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HIGHLIGHTS BLACK PATIENCE
BROKEN
A bold rethinking of the Civil Rights Movement through the lens of Black theater
”A fresh, passionate, and comprehensive exploration of where Muslims factor into American diversity initiatives.” ~Lorraine Ali, LA Times
Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation Julius B. Fleming Jr.
312 PG | PAPER | $29 9781479806843
In Performance and American Cultures
The Failed Promise of Muslim Inclusion Evelyn Alsultany
320 PG | CLOTH | $30 9781479823963
THE RACIAL RAILROAD
QUEER FORMS Ramzi Fawaz
Julia H. Lee
“An invigorating work of queer feminist political theory and imagination.” ~Linda Zerilli, University of Chicago
Reveals the legacy of the train as a critical site of race in the United States
304 PG | PAPER | $30 9781479812776
464 PG | PAPER | $30 9781479820733
DEADPAN
CRITICAL RACE THEORY, FOURTH EDITION
The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression Tina Post
An Introduction Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic
Explores expressionlessness, inscrutability, and emotional withholding in Black cultural production
280 PG | PAPER | $30 9781479811212
A new edition of a seminal text in Critical Race Theory In Critical America 224 PG | PAPER | $20 9781479818259
LIKE WATER
KEYWORDS FOR GENDER AND SEXUALITY STUDIES
A Cultural History of Bruce Lee Daryl Joji Maeda “Maeda’s study of Lee reminds us that without cultural appropriation there would be no culture.” ~Washington Examiner
336 PG | CLOTH | $30 9781479812868
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Edited by the Keywords Feminist Editorial Collective 312 PG | PAPER | $28 9781479808151
Introduces key terms, debates, and histories for feminist studies in gender and sexuality
AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES BLACK EPHEMERA
HIP HOP HERESIES
A framework for understanding the deep archive of Black performance in the digital era
Unearths the queer aesthetic origins of NYC hip hop
The Crisis and Challenge of the Musical Archive Mark Anthony Neal
232 PG | PAPER | $27 9781479806904
Queer Aesthetics in New York City Shanté Paradigm Smalls
216 PG | PAPER | $28 9781479808205
THE OTHER SIDE OF TERROR
DARK AGORAS
Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place J.T Roane
Black Women and the Culture of US Empire Erica R. Edwards
A history of Black urban placemaking and politics in Philadelphia from the Great Migration to the era of Black Power
Winner of the John Hope Franklin Prize, given by the American Studies Association
400 PG | PAPER | $30 9781479808434
312 PG | CLOTH | $39 9781479847679
BLACK AGE
KEEPING IT UNREAL
Oceanic Lifespans and the Time of Black Life Habiba Ibrahim
272 PG | PAPER | $28 9781479810895
Honorable Mention, Harry Shaw and Katrina Hazzard-Donald Award for Outstanding Work in Afican-American Popular Culture Studies, Given by the Pop Culture Association
Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics Darieck Scott Explores Black representation in fantasy genres and comic books In Sexual Cultures 280 PG | PAPER | $29 9781479824144
THE BLACK CIVIL WAR SOLDIER
BLACK AND QUEER ON CAMPUS
A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship Deborah Willis
Michael P. Jeffries
An inside look at Black LGBTQ college students and their experiences
“Enacts a visual curation of black Civil War history as few besides Willis are so expertly capable of.” ~Civil War Book Review 256 PG | CLOTH | $35 9781479809004
In Social and Cultural Analysis
288 PG | CLOTH | $30 9781479803910
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MEDIA AND POPULAR CULTURE UNBELONGING
LATINO TV
Inauthentic Sounds in Mexican and Latinx Aesthetics Iván A. Ramos
A History Mary Beltrán
The history of Latina/o participation and representation in American television
How Latinx artists engage in sonic subcultures to reject neoliberal definitions of belonging
In Critical Cultural Communication
In Postmillennial Pop 256 PG | PAPER | $30 9781479808465
264 PG | PAPER | $30 9781479833894
DIGITAL BLACK FEMINISM
MISOGYNOIR TRANSFORMED
Black Women’s Digital Resistance Moya Bailey
Catherine Knight Steele Winner, 2022 Nancy Baym Book Award, given by the Association of Internet Researchers
Where racism and sexism meet—an understanding of anti-Black misogyny
In Critical Cultural Communication 208 PG | PAPER | $27 9781479808380
In Intersections 248 PG | PAPER | $16.95 9781479878741
OPEN WORLD EMPIRE
STAY COOL
Why Dark Comedy Matters in the Fight Against Climate Change Aaron Sachs
Race, Erotics, and the Global Rise of Video Games Christopher B. Patterson
How gallows humor can bolster us to confront global warming
Finalist, 2021 John Hope Franklin Prize, given by the American Studies Association 344 PG | PAPER | $35 9781479895908
In Postmillennial Pop
176 PG | CLOTH | $22 9781479819393
THE REVOLUTION WILL BE HILARIOUS
RACE AND MEDIA
Critical Approaches Edited by Lori Kido Lopez
Comedy for Social Change and Civic Power Caty Borum
A foundational collection of essays that demonstrate how to study race and media
An insider’s look at the power of comedy to effect social change
In Critical Cultural Communication
In Postmillennial Pop 304 PG | PAPER | $30 9781479810833
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344 PG | PAPER | $30 9781479889310
GENDER AND SEXUALITY SEXUALITY BEYOND CONSENT
BROWN AND GAY IN LA
The Lives of Immigrant Sons Anthony Christian Ocampo
Risk, Race, Traumatophilia Avgi Saketopoulou Radical alternatives to consent and trauma In Sexual Cultures
272 PG | PAPER | $30 9781479820252
240 PG | CLOTH | $28 9781479824250
THE TRAGEDY OF HETEROSEXUALITY
QUEER NUYORICAN
Racialized Sexualities and Aesthetics in Loisaida Karen Jaime
Jane Ward
Finalist, 2021 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Studies
A queer genealogy of the famous performance space and the nuyorican aesthetic
A troubling account of heterosexual desire in the era of #MeToo 216 PG | PAPER | $14.95 9781479804467
In Sexual Cultures
In Performance and American Cultures 224 PG | PAPER | $28 9781479808298
FAMILIES WE KEEP
HETEROSEXUAL HISTORIES
LGBTQ People and Their Enduring Bonds with Parents Rin Reczek and Emma Bosley-Smith
Edited by Rebecca L. Davis and Michele Mitchell The history of heterosexuality in North America across four centuries
Why LGBTQ adults don’t end troubled ties with parents and why (perhaps) they should 224 PG | PAPER | $28 9781479813339
424 PG | PAPER | $35 9781479802289
QUEER NEW YORK
KEEPING FAMILY SECRETS
Geographies of Lesbians, Dykes, and Queers Jen Jack Gieseking
Shame and Silence in Memoirs from the 1950s Margaret K. Nelson
The first lesbian and queer historical geography of New York City
336 PG | PAPER | $30 9781479835737
“Documents the challenges of growing up gay for second-generation urban Latinos and Filipinos in this insightful blend of ethnography and memoir.” ~Publishers Weekly
From teen pregnancy to gay sexuality and communism to disability, the startling secrets that families kept during the Cold War era 252 PG | CLOTH | $30 9781479815623
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DISABILITY STUDIES FALLING, FLOATING, FLICKERING
SIGNS OF DISABILITY
Stephanie L. Kerschbaum
Disability and Differential Movement in African Diasporic Performance Hershini Bhana Young
How can we learn to notice the signs of disability? In Crip
Insists on the importance of embodiment and movement to the creation of Black sociality 320 PG | PAPER | $32 9781479818457
In Crip
248 PG | PAPER | $30 9781479811168
CRIP AUTHORSHIP
DISABILITIES OF THE COLOR LINE
Disability as Method Edited by Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez
Redressing Antiblackness from Slavery to the Present Dennis Tyler
An expansive volume presenting crip approaches to writing, research, and publishing
Reveals how disability and disablement have shaped Black social life in America In Crip
368 PG | PAPER | $35 9781479819362
336 PG | PAPER | $30 9781479831128
IN CASE OF EMERGENCY
DISTRESSING LANGUAGE
How Technologies Mediate Crisis and Normalize Inequality Elizabeth Ellcessor
Disability and the Poetics of Error Michael Davidson The role of disability and deafness in art
A much-needed look at the growth of emergency media and its impact on our live 216 PG | PAPER | $28 9781479811632
In Crip
248 PG | PAPER | $29 9781479813841
AMERICAN AND THE LONG 19TH CENTURY UNINTENDED
GARDEN POLITIC
Photography, Property, and the Aesthetics of Racial Capitalism Monica Huerta
Global Plants and Botanical Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century America Mary Kuhn
Reimagines photography through the long history of ideas of expression
How plant circulation and new botanical ideas enabled Americans to radically re-envision politics and society
In America and the Long 19th Century 336 PG | PAPER | $30 9781479812400
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272 PG | PAPER | $30 9781479820153
In America and the Long 19th Century
VISUAL CULTURE SKIN THEORY
TERRORISM IN AMERICAN MEMORY
Visual Culture and the Postwar Prison Laboratory Cristina Mejia Visperas
Memorials, Museums, and Architecture in the Post9/11 Era Marita Sturken
Studies the intersections of incarceration, medical science, and race in postwar America
256 PG | PAPER | $30 9781479810789
336 PG | PAPER | $29 9781479811687
BORDER OPTICS
“A relevant discussion of what sacredness of space means in terms of education, culture, and economics.” ~Kirkus Reviews
SMELL OF RISK
Surveillance Cultures on the US-Mexico Frontier Camilla Fojas
Environmental Disparities and Olfactory Aesthetics Hsuan L. Hsu
Examines how the USMexico border is seen through visual codes of surveillance
A timely exploration of how odor seeps into structural inequality
In Critical Cultural Communication 208 PG | PAPER | $28 9781479807017
272 PG | PAPER | $30 9781479810093
AVIDLY READS SCREEN TIME
POETRY
Phillip Maciak
Jacquelyn Ardam
What happens when screen time is all the time?
Why are more Americans are reading poetry in the 21st-century than ever before?
176 PG | PAPER | $14.95 9781479820573
176 PG | PAPER | $14.95 9781479813582
OPERA
160 PG | PAPER | $14.95 9781479811731
PASSAGES
Alison Kinney
Michelle D. Commander
“Opera is community, comfort, art, voice, breath, life. It’s hope.”
”What is the value of Black life in America?”
168 PG | PAPER | $14.95 9781479806171
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POLITICS SEX IS AS SEX DOES
SEX OBSESSION
Perversity and Possibility in American Politics Janet R. Jakobsen
Governing Transgender Identity Paisley Currah
Offers a way to undo the inextricable American knot of sex, politics, religion, and power
What the evolving fight for transgender rights reveals about government power, regulations, and the law
256 PG | CLOTH | $28 9780814717103
In Sexual Cultures 304 PG | PAPER | $23 9781479856916
COAL, CAGES, CRISIS
FIERCE AND FEARLESS
The Rise of the Prison Economy in Central Appalachia Judah Schept
Patsy Takemoto Mink, First Woman of Color in Congress Judy Tzu-Chun Wu and Gwendolyn Mink
How prisons became economic development strategies for rural Appalachian communities 328 PG | PAPER | $32 9781479858972
456 PG | CLOTH | $35 9781479831920
The first biography of trailblazing legislator Patsy Takemoto Mink, best known as the legislative champion of Title IX
HISTORY INDIGENOUS MEMORY
PASIFIKA BLACK
Oceania, Anti-colonialism, and the African World Quito Swan
Stories of American Indian Relocation and Reclamation Michelle R. Jacbos
A lively living history of anti-colonialist movements across the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans
Contemporary accounts of urban Native identity in two pan-Indian communities 304 PG | PAPER | $30 9781479849123
In Black Power 352 PG | CLOTH | $49 9781479885084
INTIMACIES OF CONFLICT
336 PG | PAPER | $29 9781479805365
THE TUSKEGEE STUDENT UPRISING
Cultural Memory and the Korean War Daniel Y. Kim
A History Brian Jones
Winner, 2020 Peter C Rollins Prize, given by the Northeast Popular & American Culture Association
The untold story of a dynamic student movement on one of the nation’s most important historically Black campuses
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264 PG | CLOTH | $30 9781479809424
In Black Power
KEYWORDS KEYWORDS FOR HEALTH HUMANITIES
AMERICAN CULTURAL STUDIES
Edited by Sari Altschuler, Jonathan M. Metzl, and Priscilla Wald 304 PG | PAPER | $29 9781479808106
Introduces key concepts and debates in health humanities and the health professions.
Edited by Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler
360 PG | PAPER | $28 9781479822942
KEYWORDS FOR COMICS STUDIES
KEYWORDS FOR CHILDREN’S LITERATURE, SECOND EDITION
Edited by Ramzi Fawaz, Deborah Whaley, and Shelley Streeby
288 PG | PAPER | $28 9781479831968
Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers emerging in the field of comics studies
A timely, wide-ranging, expanded, and updated vocabulary for American Cultural Studies
Edited by Philip Nel, Lissa Paul, and Nina Christensen 272 PG | PAPER | $28 9781479899678
An updated vocabulary for children’s literature and culture
GREAT FOR COURSES CRITICAL DIALOGUES IN LATINX STUDIES
BECOMING HUMAN
Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World Zakiyyah Iman Jackson
A Reader Edited by Ana Y. RamosZayas and Mérida M. Rúa
Winner, 2021 Harry Levin Prize, given by the American Comparative Literature Association
Introduces new approaches, theoretical trends, and understudied topics in Latinx Studies 584 PG | PAPER | $45 9781479805211
In Sexual Cultures 320 PG | PAPER | $30 9781479830374
DISCIPLINARY FUTURES
FROTTAGE
Frictions of Intimacy across the Black Diaspora Keguro Macharia
Sociology in Conversation with American, Ethnic, and Indigenous Studies Edited by Nadia Y. Kim and Pawan Dhingra
400 PG | PAPER | $35 9781479819041
Reimagines how race, ethnicity, imperialism, and colonialism can be central to social science research and methods
Winner, 2020 Alan Bray Memorial Prize, given by the GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language Association In Sexual Cultures 224 PG | PAPER | $27 9781479865017
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MONTHLY REVIEW PRESS BRIGADISTAS!
ENDLESS HOLOCAUSTS
An American Anti-Fascist in the Spanish Civil War Miguel Ferguson
Mass Death in the History of the United States Empire David Michael Smith
A graphic history featuring the true story of three friends from Brooklyn who join in the global fight against fascism
120 PG | PAPER | $18 9781583679609
An argument against the myth of “American exceptionalism”
504 PG | PAPER | $29 9781583679890
DISSENTING POWS
WASHINGTON BULLETS
From Vietnam’s Hoa Lo Prison to America Today Tom Wilber & Jerry Lembcke
A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations Vijay Prashad
A fresh look at the resistance of US troops to the American war in Vietnam
Essays on acts of US imperialism, from the 1953 Iran coup to the 2019 ouster of Evo Morales
160 PG | PAPER | $19 9781583679081
162 PG | PAPER | $17 9781583679067
UNIVERSITY OF REGINA PRESS IN MY OWN MOCCASINS
THE EDUCATION OF AUGIE MERASTY
A Memoir of Resilience Helen Knott
A Residential School Memoir - New Edition Joseph Auguste (Augie) Merasty
A young Indigenous woman struggles to build a meaningful life while dealing with various traumas.
The harrowing story of one Indigenous child’s experience in Canada’s residential schools
The Regina Collection 304 PG | PAPER | $18.95 9780889777316
112 PG | PAPER | $14.95 In The Regina Collection 9780889778825
NO SURRENDER
CLEARING THE PLAINS
The Land Remains Indigenous Sheldon Krasowski
Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Indigenous Life Ian Mosby, Sarah Rotz, Evan D.G. Fraser, Paul Huebener, Janice Forsyth
Shocking new research on 1800s land agreements between Canada and Indigenous peoples
392 PG | PAPER | $22.95 9780889775961
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386 PG | PAPER | $22.95 9780889776227
The award-winning book about how Canada’s first prime minister starved Indigenous peoples in the pursuit of nationhood
NEW VILLAGE PRESS IN THE STRUGGLE
TALKING TO THE GIRLS
Scholars and the Fight against Industrial Agribusiness in California Daniel J. O’Connell and Scott J. Peters
Intimate and Political Essays on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Edited by Edvige Giunta and Mary Anne Trasciatti
A call to action in an ongoing battle against industrial agriculture
368 PG | PAPER | $24.95 9781613321225
Candid and intimate accounts of the factoryworker tragedy that shaped American labor rights 320 PG | PAPER | $26.95 9781613321508
HOW SPACES BECOME PLACES
INHERITED SILENCE
Place Makers Tell Their Stories Edited by John F. Forester
Listening to the Land, Healing the Colonizer Mind Louise Dunlap
Useful and inspiring cases illustrate participatory placemaking practices and strategies
320 PG | PAPER | $30 9781613321423
240 PG | PAPER | $22.95 9781613321706
MEETING THE MOMENT
THE BOOK OF JUDITH
Socially Engaged Performance, 1965–2020, by Those Who Lived It Jan Cohen-Cruz and Rad Pereira
Opening Hearts Through Poetry Edited by Spoon Jackson, Mark Foss, and Sara Press
Socially engaged theater makers and performers discuss the challenges and potentialities of their work 320 PG | PAPER | $26.95 9781613321546
224 PG | PAPER | $19.95 9781613321744
PORTRAITS OF EARTH JUSTICE
128 | CLOTH | $34.95 9781613321874
A history of the damage colonizers of America caused and how their descendants may heal the harm done to the earth and the native peoples
An homage to the life of poet, writer, and teaching artist Judith Tannenbaum and her impact on incarcerated and marginalized students.
PORTRAITS OF RACIAL JUSTICE
Americans Who Tell the Truth Robert Shetterly
Americans Who Tell the Truth Robert Shetterly
Five compelling essays and fifty stunning portraits and profiles of American environmental activists
A vivid portrait collection of past and present Americans speaking truth to power
128 PG | CLOTH | $34.95 9781613321638
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