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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 With the rise of the Movement for Black Lives and the feverish calls for Medicare for All, the public spotlight on racial inequality and access to healthcare has never been brighter. The rise of COVID-19 and its disproportionate effects on people of color has especially made clear how the color of one’s skin is directly related to the quality of care (or lack thereof) a person receives, and the disastrous health outcomes Americans suffer as a result of racism and an unjust healthcare system. Timely and accessible, Just Health examines how deep structural racism embedded in the fabric of American society leads to worse health outcomes and lower life expectancy for people of color. By presenting evidence of discrimination in housing, education, employment, and the criminal justice system, Dayna Bowen Matthew shows how racial inequality pervades American society and the multitude of ways that this undermines the health of minority populations. The author provides a clear path forward for overcoming these massive barriers to health and ensuring that everyone has an equal opportunity to be healthy. She encourages health providers to take a leading role in the fight to dismantle the structural inequities their patients face.

Dayna Bowen Matthew, JD, PhD is the Dean and Harold H. Greene Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School. Dr. Matthew is a leader in public health and civil rights law who has also held many public policy roles. These include serving as senior adviser to the Office of Civil Rights for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and as a member of the health policy team for U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow of Michigan.

A compelling and essential read, Just Health helps us to understand how racial inequality damages the health of our minority communities and explains what we can do to fight back. “Too often the conversation on health focuses on individual attributes and predispositions. Dayna Bowen Matthews's Just Health offers a brilliant and timely assessment of how racial minorities' poor health outcomes are tied to the structural choices and decisions that society makes in how it treats certain people. Structural problems require structural solutions, and this book offers a clear and compelling vision on how to achieve health equity.” —Osagie K. Obasogie, Haas Distinguished Chair and Professor of Bioethics, University of California, Berkeley

February 2022 336 pages • 6 x 9 20 black & white illustrations Cloth • 9781479802661 • $27.95A(£20.99) Current Affairs


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ARE THE ARTS ESSENTIAL?

Edited by ALBERTA ARTHURS and MICHAEL DINISCIA A timely and kaleidoscopic reflection on the importance of the arts in our society

Alberta Arthurs is an independent consultant and a frequent commentator on the arts and culture. Michael DiNiscia serves as Deputy Director for Research and Strategic Initiatives of the John Brademas Center of New York University. “Here is the book arts lovers and advocates have been waiting for—and just in the nick of time! This collection of inspiring, practical, and visionary essays shows how the arts can lead our nation's spiritual and economic revival and point the way towards a more just future.” —David Henry Hwang, Tony-Award winning American playwright

In the midst of a devastating pandemic, as theaters, art galleries and museums, dance stages and concert halls shuttered their doors indefinitely and institutional funding for entertainment and culture evaporated almost overnight, a cohort of highly acclaimed scholars, artists, cultural critics, and a journalist sat down to ponder an urgent question: Are the arts essential? Across twenty-five highly engaging essays, these luminaries join together to address this question and to share their own ideas, experiences, and ambitions for the arts. Drawing on their experiences across the spectrum of the arts, from the performing and visual arts to poetry and literature, the contributors remind readers that the arts are everywhere and, in one important way after another, they question, charge and change us. These impassioned essays remind us of the human connections the arts can forge— how we find each other through the arts, across the most difficult divides, and how the arts can offer hope in the most challenging times. What answer does this convocation offer to Are the Arts Essential? A resounding Yes.

February 2022 496 pages • 6 x 10 24 full color illustrations Cloth • 9781479812622 • $29.95A(£22.99) Arts


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TAKING DOWN BACKPAGE

Fighting the World’s Largest Sex Trafficker MAGGY KRELL Insider details from the takedown of Backpage, the world’s largest sex trafficker, by the prosecutor who led the charge For almost a decade, Backpage.com was the world’s largest sex trafficking operation. Seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day, in 800 cities throughout the world, Backpage ran thousands of listings advertising the sale of vulnerable young people for sex. Reaping a cut off every transaction, the owners of the website raked in millions of dollars. But many of the people in the advertisements were children, as young as 12, and forced into the commercial sex trade through fear, violence and coercion. In Taking Down Backpage, veteran California prosecutor Maggy Krell tells the story of how she and her team prevailed against this sex trafficking monolith. Through a fascinating combination of memoir and legal insight, Krell reveals how she and her team started with the prosecution of street pimps and ultimately ended with the takedown of the largest purveyor of human trafficking in the world. She shares powerful stories of interviews with victims, sting operations, court cases, and the personal struggles that were necessary to bring Backpage executives to justice. Finally, Krell examines the state of sex trafficking after Backpage and the crucial work that still remains.

Maggy Krell is an award-winning impact lawyer and currently serves as Chief Legal Counsel at Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California. Maggy started her career as a prosecutor, serving as a deputy district attorney before moving up the ranks at the Attorney General’s Office, most recently as the Supervising Deputy Attorney General of the Special Prosecutions Unit.

Taking Down Backpage is a gripping story of tragedy, overcoming adversity, and the pursuit of justice that gives insight into the fight against sex trafficking in the digital age. “This book is both a fascinating legal thriller about the power of justice and a chilling reminder of how pervasive and horrific human trafficking is. Krell weaves the story together in gripping fashion and leaves the reader with hope and inspiration.” —Ashlie Bryant, Co-founder and CEO of 3Strands Global Foundation

January 2022 192 pages • 6 x 9 8 black and white illustrations Cloth • 9781479803040 • $22.95T(£17.99) Current Affairs | Memoir


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JAZZ AGE COCKTAILS History, Lore, and Recipes from America's Roaring Twenties CECELIA TICHI How the Prohibition law of 1920 made alcohol, savored in secret, all the more delectable when the cocktail shaker was forced to go “underground” “Roaring Twenties” America boasted famous firsts: women’s right to vote, jazz music, talking motion pictures, flapper fashions, and wondrous new devices like the safety razor and the electric vacuum cleaner. The privations of the Great War were over, and Wall Street boomed.

Cecelia Tichi is a native of Pittsburgh, the “Steel City” of the Gilded Age, and is an award-winning author and Professor of American literature and culture at Vanderbilt University. Her books include Civic Passions: Seven Who Launched Progressive America and What Would Mrs. Astor Do? The Essential Guide to the Manners and Mores of the Gilded Age. Cecelia currently resides in Nashville, Tennessee.

The decade opened, nonetheless, with a shock when Prohibition became the law of the land on Friday, January 16, 1920, when the Eighteenth Amendment banned “intoxicating liquors.” Decades-long campaigns to demonize alcoholic beverages finally became law, and America officially went “dry.” American ingenuity promptly rose to its newest challenge. The law, riddled with loopholes, let the 1920s write a new chapter in the nation’s saga of spirits. Men and women spoke knowingly of the speakeasy, the bootlegger, rum-running, black ships, blind pigs, gin mills, and gallon stills. A new social event—the cocktail party staged in a private home—smashed the gender barrier that had long forbidden “ladies” from entering into the gentlemen-only barrooms and cafés. From the author of Gilded Age Cocktails, this book takes a delightful new romp through the cocktail creations of the early twentieth century, transporting readers into the glitz and (illicit) glamour of the 1920s. Spirited and richly illustrated, Jazz Age Cocktails dazzles with tales of temptation and temperance, and features charming cocktail recipes from the time to be recreated and enjoyed.

November 2021 168 pages • 5.5 x 8 23 black & white illustrations Cloth • 9781479810123 • $19.95T(£14.99) In Washington Mews Books Food & Wine


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AVIDLY READS OPERA ALISON KINNEY

“Opera is community, comfort, art, voice, breath, life. It’s hope.” All art exists to make life more bearable. For Alison Kinney, it was the wild, fantastical world of opera that transformed her listening and her life. Whether we’re listening for the first time or revisiting the arias that first stole our hearts, Avidly Reads Opera welcomes readers and listeners to a community full of friendship, passion, critique—and, always, beautiful music. In times of delirious, madcap fun and political turmoil, opera fans have expressed their passion by dispatching records into the cosmos, building fairy-tale castles, and singing together through the arduous work of social activism. Avidly Reads Opera is a love letter to the music and those who love it, complete with playlists, a crowdsourced tip sheet from ultra-fans to newbies, and stories of the turbulent, genre-busting, and often hilarious history of opera and its audiences. Alison Kinney is the author of Hood. Her writing on opera, history, and culture has Part of the Avidly Reads series, this slim book appeared in many venues, including The gives us a new way of looking at culture. With the New Yorker, The Paris Review Daily, Lapham’s singular blend of personal reflection and cultural Quarterly, The New York Times, VAN criticism featured in the series, Avidly Reads Opera Magazine, The Guardian, Harper’s, The New is an homage to the marvelous, sensational world Republic, Hyperallergic, The Believer, and of opera for the casual viewer. The Village Voice. She is Assistant Professor “When making a solo trip to the opera, most everyone who wasn't raised on the art faces this question: 'Do I really belong here?' Alison Kinney says 'yes,' and invites you to ride along with her: to performances at Wagner's theater, and also, less conventionally, at a prison. She's insightful and entertaining, but not merely good company. Her larger conversation with the tradition—regarding its pleasures and its problems—should excite anyone eager to see opera with new eyes.”

of Writing at Eugene Lang College, The New School.

—Seth Colter Walls, New York Times contributing music critic

October 2021 160 pages • 4.37 x 7 1 black & white illustration Paper • 9781479811731 • $14.95T(£10.99) Cloth • 9781479811724 • $89.00X(£71.00) Cultural Studies


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WITH HONOR AND INTEGRITY Transgender Troops in Their Own Words

Edited by MÁEL EMBSER-HERBERT and BREE FRAM Heartfelt personal accounts from transgender people fighting for the right to serve in the military On January 25, 2021, in one of his first acts as President, Joe Biden reversed the Trump Administration’s widely condemned ban on transgender people in the military. In With Honor and Integrity, Máel Embser-Herbert and Bree Fram introduce us to the brave individuals who are on the front lines of this issue, assembling a powerful, accessible, and heartfelt collection of first-hand accounts from transgender military personnel in the United States. Máel Embser-Herbert is Professor of Sociology at Hamline University. They are a veteran of the US Army and author of Camouflage Isn’t Only for Combat: Gender, Sexuality, and Women in the Military and The U.S. Military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Policy: A Reference Handbook. Bree Fram is a lieutenant colonel in the US Space Force who has held command at the squadron level, led USAF security cooperation with Iraq, and led space acquisition programs. She is the President of SPART*A, a transgender military advocacy organization.

November 2021 240 pages • 6 x 9 Cloth • 9781479801039 • $28.00A(£20.99) In LGBTQ Politics LGBTQ Studies

Featuring twenty-six essays from current service members or veterans, these eye-opening accounts show us what it is like to serve in the military as a transgender person. Contributors share their experiences from before and during President Trump’s ban—what barriers they face at work, why they do or don’t choose to serve openly, and how their colleagues have treated them. Fram, a lieutenant colonel who is serving openly as a transgender woman in the US Space Force, and has advocated for open service policies, shares her experience in the aftermath of Trump’s announcement of the ban on Twitter. Ultimately, Embser-Herbert and Fram provide an inspiring look at the past, present, and future of transgender military service. At a time when LGBTQ rights are under siege, and the right to serve continues to be challenged, With Honor and Integrity is a timely and necessary read.


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BI

Bisexual, Pansexual, Fluid, and Genderqueer Youth RITCH C. SAVIN-WILLIAMS What bisexual youth can tell us about today’s gender and sexual identities Despite the increasing visibility of LGBTQ people in American culture, our understanding of bisexuality—perhaps one of the least visible sexual orientations—remains superficial at best. Yet five times as many people identify as bisexual than as gay or lesbian, and, if we were to include the many bisexual people who remain hidden from sight, including those who simultaneously identify as pansexual, fluid, genderqueer, and no label, as much as 25 percent of the population is estimated to be bisexual. In Bi, Ritch C. Savin-Williams brings bisexuality out of the shadows, particularly as Gen Z and millennial youth and young adults increasingly reject traditional sexual labels altogether. Drawing on interviews with bisexual youth from a range of racial, ethnic, and social class groups, he reveals to us how bisexuals define their own sexual orientation and experiences—in their own words. SavinWilliams shows how and why people might identify as bisexual as a result of their biology or upbringing; as a bridge or transition to something else; as a consequence of their curiosity; or for a range of other equally valid reasons.

Ritch C. Savin-Williams is Professor Emeritus of Developmental Psychology at Cornell University and the author of many books, including Mostly Straight: Sexual Fluidity Among Men and The New Gay Teenager. He is a licensed clinical psychologist, and has appeared on Good Morning America, C-SPAN About-Books, All Things Considered, CBS Newsradio, CNN, BBC, Voice of America and others.

Savin-Williams provides an important new understanding of bisexuality as an orientation, behavior, and identity. Bi shows us that bisexuality is seen and embraced as a valid sexual identity more than ever before, giving us timely and much-needed insight into the complex, fascinating experiences of bisexual youth themselves.

September 2021 328 pages • 6 x 9 2 black & white illustrations Cloth • 9781479811434 • $28.95A(£21.99) LGBTQ Studies


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MUSLIMS OF THE HEARTLAND

How Syrian Immigrants Made a Home in the American Midwest EDWARD E. CURTIS IV Uncovers the surprising history of Muslim life in the early American Midwest The American Midwest is often thought of as uniformly white, and shaped exclusively by Christian values. However, this view of the region as an unvarying landscape fails to consider a significant community at its very heart. Muslims of the Heartland uncovers the long history of Muslims in a part of the country where many readers would not expect to find them.

Edward E. Curtis IV is the William M. and Gail M. Plater Chair of the Liberal Arts and Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University, Indianapolis. A recipient of Mellon, NEH, Fulbright, and Carnegie fellowships, Curtis is author of Muslim American Politics and the Future of US Democracy and Muslims in America: A Short History, and editor of The Practice of Islam in America: An Introduction and the Encyclopedia of Muslim-American History.

Edward E. Curtis IV, a descendant of Syrian Midwesterners, vividly portrays the intrepid men and women who busted sod on the short-grass prairies of the Dakotas, peddled needles and lace on the streets of Cedar Rapids, and worked in the railroad car factories of Michigan City. This intimate portrait follows the stories of individuals such as farmer Mary Juma, pacifist Kassem Rameden, poet Aliya Hassen, and bookmaker Kamel Osman from the early 1900s through World War I, the Roaring 20s, the Great Depression, and World War II. Its story-driven approach places Syrian Americans at the center of key American institutions like the assembly line, the family farm, the dance hall, and the public school, showing how the first two generations of Midwestern Syrians created a life that was Arab, Muslim, and American, all at the same time. Muslims of the Heartland recreates what the Syrian Muslim Midwest looked, sounded, felt, and smelled like—from the allspice-seasoned lamb and rice shared in mosque basements to the sound of the trains on the Rock Island Line rolling past the dry goods store. It recovers a multicultural history of the American Midwest that cannot be ignored.

February 2022 256 pages • 6 x 9 12 black & white illustrations Cloth • 9781479812561 • $30.00S(£22.99) History


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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 On the night of June 1, 1743, terror struck the schooner Rising Sun. After completing a routine smuggling voyage where the crew sold enslaved Africans in exchange for chocolate, sugar, and coffee in the Dutch colony of Suriname, the ship traveled eastward along the South American coast. Believing there was an opportunity to steal the lucrative cargo and make a new life for themselves, three sailors snuck below deck, murdered four people, and seized control of the vessel. Mutiny on the Rising Sun recounts the origins, events, and eventual fate of the Rising Sun’s final smuggling voyage in vivid detail. Starting from that horrible night in June 1743, it narrates a deeply human history of smuggling, providing an incredible story of those caught in the webs spun by illicit commerce. The case generated a rich documentary record that illuminates an international chocolate smuggling ring, the lives of the crew and mutineers, and the harrowing experience of the enslaved people trafficked by the Rising Sun. Smuggling stood at the center of the lives of everyone involved with the business of the schooner. Larger forces, such as imperial trade restrictions, created the conditions for smuggling, but individual actors, often driven by raw ambition and with little regard for the consequences of their actions, designed, refined, and perpetuated this illicit commerce.

Jared Ross Hardesty is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Western Washington University and author of Unfreedom: Slavery and Dependence in Eighteenth-Century Boston and Black Lives, Native Lands, White Worlds: A History of Slavery in New England.

At once startling and captivating, Mutiny on the Rising Sun shows how illegal trade created demand for exotic products like chocolate, and how slavery and smuggling were integral to the development of American capitalism. October 2021 288 pages • 6 x 9 33 black & white illustrations Cloth • 9781479812486 • $25.00A(£18.99) History


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"LET US VOTE!"

Youth Voting Rights and the 26th Amendment JENNIFER FROST The fascinating tale of how a bipartisan coalition worked successfully to lower the voting age “Let Us Vote!” tells the story of the multifaceted endeavor to achieve youth voting rights in the United States. Over a thirty-year period starting during World War II, Americans, old and young, Democrat and Republican, in politics and culture, built a movement for the 26th Amendment to the US Constitution, which lowered the voting age from twenty-one to eighteen in 1971. This was the last time that the United States significantly expanded voting rights.

Jennifer Frost is Associate Professor of History at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, and author of “An Interracial Movement of the Poor”: Community Organizing and the New Left in the 1960s, Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood: Celebrity Gossip and American Conservativism, and Producer of Controversy: Stanley Kramer, Hollywood Liberalism, and the Cold War.

Jennifer Frost deftly illustrates how the political and social movements of the time brought together bipartisan groups to work tirelessly in pursuit of a lower voting age. In turn, she illuminates the process of achieving political change, with the convergence of “top-down” initiatives and “bottom-up” mobilization, coalition-building, and strategic flexibility. As she traces the progress toward achieving youth suffrage throughout the ’60s, Frost reveals how this movement built upon the social justice initiatives of the decade and was deeply indebted to the fight for African American civil and voting rights. 2021 marks the fiftieth anniversary of this important constitutional amendment and comes at a time when scrutiny of both voting age and voting rights has been renewed. As the national conversation around climate crisis, gun violence, and police brutality creates a new call for a lower voting age, “Let Us Vote!” provides an essential investigation of how this massive political change occurred, and how it could be brought about again.

December 2021 384 pages • 6 x 9 23 black & white illustrations Cloth • 9781479811328 • $39.00S(£31.00) History


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THE NEW SEX WARS Sexual Harm in the #MeToo Era BRENDA COSSMAN Revisits the sex wars of the 1970s and ’80s and examines their influence on how we think about sexual harm in the #MeToo era #MeToo’s stunning explosion on social media in October 2017 radically changed—and amplified—conversations about sexual violence as it revealed how widespread the issue is and toppled prominent celebrities and politicians. But, as the movement spread, a conflict emerged among feminist supporters and detractors about how punishment should be doled out and how justice should be served. The New Sex Wars reveals that these clashes are nothing new. Delving into the contentious debates from the ’70s and ‘80s, Brenda Cossman traces the striking echoes in the feminist divisions of this earlier period. In exploring the history of past conflicts—the resistance to finding common ground, the media’s pleasure in portraying the debates as polarized cat fights, the simplification of viewpoints as pro- and anti-sex—she shows how they have come to shape the #MeToo era.

Brenda Cossman is the Goodman-Schipper Chair and Professor of Law at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Sexual Citizens: The Legal and Cultural Regulation of Sex and Belonging.

From the ’70s to today, Cossman examines tensions between the need for recognition and protection under the law, and the colossal and ongoing failure of that law to redress historic injustice. By circumventing law altogether, #MeToo has led us to question whether justice can be served outside of the courtroom. Cossman argues for a different way forward—one based on reparative models that focus on shared desired outcomes and the willingness to understand the other side. Thoughtful and compelling, The New Sex Wars explores what can been learned from these stories, what traps we repeatedly fall into, how we have been denied our anger, and where to begin to make law work.

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DIGITAL BLACK FEMINISM CATHERINE KNIGHT STEELE

Traces the longstanding relationship between technology and Black feminist thought

Catherine Knight Steele is Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Maryland, College Park, with affiliate appointments in the American Studies department, the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, and the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

October 2021 208 pages • 6 x 9 5 black & white illustrations Paper • 9781479808380 • $27.00S(£20.99) Cloth • 9781479808373 • $89.00X(£71.00) In Critical Cultural Communication Media Studies

Black women are at the forefront of some of this century’s most important discussions about technology: trolling, online harassment, algorithmic bias, and influencer culture. But, Catherine Knight Steele argues that Black women’s relationship to technology began long before the advent of Twitter or Instagram. To truly “listen to Black women,” Steele points to the history of Black feminist technoculture in the United States and its ability to decenter white supremacy and patriarchy in a conversation about the future of technology. Using the virtual beauty shop as a metaphor, Digital Black Feminism walks readers through the technical skill, communicative expertise, and entrepreneurial acumen of Black women’s labor—born of survival strategies and economic necessity— both on and offline. Positioning Black women at the center of our discourse about the past, present, and future of technology, Steele offers a through-line from the writing of early twentieth-century Black women to the bloggers and social media mavens of the twenty-first century. Linking narratives and existing literature about Black women’s technology use in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first century, Digital Black Feminism traverses the bounds between historical and archival analysis and empirical internet studies, forcing a reconciliation between fields and methods that are not always in conversation. As the work of Black feminist writers now reaches its widest audience online, Steele offers both hopefulness and caution on the implications of Black feminism becoming a digital product.


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KEEPING IT UNREAL Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics DARIECK SCOTT Explores Black representation in fantasy genres and comic books Characters like Black Panther, Storm, Luke Cage, Miles Morales, and Black Lightning are part of a growing cohort of black superheroes on TV and in film. Though comic books are often derided as naïve and childish, these larger-than-life superheroes demonstrate how this genre can serve as the catalyst for engaging the Black radical imagination. Keeping It Unreal: Comics and Black Queer Fantasy is an exploration of how fantasies of Black power and triumph fashion theoretical, political, and aesthetic challenges to—and respite from—white supremacy and anti-Blackness. It examines representations of Blackness in fantasy-infused genres: superhero comic books, erotic comics, fantasy and science-fiction genre literature, as well as contemDarieck Scott is Assistant Professor of porary literary “realist” fiction centering fantastic African American studies at the University of conceits. California-Berkeley. He is the author of the Darieck Scott offers a rich meditation on the relationship between fantasy and reality, and between the imagination and being, as he weaves his personal recollections of his encounters with superhero comics with interpretive readings of figures like the Black Panther and Blade, as well as theorists such as Frantz Fanon, Eve Sedgwick, Leo Bersani, Saidiya Hartman, and Gore Vidal. Keeping It Unreal represents an in-depth theoretical consideration of the intersections of superhero comics, Blackness, and queerness, and draws on a variety of fields of inquiry.

novels Hex and Traitor to the Race, and the editor of Best Black Gay Erotica.

Reading new life into Afrofuturist traditions and fantasy genres, Darieck Scott seeks to rescue the role of fantasy and the fantastic to challenge, revoke, and expand our assumptions about what is normal, real, and markedly human. January 2022 288 pages • 6 x 9 42 black & white illustrations Paper • 9781479824144 • $29.00S(£21.99) Cloth • 9781479840137 • $89.00X(£71.00) In Sexual Cultures Media Studies


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DIGITAL MEDIA DISTRIBUTION Portals, Platforms, Pipelines

Edited by PAUL MCDONALD, COURTNEY BRANNON DONOGHUE, and TIMOTHY HAVENS A deep dive into the new era of digital content production and distribution

September 2021 416 pages • 6 x 9 5 black & white illustrations Paper • $35.00S(£26.99) 9781479806782 Cloth • $99.00X(£79.00) 9781479806775 In Critical Cultural Communication Media Studies

Digital Media Distribution: Portals, Platforms, Pipelines provides a timely examination of the multifaceted distribution landscape in a moment of transformation and conceptualizes media distribution as a complex site of power, privilege, and gatekeeping. Drawing on original research into distribution practices in industries as diverse as television, film, videogames, literature, and adult entertainment, each chapter explores how digitization has changed media distribution and its broader economic, industrial, social, and cultural implications. Paul McDonald is Professor at King’s College London. Courtney Brannon Donoghue is Assistant Professor at the University of North Texas. Timothy Havens is Associate Professor at the University of Iowa.

LATINO TV A History

MARY BELTRÁN The history of Latina/o participation and representation in American television

January 2022 272 pages • 6 x 9 30 black & white illustrations Paper • $30.00S(£22.99) 9781479833894 Cloth • $89.00X(£71.00) 9781479868650 In Critical Cultural Communication Media Studies

The first-ever account of Latino/a participation and representation in US English-language television, Latino TV: A History offers a sweeping study of key moments of Chicano/a and Latino/a representation and authorship since the 1950s. Drawing on archival research, interviews with dozens of media professionals who worked on or performed in these series, textual analysis of episodes and promotional materials, and analysis of news media coverage, Mary Beltrán examines Latina/o representation in everything from children’s television Westerns of the 1950s and sitcoms that spanned half a century, to Latina and Latino-led series in the 2000s and 2010s on broadcast, cable, and streaming outlets, including George Lopez, Ugly Betty, One Day at a Time, and Vida. Mary Beltrán is Associate Professor of Radio-Television-Film and affiliate of Mexican American & Latina/o Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of Latina/o Stars in U.S. Eyes: The Making and Meaning of Film and TV Stardom and co-editor of Mixed Race Hollywood.


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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 Black Age: Oceanic Lifespans and the Time of Black Life posits age, life stages, and lifespans as a central lens through which to view Blackness, particularly with regard to the history of transatlantic slavery. Focusing on Black literary culture of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, Habiba Ibrahim argues that Black age—through nearly four centuries of subjugation— has become contingent, malleable, and suited for the needs of enslavement. As a result, rather than the number of years lived or a developmental life stage, Black age came to signify exchange value, historical under-development, timelessness, and other fantasies borne out of Black exclusion from the human. Habiba Ibrahim is Associate Professor of English at the University of Washington. She is the recipient of African American Review’s 2016 Darwin T. Turner prize and author of Troubling the Family: The Promise of Personhood and the Rise of Multiracialism.

September 2021 272 pages • 6 x 9 1 black & white illustration Paper • $28.00S(£20.99) 9781479810895 Cloth • $89.00X(£71.00) 9781479810888 Literary Studies

DISABILITIES OF THE COLOR LINE

Redressing Antiblackness from Slavery to the Present DENNIS TYLER Reveals how disability and disablement have shaped Black social life in America Through both law and custom, the color line has cast Black people as innately disabled and thus unfit for freedom, incapable of self-governance, and contagious within the national body politic. Dennis Tyler argues that Black authors and activists have consistently avowed what he calls the disabilities of the color line: the historical and ongoing anti-Black systems of division that maim, immobilize, and stigmatize Black people. In doing so, Tyler reveals how Black writers and activists have engaged in a politics and aesthetics of redress: modes of resistance that, in the pursuit of racial and disability justice, acknowledged the disabling violence perpetrated by anti-Black regimes in order to conceive or engender dynamic new worlds that account for people of all abilities. Dennis Tyler is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Fordham University.

February 2022 336 pages • 6 x 9 5 black & white illustrations Paper • $30.00S(£22.99) 9781479831128 Cloth • $89.00X(£71.00) 9781479805846 In Crip Literary Studies


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TERRORISM IN AMERICAN MEMORY

Memorials, Museums, and Architecture in the Post9/11 Era MARITA STURKEN The role of cultural memory in American identity

Marita Sturken is Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. She is the author of Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, the AIDS Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering, Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture (with Lisa Cartwright), and Tourists of History: Memory, Kitsch, and Consumerism From Oklahoma City to Ground Zero, and is the former editor of American Quarterly.

January 2022 336 pages • 6 x 9 93 black & white illustrations Paper • 9781479811687 • $29.00S(£21.99) Cloth • 9781479811670 • $89.00X(£71.00) Cultural Studies

Terrorism in American Memory argues that the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and all that followed in its wake were the primary force shaping United States politics and culture in the post-9/11 era. The post-9/11 era began with a hunger for memorialization and it ended with massive protests over police brutality that demanded the destruction of historical monuments honoring racist historical figures. Sturken argues that memory is both the battleground and the site for negotiations of national identity because it is a field through which the past is experienced in the present. The paradox of these last two decades is that it gave rise to an era of intensely nationalistic politics in response to global terrorism at the same time that it released the containment of the ghosts of terrorism embedded within US history. And within that disruption, new stories emerged, new memories were unearthed, and the story of the nation is being rewritten. For these reasons, this book argues that the post-9/11 era has come to an end, and we are now in a new still undefined era with new priorities and national demands. Woven within analyses of memorialization, memorials, memory museums, art projects on memory, and architectural projects is a discussion about design and architecture, the increased creation of memorials as experiences, and the role of architecture as national symbolism and renewal. Terrorism in American Memory sheds light on the struggles over who is memorialized, who is forgotten, and what that politics of memory reveals about the United States as an imaginary and a nation.


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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 Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies introduces readers to a set of terms that will aid them in understanding the central methodological and political stakes currently energizing feminist and queer studies. The volume deepens the analyses of this field by highlighting justice-oriented intersectional movements and foregrounding Black, Indigenous, and women of color feminisms; transnational feminisms; queer of color critique; trans, disability, and fat studies; feminist science studies; and critiques of the state, law, and prisons that emerge from queer and women of color justice movements. Reflecting the interdisciplinary breadth of the field, this collection of seventy essays by scholars across the social sciences and the humanities weaves together methodologies from science and technology studies, affect theory, and queer historiographies, as well as Black Studies, Latinx Studies, Asian American, and Indigenous Studies. Taken together, these essays move alongside the distinct histories and myriad solidarities of the fields to construct the much awaited Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies.

The Keywords Feminist Editorial Collective includes Kyla Wazana Tompkins (she/her), Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and English at Pomona College, who also served as managing editor; Aren Aizura (he/him), Associate Professor in the Department of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies, University of Minnesota; Aimee Bahng (she/her), Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at Pomona College; Karma R. Chávez (she/ her), Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at the University of Texas at Austin; Mishuana Goeman (she/her), Tonawanda Band of Seneca, Professor of Gender Studies, American Indian Studies, and affiliated faculty of Critical Race Studies in the Law School at the University of California, Los Angeles and Amber Jamilla Musser (she/her), Professor of English at the Graduate Center at The City University of New York.

November 2021 320 pages • 8 x 8.5 Paper • 9781479808151 • $28.00S(£20.99) Cloth • 9781479808137 • $89.00X(£71.00) In Keywords Cultural Studies


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CHANGING LAND

Diaspora Activism and the Irish Land War NIALL WHELEHAN How diaspora activism in the Irish land movement intersected with wider radical and reform causes Changing Land offers a new and original study of Irish emigrants’ activism in the United States, Argentina, Scotland, and England and their multifaceted relationships with Ireland. Niall Whelehan brings unfamiliar figures to the surface and recovers the voices of women and men who have been on the margins of, or entirely missing from, existing accounts. Retracing their transnational lives reveals new layers of radical circuitry between Ireland and disparate international locations, and demonstrates how the land movement overlapped with different types of oppositional politics from moderate reform to feminism to revolutionary anarchism. December 2021 224 pages • 6 x 9 Cloth • $30.00S(£22.99) 9781479809554 In The Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series History

Niall Whelehan is Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Strathclyde and author of The Dynamiters: Irish Nationalism and Political Violence in the Wider World, 1867–1900.

EMPIRE'S NURSERY

Children's Literature and the Origins of the American Century BRIAN ROULEAU How children and children’s literature helped build America’s empire America’s empire was not made by adults alone. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, young people became essential to its creation. Through children’s literature, authors instilled the idea of America’s power and the importance of its global prominence. As kids eagerly read dime novels, series fiction, pulp magazines, and comic books that dramatized the virtues of empire, they helped entrench a growing belief in America’s indispensability to the international order. The modern era has been called both the “American Century” and the “Century of the Child.” Brian Rouleau illustrates how those conceptualizations came together by depicting children in their influential role as the junior partners of US imperial enterprise. September 2021 336 pages • 6 x 9 15 black & white illustrations Cloth • $35.00S(£26.99) 9781479804474 History

Brian Rouleau is Associate Professor of History at Texas A&M University. He is the author of With Sails Whitening Every Sea: Mariners and the Making of an American Maritime Empire.


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THE TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICAN SEX EDUCATION Mary Calderone and the Fight for Sexual Health ELLEN S. MORE A comprehensive history of the battle over sex education in the United States Mid-century America had a problem talking about sex. Dr. Mary Calderone first diagnosed this condition and, in 1964, led the uphill battle to de-stigmatize sex education. Supporters hailed her as the “grandmother of modern sex education” while her detractors painted her as an “aging libertine,” but both could agree that she was quickly shaping the way sex was discussed in the classroom. Part biography, part social history, The Transformation of American Sex Education for the first time situates Dr. Mary Calderone at the center of decades of political, cultural, and religious conflict in the fight for comprehensive sex education. Ellen S. More examines Americans’ attempts to come to terms with the vexed subject of sex education in schools from the late 1940s to the early twenty-first century. Using Mary Calderone’s life and career as a touchstone, she traces the origins of modern sex education in the United States from the work of a group of reformers who coalesced around Calderone to create the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS) in 1964, to the development and use of the competing approaches known as “abstinence-based” and “comprehensive” sex education from the 1980s into the twenty-first century.

Ellen S. More is a historian of the American medical profession. She is Professor Emeritus (Psychiatry) at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and author of Restoring the Balance: Women Physicians and the Profession of Medicine, 1850–1995 and co-editor of Women Physicians and the Cultures of Medicine.

A fascinating and timely read, The Transformation of American Sex Education provides a substantial contribution to the history of one of America’s most intense and protracted culture wars, and the first account of the woman who fought those battles.

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THE WAR ON DRUGS A History

Edited by DAVID FARBER A revealing look at the history and legacy of the "War on Drugs" Fifty years after President Richard Nixon declared a "War on Drugs," the United States government has spent over a trillion dollars fighting a losing battle. In recent years, about 1.5 million people have been arrested annually on drug charges—most of them involving cannabis—and nearly 500,000 Americans are currently incarcerated for drug offenses. Today, as a response to the dire human and financial costs, Americans are fast losing their faith that a War on Drugs is fair, moral, or effective.

David Farber, the Roy A. Roberts Distinguished Professor at the University of Kansas, has published numerous books on recent United States history, including The Age of Great Dream, Sloan Rules, Crack, The Rise and Fall of Modern American Conservatism, and Taken Hostage.

In a rare multi-faceted overview of the underground drug market, featuring historical and ethnographic accounts of illegal drug production, distribution, and sales, The War on Drugs: A History examines how drug war policies contributed to the making of the carceral state, racial injustice, regulatory disasters, and a massive underground economy. At the same time, the collection explores how aggressive anti-drug policies produced a “deviant” form of globalization that offered economically marginalized people an economic life-line as players in a remunerative transnational supply and distribution network of illicit drugs. By analyzing the key issues, debates, events, and actors surrounding the War on Drugs, this timely and impressive volume provides a deeper understanding of the role these policies have played in making our current political landscape and how we can find the way forward to a more just and humane drug policy regime.

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LAW'S INFAMY

Understanding the Canon of Bad Law Edited by AUSTIN SARAT, LAWRENCE DOUGLAS, and MARTHA M. UMPHREY An analysis of how problematic laws ought to be framed and considered However abhorrent a legal decision might be—whether Dred Scott v. Sanford or Plessy v. Ferguson—the stories we tell of the law’s failures refer to their injustice and rarely label them in the language of infamy. Law’s Infamy seeks to alter that course by making legal actions and decisions the subject of an inquiry about infamy. Taken together, the essays demonstrate how legal institutions themselves engage in infamous actions and urge that scholars and activists to label them as such. Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. Lawrence Douglas is the James J. Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought and Chair of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought at Amherst College. Martha M. Umphrey is Bertrand H. Snell 1894 Professor in American Government in the Department of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought at Amherst College, and President of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities.

December 2021 288 pages • 6 x 9 Paper • $30.00S(£22.99) 9781479812097 Cloth • $89.00X(£71.00) 9781479812080 Law

TRUTH AND EVIDENCE NOMOS LXIV

Edited by MELISSA SCHWARTZBERG and PHILIP KITCHER Explores the challenges of governing in a post-truth world In Truth and Evidence, the latest installment in the NOMOS series, Melissa Schwartzberg and Philip Kitcher bring together a distinguished group of interdisciplinary scholars in political science, law, and philosophy to explore the most pressing questions about the role of truth, evidence, and knowledge in government. In nine timely essays, contributors examine what constitutes political knowledge, who counts as an expert, how we should weigh evidence, and what can be done to address deep disinformation. Essential reading for our fraught political moment, Truth and Evidence considers the importance of truth in the face of widespread efforts to turn it into yet another tool of political power. Melissa Schwartzberg is Silver Professor of Politics at New York University. Philip Kitcher is the John Dewey Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, at Columbia University.

November 2021 240 pages • 5.5 x 8.25 Cloth • $65.00X(£52.00) 9781479811595 In NOMOS - American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy Politics


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SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY LAW AND THE AMERICAN LABOR MARKET JON C. DUBIN

How social security disability law is out of touch with the contemporary American labor market

September 2021 272 pages • 6 x 9 7 black & white illustrations Cloth • $55.00S(£44.00) 9781479811014 Law

In this book, Jon C. Dubin challenges the contemporary policies for determining disability benefits and work assessment. He posits the fundamental questions: where are the jobs for persons with significant medical and vocational challenges? Dubin demystifies the system, showing us its complex inner mechanisms and flaws, its history and evolution, and how changes in the labor market have rendered some agency processes obsolete. Dubin lays out how those who advocate eviscerating program coverage and needed life support benefits in the guise of modernizing these procedures would reduce the capacity for the Social Security Administration to function properly and serve its intended beneficiaries, and argues that the disability system should instead be “mended, not ended.” Jon C. Dubin is Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor of Law, and Associate Dean for Clinical Education at Rutgers Law School in Newark, New Jersey.

TAX AND TIME

On the Use and Misuse of Legal Imagination ANTHONY C. INFANTI How tax law perpetuates injustice but might instead be used as a powerful force for creating a more just and equitable society Tax and Time sheds light on two of the most misunderstood universal human experiences: time and taxes. Anthony C. Infanti asserts that time in tax law is the product of pure imagination and calls into question the world beyond time that we have created for ourselves. Written with clarity and powerful insight, Tax and Time demonstrates how the tax laws have been used to imaginatively manipulate time in ways that perpetuate economic and social injustice. Infanti calls for a systematic reexamination and reworking of the relationship between time and tax law, asserting that the power of the legal imagination to manipulate time in tax law can both correct past injustices and help us to envision—and actually work toward—a better and more just society. January 2022 256 pages • 6 x 9 4 black & white illustrations Cloth • $45.00S(£36.00) 9781479800346 Law

Anthony C. Infanti is the Christopher C. Walthour, Sr. Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and author of Our Selfish Tax Laws: Toward Tax Reform That Mirrors Our Better Selves.


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BODIES IN EVIDENCE

Race, Gender, and Science in Sexual Assault Adjudication HEATHER R. HLAVKA AND SAMEENA MULLA Uncovers how the process of sexual assault adjudication reinforces inequality and becomes a public spectacle of violence Bodies in Evidence draws on observations of over 680 court appearances in Milwaukee County’s felony sexual assault courts, as well as interviews with judges, attorneys, forensic scientists, jurors, sexual assault nurse examiners, and victim advocates. It shows how forensic science helps to propagate public misunderstandings of sexual violence by bestowing an aura of authority to race and gender stereotypes and inequalities. Expert testimony reinforces the idea that sexual assault is physically and emotionally recognizable and always leaves material evidence. The court’s reliance on the presence of forensic evidence infuses these very familiar stereotypes and myths about sexual assault with new scientific authority. Heather R. Hlavka is Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Sciences at the Klinger College of Arts and Sciences at Marquette University. Sameena Mulla is Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Sciences at the Klingler College of Arts and Sciences at Marquette University.

November 2021 304 pages • 6 x 9 6 black & white illustrations Paper • $30.00S(£22.99) 9781479809660 Cloth • $89.00X(£71.00) 9781479809639 Anthropology

THE GOVERNMENT OF THINGS Foucault and the New Materialisms THOMAS LEMKE Examines the theoretical achievements and the political impact of the new materialisms Materialism, a rich philosophical tradition that goes back to antiquity, is currently undergoing a renaissance. In The Government of Things, Thomas Lemke provides a comprehensive overview and critical assessment of this “new materialism”. In analyzing the work of Graham Harman, Jane Bennett, and Karen Barad, Lemke articulates what, exactly, new materialism is and how it has evolved. Drawing on Michel Foucault’s concept of a “government of things”, the book also goes beyond new materialist scholarship which tends to displace political questions by ethical and aesthetic concerns. It puts forward a relational and performative account of materialities that more closely attends to the interplay of epistemological, ontological, and political issues. Thomas Lemke is Professor of Sociology at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Goethe University Frankfurt. He is author of A Critique of Political Reason: Foucault’s Analysis of Modern Governmentality and co-author of Biopolitics: An Advanced Introduction.

September 2021 320 pages • 6 x 9 Paper • $30.00S(£22.99) 9781479829934 Cloth • $89.00X(£71.00) 9781479808816 Sociology


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HALFWAY HOUSE

Prisoner Reentry and the Shadow of Carceral Care LIAM MARTIN An inside look at the struggles former prisoners face in reentering society Every year, roughly 650,000 people prepare to reenter society after being released from state and federal prisons. In Halfway House, Liam Martin shines a light on their difficult journeys, taking us behind the scenes at Bridge House, a residential reentry program in Boston, Massachusetts.

October 2021 256 pages • 6 x 9 8 black & white illustrations Paper • $28.00S(£20.99) 9781479800698 Cloth • $89.00X(£71.00) 9781479800681 In Alternative Criminology Criminology

Drawing on three years of research, Martin explores the obstacles these former prisoners face in the real world. From drug addiction to poverty, he captures the ups and downs of life after incarceration in vivid, engaging detail. He shows us what, exactly, it is like to live in a halfway house, giving us a rare, up-close view of its role in a dense and often confusing web of organizations governing prisoner reentry. Martin asks us to rethink the possibilities—and pitfalls—of using halfway houses to manage the worst excesses of mass incarceration. Liam Martin is a Lecturer at the Institute of Criminology at Victoria University of Wellington.

LATINAS IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM Victims, Targets, and Offenders

Edited by VERA LOPEZ and LISA PASKO How Latina girls and women become entangled in the criminal justice system

September 2021 384 pages • 6 x 9 24 black & white illustrations Paper • $35.00S(£26.99) 9781479891962 Cloth • 9781479804634 In Latina/o Sociology Sociology

In Latinas in the Criminal Justice System, Vera Lopez and Lisa Pasko bring together a group of distinguished scholars to provide a more complete, nuanced picture of Latinas as victims, offenders, and targets of deportation. Featuring Cecilia Menjívar, Lisa M. Martinez, Alice Cepeda, and others, this volume examines the complex histories, backgrounds, and struggles of Latinas in the criminal justice system. Topics include Latina victims of crime and their perceptions of police officers; the impact of the US “crimmigration” system on undocumented Latina women; and help-seeking among Latina victims of intimate partner violence. Additionally, key chapters highlight the emergence of legal reforms, community mobilization efforts, and gender-sensitive alternatives to incarceration designed to increase equitable outcomes. Vera Lopez is a Professor of Justice & Social Inquiry in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. Lisa Pasko is Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminology and affiliated faculty in the Gender & Women’s Studies Program at the University of Denver.


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GHOST CRIMINOLOGY

The Afterlife of Crime and Punishment Edited by MICHAEL FIDDLER, TRAVIS LINNEMANN, and THEO KINDYNIS The haunting effects of crime, violence, and death in our history, memory, and media spaces Spaces where violent crimes have occurred can often become forever changed, or “haunted,” in the public imagination. In this volume, an interdisciplinary group of distinguished scholars study this phenomenon, exploring the origins, theory, and methodology of ghost criminology. Ghost Criminology takes us inside spaces where the worst crimes have imprinted themselves on our history, memory, and media spaces. Contributors explore a wide range of these hauntological topics from a criminological perspective, including the excavation of graffiti in the London underground, the phantom of Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia, during the 2017 riots, and the ghostly evidentiary traces of crime in motel rooms. Michael Fiddler is Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Greenwich. Travis Linnemann is Associate Professor of Sociology at Kansas State University. Theo Kindynis is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London.

January 2022 384 pages • 6 x 9 22 black & white illustrations Paper • $35.00S(£26.99) 9781479842438 Cloth • $99.00X(£79.00) 9781479885725 In Alternative Criminology Criminology

THE COMPLEXITIES OF RACE

Identity, Power, and Justice in an Evolving America Edited by CHARMAINE L. WIJEYESINGHE Illuminates how recent shifts in demographics, policy, culture and thinking have changed how race is understood today This volume provides new and detailed snapshots of the diverse and complicated ways that race, racism, racial identity, and racial justice are represented, experienced, and addressed in America, offering new ways of understanding the complex dynamics of power and systems of oppression. Each chapter uses a current, real-world example to demonstrate how race works in tandem with other locations of identity, with the aim of showing that a single social identity is rarely at play in issues of social inequality. The Complexities of Race provides readers with inspiration, information, and paths for moving the understanding of race, identity, and social justice forward. Charmaine L. Wijeyesinghe is a consultant in racial identity, intersectionality, and social justice education.

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GROWING UP LATINX

Coming of Age in a Time of Contested Citizenship JESICA SIHAM FERNÁNDEZ Latinx children navigating identity, citizenship, and belonging in a divided America An estimated sixty million people in the United States are of Latinx descent, with youth under the age of eighteen making up two-thirds of this swiftly growing demographic. In Growing Up Latinx, Jesica Siham Fernández explores the lives of Latinx youth as they grapple with their social and political identities from an early age, and pursue a sense of belonging in their communities as they face an increasingly hostile political climate. November 2021 264 pages • 6 x 9 2 black & white illustrations Paper • $30.00S(£22.99) 9781479801220 Cloth • $89.00X(£71.00) 9781479801213 In Critical Perspectives on Youth Sociology

Drawing on interviews with nine-to-twelve-year-olds, Fernández gives us rare insight into how Latinx youth understand their own citizenship and bravely forge opportunities to be seen, to be heard, and to belong. With a compassionate eye, she shows us how they strive to identify, and ultimately redefine, what it means to come of age—and fight for their rights—in a country that does not always recognize them. Jesica Siham Fernández is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at Santa Clara University.

UNACCOMPANIED

The Plight of Immigrant Youth at the Border EMILY RUEHS-NAVARRO Explores how humanitarian aid workers help and hinder the care of unaccompanied children as they arrive in the United States

February 2022 240 pages • 6 x 9 2 black & white illustrations Paper • $28.00S(£20.99) 9781479838615 Cloth • $89.00X(£71.00) 9781479821099 In Critical Perspectives on Youth Sociology

Every year, tens of thousands of children cross into the United States without a legal guardian at their side, often fleeing violence and poverty in their countries of origin. In Unaccompanied, Emily Ruehs-Navarro shows us one aspect of their heartbreaking journeys, as seen through the eyes of the aid workers who try—but too often fail—to help them. From legal relief organizations to family reunification specialists, she shows us how different aid workers may choose to work for, with, or against unaccompanied immigrant youth, deciding whether they should be treated as refugees, child dependents, or, in some cases, criminals. Ruehs-Navarro highlights how aid workers, and the systems they represent, often harm the very children they are designed to help. Unaccompanied brings into focus the plight of immigrant youth at the border, illuminating our failure to manage the human casualties of a growing crisis. Emily Ruehs-Navarro is Professor of Sociology at Elmhurst University.


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LIBERTY ROAD

Black Middle-Class Suburbs and the Battle Between Civil Rights and Neoliberalism GREGORY SMITHSIMON A unique insight into desegregation in the suburbs and how racial inequality persists Half of Black Americans who live in the one hundred largest metropolitan areas are now living in suburbs, not cities. In Liberty Road, Gregory Smithsimon shows us how this happened, and why it matters, unearthing the hidden role that suburbs played in establishing the Black middle-class. Focusing on Liberty Road, a Black middle-class suburb of Baltimore, Smithsimon tells the remarkable story of how residents broke the color barrier, against all odds, in the face of racial discrimination, tensions with suburban whites and urban Blacks, and economic crises like the mortgage meltdown of 2008. Drawing on interviews, census data, and archival research he shows us the unique strategies that suburban Black residents in Liberty Road employed, creating a blueprint for other Black middle-class suburbs. Gregory Smithsimon is Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College and Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

February 2022 320 pages • 6 x 9 19 black & white illustrations Paper • $30.00S(£22.99) 9781479861491 Cloth • $89.00X(£71.00) 9781479845118 Sociology

THE COLORS OF LOVE

Multiracial People in Interracial Relationships MELINDA MILLS How multiracial people navigate the complexities of race and love In the United States, more than seven million people claim to be multiracial, or have racially mixed heritage, parentage, or ancestry. In The Colors of Love, Melinda A. Mills explores how multiracial people navigate their complex—and often misunderstood—identities in romantic relationships. Drawing on sixty interviews with multiracial people in interracial relationships, Mills explores how people define and assert their racial identities both on their own and with their partners. She shows us how similarities and differences in identity, skin color, and racial composition shape how multiracial people choose, experience, and navigate love. The Colors of Love broadens our understanding about race and love in the twenty-first century. Melinda A. Mills is Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies, Sociology, and Anthropology, and Coordinator of Women’s and Gender Studies at Castleton University.

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THE COLOR OF CRIME, third edition

Racial Hoaxes, White Crime, Media Messages, Police Violence, and Other Race-Based Harms KATHERYN RUSSELL-BROWN How we can understand race, crime, and punishment in the age of Black Lives Matter When The Color of Crime was first published in 1998, it was heralded as a path-breaking book on race and crime. Now, in its third edition, Katheryn Russell-Brown’s book is more relevant than ever, as police killings of unarmed Black civilians—such as George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Daniel Prude— continue to make headlines around the world. She continues to ask, why do Black and white Americans perceive police actions so differently? Is white fear of Black crime justified? Katheryn Russell-Brown is Professor of Law and Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Race Relations at the University of Florida’s Levin College of Law. She is the author of Protecting Our Own: Race, Crime, and African Americans and Underground Codes: Race, Crime, and Related Fires, and has also written three children’s books, including She Was the First! The Trailblazing Life of Shirley Chisholm.

With three new chapters, over forty new racial hoax cases, and other timely updates, this edition offers an even more expansive view of crime and punishment in the twenty-first century. RussellBrown gives us much-needed insight into some of the most recent racial hoaxes, such as the one perpetrated by Amy Cooper. Should perpetrators of racial hoaxes be charged with a felony? Further, Russell-Brown makes a compelling case for race and crime literacy and the need to address and name White crime. Russell-Brown powerfully concludes the book with a parable that invites readers to imagine what would happen if Blacks decided to abandon the United States. Russell-Brown explores the tacit and subtle ways that crime is systematically linked to people of color. The Color of Crime is a lucid and forceful volume that calls for continued vigilance on the part of scholars, policymakers, journalists, and others in the age of Black Lives Matter.

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THE WORLD OF OBSESSIVECOMPULSIVE DISORDER

The Experiences of Living with OCD DANA FENNELL Beyond trivialization and misunderstanding, the realities of people experiencing OCD Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) affects millions of people worldwide and looms large in popular culture, for instance when people quip about being “so OCD.” However, this sometimes has little relation to the actual experiences of people diagnosed with the disorder. In The World of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Dana Fennell explores the lives of people who have OCD, giving us fresh insight into a highly misunderstood, trivialized, and sometimes stigmatized mental disorder that has no surefire cure. Drawing primarily on interviews with people who have OCD, Fennell shows us the diversity of ways the disorder manifests, when and why people come to perceive themselves as having a problem, what treatment options they pursue, and how they make sense of and manage their lives. From those who have obsessions about their sexuality and relationships, to those who check repeatedly to make sure they have not caused harm, she sheds light on the hopes, expectations, and difficulties that people with OCD encounter.

Dana Fennell is Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern Mississippi.

Fennell reveals how people cope in the face of this misunderstood disorder, including how they manage the barriers they face in the workplace and society. An eye-opening read, The World of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder encourages us to consider, empathize with, and take steps to improve the lives of people with mental health issues.

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NETWORKING THE BLACK CHURCH Digital Black Christians and Hip Hop ERIKA D. GAULT Provides a timely portrait of young Black Christians and how digital technology is transforming the Black Church

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Networking the Black Church explores how deeply embedded digital technology is in the lives of young Black Christians, offering a first-of-its-kind digital-hip hop ethnography. The volume examines the ways in which Christian hip hop artists who have adopted Blackpreaching-inspired spoken word performances create alternate kinds of Christian communities both inside and outside the walls of traditional Black churches. In the process, these digital Black Christians are changing Black churches as institutions, transforming modes of religious activism, inventing new communication practices around evangelism and Christian identity, and streamlining the accessibility of Black Church cultural practices in popular culture. Erika D. Gault is Assistant Professor in the Africana Studies Program at the University of Arizona.

SMART SUITS, TATTERED BOOTS

Black Ministers Mobilizing the Black Church in the Twenty-First Century KORIE LITTLE EDWARDS and MICHELLE OYAKAWA Explores the complex role that Black religious leaders play—or don’t play—in twenty-first-century racial justice efforts

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Why don’t we see more Black religious leadership in today’s civil rights movements, such as Black Lives Matter? Drawing on fifty-four in-depth interviews with Black religious leaders and civic leaders in Ohio, Korie Litte Edwards and Michelle Oyakawa uncover several reasons, including religious leaders’ nostalgia for and personal links to the legacy of the civil rights movement, the challenges of organizing around race-based oppression in an allegedly post-racial world, and the hierarchical structure of the Black religious leadership network, which may impede ministers’ work towards collective activism. Black clergy continue to care deeply about social justice and racial oppression. This book offers important insights into how they approach these issues today, illuminating the social processes that impact when, how, and why they participate in civic action. Korie Little Edwards is Associate Professor of Sociology at The Ohio State University. Michelle Oyakawa is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Muskingum University.


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RELIGION, RACE, AND COVID-19

Confronting White Supremacy in the Pandemic Edited by STACEY M. FLOYD-THOMAS With a Foreword by MICHAEL ERIC DYSON Examines how the dynamics emerging from the pandemic affect our most vulnerable populations and shape a new religious landscape The COVID-19 pandemic upset virtually every facet of society and, in many cases, exposed gross inequality and dysfunction. The particular dynamics emerging from the coronavirus pandemic have been felt most intensely by America’s most vulnerable populations, who are disproportionately people of color and the working poor, the people whom the Bible refers to as “the least of these.” This book makes the case that the pandemic was not just a medical phenomenon, or an economic or social one, but also a religious one. Religious practice has been altered in profound ways. Controversies around religious freedom have been re-ignited over debates concerning whether government can restrict church services. Christian white supremacists not only defied shelter in place orders, but found new ways to propagate racist attacks, with their White Christian identity fueling their reactions to the pandemic. Some religious leaders, including those in communities of color, saw the virus as an indicator of God’s wrath, or as a divine test, and viewed altering their traditional practices to mitigate the virus’s spread as a weakening of faith. Religion, Race, and COVID-19 argues that there is a religious hierarchy in US society that puts “the least of these” last while prioritizing those who benefit most from white privilege. The volume shows how social transformation occurs when faith is both formed and informed during crises, offering compelling insight into the saliency and lasting impact of religiosity within human culture.

Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas is the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Chair and Associate Professor of Ethics and Society at Vanderbilt University.

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ADOPTING FOR GOD

The Mission to Change America through Transnational Adoption SOOJIN CHUNG Explores the role played by missionaries in the twentieth-century transnational adoption movement

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Missionaries pioneered the transnational adoption movement in America. Though their role is known, there has not yet been a full historical look at their theological motivations—which varied depending on whether they were evangelically or ecumenically focused—and what the effects were for American society, relations with Asia, and thinking about race more broadly. Adopting for God shows that, somewhat surprisingly, both evangelical and ecumenical Christians challenged Americans to redefine traditional familial values and rethink race matters. By questioning the perspective that equates missionary humanitarianism with unmitigated cultural imperialism, this book offers a more nuanced picture of the rise of an important twentieth-century movement: the evangelization of adoption and the awakening of a new type of Christian mission. Soojin Chung is Assistant Professor in the Department of Intercultural Studies at California Baptist University.

POWERS OF PILGRIMAGE Religion in a World of Movement SIMON COLEMAN A groundbreaking reframing of religious pilgrimage

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Pious processions. Sites of miraculous healing. Journeys to far-away sacred places. These are what are usually called to mind when we think of religious pilgrimage. Yet while pilgrimage can include journeying to the heart of sacred shrines, it can also occur in apparently mundane places. Powers of Pilgrimage argues that we must question the universality of Western assumptions of what religion is and where it should be located, including the notion that “genuine” pilgrimage needs to be associated with discrete, formally recognized forms of religiosity. Offering a new theoretical lexicon and framework for exploring human pilgrimage, Powers of Pilgrimage presents a broad overview of how we can understand pilgrimage activity and proposes that it should be understood not solely as going to, staying at, and leaving a sacred place, but also as occurring in ordinary times, places, and practices.

Simon Coleman is Chancellor Jackman Professor at the Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto.


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CIVIL RELIGION TODAY

Religion and the American Nation in the Twenty-First Century Edited by RAYMOND HABERSKI JR., RHYS H. WILLIAMS, and PHILIP GOFF Moves the discussion of American civil religion into the twenty-first century Civil Religion, a term made popular by sociologist Robert Bellah a little over fifty years ago, describes how people might share in a sacred sense of their nation. Civil Religion Today reassesses the term to take stock of its usefulness after fifty years of engagement in the field. Looking both at the concept and at ground-level studies of how we might find civil religion in practice, this book aims to push the conversation forward, considering how and in what ways it is helpful in our current social and political context, evaluating which parts are worth keeping, which can be reformulated, and which can now be usefully discarded. Raymond J. Haberski, Jr. is Professor of History and American Studies at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. Rhys H. Williams is Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at Loyola University Chicago. Philip Goff is Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture and Chancellor’s Professor of American Studies and Religious Studies at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.

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CHRISTIAN ANARCHIST

Ammon Hennacy, A Life on the Catholic Left WILLIAM MARLING A biography of a remarkable figure, whose politics prefigured today’s social justice, ecology, and gender equality movements Ammon Hennacy was a forerunner of contemporary progressive thought, and he remains a beacon for challenges that confront the world and especially the US today. In this exceptional biography, William Marling tells the story of this fascinating figure, who remains particularly important for the Catholic Left. In addition to establishing Hennacy as an exemplar of vegetarianism, ecology, and pacificism, Marling illuminates a broader history of political ideas now largely lost: the late nineteenth-century utopian movements, the grassroots socialist movements before World War I, and the antinuclear protests of the 1960s. A nuanced study of when religion and anarchist theory overlap, Christian Anarchist shows how Hennacy’s life at the heart of radical libertarian and anarchist interventions in American politics not only galvanized the public then, but offers us new insight for today. William Marling is Professor of English and World Literature at Case Western Reserve University.

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FAITH AND POWER

Latino Religious Politics Since 1945 Edited by FELIPE HINOJOSA, MAGGIE ELMORE, and SERGIO M. GONZÁLEZ Illuminates how religion has shaped Latino politics and community building

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Too often, religious politics are considered peripheral to social movements, not central to them. Faith and Power seeks to correct this misinterpretation, focusing on the post–World War II era. It shows that the religious politics of this period were central to secular community-building and resistance efforts. The volume traces the interplay between Latino religions and a variety of pivotal movements, from the farm worker movement to the sanctuary movement, offering breadth and nuance to this history. It illuminates how broader currents involving immigration, the rise of the religious left and right, and the Chicana/o, immigrant, and Puerto Rican civil rights movements helped to give rise to political engagement among Latino religious actors. Felipe Hinojosa is Associate Professor of History at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. Maggie Elmore is Assistant Professor of History at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. Sergio M. González is Assistant Professor of Latinx Studies at Marquette University.

THE MYTH OF COLORBLIND CHRISTIANS Evangelicals and White Supremacy in the Civil Rights Era JESSE CURTIS Reveals how Christian colorblindness expanded white evangelicalism and excluded Black evangelicals In The Myth of Colorblind Christians, Jesse Curtis shows how white evangelicals’ efforts to grow their own institutions in the years after the civil rights movement created an evangelical form of whiteness and infused the politics of colorblindness with sacred fervor. Curtis argues that white evangelicals deployed Christian colorblindness not for antiracist purposes, but rather to protect new investments in whiteness. In the process, they anchored their own identities and shaped the very meaning of whiteness in American society. At once compelling and timely, The Myth of Colorblind Christians exposes how white evangelical communities avoided antiracist action and yet continue to thrive today. November 2021 320 pages • 6 x 9 Paper • $32.00S(£24.99) 9781479809387 Cloth • $89.00X(£71.00) 9781479809370 Religion

Jesse Curtis is Assistant Professor of History at Valparaiso University.


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STUDYING LIVED RELIGION Contexts and Practices

NANCY TATOM AMMERMAN Offers an overarching definition and framework for the study of religion as it manifests itself in everyday life Look around you as you walk down the street; somewhere, usually hidden in plain sight, there will be traces of religion. Perhaps it is the person who walks past with a Christian tattoo or a Muslim hijab. Perhaps it is the poster announcing a charity auction at the local synagogue. Or perhaps you open your Instagram feed to see what inspiring images and meditations have been posted by spiritual guides to help start the day. Studying Lived Religion examines religious practices wherever they happen—both within religious spaces and in everyday life. Although the study of lived religion has been around for over two decades, there has not been an agreed-upon definition of what it encompasses, and we have lacked a sociological theory to frame the way it is studied. This book offers a definition that expands lived religion’s geographic scope and a framework of seven dimensions around which we can analyze lived religious practice. Examples from multiple traditions and disciplines show the range of methods available for such studies, offering practical tips for how to begin. The volume opens up how we understand the category of lived religion, erasing the artificial divide between what happens in congregations and other religious institutions and what happens in other settings.

Nancy Tatom Ammerman is Professor of Sociology of Religion, Emerita, at Boston University and the author of Sacred Stories, Spiritual Tribes: Finding Religion in Everyday Life and Pillars of Faith: American Congregations and Their Partners.

“Meticulous, comprehensive, and intelligent, this marvelous book is a must-read for everyone interested in lived religion.” —David D. Hall, Harvard Divinity School

Nancy Tatom Ammerman draws on examples ranging from Singapore to Accra to Chicago to show how deeply religion permeates everyday lives. In revealing the often overlooked ways that religion shapes human experience, she invites us all into new ways of seeing the world around us.

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KALĪLAH AND DIMNAH Fables of Virtue and Vice IBN AL-MUQAFFAʿ

Edited by MICHAEL FISHBEIN

Translated by MICHAEL FISHBEIN and JAMES E. MONTGOMERY Timeless fables of loyalty and betrayal

Like Aesop’s Fables, Kalīlah and Dimnah is a collection designed not only for moral instruction, but also for the entertainment of readers. The stories, which originated in the Sanskrit Panchatantra and Mahabharata, were adapted and translated into Arabic by Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ in the second/ eighth century. The stories are engaging and often funny, from “The Raven Who Tried To Learn To Walk Like a Partridge” to “How the Wolf, the Raven, and the Jackal Destroyed the Camel.” Throughout, Kalīlah and Dimnah offers insight into the moral lessons Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ believed were important for rulers—and readers. November 2021 300 pages • 6 x 9 Cloth • $30.00S(£22.99) 9781479806539 In Library of Arabic Literature Arabic Literature

Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ (d. 139/757) was a Persian translator, author, thinker, and state official who wrote important treatises on rulership in Arabic. Michael Fishbein is Lecturer Emeritus in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA. James E. Montgomery is Sir Thomas Adams’s Professor of Arabic at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity Hall.

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Reflections on History, Sufism, Theology, and Literature—Volume One AL-ḤASAN AL-YŪSĪ

Translated by JUSTIN STEARNS

Foreword by AYESHA RAMACHANDRAN Wide-ranging essays on Moroccan history, Sufism, and religious life

Al-Ḥasan al-Yūsī was arguably the most influential and well-known Moroccan intellectual figure of his generation. In 1084/1685, at the age of roughly fifty-four, and after a long and distinguished career, this Amazigh scholar from the Middle Atlas began writing a collection of short essays on a wide variety of subjects including genealogy, theology, Sufism, and history. The Discourses also includes autobiographical anecdotes that offer insight into the history of Morocco. Translated into English for the first time, The Discourses offers readers access to the intellectual landscape of the early modern Muslim world through an author who speaks openly and frankly about his personal life and his relationships with his country’s rulers, scholars, and commoners. October 2021 280 pages • 5.5 x 8.25 Paper • $15.00T(£11.99) 9781479810581 In Library of Arabic Literature Arabic Literature

Al-Ḥasan al-Yūsī was a major eleventh/seventeenth-century Moroccan scholar. Justin Stearns is Associate Professor in Arab Crossroads Studies at NYU Abu Dhabi. Ayesha Ramachandran is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Yale University.


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IMPOSTURES AL-ḤARĪRĪ

Translated by MICHAEL COOPERSON Foreword by ABDELFATTAH KILITO

One of the Wall Street Journal’s Journal’s Top 10 Books of 2020 Winner, 2020 Sheikh Zayed Book Award

Finalist, 2021 PROSE Award in the Literature Category Fifty rogue’s tales translated fifty ways

An itinerant con man. A gullible eyewitness narrator. Voices spanning continents and centuries. These elements come together in Impostures, a groundbreaking new translation of a celebrated work of Arabic literature.

Impostures follows the roguish Abū Zayd al-Sarūjī in his adventures around the medieval Middle East—we encounter him impersonating a preacher, pretending to be blind, and lying to a judge. In every escapade he shows himself to be a brilliant and persuasive wordsmith, composing poetry, palindromes, and riddles on the spot. Award-winning translator Michael Cooperson transforms Arabic wordplay into English wordplay of his own, using fifty different registers of English, from the distinctive literary styles of authors such as Geoffrey Chaucer, Mark Twain, and Virginia Woolf, to global varieties of English including Cockney rhyming slang, Nigerian English, and Singaporean English. Featuring picaresque adventures and linguistic acrobatics, Impostures brings the spirit of this masterpiece of Arabic literature into English in a dazzling display of translation.

“[An] astounding new adaptation of the Maqāmāt of al-Harīrī… The verbal profusion is ludicrous, joyfully so. Speaking to an interviewer, Mr. Cooperson remarked that the Maqāmāt is 'a book that shows off everything that Arabic can do.' Impostures shows off English in the same flattering light, demonstrating its dynamism, its endurance, its mutability and its glorious, weedy wildness. In this way, a translation that is so brazen in its liberties is faithful to the spirit of the original.” —Wall Street Journal

Al-Ḥarīrī (d. 516/1122) was a poet, scholar, and government official from Basra, Iraq. He is celebrated for his virtuosity in producing rhymed prose narratives, the Maqāmāt.

Michael Cooperson is Professor of Arabic in the Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures at UCLA. His translations include The Life of Ibn Ḥanbal by Ibn al-Jawzī for the Library of Arabic Literature, and The Author and His Doubles by the eminent Moroccan literary critic Abdelfattah Kilito.

Abdelfattah Kilito is the author of several acclaimed studies of Arabic literature, including Arabs and the Art of Storytelling and a study of the maqāmāt genre. He is the recipient of the Great Moroccan Award, the Al Owais Award for Criticism and Literature Studies, and a Prix from the Académie Française.

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The Mechanics of Extraction in Comparative Perspective Edited by JONATHAN VALK and IRENE SOTO MARÍN A collection of studies that explores the extractive systems of eleven ancient states and societies from across the ancient world

September 2021 400 pages • 6 x 9 6 black & white illustrations Cloth • $75.00X(£62.00) 9781479806195 Ancient History

The studies collected in Ancient Taxation: The Mechanics of Extraction in Comparative Perspective explore the extractive systems of eleven ancient states and societies from across the ancient world, ranging from Bronze Age China to Anglo-Saxon Britain. The contributors explore the challenges of taxation in predominantly agro-pastoral societies, including basic tax strategy (taxing goods vs. labor, in-kind vs. money taxes, etc.), assessment and collection, compliance, and negotiating the cooperation of social, economic, and political élites and other important social groups. In assembling a broad range of studies, this book sheds new light on the commonalities and differences between ancient taxation systems, and so on the broader fiscal and institutional practices of antiquity. Jonathan Valk is University Lecturer in Assyriology at the University of Leiden. Irene Soto Marín is Assistant Professor of Classical Studies and Assistant Curator in the Kelsey Museum at the University of Michigan.

AN OASIS CITY

ROGER S. BAGNALL, NICOLA ARAVECCHIA, RAFFAELLA CRIBIORE, PAOLA DAVOLI, OLAF E. KAPER, and SUSANNA McFADDEN Located in the Dakhla Oasis in Egypt's Western Desert, Amheida (ancient Trimithis) was an important regional center, reaching a peak in the Roman period. Excavations have revealed its urban layout and brought to light houses, streets, a bath, a school, and a church. Wall-paintings, temple reliefs, pottery, and texts all give a lively sense of its political, religious, economic, and cultural life. This book presents these aspects of the city’s existence and its close ties to the Nile valley, by way of long desert roads, in an accessible and richly illustrated fashion.

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Roger S. Bagnall is Leon Levy Director and Professor of Ancient History Emeritus at ISAW. Nicola Aravecchia is Assistant Professor of Classics at Washington University in Saint Louis. Raffaella Cribiore is Professor of Classics at NYU. Paola Davoli is Associate Professor of Egyptology at the University of Salento (Lecce). Olaf Kaper is Professor of Egyptology at Leiden University. Susanna McFadden is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Hong Kong.


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Archaeological Report on a Late-Roman Urban House at Trimithis (Amheida VI) PAOLA DAVOLI with a contribution by NICHOLAS WARNER A comprehensive study of the archaeology of the House of Serenos The House of Serenos, Part II is the second of four books devoted to publishing the archaeology of the House of Serenos, a richly decorated, late antique villa of a local élite, located in Amheida (ancient Trimithis) in the Dakhla Oasis of Egypt. The House of Serenos, Part II synthesizes the archaeological information presented in detail in other volumes in a comprehensive study of the architectural and archaeological history of the house and its relationship to its natural and built environments, from construction through expansion and renovation to its eventual abandonment around the end of the fourth century. The volume includes discussions of archaeological method, stratigraphy, architecture, and the archaeological assemblages discovered in the House of Serenos—and reveals what all this can tell us about the inhabitants and their experience living in this high-status residence at the edge of the Roman Empire.

Paola Davoli is Associate Professor of Egyptology at the University of Salento (Lecce). Nicholas Warner is a trained architect who has worked extensively on the preservation and presentation of Egyptian sites of all periods including Historic Cairo, Old Cairo, the Red and White Monasteries in Sohag, tombs in Luxor, and the New Kingdom Necropolis at Saqqara.

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The House of Serenos, Part I The Pottery (Amheida V) by Clementina Caputo

The House of Serenos, Part III Small Finds (Amheida VII) by Marina M. S. Nuovo

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Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court RENEE KNAKE JEFFERSON and HANNAH BRENNER JOHNSON With a Foreword by Melissa Murray Best Book of 2020, National Law Journal

The inspiring and previously untold history of the women considered—but not selected—for the US Supreme Court In 1981, Sandra Day O’Connor became the first female justice on the United States Supreme Court after centuries of male appointments, a watershed moment in the long struggle for gender equality. Yet few know about the remarkable women considered in the decades before her triumph. Shortlisted tells the overlooked stories of nine extraordinary women—a cohort large enough to seat the entire Supreme Court—who appeared on presidential lists dating back to the 1930s. Florence Hannah Brenner Johnson is Vice Dean for Allen, the first female judge on the highest court in Academic and Student Affairs and Associate Ohio, was named repeatedly in those early years. Professor of Law at California Western School Eight more followed, including Amalya Kearse, a of Law in San Diego. federal appellate judge who was the first African Renee Knake Jefferson is Professor of Law American woman viewed as a potential Supreme and holds the Joanne and Larry Doherty Court nominee. Award-winning scholars Renee Chair in Legal Ethics at the University of Knake Jefferson and Hannah Brenner Johnson Houston Law Center. cleverly weave together long-forgotten materials from presidential libraries and private archives to “This fascinating book reconstructs a reveal the professional and personal lives of these chapter of women's history that has been accomplished women. hiding in plain sight: the numerous qualified women whose names were floated for the Supreme Court but who never got there. Just as they were overlooked, so have their individual stories been—until now.” —Linda Greenhouse, New York Times contributing columnist

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In addition to filling a notable historical gap, the book exposes the tragedy of the shortlist. Listing and bypassing qualified female candidates creates a false appearance of diversity that preserves the status quo, a fate all too familiar for women, especially minorities. Shortlisted offers a roadmap to combat enduring bias and discrimination. It is a must-read for those seeking positions of power as well as for the powerful who select them in the legal profession and beyond.


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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 The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is considered one of the most effective pieces of legislation the United States has ever passed. It enfranchised hundreds of thousands of voters, particularly in the American South, and drew attention to the problem of voter suppression. Yet in recent years there has been a continuous assault on access to the ballot box in the form of stricter voter ID requirements, meritless claims of rigged elections, and baseless accusations of voter fraud. In the past these efforts were aimed at eliminating African American voters from the rolls, and today, new laws seek to eliminate voters of color, the poor, and the elderly, groups that historically vote for the Democratic Party.

Gilda R. Daniels is an Associate Professor at

Uncounted examines the phenomenon of disenthe University of Baltimore School of Law. franchisement through the lens of history, race, law, and the democratic process. Gilda R. Daniels, who served as Deputy Chief in the United States “In this guide to the practice [of voter Department of Justice Civil Rights Division and has suppression] and its effects a law profesmore than two decades of voting rights experisor Daniels, former deputy chief in the ence, argues that voter suppression works in cycles, civil rights division of the U.S. Justice constantly adapting and finding new ways to hinder Department, describes how it works and access for an exponentially growing minority popprovides a road map and a call to arms for participants in what she calls the fight ulation. She warns that a premeditated strategy of to vote...This book is a valuable resource restrictive laws and deceptive practices has taken for all participants in civic life.” root and is eroding the very basis of American democracy—the right to vote! —Booklist (starred)

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WHITE CHRISTIAN PRIVILEGE The Illusion of Religious Equality in America KHYATI Y. JOSHI Exposes the invisible ways in which white Christian privilege disadvantages racial and religious minorities in America

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In White Christian Privilege, Khyati Y. Joshi traces Christianity’s influence on the American experiment from before the founding of the Republic to the social movements of today. Mapping the way through centuries of slavery, westward expansion, immigration, and citizenship laws, she also reveals the ways Christian privilege in the United States has always been entangled with notions of White supremacy. Through the voices of Christians and religious minorities, Joshi explores how Christian privilege and White racial norms affect the lives of all Americans, often in subtle ways that society overlooks. By shining a light on the inequalities these privileges create, Joshi points the way forward, urging readers to help remake America as a diverse democracy with a commitment to true religious freedom. Khyati Y. Joshi is Professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University.

THE IDENTITY TRADE

Selling Privacy and Reputation Online NORA A. DRAPER The successes and failures of an industry that claims to protect and promote our online identities The Identity Trade examines the relationship between online visibility and privacy, and the politics of identity and self-presentation in the digital age. In doing so, Nora Draper looks at the revealing two-decade history of efforts by the consumer privacy industry to give individuals control over their digital image through the sale of privacy protection and reputation management as a service.

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Through in-depth interviews with industry experts, as well as analysis of media coverage, promotional materials, and government policies, Draper examines how companies have turned the protection and promotion of digital information into a business. Along the way, she also provides insight into how these companies have responded to and shaped the ways we think about image and reputation in the digital age. Nora A. Draper is Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of New Hampshire.


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Why Good Schools, Good Grades, and Good Behavior Are Not Enough PAWAN DHINGRA An up-close look at the education arms race of after-school learning and academic competitions, and the perceived failure of even our best schools to educate children Beyond soccer leagues, music camps, and drama lessons, today’s youth are in an education arms race that begins in elementary school. In Hyper Education, Pawan Dhingra uncovers the growing world of high-achievement education and the after-school learning centers, spelling bees, and math competitions that it has spawned. It is a world where immigrant families vie with other Americans to be at the head of the class, putting in hours of studying and testing in order to gain a foothold in the supposed meritocracy of American public education. A world where enrichment centers, like Kumon, have seen 194 percent growth since 2002 and target children as young as three. Even families and teachers who avoid after-school academics are getting swept up. Drawing on over 100 in-depth interviews with teachers, tutors, principals, children, and parents, Dhingra delves into the why people participate in this phenomenon and examines how schools, families, and communities play their part. Moving past "Tiger Mom" stereotypes, he addresses why Asian American and white families practice what he calls "hyper education" and whether or not it makes sense. By taking a behind-the-scenes look at the Scripps National Spelling Bee, other national competitions, and learning centers, Dhingra shows why good schools, good grades, and good behavior are seen as not enough for high-achieving students and their parents and why the education arms race is likely to continue to expand.

Pawan Dhingra is Professor of American Studies at Amherst College. He is the author of many books, including Life Behind the Lobby: Indian American Motel Owners and the American Dream. His work has been featured in the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, The New York Times, Salon, the PBS News Hour, and the documentary Breaking the Bee. “Families who want their children to succeed often send them to private learning centers and encourage them to participate in spelling bees and math competitions. Why? That question is at the heart of Dhingra’s thought-provoking book...A well-researched work of interest to parents and educators.” —Library Journal

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QUEER THEORY An Introduction

ANNAMARIE JAGOSE The essential history of queer theory The reclamation of the term queer over the last several decades marked a shift in the study of sexuality to more fluid notions of sexual identity. On the cutting-edge of this significant shift was Annamarie Jagose’s classic text Queer Theory: An Introduction. In this groundbreaking work, Jagose provides a clear and concise explanation of queer theory, tracing it as part of an intriguing history of same-sex love over the last century.

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Blending insights from prominent theorists such as Judith Butler and David Halperin, Jagose illustrates that queer theory's challenge is to create new ways of thinking, not only about fixed sexual identities such as straight and gay, but about other supposedly immovable notions such as sexuality and gender, and man and woman. First released almost 25 years ago, this groundbreaking work has provided a foundation for the continuing evolution of queer theory in the twenty-first century. Annamarie Jagose is Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney.

THE ETHICS OF LIBERTY MURRAY N. ROTHBARD

The authoritative text on the libertarian political position In recent years, libertarian impulses have increasingly influenced national and economic debates, from welfare reform to efforts to curtail affirmative action. Murray N. Rothbard's classic The Ethics of Liberty stands as one of the most rigorous and philosophically sophisticated expositions of the libertarian political position. Rothbard’s unique argument roots the case for freedom in the concept of natural rights and applies it to a host of practical problems. And while his conclusions are radical—that a social order that strictly adheres to the rights of private property must exclude the institutionalized violence inherent in the state—Rothbard’s applications of libertarian principles prove surprisingly practical for a host of social dilemmas, solutions to which have eluded alternative traditions.

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The Ethics of Liberty authoritatively established the anarcho-capitalist economic system as the most viable and the only principled option for a social order based on freedom. This classic book’s radical insights are sure to inspire a new generation of readers. The author of numerous books, the late Murray N. Rothbard (1926-1995) was the S. J. Hall Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and Academic Vice President of the Ludwig von Mises Institute.


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SOJOURNER TRUTH Slave, Prophet, Legend CARLETON MABEE Goes beyond the myths and legends to reveal new insights into the real life of Sojourner Truth In this landmark work, the product of years of primary research, Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer Carleton Mabee has unearthed the best available sources about Sojourner Truth to reconstruct the most authentic account of her life to date. Mabee offers new insights on why she never learned to read, on the authenticity of the famous quotations attributed to her (such as "Ar'n't I a woman?"), her relationship to President Lincoln, her role in the abolitionist movement, her crusade to move freed slaves from the South to the North, and her life as a singer, orator, feminist, and woman of faith. This is an engaging, historically precise biography that reassesses the place of Sojourner Truth—slave, prophet, legend—in American history. Carleton Mabee is the author of many books, including the Pulitzer Prize–Winning American Leonardo: A Life of Samuel F. B. Morse; Black Education in New York State, which won the John Ben Snow Prize; and Black Freedom: The Nonviolent Abolitionists from 1830 through the Civil War, which won the Anisfield-Wolf Award.

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TO SERVE MY COUNTRY, TO SERVE MY RACE The Story of the Only African-American WACS Stationed Overseas During World War II

BRENDA L. MOORE The story of the historic 6888th, the first United States Women's Army Corps unit of African American women to serve overseas Under political pressure from legislators like Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., the NAACP, the Black press, and even President Roosevelt, the US War Department deployed African American women to the European theater in 1945. Despite the social, political, and economic restrictions imposed upon these women in their own country, they were eager to serve, not only out of patriotism but out of a desire to uplift their race and dispel bigoted preconceptions about their abilities. Elaine Bennett, a First Sergeant, joined because "I wanted to prove to myself and maybe to the world that we would give what we had back to the United States as a confirmation that we were full- fledged citizens." Filled with compelling personal stories based on extensive interviews, To Serve My Country, To Serve My Race is the first book to document the lives of these courageous pioneers. It reveals how their Army experience affected them for the rest of their lives and how they, in turn, transformed the US military forever. Brenda L. Moore is Associate Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York, Buffalo.

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A LAND WITH A PEOPLE

Palestinians and Jews Confront Zionism Edited by ESTHER FARMER, ROSALIND PETCHESKY, and SARAH SILLS Foreword by NOURA ERAKAT An intimate postcard from queer Palestine, conveying stories of endurance and community, resistance, and transformation A Land With a People is a book of stories, photographs and poetry which elevates rarely heard Palestinian and Jewish voices and visions. Eloquently framed with a foreword by the dynamic Palestinian legal scholar and activist, Noura Erakat, this book began as a storytelling project of Jewish Voice for Peace-New York City and subsequently transformed into a theater project performed throughout the New York City area. Esther Farmer is the director and playwright of “Wrestling with Zionism” and produces storytelling workshops as a JVP-National artist nationwide. She has played lead roles in the New York City Housing Authority, as a United Nations representative, and as a founder of Teamsters for a Democratic Union. Rosalind Pollack Petchesky (she/her) is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Political Science at Hunter College, City University of New York. A recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and Charles A. McCoy Career Achievement Award, she is also a JVP-NYC chapter leader, classical pianist, and kickboxer. Sarah Sills is a life-long artist-activist. She has co-led a Teamsters delegation to China, organized clerical workers at Columbia, raised money for Salvadoran women’s co-ops during the war, and worked at a pro-Aristide Haitian newspaper. She also produces storytelling workshops, and is involved in “Wrestling with Zionism.”

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Stories touch hearts, open minds, and transform our understanding of the “other”—as well as our comprehension of own roles and responsibilities—and A Land With a People emerges from this reckoning. It brings us the narratives of secular, Muslim, Christian, and queer Palestinians who endure the particular brand of settler colonialism known as Zionism. It relays the transformational journeys of Ashkenazi, Mizrahi, queer, and Palestinian Jews who have come to reject the received Zionist narrative. Unflinching in their confrontation of the power dynamics that underlie their transformation process, these writers find the courage to face what has happened to historic Palestine, and to their own families as a result. Contextualized by a detailed historical introduction and timeline charting 150 years of Palestinian and Jewish resistance to Zionism, this collection will stir emotions, provoke fresh thinking, and point to a more hopeful, loving future—one in which Palestine/Israel is seen for what it is in its entirety, as well as for what it can be.


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THE LABOR GUIDE TO RETIREMENT PLANS For Union Organizers and Employees JAMES W. RUSSELL

A helpful how-to for workers navigating their retirement and pension options, from the labor organizer's perspective Researching retirement plans should not take the rest of your life, even if deciphering the relevant paperwork seems to have become a full-time job. Deliberately elaborate legalese is obscuring the efforts of financial elites to seize control of workers' collective retirement savings—and The Labor Guide to Retirement Plans is here to translate. Neoliberal retirement reforms have escalated elites' efforts to replace guaranteed workplace retirement plans with weak 401(k)-like savings accounts and risky stock market investment schemes. The result is arguably the largest source of labor value expropriation over the last four decades. What do workers need to know as they assess their future prospects—especially in terms of the security their retirement plans may or may not bring? What should union activists keep in mind as they push for the national and workplace reforms needed to produce greater retirement security? This nuts-and-bolts book provides a much-needed demystification of the retirement system. Even more than that, The Labor Guide to Retirement Plans enables us to take charge of our own personal futures as a first step towards taking back what belongs to us all.

James W. Russell is Affiliate Scholar of Public Policy at Portland State University and University Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Eastern Connecticut State University. He is the author of nine books, including Social Insecurity: 401(k)s and the Retirement Crisis and Double Standard: Social Policy in Europe and the United States. He led efforts to replace a 401(k)-like plan with a more secure, traditional pension plan as part of one of the first employee movements to successfully challenge the dominant trend.

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NEW POLARIZATIONS AND OLD CONTRADICTIONS: THE CRISIS OF CENTRISM Socialist Register 2022

Edited by GREG ALBO and COLIN LEYS

December 2021 320 pages • 6 x 9 Paper • $29.00S 9781583679371 Political Science

"Polarization" is a word commonly used by everyone from mainstream journalists to the person in the street, whatever their political stripe. But this widely recognized phenomenon deserves scrutiny. This volume takes up the challenge, asking such questions as: Are the current tendencies towards polarization new, and if so, what is their significance? What underlying contradictions—between race, class, income, gender, and geopolitics—do the latest polarization trends expose? And to what extent can "centrist" politics continue to hold and contain these internal contradictions? This volume's original essays examine the escalating polarization of national, racial, generational, and other identities, all in the context of growing economic inequality, new forms of regional and urban antagonism, "vaccine nationalism," and the shifting parameters of rivalry between the "Great Powers." Greg Albo is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at York University, Toronto. Colin Leys is Emeritus Professor of Political Studies at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.

BEYOND LEVIATHAN Critique of the State

ISTVÁN MÉSZÁROS Edited, with an introduction by JOHN BELLAMY FOSTER A field-defining masterwork, this posthumous publication maps the evolution of the idea of the state from ancient Greece to today

February 2022 512 pages • 5.5 x 8.25 Paper • $34.00S 9781583679494 Cloth • $99.00 9781583679500 Philosophy | Political Theory

István Mészáros was one of the greatest political theorists of the twentieth century. Left unfinished at the time of his death, Beyond Leviathan is written on the magisterial scale of his previous book, Beyond Capital, and meant to complement that work. It focuses on the transcendence of the state, along with the transcendence of capital and alienated labor, while traversing the history of political theory from Plato to the present. Aristotle, More, Machiavelli, and Vico are only a few of the thinkers discussed in depth. The larger objective of this work is no less than to develop a full-edged critique of the state, in the Marxian tradition, and set against the critique of capital. Not only does it provide, for the first time, an all-embracing Marxian theory of the state, it gives new political meaning to the notion of “the withering away of the state.” In his definitive, seminal work, Mészáros seeks to illuminate the political preconditions for a society of substantive equality and substantive democracy. István Mészáros was a professor emeritus at the University of Sussex and a world renown philosopher and critic. He authored Marx’s Theory of Alienation, Beyond Capital, and over a dozen other titles.


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INEQUALITY, CLASS, AND ECONOMICS ERIC SCHUTZ

What if neoclassical economics addressed the question of class? This accessible overview of economic theory launches this investigation The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the economic inequalities pervading every aspect of society— and then multiplied them to a staggering degree. A mere nine months into the lockdown, the net worth of the infamous Forbes 400 increased by one trillion dollars; In a single year the US poverty rate rose by the largest amount ever since record-keeping began sixty years ago. At the same time, mass unemployment imperiled or erased the fragile right to quality health care for a substantial number of people living in states without Medicaid. In Inequality, Class, and Economics, Eric Schutz illumines the pillars undergirding the monstrous polarities which define our times— and reveals them as the very same structures of power at the foundations of the class system under today's capitalism. Employing both traditional and novel approaches to public policy, Inequality, Class, and Economics offers prescriptions that can genuinely address the steepening and hardening of class boundaries. This book pushes past economists' studied avoidance of the problem of class as a system of inequality based in unequal opportunity, and exhorts us to tackle the heart of the problem at long last.

Eric Schutz is a Professor Emeritus at Rollins College, where he taught a great variety of Economics courses from 1987-2015. He is the author of Markets and Power: The Twentieth Century Command Economy and Inequality and Power: The Economics of Class, as well as articles in the Review of Radical Political Economics, the Forum for Social Economics, the Journal of Economic Issues, and the Encyclopedia of Political Economy. He lives with his wife in western North Carolina.

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THE RETURN OF NATURE Socialism and Ecology

JOHN BELLAMY FOSTER Winner, 2020 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize

A fascinating reinterpretation of the radical and socialist origins of ecology

John Bellamy Foster is an editor of Monthly Review and a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. His previous books on ecology include: The Vulnerable Planet, Marx’s Ecology, Hungry for Profit (edited with Fred Magdoff and Frederick Buttel), Ecology Against Capitalism, The Ecological Revolution, The Ecological Rift (with Brett Clark and Richard York), What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism (with Fred Magdoff), Marx and the Earth (with Paul Burkett), and The Robbery of Nature (with Brett Clark).

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Twenty years ago, John Bellamy Foster’s Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and Nature introduced a new understanding of Karl Marx’s revolutionary ecological materialism. More than simply a study of Marx, it commenced an intellectual and social history, encompassing thinkers from Epicurus to Darwin, who developed materialist and ecological ideas. Now, with The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology, Foster continues this narrative. In so doing, he uncovers a long history of the efforts to unite questions of social justice and environmental sustainability, and helps us comprehend and counter today’s unprecedented planetary emergencies. The Return of Nature begins with the deaths of Darwin (1882) and Marx (1883) and moves on until the rise of the ecological age in the 1960s and 1970s. Foster explores how socialist analysts and materialist scientists of various stamps, first in Britain, then the United States, from William Morris and Frederick Engels, to Joseph Needham, Rachel Carson, and Stephen J. Gould, sought to develop a dialectical naturalism, rooted in a critique of capitalism. In the process, he delivers a far-reaching and fascinating reinterpretation of the radical and socialist origins of ecology. Ultimately, what this book asks for is nothing short of revolution: a long, ecological revolution, aimed at making peace with the planet while meeting collective human needs.


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A LEFT GREEN NEW DEAL An Internationalist Blueprint

BERND RIEXINGER, LIA BECKER, KATHARINA DAHME and CHRISTINA KAINDL What does a successful socialist Green New Deal look like? With the cascading effects of multiple ongoing health and economic crises, conditions are ripe for the emergence of a global progressive social project capable of moving us beyond business-as-usual and eradicating the fundamental causes of misery: namely, a global Green New Deal. But simply creating new "green jobs" within the current capitalist system is not nearly enough. If we are to take on climate change, it is imperative that we first of all engage in “system change,” a process rooted in socialism. Shifting beyond the American notion of the Green New Deal and adding vital internationalist dimension, A Left Green New Deal provides just such a blueprint for this worldwide undertaking. Written by Bernd Riexinger and his team in the German DIE LINKE [the left] Party, A Left Green New Deal unveils the powerful opponents of a genuine, left-wing Green New Deal—corporations, the wealthy, the ultra-rich and their political allies. But it also discloses the creation of a potent new counterforce, embodied in a left-wing mobilization strategy developed by DIE LINKE. This organizing model is based in "connective party politics"— transformative organizing practices that reach across class lines within and beyond the party. This essential book provides both a Left Green New Deal platform and the inspiration necessary to lay a path towards an alternate future.

Bernd Riexinger, co-leader of the German political party DIE LINKE since 2012, has roots in Stuttgart region's service sector union “ver.di.” Lia Becker, a strategic advisor for DIE LINKE since 2014, is co-author of Bite back! Queere Prekarität, Klasse und unteilbare Solidarität, a book about queer class-politics, forthcoming from Edition Assemblage. Katharina Dahme, the head of Riexinger's office, is one of the founders of “Bewegungslinke," a movement-oriented, anti-racist and ecosocialist network within DIE LINKE. Christina Kaindl, head of DIE LINKE's Department for Program and Strategy since 2012, was co-founder and first editor in chief of the review "LuXemburg" and is a longtime coordinator of the academic review "Das Argument."

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HOW SPACES BECOME PLACES Place Makers Tell Their Stories JOHN F. FORESTER Useful and inspiring cases illustrate participatory placemaking practices and strategies These are stories of community members acting together to transform edgy, empty, contested, or unsafe spaces into functional, safe, convivial places. A diverse set of place makers, from activists to architects, spanning four countries and ten U.S. locales tell their stories in their own words.

October 2021 320 pages • 6 x 9 Paper • $30.00S(£23.99) 9781613321423 Cloth • $89.00X(£71.00) 9781613321430 Sociology

The complex and challenging cases range from building affordable housing to community building in the aftermath of racial violence. After grappling with issues like immigration, climate change, conflict resolution, and coalition-building, place makers recount how they worked alongside once-suspicious community residents, city and state transportation engineers, local youth and religious congregations, and other members of the public to enhance and enrich the places in which they live. John F. Forester is a professor of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University, whose work focuses on participatory planning, practical improvisation, and dealing with differences.

HEALING FROM GENOCIDE IN RWANDA Rugerero Survivors Village, an Artist Book SUSAN VIGUERS and LILY YEH A testimony to responsive community process in a highly sensitive environment and the power of art in the service of healing This work immerses readers in the stories of two Rwandans who as small children experienced the 1994 Genocide. It tells of the horrific tragedy each survived, the courage necessary for surviving, and the humanity they embody. Their stories are framed by two chapters chronicling the transformation, in the Rugerero Survivors’ Village, of a concrete burial slab into a powerful Genocide Memorial with its bone chamber, designed by artist Lily Yeh and built by the villagers.

November 2021 144 pages • 7.5 x 9.25 Full color picture book Paper • $40.00S(£33.00) 9781613321348 Cloth • $89.00X(£71.00) 9781613321355 Art |Anthropology

The book evokes its world through images (photographs, drawings, paintings, pattern, and color from Lily Yeh's multifaceted Rwandan Healing Project) as well as words. It is not limited to the literature of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, but belongs to the world as part of the collective human experience. An essential theme is the importance of the dead for the living, of honoring the dead, of remembrance. Susan Viguers has taught literature and directed the University Writing Program at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Lily Yeh is an internationally celebrated artist known for founding the Village of Arts and Humanities in North Philadelphia, a national model in creative placemaking and participatory community building through the arts.


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PORTRAITS OF RACIAL JUSTICE ROBERT SHETTERLY

A vivid portrait collection of past and present Americans speaking truth to power The first volume of Robert Shetterly's Americans Who Tell the Truth portrait book series, Portraits of Racial Justice takes a multimedia, interdisciplinary approach, blending art and history with today’s issues concerning social, environmental, and economic fairness. Shetterly's paintings, as well as essays and profiles of those portrayed, illuminate a community of people not only willing to recognize the shortcomings of America’s history and identify the consequent injustices of power, but most importantly, are individuals who offer their visions of a better world moving forward. Starting with Michelle Alexander and ending with Dave Zirin, the diverse array of fifty full-color portraits spans multiple generations and struggles. This volume also includes four original opening essays on racial justice in the United States by Ai-jen Poo, Dave Zirin, Sherri Mitchell, and Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr., which provide an intersectional response to the long-term goal of diversity and inclusion. As Shetterly says, “without activism, hope is merely sentimental.” Portraits of Racial Justice, Shetterly’s homage to transformative game-changers and status quo fighters, provides the inspiration necessary to spark social change.

Robert Shetterly is an artist based in Maine whose paintings and prints appear in collections across the United States and Europe. He is best known for his Americans Who Tell the Truth portrait series, which he began during the run-up to the Iraq War in 2002 to surround himself with a community of people who made him proud to call himself an American. Much of his current work focuses on honoring and working with activists on various issues, including challenging systemic racism in the US. “This visually spectacular work, highlighting the courage of Americans past and present who dared to advocate for a more just world, serves as a reminder of the roads we have traveled and offers hope for future generations.” —LaVonda N. Reed, Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs and Professor of Law, Syracuse University

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CULTIVATING CREATIVITY IAIN ROBERTSON

A rich and playful resource for fostering creativity

Iain Robertson is Associate Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington’s Department of Landscape Architecture. Through hands-on teaching experience and research, he explores how design and creative thinking can be encouraged in multiple disciplines and fields. In addition to 30 years of teaching experience with the University of Washington, he has taught creativity seminars for design students and honors students internationally.

January 2022 256 pages • 8.5 x 8.5 500 color illustrations Cloth • 9781613321195 • $49.95S(£40.00) Education

The product of over three decades of teaching design studios and creativity seminars primarily at the University of Washington, Cultivating Creativity offers firsthand, on-the-ground accounts of encouraging creative expression. In this lively book, readers will find a wealth of exercises and strategies that challenge traditional educational pedagogy and embrace creativity. More than a practical guide, this book uses a combination of playful design, full-color illustrations, participant reflections, and pedagogical reflection. Readers can turn to the “Who, What, Where, How, and Why” chapters for guidance on developing exercises of their own or flip to any page for a dose of inspiration before their next creative project. Today’s world is filled with nations, businesses, venture capitalists, and institutions of higher education in hot pursuit of “innovation.” Cultivating Creativity offers up new strategies for rejecting the status quo and unleashing the creative potential in every one of us.


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ECOART IN ACTION Activities, Case Studies, and Provocations for Classrooms and Communities

Edited by AMARA GEFFEN, ANN ROSENTHAL, CHRIS FREMANTLE, and AVIVA RAHMANI Ready-to-go, vetted approaches for facilitating artistic environmental projects How do we educate those who feel an urgency to address our environmental and social challenges? What ethical concerns do art-makers face who are committed to a deep green agenda? How can we refocus education to emphasize integrative thinking and inspire hope? What role might art play in actualizing environmental resilience? Compiled from 67 members of the Ecoart Network, a group of more than 200 internationally established practitioners, Ecoart in Action stands as a field guide that offers practical solutions to critical environmental challenges. Organized into three sections—Activities, Case Studies, and Provocations—each contribution provides models for ecoart practice that are adaptable for use within a variety of classrooms, communities, and contexts. Educators developing project and place-based learning curricula, citizens, policymakers, scientists, land managers, and those who work with communities (human and other) will find inspiration for integrating art, science, and community-engaged practices into on-the-ground environmental projects. If you share a concern for the environmental crisis and believe art can provide new options, this book is for you!

Amara Geffen is Emerita Professor of Art at Allegheny College and the founder and director of the Art & Environment Initiative in Meadville, Pennsylvania. Ann Rosenthal received her MFA from Carnegie Mellon University in 1999, focusing on environmental and community art. Her artwork is exhibited widely, and her writing appears in journals and anthologies. Chris Fremantle established eco/art/scot/ land inb 2010, connecting the arts in Scotland with wider networks. He has recently joined the staff at Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen. He is chair of the Art Focus Group for the Ramsar Culture Network and has served on the Executive of the Scottish Artists Union. Aviva Rahmani is an ecoartist whose work has been exhibited, published, and funded internationally. She is an affiliate with the Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of Colorado at Boulder and gained her PhD from the University of Plymouth, UK.

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THE UNRAVELLING Incest and the Destruction of a Family DONNA BESEL In a family torn apart by sexual violence, a daughter finds clarity and redemption in telling her story It’s the antithesis of why a wedding should be memorable. In 1992, at a sister’s nuptials, Besel family members discovered that their father, Jock Besel, had molested their youngest sister. As more survivors came forward, the family realized that their father had sexually assaulted four of the six sisters in a family of eleven children, and had been doing so for years. Despite there being enough evidence to charge their father, the trial and prosecution rocked the Besel family and deeply divided their small rural community.

Donna Besel grew up in Whiteshell Provincial Park and now lives on the shores of the Winnipeg River. Her first book, Lessons from a Nude Man, is a collection of short stories set in the boreal forest. “Donna Besel’s battle for acknowl-

edgment of the evils that infected her childhood is illumined in The Unravelling by the sheer strength of her lucid, straightforward, voice. Besel carries us along an eye-opening journey, one of healing and remarkable endurance.” —Harriet Richards, author of Waiting for the Piano Tuner to Die

November 2021 280 pages • 4.72 x 7.48 Paper • 9780889778436 • $18.95T In The Regina Collection Memoir

The Unravelling is a brave, riveting telling of the destruction caused by sexual assault, and the physical, psychological, emotional, financial, and legal tolls survivors often shoulder. Donna Besel offers an honest portrayal of the years-long process, from disclosure to prosecution, that offers readers greater insight into the challenges victims of sexual assault face and the remarkable strength and resilience required to obtain some measure of justice.


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#BLACKINSCHOOL HABIBA COOPER DIALLO

A firsthand account of systemic anti-Black racism in high schools The prevalence of anti-Black racism and its many faces, from racial profiling to police brutality, in North America is indisputable. How do we stop racist ideas and violence if the very foundation of our society is built upon white supremacy? How do we end systemic racism if the majority do not experience it or question its existence? Do our schools instill children with the ideals of equality and tolerance, or do they reinforce differences and teach children of colour that they don’t belong? #BlackInSchool is Habiba Cooper Diallo’s high school journal, in which she documents, processes, and resists the systemic racism, microaggressions, stereotypes, and outright racism she experienced in Canada’s education system. Powerful and eye-opening, Cooper Diallo illustrates how our schools reinforce rather than erode racism: the handcuffing and frisking of students of colour by police at school, one-dimensional, tokenistic curricula of Black people, and the constant barrage of overt racism from students and staff alike. She shows how systemic racism works, how it alienates and seeks to destroys a child’s sense of self. She shows how our institutions work to erase the lived experiences of Black youth and tries to erase Black youth themselves.

Habiba Cooper Diallo was a finalist in the 2020 Bristol Short Story Prize, the 2019 Writers’ Union of Canada Short Prose Competition, and the 2018 London Book Fair Pitch Competition. Habiba lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she is pursuing a master’s degree in public health.

Cooper Diallo’s words will resonate with some, but should shock, appall, and animate a great many more into action towards a society that is truly equitable for all.

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BREAD & WATER Essays

DEE HOBSBAWN-SMITH A meditation on the poetics of hunger and the social worlds of cooking “When I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and the hunger for it . . .”—MFK Fisher When chef and writer dee Hobsbawn-Smith left the city for rural life on a farm in Saskatchewan, she planned to replace cooking and teaching with poetry and prose. But—as begin the best stories—her next adventure didn’t quite work that way. Food trickled into her poems, her essays, her fiction. And water poured into her property in both Saskatchewan and Calgary during two devastating floods. dee Hobsbawn-Smith is an award-winning author, essayist, poet, fictionist, chef, curious cook, food writer and runner who lives rurally, west of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. An ex-restaurateur and longtime freelance journalist, she has written eight books, including Foodshed: An Edible Alberta Alphabet; The Curious Cook at Home; and Wildness Rushing In: Poems. “Written with heart and intelligence,

Bread & Water: Essays is continually entertaining and rewarding. The tone—self-aware, curious, a little vulnerable—is at once individual and communal, and creates a winning humility perfectly suited to the essays’ explorative nature.” —Tim Bowling, Judge for the Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild 2014 John V. Hicks Long Manuscript Award

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Bread & Water uses lyrical prose to describe those two fundamental ingredients, and to probe the essential questions on how to live a life. Hobsbawn-Smith uses food to explore the hungers of the human soul: wilder hungers that loiter beyond cravings for love. She kneads ideas of floods and place, grief and loss; the commonalities of refugees and Canadians through common tastes in food; cooking methods, grandmothers and mentors; the politics of local and sustainable food; parenting; male privilege in the restaurant world; and the challenges of aging gracefully. It is an elegant collection that weaves joy into exploring the quotidian in search for larger meaning.


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PITCHBLENDE ELISE MARCELLA GODFREY

Delivers an urgent poetics of resistance and appeal for environmental justice for a Saskatchewan community At Rabbit Lake in Northern Saskatchewan lies the second largest uranium mine in the western world. For decades, uranium ore and its poisonous by-product—pitchblende, a highly radioactive rock—were removed, transported, and scattered across the land, forever altering the lives of plants, animals, and people who live there. Elise Marcella Godfrey’s Pitchblende is a powerful, political collection that challenges us to urgently rethink our responsibilities to the land, water, and air that sustains all species, and our responsibilities to one another. Inspired by and adapted from testimonies given at the public hearings about the Rabbit Lake mine, which prioritized the voices of industrial interests, Godfrey gathers voices from the found texts, and adds others, in defence of the natural world. Interconnected, Godfrey's poems are a choral and visual, literal representation of how industry, capitalism, and colonialism seek to erase affected peoples and their voices.

Elise Marcella Godfrey's poetry has appeared in literary journals such as subTerrain, Room, Prism, and Grain. She now lives with her family on the traditional and unceded land of the QayQayt First Nation.

September 2021 96 pages • 5.5 x 8.5 Paper • 9780889778405 • $16.95T In Oskana Poetry & Poetics Poetry


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GEHL V CANADA

Challenging Sex Discrimination in the Indian Act LYNN GEHL How the Gehl decision advanced Indigenous rights in Canada

September 2021 288 pages • 5 x 7.5 Paper • $21.95S 9780889778252 Cloth • $89.00X(£71.00) 9780889778269 History

Lynn Gehl’s Gehl v Canada is the documentation of the Indigenous woman’s 34-year fight to change Canada’s Indian Act regarding unknown and unstated paternity, a harmful, colonial policy that has adversely affected generations of Indigenous women. It is also the celebration of Gehl’s tenacious, brave advocacy for Indigenous women and children in the face of colonial oppression. The paternity policy of the Indian Act required individuals claiming Status to demonstrate the lineage of both parents. Harmful to Indigenous mothers and children, and imposing a high evidentiary burden on Indigenous people claiming Status, it was overturned on April 20, 2017, in what is now known as the Gehl decision. Using Indigenous methods of first-person experience, embodied knowledge, emotional knowledge, observation, reading, writing, role-modelling, learning by doing, repetition, introspection, and storytelling, Gehl shares the journey to her court victory. Lynn Gehl is the author of The Truth That Wampum Tells: My Debwewin on the Algonquin Land Claims Process and Claiming Anishinaabe: Decolonizing the Human Spirit.

HONOURING THE DECLARATION

Church Commitments to Reconciliation and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Edited by PAUL L. GAREAU and DON SCHWEITZER A framework for Indigenous and settler reparations Honouring the Declaration provides academic resources to help The United Church of Canada and other Canadian denominations enact their commitment to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as a framework for reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Canada. Featuring essays from scholars working from a range of disciplines, including religious studies, Indigenous legal studies, Christian theology and ethics, Biblical studies, Indigenous educational leadership within the United Church, and social activism, the collection includes both Indigenous and non-Indigenous voices, all of whom respond meaningfully to the Truth and Reconciliation’s Call to Actions. October 2021 312 pages • 6 x 9 Paper • $19.95S 9780889778320 Cloth • $89.00X 9780889778337 History

Paul L. Gareau is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta. Don Schweitzer is McDougald Professor of Theology at St. Andrew’s College, Saskatoon, and an ordained member of the United Church of Canada.


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OWÓKNAGE

The Story of Carry The Kettle Nakoda First Nation CEGA̔ K´IɳNA NAKODA OYÁTÉ The definitive story of the Nakoda people, in their own words

Born out of a meticulous, well-researched historical and current traditional land-use study led by Cega̔ K´iɳna Nakoda Oyáté (Carry the Kettle Nakoda First Nation), Owóknage is the first book to tell the definitive, comprehensive story of the Nakoda people (formerly known as the Assiniboine), in their own words. From pre-contact to current-day life, from thriving on the Great Plains to forced removal from their traditional, sacred lands in the Cypress Hills via a Canadian “Trail of Tears” starvation march to where they now currently reside south of Sintaluta, Saskatchewan, this is their story of resilience and resurgence. Cega̔ K´iɳna Nakoda Oyáté (Carry The Kettle Nakoda First Nation) is located south of Sintaluta, Saskatchewan, though the traditional home territory is the western end of the Cypress Hills.

August 2021 412 pages • 6 x 9 Paper • 9780889778146 • $34.95S Cloth • 9780889778153 • $89.00X History


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SEEKING SANCTUARY Stories of Sexuality, Faith and Migration

Written and Compiled by JOHN MARNELL A glimpse into the lives of LGBTQ migrants in Johannesburg, in their own words

John Marnell is a researcher at the African Centre for Migration and Society at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. His work uses various forms of storytelling to interrogate the lived experiences of LGBT migrants on the African continent.

September 2021 288 pages • 6 x 9 Paper • 9781776147106 • $30.00S Cloth • 9781776147113 • $89.00X Sociology

Seeking Sanctuary brings together poignant life stories from fourteen lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) migrants, refugees and asylum seekers living in Johannesburg, South Africa. The stories, diverse in scope, chronicle each narrator’s arduous journey to South Africa, and their corresponding movement towards self-love and self-acceptance. The narrators reveal their personal battles to reconcile their faith with their sexuality and gender identity, often in the face of violent persecution, and how they have carved out spaces of hope and belonging in their new home country. In these intimate testimonies, the narrators’ resilience in the midst of uncertain futures reveal the myriad ways in which LGBT Africans push back against unjust and unequal systems. Seeking Sanctuary makes a critical intervention by showing the complex interplay between homophobia and xenophobia in South Africa, and of the state of sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) rights in Africa. By shedding light on the fraught connections between sexuality, faith and migration, this ground-breaking project also provides a model for religious communities who are working towards justice, diversity and inclusion.


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BONES AND BODIES How South African Scientists Studied Race ALAN G. MORRIS Alan G. Morris critically examines the history of evolutionary anthropology in South Africa, uncovering the often racist philosophical motivations of these physical anthropology researchers and the discipline itself South Africa is famed for its contribution to the study of human evolution. In Bones and Bodies Alan G. Morris takes us back over the past century of anthropological discovery in South Africa and uncovers the stories of the individual scientists and how they contributed to our knowledge of the peoples of southern Africa, both ancient and modern. Not all of this history is one which we should feel comfortable with, as much of the earlier anthropological studies have been tainted with the tarred brush of race science. Morris critically examines the work of Raymond Dart, Thomas Dreyer, Matthew Drennan, and Robert Broom who all described their fossil discoveries with the mirror of racist interpretation, as well as the life and times in which they worked. Morris also considers how modern anthropology tried to rid itself of the stigma of these early racist accounts. In the 1960s and 1970s, Ronald Singer and Phillip Tobias introduced modern methods into the discipline that jettisoned much of what the public wished to believe about race and human evolution. Modern methods in physical anthropology rely on sophisticated mathematics and molecular genetics but are difficult to translate and sometimes fail to challenge preconceived assumptions. In an age where the authority of the expert and empirical science is questioned, this book shows the battle facing modern anthropology in how to explain science in a context that seems to be at odds with life experience. In this highly accessible insider account, Morris examines the philosophical motivations of these researchers and the discipline itself. Much of the material draws on old correspondence and interviews as well as from published resources.

Alan G. Morris is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Human Biology at the University of Cape Town. Professor Morris has published extensively on the origin of anatomically modern humans, and the Later Stone Age, Iron Age and historic populations of Kenya, Malawi, Namibia and South Africa, as well as forensic anthropology. He has an additional interest in South African history and has published on the history of race classification, the history of physical anthropology in South Africa and on the Canadian involvement in the Anglo-Boer War. His current research is on ancient DNA in African populations and the history of physical anthropology in South Africa.

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ARCHIVING AN EPIDEMIC Art, AIDS, and the Queer Chicanx Avant-Garde ROBB HERNÁNDEZ $29.00S • Paper 9781479820832

2021 Harry Levin Prize, American Comparative Literature Association Finalist, 2021 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Studies

BECOMING HUMAN Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World ZAKIYYAH IMAN JACKSON $30.00S • Paper 9781479830374

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RUNAWAY GENRES The Global Afterlives of Slavery YOGITA GOYAL $30.00S • Paper 9781479832712

2021 Harry Shaw and Katrina Hazzard-Donald Award for Outstanding Work in AfricanAmerican Popular Culture Studies, Popular Culture Association

DISTRIBUTED BLACKNESS African American Cybercultures ANDRÉ BROCK, JR. $29.00S • Paper 9781479829965

2021 Katherine Singer Kovács Book Award, Society for Cinema and Media Studies

2021 Glenda Laws Award, American Association of Geographers

THE CONTENT OF OUR CARICATURE African American Comic Art and Political Belonging REBECCA WANZO $29.00S • Paper 9781479889587

A QUEER NEW YORK Geographies of Lesbians, Dykes, and Queers JEN JACK GIESEKING $30.00S • Paper 9781479835737

2021 Ray and Pat Browne Edited Collection Award, Popular Culture Association

2021 NACCS Book Award, National Association for Chicano and Chicana Studies

POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CIVIC IMAGINATION Case Studies of Creative Social Change Edited by HENRY JENKINS, GABRIEL PETERS-LAZARO and SANGITA SHRESTHOVA $32.00S • Paper 9781479869503

RACIAL IMMANENCE Chicanx Bodies beyond Representation MARISSA K. LÓPEZ $28.00S • Papeir 9781479813902


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HONEY ON THE PAGE A Treasury of Yiddish Children's Literature Edited and translated by MIRIAM UDEL $29.95T • Cloth 9781479874132

2021 PROSE Award in the Cultural Anthropology & Sociology Category Finalist, 2021 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Studies

THE TRAGEDY OF HETEROSEXUALITY JANE WARD $26.95T • Cloth 9781479851553

2021 PROSE Award in the Business, Finance & Management Category

STUCK Why Asian Americans Don't Reach the Top of the Corporate Ladder MARGARET M. CHIN $28.00A • Cloth 9781479816811

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THE PSYCHOLOGY OF FAMILY LAW EVE M. BRANK and LINDA J. DEMAINE $35.00S • Paper 9781479824755

Finalist, 2021 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Studies

THE SEX OBSESSION Perversity and Possibility in American Politics JANET R. JAKOBSEN $30.00A • Cloth 9781479846085

2020 Senior Book Prize, Association of Feminist Anthropology 2020 Eileen Basker Memorial Prize, Society for Medical Anthropology

REPRODUCTIVE INJUSTICE Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth DANA-AIN DAVIS $30.00S • Paper 9781479853571

2020 Alan Bray Memorial Prize, GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language Association

Finalist, 2020 Elliott P. Skinner Award, Association of Africanist Anthropology

FROTTAGE Frictions of Intimacy across the Black Diaspora KEGURO MACHARIA $27.00S • Paper 9781479865017

THE NEW AMERICAN SERVITUDE Political Belonging among African Immigrant Home Care Workers CATI COE $32.00S • Paper 9781479808830


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THE RISE OF BIG DATA POLICING Surveillance, Race, and the Future of Law Enforcement ANDREW GUTHRIE FERGUSON $19.95A • Paper 9781479869978

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NO PLACE ON THE CORNER The Costs of Aggressive Policing JAN HALDIPUR $25.00S • Paper 9781479888009

PRESUMED CRIMINAL Black Youth and the Justice System in Postwar New York CARL SUDDLER $19.95A • Paper 9781479806751

FIGHT THE POWER African Americans and the Long History of Police Brutality in New York City CLARENCE TAYLOR $24.00S • Paper 9781479811083

COPS, CAMERAS, AND CRISIS The Potential and the Perils of Police Body-Worn Cameras MICHAEL D. WHITE and AILI MALM $25.00S • Paper 9781479850150

EVALUATING POLICE USES OF FORCE SETH W. STOUGHTON, JEFFREY J. NOBLE, and GEOFFREY P. ALPERT $25.00S • Paper 9781479810161

THE ETHICS OF POLICING New Perspectives on Law Enforcement Edited by BEN JONES and EDUARDO MENDIETA $35.00S • Paper 9781479803736

THE LIMITS OF COMMUNITY POLICING Civilian Power and Police Accountability in Black and Brown Los Angeles LUIS DANIEL GASCÓN and AARON ROUSSELL $30.00S • Paper 9781479842254


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HANDS UP, DON’T SHOOT Why the Protests in Ferguson and Baltimore Matter, and How They Changed America JENNIFER E. COBBINA $25.00S • Paper 9781479874415

AFTER THE PROTESTS ARE HEARD Enacting Civic Engagement and Social Transformation SHARON D. WELCH $28.00S • Paper 9781479857906

ACTIVIST NEW YORK A History of People, Protest, and Politics STEVEN H. JAFFE $40.00S • Cloth 9781479804603

THE DEFIANT Protest Movements in Post-Liberal America DAWSON BARRETT $24.95T • Cloth 9781479808656

WE ARE WORTH FIGHTING FOR A History of the Howard University Student Protest of 1989 JOSHUA M. MYERS $30.00S • Cloth 9781479811755

2016 Best Authored Book, Society for Research on Adolescence

FIGHT LIKE A GIRL, SECOND EDITION How to Be a Fearless Feminist MEGAN SEELY $28.00S • Paper 9781479810109

ORGANIZING WHILE UNDOCUMENTED Immigrant Youth's Political Activism under the Law KEVIN ESCUDERO $27.00S • Paper 9781479834150

YOUTH ACTIVISM IN AN ERA OF EDUCATION INEQUALITY BEN KIRSHNER $28.00S • Paper 9781479898053


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Books by Returning Authors JUST MEDICINE A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care DAYNA BOWEN MATTHEW $20.00S • Paper 9781479851621 See Just Health on page 1

MUSLIM AMERICAN POLITICS AND THE FUTURE OF US DEMOCRACY EDWARD E. CURTIS IV $26.00A • Paper 9781479811441 See Muslims of the Heartland on page 8

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WHAT WOULD MRS. ASTOR DO? The Essential Guide to the Manners and Mores of the Gilded Age CECELIA TICHI $24.95T • Cloth 9781479826858 See Jazz Age Cocktails on page 4

Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2016

UNFREEDOM Slavery and Dependence in Eighteenth-Century Boston JARED ROSS HARDESTY $22.00S • Paper 9781479801848 See Mutiny on the Rising Sun on page 9

HEDDA HOPPER’S HOLLYWOOD Celebrity Gossip and American Conservatism JENNIFER FROST $40.00S • Cloth 9780814728239 See "Let Us Vote!" on page 10

EXTRAVAGANT ABJECTION Blackness, Power, and Sexuality in the African American Literary Imagination DARIECK SCOTT $27.00S • Paper 9780814740958 See Keeping It Unreal on page 13

SEPTEMBER 12 Community and Neighborhood Recovery at Ground Zero GREGORY SMITHSIMON $27.00S • Paper 9780814740859 See Liberty Road on page 27

LIBERATION THEOLOGIES IN THE UNITED STATES An Introduction Edited by STACEY M. FLOYD-THOMAS and ANTHONY B. PINN $27.00S • Paper 9780814727652 See Religion, Race, and COVID-19 on page 31


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"Let Us Vote!" .........................10 #BlackInSchool .....................57 A Land With a People ..........46 A Left Green New Deal ........51 Adopting for God .................32 Albo, Greg ..............................48 al-Ḥarīrī .................................37 al-Muqaffaʿ, Ibn ....................36 al-Yūsī, al-Ḥasan ...................36 Ammerman, Nancy Tatom ..35 An Oasis City.........................38 Ancient Taxation ...................38 Aravecchia, Nicola ................38 Are the Arts Essential?............2 Arthurs, Alberta ......................2 Avidly Reads Opera ................5 Bagnall, Roger S. ...................38 Becker, Lia ..............................51 Beltrán, Mary.........................14 Besel, Donna..........................56 Beyond Leviathan .................48 Bi ...............................................7 Black Age ...............................15 Bodies in Evidence................23 Bones and Bodies ..................63 Brannon Donoghue, Courtney .............................14 Bread & Water .......................58 Carry the Kettle First Nation ..................................61 Changing Land .....................18 Christian Anarchist ..............33 Chung, Soojin .......................32 Civil Religion Today .............33 Coleman, Simon ...................32 Cooperson, Michael .............37 Cossman, Brenda ..................11 Cribiore, Raffaella .................38 Cultivating Creativity ...........54 Curtis IV, Edward E. ...............8 Curtis, Jesse ...........................34 Dahme, Katharina ................51 Daniels, Gilda R. ...................41 Davoli, Paola .........................38, 39 Dhingra, Pawan ....................43 Diallo, Habiba Cooper .........57 Digital Black Feminism........12 Digital Media Distribution ..14 DiNiscia, Michael ...................2 Disabilities of the Color Line ......................................15 Douglas, Lawrence ...............21 Draper, Nora A. ....................42 Dubin, Jon C. .........................22 Ecoart in Action ....................55 Edwards, Korie Little ............30 Elmore, Maggie .....................34 Embser-Herbert, Máel ...........6 Empire's Nursery...................18 Faith and Power ....................34 Farber, David .........................20 Farmer, Esther .......................46 Fennell, Dana ........................29 Fernández, Jesica Siham ......26

Fiddler, Michael ....................25 Fishbein, Michael ..................36 Floyd-Thomas, Stacey M. ....31 Forester, John F. ....................52 Foster, John Bellamy.......48, 50 Fram, Bree ................................6 Fremantle, Chris ...................55 Frost, Jennifer ........................10 Gareau, Paul L. ......................58 Gault, Erika D. ......................30 Geffen, Amara .......................55 Gehl v Canada .......................60 Gehl, Lynn .............................60 Ghost Criminology ...............25 Godfrey, Elise Marcella ........59 Goff, Phillip ...........................33 González, Sergio M. .............34 Growing Up Latinx ...............26 Haberski Jr, Raymond ..........33 Halfway House ......................24 Hardesty, Jared Ross ...............9 Havens, Timothy ...................14 Healing from Genocide in Rwanda ...............................52 Hinojosa, Felipe ....................34 Hlavka, Heather R. ...............23 Hobsbawn-Smith, dee ..........58 Honouring the Declaration..........................58 How Spaces Become Places ...................................52 Hyper Education ...................43 Ibrahim, Habiba ....................15 Impostures .............................37 Inequality, Class, and Economics ...........................49 Infanti, Anthony C................22 Jagose, Annamarie ................44 Jazz Age Cocktails ...................4 Johnson, Hannah Brenner ...40 Joshi, Khyati Y. ......................42 Just Health ...............................1 Kaindl, Christina...................51 Kalīlah and Dimnah .............36 Kaper, Olaf E. ........................38 Keeping It Unreal ..................13 Keywords Feminist Editorial Collective, The ....................17 Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies ................17 Kindynis, Theo ......................25 Kinney, Alison .........................5 Kitcher, Philip........................21 Knake Jefferson, Renee ........40 Krell, Maggy.............................3 Latinas in the Criminal Justice System ..................................24 Latino TV...............................14 Law's Infamy ..........................21 Lemke, Thomas .....................23 Leys, Colin .............................48 Liberty Road ..........................27 Linnemann, Travis ................25 Lopez, Vera ............................24

Mabee, Carleton ....................45 Marling, William...................33 Marnell, John .........................62 Martin, Liam..........................24 Matthew, Dayna Bowen .........1 McDonald, Paul ....................14 McFadden, Susanna .............38 Mészáros, István ....................48 Mills, Melinda A. ..................27 Montgomery, James E. .........36 Moore, Brenda L. ..................45 More, Ellen S. ........................19 Morris, Alan G. .....................63 Mulla, Sameena .....................23 Muslims of the Heartland ......8 Mutiny on the Rising Sun ......9 Networking the Black Church .................................30 New Polarizations and Old Contradictions: The Crisis of Centrism .............................48 Nuovo, Marina M. S. ............39 Owóknage ..............................61 Oyakawa, Michelle ...............30 Pasko, Lisa .............................24 Petchesky, Rosalind ..............46 Pitchblende ............................59 Portraits of Racial Justice .....53 Powers of Pilgrimage ............32 Queer Theory.........................44 Rahmani, Aviva .....................55 Religion, Race, and COVID-19 ..........................31 Riexinger, Becker ..................51 Robertson, Iain ......................54 Rosenthal, Ann......................55 Rothbard, Murray N. ...........44 Rouleau, Brian .......................18 Ruehs-Navarro, Emily ..........26 Russell, James W. ..................47 Russell-Brown, Katheryn .....28 Sarat, Austin ..........................21 Savin-Williams, Ritch C. .......7 Schutz, Eric ............................49 Schwartzberg, Melissa ..........21 Schweitzer, Don ....................58 Scott, Darieck ........................13 Seeking Sanctuary .................62 Shetterly, Robert ...................53 Shortlisted ..............................40 Sills, Sarah ..............................46 Smart Suits, Tattered Boots..30 Smithsimon, Gregory............27 Social Security Disability Law and the American Labor Market ......................22 Sojourner Truth ....................45 Soto Marín, Irene ..................38 Steele, Catherine Knight ......12 Studying Lived Religion .......35 Sturken, Marita .....................16 Taking Down Backpage .........3 Tax and Time .........................22

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Terrorism in American Memory ...............................16 The Color of Crime, Third Edition .................................28 The Colors of Love ................27 The Complexities of Race ....25 The Discourses ......................36 The Ethics of Liberty ............44 The Government of Things..23 The House of Serenos, Part II ...................................39 The House of Serenos, Part III .................................39 The Identity Trade ................42 The Labor Guide to Retirement Plans ................47 The Myth of Colorblind Christians ............................34 The New Sex Wars ................11 The Return of Nature ...........50 The Transformation of American Sex Education ..19 The Unravelling .....................56 The War on Drugs ................20 The World of ObsessiveCompulsive Disorder.........29 Tichi, Cecelia ...........................4 To Serve My Country, to Serve My Race ....................45 Truth and Evidence ..............21 Tyler, Dennis .........................15 Umphrey, Martha M. ...........21 Unaccompanied ....................26 Uncounted .............................41 Valk, Jonathan .......................38 Viguers, Susan .......................52 Whelehan, Niall ....................18 White Christian Privilege ....42 Wijeyesinghe, Charmaine L. ..........................................25 Williams, Rhys H. .................33 With Honor and Integrity ......6 Yeh, Lily ..................................52


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Monthly Review Press The Return of Nature John Bellamy Foster | 50

University of Regina Press Owóknage Jim Tanner, Tracey Tanner, David R. Miller, Peggy Martin McGuire | 61

Bi Ritch C. Savin-Williams | 7 Digital Media Distribution Paul McDonald, Courtney Brannon Donoghue, Timothy Havens | 14 Black Age Habiba Ibrahim | 15 Empire's Nursery Brian Rouleau | 18 Social Security Disability Law and the American Labor Market Jon C. Dubin | 22 The Government of Things Thomas Lemke | 23 Latinas in the Criminal Justice System Vera Lopez, Lisa Pasko | 24 New in Paperback Impostures al-Hariri | 37 New in Paperback White Christian Privilege Khyati Y. Joshi | 42

New Village Press How Spaces Become Places John F. Forester | 52

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University of Regina Press Honouring the Declaration Don Schweitzer, Paul L. Gareau | 58

With Honor and Integrity Máel Embser-Herbert, Bree Fram | 6

Jazz Age Cocktails Cecelia Tichi | 4

Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies The Keywords Feminist Editorial Collective | 17

Kalīlah and Dimnah Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ| 36 The Identity Trade Nora A. Draper | 42 Monthly Review Press The Labor Guide to Retirement Plans James W. Russell | 47

The War on Drugs David Farber | 20

New Village Press Healing from Genocide in Rwanda Susan Viguers, Lily Yeh | 52

Truth and Evidence Melissa Schwartzberg, Philip Kitcher | 21

University of Regina Press The Unravelling Donna Besel | 56

Bodies in Evidence Heather R. Hlavka, Sameena Mulla | 23 Growing Up Latinx Jesica Siham Fernández | 26 The Color of Crime, Third Edition Katheryn Russell-Brown | 28 The Myth of Colorblind Christians Jesse Curtis | 34

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New in Paperback Hyper Education Pawan Dhingra | 43 NYU Press Classic Queer Theory Annamarie Jagose | 44 NYU Press Classic The Ethics of Liberty Murray N. Rothbard | 44 NYU Press Classic Sojourner Truth Carleton Mabee | 45 NYU Press Classic To Serve My Country, to Serve My Race Brenda L. Moore | 45 New Village Press Portraits of Racial Justice Robert Shetterly | 53 University of Regina Press #BlackInSchool Habiba Cooper Diallo | 57 University of Regina Press Bread & Water dee Hobsbawn-Smith | 58

DECEMBER "Let Us Vote!" Jennifer Frost | 10 Changing Land Niall Whelehan | 18 Law's Infamy Austin Sarat,Lawrence Douglas, Martha M. Umphrey | 21 The Complexities of Race Charmaine L. Wijeyesinghe | 25 The Colors of Love Melinda Mills | 27 Powers of Pilgrimage Simon Coleman | 32 Adopting for God Soojin Chung | 32 Studying Lived Religion Nancy Tatom Ammerman | 35 Monthly Review Press New Polarizations and Old Contradictions: The Crisis of Centrism Greg Albo, Colin Leys | 48


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University of Regina Press Pitchblende Elise Marcella Godfrey | 59 University of Regina Press Gehl v Canada Lynn Gehl | 60 Wits University Press Seeking Sanctuary John Marnell | 62

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OCTOBER Avidly Reads Opera Alison Kinney | 5 Mutiny on the Rising Sun Jared Ross Hardesty | 9 The New Sex Wars Brenda Cossman | 11 Digital Black Feminism Catherine Knight Steele | 12

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Civil Religion Today Rhys H. Williams, Raymond Haberski Jr., Phillip Goff | 33 The Discourses al-Hasan al-Yusi | 36 New in Paperback Uncounted Gilda R. Daniels | 41 Monthly Review Press A Land With a People Esther Farmer, Rosalind Petchesky, Sarah Sills | 46

JANUARY Taking Down Backpage Maggy Krell | 3 Keeping It Unreal Darieck Scott | 13 Latino TV Mary Beltrán | 14 Terrorism in American Memory Marita Sturken | 16 The Transformation of American Sex Education Ellen S. More | 19 Tax and Time Anthony C. Infanti | 22 Ghost Criminology Michael Fiddler, Travis Linnemann, Theo Kindynis | 25 The World of ObsessiveCompulsive Disorder Dana Fennell | 29 Networking the Black Church Erika D. Gault | 30 Christian Anarchist William Marling | 33

Monthly Review Press Inequality, Class, and Economics Eric Schutz | 49 Monthly Review Press A Left Green New Deal Becker Riexinger, Lia Becker, Katharina Dahme, Christina Kaindl | 51 New Village Press Cultivating Creativity Iain Robertson | 54 Wits University Press Bones and Bodies Alan G. Morris | 63

FEBRUARY Just Health Dayna Bowen Matthew | 1 Are the Arts Essential? Michael DiNiscia, Alberta Arthurs | 2 Muslims of the Heartland Edward E. Curtis IV | 8 Disabilities of the Color Line Dennis Tyler | 15 Unaccompanied Emily Ruehs-Navarro | 26 Liberty Road Gregory Smithsimon | 27 Smart Suits, Tattered Boots Korie Little Edwards, Michelle Oyakawa | 30 Religion, Race, and COVID-19 Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas | 31 Faith and Power Felipe Hinojosa, Maggie Elmore, Sergio M. González | 34 New in Paperback Shortlisted Renee Knake Jefferson and Hannah Brenner Johnson | 40

Monthly Review Press Beyond Leviathan István Mészáros | 48 New Village Press Ecoart in Action Amara Geffen, Ann Rosenthal, Chris Fremantle, Aviva Rahmani | 55


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INTERNATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES CANADA Lexa Publishers’ Representative: Mical Moser Telephone: 718.781.2770 Fax: 514.221.3412 Email: micalmoser@me.com Stock, priced in CDN $, is held at: Brunswick Books 14 Afton Avenue Toronto, ON M6J 1R7 Telephone: 416.703.3598 Fax: 416.703.6561 www.brunswickbooks.ca EUROPE (including UK), THE MIDDLE EAST, AND AFRICA Combined Academic Publishers Ltd. (CAP) Windsor House, Cornwall Road, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG1 2PW Phone: +44 (0)1423 526350 Email: davidpickering@combinedacademic.co.uk Web: www.combinedacademic.co.uk Stock, priced in sterling (£),is held at Marston Book Services; contact CAP for a complete list of representatives. AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, and PACIFIC ISLANDS Footprint Books Pty Ltd 4/8 Jubilee Avenue, Warriewood, NSW 2102, Australia Telephone: 61.02.9997.3973 Fax: 61.02.9997.3185 Email: sales@footprint.com.au Web: www.footprint.com.au LATIN AMERICA (including the CARIBBEAN) Ethan Atkin Catamount Content LLC 7 Clarendon Ave, Suite 2 Montpelier, VT 05602 Telephone: 802.223.6565 Fax: 802.223.6824 Email: ethan.atkin@catamountcontent.com

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NYU Press TAIWAN and HONG KONG B. K. Norton Chiafeng Peng 5F, #60, Roosevelt Road, Section 4 Taipei 100, Taiwan Telephone: 886.2.6632.0088 Fax: 886.2.6632.9772 Email: chiafeng@bookman.com.tw CHINA China Publishers Marketing Benjamin Pan Email: benjamin.pan@cpmarketing.com.cn Tel/Fax: 0086.21.54259557 Mobile: 0086.13061629622 JAPAN MHM Limited 1-1-13-4F, Kanda-Jimbocho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0051, Japan Telephone: 81.3.3518.9181 Fax: 81.3.3518.9523 Email: gresham@mhmlimited.co.jp SOUTHEAST ASIA (including THAILAND, MALAYSIA, INDONESIA, SINGAPORE, and the PHILIPPINES) Ian Pringle APD Singapore Pte Ltd 52 Genting Lane #06-05 Ruby Land Complex Block 1 Singapore 349560 Telephone: 65.6749.3551 Fax: 65.6749.3552 Email: ian@apdsing.com Web: www.apdsing.com KOREA Se-Yung Jun ICK (Information & Culture Korea) 49, Donggyo-ro, 13-gil, Mapo-gu Seoul 03997, South Korea Telephone: 82.2.3141.4791 Fax: 82.2.3141.7733 Email: cs.ick@ick.co.kr

NYU Press 838 Broadway, 3rd Floor New York, NY 10003, USA Web: www.nyupress.org BANGLADESH, BHUTAN, INDIA, MALDIVES, NEPAL, and SRI LANKA Viva Books Private Limited 4737/23 Ansari Road Daryaganj, New Delhi 110002, India Telephone: 91.11.422422400 Email: pradeep@vivagroupindia.net Web: http://www.vivagroupindia.com

RIGHTS If you are interested in translation rights to one of our books, please see our list of international agents below. For territories not listed and general inquiries, please contact Mary Beth Jarrad at marybeth.jarrad@nyu.edu.

PORTUGAL and BRAZIL

Seibel Publishing Services Av. dos Congressos da Oposição Democraticá, 9/1 W, 3800-365, Aveiro, Portugal Patricia Seibel patricia@seibelpublishingservices.com

POLAND

Graal Literary Agency ul. Pruszkowska 29 lok. 252 02-119 Warszawa, Poland Maria Strarz-Ka´nska Maria.Strarz-Kanska@graal.com.pl

ITALY

Reiser Literary Agency Viale XXV Aprile 65 10133 Torino, Italy Roberto Gilodi roberto.gilodi@reiseragency.it

FRANCE

L’Autre Agence 45 rue Marx Dormoy 75018 Paris, France Corinne Marotte cmarotte@lautreagence.eu


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Mary Beth Jarrad Sales and Marketing Director New York University Press 838 Broadway, 3rd Floor New York, New York 10003 Phone: 212.998.2588 Fax: 212.995.3833 Email: marybeth.jarrad@nyu.edu

LIBRARIES Order from your wholesaler or directly from Ingram Publishing Services.

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SALES REPRESENTATIVES COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Sales Consortium Manager And South Catherine Hobbs Phone: 804.690.8529 Fax: 434.589.3411 Email: ch2717@columbia.edu NORTHEAST Conor Broughan Phone: 917.826.7676 Email: cb2476@columbia.edu MIDWEST Kevin Kurtz Phone: 773.316.1116 Fax: 773.489.2941 Email: kk2814@columbia.edu WEST Will Gawronski Phone: 310.488.9059 Fax: 310.832.4717 Email: wgawronski@earthlink.net

BOOKSTORES The listing of a price for any title is not intended to control the resale price thereof. Discount schedule applies to domestic sales only. The notation “A” next to the price of a title indicates an academic discount. To obtain the maximum discount on short discount titles, please contact your local sales representative. The notation “T” next to the price of a title indicates trade discount. The notation “A” next to the price of a title indicates an academic trade discount. The notation “S” next to the price of a title indicates short discount. The notation “X” next to the price of a title indicates a super short discount. INDIVIDUALS Order at your local bookstore or directly from NYU Press at www. nyupress.org. All orders from individuals must be pre-paid by credit card, check (drawn on a United States bank), or by United States money order. No cash discount. New York State residents, please add 8.875% sales tax; Pennsylvania residents, please add 6% sales tax to all orders; Indiana state residents, please add 7% sales tax to order; Tennessee state residents, please add 9.75% sales tax. Please enclose $5.00 for the first book, and $1.50 for each additional book per order for postage and handling. Dates, prices, titles, and manufacturing specifications are subject to change without notice. EXAMINATION COPY POLICY For policy and information on how to order a desk or digital exam copy, please go to nyupress.org. Locate our Resources section and click For Educators. http://nyupress.org/resources/for-educators/ RETURNS POLICY All returns should be sent to Ingram Publishing Services. Please contact Ingram directly concerning their returns policy. RETURNS ADDRESS Ingram Publisher Services 1210 Ingram Drive Chambersburg, PA 17202


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