, focusing on place-making and the politics of space in South Africa. The writers examine seminal artworks by South African artists, addressing diverse forms of expression such as site-specific performances, immersive installations, film, photography, and online performances.

The book is divided into three sections: The Restless City, Public Art for Multiple Publics, and Land, Home, Belonging. It introduces new perspectives on public sphere performance, such as Khanyisile Mbongwa’s re-imagining of township alleyways for public encounters and Mbongeni Mtshali’s study of everyday performances that challenge colonial and neo-colonial spatial organization.

The title, Restless Infections, is derived from the popular Infecting the City public art festival, symbolizing the persistent state of restlessness in a city still grappling with the legacies of colonialism, inequality, and racial segregation. This restlessness is tied to a desire for economic and political stability, expressed through transient art forms like Santu Mofokeng’s billboard photography.

The book shifts the focus of public art discourse in South Africa from static forms like monuments and statues to dynamic, temporary interventions that question the concept of publicness. These interventions engage with protest, public intimacy, audience interaction, and the disrupted topography of apartheid cities.

As the first scholarly volume to read public spheres through a multi- and interdisciplinary lens, Restless Infections argues that the diverse artistic modes explored are essential to understanding the complexities of publicness in South Africa.

MAKING A LIFE

YOUNG MEN ON JOHANNESBURG’S URBAN MARGINS

HANNAH J DAWSON

Explores the dynamic everyday life-making strategies of young men in Zandspruit, a settlement on the outskirts of Johannesburg

Making a Life explores the dynamic everyday life-making strategies of young men in Zandspruit, a sprawling informal settlement on the outskirts of Johannesburg. In many ways Zandspruit typifies the precariousness of life within South Africa, where two-thirds of young people lack waged employment. However, rather than seeing Zandspruit as dumping ground, Hannah Dawson calls for an integrated understanding of the complex linkages between people’s lives and livelihoods, and the multifaceted socio-political landscape of urban settlements. Making a Life offers insights into issues such as urban work, citizenship, un(der)employment and inequality. At the same time, it contributes to a global understanding of how young people – men especially – manage economic uncertainty.

HANNAH J DAWSON is a senior lecturer in the Anthropology and Development Studies department at the University of Johannesburg.

THE NIGHTWATCHMAN

ESSAYS ON PORTRAITURE AND THE BLACK MALE FIGURE IN COLONIAL SOUTH AFRICA

HLONIPHA MOKOENA

Brings into focus the African policeman as a subject of portraiture

The Nightwatchman: Portraiture and the Black Male Figure in Colonial South Africa brings into focus the African policeman as a subject of portraiture. In its focus on the figure of the black and brown fighting man, The Nightwatchman offers an innovative work on the history of portraiture and dress in colonial South Africa. Incorporating insights from African history, art history, anthropology and critical theory, it offers new insights about the use of men of colour in colonial warfare and new avenues for the interpretation of visual representations of the black male figure.

HLONIPHA MOKOENA is Director of the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She is the author of Magema Fuze: The Making of a Kholwa Intellectual.

DEADPAN

THE AESTHETICS OF BLACK INEXPRESSION

TINA POST

Winner, The 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism

Winner, 2023 ASAP Book Prize

FALSE STARTS

THE SEGREGATED LIVES OF PRESCHOOLERS

CASEY STOCKSTILL

Winner, 2024

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HEREAFTER

THE TELLING LIFE OF ELLEN O'HARA

VONA GROARKE

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THE OPPORTUNITY TRAP HIGH-SKILLED WORKERS, INDIAN FAMILIES, AND THE FAILURES OF THE DEPENDENT VISA PROGRAM

PALLAVI BANERJEE

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NARRATIVES

OF GUILT AND INNOCENCE THE POWER OF STORYTELLING IN WRONGFUL CONVICTION CASES

RALPH GRUNEWALD

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YOUNG IRELAND A GLOBAL AFTERLIFE

CHRISTOPHER MORASH

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THE SHAMING STATE HOW THE U.S. TREATS CITIZENS IN NEED

SARA SALMAN

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DARK AGORAS INSURGENT BLACK SOCIAL LIFE AND THE POLITICS OF PLACE

J. T. ROANE

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CIARA TORRES-SPELLISCY

How corporate greed led to scandal, corruption, and the January 6th insurrection

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stef m. shuster

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OREN KROLL-ZELDIN

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PATRICIA ZAVELLA

Reproductive justice organizations’ collaborative work

CONSCIENCE INC

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MICHAEL H. POSNER

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A guide for business leaders working to create socially conscious companies

FIERCE, FABULOUS, AND FLUID

HOW TRANS HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS WORK AT GENDER NONCONFORMITY

LJ SLOVIN

The work trans youth do to create inclusive spaces in schools

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A HISTORY OF AMERICAN JEWISH CRITICS OF ZIONISM

MARJORIE N. FELD

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MOYA BAILEY

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