American Studies 2024 - 2025

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DEVIANT MATTER

FERMENT, INTOXICANTS, JELLY, ROT

KYLA WAZANA TOMPKINS

How deviant materials figure resistance

In Sexual Cultures

288 PP | PAPER | $30.00 | 9781479819225

LIKE CHILDREN

BLACK PRODIGY AND THE MEASURE OF THE HUMAN IN AMERICA

CAMILLE OWENS

A new history of manhood, race, and hierarchy in American childhood

In Performance and American Cultures

336 PP | PAPER | $30.00 | 9781479812929

MATTERS OF INSCRIPTION

READING FIGURES OF LATINIDAD

CHRISTINA A. LEÓN

A compelling exploration of materiality and semiotics in Latinx inscriptions

304 PP | PAPER | $30.00 | 9781479816781

PRACTICING

FOOD STUDIES

EDITED BY AMY BENTLEY, FABIO PARASECOLI, AND KRISHNENDU RAY

An introduction to the burgeoning field of food studies

REDFACE

RACE, PERFORMANCE, AND INDIGENEITY

BETHANY HUGHES

Considers the character of the “Stage Indian” in American theater and its racial and political impact

In Performance and American Cultures

288 PP | PAPER | $30.00 | 9781479829392

JUMP

BLACK ANARCHISM AND ANTIBLACK CARCERALITY

SAM C. TENORIO

Asks how we can better understand a politics of refusal

208 PP | PAPER | $28.00 | 9781479828296

BOTTOMS UP QUEER MEXICANNESS AND LATINX PERFORMANCE

XIOMARA VERENICE CERVANTES-GOMEZ

Proposes a queer way to be in the world and with others.

In Sexual Cultures

264 PP | PAPER | $30.00 | 9781479829156

BROOKLYNITES

THE REMARKABLE STORY OF THE FREE BLACK COMMUNITIES THAT SHAPED A BOROUGH PRITHI KANAKAMEDALA

Meet the Black Brooklynites who defined New York City’s most populous borough through their search for social justice

288 PP | CLOTH | $30.00 | 9781479833092

DEADPAN THE AESTHETICS OF BLACK INEXPRESSION

TINA POST

Winner of the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism

DISSATISFACTIONS

QUEER LATINIDAD AND THE POLITICS OF STYLE

JOSHUA JAVIER GUZMÁN

How the queer Chicano punks of post-1960s Los Angeles developed a unique politics of style

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FOR PLEASURE

RACE, EXPERIMENTALISM, AND AESTHETICS

RACHEL JANE CARROLL

Argues that aesthetic pleasure plays a key role in both racial practices and struggles against racist domination

This series promotes scholarship that develops a minor position toward aesthetics and an aesthetic stance toward minoritarian experience. The aesthetic—the domain of sensation, beauty, value, taste, (dis)pleasure, and the sublime—instructs not only representations and judgments of the social, but the relational bonds that form between objects, subjects, and entities across spatial-temporal domains.

NORMPORN

QUEER VIEWERS AND THE TV THAT SOOTHES US KAREN TONGSON

An irreverent look at the love-hate relationship between queer viewers and mainstream family TV shows like Gilmore Girls and This Is Us

UNBELONGING INAUTHENTIC SOUNDS IN MEXICAN AND LATINX AESTHETICS

IVÁN A. RAMOS

How Latinx artists engage in sonic subcultures to reject neoliberal definitions of belonging

STYLE A QUEER COSMOLOGY TAYLOR BLACK

Assembles texts, performances and personae from American culture to argue the elemental nature of style

SONIC SOVEREIGNTY

HIP HOP, INDIGENEITY, AND SHIFTING POPULAR MUSIC MAINSTREAMS

LIZ PRZYBYLSKI

What does sovereignty sound like?

QUEER LASTING

ECOLOGIES OF CARE FOR A DYING WORLD

SARAH ENSOR

What queer modes of resilience and care can teach us about enduring environmental collapse In Sexual Cultures

280 PP | PAPER | $30.00 | 9781479829477

QUEER CHILDHOODS

INSTITUTIONAL FUTURES OF INDIGENEITY, RACE, AND DISABILITY

MARY ZABORSKIS

How institutional management of children’s sexualities in boarding schools affected children’s opportunities later in life In Sexual Cultures

320 PP | PAPER | $32.00 | 9781479813896

GENDER WITHOUT IDENTITY

EDITED BY AVGI SAKETOPOULOU AND ANN PELLEGRINI

Offers a radical theory of gender formation and its ongoing mutations

216 PP | CLOTH | $89.00 | 9781479836123

OUTSKIRTS

QUEER EXPERIENCES ON THE FRINGE

EDITED BY D’LANE R. COMPTON AND AMY L. STONE

EXTRAVAGANT CAMP THE QUEER ABJECTION OF ASIAN AMERICA

CHRIS A. ENG

Illuminates an irreverent queer cultural strategy for grappling with and remaking abject histories of violence In Sexual Cultures

312 PP | PAPER | $30.00 | 9781479834662

COLORING INTO EXISTENCE

QUEER OF COLOR WORLDMAKING IN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE ISABEL MILLÁN

Argues that queer picture books with main characters of color can disrupt structures of power

352 PP | PAPER | $30.00 | 9781479816989

PICTURE BRIDE, WAR BRIDE THE ROLE OF MARRIAGE IN SHAPING JAPANESE AMERICA

SONIA C. GOMEZ

The role marriage played in the lives of Japanese women during periods of racial exclusion in the United States

200 PP | CLOTH | $35.00 | 9781479803071

FIERCE, FABULOUS,

AND FLUID

HOW TRANS HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS WORK AT GENDER NONCONFORMITY

LJ SLOVIN

Celebrates diverse queer experiences on society’s margins 240 PP | PAPER | $30.00 | 9781479819607

The work trans youth do to create inclusive spaces in schools

In Critical Perspectives on Youth

DISABILITY WORKS PERFORMANCE AFTER REHABILITATION

PATRICK MCKELVEY

A cultural history of disability, performance, and work in the modern United States In Performance and American Cultures

NATURAL BLACK BEAUTY AND THE POLITICS OF HAIR

CHELSEA MARY ELISE JOHNSON

How Black women celebrate their natural hair and uproot racialized beauty standards

HOW TO BE DISABLED IN A PANDEMIC

EDITED BY MARA MILLS, HARRIS KORNSTEIN, FAYE GINSBURG, AND RAYNA RAPP

A chronicle of ableism and disability activism in New York City during the COVID-19 pandemic

CRIP AUTHORSHIP

DISABILITY

An expansive volume presenting crip approaches to

The importance of embodiment and movement to the creation of Black sociality In Crip

BLACK PANTHER WOMAN

THE POLITICAL AND SPIRITUAL LIFE OF ERICKA HUGGINS

MARY FRANCES PHILLIPS

The first biography a queer Black woman who brought spiritual self-care practices to the Black Panther Party. In Black Power

YOUR OWN THE WHITE FIGHT FOR BLACK POWER IN DETROIT SAY BURGIN The fascinating history of white solidarity with the Black Power movement

MEDIA STUDIES

THE THRESHOLD OF DISSENT

A HISTORY OF AMERICAN JEWISH CRITICS OF ZIONISM

MARJORIE N. FELD

In Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History

288 PP | CLOTH $30.00 | 9781479829316

F*CK THE ARMY! HOW SOLDIERS AND CIVILIANS STAGED THE GI MOVEMENT TO END THE VIETNAM WAR

LINDSAY GOSS

Reveals the theatrical character of radical activism

In Performance and American Cultures

240 PP | PAPER | $30.00 | 9781479821860

FANDOM IS UGLY NETWORKED HARASSMENT IN PARTICIPATORY CULTURE

MEL STANFILL

Highlights why it’s important to think about contemporary public culture through the lens of fan studies.

In Critical Cultural Communication

264 PP | PAPER | $30.00 | 9781479824960

THE GREEN SPACE THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE IRISH IMAGE

MARION R. CASEY

A historical exploration of the Irish image in popular culture

In The Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series

BLACK POWER, JEWISH POLITICS

REINVENTING THE ALLIANCE IN THE 1960S, REVISED EDITION MARC DOLLINGER

In Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History

328 PP | PAPER $30.00 | 9781479826896

WHERE THE WILD THINGS WERE BOYHOOD AND PERMISSIVE PARENTING IN POSTWAR AMERICA

HENRY JENKINS

Explores works from The Cat in the Hat to The Twilight Zone to explain how we conceptualize childhood

In Postmillennial Pop

368 PP | PAPER | $35.00 | 9781479831890

STREAMING VIDEO STORYTELLING ACROSS BORDERS

EDITED BY AMANDA D. LOTZ AND RAMON LOBATO

Explores how streaming services are disrupting traditional storytelling

In Critical Cultural Communication

376 PP | PAPER | $30.00 | 9781479816842

DIGITAL UNSETTLING DECOLONIALITY AND DISPOSSESSION IN THE AGE OF SOCIAL MEDIA

SAHANA UDUPA AND ETHIRAJ GABRIEL DATTATREYAN

How digital networks are positioned within the structures of coloniality

In Critical Cultural Communication

| $30.00 | 9781479819157

KEYWORDS FOR HEALTH HUMANITIES

EDITED BY SARI ALTSCHULER, JONATHAN M. METZL, AND PRISCILLA WALD

Introduces key concepts and debates in health humanities and the health professions

280 PP | PAPER | $29.00 | 9781479808106

KEYWORDS FOR LATINA/O STUDIES

EDITED BY DEBORAH R. VARGAS, LAWRENCE LA FOUNTAIN-STOKES, AND NANCY RAQUEL MIRABAL

Introduces key terms, concepts, debates, and histories for Latinx Studies

288 PP | PAPER | $29.00 | 9781479883301

KEYWORDS FOR AMERICAN CULTURAL STUDIES, THIRD EDITION

EDITED BY BRUCE BURGETT AND GLENN HENDLER

A timely, wide-ranging, expanded, and updated vocabulary for American Cultural Studies

360 PP | PAPER | $29.00 | 9781479822942

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

KEYWORDS FOR ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES

EDITED BY CATHY J. SCHLUND-VIALS, K. SCOTT WONG AND LINDA TRINH VÕ

Introduces key terms, research frameworks, debates, and histories for Asian American Studies

292 PP | PAPER | $29.00 | 9781479803286

KEYWORDS FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES

EDITED BY ERICA R. EDWARDS, RODERICK A. FERGUSON, AND JEFFREY O.G. OGBAR

Introduces key terms, interdisciplinary research, debates, and histories for African American Studies

272 PP | PAPER | $29.00 | 9781479854899

KEYWORDS FOR CHILDREN’S LITERATURE, SECOND EDITION

EDITED BY PHILIP NEL, LISSA PAUL, AND NINA CHRISTENSEN

An updated vocabulary for children’s literature and culture

288 PP | PAPER | $29.00 | 9781479831968

272 PP | PAPER | $29.00 | 9781479899678

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

312 PP | PAPER | $29.00 | 9781479808151

DARK AGORAS INSURGENT BLACK SOCIAL LIFE AND THE POLITICS OF PLACE

J. T. ROANE

A history of Black urban placemaking and politics in Philadelphia from the Great Migration to the era of Black Power

312 PP | PAPER | $24.00 | 9781479831029

THE TUSKEGEE STUDENT UPRISING A HISTORY

BRIAN JONES

Winner of the 2023 Nonfiction Award, awarded by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association In Black Power

264 PP | PAPER | $22.00 | 9781479831043

LIKE WATER A CULTURAL HISTORY OF BRUCE LEE

DARYL JOJI MAEDA Highlights Bruce Lee’s influence beyond martial arts and film

PASIFIKA BLACK OCEANIA, ANTICOLONIALISM, AND THE AFRICAN WORLD

QUITO SWAN

Winner of the 2023 ASALH Book Prize

A living history of anticolonialist movements In Black Power

352 PP | PAPER | $27.00 | 9781479835263

SEX IS AS SEX DOES GOVERNING TRANSGENDER IDENTITY

PAISLEY CURRAH

256 PP | PAPER | $19.95 | 9780814717097

JUST HEALTH TREATING STRUCTURAL RACISM TO HEAL AMERICA

DAYNA BOWEN MATTHEW

The author of the bestselling Just Medicine reveals how racial inequality undermines public health and how we can change it

PUBLIC FACES, SECRET LIVES A QUEER HISTORY OF THE WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT

WENDY L. ROUSE

Examines the development of transgender rights in the United States 336 PP | PAPER | $19.95 | 9781479830732

Restores queer suffragists to their rightful place in the history of the struggle for women’s right to vote

PP | PAPER | $20.00 | 9781479830947

BLACK AND QUEER ON CAMPUS

MICHAEL P. JEFFRIES

An inside look at Black LGBTQ college students and their experiences

THE UNINTENDED PHOTOGRAPHY, PROPERTY, AND THE AESTHETICS OF RACIAL CAPITALISM

MONICA HUERTA

Reimagines photography through the long history of ideas of expression

In America and the Long 19th Century

328 PP | PAPER | $30.00 | 9781479812400

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

In Sexual Cultures

320 PP | PAPER | $32.00 | 9781479830374

THE OTHER SIDE OF TERROR BLACK WOMEN AND THE CULTURE OF US EMPIRE ERICA R. EDWARDS

Reveals the troubling intimacy between Black women and the making of US global power

400 PP | PAPER | $32.00 | 9781479808434

FILIPINO AMERICAN SPORTING CULTURES THE RACIAL POLITICS OF PLAY CONSTANCIO R. ARNALDO, JR. Examines the significance of sports in the lives of diasporic Filipino Americans

SEXUALITY BEYOND CONSENT

RISK, RACE, TRAUMATOPHILIA

AVGI SAKETOPOULOU

Radical alternatives to consent and trauma

In Sexual Cultures

272 PP | PAPER | $30.00 | 9781479820252

BLACK PATIENCE

PERFORMANCE, CIVIL RIGHTS, AND THE UNFINISHED PROJECT OF EMANCIPATION

JULIUS B. FLEMING JR.

The Civil Rights Movement through the lens of Black theater

In Performance and American Cultures

312 PP | PAPER | $30.00 | 9781479806843

GLOBAL GUYANA SHAPING RACE, GENDER, AND ENVIRONMENT IN THE CARIBBEAN AND BEYOND ONEKA LABENNETT

Exposes the threat of environmental catastrophe that structure Caribbean women’s lives in the overlooked nation of Guyana

256 PP | PAPER | $30.00 | 9781479827015

THE MOVEMENT FOR REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE EMPOWERING WOMEN OF COLOR THROUGH SOCIAL ACTIVISM

PATRICIA ZAVELLA

A compelling model for groups to successfully influence change

In Social Transformations in American Anthropology

320 PP | PAPER | $32.00 | 9781479812707

A ROTTEN CROWD AMERICA, WEALTH, AND ONE-HUNDRED YEARS OF THE GREAT GATSBY

JOHN MARSH

A look at how much, and how little, has changed about class in America

136 PP | CLOTH | $19.95 | 9781685900830

PARAGUAYAN SORROW WRITINGS OF RAFAEL BARRETT, A RADICAL VOICE IN A DISPOSSESSED LAND

RAFAEL BARRETT

EDITED BY WILLIAM COSTA

The first-ever English translation of one of the legends of the Latin American left

240 PP | PAPER | $26.00 | 9781685900786

UNIVERSITY OF GUAM PRESS

JUANIT

CHRIS PEREZ HOWARD

A poignant comingof-age tale about a girl desperate to find her place in the world

294 PP | PAPER

$15.00 | 9781935198758

SIGNS OF BEING

C. T. PEREZ

A collection of poetry, prose, and commentary born from the insights, observations, and experiences of C.T. Perez to understand the realms of CHamoru cultural identity

| 9781935198925

UNIVERSITY OF REGINA PRESS

SPARK ALICE KUIPERS ON WRITING FOR KIDS & YOUNG ADULTS ALICE KUIPERS

A guide on how to write for children and young adults-from igniting an initial idea to creating a finished draft In Writers on Writing

256 PP | PAPER | $22.95 | 9781779400222

UNCUT A CULTURAL ANALYSIS OF THE FORESKIN

JONATHAN A ALLAN

Uncut explores the significance of the foreskin in contemporary culture In The Exquisite Corpse

352 PP | PAPER | $29.95 | 9781779400307

NAKÓN-WICO’I’E NÉ USPÉNIC’ICIYAC / PRACTISING NAKODA A THEMATIC DICTIONARY

VINCENT COLLETTE, TOM SHAWL AND WILMA KENNEDY

A user-friendly guide that teaches the core Nakoda vocabulary and how to use it in conversation

216 PP | PAPER | $27.95 | 9781779400185

THE SALMON SHANTIES

A CASCADIAN SONG CYCLE

HAROLD RHENISCH

Poems that balance the settler and Indigenous experiences of land and water in the Pacific Northwest

In Oskana Poetry & Poetics

208 PP | PAPER | $16.95 | 9781779400154

AND WROTE MY STORY ANYWAY BLACK SOUTH AFRICAN WOMEN’S NOVELS AS FEMINISM

BARBARA BOSWELL

Examines influential novels by eminent Black female writers

264 PP | PAPER

$30.00 | 9781776146185

JAN COHEN-CRUZ

Encounters, transformations, and reflections from in-prison and postrelease theater workshops

IN THE CAMP OF ANGELS OF FREEDOM WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE EDUCATED?

ARLENE GOLDBARD

An autodidact explores issues of education itself through essays and personal portraits of the key minds who influenced her

MAKING A WAY OUT OF NO WAY LIVES OF LABOR, LOVE, AND RESISTANCE

APARTHEID SPIES AND THE REVOLUTIONARY UNDERGROUND

BILLY KENISTON

The first booklength account of the assassination of Jeanette and Katryn Schoon

352 PP | PAPER

$30.00 | 9781776149018

ALICE ROTHCHILD

A remarkable autobiography of Alice Rothchild’s journey from 1950’s good girl to irreverent, feisty, feminist obstetriciangynecologist

| 9781613322604 INSPIRED AND OUTRAGED THE MAKING OF A FEMINIST PHYSICIAN

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THE BOOK OF JUDITH OPENING HEARTS THROUGH POETRY

EDITED BY SPOON JACKSON, MARK FOSS, AND SARA PRESS

INHERITED SILENCE LISTENING TO THE LAND, HEALING THE COLONIZER MIND

LOUISE DUNLAP

An insightful look at the historical damages early colonizers of America caused and how their descendants may heal the harm done

A richly imagined, photo illustrated narrative of 150 years of life in slavery on tobacco plantations in Southern Maryland 240 PP | PAPER | $22.95 | 9781613321706

An homage to the life of Judith Tannenbaum and her impact on incarcerated and marginalized students 208

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