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HIGHLIGHTS THE OTHER SIDE OF TERROR
MISOGYNOIR TRANSFORMED
Black Women and the Culture of US Empire
Black Women’s Digital Resistance
ERICA R. EDWARDS
Where racism and sexism meet—an understanding of antiBlack misogyny
Reveals the troubling intimacy between Black women and the making of US global power $30.00 • 400 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0843-4
MOYA BAILEY
$28.00 • 248 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-6510-9 In Intersections
2021 National Book Award Nominee, Nonfiction
THE BLACK CIVIL WAR SOLDIER A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship
TERRORISM IN AMERICAN MEMORY Memorials, Museums, and Architecture in the Post-9/11 Era
DEBORAH WILLIS
MARITA STURKEN
A stunning collection of stoic portraits and intimate ephemera from the lives of Black Civil War soldiers
The role of cultural memory in American identity
$35.00 • 256 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-0900-4 In NYU Series in Social and Cultural Analysis
DIGITAL BLACK FEMINISM CATHERINE KNIGHT STEELE
Traces the longstanding relationship between technology and Black feminist thought $27.00 • 208 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0838-0 In Critical Cultural Communication
THE INTIMACIES OF CONFLICT Cultural Memory and the Korean War
DANIEL Y. KIM
$29.00 • Paper 978-1-4798-1168-7 Coming January 2022
BLACK AGE Oceanic Lifespans and the Time of Black Life HABIBA IBRAHIM
A view of transatlantic slavery’s afterlife and modern Blackness through the lens of age $28.00 • 272 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-1089-5
KEEPING IT UNREAL Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics DARIECK SCOTT
Enables a reckoning with the legacy of the Forgotten War through literary and cinematic works of cultural memory
Explores Black representation in fantasy genres and comic books
$29.00 • 336 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0536-5
Coming January 2022
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$29.00 • Paper 978-1-4798-2414-4
AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES Winner, 2021 Harry Levin Prize, presented by the American Comparative Literature Association, Finalist, 2021 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Studies
BECOMING HUMAN Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World ZAKIYYAH IMAN JACKSON
Argues that blackness disrupts our essential ideas of race, gender, and, ultimately, the human $30.00 • 320 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-3037-4 In Sexual Cultures
Winner, 2021 Katherine Singer Kovács Book Award Winner, 2021 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards for Best Academic/ Scholarly Work
CONTENT OF OUR CARICATURE African American Comic Art and Political Belonging REBECCA WANZO
Traces the history of racial caricature and the ways that Black cartoonists have turned this visual grammar on its head $29.00 • 256 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-8958-7 In Postmillennial Pop
SOUNDTRACK TO A MOVEMENT
DISABILITIES OF THE COLOR LINE
African American Islam, Jazz, and Black Internationalism
Redressing Antiblackness from Slavery to the Present
RICHARD BRENT TURNER
DENNIS TYLER
Explores how jazz helped propel the rise of African American Islam during the era of global Black liberation
Reveals how disability and disablement have shaped Black social life in America
$30.00 • 256 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0676-8
$30.00 • 336 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-3112-8 In Crip Coming February 2022 Winner, 2019 Anna Julia Cooper and C.L.R. James Award, presented by the National Council for Black Studies
THE DIVIDED MIND OF THE BLACK CHURCH
UPENDING THE IVORY TOWER
Theology, Piety, and Public Witness
Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Ivy League
RAPHAEL G. WARNOCK
A revealing look at the identity and mission of the black church by now Senator Warnock $19.95 • 276 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0600-3 In Religion, Race, and Ethnicity New in Paperback
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
$35.00 • 480 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0602-7 Coming Soon in Paperback
THE UNTOLD STORY OF SHIELDS GREEN
THE COLOR OF CRIME, THIRD EDITION
The Life and Death of a Harper’s Ferry Raider LOUIS A. DECARO, JR.
Racial Hoaxes, White Crime, Media Messages, Police Violence, and Other Race-Based Harms
Explores the life of Shields Green, one of the Black men who followed John Brown to Harper’s Ferry in 1859
How we can understand race, crime, and punishment in the age of Black Lives Matter
$28.00 • 248 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-0275-3
$29.00 • 256 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-4315-2
KATHERYN RUSSELL-BROWN
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KEYWORDS SERIES KEYWORDS FOR GENDER AND SEXUALITY STUDIES Edited by THE KEYWORDS FEMINIST EDITORIAL COLLECTIVE
Introduces key terms, debates, and histories for feminist studies in gender and sexuality $28.00 • Paper 978-1-4798-0815-1
KEYWORDS FOR AMERICAN CULTURAL STUDIES, THIRD 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
$28.00 • 360 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-2294-2
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 $28.00 • 288 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-3196-8
KEYWORDS FOR CHILDREN’S LITERATURE, SECOND EDITION Edited by PHILIP NEL, LISSA PAUL and NINA CHRISTENSEN Introduces key terms, global concepts, debates, and histories for Children’s Literature in an updated edition $28.00 • 272 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-9967-8
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L AT I N X THE QUEER NUYORICAN Racialized Sexualities and Aesthetics in Loisaida
LATCRIT From Critical Legal Theory to Academic Activism FRANCISCO VALDES and
KAREN JAIME
STEVEN W. BENDER
A queer genealogy of the famous performance space and the nuyorican aesthetic
Examines LatCrit’s emergence as a scholarly and activist community within and beyond the US legal academy
$28.00 • Paper 978-1-4798-0829-8 In Performance and American Cultures
$27.00 • 216 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0930-1
LATINO TV A History MARY BELTRÁN
The history of Latina/o participation and representation in American television $30.00 • 272 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-3389-4 In Critical Cultural Communication
CRITICAL DIALOGUES IN LATINX STUDIES A Reader Edited by ANA Y. RAMOS-ZAYAS and MÉRIDA M. RÚA Introduces new approaches, theoretical trends, and understudied topics in Latinx Studies $45.00 • Paper 978-1-4798-0521-1
AV I D L Y R E A D S AVIDLY READS OPERA ALISON KINNEY
“Opera is community, comfort, art, voice, breath, life. It’s hope.” $14.95 • 416 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-1173-1
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.” $14.95 • 176 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0709-3
AVIDLY READS PASSAGES
AVIDLY READS MAKING OUT
MICHELLE D. COMMANDER
KATHRYN BOND STOCKTON
“What is the value of Black life in America?”
“Here’s the thing with kissing: it matters intensely or not at all.”
$14.95 • 160 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0617-1
$14.95 • 176 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-4327-5
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MEDIA STUDIES BORDER OPTICS
RACE AND MEDIA
Surveillance Cultures on the USMexico Frontier
Edited by LORI KIDO LOPEZ A foundational collection of essays that demonstrate how to study race and media
CAMILLA FOJAS
Examines how the US-Mexico border is seen through visual codes of surveillance $28.00 • 208 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0701-7 In Critical Cultural Communication
$30.00 • 344 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-8931-0 In Critical Cultural Communication
COMICS AND STUFF
PAIN GENERATION
HENRY JENKINS
Social Media, Feminist Activism, and the Neoliberal Selfie
Considers how comics display our everyday stuff—junk drawers, bookshelves, attics—as a way into understanding how we represent ourselves now $32.00 • 352 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0093-3
HORRIBLE WHITE PEOPLE 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
L. AYU SARASWATI
Explores the perils and promise of feminist social media activism $28.00 • 224 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0833-5
Winner, 2020 World Fantasy Awards
THE DARK FANTASTIC Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games
EBONY ELIZABETH THOMAS
Reveals the diversity crisis in children’s and young adult media as not only a lack of representation, but a lack of imagination
$30.00 • 272 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0535-8
$16.95 • 240 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0607-2 In Postmillennial Pop
DISLIKE-MINDED
OPEN WORLD EMPIRE
Media, Audiences, and the Dynamics of Taste
Race, Erotics, and the Global Rise of Video Games
JONATHAN GRAY
CHRISTOPHER B. PATTERSON
Explains why audiences dislike certain media and what happens when they do
Seeking ways to understand video games beyond their imperial logics, Patterson turns to erotics to reinvigorate the potential passions and pleasures of play
$29.00 • 272 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0998-1
$35.00 • 344 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-9590-8 In Postmillennial Pop GET 30% OFF AND FREE SHIPPING* WITH COUPON AMSA21-FM
HISTORY HAITI’S PAPER WAR Post-Independence Writing, Civil War, and the Making of the Republic, 1804–1954 CHELSEA STIEBER
Turns to the written record to re-examine the building blocks of a nation $30.00 • 380 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0215-9 In America and the Long 19th Century
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 $19.95 • 256 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0675-1
MUTINY ON THE RISING SUN A Tragic Tale of Slavery, Smuggling, and Chocolate JARED ROSS HARDESTY
A little-known story of mutiny and murder illustrating the centrality of smuggling and slavery in early American society $35.00 • 280 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-1248-6
POCAHONTAS AND THE ENGLISH BOYS Caught between Cultures in Early Virginia KAREN ORDAHL KUPPERMAN
The captivating story of four young people—English and Powhatan—who lived their lives between cultures $15.95 • 240 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0598-3 Coming Soon in Paperback Winner, 2020 Herbert H. Lehman Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in New York History
THE BATTLE OF NEGRO FORT
SUGAR CIGARS AND REVOLUTION
The Rise and Fall of a Fugitive Slave Community
The Making of Cuban New York
MATTHEW J. CLAVIN
The dramatic story of the origins of the Cuban community in nineteenth-century New York.
The dramatic story of the United States’ destruction of a free and independent community of fugitive slaves in Spanish Florida
LISANDRO PÉREZ
$24.00 • 400 Pages Paper • 978-0-8147-6728-3
$14.95 • 272 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-1110-6 Coming Soon in Paperback
PORTRAITS OF RACIAL JUSTICE Americans Who Tell the Truth ROBERT SHETTERLY
A vivid portrait collection of past and present Americans speaking truth to power $34.95• 128 Pages Cloth • 978-1-6133-2163-8 Published by New Village Press
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GENDER AND SEXUALITY Winner, 2021 Glenda Laws Award presented by the American Association of Geographers
HETEROSEXUAL HISTORIES Edited by REBECCA L. DAVIS and MICHELE MITCHELL
A QUEER NEW YORK Geographies of Lesbians, Dykes, and Queers JEN JACK GIESEKING
The history of heterosexuality in North America across four centuries
The first lesbian and queer historical geography of New York City
$35.00 • 424 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0228-9
$30.00 • 336 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-3573-7
Winner, 2021 PROSE Award for the Cultural Anthropology & Sociology Category presented by the Association of American Publishers
THE TRAGEDY OF HETEROSEXUALITY JANE WARD
A troubling account of heterosexual desire in the era of #MeToo
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$26.95 • 216 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-5155-3 In Sexual Cultures
SOCIAL SCIENCE REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS AS HUMAN RIGHTS Women of Color and the Fight for Reproductive Justice ZAKIYA LUNA
Reveals both the promise and the pitfalls associated with a human rights approach to the Black-focused reproductive rights activism of SisterSong
SOUTH CENTRAL DREAMS Finding Home and Building Community in South L.A. PIERRETTE HONDAGNEUSOTELO and MANUEL PASTOR Race, place, and identity in a changing urban America
$32.00 • 368 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0797-0 In Latina/o Sociology
$35.00 • 312 pages Paper • 978-1-4798-3129-6
UNCOUNTED The Crisis of Voter Suppression in America GILDA R. DANIELS
An answer to the assault on voting rights—crucial reading in light of the 2020 presidential election $16.95 • 272 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-1198-4 Coming Soon in Paperback GET 30% OFF AND FREE SHIPPING* WITH COUPON AMSA21-FM
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 $35.00 • 336 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-1108-3 New in Paperback
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