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HIGHLIGHTS The Sex Obsession Perversity and Possibility in American Politics

Becoming Human

Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World

JANET R. JAKOBSEN

ZAKIYYAH IMAN JACKSON

Offers a way to undo the inextricable American knot of sex, politics, religion, and power

Investigates African diasporic media and philosophy as explorations of race and species, Blackness and animality, form and matter

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The Content of Our Caricature

African American Comic Art and Political Belonging

The Intimacies of Conflict

Cultural Memory and the Korean War

REBECCA WANZO

DANIEL Y. KIM

Traces the history of racial caricature and the ways that Black cartoonists have turned this visual grammar on its head

Enables a reckoning with the legacy of The Forgotten War through literary and cinematic works of cultural memory

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Misogynoir Transformed

The Black Civil War Soldier

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Black Women’s Digital Resistance MOYA BAILEY

Where racism and sexism meet— an understanding of anti-Black misogyny 256 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-6510-9 • $28.00 In Intersections

Environmental Disparities and Olfactory Aesthetics HSUAN L. HSU

A timely exploration of how odor seeps into structural inequality

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DEBORAH WILLIS

A stunning collection of stoic portraits and intimate ephemera from the lives of Black Civil War soldiers 240 PAGES • CLOTH 978-1-4798-0900-4 • $35.00 In NYU Series in Social and Cultural Analysis

The Smell of Risk

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A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship

Distributed Blackness African American Cybercultures ANDRÉ BROCK, JR.

From BlackPlanet to #BlackGirlMagic, this book places Blackness at the very center of internet culture 288 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-2996-5 • $29.00 In Critical Cultural Communication

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KEYWORDS series Keywords for American Cultural Studies third edition

Keywords for Children’s Literature second edition

Edited by BRUCE BURGETT and GLENN HENDLER Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and histories for American Studies and Cultural Studies in an updated edition

Edited by PHILIP NEL, LISSA PAUL, and NINA

Literature in an updated edition

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Keywords for Comics Studies Edited by RAMZI FAWAZ, DEBORAH WHALEY and SHELLEY STREEBY Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers emerging in the field of comics studies 288 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-4798-3196-8 • $28.00 In Keywords

ABOUT THE SERIES Collaborative in design and execution, the books in the Keywords series bring together scholars across a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, with each essay on a single term to help trace the contours and debates of a particular field.

Providing accessible A-to-Z surveys of prevailing scholarly concepts, the books serve as flexible tools for carving out new areas of inquiry.

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AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES 2020 Special Award - Professional, World Fantasy Con | Finalist, 2020 Creative Nonfiction IGNYTE Award, FIYACO

The Dark Fantastic

Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games

2020 Eileen Basker Memorial Prize, Society for Medical Anthropology | Honorable Mention, 2020 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, Society for Humanistic Anthropology | Finalist, 2020 PROSE Award in the Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology category, Association of American Publishers

Reproductive Injustice

Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth

EBONY ELIZABETH THOMAS

DÁNA-AIN DAVIS

“One of the most brilliant and woke explorations of race and speculative fiction I've ever read.”—Jacqueline Woodson, National Book Award winner 240 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-4798-0607-2 • $16.95 In Postmillennial Pop

“Explores how medical racism impacts Black women... The work is unique in that it is the first to focus on the subject as it relates to professional working women.”

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Stay Woke

Antiracism

TEHAMA LOPEZ BUNYASI and CANDIS WATTS SMITH

“[D]escribes the history of U.S. movements to contest racism...

As an introduction to the intellectual history and political theory of antiracism, Zamalin’s book is ideal...”—Library Journal

A People’s Guide to Making All Black Lives Matter

An Introduction ALEX ZAMALIN

“This is the essential guide on race, racism, the BLM movement, fighting for racial justice, fighting against racial injustice, and more.”—Ms. Magazine

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288 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-3648-2 • $18.95 2021 Barbara Perkins and George Perkins Award, International Society for the Study of Narrative

The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North

Runaway Genres

The Global Afterlives of Slavery

Segregation and Struggle outside of the South

YOGITA GOYAL

Tracks the emergence of slavery as the defining template through which current forms of human rights abuses are understood

Edited by BRIAN PURNELL and JEANNE THEOHARIS With KOMOZI WOODARD

“Essential reading for anyone grappling with the pervasive stain of slavery in the United States.”

—Henry Louis Gates Jr., Harvard University

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The Divided Mind of the Black Church

Theology, Piety, and Public Witness RAPHAEL G. WARNOCK

A revealing look at the identity and mission of the Black church 276 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-0600-3 • $19.95 In Religion, Race, and Ethnicity

Fight the Power

African Americans and the Long History of Police Brutality in New York City CLARENCE TAYLOR

A story of resistance, power, and politics as revealed through New York City’s complex history of police brutality 336 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-1108-3 • $24.00

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SEXUAL CULTURES series 2020 International Latino Book Awards in LGBTQ+ Nonfiction | Finalist, 2019 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Studies

Archiving an Epidemic

The Tragedy of Heterosexuality

ROBB HERNÁNDEZ

“At heart a somber, urgent academic examination of the many ways in which opposite-sex coupling can hurt the very individuals who cling to it most....[The book] might be just the thing to rescue heterosexuality from its unearned hegemony in our shared cultural imagination.”

—New York Times Book Review

Art, AIDS, and the Queer Chicanx Avant-Garde

JANE WARD

Across an original archive of over sixty images, Hernández critically reimagines Chicanx art and unmasks its queer afterlife 320 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-2083-2 • $29.00 In Sexual Cultures

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Queer Faith

Frottage

Reading Promiscuity and Race in the Secular Love Tradition

Frictions of Intimacy across the Black Diaspora

MELISSA E. SANCHEZ

KEGURO MACHARIA

Uncovers the queer logics of premodern religious and secular texts

A new understanding of freedom in the Black diaspora grounded in the erotic

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SEXUALITY STUDIES A Queer New York

FORTHCOMING

Geographies of Lesbians, Dykes, and Queers

Edited by REBECCA L. DAVIS and MICHELE MITCHELL

JEN JACK GIESEKING

The history of heterosexuality in North America across four centuries

The first lesbian and queer historical geography of New York City

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Heterosexual Histories

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Still Straight

Sexual Flexibility among White Men in Rural America TONY SILVA

Why some straight men have sex with other men 272 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-0110-7 • $28.00

The Pornification of America

How Raunch Culture Is Ruining Our Society BERNADETTE BARTON

An up-close look at how porn permeates our culture 320 PAGES • CLOTH 978-1-4798-2083-2 • $24.95

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MEDIA STUDIES Race and Media

Comics and Stuff

Edited by LORI KIDO LOPEZ

A foundational collection of essays that demonstrate how to study race and media

How and why graphic novels tie memory and meaning to personal collections and belongings

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Open World Empire

Gamer Trouble

Critical Approaches

HENRY JENKINS

Race, Erotics, and the Global Rise of Video Games

Feminist Confrontations in Digital Culture

CHRISTOPHER B. PATTERSON

AMANDA PHILLIPS

Seeking ways to understand video games beyond their imperial logics, Patterson turns to erotics to re-invigorate the potential passions and pleasures of play

Complicating perspectives on diversity in video games 256 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-3492-1 • $29.00

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Twitter

Horrible White People

A Biography JEAN BURGESS and NANCY K. BAYM

The sometimes surprising, often humorous story of the forces that came together to shape the central role Twitter now plays in contemporary politics and culture 144 PAGES • CLOTH 978-1-4798-1106-9 • $18.95

Gender, Genre, and Television’s Precarious Whiteness TAYLOR NYGAARD and JORIE LAGERWEY

Examines the bleak television comedies that illustrate the obsession of the white left with its own anxiety and suffering 272 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-0535-8 • $30.00

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The Limits of Knowledge in a Data-Driven Society SUN-HA HONG

An inquiry into what we can know in an age of surveillance and algorithms 294 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-8306-6 • $30.00

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LATINX STUDIES FORTHCOMING

Ricanness

The Queer Nuyorican Racialized Sexualities and Aesthetics in Loisaida

Enduring Time in Anticolonial Performance SANDRA RUIZ

KAREN JAIME

Argues that Ricanness operates as a continual performance of bodily endurance against US colonialism

A queer genealogy of the famous performance space and the nuyorican aesthetic 224 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-0829-8 • $28.00 In Performance and American Cultures

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Organizing while Undocumented

Racial Immanence Chicanx Bodies beyond Representation

Immigrant Youth’s Political Activism under the Law

MARISSA K. LÓPEZ

Explores the how, why, and what of contemporary Chicanx culture, including punk rock, literary fiction, photography, mass graves, and digital and experimental installation art 208 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-1390-2 • $28.00

KEVIN ESCUDERO

An inspiring look inside immigrant youth’s political activism in perilous times 208 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-3415-0 • $27.00 In Latina/o Sociology

ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES 2020 American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation

Framed by War

Korean Children and Women at the Crossroads of US Empire

The Race Card

From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities

SUSIE WOO

TARA FICKLE

An intimate portrait of the postwar lives of Korean children and women

Explores how games have been used to establish and combat Asian American racial stereotypes

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Whiter

Our Voices, Our Histories

Asian American Women on Skin Color and Colorism Edited by NIKKI KHANNA

Asian American and Pacific Islander Women

“[Whiter] is an eye-opening book that aims to help us better understand the role of skin color in social mobility.”

—Bitch Magazine

Edited by SHIRLEY HUNE and GAIL M. NOMURA

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An innovative anthology showcasing Asian American and Pacific Islander women’s histories

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LITERARY & PERFORMANCE STUDIES Literary Bioethics

Realist Ecstasy

Animality, Disability, and the Human

Religion, Race, and Performance in American Literature

MAREN TOVA LINETT

LINDSAY V. RECKSON

Examines four classic novels: The Island of Doctor Moreau, Brave New World, The Violent Bear It Away and Never Let Me Go as bioethical thought experiments

Explores the intersection and history of American literary realism and the performance of spiritual and racial embodiment

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Stories of the Self

Haiti’s Paper War

Life Writing after the Book

Post-Independence Writing, Civil War, and the Making of the Republic, 1804-1954

ANNA POLETTI

The importance of personal storytelling in contemporary culture and politics

CHELSEA STIEBER

Reveals key insights into the nature of literature and its relation to freedom and politics

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SOCIAL SCIENCES NEW IN PAPERBACK

The Sustainability Myth Environmental Gentrification and the Politics of Justice

White Kids

Growing Up with Privilege in a Racially Divided America

MELISSA CHECKER

MARGARET A. HAGERMAN

Uncovers the hidden costs and contradictions of sustainable policies in an era driven by real estate development

Riveting stories of white, affluent children in the United States and how they form ideas about racism, inequality, and privilege

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Imagining Queer Methods

The Movement for Reproductive Justice

Edited by AMIN GHAZIANI and MATT BRIM

Reimagines the field of queer studies by asking “How do we do queer theory?”

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Empowering Women of Color through Social Activism PATRICIA ZAVELLA

Shows how reproductive justice organizations’ collaborative work across racial lines provides a compelling model for other groups to successfully influence change 320 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-4798-1270-7 • $32.00 In Social Transformations in American Anthropology

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The Untold Story of Shields Green

The Battle of Negro Fort

The Life and Death of a Harper’s Ferry Raider

The Rise and Fall of a Fugitive Slave Community MATTHEW J. CLAVIN

LOUIS A. DECARO, JR.

The dramatic story of Andrew Jackson’s destruction of a free and independent community of fugitive slaves in Spanish Florida

Explores the life of Shields Green, one of the Black men who followed John Brown to Harper’s Ferry in 1859

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Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC

Navigating the Politics of Everyday Life PAULA C. AUSTIN

The fullest account to date of African American young people in a segregated city 208 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-0811-3 • $26.00

2019 Outstanding Book Award, History of Education Society | 2019 Anna Julia Cooper and C.L.R. James Award, National Council for Black Studies | Finalist, 2019 Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History, African American Intellectual History Society

Upending the Ivory Tower

Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Ivy League STEFAN M. BRADLEY

The inspiring story of the Black students, faculty, and administrators who forever changed America’s leading educational institutions and paved the way for social justice and racial progress 480 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-4798-0602-7 • $25.00

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Presumed Criminal

Black Youth and the Justice System in Postwar New York CARL SUDDLER

A startling examination of the deliberate criminalization of Black youths from the 1930s to today 256 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-0675-1 • $19.95

The Stonewall Riots A Documentary History Edited by MARC STEIN

On the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary, the most important moment in LGBTQ history— depicted by the people who influenced, recorded, and reacted to it 352 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-1685-9 • $35.00

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Accessible America

A History of Disability and Design BESS WILLIAMSON

A history of design that is often overlooked—until we need it 304 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-0249-4 • $19.95 In Crip: New Directions in Disability Studies

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AVIDLY READS series FORTHCOMING

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Avidly Reads Guilty Pleasures ARIELLE ZIBRAK

“My guilty pleasure wasn’t just reading low-brow fiction or even female-authored fiction, it was being femme itself.”

Avidly Reads Passages MICHELLE D. COMMANDER

“What is the value of Black life in America?”

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Avidly Reads is a series of short books about how culture makes us feel. Part memoir, part cultural criticism, each volume in the Avidly Reads series brings to life the author’s emotional relationship to a cultural artifact or experience. Building on the popular online magazine Avidly, founded in 2012 by Sarah Blackwood and Sarah Mesle and supported by the Los Angeles Review of Books, Avidly Reads continues the Avidly project of encouraging experts to offer original, surprising, and entertaining explorations of how it feels to try and understand the world. Avidly Reads invites us to explore the surprising pleasures and obstacles of everyday life.

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JORDAN ALEXANDER STEIN “Theory offered us a way of understanding the world that, like so many youthful exuberances, was both vital and ridiculous.”

KATHRYN BOND STOCKTON “Here’s the thing with kissing: it matters intensely or not at all.”

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ERIC THURM “How we should think about board games, and what do they do to us as we play them?”

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AWARD-WINNING BOOKS 2020 Body and Embodiment Best Publication Award, American Sociological Association | Honorable Mention, 2020 Sociology of Sex and 2019 Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre Gender Distinguished Book Award, American Sociological Association History, American Society for Theatre Research

Fearing the Black Body The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

Afro-Fabulations

The Queer Drama of Black Life

SABRINA STRINGS

TAVIA NYONG’O

“Strings seeks to illuminate how our current fat phobia is rooted, specifically, in a fear of black women.

[She] persuasively shows that ... the link between fatness, racial otherness and, especially, female blackness, looms prominently in the American cultural imagination.”

—Times Literary Supplement

Argues for a conception of black cultural life that exceeds postBlackness and conditions of loss

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Being Muslim

A Cultural History of Women of Color in American Islam

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2019 ATHE Outstanding Book Award, Association for Theatre in Higher Education | 2018 Errol Hill Award, American Society for Theatre Research

After the Party

A Manifesto for Queer of Color Life

SYLVIA CHAN-MALIK

JOSHUA CHAMBERS-LETSON

An exploration of twentieth and twenty-first century US Muslim womanhood that centers the lived experience of women of color

A new manifesto for performance studies on the art of queer of color worldmaking

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NYU PRESS CLASSICS NEW INTRODUCTION AND AFTERWORD

From the Ground Up

Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement LUKE W. COLE and SHEILA R. FOSTER

Privilege Revealed How Invisible Preference Undermines America

STEPHANIE M. WILDMAN

A critical look at the movement for environmental justice

An in-depth examination of the different forms of privilege perpetuating inequality within American society

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252 PAGES • PAPER 978-0-8147-9303-9 • $25.00 In Critical America

Gold Winner of the 2008 Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Award, Biography Category

Freedom’s Prophet

Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers RICHARD S. NEWMAN

Brings to life the inspiring story of one of America’s Black Founding Fathers, featured in the forthcoming documentary The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is Our Song 359 PAGES • PAPER 978-0-8147-5857-1 • $28.00

Occult Roots of Nazism Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology

NICHOLAS GOODRICK-CLARKE

Reveals how Nazism was influenced by powerful occult sects that thrived in Germany and Austria almost fifty years before Hitler’s rise to power 203 PAGES • PAPER 978-0-8147-3060-7 • $24.00

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POLITICS Neoliberal Cities

Uncounted

The Remaking of Postwar Urban America

The Crisis of Voter Suppression in America

Edited by ANDREW J. DIAMOND and THOMAS J. SUGRUE

GILDA R. DANIELS

“Replete with documentary evidence and examples, this work sounds an alarm for any and all readers interested in reversing the damage and danger of the nondemocratic dynamic threatening truth, justice, and the fight to vote.”

—Library Journal

Traces decades of troubled attempts to fund private answers to public urban problems 224 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-3237-8 • $30.00 In NYU Series in Social and Cultural Analysis

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Fear in Our Hearts

After Obama

What Islamophobia Tells Us about America

African American Politics in a Post-Obama Era

CALEB IYER ELFENBEIN

Edited by TODD SHAW, ROBERT A. BROWN, and JOSEPH P. MCCORMICK II

Argues that anti-Muslim activity reveals how fear is corroding core American values

Examines the complicated political legacy of our first Black president

248 PAGES • CLOTH 978-1-4798-0458-0 • $28.00 In North American Religions

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NEW IN PAPERBACK Honorable Mention, 2020 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, Society for Humanistic Anthropology | Finalist, 2020 PROSE Award in Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology, Association of American Publishers

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White Christian Privilege

Banned

KHYATI Y. JOSHI

Examines immigration enforcement and discretion during the first eighteen months of the Trump administration

The Illusion of Religious Equality in America Exposes the invisible ways in which Christian privilege disadvantages religious minorities in America 256 PAGES • CLOTH 978-1-4798-4023-6 • $28.00

Activist New York

A History of People, Protest, and Politics STEVEN H. JAFFE

Follows centuries of New York activism to reveal the city as a globally influential machine for social change 304 PAGES • CLOTH • 978-1-4798-0460-3 • $40.00 A Washington Mews Book

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Immigration Enforcement in the Time of Trump SHOBA SIVAPRASAD WADHIA

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Muslim American Politics and the Future of US Democracy EDWARD E. CURTIS IV

Reveals the important role of Muslim Americans in American politics 200 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-1144-1 • $26.00

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How a City’s Heart Connects Us All MINDY THOMPSON FULLILOVE

Traverses the central thoroughfares of 178 cities to uncover the ways they bring together our communities 281 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-6133-2126-3 • $21.95 Published by New Village Press

NEW VILLAGE PRESS Root Shock

How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, And What We Can Do About It MINDY THOMPSON FULLILOVE

Unmasks the crippling results of decades-old disinvestment in communities of color and the urban renewal practices that ultimately destroyed these neighborhoods for the advantage of developers and the elite 304 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-6133-2019-8 • $19.95 Published by New Village Press

Waging Peace in Vietnam

US Soldiers and Veterans Who Opposed the War Edited by RON CARVER, DAVID CORTRIGHT and BARBARA DOHERTY

Photos, underground newspapers, and firsthand accounts of how American soldiers resisted the war in Vietnam 320 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-6133-2106-5 • $35.00 Published by 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.

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Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination Case Studies of Creative Social Change

Edited by HENRY JENKINS, GABRIEL PETERS-LAZARO and SANGITA SHRESTHOVA

How popular culture is engaged by activists to effect emancipatory political change

How to Watch Television second edition Edited by ETHAN THOMPSON and JASON MITTELL

A new edition that brings the ways we watch and think about television up to the present 432 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-9881-7 • $30.00 In User’s Guides to Popular Culture

400 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-6950-3 • $32.00 2019 Outstanding Book Award, International Communication Association

Postracial Resistance Black Women, Media, and the Uses of Strategic Ambiguity RALINA L. JOSEPH

How Black women in the spotlight negotiate the post-racial gaze of Hollywood and beyond 280 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-8637-1 • $30.00 In Critical Cultural Communication

2018 Outstanding Academic Title, CHOICE Magazine

Algorithms of Oppression

How Search Engines Reinforce Racism SAFIYA UMOJA NOBLE

A revealing look at how negative biases against women of color are embedded in search engine results and algorithms 256 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-3724-3 • $28.00

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