Religion

January 2022 336 pages • 6 x 9 17 black & white illustrations Paper • $35.00S(£26.99) 9781479805822 Cloth • $99.00X(£79.00) 9781479805815 In Religion and Social Transformation

Religion

February 2022 208 pages • 6 x 9 Paper • $27.00S(£20.99) 9781479812530 Cloth • $89.00X(£71.00) 9781479808922

Religion

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

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

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.

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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Religion

December 2021 224 pages • 6 x 9 Paper • $30.00S(£22.99) 9781479808854 Cloth • $89.00X(£71.00) 9781479808847

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December 2021 352 pages • 6 x 9 Paper • $35.00S(£26.99) 9781479811946 Cloth • $99.00X(£79.00) 9780814717288

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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

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

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.

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. October 2021 240 pages • 6 x 9 11 black & white illustrations Paper • $30.00S(£22.99) 9781479809851 Cloth • $89.00X(£71.00) 9781479809844

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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. January 2022 320 pages • 6 x 9 24 black & white illustrations Cloth • $45.00S(£36.00) 9781479810079

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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

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.

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Jesse Curtis is Assistant Professor of History at Valparaiso University.

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 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.

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

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Religion

November 2021 300 pages • 6 x 9 Cloth • $30.00S(£22.99) 9781479806539 In Library of Arabic Literature

Arabic Literature 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, KalīlahandDimnah 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.

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.

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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Arabic Literature

THE DISCOURSES

Reflections on History, Sufism, Theology, and Literature—Volume One AL-ḤASAN AL-YŪSĪ Translated by JUSTIN STEARNS Foreword by AYESHA RAMACHANDRAN

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.

IMPOSTURES

AL-ḤARĪRĪ Translated by MICHAEL COOPERSON Foreword by ABDELFATTAH KILITO

One of the Wall Street 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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Literature

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Ancient History

ANCIENT TAXATION

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

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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Ancient History

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.

THE HOUSE OF SERENOS, PART II

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 Coming soon

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Archaeology

Hannah Brenner Johnson is Vice Dean for Academic and Student Affairs and Associate Professor of Law at California Western School of Law in San Diego. Renee Knake Jefferson is Professor of Law and holds the Joanne and Larry Doherty Chair in Legal Ethics at the University of Houston Law Center.

“This fascinating book reconstructs a chapter of women's history that has been 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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History

SHORTLISTED

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 Allen, the first female judge on the highest court in Ohio, was named repeatedly in those early years. Eight more followed, including Amalya Kearse, a federal appellate judge who was the first African American woman viewed as a potential Supreme Court nominee. Award-winning scholars Renee Knake Jefferson and Hannah Brenner Johnson cleverly weave together long-forgotten materials from presidential libraries and private archives to reveal the professional and personal lives of these accomplished women. 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.

UNCOUNTED

The Crisis of Voter Suppression in America GILDA R. DANIELS

An answer to the assault on voting rights— crucial reading in light of the 2020 presidential election

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. Uncounted examines the phenomenon of disenfranchisement through the lens of history, race, law, and the democratic process. Gilda R. Daniels, who served as Deputy Chief in the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division and has more than two decades of voting rights experience, argues that voter suppression works in cycles, constantly adapting and finding new ways to hinder access for an exponentially growing minority population. She warns that a premeditated strategy of restrictive laws and deceptive practices has taken root and is eroding the very basis of American democracy—the right to vote!

Gilda R. Daniels is an Associate Professor at the University of Baltimore School of Law.

“In this guide to the practice [of voter suppression] and its effects a law professor Daniels, former deputy chief in the civil rights division of the U.S. Justice Department, describes how it works and provides a road map and a call to arms for participants in what she calls the fight to vote...This book is a valuable resource for all participants in civic life.” —Booklist (starred)

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Current Affairs

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Religion

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Current Affairs

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

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. 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.

HYPER EDUCATION

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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Social Science

February 1997 156 pages • 6 x 9 Paper • $23.00S 9780814742341 Cloth • $45.00S 9780814742334 LGBTQ Studies

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. 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.

February 2003 308 pages • 6 x 9 Paper • $26.00S(£21.99) 9780814775592 Cloth • $75.00X(£62.00) 9780814775066

Political Science

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. 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.

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. March 1995 312 pages • 6 x 9 Paper • $28.00S(£22.99) 9780814755259 Cloth • $75.00X(£62.00) 9780814754849

Biography

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. August 1997 288 pages • 6x9 Paper • $28.00S(£22.99) 9780814755877 Cloth • $89.00X(£71.00) 9780814755228

History

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.”

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. 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.

October 2021 184 pages • 6 x 9 30 black & white illustrations Paper • 9781583679296 • $19.00S Cloth • 9781583679302 • $89.00X

Memoir

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.

November 2021 256 pages • 5.5 x 8.25 Paper • 9781583679333 • $24.00A Cloth • 9781583679340 • $89.00X

Political Science

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

NEW POLARIZATIONS AND OLD CONTRADICTIONS: THE CRISIS OF CENTRISM

Socialist Register 2022 Edited by GREG ALBO and COLIN LEYS

"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.

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

Philosophy | Political Theory

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

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.

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.

January 2022 320 pages • 5.5 x 8.25 7 black & white illustrations Paper • 9781583679418 • $27.00S Cloth • 9781583679425 • $89.00X

Political Science

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).

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

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, en- compassing 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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June 2021 672 pages • 6 x 9.25 Paper • 9781583679289 • $28.00S Cloth • 9781583678367

History

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."

January 2022 146 pages • 5 x 7.5 Paper • 9781583679456 • $17.00S Cloth • 9781583679463 • $89.00X

Political Science

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

Sociology

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

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. 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. 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.

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

September 2021 128 pages • 8.5 x 11 Full color picture book Cloth • 9781613321638 • $39.95T(£32.00)

Art | History

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.

CULTIVATING CREATIVITY

IAIN ROBERTSON

A rich and playful resource for fostering creativity

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.

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

Education

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.

February 2022 320 pages • 8.5 x 8.5 45 black & white illustrations Paper • 9781613321461 • $34.95S(£26.99)

Art | Environmental Studies

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 acknowledgment 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

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. 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.

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

Memoir

#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. 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.

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.

September 2021 122 pages • 5 x 7.5 Paper • 9780889778184 • $17.95T Cloth • 9780889778191 • $89.00X

Memoir

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

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.

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.

September 2021 240 pages • 5 x 8 Paper • 9780889778115 • $21.95T Cloth • 9780889778221 • $89.00X

Essays

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

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

History

GEHL V CANADA

Challenging Sex Discrimination in the Indian Act LYNN GEHL

How the Gehl decision advanced Indigenous rights in Canada

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.

OWÓKNAGE

The Story of Carry The Kettle Nakoda First Nation CEGA 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

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.

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

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.

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

Sociology

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.

January 2022 304 pages • 6 x 9 Paper • 9781776147236 • $30.00S Cloth • 9781776147243 • $89.00X

Anthropology

2020 Latino Book Awards in the LGBTQ+ Themed Section Finalist, 2019 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Studies

ARCHIVING AN EPIDEMIC

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

2021 René Wellek Prize, American Comparative Literature Association 2021, Barbara Perkins and George Perkins Award, International Society for the Study of Narrative

RUNAWAY GENRES

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

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

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

THE CONTENT OF OUR CARICATURE

African American Comic Art and Political Belonging REBECCA WANZO $29.00S • Paper 9781479889587

2021 Glenda Laws Award, American Association of Geographers

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

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

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

RACIAL IMMANENCE

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

2021 Reference & Bibliography Award in the 'Reference' Section, Association of Jewish Libraries

HONEY ON THE PAGE

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

2021 AP-LS Best Book Award

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF FAMILY LAW

EVE M. BRANK and LINDA J. DEMAINE $35.00S • Paper 9781479824755

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

Finalist, 2021 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Studies

THE SEX OBSESSION

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

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

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

FROTTAGE

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

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

THE NEW AMERICAN SERVITUDE

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

2018 Law & Legal Studies PROSE Award

THE RISE OF BIG DATA POLICING

Surveillance, Race, and the Future of Law Enforcement ANDREW GUTHRIE FERGUSON $19.95A • Paper 9781479869978

2019 Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice, Goddard Riverside Community Center

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

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

YOUTH ACTIVISM IN AN ERA OF EDUCATION INEQUALITY

BEN KIRSHNER $28.00S • Paper 9781479898053

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