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CRITICAL DIALOGUES IN LATINX STUDIES

White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the US

A Reader

Alexander Laban Hinton

Edited by Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas and Mérida M. Rúa

A renowned expert on genocide argues that there is a real risk of violent atrocities happening in the United States

Introduces new approaches, theoretical trends, and understudied topics in Latinx Studies

592 PG | PAPER | 9781479805211 | $45

304 PG | CLOTH | 9781479808014 | $29

ADVERSE EVENTS

BODIES IN EVIDENCE

Race, Gender, and Science in Sexual Assault Adjudication

Race, Inequality, and the Testing of New Pharmaceuticals

Heather R. Hlavka and Sameena Mulla

Jill A. Fisher

Winner of the 2021 Robert K. Merton Book Award, Science, Knowledge, and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association Explores the social inequality of clinical drug testing and its effects on scientific results 336 PG | PAPER | 9781479862160 | $30

In Anthropologies of American Medicine: Culture, Power, and Practice

Uncovers how the process of sexual assault adjudication reinforces inequality and becomes a public spectacle of violence

312 PG | PAPER | 9781479809660 | $30

LIVING ON THE SPECTRUM

THE MOVEMENT FOR REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE

Autism and Youth in Community

Empowering Women of Color through Social Activism

Elizabeth Fein

Honorable Mention, Stirling Prize from the Society for Psychological Anthropology How youth on the autism spectrum negotiate the contested meanings of neurodiversity 304 PG | PAPER | 9781479889068 | $30

In Anthropologies of American Medicine: Culture, Power, and Practice

Patricia Zavella

Shows how reproductive justice organizations’ collaborative work across racial lines provides a compelling model for other groups to successfully influence change 320 PG | PAPER | 9781479812707 | $32

THE TROUBLE WITH SNACK TIME

240 PG | PAPER | 9781479845989 | $30

In Social Transformations in American Anthropology

POWERS OF PILGRIMAGE

Children’s Food and the Politics of Parenting

Religion in a World of Movement

Jennifer Patico

Simon Coleman

Explores the tensions between parents’ concerns about their children’s food and their liberal politics

A groundbreaking reframing of religious pilgrimage

344 PG | PAPER | 9781479811946 | $35

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GENDER AND SEXUALITY CAMMING

STILL STRAIGHT

Money, Power, and Pleasure in the Sex Work Industry

Sexual Flexibility among White Men in Rural America

Angela Jones

Tony Silva

Honorable Mention, 2021 Sexualities Section Book Award, given by the American Sociological Association The first inside look at how sex workers use webcams to make a living 344 PG | PAPER | 9781479874873 | $30

Why some straight men have sex with other men

264 PG | PAPER | 9781479801107 | $28

FEARING THE BLACK BODY

THE PORNIFICATION OF AMERICA

The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

How Raunch Culture Is Ruining Our Society

Sabrina Strings

304 PG | PAPER | 9781479886753 | $28

Winner, 2020 Body and Embodiment Best Publication Award, given by the American Sociological Association Honorable Mention, 2020 Sociology of Sex and Gender Distinguished Book Award, given by the American Sociological Association

Bernadette Barton

An up-close look at how porn permeates our culture

232 PG | CLOTH | 9781479894437 | $24.95

FAMILIES QUEERING FAMILY TREES

TRANS-AFFIRMATIVE PARENTING

Race, Reproductive Justice, and Lesbian Motherhood

Raising Kids Across the Gender Spectrum

Sandra Patton-Imani

Elizabeth Rahilly

Argues that significant barriers to family-making exist for lesbian mothers of color in the United States

336 PG | PAPER | 9781479814862 | $30

First-hand accounts of how parents support their transgender children

224 PG | PAPER | 9781479817153 | $28

JUST LIKE FAMILY

GENDER VIOLENCE, 3RD EDITION

How Companion Animals Joined the Household

Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Andrea Laurent-Simpson

Edited by Laura L. O’Toole, Jessica R. Schiffman and Rosemary Sullivan

The rise and increasingly important role of companion animals in our families

An updated edition of the groundbreaking anthology that explores the proliferation of gendered violence

In Animals in Context

312 PG | PAPER | 9781479852628 | $30

600 PG | PAPER | 9781479820801 | $39

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RACE AND ETHNICITY GROWING UP LATINX

FRONT OF THE HOUSE, BACK OF THE HOUSE

Coming of Age in a Time of Contested Citizenship Jesica Siham Fernández

Race and Inequality in the Lives of Restaurant Workers

Latinx children navigating identity, citizenship, and belonging in a divided America

Eli Revelle Yano Wilson

How workers navigate race, gender, and class in the food service industry

In Critical Perspectives on Youth

In Latina/o Sociology

264 PG | PAPER | 9781479801220 | $30

240 PG | PAPER | 9781479800629 | $28

HORRIBLE WHITE PEOPLE

THE COMPLEXITIES OF RACE

Gender, Genre, and Television’s Precarious Whiteness

Identity, Power, and Justice in an Evolving America

Taylor Nygaard and Jorie Lagerwey

Edited by Charmaine L. Wijeyesinghe

Examines the bleak television comedies that illustrate the obsession of the white left with its own anxiety and suffering

272 PG | PAPER | 9781479805358 | $30

Illuminates how recent shifts in demographics, policy, culture and thinking have changed how race is understood today

304 PG | PAPER | 9781479801411 | $30

THE COLORS OF LOVE

BECOMING MEN

Multiracial People in Interracial Relationships

Black Masculinities in a South African Township

Melinda A. Mills

Malose Langa

How multiracial people navigate the complexities of race and love

This vivid evocation of the lives of 32 boys from a Johannesburg township is essential reading for anybody wishing to understand black masculinity in South Africa Published by Wits University Press

312 PG | PAPER | 9781479802418 | $30

202 PG | PAPER | 9781776145676 | $20

kayās nōhcīn

Châhkâpâs

Mary Louise Rockthunder Edited and translated by Jean L. Okimasis and Arok Wolvengrey

John Peastitute Edited by Marguerite MacKenzie Translated by Julie Brittain and Silas Nabinicaboo Illustrated by Elizabeth Jancewicz

I Come from a Long Time Back

A Naskapi Legend

The first published collection of stories as told by Mary Louise Rockthunder, a much-beloved storyteller of Cree, Saulteaux, and Nakoda heritage

Shares the story of Châhkâpâs, a heroic figure in First Nations storytelling, who performs feats of strength and skill in spite of his diminutive size

Published by University of Regina Press 264 PG | PAPER | 9780889778368 | $19.95

264 PG | PAPER | 9780889778290 | $19.95

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HEALTH AND MEDICINE TRANS MEDICINE

FREEZING FERTILITY

The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender

Oocyte Cryopreservation and the Gender Politics of Aging

Stef M. Shuster

Lucy van de Wiel

A rich examination of the history of trans medicine and current day practice

Analyzes how the possibility of egg freezing changes what it means to be fertile and to age in the 21st century In Biopolitics

240 PG | PAPER | 9781479899371 | $27

344 PG | PAPER | 9781479817900 | $35

THE BUSINESS OF BIRTH

UNEXPECTED

Parenting, Prenatal Testing, and Down Syndrome

Malpractice and Maternity Care in the United States

Alison Piepmeier With George Estreich and Rachel Adams

Louise Marie Roth

How the fear of malpractice affects mothers and reproductive choices

336 PG | PAPER | 9781479877089 | $35

What prenatal tests and down syndrome reveal about our reproductive choices

200 PG | PAPER | 9781479879953 | $27

“SAVE MY KID”

FEELING MEDICINE

How Families of Critically Ill Children Cope, Hope, and Negotiate an Unequal Healthcare System

How the Pelvic Exam Shapes Medical Training Kelly Underman

The emotional and social components of teaching medical students to be good doctors

Amanda M. Gengler

A frank analysis of the medical and emotional inequalities that pervade the healthcare process for critically ill children

256 PG | PAPER | 9781479864621 | $30

In Biopolitics

320 PG | PAPER | 9781479893041 | $35

EXTREME WEIGHT LOSS

224 PG | PAPER | 9781479803958 | $28

REPRODUCTIVE INJUSTICE

Life Before and After Bariatric Surgery

Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth

Sarah Trainer, Alexandra Brewis and Amber Wutich

Dána-Ain Davis Winner of the Senior Book Prize from the Association for

Winner of the 2019 William J. Goode Book Award, Family Section of the American Sociological Association Finalist, 2019 C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems

Feminist Anthropology Winner of the Eileen Basker Memorial Prize from the Society for Medical Anthropology Press 264 PG | PAPER | 9781479853571 | $19.95

In Anthropologies of American Medicine: Culture, Power, and Practice

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IMMIGRATION AND MIGRATION THE NEW AMERICAN SERVITUDE

INEQUALITIES OF AGING

Political Belonging Among African Immigrant Home Care Workers

Paradoxes of Independence in American Home Care

Cati Coe

Winner of the 2020 Eileen Basker Memorial Prize, given by the Society for Medical Anthropology

Elana D. Buch

Finalist, 2020 Elliott P. Skinner Award, given by the Association of Africanist Anthropology In Anthropologies of American Medicine: Culture, Power, and Practice 304 PG | PAPER | 9781479808830 | $32

In Anthropologies of American Medicine: Culture, Power, and Practice 288 PG | PAPER | 9781479807178 | $30

MOTHERHOOD ACROSS BORDERS

272 PG | PAPER | 9781479866465 | $30

ORGANIZING WHILE UNDOCUMENTED

Immigrants and Their Children in Mexico and New York

Immigrant Youth’s Political Activism under the Law

Gabrielle Oliveira

Kevin Escudero

Winner of the 2019 Inaugural Outstanding Ethnography Book Award, given by the Ethnography in Education Research Forum Winner of the 2019 Outstanding Book Award, given by the Council on Anthropology and Education

Finalist, 2020 C. Wright Mills Award, given by the Society for the Study of Social Problems Honorable Mention, 2021 Asian America Section Book Award, given by the American Sociological Association 208 PG | PAPER | 9781479834150 | $27

UNACCOMPANIED

In Latina/o Sociology

IRAQI REFUGEES IN THE UNITED STATES

The Plight of Immigrant Youth at the Border

The Enduring Effects of the War on Terror

Emily Ruehs-Navarro

Explores how humanitarian aid workers help and hinder the care of unaccompanied children as they arrive in the United States

Ken R. Crane

How Iraqi refugees navigate life, belonging, and exclusion in America

In Critical Perspectives on Youth

248 PG | PAPER | 9781479838615 | $28

LOOKING TO REFRESH YOUR SYLLABUS?

208 PG | PAPER | 9781479886906 | $28

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RELIGION AND SECULARISM STUDYING LIVED RELIGION

WHITE CHRISTIAN PRIVILEGE

Contexts and Practices

The Illusion of Religious Equality in America

Nancy Tatom Ammerman

Offers an overarching definition and framework for the study of religion as it manifests itself in everyday life

Khyati Y. Joshi

Exposes the invisible ways in which white Christian privilege disadvantages racial and religious minorities in America NEW IN PAPERBACK!

272 PG | PAPER | 9781479804344 | $30

256 PG | PAPER | 9781479812004 | $16.95

LIFEBLOOD OF THE PARISH

CREATING THE CREATION MUSEUM

Men and Catholic Devotion in Williamsburg, Brooklyn

How Fundamentalist Beliefs Come to Life

Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada

Kathleen C. Oberlin

A New York City ethnography that explores men’s unique approaches to Catholic devotion

Investigates how the Christian fundamentalist movement brings Creationism into the mainstream through a Kentucky museum

In North American Religions

296 PG | PAPER | 9781479830497 | $32

280 PG | PAPER | 9781479805709 | $30

NONE OF THE ABOVE

SOCIETY WITHOUT GOD, SECOND EDITION

Nonreligious Identity in the US and Canada Joel Thiessen and Sarah WilkinsLaflamme

What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us about Contentment

Compares secular attitudes characterizing “religious nones” in the United States and Canada

Phil Zuckerman

An updated edition showcasing the social health of the least religious nations in the world

In Secular Studies Series

272 PG | PAPER | 9781479860807 | $30

296 PG | PAPER | 9781479878086 | $30

THEORY OF WOMEN IN RELIGIONS

SEEKING SANCTUARY

Stories of Sexuality, Faith and Migration

Catherine Wessinger

John Marnell Foreword by Kapya Kaoma

An introduction to the study of women in diverse religious cultures

A glimpse into the lives of LGBTQ migrants in Johannesburg, in their own words

In Women in Religions

Published by Wits University Press

232 PG | PAPER | 9781479809462 | $22

284 PG | PAPER | 9781776147106 | $30

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PLACES, SPACES, GEOGRAPHIES SOUTH CENTRAL DREAMS

HURRICANE HARVEY’S AFTERMATH

Finding Home and Building Community in South L.A.

Place, Race, and Inequality in Disaster Recovery

Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Manuel Pastor

Kevin M. Fitzpatrick and Matthew L. Spialek

Race, place, and identity in a changing urban America

Heartbreaking stories from survivors along the Texas Gulf Coast

In Latina/o Sociology

368 PG | PAPER | 9781479807970 | $32

208 PG | PAPER | 9781479800759 | $28

A QUEER NEW YORK

A RECIPE FOR GENTRIFICATION

Geographies of Lesbians, Dykes, and Queers

Food, Power, and Resistance in the City

Jen Jack Gieseking

Winner, 2021 Glenda Laws Award, given by the American Association of Geographers The first lesbian and queer historical geography of New York City

336 PG | PAPER | 9781479835737 | $30

Edited by Alison Hope Alkon, Yuki Kato and Joshua Sbicca

384 PG | PAPER | 9781479811373 | $35

CHANGING QATAR

Honorable Mention, 2021 Edited Collection Book Award, given by the Association for the Study of Food and Society How gentrification uproots the urban food landscape, and what activists are doing to resist it

COMING OF AGE IN IRAN

Culture, Citizenship, and Rapid Modernization

Poverty and the Struggle for Dignity

Geoff Harkness

A cultural study of modern Qatar and how it navigates change and tradition

Manata Hashemi

An inside look at young Iranians navigating poverty and stigma in a time of crisis In Critical Perspectives on Youth

340 PG | PAPER | 9781479854820 | $32

256 PG | PAPER | 9781479881949 | $30

FEAR ITSELF

HOW SPACES BECOME PLACES

The Causes and Consequences of Fear in America

Place Makers Tell Their Stories

Christopher D. Bader, Joseph O. Baker, L. Edward Day and Ann Gordon

Edited by John F. Forester Foreword by Randolph T. Hester

Useful and inspiring cases illustrate participatory placemaking practices and strategies.

An antidote to the culture of fear that dominates modern life

Published by New Village Press

200 PG | PAPER | 9781479869817 | $26

320 PG | PAPER | 9781613321423 | $30

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